MTG Salvation

Reliquary Tower. It's always a good option for when your opponent plays Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur.

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You seem to be forgetting something, World War I was started due to a Secret Society hiring an assassin to take out Franz Ferdinand who was the Prime Minister of Austria at the time although alot of skeptics claim that Hitler and the Nazi Germany Regime had alot to do with it. I don't know much of the details regarding the conflict although some of it was based on what I heard from one of my friends.

Eh? Wasn't Hitler just a soldier at the time? Actually, according to Mein Kampf, it was after the war that Hitler, rejected from art school, lived in the Viennese ghettoes and there he learned to hate the Jews. Take that for what you will. Most likely it was because, wow, anarchists living under Austrian rule wanted to kill Franz Ferdinand. Also, they didn't want to live under Austrian rule.

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World War II was started because of Hitler and Nazi Germany's Invasion of Poland and eventually the U.S. getting involved with the bombing of Pearl Harbor from Japan. Flash forward to our current time, Russia and China's relationship with Iran is very sketchy at best especially at the United Nations. As for North Korea they stopped being a threat after Kim Jong Il kicked the bucket so they won't be involved with anything in the current future as far as I'm aware of.

I would say the Pacific conflict began in 1931, when Japan started invading China, possibly earlier if you include the Japanese occupation of Korea. 1937 if you want to want the official beginning of the invasion.

The European war began a few years later when Hitler invaded Poland.

America got involved in both by a matter of coincidence. Japan attacked the United States, and, by virtue of the Axis agreement, the minute America was at war with Japan, America was also at war with the other Axis Powers.

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Don't forget that the U.K. is on our side as well and like I said before North Korea is pretty much irrelevant now as a global threat so let's take them out of the equation. Venezuela is a threat but they don't harbor any kind of weapons capability that some of our rivals possess, Pakistan well that's a different story.

How is Venezuela a threat, exactly? Do they have nukes? Do they have a plan to invade the United States?

The worst thing about Venezuela is who their friends are. Of course, some countries would say the same about the United States.

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Problem I see here is that even If Obama is re-elected as U.S. President, then Israel might be too hesitant to attack Iran to try to start World War III with them yet If the Israeli Government finds out about the U.S.'s Cyber Warfare success against Iran then Iran might use that technological advantage against us and the draconian sanctions against them seems to be crippling their efforts of getting the bomb by next year at least that's what we hope for anyway.

That's kind of a difficult situation. Also, you don't want to attack a country with nukes. Ever hear of MAD?

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Before the Cold War with the Russians you also had the Cuban Missile Crisis when JFK was in office and that fear had alot of stakes very high as well. Nuclear Bombs were something that should've never been invented but they turned out to be a blessing by ending World War II between the U.S. and Japan while being a curse during the Cold War and our current predicament with Iran. Jimmy Carter should've been hard on Iran during the Hostage Crisis of 1979 so that we wouldn't be in this mess right now but we can still make up for that If we play our cards right. The next Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy will be crucial so pay attention.

"Before" the Cold War? The Cuban missile crisis was the climax of the Cold War. At no other point in the Cold War did we come so close to using nukes. The Cold War began in 1947.

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Any real conservative could run right now and beat Obama, but the establisment forced liberal Romney down our throats. This election should be SOOOO easy, everyone hates Obama and he is universally viewed as a failure. So why in the world run a liberal (Romney) against him?

Aye, but no true Scotsman would do such a thing.

Anyway, he killed bin Laden. Or actually was president when bin Laden was killed. Same difference. That by itself is worth some cred.

The unemployment rate is at 7.8%, but again, this is explained by just considering where we were before.

Priests of Norn 2W

Creature--Cleric

Infect, vigilance, defender 1/4

Palinchron 5UU

Creature--Illusion

Flying

When Palinchron enters the battlefield, tap up to seven lands. 4/5

2UU: Return Palinchron to its owner's hand.

Lure 1GG

Enchantment

All creatures you control have "Creatures the defending player controls must block this creature if able." (If more than one creature has this ability, the defending player may choose which creature is blocked.)

Wait, that last one's Predatory Rampage in a nutshell.

Goes well with Ghave, Guru of Spores. Gives those tokens something to do before your next turn. But yeah, Slate of Ancestry is generally better.

I've recently been enjoying Precursor Golem. If I can get Aggressive Urge on the Stick, it's ridiculous.

Ghave uses Jar of Eyeballs.

My newest reanimator card is Life // Death. Well, Death anyway.

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i think that the "father/uncle" should be mishra

Then you're in four colors. While there is a general who is also an artifact for 2WUBR, he isn't very good. Also, Mishra is horrible in EDH.

I'd say white/blue is a must. Continue the blinking theme with Deadeye Navigator and Parallax Wave.

Most borked combo: Parallax Wave and Opalescence. Exile the Wave in response to exiling a bunch of other stuff. Hint: Your opponent's creatures aren't coming back. You can also get infinite whatever out of it with the right ETB effect.

It is, but I'm not ready to just ban a precon, and I don't like the stupidity of "You can only play Stoneforge in this deck."

Life and Limb maybe? Especially if you have no forests in your deck.

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Mine is probably Darien, King of Kjeldor.

That's funny. Mine is Brion Stoutarm, but it includes Darien. I plan to use Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer, too.

It all depends. One mana isn't much in EDH, but 3 life also isn't much.

But I will say, the Crypt isn't as degenerate as Metalworker. I'd say no, only because Sol Ring exists.

Olivia, for the access to another color. Dreadbore and Terminate, along with more Wraths and artifact removal, are worth it.

Well, there's always Eladamri's Call on the stick. Yeah, I accidentally every creature in my library.

Purity and Vigor are nice incarnations, though they are bladebait.

Genesis can also be good for recursion. Eternal Witness might be the best recursion card in the game. But there's also Sun Titan, which is great with "Sacrifice CARDNAME: EFFECT" cards.

If you play Doran or Ghave, Trostani, Selesnya's Voice offers some fun stuff. Actually, they work well with any BGW general. (Works well with Eladamri's Call too.) Ghave is particularly good because of Grave Pact and Martyr's Bond with all those tokens. Life // Death should be required for every recursion deck. Token decks should use Requiem Angel by default.

In RGW, there's Rith, the Awakener and Uril, the Miststalker. Consider Song of the Anima with Uril. Consider Curse of Stalked Prey to go with an Uril/Song combo.

In GWU, we have Rafiq of the Many and Treva, the Renewer. Trostani also go with Treva for Felidar Sovereign "Kill me now or I win!" fun. Rafiq goes with Dueling Grounds and Invisible Stalker (and cards like him), to say nothing of Sublime Archangel.

Hopefully this is the end of it.

Part of me wonders if Nakoula just wanted to start trouble. I said this "Sam Becile" was a troll from the beginning, didn't I?

I like Sword of Fire and Ice because card draw. With only Necro for a card draw engine, Kaalia-colored decks have a lot of issues.

Sword of War and Peace can also be good, especially as it procs Searing Meditation (if you like that).

Sword of Feast and Famine lets you get another angel/demon/dragon onto the field.

Sword of Light and Shadow is recursion. One of my tricks is to get out Rakdos with Kaalia, then use him to block something with deathtouch or sacrifice him or something, proc the sword, and get him out again.

Sword of Body and Mind is the least useful, but if you include Geth for some reason, you can steal your opponent's stuff.