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Aug 3, 2016Daeyel posted a message on The Magic Market Index for July 29, 2016Liliana will be spiking yet again then, I think. The new Jace? Remember, I'm on record as calling her better than Veil.Posted in: Articles
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Aug 2, 2016Daeyel posted a message on The Magic Market Index for July 29, 2016There is something going on with black green zombies? Certain key cards moved up in price, as you noted with puzzlement. I'm thinking subtle forces are in play expecting a breakout at Pro Tour, and are speculating.Posted in: Articles
I'm working on it, as I think the pieces are there for Zombies to beat Bant Company by going wider than Bant can cover. The various sacrifice a creature cards, Dark Salvation and Languish along with Clip Wings may yet be combined into a force that tumbles Bant Company. -
Nov 24, 2015Daeyel posted a message on The Magic Street Journal: How to Handle "That Guy"The comments in this article are valid, and warrant contemplation.Posted in: Articles
However, any effort to respond to complaints by women about their treatment at any WOTC sanctioned event are undermined by..... WOTC.
I give you:
Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
I could go on, but I don't think it necessary. Nor will I go into the blatant appeal to the (immature) male fantasy of the good girl (Liliana, Heretical Healer) gone bad/with a dark side (Liliana, Defiant Necromancer) other than to remind you it is real, and that WOTC is deliberately and consciously pandering to it for monetary purposes.
Consider that for a minute. On the one hand, WOTC makes sexist products deliberately designed to entice, attract and encourage purchase by immature leering males.
Then, when someone has the audacity to act like an immature leering male, suddenly, according to that same WOTC, they are the bad guy and the Judge or owner should then intervene?
Women have a legitimate complaint, and as a WASP heterosexual male, I want that to change, and will do what I can to help it change. That said, until overtly sexist art like Liliana, Defiant Necromancer goes away, I'm pretty much going to insist that WOTC has set the sexism standard here, not 'That Guy'.
Change that, and we can make headway. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
If I have a Sakura-Tribe Scout on the table with Crucible of Worlds, can I tap STS to play a card from my graveyard, or does it have to be from hand?
NFL 'investigated' Deflategate. We know how that worked out.
Bottom line is that Wizards takes this stuff seriously. While you call them leaks, they call it industrial sabotage and corporate espionage. These sorts of things have incredibly serious consequences in the working world. Careers and reputations lost, livelihoods threatened by lawsuits, etc. Spoilers and the handling of them prerelease tells a story deliberately induced to get us to buy packs, boxes and cases. When done Wizards way, we get BFZ type hype and an explosion of buying. When leaked as OGW was, the threat is that people will 'be over' the cards by release day and sales fall short of projection. Many hours and dollars in planning the marketing the set were wasted.
We players can understand this. (Do they really think we are so easily manipulated? Are we?)
That said, WOTC has no real right to ban you just because you 'knew' or were in the same fb group as the guilty parties. This is the same road the NFL took against Tom Brady. Tom, however, had the money and a union to fight back with.
Judges have neither. I support any efforts to back the fringe bannings. The guilty parties, of course, are liable up to their ears, and if all they get is a 2 or 3 year ban, they should count themselves extremely lucky.
Even more concerning is the looming threat that I could be banned just for belonging to my various local MTG facebook groups should someone post something to it. As a new player of less than 7 months, I really do not want to be tasked with determining if a 'spoiler' someone posts is real or fake. I have no idea, nor do I have any expertise. Plus, it seems just pointing it out can get me banned? WTF? As a vested player, I would certainly back any player or judge action in protest of this. If wizards is going to bully it's paying customers like this, then the only voice we have is with that of our wallets. It may be we boycott FNM and it's drafts (and let the store know why) or boycott DCI events, or support a judges boycott of all events for 3 months (wouldn't that throw WOTC for a loop!)
