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Aug 22, 2011Mockingbird posted a message on From the Yu-Gi-Oh PlayersWell, it's not bad. After all, you live in the same state as a Yu-Gi-ph player, and like I said, you'll hear about their problems sooner or later.Posted in: Mockingbird Blog
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Aug 19, 2011Mockingbird posted a message on Early notes for a potential Affinity PrimerFrom what I've heard, Agent of Bolas is the better of the two because he makes a permanent beat stick when not tutoring.Posted in: Zelderex Blog
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Aug 19, 2011Mockingbird posted a message on From the Yu-Gi-Oh PlayersNot really... Yu-Gi-Oh players tend to be real loud when they're pissed at the game creators. If you share aPosted in: Mockingbird Blog
storeneighborhoodcitystate with a Yu-Gi-Oh player, you've heard of Yu-Gi-Oh's turbulent past.
Also, it's not really difficult to figure out what they're talking about even if you don't know what the cards do because Wizards is trying to dig out of a similar hole of broken cards, price issues, and rarity disdain. -
Aug 18, 2011Mockingbird posted a message on Early notes for a potential Affinity PrimerYou forgot both Tezzerets.Posted in: Zelderex Blog
Tezzeret the Seeker is a better Voltic Key, a tutor, and a win con through beatdown.
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas is a tutor, a beat stick creator, and a win con through burn.
Both make great additions to Affinity, especially the tutor part because one thing Affinity has historically struggled with is over-extending. -
Aug 10, 2011Mockingbird posted a message on Blood Justice: Brewing Vish KalI know someone that plays Ghost Council of Orzhova with a similar strategy you're playing, and they're two cards that I would suggest.Posted in: ApocryphaEffect Blog
1. Angel of Despair because you get to destroy permanents and when she gets caught up in revival loops like the ones deck is built around, she can get out of hand.
2. Sun Titan: he's a revival loop by himself and not just restricted to creatures. You can ramp with Marsh Flats or reclaim lost cards that your opponent has taken along the way. -
Jul 28, 2011Mockingbird posted a message on Hallelujah, I've Found the Fire!Well, the short answer to whether or not Mono-Red was a freak accident is, "I don't know." Unsatisfying, but true.Posted in: Mockingbird Blog
The longer answer is that it depends on how well it can keep up with the fact that deck curves are flattening out. Red Decks now have to keep up with Tempered Steel, which can push out bigger creatures faster, and Vampires, which basically play as Red Deck Wins with the benefits of black, namely Bloodghast.
If Red Decks are catching up to the ranks of Tempered Steel and Vampires, it has a shot of staying strong in Standard. But even if it doesn't, Red Deck Wins is the most budget and self-explanatory deck to budget players, so it won't be going away. So while I don't know, I lean towards saying that it wasn't a freak accident. -
Jul 17, 2011Mockingbird posted a message on Legacy sigh...I'm in a similar boat, and the advise I was told by a veteran Legacy Player, you just have to chip away at the wants one card at a time.Posted in: GKfodder Blog
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I dunno, one thing I've also been considering is Venser, the Sojourner because it reuses almost every card in the deck. It's on the not likely list though since the deck already runs a lot of high cost cards.
The only other thing that I'm thinking is I do want to keep some of the dual lands. Perhaps cut down on a couple of the forests and just have a few Rootbound Crags and Sunpetal Groves.
4 Primeval Titan
3 Grave Titan
2 Frost Titan
2 Sun Titan
1 Inferno Titan
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Lotus Cobra
2 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Cultivate
3 Preordain
4 Explore
2 Overflowing Chalice
1 Mox Opal
3 Prophetic Prism
Lands: 26
2 Islands
2 Swamps
2 Mountains
2 Plains
5 Forests
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Glacial Fortress
2 Rootbound Crag
2 Sunpetal Grove
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Verdant Catacombs
I'm still fairly new to Magic, so feedback is wanted... the only thing I don't want to go down on though is I'd like to run all five Titans since otherwise I'd just play RUG or another variant of any two-three Titans.
First: why is the small minus ability a zero ability? While not a big deal, it seems to be good enough to at least cost one loyalty counter.
Second: The emblem seems a little lack luster if the emblem you get bypasses them from paying the converted mana costs. For me, I think it'd read better if the emblem said, "When an opponent casts a spell from their hand, exile that spell and put 3 time counters on it. If the spell does not have suspend, it gains suspend."
Otherwise as it reads now, it could be as interpreted as opponents could just exile all their non-lands from their hand for 0 and then drop everything three turns later, which would be bad with cards like Emrakul, the Aeons Torn... among others... floating around the game.
However those aside, this is an awesome planeswalker, and I hope they print it.
14 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Tectonic Edge
3 Mystifying Maze
1 Eye of Ugin
17 Creatures
4 Joraga Treespeaker
4 Overgrown Battlement
4 Primeval Titan
3 Phyrexian Juggernaut
2 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Growth Spasm
3 Explore
2 All is Dust
2 Everflowing Chalice
2 Contagion Clasp
2 Summoning Trap
2 Vines of Vastwood
1 Contagion Engine
2 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Consecrated Sphinx
2 Phyrexian Juggernaut
4 Primeval Titan
4 Overgrown Battlement
2 Treasure Mage
2 Lotus Cobra
2 Cultivate
3 Explore
3 Khalni Heart Expedition
3 Preordain
2 Summoning Trap
2 Distant Memories
3 Jace Beleren/Jace, The Mind Sculptor
4 Misty Rainforest
8 Forest
6 Island
2 Halamar Depths
4 Inkmoth Nexus
This is just my first attempt at a deck of this sort. One thing I definitely want to make room for is protection instants, namely Vines of Vastwood to protect my creatures from certain death... and occasionally pump something like the Juggernaut. I'm also debating adjusting it for Shape Anew, but then there's little point in playing Green if I do, but more serious is whether I want to run Contagion Clasp or even Contagion Engine. But I'm not a master deck builder, so... feel free to give me feedback and suggestions.