I don't post very often, but I have been a member for an extremely long time. Either way, it is nice to see some updated information on this. Glad to hear that you found a lawyer. He must be a really great guy. Never expected you to find a free one.
As always good luck with the case. I hope this all blows over without any damage to you re.
Is this information really trustworthy? I thought it was a 180 card expansion not 165 like it was posted. Maybe I am wrong... probably wrong. Anyways, thought I would share my 2 cents!
Well, I personally just bought a box. Which I really should not have done considering I have bills. Oh well... Anyways I got a couple of really cool cards. Most notably BoP, grave-shell, watery grave, circu, and others. Anyways instead of just naming a few random cards I will actually just type of the entire list of the rares.
loxodon gatekeeper(boring...)
grave-shell scarab (cool)
Brightflame
Twilight drover (really neat)
eye of the storm
flame fusillade
hammerfist giant
moonlight bargain
master warcraft
followed footsteps
sunforger (I really like this, even though it isn't that great)
concerted effort
chorus of the conclave
Vinelasher kudzu (like the name reference)
Sins of the Past
hex
ghosts of the innocent
watery grave(only dual, would have prefered w/g, oh well)
dimir doppleganger (I likey)
razia's purification
plague boiler
birds of paradise
phytohydra
hunted troll
circu, dimir lobotomist
warp world
cloudstone curio
golgari grave-troll
breath of fury
sisters of stone death
excruciator
sarva, queen of the golgari
scion of the wild
flickerform
empty the catacombs
Either way I pretty dang happy. Only got 1 helix and 1 puterfy. Since everyone else is mentioning how many of those two cards they got I thought that I would. Anyways, hope you guys got some good pulls.
This may be a little extreme for some people but here is what a few of my friends do...
For your "chase rares" instead of actually having them in your binder have them somewhere else where you know they will be safe. Such as your cargo pant's pocket. Then just include a list of them. Anyone who is interested can just ask you about them. You could also just put a picture of them where they would normally be in your binder.
The deck seems pretty good and stable, maybe you could test with Shining Shoul? It does quite well with Oyobi, and can often be a game-breaker.
I think that the shining shoul looks really good on paper. But honestly I think you need to test it first, cause a lot of things look good on paper that end up sucking. But I am willing to guess that it will do pretty good in the deck.
I think the biggest problem is going to be the mana. I haven't done any testing but I think that forgotten orchard is going to have to be a must, but what about tendo ice bridge? It is good at first but once you remove the counter it gets kind of useless. Either way here is what I would go with for the land right now.
4 orchards
3 tendo ice bridges (maybe 2? or even 4?)
8 mountains
8 islands
I definitely do not think that hinder should go in the deck, seems like you could find something to help you get the combo out instead. Perhaps teardrop kamis instead? Actually definitely tear drop kamis instead...
I also thought breifly about the red baku just for some extra silly worries to cause your opponent. But I don't think so anymore after thinking some more baout it.
Okay am I the only one that thinks #1 should just be printed on a reprint of carnophage? My initial reaction was number 3... but we have enough mass. destruction spells and I wanted something different, because those always cause **** loads to much. I think that 8 is by far the best work of art there. The shadowing and everything is just so god dang amazing. However, I am not sure how well the style would look on a magic card. So I would probably end up going for 2, since I would want to see some type of monkey or ape all pimping in out in Japan (or ravnica, I don't know which set this card will go into). Which brings a good question. Which set will YMTC3 be in?
I feel like I am just repeating every other person, but I am definitely thinking the new blazing shoal will be the money rare for the block. I hope so bad that I get some of them in my box. But there is a definitely list of potential cards:
Hikori, Dust Drinker
Toshiro Umezawa (really depends on if someone can break it)
The two mana card that is reanimation (no name in spoiler for it)
I think if a rat deck does go competitive it will most likely combo out with intruder alarm for the finish. First few turns through down some disruption with ravenous and chittering rats and then use intruder alarm and marrow gnawer as the finisher.
The more that I look at this card the more that I start to like it. I really think that a good ug deck could be made. I don't know if it would be tournament worthy but it would definitely be good. The one card that could stop anything from happening in block is the one white 2W arcane sorcery that destroys all enchantments. I forgot it's name sorry.
As always good luck with the case. I hope this all blows over without any damage to you re.
loxodon gatekeeper(boring...)
grave-shell scarab (cool)
Brightflame
Twilight drover (really neat)
eye of the storm
flame fusillade
hammerfist giant
moonlight bargain
master warcraft
followed footsteps
sunforger (I really like this, even though it isn't that great)
concerted effort
chorus of the conclave
Vinelasher kudzu (like the name reference)
Sins of the Past
hex
ghosts of the innocent
watery grave(only dual, would have prefered w/g, oh well)
dimir doppleganger (I likey)
razia's purification
plague boiler
birds of paradise
phytohydra
hunted troll
circu, dimir lobotomist
warp world
cloudstone curio
golgari grave-troll
breath of fury
sisters of stone death
excruciator
sarva, queen of the golgari
scion of the wild
flickerform
empty the catacombs
Either way I pretty dang happy. Only got 1 helix and 1 puterfy. Since everyone else is mentioning how many of those two cards they got I thought that I would. Anyways, hope you guys got some good pulls.
- Brian
For your "chase rares" instead of actually having them in your binder have them somewhere else where you know they will be safe. Such as your cargo pant's pocket. Then just include a list of them. Anyone who is interested can just ask you about them. You could also just put a picture of them where they would normally be in your binder.
I think that the shining shoul looks really good on paper. But honestly I think you need to test it first, cause a lot of things look good on paper that end up sucking. But I am willing to guess that it will do pretty good in the deck.
4 orchards
3 tendo ice bridges (maybe 2? or even 4?)
8 mountains
8 islands
I definitely do not think that hinder should go in the deck, seems like you could find something to help you get the combo out instead. Perhaps teardrop kamis instead? Actually definitely tear drop kamis instead...
I also thought breifly about the red baku just for some extra silly worries to cause your opponent. But I don't think so anymore after thinking some more baout it.
Hikori, Dust Drinker
Toshiro Umezawa (really depends on if someone can break it)
The two mana card that is reanimation (no name in spoiler for it)
The dragon is for the one sword that makes a 5/5 blue dragon token. It is called - Tatsumasa the dragon fang.