you can't activate the aetherflux reservoir if you don't already have 50 life, so angel's grace does nothing for that. you need the 50 life to pay the activation cost.
i gave him a go a few weeks ago at LGS FNM and he performed fairly well in tune with Den Protector. that being said i got stomped by very aggressive decks that go wide. he doesn't shine well in situations like that and aside from that, there were (may have just been a local thing) waayyyyyy too many Kalitas in main/side to really make the raptor a worthy contender. i'd say it's not out of the question (heck i'm still going to try), but i believe the card is on the downswing. with upcoming inevitability cards like bygone bishop and tireless tracker, i could see a grindy deck doing okay again. we will see.
2-0 ninjabeardelver
just beat him. plain and simple. my stuff was better. a few well timed counters sealed the deal.
2-0 R/G tron
good match. countered an O-stone, spreading seas on the right land. feeling pretty good.
0-2 grixis delver
played my roommate. g1 got him to 2 life and couldnt seal the deal. g2 i drew 3 aether vials in a row starting with turn 3. what a waste of a match.
0-2 w/g good stuff(?)
this list ran the typical old pod stuff minus the black. birds of paradise,thragtuskrestoration angel, noble hierarch,voice of resurgence, etc. g1 i did okay, got some damage and traded some stuff. he ended up catching me when i hit a few lands in a row. g2 kept a terrible hand and paid the price for it.
MVPs for me were mana leak, spreading seas, merrow reejerey, and of course the 2 drop lords. i finally bit the bullet and added the reejereys to my deck and wow did they impress me. will stick with them from now on. harbinger is a full set of 4 in my deck and they are awesome. spreading seas won me the game 1 against tron for sure. it bought me.. 3 or 4 turns at least. mana leak didnt fall short one time, either. i know a lot of lists aren't running it. why? not once was someone able to pay the 3 mana against it. it saved me a ton of times. since i switched off from path to dismember, there isn't the nonbo of mana leak/path/spreading seas to worry about.
i like "dublands," "laglands," and "latelands."
"Tangolands" is okay. i like the reasoning, but don't prefer the name, itself.
is someone going to make an actual poll for us to vote on?
it's okay for limited for the colors. UB had some self mill potential, but only a few things to utilize it. this is one of those cards. a 3/2 body for 5 is a little underwhelming, but it can reuse removal or a milled/killed bomb. even if you are playing UB, it's still just pretty good. i give it a 3/5 for the format, utterly useless otherwise, unless someone has some sort of combo to utilize him.
love the idea. as soon as i saw tainted remedy i really thought it could be a great card. perhaps as a removal you could use condemn? i think that could potentially be a devastating card in this deck. also, i am probably going to build/test this deck as well.
For the record, it's rude to resort to a judge when there have already been several answers given that all detail the same thing. A person doesn't have to be a judge to give a correct answer to a rules question.
when i posted my original comment, i then immediately went to another tab and found the answer i was looking for. by the time i came back and posted my second comment (claiming i was wrong) it was ~4 minutes later. i did not refresh the page so any comments between my two comments, were unknown to me. for what it's worth, a second opinion on a complicated matter is hardly rude. it's being thorough.
The same thing happens with targeted spells and their interaction with heroic.
not exactly. with heroic, spells are the only thing that can cause the trigger. you have to pay the spell's cost before it goes on the stack. there is a similarity in the sense that the targeting causes the trigger, but that wasn't really the topic at hand. the topic at hand was in this case, the ability targets regardless of paying a cost.
just asked a judge and apparently throwing knife does target without having to sacrifice. that is one of the most lame fails of rulings, ive seen (lately).
Because it being a human is a HUGE deal in the decks where it is played.
2-0 ninjabeardelver
just beat him. plain and simple. my stuff was better. a few well timed counters sealed the deal.
2-0 R/G tron
good match. countered an O-stone, spreading seas on the right land. feeling pretty good.
0-2 grixis delver
played my roommate. g1 got him to 2 life and couldnt seal the deal. g2 i drew 3 aether vials in a row starting with turn 3. what a waste of a match.
0-2 w/g good stuff(?)
this list ran the typical old pod stuff minus the black. birds of paradise,thragtuskrestoration angel, noble hierarch,voice of resurgence, etc. g1 i did okay, got some damage and traded some stuff. he ended up catching me when i hit a few lands in a row. g2 kept a terrible hand and paid the price for it.
MVPs for me were mana leak, spreading seas, merrow reejerey, and of course the 2 drop lords. i finally bit the bullet and added the reejereys to my deck and wow did they impress me. will stick with them from now on. harbinger is a full set of 4 in my deck and they are awesome. spreading seas won me the game 1 against tron for sure. it bought me.. 3 or 4 turns at least. mana leak didnt fall short one time, either. i know a lot of lists aren't running it. why? not once was someone able to pay the 3 mana against it. it saved me a ton of times. since i switched off from path to dismember, there isn't the nonbo of mana leak/path/spreading seas to worry about.
"Tangolands" is okay. i like the reasoning, but don't prefer the name, itself.
is someone going to make an actual poll for us to vote on?
master warcraft is one of my personal favs.
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- Teia
EDIT: put the apostrophe in the wrong spot on hunters' feast.
when i posted my original comment, i then immediately went to another tab and found the answer i was looking for. by the time i came back and posted my second comment (claiming i was wrong) it was ~4 minutes later. i did not refresh the page so any comments between my two comments, were unknown to me. for what it's worth, a second opinion on a complicated matter is hardly rude. it's being thorough.
not exactly. with heroic, spells are the only thing that can cause the trigger. you have to pay the spell's cost before it goes on the stack. there is a similarity in the sense that the targeting causes the trigger, but that wasn't really the topic at hand. the topic at hand was in this case, the ability targets regardless of paying a cost.