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Jun 15, 2019schweinefett posted a message on A New and Exciting Beginningwait does this mean that mtgsalvation will be up and running as if there were no big changes? or will the domain change with it?Posted in: Articles
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May 7, 2015schweinefett posted a message on High Stakes Magic - A New Way to Playmight be a while before i'd be able to get back to ya in testing, but sure!Posted in: Articles
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May 6, 2015schweinefett posted a message on High Stakes Magic - A New Way to Playalso, i think allowing players to pay say 1 or 2 life for it to count as 1 gold could make bidding strategies a lot more interesting.Posted in: Articles
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cuz if so, it could be worth mentioning that etb tapped lands are a huge tempo hit for aggro decks. How much colour fixing do you really need?
also, if you wanna have a good aggro style build in multiple colours, it could be worth skewing your deck to be mostly 1 colour, where most of your one-drops are your main colour. That way, you can more often have turn 1 basic + 1drop into 2 drop plus beat with your turn 1 play.
Like I said I’m not on arena, so I don’t know what your opponents decks look like. But one thing that has been great in formats I play is land a turn 1 threat, and then 1/2 of your deck is disruption pieces that stop your opponent from deploying their plan (while your turn 1 threat whitttles their life away). Not sure how doable it is here though. And mostly just a thought you could try!
those thoughts/reflections will dictate what you should be aiming to get to further improve your deck.
Sorry I’m not any more effective at giving tips outside of very general deckbusing ideas
currently, the only way doomsday wins is via hellcarver demon piles, where I go for multiple attack steps or lich repay in kind or something similar.
I’m looking for dd piles that doenst rely on hellcarver to win, and preferably uses kaerveks spite as a wincon (it’s a card that has been coming in-and-out of the deck, but actually winning a pod with it is just too amazing a feeling that I just wanna make it work).
Anyone have potential piles that could work here?
my current pile (that also needs to draw into) is:
Bolas citadel
dark ritual/cabal ritual
(Needs to be drawn)Kaerveks spite
Elixir of immortality
Tendrils of agony
basically, draw, play citadel, then play everything out, draw spite, loop with elixir, and get the last player with spite. Not great, but what can ya do!
But yea, the deck is built this way mostly so I can actually sport all the broken cards in the deck, having the best of the best, and still be considered ok by the playgroup, cuz it’s weak to a well-timed piece of interaction.
On the losing all my lands thing, I’ve never thought that to be a major detriment to the game. The deck can function well on 4 lands, and can even do some really scary things with just 2 permanent mana sources.
But thanks for your input anyways. I’m probably still gonna still tweak it to include more broken FIRE design cards, even though it feels like it’s pushing out all those ‘risky’ demons!
Sorry for the slow response. I’ve picked up a few of the cards like jeska will, Jerald of slaanesh.
In terms of interactions, I’m kinda wary about it, mostly cuz I don’t wanna spend mana to answer things; I kinda wanna just pressure the table, and hope that it’s enough. It’s a very weird play style the deck kinda likes. I’ve played not of this world and bolt bend and imps mischief, and I’ve never had them work out. Protecting my cards are not what I wanna do; removing/neutering things like propaganda/board-based tax/stax effects are what I need.
I’m def gonna keep my eye out for deadly rolicks, thrilling encore, and some other pieces like that, as well as Raphael.
It makes brainstorm not nearly as good, going from a put the best 3 from library + cards in hand, and removing the worst 2 cards in hand, and shuffle them away into just gaining the top 2 best cards, but still being forced to work through the next few card draws before you see anything else new (hope ou get what I mean).
preordain could be what you want instead in that slot!
I’m sure they synergise well together, but it could be worth mentioning that it’s usually better to double down on a single strategy than to have a strong plan B that somewhat goes with the plan A.
That being said, the new sheoldred could be good. It’s sort of the essence of what you’re trying to do, but still closer to plan A than B. It is an expensive card though.
How does your deck play in general? I don’t have the cards to whip it together, but it looks like it should be good fun!
1 Abhorrent Overlord
1 Abyssal Persecutor
1 Ancient Brass Dragon
1 Bloodgift Demon
1 Brainstealer Dragon
1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
1 Keen Duelist
1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
1 Void Beckoner
1 Cruel Bargain
1 Exhume
1 Infernal Contract
1 Mizzix's Mastery
1 Patriarch's Bidding
1 Shatterskull Smashing
1 Goryo's Vengeance
1 Kaervek's Spite
Enchantments (1)
1 Dragon Breath
But yea, underworld breach isnt part of a combo as such; more an easy way to get stuff from my GY if i flip it with hellcarver demon. There aren't really any infinite combos outside of very specific 0.01% of the time, where i flip say lichtreasonous ogre ad repay in kind. There are other ways to go, like hellcarver into world at war/savage beating, firey emancipation, some beater with a haste enabler, so on.
