I like the way they're doing these. Having three potential generals circumvents the bad feeling I had of selling a canned deck in a format that is supposed to be pretty variable
I'm a big fan of Ajani G, Glint Hawk Idol (hooray board wipe survival!) and Survival Cache (since you're hopefully keeping them at a lower life than you with an aggro deck).
I know you titled this mono-white, but a red splash works pretty well. Aggro always benefits from a few lightning bolts to get attacks through or finish the job, and siding in Leonin Arbiter and Tunnel Ignus puts the hurt on Valakut pretty bad.
We need to make bad analogies a bannable offense. Reading this thread is like trying to enjoy a lollipop when a lollipop lolls some pop and a salesman pops your lol.
For the homebrewers out there, is your decklist a closely guarded secret? If you share it, what do you share it for? Betterment of the community? Pride in your creation? Do you worry that your deck idea will be used to win a major tournament and suddenly everyone is running your homebrew? Or is that a dream come true?
What is "homebrew"? Valakut.dec wasn't made by some faceless corporation, it was created by a dude with a stack of magic cards. It just happens to be good.
When cards are available to millions of players, the most competitive decks tend to surface because there are millions of people "homebrewing" the next Valakut or UB control.
Does "homebrew" mean designing decks with some self-imposed limit on quality? Would UB Control without JTMS be homebrew?
We're on a site for people to share ideas and polish up their decklists. We shouldn't be surprised that people take what they learn here and apply it to the decks they build.
Anyone who is honestly opposed to Netdecking ought to ask to have their MTGS account terminated, as sharing decklists that weren't homebrewed is against their ideologies.
Nothing inherently, but tempers seem to fly whenever it comes up. I'll try my best though:
I run 3x Oracle of Mul Daya. It seems like the perfect number to me, because I wouldn't like to draw into more than one per game. Also, it sure is unfortunate when it gets countered or bolted. Yep, 3 sure seems ideal to me. It's a great addition to the deck but far from the best card in it. I side it out most games though.
I imagine this deck has a rough matchup against UB Control!
The awesome thing about old fashioned Spread Em was that you had about 20 cards that would result in Spreading Seas (Bloodbraid, Ardent Plea, Captured Sunlight) and Ajani Vengeant was a piece of icing on the cake. Also, blue wasnt in standard at the time so turning a land into an island was almost like destroying it.
That said, turning Valakuts into islands and swamps could be a wrench in their plan.
I buy from them even when the cards I want are a little pricier than the competition. Orders through Cape Fear arrive a solid 2-3 business days sooner than anywhere else I've shopped.
Jesus, glad to see the autistic spectrum is still alive and well in the Magic community. Oracle sure is effective in this deck. I'm always happy to get one in play on turn 3, and I prefer not to draw in to any more of them on turns 4 5 and 6 while I'm hoping to see my win cons, not my win mores.
Any thoughts on putting Spreading Seas in the sideboard? Seems like it would help against U/B, Valakut, and Eldrazi. Plus it's not dead in a wave and the cantrip is nice. I don't even know if we need any Islands to use it (although I use BoP).
I know you titled this mono-white, but a red splash works pretty well. Aggro always benefits from a few lightning bolts to get attacks through or finish the job, and siding in Leonin Arbiter and Tunnel Ignus puts the hurt on Valakut pretty bad.
When cards are available to millions of players, the most competitive decks tend to surface because there are millions of people "homebrewing" the next Valakut or UB control.
Does "homebrew" mean designing decks with some self-imposed limit on quality? Would UB Control without JTMS be homebrew?
We're on a site for people to share ideas and polish up their decklists. We shouldn't be surprised that people take what they learn here and apply it to the decks they build.
Anyone who is honestly opposed to Netdecking ought to ask to have their MTGS account terminated, as sharing decklists that weren't homebrewed is against their ideologies.
I run 3x Oracle of Mul Daya. It seems like the perfect number to me, because I wouldn't like to draw into more than one per game. Also, it sure is unfortunate when it gets countered or bolted. Yep, 3 sure seems ideal to me. It's a great addition to the deck but far from the best card in it. I side it out most games though.
The awesome thing about old fashioned Spread Em was that you had about 20 cards that would result in Spreading Seas (Bloodbraid, Ardent Plea, Captured Sunlight) and Ajani Vengeant was a piece of icing on the cake. Also, blue wasnt in standard at the time so turning a land into an island was almost like destroying it.
That said, turning Valakuts into islands and swamps could be a wrench in their plan.