MTG Salvation

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Box arrived! Pretty average box to be fair, but still pulled these notables:

Tarmogoyf
Cryptic Command
Foil Engineered Explosives
Tooth and Nail
Gifts Ungiven
Yosei, Keiga and Jugan
Woodfall Primus
Life from the Loam
Blood Moon
Divinity of Pride
Kira, Great Glass Spinner
Lotus Bloom
Dragonstorm
Foil Spellsnare
Foil Grapeshot
Foil Electrolyze

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Congrats on your Tarmogoyf. Found a card shop who got their MM box today and bought some packs and got:

Also to note that before the event started one guy who bought a box got a foil Tarmogoyf ALSO got a regular Tarmogoyf in his draft pod. >_> SOAB! =p

@Nate, I hope you had just as much fun with Storm. I saw someone playing Lotus Bloom, Rift Bolt, Suspend green guys, Rituals, grapeshot and EtW. It looked fun, but glassy.

I'll try and recreate my deck from memory.



That looks about right. Creatures, the good support spells, and lands. =p I should have grabbed the 2 Bonesplitters I saw in Pack 1, but I goofed I guess. Would have been Re-DONK to have 3/1, 5/1 artifact beat sticks. AND it would boost affinity, so perhaps I could play 3 or even 4 Myr Enforcers! Ended up going 2-1 tho so I'm pleased.

P1P1: C. Command. Knew it was money. But triple blue was gonna be tricky.
P2P1:Took Oona. More triple Blue, but I did NOT want to fight against an Oona and she proved herself a couple times being fat and making faerie babies.
Pack 3 I opened the white Salvagers card which could have been nice getting back workers i guess. Thankfully tho, I got a 3rd pick Ethersworn Canonist so that was pretty sweet. Guy to my left (passing left) opened a Ravagers and I was so jelly! X_x

Nothing super in my matches to report. Played dudes and swing swing swing! If I get a flyer and they don't have removal. GG. C. Command is boss. Sleeping the field and doing whatever the hell I want it to do. And the canonist had some tricky shenanigans with the opponents' spells, obv. It was nice at 'hosing' suspend too =) Didn't get to hose storm tho. Opened a Pryomancer's Swarth from my prize pack. Meh.

Want to playa bit more. Couldn't get a box and I'm busy this week, but I'm planning to attend at least one more draft. I just want the Swords! DAT NEW ART!

@Contest, gz clan! I was pulling for you from the shadows!

@MM, I hope to be drafting some MM tonight. Limited seats (24), so I'll be driving like a bat outta hell to get there early, buy in and play some games. I'm hoping that the whole LGS friends have the nerve to do the same (edging me out). Also have my name in a raffle. My LGS only got 15 boxes for sale as they are using the others strictly for drafts and prize support. MSRP so I can't complain.

I just want some awesome new sword art!

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@Tera, i see the positive sides, sure. I just do not like the rules change. So now instead of 2-4 mana to kill an untouchable voltron, we have to pay 7 in blue? Screw that. Completely changes the EDH format, which wotc continue to defile with their taint. This is OUR format. Bans can be overlooked in certain metas, but outright rules changes can not. I have a mono blue commander deck specifically geared toward cloning and clone effects.
How many legends are used in competitive formats? Really now, not many. The legendary aspect really strictly applies to.commander.
Not that this mattera to me, but budget decks running baby jace to knock out big daddy jace just became useless. Stripmine is also banned in most formats this would be applied to.

The new rules were not tailored towards EDH. They just happen to effect it greatly. =p
I enjoyed looking at the new rules and instead of thinking "O man. Now those Sigarda/Uril/Geist decks are gonna be dumb to play against," I thought instead "Now what new ways can I deal with these and what should I test out?" More about exploring new avenues of play instead of just sulking afterwards i.e. the MTGS threads the day when the rules were introduced.

It'll be interesting to see the rules in action. Or if I'll still be playing the game as much (or as little) as I am now. But damage used to use the stack and a first legend used to prevent anyone else from even playing a legend. So it's a big change to a certain part of the game, but a necessary one to see the game grow.

