Dies to Removal

Any twitter users out there? Follow Paddy Considine (twitter://user?screen_name=PaddyConsidine). I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying at the pictures he's posting.

So, Legacy Burn...

I might participate in a Legacy tournament next weekend, and I have basically two options: Legacy Burn and my counter-sliver deck. The sliver deck isn't really competitive, so that leaves me with one real option. So, I have this burn deck:

[deck]Lands
19 Mountain

Creatures
4 Goblin Guide
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Keldon Marauders

Burn
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
4 Fireblast
4 Price of Progress
3 Sulfuric Vortex
2 Magma Jet

Sideboard
4 Smash to Smithereens
4 Pyroblast
4 Tormod's Crypt
3 Volcanic Fallout[/deck]

Looks pretty standard, but what about the sideboard? I just threw something in it right now. The metagame will be competitive, because it's a trial tournament for a local money event later in the spring.

Any good Legacy Gruul-based Zoo decks around? I might be able to put something like that together as well.

Edits: what's with the
wierd deck tags?

@zemanjaski: Congrats on your birthday!

@Kazekirimaru: Congrats on your upcoming marriage!

And while am at it...

@redthirst: Congrats on just being awesome!

Okay, so I lied. The FoS brewing thread is now in place in the restricted section. NOW it is time for sleep!

When you wake up you can probably edit or delete your post with my deck in it. We posted it at the same time...

So what is this book that I'm apparently the only person to have never heard of?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_% ... s_novel%29

I haven't read it either. Been meaning to for many years, though.

I've always wanted to create a standard Battle of Wits deck, just to mess with people. Not sure what to put in though.

Battle of Wits?

Helios, your new sig picture is perfect, just perfect!

^Ok! I never read much of the first clan thread so I probably missed the photos.

Man, writing posts on a Lumia 800 while sitting in a slightly bumpy car sucks big time...

You know one of those dudes is me right? That's where she got the hat from.

Yeah, I know one of them was you, couldn't figure out who though. Didn't know the cap was yours either.

It's a great photo! But what about that one with the two dudes who borrowed the cap?

Yeah, Lingering Souls would be great. But I don't have neither them, nor the mana base for it. I could potentially go for a Br deck, but no other color combinations right now. Windstrider, if you try it, please report your thoughts because I have limited testing opportunities myself right now. I'd appreciate it a lot.

I was going to say "So buy them, cheapass," but then I looked and saw that they're like $2.50 on Starcity. Yikes.

The LS playset for almost $10 isn't a problem. The $80 mana base to go with them is a problem though, and the reason why I haven't bought them yet.

I tried my Gruul deck (the one in the Gruul Ragehammer thread) earlier this week against an earlier version of this deck:

[deck]23 Swamp
4 Knight of Infamy
2 Bloodgift Demon
4 Desecration Demon
4 Vampire Nighthawk
2 Tribute to Hunger
4 Tragic Slip
4 Victim of Night
3 Mutilate
2 Duress
2 Appetite for Brains
2 Sign in Blood
2 Essence Harvest
2 Underground Connections
Sideboard
4 Cremate
2 Sever the
Bloodline
1 Mutilate
2 Appetite for Brains
2 Duress
2 Tribute to Hunger
2 Curse of Death's Hold[/deck]

I had a surprisingly hard time against it, lost both games. Ok, the first game I was mana screwed, and we only played two games so it's hard to draw any conclusions. But I've struggled before against a similar deck, lots of removal followed by big demons. So I started thinking...maybe I should dust of my old mono-black deck? Against the current meta, what decks would the above deck have the hardest time beating?

I am liking this deck a lot. I might have to sleeve that up and try it out. Photo and I are thinking our way through a combo-ish deck to attack the meta from a different angle.

I agree, but I can't leave well enough alone...I want to splash white for Lingering Souls. Which of course then opens up another whole can of worms...

Yeah, Lingering Souls would be great. But I don't have neither them,
nor the mana base for it. I could potentially go for a Br deck, but no other color combinations right now. Windstrider, if you try it, please report your thoughts because I have limited testing opportunities myself right now. I'd appreciate it a lot.

So, "Stop worrying about things you cannot control" seems to be the remedy here. But it's far easier said than done, I suppose.

I think I'm less afraid of death itself than eternal oblivion. I don't know how Atheists deal with the thought. I sure can't.

I've been an atheist my whole adult life (a little over 20 years, so more than half my life). And before that, well, my family has never been very religious but religion is important for lots of people in the parts where I grew up. I can't remember if the thought that my existence ends when I die has ever bothered me at all. It just feels very natural to me, how the world work and all that. So for me there's no such thoughts to deal with. The thought of eternal life,
on the other hand, bothers me a bit

I tried my Gruul deck (the one in the Gruul Ragehammer thread) earlier this week against an earlier version of this deck:

[deck]23 Swamp
4 Knight of Infamy
2 Bloodgift Demon
4 Desecration Demon
4 Vampire Nighthawk
2 Tribute to Hunger
4 Tragic Slip
4 Victim of Night
3 Mutilate
2 Duress
2 Appetite for Brains
2 Sign in Blood
2 Essence Harvest
2 Underground Connections
Sideboard
4 Cremate
2 Sever the Bloodline
1 Mutilate
2 Appetite for Brains
2 Duress
2 Tribute to Hunger
2 Curse of Death's Hold[/deck]

I had a surprisingly hard time against it, lost both games. Ok, the first game I was mana screwed, and we only played two games so it's hard to draw any conclusions. But I've struggled before against a similar deck, lots of removal followed by big demons. So I started thinking...maybe I should dust of my old mono-black deck? Against the current meta, what decks would the above deck have the hardest time
beating?

I jumped ship as well. Looking forward to turning this place into a great MtG community. I'm on Easter holiday right now, so I won't be posting much the following days though.