Of course it doesn't. Unless stated otherwise activated abilities can't be activated if a card is in the GY heh...that's why your search turned up nothing...basic rule of the game.
I've got a a few matches in and it seems pretty reasonable, though I'm going to eventually put serum visions in it...that's the way it often goes anyway.
Genre fiction, as a whole tends to be for teenagers and people with similar literary standards. I studied lit and it not only ruined trite genre fiction, but many TV shows and films for me...so...badly...written.
Mtg fiction is an embarrassment though. I tried to read some of my old fantasy books and it is humbling to know I read them, as a thirteen year old.
Saccing creatures to search in response to removal, disadvantageous blocks etc. is quite obviously why Evolution is not an instant. As much as I would like to see various obscene cards get printed, I can accept that they would be problematic for various formats. Perhaps consider following suit.
Maybe the fact that Trump is a populist whose astoundingly unprincipled droolings(albeit entertaining)are troubling enough to warrant violence? It's likely inconcievable to the majority of his supporters, but that's the problem with representative democracies: people with shallow/misguided/etc understandings of matters, like foreign policy will succumb to confirmation bias with candidates who flip-flop and spout formal/informal fallacies like nobody's business.
It really says volumes about where America's at, culturally. You guys should just vote for Trump and kick the cannibalization of the American underclasses into high-gear. I mean honestly, that's what it's all about even though droves of the poor working class/uneducated schmucks who support Trump will see zero returns from a new golden age of corporate regulatory capture.
I hate living in a world surrounded by such cretins, so bring it. Vote for Trump, sell the nation's subsoil rights to foreign investors(lolfreemarkets), build walls, do more to intensify geopolitical conflict(Obama has done a great job at fanning the flames of war with drone strikes and he's supposedly a dove! I can't wait to see Trump!), give businesses greater lisense to exploit a deskilled workforce, then just peppper the landscape with shoddy pipelines and volatile gas-transport trains. While nobody seems to say it, nuclear proliferation is an inevitability, so here's to America making new enemies and intensifying te loathing of existing ones with Trump's help.
Let's hit fastforward on humanity's reign already. What a disappointing farce humanity has been...for a while we learned from history though. It would be better to see it all happen with the bang of mutually-assured destruction, then the pathetic way it will more likely unfold(thanks, status quo) with the ocean becoming dead, no electricity, eroded topsoil(thanks, agribusiness/biotech lobbyists!) and irreparably contaminated water supplies.
If it wasn't for Trump, I'd have kept on thinking that people aren't THAT easily manipulated by schoolyard rhetoric. Take that sociologists trying to say otherwise with empirical data! People are generally stupid—regardless of who they vote for or what ideologies they subscribe to. Environmental catastrophes, society becoming properly dystopian and total war won't be a tragedy anymore, it will beckon to the beginning of the final act where an emberassing spectacle finally ends.
This was late in coming. Up to my neck in schoolwork, treading water to make it into the next semester. It's a timeline of our involvement in Syria.
We have a stronger military than the afghanis. We can give as good as we get, and that's not something Russia would want to risk.
I honestly have no respect for the fools that would try to attack us (whatever their reasons, be it anger, dyed in the wool fanaticism, be it a misplaced sense of revenge for rather vacuous reasons), hence me denigrating them as ****** ***********. At its basest, G v E is trite; they're labels that are mostly subjective (there is objectivity to them, but not in this instance). But, if someone attacks my country or threatens my values, I'll immediately look at them as evil if they're overly violent about it.
Your perspective is exactly why humanity is destined to destroy itself. Ironically, it is a perspective that you share with those who you declare yourself to be against.
While you seem to be under the impression good and evil are subjective, it is patently clear where you think your nation resides on such a spectrum. Also incoherent is that despite acknowledging the nebulousness of evil, you use it as though it describes something real...is it arbitrary or is it not? Is evil maybe a convenient cop-out, since it presupposes the results of any debates regarding its ascription to someone/thing?
Perhaps the concept of evil is just a result of peoples' aversion to working through ambiguities and those who use it despite acknowledging its arbitrarity are striking a pose, rather than following an argument to its conclusion.
Avacyn is pretty interesting, but I'm not sure how big of a splash it will make. White has no shortage of 5cc creatures/walkers that are good on their own.
Avacyn seems like a powerful card, but I do not see myself playing it in any of my uwx modern decks.
As cute as using it to save geist is, geist decks are not good in Modern. Moreover, a cagey opponent could pretty easily take advantage of the flip trigger to kill my geist later.
Restoration angel seems better in pretty much any established deck in the format that could run Avacyn.
A few uw builds running flip-Jace did well, so I decided to try it out, as the plan seemed to be endless wiping and cryptics.
