Why is everyone so excited about Champion of Stray Souls? Looks like a dud to me. Too expensive to cast, too expensive to use, way too expensive to recur, and has to survive a turn before it does anything.
BNG is not impressing me in regards to EDH thus far. Ephara is the most interesting thing so far. I'm looking forward to building her and seeing other people's builds.
Shroud
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, deals combat damage to an opponent, or leaves the battlefield, draw a card and then discard a card.
0/3
The correct answer is to not start an MMO. It's a terrible genre. It thrives on allowing people, mostly people who are incapable of playing more challenging games, to feel like they've accomplished things when they haven't frequently enough to keep them coming back for more.
Oh yeah, you totally killed 15,302 mobs that a trained monkey could defeat and earned that new mount. Well done, champ!
If you want to dedicate yourself to a game for that many hours, take one with a skill ceiling that isn't somewhere between tying a shoe and making a PBJ. Then, after ten thousand hours spent in it, you won't just have everything reset for the next expansion, you'll be very skilled at something impressive. SC2, perhaps.
Sir, you have achieved thread victory. So many things right in this post.
While I do currently run Meloku in my lands list, it's more for just overall fun and synergy than it is for raw power. He (she?) is very slow without their enablers, as gromgrom said. But the couple of times I've had it online with a Trade Routes and a Crucible of Worlds, the durdling has been well worth it.
I've been doing the MMO rollercoaster for awhile. I couldn't find anything that would grab my attention for more than a month. It was all too easy or too "samey".
So I picked up UO on a free shard back in March. The interface is archaic, the graphics are brutal, but it's easily the most fun I've had in my last 8 years of playing MMOs.
Yavimaya Hollow is another utility land to consider. It's obviously great at keeping your stuff on the table when needed, but it can also play politics when needed.
Right now, this deck still very much looks like a Saffi deck first, with a secondary land theme. Depending how far you follow the land matters theme, Nomad Stadium can actually become decent too. I have a 5-color land deck that has abused this with GY recursion to stay in the game on multiple occasions. (Crucible + Exploration type effect)
Again, depending how far you follow the land matters theme, Chromatic Lantern and Prismatic Omen can help if you start bringing in too many colorless utility lands.
Scroll Rack
Puts cards back on top of your library for Melek copying. It's also just a good card that gets even better the more shuffle effects you have.
Eternal Dominion
Spellslinger decks tend to be low on win-cons and late in the game this usually gets the job done (and in satisfying fashion to boot).
Galvanoth
What's better than free spell copies? Free spells that also get free copies.
Mystical Tutor
Set any card up for Melek copying, or just find something when you need it.
Outside of those, I find spellslinger decks to be quite mana hungry. You could likely benefit from even more mana rocks.
When ARAM was just a custom game using Summoner's Rift, you still had a TON of dodges, a lot of people PICKING their champs (and saying they randomed), and jungling/going to other lanes. At least now they have some sort of penalty. I still enjoy the occasional ARAM to kill some time.
Very true that it's better than nothing. It's just aggravating when you know it could be improved with a couple hours of work, but it's just not on Riot's priority list. Or even in the same hemisphere as Riot's priority list for that matter. Dominion all over again, hooray!
Ajani himself has not demonstrated any enchantment or aura based abilities or affinity. He's always been classic white weenie, with classic red burn (for Vengeant).
That reads to me as 'Ajani can't be X, because he has always been Y. Well, except for that one time he was Z.'
good, another thread where a person asks for advise about resolving his metagame's problems turned into "bash the whiny casual players"
twicky_kid, if you still have faith in this thread please tell us a little more about your situation. what kind of decks are you and your friends using? is just the first ability of shattergang a problem, or he made you sacrifice all your artifacts and enchantments also?
We had a guy play with us the other night who doesn't play with us that often, and he looked like he wanted to kill me after I Catastrophed following someone's giant Collective Voyage.
Never mind that Kamahl has about a 20 mana threshold to be able to kill the table or that Scion now had enough fire-breathing mana to one-shot people, I was automatically a terrible person and he proceeded to hate me out with his Reaper King deck for the next few games. Now I have nothing against voyage, I play it myself even though it's probably not one of the best cards in the format. But, if people over-reach like that they should expect repercussions.
The funniest part, aside from the fact that he plays Reaper King, Maelstrom Wanderer, and Kiki-Jiki, was that he then went off about how he hates land destruction while trying to justify the use of it in one of his decks.
I ended up apologizing, not because I thought he was right, but because had I known I would have played a different deck that night to avoid the drama.
