Castle Locthwain seems like a good 3-4 of as a much-needed midgame mana sink. The new Reclusive Taxidermist can be a beater when you're milling properly and can pump mana into your X creatures when you aren't, so maybe it's actually pretty good to have some amount of them.
Thanks. I will definitely add 1 possibly 2 Castle Locthwain in the list. My swamp count feels low even with 2 Urborg and I wouldn't feel comfortable at 3 or 4. I actually did think about Taxidermist. Thanks for the mention of it. I will consider.
Would love to get some input on possible changes/upgrades for this deck. Its looking to land a medium to large creature on turn 2 via some interesting graveyard interactions. It plays like a weird aggro/combo deck. I'm up in the air on the mana base and it really doesn't have much interaction. Here is the list below.
Its looking to drop an Old Stickfingers or Fiend Artisan on turn 2 after dumping some creatures into the GY on turn one with Supplier. It can also drop a Sprout turn 1 and with a little luck swing as a 3/3 on turn 2 if you can dump 2 of the X creature via casting them for free. They also can be cast mid to late game as well.
I've been playing a budget version with Molderhulk that can be fun at times. Briefly considered Nemesis of Mortals as well. It just seems I need to be able to dump a few more creatures into the GY with another creature that triggers like Mire Triton. Don't know if 2 Undead Butler could fit the bill or not.
Suggestions are welcome. Had some fun playing it today, but it seems weak to Lotus Combo and UW Control and some aggro decks as well.
The way that the original post was phrased, at first I thought that each pack would only have like 8 cards in it, lol.
Then I reread it and was like "ohhhh"
I still don't get it. It reads you get 8 cards. ?????
Couldn't even get a blood token in my pre-release kit. They should literally give away one in every pack as tons of cards in this set generate the tokens. I did get the boar token ironically.
Looking forward to these. I am usually more interested in tokens than commons. I would probably buy a pack with 10 tokens in place of 10 commons. Speaks volumes on how bad some of the commons are.
These are fine. If you like the way these cards look and want to buy them, by golly, please go buy them and play with them!
But as to 'speccing' on them for collectors/whales/whatever..
Grim Tutor is a pretty grim card. It is a straight-up terrible rate for a Demonic Tutor. It is only valuable due to small print runs (scarcity) but no one actually plays Grim Tutor unless forced to do so. (Hopefully this reprint drives down the price on the originals.)
Blood Moon problem with choosing that card is, by now, there are lot of cool options, several of which are already alternate art/full frame/whatever. Swords to Plowshares, even moreso wow..
Rest of them are nice I guess. The Plains is trolling pretty hard.
That is what I meant.
Understood. I don't spec on these, I collect and play. Whales will buy them, hoard them and drive the prices up, that is a guarantee unfortunately.
Thanks. I will definitely add 1 possibly 2 Castle Locthwain in the list. My swamp count feels low even with 2 Urborg and I wouldn't feel comfortable at 3 or 4. I actually did think about Taxidermist. Thanks for the mention of it. I will consider.
4 Fiend Artisan
4 Deathbonnet Sprout
4 Stitcher's Supplier
4 Mire Triton
4 Glowspore Shaman
4 Stonecoil Serpent
4 Hangarback Walker
2 Chamber Sentry
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Assassin's Trophy
2 Fatal Push
4 Overgrown Tomb
3 Necroblossom Snarl
2 Blooming Marsh
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Castle Locthwain
5 Forest
4 Swamp
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Damping Sphere
2 Field of Ruin
2 Noxious Grasp
3 Heroic Intervention
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den (Companion)
1 Assassin's Trophy
Its looking to drop an Old Stickfingers or Fiend Artisan on turn 2 after dumping some creatures into the GY on turn one with Supplier. It can also drop a Sprout turn 1 and with a little luck swing as a 3/3 on turn 2 if you can dump 2 of the X creature via casting them for free. They also can be cast mid to late game as well.
I've been playing a budget version with Molderhulk that can be fun at times. Briefly considered Nemesis of Mortals as well. It just seems I need to be able to dump a few more creatures into the GY with another creature that triggers like Mire Triton. Don't know if 2 Undead Butler could fit the bill or not.
Suggestions are welcome. Had some fun playing it today, but it seems weak to Lotus Combo and UW Control and some aggro decks as well.
Most definitely on that missed delivery.
I ordered two from the last drop that ended last week and it suggested a mid to late January delivery date. This drop won't ship until early March.
The "Far Out Man" drop is pressing all the buttons with me. I LOVE the artwork on those. It will be my next order barring unforeseen circumstances.
Glad they are doing it but it rubs me the wrong way personally. They need to drop the prices for these drops. Double so for the land drops.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I won't ever buy these ugly hunks of cardboard.
Diamond hard pass.
I'm guessing at least 6 bucks a pack, I can see the greed ratcheting it up to 8 USD a pack though. Hard pass on all but the usual 4 USD a pack for me.
I still don't get it. It reads you get 8 cards. ?????
Rural Recruit
Albeit it is cheesy.
Couldn't even get a blood token in my pre-release kit.
And no I did not buy a bundle for the first time in years during Midnight Hunt. WotC can sit on these unless they drop the price.
It does and that's the reason I prefer these cards. Many of them are "full" art or textless as well. Good point.
They may even grab my cash on this one, maybe.
Understood. I don't spec on these, I collect and play. Whales will buy them, hoard them and drive the prices up, that is a guarantee unfortunately.