My LGS has a raffle cuz they are only getting 15 boxes of MM. They'll have 4 drafts tho so I hope to play at at least 2 of em. we'll see.

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EDIT: So, trying out a super ridiculous standard dimir mill deck for fun, and at 5 life with two invisible stalkers, one encoded with Paranoid Delusions, and a consuming aberration, only 6 lands.

Cast PD - encode on second stalker, trigger Aberration
Cast Whispering Madness - encode on first stalker, trigger Aberration
Swing with stalkers - cast copies of Whispering Madness and both PD each triggering Aberration, mill out Junk Reanimator for a win pulled out of my behind. Very fun.

And btw, Crypt Incursion is practically a black fog against Reanimate or well significantly removed aggro. Outstanding little card right there.

THat's pretty ridic. I saw someone doing that as well. but with U/R using Blistercoil Weird, a bunch of Cipher cards, and Armed / Dangerous to swing for lots. =p It folds to a kill spell so it was crazy half the time, but not so much every other time.

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Very nice, Aqua, I laughed audibly on the second PoF on Thalia 2, then out loud with Snapcaster into PoF. Bant should make a pretty good threat too, I like Counsel of the Absolute for Sphinx Rev match 1 then name Notion Thief match 2 and 3. Even if you aren't playing Esper, its still pretty good.

@ Digi I may have to wait til DVD, but I will be watching Into Darkness. Anyone else notice that 75 cards in, and slivers are Naya?

It wasn't even fair. After I used Ral's ult in the previous game and pulling this string of plays in the 3rd, I really got under her skin. I'm playing BLUE!

Opening hand was something like

• Stomping Ground
  
• Island
  
• Pillar of Flame
  
• Pillar of Flame
  
• Snapcaster Mage
  
• Turn / Burn
  
• AEtherling

On the draw, I knew I'd only have to worry about T1 Dryad Militant, but beyond that I'd have a strong hand to deal with alot of stuff minus any Silverhearts, L.Smiters and anything bigger than x/2. =p Wolfir Avenger was a boss tho. Flash em into play. Block, regen. Absolute beast!

Went 2-2 with RUG Plasm Capture. PLanning on switching to WUG to use my sphinx's revelations and advent of the wurm. Will miss using burn and Ral, but I will be more at piece with my inner magic personality playing colors that I love.

So FNM I went down 2 rounds and then won the last 2. Key highlights were using Ral's ultimate and getting 5 heads. Then the last game I had removal for each of my opponent's creatures/play.

Thalia -> Pillar of Flame
2nd Thalia -> 2nd Pillar of Flame
Voice of Resurgance -> SCM into PoF
Silverblade Pali -> Burn (of Turn//Burn)
Wolfir Silverheart -> SCM to cast Turn
Swing with SCM, they play Advent of the Wurm -> Syncopate
They tap out for another Silverheart. I tap out for AEtherling.
They double Rancor it. I take 10. I bounce it with Simic Charm and continue to lay on the pressure.

You wanted to play things?! RUG says no!

Got an exam Next wednesday. Gonna make a quick RUG deck together for Friday night.


Gonna be a busy next 7 days. =p

Updating trade threads, just putzing around the guild at the moment.

Might throw together a quick verision of Sam Black's Plasm Capture deck from Yesterday's mtg deck list and play that in Standard tonight. idk. =p maybe, maybe not.

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So, I was talking mtg storyline with a coworker today. Two things came up:

1) Why is Jace involved with the Azorius? Ex-fugitive, murderer, tortured and mangled Tezz, Stole the Infinite Consortium, selfishly motivated, taken advantage of close friends on multiple occasions.(Baltrice, and earlier Kallist) It doesn't seem like a means he would choose without a yet unrevealed motivation.