It's always interesting to see where people land on the 'Spirit of EDH Spectrum'. On one side you've got full-on competitive players that are OK with anything. On the other, you've got players like the OP, who will apparently hunt you down for the rest of the night because you blew up one of their creatures/artifacts once. (and Shattergang isn't even a targetted effect)
I think the type of EDH player that I butt heads with the most are the old-school players that seem to hate everything about the modern era of MtG.
Me: "I'll cast Beguiler of Wills." Them: "God, how many Mythic Rares are you playing?! This is ridiculous." Me: "...This is the second one I've casted this game. Also, this card is like 50 cents and is terrible." Them: "Wizards has ruined Magic with all this blatantly overpowered Mythic Rare crap."
This type of player usually has big problems with modern fat creatures as well. Later that night:
Me:: "I cast Colossus of Akros." Them:: "WTF!? Indestructable, Trampling 20/20?" Me:: "Well yea, but it costs 18 mana for that." Them:: "How was that ever printed?"
And despite them running a full stable of original duals and the like, they always bring up the budget of your decks when you win. This is a direct quote I once received from a player with Moat in their graveyard:
"I'm done, I can't compete with the amount of money you spend on the game anymore."
BNG is not impressing me in regards to EDH thus far. Ephara is the most interesting thing so far. I'm looking forward to building her and seeing other people's builds.
Shroud
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, deals combat damage to an opponent, or leaves the battlefield, draw a card and then discard a card.
0/3
I do like to run Magister Sphinx when I know there is a shark at the table, though, and the rest of the group isn't on that level.
Rite of Replication is the big exception, and makes it in most of my blue decks. While blatantly powerful, it's usually hilarious to make up for it.
I also tend to avoid extra turns.
Sir, you have achieved thread victory. So many things right in this post.
So I picked up UO on a free shard back in March. The interface is archaic, the graphics are brutal, but it's easily the most fun I've had in my last 8 years of playing MMOs.
Marath, Will of the Wild
Riku of Two Reflections
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Horde of Notions
Roon of the Hidden Realm
Right now, this deck still very much looks like a Saffi deck first, with a secondary land theme. Depending how far you follow the land matters theme, Nomad Stadium can actually become decent too. I have a 5-color land deck that has abused this with GY recursion to stay in the game on multiple occasions. (Crucible + Exploration type effect)
Again, depending how far you follow the land matters theme, Chromatic Lantern and Prismatic Omen can help if you start bringing in too many colorless utility lands.
Scroll Rack
Puts cards back on top of your library for Melek copying. It's also just a good card that gets even better the more shuffle effects you have.
Riptide Laboratory
Protects Melek and becomes durdle-city with Snapcaster Mage and Archaeomancer.
Eternal Dominion
Spellslinger decks tend to be low on win-cons and late in the game this usually gets the job done (and in satisfying fashion to boot).
Galvanoth
What's better than free spell copies? Free spells that also get free copies.
Mystical Tutor
Set any card up for Melek copying, or just find something when you need it.
Outside of those, I find spellslinger decks to be quite mana hungry. You could likely benefit from even more mana rocks.
Very true that it's better than nothing. It's just aggravating when you know it could be improved with a couple hours of work, but it's just not on Riot's priority list. Or even in the same hemisphere as Riot's priority list for that matter. Dominion all over again, hooray!
I personally wouldn't start ranked right when you hit 30. If this is your first account, you're probably not ready. It's only going to frustrate you.
That reads to me as 'Ajani can't be X, because he has always been Y. Well, except for that one time he was Z.'
I will apologize for somewhat derailing, but...
This. There wasn't anything productive going on to begin with.
It's always interesting to see where people land on the 'Spirit of EDH Spectrum'. On one side you've got full-on competitive players that are OK with anything. On the other, you've got players like the OP, who will apparently hunt you down for the rest of the night because you blew up one of their creatures/artifacts once. (and Shattergang isn't even a targetted effect)
I think the type of EDH player that I butt heads with the most are the old-school players that seem to hate everything about the modern era of MtG.
Me: "I'll cast Beguiler of Wills."
Them: "God, how many Mythic Rares are you playing?! This is ridiculous."
Me: "...This is the second one I've casted this game. Also, this card is like 50 cents and is terrible."
Them: "Wizards has ruined Magic with all this blatantly overpowered Mythic Rare crap."
This type of player usually has big problems with modern fat creatures as well. Later that night:
Me:: "I cast Colossus of Akros."
Them:: "WTF!? Indestructable, Trampling 20/20?"
Me:: "Well yea, but it costs 18 mana for that."
Them:: "How was that ever printed?"
And despite them running a full stable of original duals and the like, they always bring up the budget of your decks when you win. This is a direct quote I once received from a player with Moat in their graveyard:
"I'm done, I can't compete with the amount of money you spend on the game anymore."