Also attached below are images of my current decklist and temur toolkit that has everything I need to craft the best Temur Delver list. And yes, all the cards pictured except for the 3 Surgicals, 2 Delay and 1 Hazoret are FOIL. GP Los Angeles 3/1/2019 will be my last hurrah for magic, a victory lap so-to-say. It will be a farewell to the game and my beloved deck of choice. I'm probably not going to play in the main event, but I will for sure be jamming some side events with the deck before I hand it over to the vendors.
As a thank you to @ashtonkutcher for the countless hours, articles, and postings he has put into the archetype, I will be mailing him a card of his choice from the aforementioned collection. So Jordan, send me a message so I can get that card shipped out to ya! Thank you so so much!
And also as a way of expressing my gratitude to the people who post here, I will be giving away one more card. One lucky person will also receive a card of his/her choosing! Here are the necessary conditions that you need to meet in order to have a chance of winning:
- You need to have at least ONE post in this thread before 2/14/2019.
- You hit this post with a like.
Again, thanks everyone for the great times and memories. As for why I am deciding to quit magic, there are a couple of reasons. 1) I've become disillusioned with the game. Between how much time it takes during the matches to shuffle decks, personal distastes of games that include mulligans, the streamlining and "weaponizing" of Modern, and how little enjoyment I get out of the game nowadays: my passion for the game has run its course. 2) Realizing that there is more to life than having shiny pieces of cardboard. I look at how much money I have spent on these things that just don't last and I wonder if there are better things I could be doing with my money. Throughout my magic career, I would always want more and shinier cards, thinking that once I acquired them I would be satisfied and happy. But the truth is, that anytime we look to material things for fulfillment, they never provide it. Sure, it feels good to acquire new magic cards, but feelings fade and pretty soon I find myself wanting to feel that good feeling again. And so the cycle continues. Don't let this happen to you!
Anyways, I digress. It's been a good ride, fellow Delver and Hootie aficionados. May your Delvers always flip, Goyfs always be 6/7's, and Thought Scours never mill all your fetchable lands. -Riku.
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I don't know anything about running group pages on Facebook but I'll make a Monkey Grow page unless somebody with more experience wants to jump on that grenade.
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Our mana base is REALLY fragile... Until it's established late game it's very difficult to afford which can make it a bad top deck in the first few turns. It's better as a sideboard card for grindy games but the match ups we grind with usually have a better card for us to play instead.
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Since wars planeswalker aplenty announcement I was hoping Domri or Sarkhan was going to be something we REALLY wanted. Still holding out for Sarkhan.
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For those following along, I am in the midst of foiling this deck out, After two months of looking through basic lands I've settled on the ones in using for this deck.I'm super happy with them!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/azopozd32796dz8/20190404_213344~01.jpg?dl=0
The islands are super sexy in person. They are 1999 urzas saga "left island" promo misprints on account of not having a set symbol on them.
The forest serves several purposes for me personally, I actually DO like the art, it's easy to find as the symbol is in the bottom corner, This is also the forest played by our good friend and pilot "Haverjak" 2 years ago in that tournament he did very well in. Seeing this forest both makes me feel proud and reminiscent of the good old days with probe so it's neat to pay homage to him and the deck doing well like this.
You can watch that here.
https://youtu.be/oTgvhFazVtM
More to come on that,
@ Grindor : I really like your list! Dare I say it's a very refreshing take! But I feel like I would be cheating on my snapcasters to not play them! And to think they are probably the least appealing creature in the deck! *shrug*
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And of course maybe we will get a walker out of spark... Could be an interesting year for our deck.
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So in 8 games ive cast spite of mogis once.
I saw stifle bird 2 times last night and it never felt appropriate to cast nor cycle. I would have far rathered VClique.
After discussing it in my last post, basic mountain in the main won me two games last night. So that was a surprise. It's like it heard me saying it was on thin ice. Lol!
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There's a deck on scg tour right now playing traverse and Phoenix in the main.
Edit: Boo... Just saw the full list.. It's just a Phoenix deck with traverse. I was hoping it was spicier.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/six40dfk7u4ro0x/20190129_195848.jpg?dl=0