There aren't that many actual game-winning doomsday piles, but repay in kind plus lich or treasonous ogre works. or if the game is nearing its end, another attack step/final fortune plus some reanimation usually does the trick.
most of the wins with the deck comes from turn 2-3 villis or sire of insanity, via entomb into reanimate. or shallow grave into sacrifice/burnt offering into another big beater in hand/rakdos the defiler which hampers board growth. another synergy is Archfiend of Despair and sower of discord, which speeds up the game immensely. tergrid, god of fright and rakdos does good work together too. I used to run pox, but it didnt seem good enough, and i can't find my copy of it that betrays, so thats not in till i find it. oh yea doom whisperer into living death usually trades me up 3-5 beaters while removing a lot from the board.
The card tutoring is more to help build up, either finding a reanimation spell or beater. More often than not, consultation finds me fast mana, be it LED (to cast rakdos), crypt or vault, just for a sudden boost and keep the pressure up.
The deck is suicide in terms of sacrificing the typical value/snowballing cards that wotc prints these days for tempo/board presence/life total pressure. its like the old Bx aggro from the mid 90s, when id aim to go turn 1 ritual into necropotence/hypnotic spectre, and just tempo my opponent out.
i understand that this deck usually looks a heck of a lot scarier than it actually is, but its reportedly really fun to play against, especially if there isn't too much time left in the night, but you can squeeze one game in if you make it snappy. i mean, considering the number of tutors in here, its surprisingly random, the way the deck plays. I guess thats what keeps it fun to play against.
Commander (1)
Rakdos the Defiler
Creatures (22)
1 Archfiend of Despair
1 Blood Speaker
1 Burning-Rune Demon
1 Doom Whisperer
1 Dream Devourer
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Hellcarver Demon
1 Lord of the Void
1 Master of Cruelties
1 Pestilence Demon
1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
1 Rakdos, the Showstopper
1 Scourge of the Throne
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Sire of Insanity
1 Sower of Discord
1 Tergrid, God of Fright
1 Treasonous Ogre
1 Urabrask the Hidden
1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
Sorceries (16)
1 Burning Inquiry
1 Cathartic Reunion
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Doomsday
1 Faithless Looting
1 Imperial Seal
1 Living Death
1 Reanimate
1 Reforge the Soul
1 Repay in Kind
1 Tormenting Voice
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Wheel of Misfortune
1 World at War
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Instants (16)
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Corpse Dance
1 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Entomb
1 Final Fortune
1 Insidious Dreams
1 Malakir Rebirth
1 Rain of Filth
1 Sacrifice
1 Savage Beating
1 Shallow Grave
1 Stinging Study
1 Thrill of Possibility
1 Vampiric Tutor
Artifacts (9)
1 Chrome Mox
1 Cursed Mirror
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Sol Ring
1 Talisman of Indulgence
Enchantments (6)
1 Fiery Emancipation
1 Lich
1 Mass Hysteria
1 Necromancy
1 Underworld Breach
Lands (36)· 38 including mdfc
1 Arid Mesa
1 Badlands
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Command Tower
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Graven Cairns
1 Luxury Suite
1 Marsh Flats
6 Mountain
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Spinerock Knoll
1 Sulfurous Springs
8 Swamp
1 Tainted Peak
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
I counted 106 cards, and need to cut 6 slots. The deck in general runs pretty well, but I’ve no idea what to cut!
Any ideas?
or possibly even if there are better cards to replace the existing cards in the deck?
So your doomsday piles makes sense; gonna look for a firey wmancipation when I can.
but do you have any opinions about say piles with abhorrent overlord and breath of fury? Combined with say emancipation, haste enabler and one more, maybe a lord of the void? Not good enough?
Also, having browsed some chaff lying around, any opinions on urbrask the red praetor? Has a one-sided kismet and fervor stuck to a 4/4 body. Seems good I would have thought.
I don’t have a lot of the newer cards. Also noticed that I don’t have a lot of ways to make doomsday piles that arnet just lich-repay in kind.
gonna add in grey merchant, world at war. Would like to be able to get those double faces land cards too.
also, no love for goryos vengeance?
it’s funny, but my rakdos deck has all the expensive fast mana, wheel of fortune, and a bunch of money cards, but it’s not a very good deck. It can be scary though, just looking at the decklist, but for the most part, it just kills itself (it’s literally a suicide aggro deck). I’ve had a hard time trying to figure out how to describe it to people.
I understand the idea though; the last time I sat down with some random people to play, I actually brought up that my edh deck is probably worth more money-wise than my legacy decks, but the actual power level is probably lower than the budget.
I think as long as you’re as honest as you can be, and you can trust to at the others are doing the same, I’m pretty sure the rule 0 talk will be fine. I’m def gonna add this to my general talk pre-game though.