If you're really concerned, take a small slip of paper, write the creature type chosen on it and ask your opponent to put it inside their card sleeve for however long the cavern remains in play.
That seems like a reasonable solution, and I'd probably insist on it if my opponent was playing more than 1 cavern each naming different types.
Although I don't suspect that'll come up too often.
This. This this this this.
Use paper, or dice, or something. That way it's easier for both people to play and maintain game state. Everybody's happy.
I'm going. The contents of this mysterious cardboard box have peaked my curiosity enough to overcome my hatred of Sealed Deck. I'll most likely lose my first two rounds to little kids who pulled bombs and then drop, but... I want to see what's in the Helvault.
Up until very recently, I was really bad at remembering upkeep triggers.The first few weeks of me playing Delver had me kicking myself almost every game due to immediately drawing after untapping. I eventually had to write "Delver Triggers" on the back of my hand in order to break the habbit.
I also really hate when people try to play unreasonably fast. Players who go, "Strangleroot Geist, attack you, O-Ring your dude, go." without pausing to take a breath will inevitable have me cursing at them and telling them to one thing at a time. It annoys me to no end.
Similairly, I get pissy when players (usually newer ones) don't seem to realize that the post-combat main phase exists. I'm usually polite about it, but make sure they know that I might want to cast a spell after I attack.
Crackling Power Plant
Land
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Sacrifice Crackling Power Plant: Add 1 to your mana pool.
At the beginning of your end step, untap Crackling Power Plant.
I'm not a burn player, nor a legacy player, nor a person with the time to read this whole thread, so forgive me if I say something that's already been said.
This card is very good in Standard, and it just gave mono-red a much needed boost. I think we'll see a lot of people trying him out in rdw in the next few weeks. You give your opponent the choice, but it's kind of like a choice between the electric chair or being fed to a pack of hungry wolves.
Now, as a Delver player, this cements one thing for me. This is something I've seriously thought about doing for a while. I'll be finding room in my deck for Mental Misstep. All the played decks have relevant targets (Dorks, Stromkirk, Diegraf, Galvanic Blast, Tragic Slip, Champion, Doomed Traveller, Delver, heck I'm never sad to use it on a Ponder or a Probe). This guy just helped me make the decision. Delver already doesn't like mono-red, and this pushes the matchup from "meh" to "bad".
I don't understand why an ordinary human teenage girl is a 2/2. Strong ass woman being able to take on all kinds of bears, wolves, and snakes without even shrugging!
I don't mind kids. I don't mind them not knowing the rules, because I can explain them easily enough. I'm always looking to help newer players improve their game. If a kid is polite and respectful, I'll make some suggestions for to improve their decks. Sometimes they even get free cards out of it.
Now, as far as getting paired with them in a tournament goes, I follow this procedure: If the kid's being a jerk or a crybaby, I clam up, don't talk to them aside from necessary comments about game state, crush them 2-0, and walk away. If they're nice and polite, I still crush them 2-0, but I'm apollogetic and make sure to compliment their deck.
Believe it or not, this actually happened at my FNM yesterday. Player A casts Tezzeret, Agent of Nolas, then taps Liquimetal Coating turning Tezzeret into an artifact. He then uses Tezzeret's loyalty ability to make Tezzeret a 5/5 creture.
So, assuming Player A controls a 5/5 Artifact Creature Planeswalker - Tezzeret, untapped, and Player B attacks Tezzeret... Assuming Tezzeret is untapped, can he block for himself?
This. This this this this.
Use paper, or dice, or something. That way it's easier for both people to play and maintain game state. Everybody's happy.
I also really hate when people try to play unreasonably fast. Players who go, "Strangleroot Geist, attack you, O-Ring your dude, go." without pausing to take a breath will inevitable have me cursing at them and telling them to one thing at a time. It annoys me to no end.
Similairly, I get pissy when players (usually newer ones) don't seem to realize that the post-combat main phase exists. I'm usually polite about it, but make sure they know that I might want to cast a spell after I attack.
Other than that, I'm easy.
Land
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Sacrifice Crackling Power Plant: Add 1 to your mana pool.
At the beginning of your end step, untap Crackling Power Plant.
Overpowered? Complete Crap? Balanced?
EDIT: Seems fun for land-less dredge...
Do you realize how busted Goyf would be if it were in standard right after a graveyard block?
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Copperline Gorge
3 Sunpetal Grove
2 Rootbound Crag
2 Kessig Wolf Run
7 Forest
1 Plains
1 Mountain
Creatures (30):
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Llanowar Elves
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Strangleroot Geist
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Daybreak Ranger
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Acidic Slime
1 Vorapede
1 Sunblast Angel
1 Inferno Titan
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Other Spells (6):
4 Birthing Pod
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Green Sun's Zenith
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Daybreak Ranger
1 Fiend Hunter
2 Oblivion Ring
1 Mirran Crusaider
2 Corrosive Gale
1 Sylvok Replica
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
3 ???
This card is very good in Standard, and it just gave mono-red a much needed boost. I think we'll see a lot of people trying him out in rdw in the next few weeks. You give your opponent the choice, but it's kind of like a choice between the electric chair or being fed to a pack of hungry wolves.
Now, as a Delver player, this cements one thing for me. This is something I've seriously thought about doing for a while. I'll be finding room in my deck for Mental Misstep. All the played decks have relevant targets (Dorks, Stromkirk, Diegraf, Galvanic Blast, Tragic Slip, Champion, Doomed Traveller, Delver, heck I'm never sad to use it on a Ponder or a Probe). This guy just helped me make the decision. Delver already doesn't like mono-red, and this pushes the matchup from "meh" to "bad".
5 Swamp
3 Vault of the Archangel
4 Isolated Chapel
11 Plains
Creature Spells (8):
4 Doomed Traveller
4 Hero of Bladehold
Token Producers (13):
4 Lingering Souls
3 Shrine of Loyal Legions
4 Gather the Townsfolk
2 Midnight Haunting
4 Go For the Throat
3 Oblivion Ring
1 Dismember
Anthems (6):
4 Intangible Virtue
2 Honor of the Pure
The Pimp:
2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
1 Elspeth Tirel
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Timely Reinforcements
3 Stoney Silence
2 Revoke Existance
2 Celestial Purge
3 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Glacial Fortress
3 Moorland Haunt
1 Plains
9 Island
Creatures (15):
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Geist of Saint Traft
3 Invisible Stalker
4 Mana Leak
4 Vapor Snag
4 Ponder
3 Midnight Haunting
3 Gitaxian Probe
2 Sword of War and Peace
2 Runechanter's Pike
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Faith's Shield
1 Revoke Existance
2 Revoke Existance
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Celestial Purge
2 Flashfreeze
1 Faith's Shield
1 Oblivion Ring
3 Nihl Spellbomb
2 Corrosive Gale
This build has been doing very well for me for the last few weeks (multiple X-0s and X-1s). Any feedback would be appriciated.
Eager Cadet gets killed by Sanctuary Cat, Birds of Paridise can carry 3 swords, and sacrificing Evil Eye of Urborg to [c]Jar of Eyeballs gives you 2 eyeball counters. Don't think about it too much.
Now, as far as getting paired with them in a tournament goes, I follow this procedure: If the kid's being a jerk or a crybaby, I clam up, don't talk to them aside from necessary comments about game state, crush them 2-0, and walk away. If they're nice and polite, I still crush them 2-0, but I'm apollogetic and make sure to compliment their deck.
So, assuming Player A controls a 5/5 Artifact Creature Planeswalker - Tezzeret, untapped, and Player B attacks Tezzeret... Assuming Tezzeret is untapped, can he block for himself?