MTG Salvation

Primetime doesn't "die to removal". By the time you kill that primetime the owner has already gotten two of the best lands out of his deck.

Specific countermeasures against prophet of kruphix is such a loaded statement. You know what specifically answers him? Red burn spells, black direct removal, white direct removal, blue counterspells, and green lignify effects. In other words, stuff that you should have been stapling into your EDH decks anyways. All they do is require you to play smarter and not waste your answers on stuff that doesn't need immediate answering.

That's not really a fair statement because unanswered anything is more often than not the end of the game. That's how you win - you drop a threat and your opponent can't answer it. To that end, there aren't any wrong threats, just wrong answers.

If you're constantly running into dedicated G/U decks, start running the hosers for those cards. Boil them, use other dedicated hate cards for them, and make them miserable.

Austere command is one of the best board wipes in the format.

Cryptic command is nice but holding up that 4 mana is hard.

Profane command is bad.

Primal command is pretty good for the tutor effect and one other option.

Incendiary command will get your table to hate you.

Voltron was a major issue with my old playgroup so things like condemn were really important (same with glaring spotlight). I'm tempted to swap it for a path to exile but as it stands it's still a nice 1 cmc "oh crap" tuck.

Best way to beat dredge is to board in between 6-9 pieces of hate:

* relic of progenitus - forces them to go for their nature's claim. Pop it once they get 2-3 bridges in the yard

* faerie macabre - exile their Flamekin zealot of labratory maniac the second it hits the yard

* don't be afraid to bolt your own creature.

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Pretty much that.

Until you get at the upper level of the game is not about playing against the enemy champions, but playing with your own.

When I play with GLJ I can blitzcrank into pretty much any team comp because I'm familiar with the champion and I trust him to play someone that explodes whomever I grab (which is everyone because my pulls are amazing) and I really want to play a game with him where he plays Cass bot with our ADC mid because that would be ******* hilarious

Late reply, but holy **** your Blitzcrank is hilarious. When are you gonna get on league again?

I feel like I would rather be playing Craterhoof Behemoth and trying to win on the spot. Creeperhulk lends itself to overrun strategies, but I'm more a fan of the immediate burst of "holy crap" damage boost over the incremental power of creeperhulk.

I honestly agree that Players should try to adapt their decks to the situation around them. Yes, it can be a bit irritating when a finely tuned deck comes out of nowhere and wrecks the table, but at the same time it isn't the end of the world.

My (former) playgroup publicly shunned people who played control and counterspells, and was then shocked to see a surge of infinite combo decks and out-of-left-field win decks take over the metagame. Their solution wasn't to bring in more control, it was to ban infinite combo and everything that beat their battlecruiser EDH deck. I had a friend get his commander (Kozilek) banned because it came down on turn 3 too reliably.

And I call it former because, honestly, I am not too pleased with their recent attitude towards playing even moderately competitively.

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let me share this link: http://www.sirlin.net/ptw/ the chapter about scrubs

I really hate how Sirlin's work was intended to be used as a tool to help players improve, and it is instead used as an (often purely elitist) way of discounting other's opinions and belittling them as a person.

Wave of Vitriol is one of those cards that I'm going to be saving my counterspells for. If I know my opponent is running it I'm at least going to try and avoid being blown out by it. But that spell is scary.

So that list is 61 cards. I think you're running one too many of one of those cards.

My question is, what are you boarding in surgical extraction against?

To the end of searing blood, why not satyr Firedancer instead?(haven't tested this card personally, but it seems promising)

For the effect of drawing cards, I can't help but want instant speed. I usually end up cutting concentrate for either fact or fiction or jace's ingenuity. Concentrate is good and efficient card draw, though, so it's definitely worth running

At the moment I'm running dack's duplicate and rite of replication as my clone effects, both have been too good to me to swap out for the impersonator.

Once had an opponent get technical on me about shroud, I had casted my commander and floated the equip mana for a sword and the boots, putting both on at the same time. He called shenanigans because boots was on under the sword. Needless to say, I killed him first.

The point being, as long as you're smart with your equipment, the shroud shouldn't matter that much. The 1 cmc difference is surprisingly huge and makes it worth bringing to the table.

It falls under the situation that I call "death by durdle" - but let me clRify that I don't have an inherent problem with combos or mass board destruction. As long as the actions further your game plan along, then they're excusable and should be expected. Dropping a jokulhaups with your commander's mana floating is a great example of correctly using a mass board destruction because you're actively pushing to end the game with your commander. Same with an infinite combo. Similarly board wiping the guy that accelerated into 25 lands to stop his plans is excusable - kind of painful but understandable

However if your mass land destruction is there simply to reset to turn 1 and there wasn't any reason for it, then you probably shouldn't have used it.

So, ultimately, context is what makes it excusable or not. Nothing is inherently evil without excuse, just used in the wrong context and it's really ugly.