The Vanquisher's feel very unnecessary. A 3/3 Elf for 2 that cuts through creatures is ok, but at that CMC you could be running lots of neat'er stuff. Heck, why not include a Heedless One or two?
I have to admit I like Winter Orb in these decks, tho.
Huh, I lost my post. Anyways, Morphling, do you like the Glimpses and the Perfects? I used to consider the Glimpse, but the Perfect seems an odd choice.
Anyways, just ordered the Joraga's (FNM foil version of course) and the commons needed to fill the list.
Uncertainty 1UU
Sorcery
Reveal the top 2 cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to place those cards in your hand. Otherwise, you may search your library for a card, reveal it, shuffle your library, and place the selected card on top of it. Kylm pondered.
For now the "How?" matters much more than the "Why?"
That decklist looks amazing to me. Maybe trim 1 Wellwisher (since it's a secondary sort of card) for 1x Caller or 1x Viridian Zealot just to have a solution in there, but for the most part I love that deck. Basically every game should be
Turn 1: Forest-Llano/Fynd
Turn 2: Forest-Options (Maybe Priest and something, maybe one drops, maybe Crossroads and start going off even faster)
Turn 3: Win or Set up win for next turn depending on if you Crossroads'ed
And the Joraga's ensure that come turn 4 (assuming you didn't perfect storm for a Turn 3 mega-beatdown), even if they aren't swinging you tap your dinky Priest (who you wouldn't really mind not swinging with) in exchange for a meaty pump to everyone else. He's almost like a permanent Overrun in creature form (no, not Kamahl, heh), along with a multitude of other forms to fill your potential needs.
Maybe if I playtest it I won't like it as much, but I'm in love with that card right now (and for probably less than 5 bucks it'd be worth splurging to grab a playset and try em).
The trouble with regulating something as wealthy and (therefore) powerful as the financial industry is like the trouble of trying to protect copyright against the internet legions. No matter how much time, effort, and money you put into it you have effectively the entire population of Earth working against it, so eventually it will be broken. Similarly here no matter what you legislate some new derivative tool or methodology will come along that usurps the regulations you have.
But what you can do is at least fix the problems you've seen, and this bill does a reasonable job of that. It doesn't deal with Fannie and Freddie, which is obviously not good, but something is better than nothing.
I would have to agree with your conservative friends (the first part, at least).
The decision over whether or not to become an organ donor is an incredibly personal one. Why should the government have the right to make that decision for you?
The government isn't making that decision for you. Opting out isn't particularly difficult, complex, expensive, or trying, it's just shifting the burden from the government (in convincing people to be donors) to the individual (in filling out the form or whatever to not be one).
Maybe there are some tax write-offs out there for you, but you are responsible for noting them on your tax return.
Take the draft, a more immediate and while-you're-alive government intrusion into your life. Every 18 year old man is required by law to be registered for selective service. Period. This is part of the understanding that a nation's security is a collective good and there need to be protections that even in the worst of times it can be maintained. You can claim conscientious objector status and stay out of a war, but the burden falls upon you.
Here, as with the draft, NY is taking a public need (organs, rather than a theoretical standing army) and saying it is significant enough that the assumption will be to service that need whenever possible. Again, it's not a requirement or really any kind of government intrusion into your rights, all you need to do is say "No" rather than have it assumed.
Oh man, I hadn't even considered the Magistrate/Warcaller synergy. I realize the acceleration makes the extra colorless meaningless (basically), but in your experience is Magistrate playable? I know Timberwatch's tend to be the last thing I drop out of a hand, both because they are expensive (relative to the rest of the deck) and don't have any permanent value like Magistrate does. Seems like they could be very playable.
Do you think I need that draw from Visionary? Taking my base list I'm thinking (along with possibly -4 Timberwatch, +4 Magistrate)
? I'm also wondering if the Essence Warden's are even worth it. On one hand I like a 1 drop Elf with an ability that can essentially win me games (by holding off opponents in bad situations or if the board gets nuked or whatever). But it's also yet another 1 drop who either slows me down by being dropped early or is less useful by coming later.
Last question, should I drop the 2 Caller of the Claw (sideboard them, maybe) in exchange for 2 Visionary? Replace a bulky 3 drop that is just a Grizzly Bears with flash most games with a cantripping 1/1? The only nice thing about Caller is the flash allows you to have mana-elves as untapped blockers and at least cast him end of their turn for additional advantage (but I'm rarely willing to risk getting rid of him so easily).
I personally don't see a use for it (although maybe I just haven't played with it enough) - even as a budget solution as it just seems way to clunky and slow in a deck like affinity. Springleaf Drum is the same price (cheaper maybe?) already offers crazy acceleration and allows for some great turn-1 plays off of Ornithopter. If you're looking for a 0 drop Phyrexian Walker could just as easily slip into that 0-CMC slot and offer you another creature to sac to Ravager/Skullclamp or swing with a Cranial Plating on it.
