You aren't the only one that is planning on playing red post-rotation. I have a few ideas of my own that I am brewing up. As to the deck you posted, I gotta say, I don't really like it much. I don't like battledriver + hammer in the same deck, I think you should choose one or the other. I am not a fan of only running 20 mountains when you have 8 4-drops you want to hit on schedule, and one of them functionally takes away from your land count (awaken the ancient), I would bump it by at least 2 mountains personally. Not sure about the mutavaults, but I know you are going to feel terrible about Ash Zealot + mutavault hands when you don't have a third land.
I think you are either going to want to go Big Red, play more removal and go for a late game win, or you want to be agro red in which case you dump some of the more expensive stuff in your decklist currently. I could be wrong though.
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Bigtraine posted a message on Billings MT FNM 6/28/2013 2nd place Curious Auras (4-1)Also Bant Hexproof is a horrible, miserable deck that needs to die in a fire.Posted in: Piscian18 Blog
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Bigtraine posted a message on Billings MT FNM 6/28/2013 2nd place Curious Auras (4-1)Minor correction on the trample + deathtouch thing. Trample damage does not use the stack, nor does it occur after the damage phase. All damage happens at the same time (barring double strike or first strike).Posted in: Piscian18 Blog
The trick is to think of it this way: with trample, you have to assign lethal damage to all blocking creatures first, and then you can assign any remaining damage to the defending player. With deathtouch, doing 1 point of damage IS lethal damage, so you can assign any beyond that to the defending player.
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Apr 25, 2013
Bigtraine posted a message on Billings MT WNM 4/24/2013 8th place *shrug* Jund "The Viper" AggroI am not sure if you want my list since I ended up going 1-3. But oh well, I wasn't planning on winning with the weird RUG deck, just wanted to be goofy for a night and have some fun. I would not recommend playing the deck in this incarnation if you want to win but it has it's moments.Posted in: Piscian18 Blog
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I am agreeing with your facts but drawing a different conclusion apparently. Obviously his PM did not change mid-day. Clearly HP thought the other mason was a town role, because of the very direct comment of "I have an implicit townread..." So since we agree that his role PM did not change mid-day, and we can see he bluntly said that he thought the other mason was town, then I think it's clear that he didnt think Void was scum. Why did HP say he wanted to wagon Void? I have no idea, you will have to ask him in post-game. But I dont believe it was because HP thought Void was scum.
I am not putting too much stock in HP's "I want to wagon Void" statement. HP was hard for me to read and played kind of odd (to me), and I chalk that statement up to that. When I re-read HP, it seems very clear that HP believes SR is town, even though SR is the same slot as Void. He even outright says as much: "I have a setup-based implicit townread on Titus."
HP also did change his tune on the EMP and believing it is in the scum's possession. In post #757 he asks SR: "And I'm assuming you have the EMP device? Makes sense flavorfully(I'd rather keep our identities secret for the moment)." So I believe he figured out that SR had the EMP, and still was town-reading SR.
I have to agree that SR's absence and lack of answering direct questions posed to her, coupled with all of the replacing from that slot, don't look particularly good. But then again, I know I have not been active either (I know, I know, self-awareness and all that), so I am not willing to use that as a surefire scumtell. Vish was also pretty inactive, and was town.
I think SR is town based on the mason role. No, it's not going to be 100% certain, but it is the most likely scenario in my opinion. (As I write this, I am reminded of Proph telling me not to setup-game in my mentor chat in WW2 mafia). I dont think the behavioral evidence is enough to overcome that. I also dont buy the idea that HP thought Void/SR was scum - I believe the opposite is true, in fact.
I also am interested in the answer to this.
Also, regarding this post from HP:
IS there anything you want to share from HP from the Mason chat?
That's your call I guess if you want to town-clear him. Gun to my head, I believe he is probably telling the truth (mainly based on the thought that a scum role wouldn't have announced they shot Vish, IMO), but I still have some suspicions and am keeping an open mind.
Why would it be pretty likely? It seems less likely to me.
I'm not ruling out the possibility that he is lying. Are you?
I didn't assume he was lying. It's just context for the riskiness of the move. If he is a cop (like he claims), it is more of a risk to the town wincon than if he did the same action as a VT.
I'll be honest, the move seemed pretty shady to me right out of the gate, but I made an (apparently incorrect) assumption that he would have known who gave his the item. And I guess if Arn was scum, he probably wouldn't have claimed to have taken the shot right away, so I do feel better about him now than I did when he initially shot Vish.
How do you know that?
Why would a scum!Vish give you (or any townie) a Laser Gun?
Please!
Welcome to the game.
There have only been two major wagons (getting into claim range). Arnnaria was basically a series of poor reaction / responses to early pressure that made him look scummy. Arn claimed a cop role (post 251) and has not been CC'd.
And there is Kosa, who has tunneled pretty hard, disappeared for long periods of time, got irrationally angry, refused to claim and self-voted at L-2, and then finally claimed a neutral role that involved acquiring the EMP device (post 581) mentioned in flavor as his wincon.
There have been partial claims and allusions to an item (presumably the EMP device) as well. HP stated that the EMP has a natural role-blocking effect and he thinks the scum currently have it (post 355). Kosa also discusses it in regards to his role in posts 526 and 598.
It should be obvious by my not unvoting, but I am still in favor of a Kosa lynch today and just waiting for everyone else to either check in or go ahead and move forward with the lynch.
It really comes down to risk management: in order for not lynching Kosa to be correct, we have to believe he is being totally honest with his claim AND that there are no other negative consequences for losing the EMP device. On the first point, I think it's likely he is a neutral but I wouldnt be shocked by a scum flip, but I am not confidant that losing the EMP device is a good thing for town. Maybe it's flavor-gaming, but thats kind of the premise for this game - the town needs to keep the EMP.
So you don't see any danger that if Kosa were to achieve his wincon:
1) He wins the game instead of leaving it?
2) Losing the EMP device is otherwise bad news for town?
I am having trouble reconciling these two posts together. You think scum are in possession of the EMP, and they want to pass it around, but they don't want town to get it. Do you believe the scum team is just trying to pass it around amongst themselves??