I realize these are not great options - if you're dealing with fliers, you probably want something more like Wall of Tanglecord, but without green mana it's not very useful.
You could always try adding Delvers to flip and block with?
I think I tried building a mill deck once with Belltower Sphinx. Unfortunately, the high casting cost makes it impractical for this deck.
Not much else for trying to get rid of spirits other than countering spells and creatures that make the tokens.
In the beginning there were vamps and it was good.
And then devils and demons started showing up and the vamps were just all *emo* and laughed and drank blood and were generally fabulous.
And then the devils and demons broke things and ate humans. And, y'know, fire and stuff.
And somehow Tibalt was produced in all of this.
And everyone stopped on a dime and went o_0
And Chandra and Koth were off to one side whooping it up and pointing.
The end.
Edit: Although if I had to venture a guess, you never know, he might have been a Skirsdag cultist that was "blessed" by Griselbrand or one of the other powerful demons.
Even though I have 50 posts on me already, I'm still pretty new around here. I'm still a newb at Magic, but I do my best to learn quickly.
I'm horrible at drafting, yet I find myself drafting almost every weekend, and wind up hate-drafting cards that aren't terribly valuable, even though I think they should be. Mythic does not always = good. Sad, but true, sad, but true.
I really want to play Blue, but it's the most challenging of the colors to play, especially for someone like me, who starts panicking when my life total starts going bye-bye in a hurry and I'm fumbling around trying to find an answer to the threats on-field.
So you didn't bother with the Curse, huh? Hm, interesting.
Equally interesting is the fact that you're now self-milling in order to mill more effectively. That's gutsy behavior I would expect of Red or Black, not of Blue.
Also, is it just me or are you running a 61-card deck?
I can imagine how disappointing that must have been.
"So, whaddya got for me?"
"Your card is going to be a Spirit Bird."
"Is it an insane, bloodthirsty spirit bird, ala Hitchcock?"
"No."
"So...I just get...a dead bird, essentially?"
"That's right."
"*sigh*"
Yep. So I'd use up my one-drop spells such as Dream Twist or Thought Scour, then Vapor Snag or Unsummon whatever they'd have out, +ing their hand back up a card or two, then activate Jace's Archivist for them to discard their hand, and replenish my hand.
This combo murders their deck if you'vegot multiples of Jace's Erasure out.
It sounds like an amazing combo, one I would love to pull off, but it also sounds risky - you have to make sure they have a full hand and you have enough answers to play to reduce your hand to nearly nothing AND have a mana left over to activate the ability.
I know I'll have to run Nihil Spellbomb with this in the sideboard, if I come up against Frites or (God help us) Zombies.
The way the Archivist works is that both players discard their hands, then draw the same number of cards the player with the biggest hand had, right?
Like, if you had a hand of 2 cards and your opponent had a hand of 5, and you both discarded, the effect would mean that you each draw 5 new cards, correct?
Also, does the effect still occur even if one player has no cards in their hand?
Kinda want to just throw my hands up and go "Screw this place and all this convoluted BS."
But...
Kinda wanna stay, since this is kind of the biggest MTG forum out there.
Decisions, decisions...
I realize these are not great options - if you're dealing with fliers, you probably want something more like Wall of Tanglecord, but without green mana it's not very useful.
You could always try adding Delvers to flip and block with?
I think I tried building a mill deck once with Belltower Sphinx. Unfortunately, the high casting cost makes it impractical for this deck.
Not much else for trying to get rid of spirits other than countering spells and creatures that make the tokens.
So should I start hitting on women and asking them if they'd like it if I turned their Rubblefield into ruins?
Mmmmm~ me liek. More like this, please.
I would also liek a Mudkip. :3
I could definitely see someone tableflip if that were to occur. At least once.
And then devils and demons started showing up and the vamps were just all *emo* and laughed and drank blood and were generally fabulous.
And then the devils and demons broke things and ate humans. And, y'know, fire and stuff.
And somehow Tibalt was produced in all of this.
And everyone stopped on a dime and went o_0
And Chandra and Koth were off to one side whooping it up and pointing.
The end.
Edit: Although if I had to venture a guess, you never know, he might have been a Skirsdag cultist that was "blessed" by Griselbrand or one of the other powerful demons.
I'm horrible at drafting, yet I find myself drafting almost every weekend, and wind up hate-drafting cards that aren't terribly valuable, even though I think they should be. Mythic does not always = good. Sad, but true, sad, but true.
I really want to play Blue, but it's the most challenging of the colors to play, especially for someone like me, who starts panicking when my life total starts going bye-bye in a hurry and I'm fumbling around trying to find an answer to the threats on-field.
And, uh, that's about it.
Equally interesting is the fact that you're now self-milling in order to mill more effectively. That's gutsy behavior I would expect of Red or Black, not of Blue.
Also, is it just me or are you running a 61-card deck?
"So, whaddya got for me?"
"Your card is going to be a Spirit Bird."
"Is it an insane, bloodthirsty spirit bird, ala Hitchcock?"
"No."
"So...I just get...a dead bird, essentially?"
"That's right."
"*sigh*"
It sounds like an amazing combo, one I would love to pull off, but it also sounds risky - you have to make sure they have a full hand and you have enough answers to play to reduce your hand to nearly nothing AND have a mana left over to activate the ability.
I know I'll have to run Nihil Spellbomb with this in the sideboard, if I come up against Frites or (God help us) Zombies.
Like, if you had a hand of 2 cards and your opponent had a hand of 5, and you both discarded, the effect would mean that you each draw 5 new cards, correct?
Also, does the effect still occur even if one player has no cards in their hand?