When you're not talking budget there's stuff out there that's just so much better for affinity because it exists as investment free 0-1 CMC acceleration. Aether Vial, Sol Ring, Tolarian Academy and (the extreme) coloured Moxen and Black Lotus are prime examples of stuff that, at least from experience, blow something like Everflowing Chalice away.
Just my two cents.
Yeah, true.
Lemme toss an oldie at you now. It'll be annoying to find, but dirt cheap when you do, whaddya think of Drafna's Restoration? Reload off of Ravager/Clamp moves and a maindecked response to artifact-hate killing anything you need.
Do you think Everflowing Chalice is a viable (at least budget) acceleration idea? Potential mana acceleration in the right situation and always a 0-mana artifact drop which is mega-acceleration in Affinity.
Hello everybody! I haven't posted here in years. Literally. Now this is a theme that has come about every time I return briefly, but I'd love any advice you can give on updating my ancient Elf deck.
First off, looking at recent posts Jorga Warcaller seems like an almost definite add. Plus I've toyed around with whether I should run at least one Viridian Zealot or Shammie maindeck. How about Kithkin Mourncaller for some more draw (why couldn't it be an ELF!?)? And I dunno why I never ran Wirewood Hivemaster.
Finally, can someone tell me if you can use your creatures to block attacks on Planeswalkers (that's a wholly new type since I last really played in the Kamigawa block)? If so Nissa Revane seems like a natural addition.
Thinking about it now, removing the Wellwishers removes a tap-abuse trick with the untappers, so maybe trim back a Symbiote or two in exchange for something? I feel like (particularly if I remove the clamps which I want to do) I need some form of draw engine to keep the deck going.
I agree with the Skullclamp cutting, but I don't understand your dislike for Heedless. HOW is he conditional? That is generally my win condition. Even early it's reasonable sized in this deck, and it tramples to avoid chumping.
And Joraga is so offensively good I don't know why I wouldn't just immediately replace those 4 Clamps with 4 of it, if nothing else. It's a 1-drop, an Elvish Champion (basically, Forestwalk is only somewhat useful), or a win condition depending on what you need/want.
As for Wellwisher/Warden, I see what you mean. My other question is if life gain belongs in this deck at all.
Shattered Defenses1BB
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures with a toughness larger than their power. Matthias thought a phalanx of soldiers defending him would be enough. But, as they worked so close together, one simple plague opened a hole.
While i wont argue that, Reagans economics where good considering the economy he received and the economy he left office with.
Reaganomics failed miserably. He single handedly prove that trickle down economics is a lie. His policies of deregulation led to the Savings and Loan crisis AND laid down the framework of ideas that would ultimately lead to our current mortgage crisis. He left a country behind with massive problems for the majority of its citizens.
Mccain was right on target with how to handle the issue. He really got obama when he said that he didn't know the difference between a tactic and a stradegy. obama never really did clear hi
Actually he did. Especially since even General Petraeus, as Biden would later remind folks during the analysis, called the surge a tactical move to achieve a strategic goal.
I have to admit I like Winter Orb in these decks, tho.
Anyways, just ordered the Joraga's (FNM foil version of course) and the commons needed to fill the list.
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Sorcery
Reveal the top 2 cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to place those cards in your hand. Otherwise, you may search your library for a card, reveal it, shuffle your library, and place the selected card on top of it.
Kylm pondered.
For now the "How?" matters much more than the "Why?"
14 Forests
//Creatures (43)
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Priest of Titania
4 Timberwatch Elves
4 Joraga Warcaller
4 Sylvan Messenger
4 Wellwisher
4 Heedless One
3 Elven Visionary
3 Concordant Crossroads
That decklist looks amazing to me. Maybe trim 1 Wellwisher (since it's a secondary sort of card) for 1x Caller or 1x Viridian Zealot just to have a solution in there, but for the most part I love that deck. Basically every game should be
Turn 1: Forest-Llano/Fynd
Turn 2: Forest-Options (Maybe Priest and something, maybe one drops, maybe Crossroads and start going off even faster)
Turn 3: Win or Set up win for next turn depending on if you Crossroads'ed
And the Joraga's ensure that come turn 4 (assuming you didn't perfect storm for a Turn 3 mega-beatdown), even if they aren't swinging you tap your dinky Priest (who you wouldn't really mind not swinging with) in exchange for a meaty pump to everyone else. He's almost like a permanent Overrun in creature form (no, not Kamahl, heh), along with a multitude of other forms to fill your potential needs.
Maybe if I playtest it I won't like it as much, but I'm in love with that card right now (and for probably less than 5 bucks it'd be worth splurging to grab a playset and try em).
Good point though, I just felt like digging around through card libraries looking for tricky little cards that might interact nicely with affinity.