Prior to playing the deck, I had not realized jace ultimates are the primary wincon of this build. The mill plan has been
particularly nice in matches where my typical uw titan builds would suffer: life combos and Soul Sisters. On the topic of
my usual titan build's weaknesses, the creatures plan is okay against eldrazi, but drawing the wrong quarter of my deck is
often detrimental. The flip-Jace build so far doesn't have the latter shortcoming as it can basically just focus on the grind
and mill plan.
I added anticipates to my build, as digging to key cards was a problem and they make jaces better for getting over midgame humps.
The same can be said for timely.
Something that I've noticed is that on mtgo, effective use of priorities and hotkeys is necessary for not timing. Generally,
so long as I do not fall behind too much on the clock though, my opponents have decided to scoop instead of playing the clock
angle and belaboring things.
Anyway, here is the build...there is an extra land, as testing how specific cards, like Anticipate, is more important to me than
a marginal statistic edge. I am not really looking for feedback so much as the deck has been fun enough that sharing it seemed appropriate:
The problem with any kind of plan that involves disrupting an Eldrazi deck's lands will need to be really consistent at doing so and/or able to capitalize on the pressure. The catch is that decks that follow such a plan for trying to beat eldrazi will probably flounder against the established Modern decks that people are playing against Eldrazi, like affinity or Gxx chord/company decks.
Going in anticipating a lot of aggro, hence the Baneslayers in the board. I just want to try and make those matchups as good as possible. Part of me wants to side all three cliques to further push this plan, but the disruption is valuable.
I am a bit late to the party, but it seems nobody has suggested running two Sun Titans and one other card. The reason for this is that it is extraordinarily helpful versus ramp strategies and anything with manlands. Also, with the finks and walls, sun titans would often serve a similar function when running an aggro deck out of steam.
Be open to versatile cards- I've gone down the path of fixating on a particular match and wound up losing to obscure decks that I would not have lost against if I'd had a more flexible build.
Let me preface this by saying that fallacious logic is something that all people will unconsciously use in their day-to-day lives at some point or another.
The reason for the preface is that it seems that Deathandcatmix is leaning on results orientated results-orientated thinking. Results are obviously key in any kind of testing, but it works with logic to figure things out, like whether to use X number of Leonin Arbiter, versus X Aven mindcensor. From day one of playing the deck, I could never get enough shuffle disruption effects, so four strikes me as dangerously minimal in a deck where you may only see two before eventually dying from not keeping one online versus a deck where keeping paths and quarters asymmetrical is key.
Perhaps I missed it and your(Deathandcatmix) metagame is one where the latter bit of the above does not apply OR maybe you are like a friend of mine who manages to basically always runs hot insofar as not losing due to failing to draw specific cards somehow.
Has anyone been successful with uw build resembling this one, which 5-0'd league a few days ago?
xuder (5-0)
1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
4 Restoration Angel
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Spell Queller
2 Spellskite
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Wall of Omens
4 Ancestral Vision
2 Condemn
2 Cryptic Command
1 Deprive
1 Negate
4 Path to Exile
3 Spell Snare
4 Flooded Strand
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Glacial Fortress
2 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
2 Plains
1 Scalding Tarn
2 Tectonic Edge
60 Cards
1 Aven Mindcensor
2 Celestial Purge
2 Dispel
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Rest in Peace
2 Stony Silence
2 Supreme Verdict
1 Timely Reinforcements
I've got a a few matches in and it seems pretty reasonable, though I'm going to eventually put serum visions in it...that's the way it often goes anyway.
Mtg fiction is an embarrassment though. I tried to read some of my old fantasy books and it is humbling to know I read them, as a thirteen year old.
It seems to me that Gitrog would be a fine card on its own in a grindy bgr loam deck...
It really says volumes about where America's at, culturally. You guys should just vote for Trump and kick the cannibalization of the American underclasses into high-gear. I mean honestly, that's what it's all about even though droves of the poor working class/uneducated schmucks who support Trump will see zero returns from a new golden age of corporate regulatory capture.
I hate living in a world surrounded by such cretins, so bring it. Vote for Trump, sell the nation's subsoil rights to foreign investors(lolfreemarkets), build walls, do more to intensify geopolitical conflict(Obama has done a great job at fanning the flames of war with drone strikes and he's supposedly a dove! I can't wait to see Trump!), give businesses greater lisense to exploit a deskilled workforce, then just peppper the landscape with shoddy pipelines and volatile gas-transport trains. While nobody seems to say it, nuclear proliferation is an inevitability, so here's to America making new enemies and intensifying te loathing of existing ones with Trump's help.
