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  • Dakarai's avatar
    Sep 8, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on [[THS]] Steam Augury
    Quote from Takon
    this card screams it was supposed to be printed in RtR


    I wish it was. My set of Snapcasters wish to flash it back, or any of the other goodies that would be put in the graveyard.

    My RWU modern deck just made a new friend.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Sep 3, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on A standard environment without Birthing Pod
    Quote from RichardHaro
    Standard Naya Pod was truly a thing of beauty. When I'm playing Modern it's just not the same, as Dakarai said above me, you're always just thinking about how to get a live pod chain to kiki-jiki + enabler.

    Standard pod felt better. Podding up from a lowly elvish visionary or blade splicer (thanks for the 3/3!) to a huntmaster (thanks for the 2/2!) or Solemn Simulacrum (thanks for the basic land AND a free card!) to a Geist-Honored Monk (thanks for the 1/1s!) or Thragtusk (thanks for the 5 life and 3/3 beast!) to a Wurmcoil Engine (thanks for the 6/6 power of deathtouch/lifelink!)... and then, the amazing feeling you had when you podded into the creature of absolute stunning power and beauty: Elesh Norn, perhaps wiping your opponents board or making them into lowly 1/1s or 2/2s, while making the wurmcoil engine tokens you just dropped into 5/5s... beautiful.

    With a pod out, any creature was a live draw and a path to victory, even after a boardwipe. At any time you could get an answer to a pesky oblivion-ring or runechanter's pike by searching podding up into an Acidic Slime, or answer a pesky Geist of Saint Traft by podding into a Phyrexian Metamorph. Enemy fatties getting you down? Pod into a fiend hunter to get rid of it, or a zealous conscripts to steal it, then cast restoration angel and untap your pod with zealous conscripts and sac your opponents creature to pod into a Wurmcoil or Elesh Norn!

    What a beautiful deck. What a marvelous deck. I doubt I will find another standard deck for many years, if ever, that will match its glory.



    Oh man, I'm feeling so nostalgic after reading that. I ran all colors except black so I could abuse the wonder of Phantasmal Image and how it interacted with pod. Tutoring any creature to fit any situation was just too good. Finishing it off with a Wurmcoil into Elesh Norn was just fantastic.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Sep 2, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on A standard environment without Birthing Pod
    I miss Birthing Pod, too. I miss getting value creatures and using them to get more value creatures. It's not quite the same in Modern, where you use pod to get creatures to reuse pod to combo off. Melira pod isn't much better. I miss the 3-4-5-6-7 pod, getting better and better one-of creatures.

    Earlier today I was able to do what I miss in my commander deck, and boy, was it fun.

    EDIT: And there's nothing wrong with reflecting over the loss of a style of deck a year after it was removed. A year later is a fine time to think about something like this.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Aug 21, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on RIP Phantom Sealed as we know it. August 21st it switches to the constant -EV of Cube
    Ugh Phantom Sealed used to be the only thing I played online. I loved the thrill of playing sealed and a guaranteed three rounds of playing my deck. Even better was that for three hours, the most I would lose is $4, but more likely than not I would go 2-1 and only lose $1, which I considered good value for doing a limited event.

    With this new system, even the reduced prices, I won't be playing any.
    Posted in: Other Formats
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Aug 13, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on M14 discussion
    I'm looking to pick up playsets of Modern cards when they bottom out, specifically Mutavault and Scavenging Ooze. When do you think they'll hit their low? (And another question: are there any cards I'm missing that have potential to see Modern play?)
    Posted in: Market Street MTGO Café
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Aug 7, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on JTMS and the FTV:20
    Prices have lowered to around 30 tix, I believe.

    But with the spoiling of Tangle Wire, I am assuredly picking up four copies of this FTV.
    Posted in: Market Street MTGO Café
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Aug 6, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on Are you happy with From the Vault 20?
    I'm fine with it - if only because I can buy 4 sets from MTGO at MSRP. If I couldn't, I'd be disappointed just because it's value is centered in one card.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Aug 2, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on Modern Decks with Batterskull MB?
    I've maindecked it several times in a UWR Tempo deck. I usually end my curve with a Restoration Angel but if I perceive the format to be slower, Batterskull gets the nod.
    Posted in: Modern
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Aug 2, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on Blackmail
    It's really not a good card, but if you don't want/can't have Thoughtseize there's really few alternatives. Inquisition of Kozilek is usually in decks that Thoughtseize is in as well.

    As others have mentioned, Duress is probably the better option since they don't get to chose.
    Posted in: Modern
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Aug 1, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on Modern Masters at Worlds
    Quote from Xindell
    He's saying the coverage is bad because the VIEWERS can't recognize the cards.


    I've given up trying to watch Magic being streamed. Even at max quality, I just can't tell what's in a players hand. The cards are often fuzzy, the players don't hold them far enough apart, and the cards are almost constantly being flicked around. It drives me crazy, that last part.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Jul 31, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on Intuition and Fail to Find
    Thanks all. I knew I was missing something, and it was 701.15b and 701.15c.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Jul 31, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on Intuition and Fail to Find
    I'm absolutely sure I'm missing something here, but Intuition says search your library for three cards, and from what I remember, you can fail to find cards (such as with fetchlands).

    Does this mean that you can find one card, but fail to find two more cards, and get the one you want?

    I'm fairly certain you can't, but I'm not sure why.

    Thanks.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Jul 30, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on From the Vault: 20
    It may be MSRPed at $40, but with the limited print run it is sure to be 3-4 times that (and maybe even more when we see the other cards).
    Posted in: Magic General
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Jul 28, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on You ever go back and look at initial impressions for certain cards?
    I was certain Grafdigger's Cage would be the end of an era in Modern and Legacy.

    Oops Smile
    Posted in: Magic General
  • Dakarai's avatar
    Jul 26, 2013
    Dakarai posted a message on Which Card do you NOT want to see rotate?
    Quote from LouCypher
    Dungeon Geists. That card could've been so much more if it wasn't for AVR bringing in a blink-matters theme...


    I second this. A really powerful card got overshadowed so quickly.
    Posted in: Magic General
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