MTG Salvation

I've voted for over 4000 because from the decks I've built, whilst I do see certain staples emerge, I generally have little crossover between cards even when the same colour as I generally try to make my decks different from the last.

Quote from FunkyDragon

Sure, there's plenty of garbage (I've yet to see a good use for Moonlace or One with Nothing), but considering the extreme number of strategies/archetypes/generals to choose from, I think a lot more cards are playable than most people realize.

I've actually found mild-success with Moonlace in my Tibor and Lumia deck as it gets around Pro-Red from most notably Akroma's Memorial so I can lock down the board with either Neko-Te, Charisma, or the few other cards that work off their ability. In addition, it's secret tech with Invoke Prejudice.

Hey Raikou, I really like the deck list, but I want to suggest/ask an opinion on a card possibly for your deck. What your opinions are on Hua Tuo, Honored Physician within a Mayael build?

I'm thinking Waste Not will be going in my Gwendlyn Di Corci EDH deck once it comes out. In addition, I still have my fingers crossed for a better Grixis discard commander to come out in the new Commander set.

I'm really partial to Lu Xun, Scholar General, though he can be on the expensive side to acquire. A practically unblockable Thieving Magpie is always nice to have. Furthermore, he can be rather interesting in a voltron build.

When I ran Sisay as my commander, I was always partial to the Kaldra artifacts. Whilst they are the not most competitive, they are quite fun to mess around with.
Sword of Kaldra
Shield of Kaldra
Helm of Kaldra

No-ones mentioned it yet, but if your looking for untappers I would really suggest Staff of Domination just because it does so much more then untapping your Commander, but it still can in a pinch.

Regarding your spot removal, why exactly is Go for the Throat your go to? Wouldn't something like Terminate with the same cmc, although more colour intensive, be slightly better. Possibly the upcoming Hero's Downfall might be even better as it can also hit Planeswalkers and creatures at instant speed.

Quote from Landrid

Its already happening with shocks and duel lands worrying about getting the right mana doesnt matter anymore.

I realise that, and it actually bugs me that we don't have to worry about what our mana base is. Seriously, it's incredibly frustrating seeing people with nigh perfect mana-bases for any colour combination, although I would be lying if I said it wasn't fun.

Quote from Wombattitude

Reprinting Fetchs would be nice :
- The loss of the Innistrad duals won't be as painfull
- The reprint is needed for Modern to be an affordable eternal format

I bet that they will reprint the fetch lands in Modern Masters, also not to be rude, but why are people so bound and determined that Wizards will reprint the fetch lands in a standard legal set while RtR is still in Standard. Personally, I think everyone constantly having a constantly perfect land base would leads to some rather boring decks, I mean many people would just start running 5-color decks with such easy access to all colours within the that awkward transition period between blocks.

Quote from AvatarofBro

They are both horribly unfun to play against, but I agree that there needs to be some sort of nonbasic hate. Although I doubt greedy mana bases will be as potent if we lose the check-lands in M14.

Do we know that we are losing the Innistrad lands taplands for sure, though? I tend to think that they printed them so that they could be reprinted in conjunction with the M10 ones, similar to the Apocalypse pain lands be reprinted with the original Ice Age ones in 9th and 10th edition.
Though, I agree we still need some nonbasic land hate. Maybe they'll reprint stuff like Smallpox.

Quote from Landrid

Has there ever been a case where the alternative artwork has been done by the same artist who did the original.

Did Raymond do both artworks for wurmcoil engine though that wasnt for A DD set

For a recent Duel Deck example both arts for Venser, the Sojourner were done by Eric Deschamps, although the alt art I think looks pretty terrible compared to the solemn looking Venser on the original.

After looking through this thread, as well of a couple others, I see that alot of people want a playable version of Tibalt, myself included. Anyways here's my attempt at making a interesting version of him.

Tibalt, Waivering Allegiance 1RR
Planeswalker-Tibalt [M]
+1:Each player discards one card at random, then draws a card.
-3: Deal 3 damage to target creature of your choice, then deal 4 damage to target creature of an opponent's choice.
-6: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, its controller chooses target creature another player controls. Exchange control of those creatures.
[3]

Quote from cyriss07

I was just talking about how much Blood Moon is need back in the core set right now. It was there when Ravnica was originaly around. It was the foundation of the Gruul Sideboard to deal with Solar Flare. Ahhh, good memories of my oppents playing white/black/bllue and only having mountians in play.

Cyriss07

Funny that you mention Blood Moon since me and my friend were discussing whether or not it should be in M14 or not. Personally, I think they should reprint it or Magus of the Moon to try and keep overly greedy mana bases in check for the next block, although those hate cards never really seem to accomplish much. That being said, I'm not sure if the Magus/Blood will reprinted since they are generally incredibly unfun cards to play against, or so my friends tell me, but I think it would be a good idea in the long run.

Quote from aDubiousNotion

This card is particularly amazing if you're running Overblaze[/CARD]. Cast it on Guttersnipe once and he's now dealing 4 damage per spell. Copy it or flash it back and it's now 8 damage per spell.

Oh shoot, I didn't notice that synergy.

I was thinking a little bit more about this deck, and was wondering if something along the lines of Whim of Volrath or Glamerdye would be good in it. It would allow you to neutralize Protection abilities, screw up Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth or Omnath, Locus of Mana shenanigans, and also let you change T&L to trigger off their abilities off a single spell colour if needed.

Love the deck. I have been thinking of changing my Nin, the Pain Artist to a Tibor and Lumia one for awhile and I think your decklist has just pushed me over the edge. I was wondering if you had tried these cards in your deck.

Sword of Kaldra: It allows your one damage to massively wipe the field.

Guttersnipe: Allows you to ping players to death if need be.

Blistercoil Weird: Do to his effect he won't ever die from T&L's pinging and on top of that he is a creature that is immune to your Neko-Te ability since he untaps himself.