Let's hit fastforward on humanity's reign already. What a disappointing farce humanity has been...for a while we learned from history though. It would be better to see it all happen with the bang of mutually-assured destruction, then the pathetic way it will more likely unfold(thanks, status quo) with the ocean becoming dead, no electricity, eroded topsoil(thanks, agribusiness/biotech lobbyists!) and irreparably contaminated water supplies.
If it wasn't for Trump, I'd have kept on thinking that people aren't THAT easily manipulated by schoolyard rhetoric. Take that sociologists trying to say otherwise with empirical data! People are generally stupid—regardless of who they vote for or what ideologies they subscribe to. Environmental catastrophes, society becoming properly dystopian and total war won't be a tragedy anymore, it will beckon to the beginning of the final act where an emberassing spectacle finally ends.
Your perspective is exactly why humanity is destined to destroy itself. Ironically, it is a perspective that you share with those who you declare yourself to be against.
While you seem to be under the impression good and evil are subjective, it is patently clear where you think your nation resides on such a spectrum. Also incoherent is that despite acknowledging the nebulousness of evil, you use it as though it describes something real...is it arbitrary or is it not? Is evil maybe a convenient cop-out, since it presupposes the results of any debates regarding its ascription to someone/thing?
Perhaps the concept of evil is just a result of peoples' aversion to working through ambiguities and those who use it despite acknowledging its arbitrarity are striking a pose, rather than following an argument to its conclusion.
Avacyn seems like a powerful card, but I do not see myself playing it in any of my uwx modern decks.
As cute as using it to save geist is, geist decks are not good in Modern. Moreover, a cagey opponent could pretty easily take advantage of the flip trigger to kill my geist later.
Restoration angel seems better in pretty much any established deck in the format that could run Avacyn.
Prior to playing the deck, I had not realized jace ultimates are the primary wincon of this build. The mill plan has been
particularly nice in matches where my typical uw titan builds would suffer: life combos and Soul Sisters. On the topic of
my usual titan build's weaknesses, the creatures plan is okay against eldrazi, but drawing the wrong quarter of my deck is
often detrimental. The flip-Jace build so far doesn't have the latter shortcoming as it can basically just focus on the grind
and mill plan.
I added anticipates to my build, as digging to key cards was a problem and they make jaces better for getting over midgame humps.
The same can be said for timely.
Something that I've noticed is that on mtgo, effective use of priorities and hotkeys is necessary for not timing. Generally,
so long as I do not fall behind too much on the clock though, my opponents have decided to scoop instead of playing the clock
angle and belaboring things.
Anyway, here is the build...there is an extra land, as testing how specific cards, like Anticipate, is more important to me than
a marginal statistic edge. I am not really looking for feedback so much as the deck has been fun enough that sharing it seemed appropriate:
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Wall of Omens
4 Supreme Verdict
4 Cryptic Command
1 Dismember
3 Mana Leak
3 Ojutai's Command
4 Path to Exile
3 Anticipate
1 Timely Reinforcements
1 Sphinx's Revelation
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Flooded Strand
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Glacial Fortress
2 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
3 Plains
1 Prairie Stream
1 Polluted Delta
1 Tectonic Edge
SB: 1 Dismember
SB: 1 Crucible of Worlds
SB: 2 Disenchant
SB: 2 Dispel
SB: 4 Leyline of Sanctity
SB: 1 Negate
SB: 2 Stony Silence
SB: 2 Vendilion Clique
What is both annoying and potentially good is how the eldrazi archetype is basically just another midrange deck.
Curious to see what'll happen.
I am a bit late to the party, but it seems nobody has suggested running two Sun Titans and one other card. The reason for this is that it is extraordinarily helpful versus ramp strategies and anything with manlands. Also, with the finks and walls, sun titans would often serve a similar function when running an aggro deck out of steam.
Be open to versatile cards- I've gone down the path of fixating on a particular match and wound up losing to obscure decks that I would not have lost against if I'd had a more flexible build.
The reason for the preface is that it seems that Deathandcatmix is leaning on results orientated results-orientated thinking. Results are obviously key in any kind of testing, but it works with logic to figure things out, like whether to use X number of Leonin Arbiter, versus X Aven mindcensor. From day one of playing the deck, I could never get enough shuffle disruption effects, so four strikes me as dangerously minimal in a deck where you may only see two before eventually dying from not keeping one online versus a deck where keeping paths and quarters asymmetrical is key.
Perhaps I missed it and your(Deathandcatmix) metagame is one where the latter bit of the above does not apply OR maybe you are like a friend of mine who manages to basically always runs hot insofar as not losing due to failing to draw specific cards somehow.