Well, in my experiences.. Dumping your hand definitely puts you in the drivers seat, but not necessarily win.. With my build at least. The way I look at it is he is a tempo insurance policy. He's worked for me, being exactly that.. A tempo card. I like being able to have some sort of card draw outlet without having to make cuts. Like I said, I think 3 is the right number because there is usually one in my opening hand, or at least draw one right after I dump. Either way, i've been waiting forever for a 2 drop zombie lord, because he'd be the first to go. Merfolk gets all the love.
I've had nothing but heart break with the scriviner.
Ya he hasn't been all that exciting.. There is a trick to him though. I've been play testing the crap out of my build, and tweaked some numbers on my post. My curve tops at 3.. So it's pretty easy to just dump your hand in the first 3 turns, depending on your hand. I'm pretty sure the correct number to have of this guy is 3. Because if you draw him after you've dumped your hand, you can immediately start benefiting from him. After this tweak, it has been running pretty good.
This is my U/B build for now.. I'm focusing more on aggro than graveyard shenanigans, but definitely still keep the graveyard tricks in tact. It is Zombies after all.. Would definitely love some suggestions.
How is that a warning lol? With all due respect, it's an on topic discussion. I'm saying heartless summoning could be a very vaible option if our mana base gets hindered.
Just play the deck. Can't beat em, join em. Everyone just keep playing the same deck till Wizards fixes their sh*t. In fact, don't but any of the new sets. Why bother if Eldrazi is the powerhouse to play haha. Hit em where the wallet is.. They're bitting the hands that feed them as far as I'm concerned.
1 - It's all hype, and is to expensive for being just a SB card.
2 - Really, it's just ONE answer for this nonsense.. And has to be reliable enough to show up either in your opening hand, or within the next turn or so. So that means it has to eat up 4 of your SB slots.
3 - I wouldn't even consider running this MB, even if every deck at my meta ran Eldrazi.. Meaning Game one will always be bad for me against them.
I really think a new deck has to rise up from all this and be good enough to be a new contender for most decks.. Not just one card.
Interesting to see people still voting for a ban for Ugin or Temple. There is a sideboard card out there that kills ANY Eldrazi deck in Painter's Servant.
Mind explaining how Painter's Servant counters eldrazi? I am honestly not seeing the interaction that stop the deck in its tracks. Never played with or against the card.
It's basically Blood Moon on a body, that changes all permenants to said color. I don't really like the card, and yes I do agree it doesn't instantly shut down their gameplan.
Ya, i'm half joking. I did have half an Eldrazi deck built when the heartless list came out a couple month ago, but seeing how boringly linear the new Eldrazi lists plays out.. I'm so turned off from it. It's not how Magic should be played.
I think everyone should just play Eldrazi.. No other decks. Just sell all of your cards, and everyone buy into Eldrazi. Wizards wants Eldrazi, we'll give them Eldrazi.
I didn't quite mean it's a conspiracy haha.. I'm just saying it's odd that they advertise that modern is this huge diverse format in one of the segments of the pro tour.. Yet every team was playing Eldrazi. It might as well have been standard with Chalices. If I had to put money on it, I would say that there is a big possibility pros get cut a check to brew what Wizards wants to see in the pro tour to push product. Then after the event, they release cards they found were good against them in their extensive testing to sell even more cards.
I refuse to pay that much for a super narrow sideboard against a deck that could see a banning by April
Same. It makes you wonder, how much of this is premeditated. I wonder if wizards pays off ChannelFireball/SCG/Ect, to pay off the pros to play certain decks.. To make random cards shoot up in price, then to make the answers to those random cards shoot up in price.
Actually CultistOfAthreos, their real goal is to sell magic cards to make money to make a giant statue of Griselbrand the size of the statue of liberty.
Ya he hasn't been all that exciting.. There is a trick to him though. I've been play testing the crap out of my build, and tweaked some numbers on my post. My curve tops at 3.. So it's pretty easy to just dump your hand in the first 3 turns, depending on your hand. I'm pretty sure the correct number to have of this guy is 3. Because if you draw him after you've dumped your hand, you can immediately start benefiting from him. After this tweak, it has been running pretty good.
3x Blood Scrivener
2x Cryptbreaker
3x Diregraf Captain
4x Diregraf Ghoul
3x Geralf's Messenger
4x Gravecrawler
3x Liliana, Heretical Healer
3x Relentless Dead
1x Skaab Ruinator
2x Bad Moon
2x Quest for the Gravelord
Sorceries
4x Thoughtseize
Instants
4x Compelling Deterrence
Lands 22
4x Darkslick Shores
3x Cavern of Souls
7x Swamp
1x Watery Grave
4x Polluted Delta
2x Drowned Catacomb
This is my U/B build for now.. I'm focusing more on aggro than graveyard shenanigans, but definitely still keep the graveyard tricks in tact. It is Zombies after all.. Would definitely love some suggestions.
1 - It's all hype, and is to expensive for being just a SB card.
2 - Really, it's just ONE answer for this nonsense.. And has to be reliable enough to show up either in your opening hand, or within the next turn or so. So that means it has to eat up 4 of your SB slots.
3 - I wouldn't even consider running this MB, even if every deck at my meta ran Eldrazi.. Meaning Game one will always be bad for me against them.
I really think a new deck has to rise up from all this and be good enough to be a new contender for most decks.. Not just one card.
It's basically Blood Moon on a body, that changes all permenants to said color. I don't really like the card, and yes I do agree it doesn't instantly shut down their gameplan.
Same. It makes you wonder, how much of this is premeditated. I wonder if wizards pays off ChannelFireball/SCG/Ect, to pay off the pros to play certain decks.. To make random cards shoot up in price, then to make the answers to those random cards shoot up in price.