Yes, it hurts stores, but when stores lose 10% of sales, they have a pipeline to WOTC they can scream into that speaks louder than any 1000 of us can. And frankly, a Judge boycott would be a massive blow WOTC would HAVE to respond to. I would fully back a judge boycott by boycotting DCI events for 3 months, or however long they decided.
Not to protest their response to the leaks, but to protest their Soviet and Nazi-style 'Round up all the suspects and shoot them all' approach. Such actions leave resentments that linger long after most have forgotten about them. Question is, will we act, or will we grumble about it in online forums?
Am I missing something here? With Isochron Scepter, the black cost of Dimir Charm doesn't matter, unless it doesn't get put on the scepter turn 2. In that case, a splash of black in the form of whatever dual you prefer and/or Swamp is minor. The certain duals can be fetched with Scalding Tarn.
As for Scepter being a pet card, perhaps so, but you can't tell me if you had an 2CMC artifact or enchantment that said '(2)(T): Do 3 damage to target player or creature' that you would not be all over it. Keeping the board clear definitely counts to me as adding to my win condition. I won't get into card advantage of the repeating nature.
Lightning Bolt isn't even my primary target for Scepter. A Dimir Charm is, so that I can lock them out of getting a land for the rest of the game. As for fragility, once it comes down on turn 2, they only have 1 or 2 mana to respond with. After that, it's goodbye anything that can crack it, because I'm not letting them have have anything that destroys artifacts (unless I can counter it) and they'll be getting no more lands to play their bigger creatures.
Regardless of whether they are on the play or draw, they will see 9 unfiltered cards before the t3 lock. Of those, 2, maybe 3 are lands. Of the other 6 or 7 cards, we can say 2 or 3 will be CMC 3 or higher. That only leaves them 5 or 6 cards to possibly crack the lock.
Pretty tall order. For the rest of the game, they'll draw what dregs I left them, and pass turn.
I've been curious how the deck works when I don't get the lock, and am satisfied that I can answer in other ways.
I've contemplated going the further land destruction route with Fulminator Mage and/or Molten Rain, but haven't seen the need.
The strongest argument against this is actually the lack of consistency a combo has. That's answered by the strength of it once accomplished, and the agility of having several cards to attach to Scepter. In this case, Remand may be better than Mana Leak, as it keeps their hand full. I'll look into that switch.
I really like the ability it has to become a control strategy, giving them the worst of 3 cards.
Combined with Isochron Scepter, you can create a lock for the remainder of the game. It's worked wonders for me, and comes together turn 2 seemingly half the time. If it doesn't, I pair it with Lightning Bolt or Mana Leak.
As Qui Gon says, either way, you win. Twin loves any of those 3 on a repeating stick.
Accessing your sideboard in game 1 really opens up possibilities.
You've given me some great help, and I can see several of these cards will be useful against multiple decks. I had not expected that, and it is a huge bonus. Are Slaughter Games/Surgical Extraction/Extirpate interchangeable?
(EDIT: I see that SG is the best (and most expensive CMC-wise) of the 3, since it cannot be countered, and does not rely on cards being in the graveyard.)
For Living End, would Bojuka Bog work?
The theory behind it is that you run 1 copy of a magic bullet for each deck, and 4 copies of Bring To Light to effectively give you 5 copies. The theory is that since BTL allows you to cast it for free, the colors of the magic bullet do not matter, so long as you can access that many colors of mana, which is not hard due to the presence of fetch, tango, pain and shock lands.
So, if I wanted to BTL sideboard for Tron, my sideboard would consist of 1 copy of Crumble To Dust and 4 Bring To Light.
The problem I am having right now is that as a relatively new player, I do not know all the cards in the MTG world.
So, in building my sideboard, I need the help of more knowledgable players who have vast libraries of older cards locked away in their heads.
If you feel there is a better card than what has been mentioned, please say so. And also, because some of the intricacies of magic and the rulings are still new to me, do not hesitate to explain WHY it is a magic bullet!
