Now the question is: do people buy decks for cool generals, for spare cards to play, or for cards to trade, or for their overall playability out the box?
I bought Devour for power and Heavenly Inferno for a mix of reasons 1, 2 & 4. It was an easy choice. If I had gone for money value Puppet could have been my choice.
Noone's right or wrong here. People are just not searching for the same thing.
I was at Target the other day to see if they have those $10 repacks and found that they had a Heavenly Inferno and a Counterpunch deck in stock. Picked up Heavenly Inferno and completely forgot about checking for the little $10 packs.
I haven't had a chance to play with the deck yet but I can't wait to play it.
Now the question is: do people buy decks for cool generals, for spare cards to play, or for cards to trade, or for their overall playability out the box?
I bought Devour for power and Heavenly Inferno for a mix of reasons 1, 2 & 4. It was an easy choice. If I had gone for money value Puppet could have been my choice.
Noone's right or wrong here. People are just not searching for the same thing.
I pretty much bought Mirror Mastery for a copy of Riku. Having a sol ring in the box certainly didn't hurt either. Mostly though, picking up a copy of a general that's really good with elvish visionary and mulldrifter (while just being insane in general) is what I was after.
I pretty much bought Mirror Mastery for a copy of Riku. Having a sol ring in the box certainly didn't hurt either. Mostly though, picking up a copy of a general that's really good with elvish visionary and mulldrifter (while just being insane in general) is what I was after.
i actually bought mine for the animar and the edric, but thought riku is a fun card and that he will go wild if you set him up well enough hahaha
I ordered all 5 decks and this week we had our first 4 player multiplayer match with the decks. Only Counterpunch didn't participate.
All in all, I think that the decks are well balanced.
Although the Puppets deck seems kinda weak at first, it will quickly stabilize with a ton of defenders in the early game and people will attack different opponents.
The heavenly Inferno is really good as well. It's definitely the deck with the best early game and the worst late game, due to Kaalia.
Mirror Mastery was the only deck that had enough land at first, so its board was far ahaed at some point. Of course people started to fight that dominance and ultimately Mastery folded to a 12/9 unblockable Mimeoplasm. Nonetheless, Mastery seems really solid.
Devour appears to better with Damia as its Commander. Mimeoplasm is just too often a dead card. Your opponent has an Azorius Guildmage and Mimeo is practically dead. Damia is just a total blowout. if she sticks for 2-3 turns there's no way your opponents can keep up with the card advantage.
I bought all 5 decks irl, playtested like mad. Then when they hit online I bought singles and went Mimeoplasm. You may think its a weak card, with some deck tuning though it gets my vote for the best general of all the new generals. From Black/Green/Blue you get access to tutors, as well as mana fixing, and then you can search up broken cards like genesis wave, bribery, blatant thievery, etc. Mimeoplasm tends to sit in the back for awhile, but when he hits its usually game over for someone. Not to mention that he has built in gy hate to remove troublesome creatures from reanimator decks.
So far, Mimeo's won almost every game Ive ever played with him, Id give my #2 vote to the mirror guy who has done pretty well in allot of testing but rarely bests Mimeo, after them Id say Heavenly Inferno-- though I havent seen anyone win with that yet. Puppets is last, yet strangely very fun to play with.
Out of the box things may not play like that, though, so if your only going to play as is---- go GBW... but if youre buying a deck to make a monster, BUG all the way.
I got mine for cool generals!
I haven't had a chance to play with the deck yet but I can't wait to play it.
I pretty much bought Mirror Mastery for a copy of Riku. Having a sol ring in the box certainly didn't hurt either. Mostly though, picking up a copy of a general that's really good with elvish visionary and mulldrifter (while just being insane in general) is what I was after.
i actually bought mine for the animar and the edric, but thought riku is a fun card and that he will go wild if you set him up well enough hahaha
animar though can go crazy as well
Homeward Path is the nuuuuuts! I was playing Zedruu and I needed to leave, so I played Gilded Drake, cast a kicked Rite of Replication on it, then used the path. So stupid.
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BRG Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
WUB Sharuum, the Hegemon
UGEdric, Spymaster of Trest
that's not the end of it
if you have avarice totem, brand, brooding saurian, strake of rath, spawnbroker and a sac outlet, your opponent will cry hahahah
(just floating some ideas around hehe)
I bought all 5 decks irl, playtested like mad. Then when they hit online I bought singles and went Mimeoplasm. You may think its a weak card, with some deck tuning though it gets my vote for the best general of all the new generals. From Black/Green/Blue you get access to tutors, as well as mana fixing, and then you can search up broken cards like genesis wave, bribery, blatant thievery, etc. Mimeoplasm tends to sit in the back for awhile, but when he hits its usually game over for someone. Not to mention that he has built in gy hate to remove troublesome creatures from reanimator decks.
So far, Mimeo's won almost every game Ive ever played with him, Id give my #2 vote to the mirror guy who has done pretty well in allot of testing but rarely bests Mimeo, after them Id say Heavenly Inferno-- though I havent seen anyone win with that yet. Puppets is last, yet strangely very fun to play with.
Out of the box things may not play like that, though, so if your only going to play as is---- go GBW... but if youre buying a deck to make a monster, BUG all the way.