After some initial testing, I'm going to have to go with dauntless escort. If your opponents not playing white (for exile), an army of perpetually indestructible creatures is amazing.
Well, aside from the common green accel (Rampant Growth etc.) you have Etherium Sculptor in blue and the new artifact Everflowing Chalice.
It's impossible to get one before turn 3, but on turn 4 on the draw you CAN get two with lotus cobra shenanigans, or turn 4 on the play with the following godhand.
T1: Island
T2: Island, Sculptor
T3: Island, Sculptor, Sculptor, Chalice, Golem, Golem
EDIT: If you're milling yourself for vaults, take a look at the "Standard Dredge" thread over in Standard Deck Creation. It uses crabs, fetches, and tome scour.
Your deck may have a base something like this:
Land
FETCHES (For ramp + mill)
Open The Vaults (combo)
Sculptors (ramp)
Golems (combo)
Chalices (ramp)
Cobra (ramp)
Khalni Heart Expedition (ramp)
Hedron Crab (mill)
Tome Scour (mill)
Jut as a word of warning, don't play crabs turn one unless you know they have little removal (elfdrazi) or you have two crabs OR you're ramping instead.
Due to the ramp, you may end up switching the mill up for Traumatize, but in my experience, it's been too slow, and the synergy between Cobra, Khalni, and Crab seems too good to pass up.
SECOND EDIT: Actually, you can get it out turn 2, two ways.
T1: Forest, Hierarch/Bird
T2: Island, Sculptor, Sculptor, Chalice, Chalice, Golem
However, depending on your opponent, T2 might not be the best time for a golem due to lightning bolt and path to exile.
EDIT THREE: If you're going the milling route with Vaults, I'm just gonna post this godluck for the lolz.
T1: Island, Crab
T2: Fetchland into Forest, a few golems in grave. Lotus Cobra.
T3: Fetchland into Forest, all Golems in Graveyard. Harrow. Open The Vaults. Victory?
I'm really curious to know how the tournament would have turned out if draft hadn't factored into the top 8. Ho much would the Jace decks have influenced the results?
EDIT:
Anyways, I'm also taking my first semester of Japanese this year, and I agree with the above poster that if you're just doing it for the anime/manga, it won't work for you. Typically, in my class, your skill speaking Japanese is inversely proportional to how much you like anime/manga.
Seeing as how I can't stand either, I'm at the top of my class.
Anyway, it's a really fun language to learn, but you're interest in learning a foreign language should be higher than you're interest with Japanese stuff. If you're not interested in the language, you won't try and learn the vocabulary and grammar that isn't relevant to you, and you'll struggle.
Also, it's not like many european languages, because it's vocabulary is so separate from them. For example, you can guess the meaning of many German or Spanish words simply because they developed with and around English. However, with Japanese, the words are either exactly the same as their english equivalent (Hanbaaga = Hamburger), or are completely separate (Midori = Green). Because of this, the aforementioned people who aren't interested in the language will just spend their time messing around with the extremely easy words (Hottodoggu, anyone?), but will ignore and thus fail at the more difficult ones.
Anyway's, not a professional opinion, just a peer one. As mentioned before, this is my first year of Japanese, so I'm no expert. However, I'm going to agree with the above poster that, like any foreign language, you have to be motivated to learn it, and it's not something you should try to do alone.
Okay... which makes it a worse match up then it all ready is? Here, let me take 1/3 of the damage I normally would? Okay. I don't particularly see your side of the argument? Could you be a bit more clear?
By "eating" them, I thought you meant it killed them without you taking damage. I was just being a rules nazi; I had no argument.
Really? Like what? It eats Hellspark Elemental, Ball Lightning. The only thing that comes to mind is Hell's Thunder, but I'll eat that 4 - 8 damage any day with one of these guys. You cast your Lightning Bolts, and whatever and I'll just gain it back.
The damage from them still tramples over. Playing Hellspark elemental will result in a net loss of 0, unearthing with 1, and playing Ball lightning will make the opponent lose 3 life.
I don't know if it's been said yet, but it's obviously underwater, given that the merfolk are swimming.
Probably one of the ruins mentioned in the "A world enraged" text on the product page.
It's impossible to get one before turn 3, but on turn 4 on the draw you CAN get two with lotus cobra shenanigans, or turn 4 on the play with the following godhand.
T1: Island
T2: Island, Sculptor
T3: Island, Sculptor, Sculptor, Chalice, Golem, Golem
EDIT: If you're milling yourself for vaults, take a look at the "Standard Dredge" thread over in Standard Deck Creation. It uses crabs, fetches, and tome scour.
Your deck may have a base something like this:
Land
FETCHES (For ramp + mill)
Open The Vaults (combo)
Sculptors (ramp)
Golems (combo)
Chalices (ramp)
Cobra (ramp)
Khalni Heart Expedition (ramp)
Hedron Crab (mill)
Tome Scour (mill)
Jut as a word of warning, don't play crabs turn one unless you know they have little removal (elfdrazi) or you have two crabs OR you're ramping instead.
Due to the ramp, you may end up switching the mill up for Traumatize, but in my experience, it's been too slow, and the synergy between Cobra, Khalni, and Crab seems too good to pass up.
SECOND EDIT: Actually, you can get it out turn 2, two ways.
T1: Forest, Hierarch/Bird
T2: Island, Sculptor, Sculptor, Chalice, Chalice, Golem
T1: Forest, Hierarch/Bird
T2: Cobra, Fetch (3 mana), Harrow (4 mana), Golem
However, depending on your opponent, T2 might not be the best time for a golem due to lightning bolt and path to exile.
EDIT THREE: If you're going the milling route with Vaults, I'm just gonna post this godluck for the lolz.
T1: Island, Crab
T2: Fetchland into Forest, a few golems in grave. Lotus Cobra.
T3: Fetchland into Forest, all Golems in Graveyard. Harrow. Open The Vaults. Victory?
For great justice!
EDIT: And his only Bituminous, it seems, too.
That would have been absolutely ridiculous.
No, Legend rule kills the sharuums
There are two "n"s
EDIT:
Anyways, I'm also taking my first semester of Japanese this year, and I agree with the above poster that if you're just doing it for the anime/manga, it won't work for you. Typically, in my class, your skill speaking Japanese is inversely proportional to how much you like anime/manga.
Seeing as how I can't stand either, I'm at the top of my class.
Anyway, it's a really fun language to learn, but you're interest in learning a foreign language should be higher than you're interest with Japanese stuff. If you're not interested in the language, you won't try and learn the vocabulary and grammar that isn't relevant to you, and you'll struggle.
Also, it's not like many european languages, because it's vocabulary is so separate from them. For example, you can guess the meaning of many German or Spanish words simply because they developed with and around English. However, with Japanese, the words are either exactly the same as their english equivalent (Hanbaaga = Hamburger), or are completely separate (Midori = Green). Because of this, the aforementioned people who aren't interested in the language will just spend their time messing around with the extremely easy words (Hottodoggu, anyone?), but will ignore and thus fail at the more difficult ones.
Anyway's, not a professional opinion, just a peer one. As mentioned before, this is my first year of Japanese, so I'm no expert. However, I'm going to agree with the above poster that, like any foreign language, you have to be motivated to learn it, and it's not something you should try to do alone.
By "eating" them, I thought you meant it killed them without you taking damage. I was just being a rules nazi; I had no argument.
The damage from them still tramples over. Playing Hellspark elemental will result in a net loss of 0, unearthing with 1, and playing Ball lightning will make the opponent lose 3 life.
What are you talking about? Wrong thread, methinks.
Probably one of the ruins mentioned in the "A world enraged" text on the product page.