Dies to Removal

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Right, so this is what I played and got in my PR. Any comments are welcome, I'm still not a good limited player. [deck]Lands 5 Mountain 4 Plains 3 Swamp 1 Dimir Guildgate 1 Azorius Guildgate 2 Rakdos Guildgate 1 Boros Guildgate Creatures 1 Assault Griffin 1 Cobblebrute 1 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch 1 ...

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2-0 with Rakdos/Boros so far, whoo! Now the hard part starts...

Oh, and Exava followed by Spawn of Rix Maadi is just not very fair...

And the rest didn't go so well, ended up 3-3. Decklist and cards will follow at some point....

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2-0 with Rakdos/Boros so far, whoo! Now the hard part starts...

Oh, and Exava followed by Spawn of Rix Maadi is just not very fair...

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wait, promo cacklers? WHERE?!?!?!?

It's the July FNM promo:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/A ... rcana/1219

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Go ahead!

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I actually like Sealed, especially the Prereleases, because of the variance. No one knows what they are going to be playing before they open those packs. I have just as much chance of pulling some good stuff as I am at pulling bad stuff, and that goes for everyone there. What I don't like is how so...

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Also: MUST HAVE PROMO CACKLERS.

Oh yeah! I'm usually not much for promos/foils, but I'd like a couple of those.

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The discussions about the crapshootedness (is that even a word?) of sealed moved on, but I'll post my opinion anyway. I've done a fair number of various sealed plays the last couple of years. A friend of mine has bought a box of nearly each available set since Lorwyn, and we've been opening those as...

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Rakdos for me as well. I like the 50% chance of BWR from the guild boosters, and Jund would be quite ok as well. Not too fond of the Grixis chance, but the options from other guilds are less interesting to me.

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I have a project, to sort out my modern legal cards from the rest. Only problem is, I have 10 binders. So far I've done lands, artifacts, multicolors, and blacks. It isn't helping that I have to check many of the pre-8th edition cards if they're legal in Modern or not.

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Platypus, I playtested this deck on MTGO last night with great results. [deck]Creatures (32) 4 Stromkirk Noble 4 Rakdos Cackler 2 Stonewright 4 Ash Zealot 4 Flinthoof Boar 4 Burning-Tree Emissary 4 Lightning Mauler 4 Fervent Cathar 2 Ghor-Clan Rampager Spells (8) 4 Searing Spear 4 Rancor Lands (20)...

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Hey, I said no GoT spoilers...

Wait, what?

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I am not looking forward to facing off against the Ascended Lawmage: 3/2 flying, hexproof.

Me neither. Time for Gruul Charm in the SB of RG decks?

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I need tips for effective shuffling. It might just be variance hitting me hard last night, but either I was screwed or flooding on a 21-land list. My usual shuffling involves pile shuffling, to riffle, to multiple cuts. I don't pile shuffle. Like, not once the entire night. I seem to always get goo...

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Spoiler Alert!

Winter is coming.

Noo!!! Winter has just ended here!

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Thats' funny that I had the same thoughts last night Vala Re: Reckoner. @Platypus: The lists are missing pillars of flame. I'd swap out the FotF for them to be honest, you need to be interacting with decks you want FotF against earlier to prevent being overrun by the time you could even hit 3 mana....

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Please, no GoT spoilers! We haven't seen anything from the third season yet (I'm not paying for the local HBO channel).
So, you know nothing?

Nope! Haven't even read to books.

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I'm bored at the dentist's... Any thoughts on these two decks? [deck]Lands (24) 13 Mountain 4 Stomping Ground 4 Rootbound Crag 2 Temple Garden 1 Kessig Wolf Run Creatures (27) 4 Stromkirk Noble 3 Stonewright 4 Flinthoof Boar 4 Ash Zealot 4 Boros Reckoner 3 Hellrider 3 Hound of Griselbrand 2 Zealous...

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Please, no GoT spoilers! We haven't seen anything from the third season yet (I'm not paying for the local HBO channel).

