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Feb 10, 2014Shattuck posted a message on Launch Giveaway!I'd have to go with Lord of the Pit. It was the first card I ever owned, a gift from one of my dad's Army buddies that was about to be deployed. That one card made me start collecting almost 10 years ago, and I've been with this game ever since.Posted in: Announcements
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Solar Flare is a crappy control deck that had a moment in the sun when nobody knew what the new standard meta would shape up to be.
Frites is a very explosive deck that works by dropping a bunch of mana dorks, tossing Elesh Norn in the graveyard, and then bringing it back with Unburial Rites to potentially wipe your opponent's board and make all those mana dorks suddenly very dangerous. If your opponent isn't packing sideboard hate or doesn't know what you are playing, its devastating.
The only similarities between the two decks is that they both run Elesh Norn and Unburial Rites, but Solar Flare runes 1 of each generally while Frites runs playsets. Other than that they are completely different decks.
Yeah, I mean I could see Reanimator or something running him (though honestly dropping Jin-Gitaxias or Iona is probably a better show-stopper) but I don't think he will a replacement for Elesh in Frites like some people are saying. 4 black mana is still pretty prohibitive in any standard deck that would want to run him, outside of mono-black which is too slow to make use of him.
I want Griselbrand to have a home as much as anyone, but he's too much of a Battleship and like every other awesome black card they have been printing lately, nobody but mono-black will ever be able to cast it. The irony is that mono-black is never going to have 8 mana available to do so.
edit: Also everyone buying Temporal Mastery at $30-40 is nuts.
Also this probably pretty much confirms that ponder won't be in M13. Standard is going to be completely degenerate for a few months, holy crap.
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LOL, yeah, because Delver doesn't have ponder and lots of draw. U/R delver is even crazier with Faithless Looting and noxious revival. Having a potential 4 extra turns in a deck that can manipulate it's library even a little is insane. I guarantee the opportunity to have an extra turn will offset the risk of drawing 2 or more before turn 3, which isn't all that likely and can be dealt with anyway. You are nuts if you think Delver won't be playing this card all day. Drawing one of these turn 3 or after is basically an "I win" button for a deck as fast as Delver.
Also curious to see what this next revealed Miracle will be. One of the Wizards guys was chatting afterwards and let slip that there was a potentially crazy one (he thought it would be banned in Legacy almost right away). And surprise, it isn't blue. Wonder what is is, maybe a super cheap white Wrath effect? I could see that being too crazy to exist in Legacy without being broken in standard.
I'm a little tired of this trend of Wizards making cool, fun, cards, then immediately printing cards that shut them down completely in the next set. Unless, of course that card is in Delver, which seems to be somebody's pet deck.
I'm just starting out, and I'm using Golden Fluid Acrylics, which I've heard are among the best you can use. But I've got a few problems:
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The ideal situation is one in which Zombies can push right through a cage instead of wasting slots trying to answer it, so in my mind the deck will only be top tier when it can accomplish that. If you watch high-level players sideboard, you will notice they almost never sideboard against specific hate cards - they board against the opponents deck as a whole.
I think Zombies is a solid deck with some good potential, but it absolutely is not even close to being the next Caw-Blade.
I said black has no answer to a resolved Cage. Neither of those cards are black. So yes, literally was, in fact, the right word there.
Not to mention that nobody on earth who has even a modicum of skill would try to board in either of those cards against Cage. They aren't even reliable answers.
Hellkite requires you to spend 5 mana, wait a turn to swing with him, hope he connects, then have 1 mana open to blow up the cage. Yeaaaaaah, considering Zombies has no ramp whatsoever, that means turn 6 at the absolute earliest, probably 7 or 8 in most cases since the deck won't always be hitting its later land drops. If I drop a Cage on turn 1 or 2 and you can't answer it until 6, you are already dead.
And Lux Cannon is just as bad.
edit: Distress is honestly the only way the deck could handle a Cage before it hits the board (or Leaking it with a blue splash) but Distress is also a really bad card, and if you start filling your deck with cards to counter hate, you have to take out the actual meat of your deck. Zombies doesn't have a lot of room to start taking things out, it needs a lot of creatures and a lot of removal to have any chance of winning.
Unless they give us some good new duals in the next set, Zombies will rely on splashing with shaky mana-bases to answer the Cage, since black can't touch it and blue, the most common splash, can't really answer it if it manages to stick. Red is another common splash that opens up for Ancient Grudge, but that card loses a lot of it's wow factor when you can't flash it back. Still, better a really cheap answer to Cage than nothing at all.
Don't get me wrong, I love zombies and I will literally play any quasi-competitive mono-black deck just because, but Zombies isn't going to be the top dog of standard any time soon. Even Delver right now isn't what Caw-Blade was in terms of pure meta dominance and proliferation.
edit: To clarify, he isn't bad by any means, but he sure isn't even close to being $25 worth of good. He was high at $15, even.
2 problems: Standard doesn't have those tools, and this hoses several innovative decks in that format, as well as hosing the flagship mechanics of the set it was printed in. Even if they print some ridiculous answer to this card, that is still stupid.
It hoses limited as well. Lots of archetypes are going to be useless if this hits the field, and the means of dealing with it are even smaller there.
Second, yeah, hosers and hate cards have been around in Legacy / Vintage for a while and they can be dealt with. The problem is that if you keep giving them new hosers on top of the old ones, it is eventually going to hit a critical mass where decks get hated right out of the format.