MTG Salvation

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You do realize that Tormented Pariah is pretty bad even though its unflipped body is the exact same, right?

Quote from picnicboy

So here's my epic PWNED story.
I'm playing an aggro zoo build with my red deck. He wins the roll, goes first.
His turn 1: Fetchland for Savannah, Green Sun's Zenith for 0 into Dryad Arbor, pass
My Turn 1: Chain Lightning, Pass
His turn 2: Same as turn 1 (dumbass =D)
My Turn 2: Price of Progress for 8, Fireblast, pass
His Turn 3: Stares at life total of 3, Concedes.

Quote from magicmerl

merl2perl on youtube (Marlon Egolf) is pretty good as well, if you can get past the swearing.

Edit: PV is terrible doing online videos.

Quote from babcockd

In my experience, some players seem to believe that mill decks are "bad" in Limited and that mill decks can only win if they draw the right cards. While the second part may be true if your deck is truly dedicated to mill only, you can certainly design your deck to maximize your chances of drawing those cards (for example, by playing cards to help you find them, like Forbidden Alchemy; or by playing cards that might tend to lengthen the game, like Fortress Crab). It's far from impossible to get a consistent mill deck in Innistrad Limited.

However, I generally expect to win against mill decks in Innistrad Limited (and I generally do). I think that this has to do with the fact that some drafters greatly overvalue mill as a strategy, perhaps because the idea of having an alternate winning strategy appeals to them. In your case, however, perhaps you drafted mill because it was actually a very good strategy given the sorts of cards that were coming to you (and since you won consistently, presumably you know how to build a mill deck better than many people who draft such decks).

I would guess that your first two opponents may view mill as a "noob strategy" and therefore expected you to be a bad player with a bad deck. Then, when they lost, they rationalized their loss (as many Magic players seem to do) by finding something to blame it on other than "my opponent's deck was better than mine" or "my opponent played better than I did." The mindset "mill is a noob strategy, therefore my opponent could only have won by getting lucky" just serves as a convenient scapegoat.

Your third round opponent may have been more reasonable because he/she recognized that it's very unlikely you won two rounds on luck alone. (Also, the fact that he/she made it to the third round suggests that he/she may have been a better player than average, and in my experience good players are less likely to fall into the fallacy of attributing wins to superior skill while simultaneously attributing losses to bad luck.)

Quote from tempesteye

No. Maybe I'm looking for a particular card or mechanic from a specific block for a constructed deck.