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I'm bored at the dentist's... Any thoughts on these two decks? [deck]Lands (24) 13 Mountain 4 Stomping Ground 4 Rootbound Crag 2 Temple Garden 1 Kessig Wolf Run Creatures (27) 4 Stromkirk Noble 3 Stonewright 4 Flinthoof Boar 4 Ash Zealot 4 Boros Reckoner 3 Hellrider 3 Hound of Griselbrand 2 Zealous ...

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What I don't get is why the flavour text mentions a bear, but he is clearly wearing a wolf hat; but they might be bear claws? Looks like bear claws to me. The new version has a worse picture (too bad I only have 3 copies of the Guildpact version), but perhaps better flavour text. There should be a ...

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So...spoils are over. Red aggro didn't get any constructed-useful burn, and black didn't get terror or other impactful monocolored removal. Crap. Right. But gruul aggro got a wolf-cap wearing goblin back! Yay! http://magiccards.info/scans/en/gp/112.jpg Seriously, in a deck that have both Rancor and...

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Happy Birthday Redthirst!

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Fate, that's pretty much my reasoning as well. I knew was going to choose between Rakdos, Boros or Gruul because those fit me best. When I started looking into the secondary guild options I noticed that I'm not too fond of getting a Simic guild booster (hence not choosing Golgari), but I'd be even m...

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What is everyone else choosing and why?

See previous page...but here's a direct link:

viewtopic.php?f=74&t=600&p=55742#p55742

Oh, and Happy Birthday lorddax!

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So, what guild are you choosing as your main guild at the Dragon's Maze prerelease? I'm choosing Rakdos with almost 100% certainty. I then have a 50% chance of getting cards in RWB from both my guild packs, and a 25% chance each of getting Jund or Grixis. I really like those choices, because of the ...

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I just read that Quinton Hoover passed away on Friday. So sad about this, he was one of my all-time favorite Magic artists.

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What your current decklist?

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Like the black card, don't like the UW one...

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I quite like that Spike Jester! Perhaps there's a possiblity of a decent low curve aggro RB deck with it? But...someone on MTGS already suggested splashing black in Legacy Burn for it... :confused2: I dunno much about legacy but doesnt' that defeat the purpose of burn in legacy... you're mono red s...

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I quite like that Spike Jester! Perhaps there's a possiblity of a decent low curve aggro RB deck with it?

But...someone on MTGS already suggested splashing black in Legacy Burn for it...

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I'm from the SE US - every country East of Germany is either Russia or China. my understanding is the Balkans are north of Greece and south of the Czech Republic, and west of Turkey. The North Caucuses are east of Turkey, sort of shoved between the Middle East to the South and Russia to the north. ...

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My main issue with Undying Evil is basically the same as Redthirst's. But I have to admit I've neither played with the card nor against it, so is quite possible I'm wrong about it.

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So I'm not sure how much folks here know about the balkans as a region and Chechnya in particular. This family is Chechen. Chechnya is a region in the northern balkans / southern Russia that has been fighting Russia for independence pretty much since the Soviet bloc dismantled. Chechnya and other a...

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If you want an alternative to Homicidal Seclusion, consider Demonic Rising (mental note: that's a card I have to try as well). I agree about Undying Evil, not worth the card slot.

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Four toughness seems to be the new baseline. Hold on to those Mizzium Mortars. Buy some if you can get them cheap.

I've noticed this as well. Dare we speculate about getting Lightning Bolt back in Standard?

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I want to murk people with a 10/10 that is immune to removal

He will still die to Tribute to Hunger...ok, that's a bit unreliable. Between this and Lavinia red and black suddenly doesn't look so hot anymore.

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Well, there went that evening...

I bought a Blu-Ray player today, because we just bought The Hobbit on BD. I just thought I'd pop in the disc to try it out for a few minutes. Who am I kidding? We'll watch the whole movie now...

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But that's not an utility card, though. Dreadbore is a utility card.

The card is powerful, that is true.

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@redthirst: Sound like an excellent idea to me!

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