I love resource denial and control or flexible option decks. I tend to love decks with options: Lands, Mulfatto Shops
If you don't mind me asking, what is "Mulfatto Shops"? I did a search on the whole forums and you're the only one who's ever called a deck that.
Specific variant of Mishra's Workshop decks that emphasize the Smokestack lock under all the Sphere/Thorn/Lodestone Golem/Tangle Wire. A descendant of the original Stax deck named after a player iirc. Like the original Stax it was four/five colors.
I've used JTMS, but Drownyard is funnier against Counterbalance. Ashiok wouldn't have much value IMO. Never used one in Lands. Sparki did use Ajani Vengeant at times. If Kiora wasn't abysmally overcosted, she might be ok.
This questionable shuffling cheating is more insidious than other outright infractions. If you aren't watching carefully, you'd think his opponents were just unlucky and he was running hot. In actuality, he's been manipulating his opponent's decks. I'd like to see a suspension or a ban.
I love resource denial and control or flexible option decks. I tend to love decks with options: Lands, Mulfatto Shops, Birthing Pod, Survival (when you could play it). I'm fine with tempo decks also.
I would rather just play different TCGs than play generic aggro type things unless it's required for success in events.
Earlier versions of Lands had Manabond. R/G still uses it. The fifth Exploration in some aspects, but making space for it was the difficult part. Playing it was more common before Crop Rotation was the play. Good job at 4-2 though. Obligatory list posting:
Going to a more traditional topless build (puns...), I'd cut them for an EE, the Karakas and an Intuition. In my SB I would add a CotV and Boseiju. My main point of playing Top was to control dredging SB cards and its done it's job. I'm also trying to figure out how to fit the second EE with 3 Tops, or going to 2/2 or boarding the 3 Top or boarding Top since it's not for every matchup but it's more of a general purpose card in that it fills the gap when I don't have Exploration which is what I like and why I don't cut it.
That YouTube video was catering to an uninformed demographic and can cause a negative opinion to be formed about anime assuming the viewer knew nothing else about the subject. In the video, they focused on the main aspect that makes western audiences uncomfortable (young girls involved in sex).
I, personally, enjoy anime. Videos that deliberately omit info annoy me and that video painted all anime as covert child pornography.
Urza could collapse planes (Serra's Realm). The Nine Titans (Old Walkers who fought Yawgmoth) and won at considerable cost were powerful. Yawgmoth and Phyrexia were an entire plane of concentrated weaponry. At the end of the conflict, Yawgmoth manifested as a death cloud of black mana that despoiled and killed countless many as it washed over before being stopped by the Legacy Weapon resulting in Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. Even in "death", Yawgmoth alters the mana leylines of Dominiara.
Goku definitely has opponents that can make for a good 50-70 episode story arc.
The Drownyard is arguably another, more antagonizing way to deal with Miracles. A lovely card, I approve. I'll separate out and post a list soon. I'm down actually trying to get some games in right now.
The image of Bahra's deck from MTGO was main decking a CotV as a nod to the online metagame being Miracles and Burn. He posted his daily results in the Source thread on Lands and his matchups were a disproportionate number of both of these decks with an occasional elves.
I think for a Burn hostile meta, I'd dust off Courser of Kruphix. Card does work with a Chalice. Storm is a bigger issue. I think playing against RiP is more important than ever, and I agree that TC leads to splash hate but if you're prepared, it shouldn't matter (much). Just prep your Abrupt Decay/Krosan Grip and be careful.
Wizards has a love-hate relationship with card draw permanents that can lower variance, so lands like Horizon Canopy in a cycle might be taboo for Standard. Unless they printed them into an eternal legal product only, which would be swell
I would trade for those just as a curiosity. Especially since people would send them in for replacement. It's a cool misprint. Waiting to see a foil missing the stamp.
Incidentally, the Smokestack can keep that plan under wraps well. I never considered Keranos even though my control build uses Top, mostly because I never felt it was necessary. Most times I used the Stronghold was to recur Geist, Thalia or Canonist in lieu of Academy Ruins. Keranos on their side is also worse without Top vs K Grip in my experience/opinion in that matchup (I've only played against a Keranos in a game two once admittedly) and I won that match.
Specific variant of Mishra's Workshop decks that emphasize the Smokestack lock under all the Sphere/Thorn/Lodestone Golem/Tangle Wire. A descendant of the original Stax deck named after a player iirc. Like the original Stax it was four/five colors.
I would rather just play different TCGs than play generic aggro type things unless it's required for success in events.
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Exploration
2 Intuition
4 Life from the Loam
4 Mox Diamond
3 Punishing Fire
3 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Smokestack
1 Worm Harvest
1 Zuran Orb
1 Academy Ruins
1 Bayou
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Chasm
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
3 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Rishadan Port
1 Taiga
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Thespian's Stage
3 Tolaria West
3 Tropical Island
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
1 Wooded Foothills
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Karakas
2 Krosan Grip
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Thorn of Amethyst
Going to a more traditional topless build (puns...), I'd cut them for an EE, the Karakas and an Intuition. In my SB I would add a CotV and Boseiju. My main point of playing Top was to control dredging SB cards and its done it's job. I'm also trying to figure out how to fit the second EE with 3 Tops, or going to 2/2 or boarding the 3 Top or boarding Top since it's not for every matchup but it's more of a general purpose card in that it fills the gap when I don't have Exploration which is what I like and why I don't cut it.
I, personally, enjoy anime. Videos that deliberately omit info annoy me and that video painted all anime as covert child pornography.
Goku definitely has opponents that can make for a good 50-70 episode story arc.
I think for a Burn hostile meta, I'd dust off Courser of Kruphix. Card does work with a Chalice. Storm is a bigger issue. I think playing against RiP is more important than ever, and I agree that TC leads to splash hate but if you're prepared, it shouldn't matter (much). Just prep your Abrupt Decay/Krosan Grip and be careful.
I've seen a few people do this. Unorthodox and different but ultimately not gamebreaking.