*PLEASE: This is NOT the place to debate the viability of this type of sideboard. That discussion belongs elsewhere.*
Starting with Tier 1 and 2, I'd love to have the best available 'magic bullet' for each of these deck types:
Some I have listed, but feel free to add more. If the magic bullet needs more than 1 copy, like Hibernate, I'd like to know that, too.
Tier 1:
Burn:
Affinity:
Jund:
UR Twin: (Rending Volley)
Amulet Bloom:
RG Tron: (Crumble To Dust)(Hibernate?)
Merfolk:
Infect:
Grixis Twin:
Tier 2
Junk:
Living End:
Scapeshift: (Hibernate)
Gruul Zoo:
Elves:
Naya Company:
Bogles:
Abzan Company:
RUG Twin:
UW Control:
Grixis Delver:
Grixis Control:
Thanks for your assistance in compiling this database.
For the last time:
Wastes, and the whole <> mana symbol was made ONLY for EDH, which some call commander. For regular formats, the current system was fine. EDH needed a source of colorless mana that was basic, so they could run multiples, instead of having to chase down expensive, and Blood Moon-able non-basics.
Do you really think it a coincidence these 3 cards, and specifically these 3 cards, were spoiled, leaked right in the prime of Commander season? 3 days after the new Commander decks were released!
That it simplifies and clarifies the difference between generic mana (mana of any color used to satisfy a non-specific mana requirement) and colorless mana (mana with no color) is unadulterated genius and a pure bonus.
Due to the El-drazi wasting the land, a Zendikar based set was the ONLY place it could be introduced while staying true to the storyline. This is why it is being introduced now, and not in Theros or Khans block. It would have made zero sense. In a Zendikar based block, it is actually poetic.
Most important: These colorless mana are not associated with the El-Drazi. Land is colorless after the El-drazi are finished with it. It is like overfarmed land, without minerals or other essential elements that aid growth. But the <> symbol not not mean, never has meant, and will never mean El-Drazi. It means, and will always mean only that the mana is colorless, as opposed to generic. If you cannot grasp the difference between colorless and generic after the repeated explanations, MTG is too hard for you. Go play Pokemon.
Rolling forward, we will see numerous lands producing <> mana. It will replace the colorless symbol. You will still see generic costs on cards, as well as <> cost requirements.
This is NOT a new mechanic. It is a clarification of an oft confused issue. It is an answer to repeated pleas of EDH players. It is not parasitic, as any generic cost from alpha to OOTGW can be met by <>. However, a <> cost cannot be met by generic mana. And we will see <> costs for years to come, as well as a steady supply of <> producing lands.
Why?
The same reason <> was created in the first place.
EDH/Commander.
I'm done with this thread, and the inanity of it all.
The sooner people wrap their minds around this, the sooner we can quit this merry-go-round and start discussing truly thought provoking questions.
This is a significant difference, because in the common slot, (36 packs per box) you will get 3 - 5 per box, whereas lands, you get 36 packs divided by 5, about 7 of each color land. With 6 lands in the land slot, you'd get 6 Wastes per box.
To joe blow, buying a box, one or 2 wastes makes no difference, but on the world wide scale, a common Wastes means a significant reduction in the number printed and available.
Considering the demand from EDH, this could be important.
or not, if Wizards prints extras to send to card shops for limited drafts.
At any rate, the foils will always have a high demand.
Pretty lame magic bullet. If they want a magic bullet for Twin, they really ought to do something like reprint Propaganda so it is Modern legal. Of course, you could run Leyline of Singularity. That does a pretty bang up job of stopping Twin.
Except this is not a mechanic developed for OOTGW. It was developed due to a screaming demand from EDH, and Battle for Zendikar block, with the El-drazi that destroy lands, is the best (only?) place for it to be introduced while still making sense story wise.
It doesn't take a genius to see that Crumble To Dust is a magic bullet aimed directly at Tron.
Makes me wonder when we'll see one aimed at Twin.