2) Is Tezzeret actually the Agent of Bolas? It seems unlikely that the Consortium was actually taken from Bolas, Tezzeret's whereabouts are currently unknown(unless I missed something) and the multiple Bolas's he fought he must have known weren't really, which would make that entire battle his and Bolas' secret, making it seem as though they are at odds.

Random prediction: Jace, Tezzeret, and Bolas are all behind destroying the other walkers, Tezzeret is causing the Eldrazi to submit and obey him, Bolas, or both, them the three will use the consortium to control the multiverse, in which Bolas plans to ursurp the other two and take the multiverse for his own....or destroy it all using the eldrazi.

All this is pending that I haven't missed something very important about any of the three.

Without reading over this twice and feeling splotchy of what I remember about the past novels till this point, your speculations was quite something to read. <- I swear, that sentence makes some sense.

1) Jace isn't involved with the Azorious per say. He's just getting some help with a guild that he knows can help him. And they have the notes he wants.

2) Tezzeret is an agent. A loyal one? idk. And yes we don't know where he is. Anymore speculation then that is pure spec.

And your idea of the triangle of evil blue mages amused me. We'll never know what each PWs intentions and plans are till we see them in the story again.

It's Gleam of Battle. Though it's not blue at all. It's still very pretty.

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ooh, what playmat? I love new playmats
I'm also excited to get my box. I'll have to wait until midday Friday, but between cracking a box on release day and RTR block sealed that night, it'll be the best day ever!!

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Oh yeah! That reminds me. Door prizes, right? Before we start, I buy a Black Scale EDScroll playmat, because I'm tired of not having one. As one of the owners rings me up, the other says "you might win one." And gets "But he wants one to play on now." La-dee-da, time goes by. After round 4 last. door prize is called "ends in 9999", "shoot, i have 9998". No one claims it, they pick another number, low and behold it's me. What do I win? A Underground Tomb art Playmat, and my wife loves it, lol

Nice. We had boosters go out to Top 8, but my LGS was SOOO nice that they actually laid out a bunch of older stuff to give out 1 by 1 to anyone who stayed around who placed out of top 8. 1 product each. sleeves, a binder, deckboxes. Lots of stuff. Being 16th i jumped the last remaining Mono-Blue symboly deck box. I don't think it can fit a sleeved EDH deck tho. We'll see.

And my new playmat is [REDACTED]. It's sooo f-ing cool! Pics when I get home.

Quote from Jivanmukta

I forced Dimir and lost miserably. On a side note Aetherling is pretty insane.

Quote from NateTheArtificer

<----Wants 5 - 9 Aetherlings...buuuuuuut I'll settle for a playset.


In a match I should/would have won pretty handily, Guy pulled a Vosk and milled my face in. If i had known his win was Vosk in the first two, I would've put in 8 more lands and 12 more support, just to not get blasted.

Aetherling is the ****. Opened a 2nd one in my prizes packs from first flight. Getting a box when they come in on Thursday (midnight) and might draft once or twice. Gonna be busy this weekend.

@DCD, agreed. My pools were spotty, but if you have decent creatures and some way to either race or remove their biggest threats, you can do well. I'll have to update my haves/wants after I get my box. And also post up a pic of my new playmat.

@Cad, that sucks. I hate when things just end up going that way. And it's like "o! you couldn't have told me this earlier!?" >_>

Choose Boros and got no real pairings. Splash Blue and Green for nonsense cards. Had some spotty creatures and decent cards, but nothing to drive the deck home. 6 rounds. 3-3. 16th out of 44. I got a pity prize of a deck box which is nice. And I also bought a playmat with [REDACTED] on it. It looks SOOO pretty.

So to sum up. To do well in DGM. pick Black or Red. Removal is just sooo key in this set.

Midnight pre-release went well. Dimir + Golgari.

Nothing super flashy (my table opened numerous runners/bombs each). I got Aetherling and Nightveil Specter which both pulled their weight when I played them. Take 8 unblockable! Exile your land and gimme em! 3-1. Won 4 booster packs.

Going Boros at noon. Good luck all!