But what you can do is at least fix the problems you've seen, and this bill does a reasonable job of that. It doesn't deal with Fannie and Freddie, which is obviously not good, but something is better than nothing.
The government isn't making that decision for you. Opting out isn't particularly difficult, complex, expensive, or trying, it's just shifting the burden from the government (in convincing people to be donors) to the individual (in filling out the form or whatever to not be one).
Maybe there are some tax write-offs out there for you, but you are responsible for noting them on your tax return.
Take the draft, a more immediate and while-you're-alive government intrusion into your life. Every 18 year old man is required by law to be registered for selective service. Period. This is part of the understanding that a nation's security is a collective good and there need to be protections that even in the worst of times it can be maintained. You can claim conscientious objector status and stay out of a war, but the burden falls upon you.
Here, as with the draft, NY is taking a public need (organs, rather than a theoretical standing army) and saying it is significant enough that the assumption will be to service that need whenever possible. Again, it's not a requirement or really any kind of government intrusion into your rights, all you need to do is say "No" rather than have it assumed.
Do you think I need that draw from Visionary? Taking my base list I'm thinking (along with possibly -4 Timberwatch, +4 Magistrate)
-1 Wirewood Lodge
-1 [EMPTY SLOTS]
-4 Wellwisher
-4 Skullclamp
+4 Joraga Warcaller
+3 Essence Warden
+3 Wirewood Hivemaster
? I'm also wondering if the Essence Warden's are even worth it. On one hand I like a 1 drop Elf with an ability that can essentially win me games (by holding off opponents in bad situations or if the board gets nuked or whatever). But it's also yet another 1 drop who either slows me down by being dropped early or is less useful by coming later.
Last question, should I drop the 2 Caller of the Claw (sideboard them, maybe) in exchange for 2 Visionary? Replace a bulky 3 drop that is just a Grizzly Bears with flash most games with a cantripping 1/1? The only nice thing about Caller is the flash allows you to have mana-elves as untapped blockers and at least cast him end of their turn for additional advantage (but I'm rarely willing to risk getting rid of him so easily).
Yeah, true.
Lemme toss an oldie at you now. It'll be annoying to find, but dirt cheap when you do, whaddya think of Drafna's Restoration? Reload off of Ravager/Clamp moves and a maindecked response to artifact-hate killing anything you need.
EDIT - And Salvage Slasher?
First off, looking at recent posts Jorga Warcaller seems like an almost definite add. Plus I've toyed around with whether I should run at least one Viridian Zealot or Shammie maindeck. How about Kithkin Mourncaller for some more draw (why couldn't it be an ELF!?)? And I dunno why I never ran Wirewood Hivemaster.
Finally, can someone tell me if you can use your creatures to block attacks on Planeswalkers (that's a wholly new type since I last really played in the Kamigawa block)? If so Nissa Revane seems like a natural addition.
14 Forests
1 Wirewood Lodge
//Creatures (37)
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Priest of Titania
4 Timberwatch Elves
4 Sylvan Messenger
4 Wellwisher
3 Heedless One
2 Caller of the Claw
4 Skullclamp
3 Concordant Crossroads
That's 59 cards (I think originally I was planning on running a Gaea's Cradle). After my quick review of new stuff my thoughts were:
-1 Wirewood Lodge
-1 [EMPTY SLOTS]
-4 Wellwisher
-4 Skullclamp
+3 Jorga Warcaller
+3 Essence Warden
+3 Wirewood Hivemaster
+1 Nissa Revane
Whaddya think?
Thinking about it now, removing the Wellwishers removes a tap-abuse trick with the untappers, so maybe trim back a Symbiote or two in exchange for something? I feel like (particularly if I remove the clamps which I want to do) I need some form of draw engine to keep the deck going.
I agree with the Skullclamp cutting, but I don't understand your dislike for Heedless. HOW is he conditional? That is generally my win condition. Even early it's reasonable sized in this deck, and it tramples to avoid chumping.
And Joraga is so offensively good I don't know why I wouldn't just immediately replace those 4 Clamps with 4 of it, if nothing else. It's a 1-drop, an Elvish Champion (basically, Forestwalk is only somewhat useful), or a win condition depending on what you need/want.
As for Wellwisher/Warden, I see what you mean. My other question is if life gain belongs in this deck at all.
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures with a toughness larger than their power.
Matthias thought a phalanx of soldiers defending him would be enough. But, as they worked so close together, one simple plague opened a hole.
Reaganomics failed miserably. He single handedly prove that trickle down economics is a lie. His policies of deregulation led to the Savings and Loan crisis AND laid down the framework of ideas that would ultimately lead to our current mortgage crisis. He left a country behind with massive problems for the majority of its citizens.
Actually he did. Especially since even General Petraeus, as Biden would later remind folks during the analysis, called the surge a tactical move to achieve a strategic goal.