Dies to Removal

DerWille

I've opened most of my box and so far, 1 scry land, prophetic flamespeaker, 2 gods, a mana confluence, and some jank. I plan on buying a bunch of prophetic flamespeakers. We're putting our money on it being the next master of waves. What sort of time frame are you talking about? Do you think they'l...

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I'm not a huge fan of 2 headed giant. I stopped playing it and go to another store whenever it's that week's tournament anymore. It's kind of cheesy, hard to win prizes, and I thought standard was more fun. I like the burn list you're running. 6 main board ways to kill big guys (+4 if you can convin...

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I plan on running this Friday for standard. Want some advice on the sideboard and my plans. Creatures (16) 4 Gladecover Scout 4 Basara Tower Archer 4 Voice of Resurgence 4 Witchstalker Enchantments (15) 4 Ethereal Armor 4 Gift of Orzova 4 Unflinching Courage 3 Holy Mantle Instants (4) 4 Selensya cha...

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Fairly close. Monoblack is stupid good in 2 headed. Gray Merchants, big dudes, and VCA engines are usually the best way to close out a game.

Yeah, I can see Purphoros being dumb. I can see Fanatic/Purphoros being a pretty good way to close out a game.

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So it turns out that "semi charmed kind of life" (Third eye blind) is about crystal meth, "slide" (goo goo dolls) is about abortion, and "tutti frutti" (little Richard) is about gay anal sex. The first two are very explicit about it if you check them on you tube with l...

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My experience with 2-headed giant is restricted to FNM tournaments one of my LGS's puts on. Take what I say with a grain of salt. The format reminds me of sealed because at times, it feels like I'm playing 2 player battlecruiser magic. That said, small aggro hasn't impressed me. The extra 10 life ra...

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I went to a win a box tournament last nigh at the LGS. About 8 to 9 people showed up. From the previous win a box tournament, the meta was pretty red aggro focused so I adjust my sideboard to have a bit more hate for it. Well, wrong there (again). I can't predict a meta to save my life. [deck=Zman's...

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One of the LGS had a day of win-a-box tournament. I took the tournament 5-0 with Rw Burn going against R/b Minotaurs (2-1), Junk Control (Bx control variant, the guy is trying to find a deck that does well against me, 2-0), Br Control (2-0), Wu Weenies (2-0), and Bu Control (2-0). I offered to split...

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If standard becomes a creature fest after rotation (I think it will) the RW God will be good (that said if he doesn't see any play now his price should be fairly low so sell him early when you make a nice buck :P). I just traded him off for a Mana Confluence . I think you're on to something post ro...

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All right. I'll trade it off ASAP.

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Agreed on both. Some of those strive cards, like Hour of Need are nuts. What? 5 mana and 2 creatures that were going to die anyway for 2 4/4 fliers? Sure! Oh yeah Zman, what's your thoughts on the RW god? My buddy pulled one and I'm wondering if I should trade it off or hang on to it for this standa...

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@Kaze - That does look like a great deck. Pharika looks like a monster in limited with seemingly unlimited death touchers to lock down the field with. I like how you were able to make a deck with a strong constellation focus. People at my prerelease were wondering if anyone was able to make that arc...

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LGS owner wants to move up a tier at Wizards and needs to get 50 people to show up for a prerelease. Promises that everyone will get +3 boosters as prize support if 50 people show up. 74 people show up at the hole in the wall shop. I open my packs, 1 rare is a legitimate bomb, the rest are standard ...

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My guess is that Red is the deepest color and the green isn't that good but has mana fixing and with red, Xenagos. I decided to go with white since it had more removalish things and ways to protect a bomb. I might over valuing the heroic cards in the deck, but I figured that the 1 drop centaur is at...

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Sure, that could be cool. I generated this picking white for the prerelease: [deck] 1 Dawnbringer Charioteers 1 Skybind 1 Akroan Phalanx 1 Heliod's Emissary 1 Reprisal 2 Ajani's Presence 3 Akroan Mastiff 1 Battlewise Valor 1 Harvest Guard Alseids 1 Hold at Bay 1 Lagonna-Band Trailblazer 2 Oppressive...

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I meant in building it.

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Good post LP. How heavily do you prioritize removal?

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That dude is a creeper.

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I'm not happy to play it (there's a lot better out there), but it'll get the job done. I'm arguing from the position of, "What am I most likely going to get when I open my packs" since I'm assuming I'll have a low chance to get the critical cards. Take the giant for instance, I'll play Hor...

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@imopen2 Sealed is not draft. Odds are you don't get an awesome archetype deck because you only see 6 packs instead of 24. That means crappy draft picks like Benthic Giant go up in value. Also, I only talked about commons. If you have better uncommons/rares/mythics play them instead.

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Looks to me like Sealed is going to be best white pool wins...the color is absurdly deep. I'm not so sure. For the Born of the Gods prerelease I won the first one I went to with a crazy ass white deck that had 5 awesome on color rares and then in the second one, where I went white again, I got a de...

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I took this deck to Wednesday Night Magic. [deck] Creatures (8) 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Spells (29) 3 Chained to the Rocks 4 Shock 4 Boros charm 4 Magma Jet 4 Lightning Strike 2 Searing Blood 4 Skullcrack 4 Warleader's Helix Land (23) 4 Sacred Foundry 4 Temple of Triumph 1 Temple of M...

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Harness By Force [mana]1RR[/mana] Sorcery Strive - Harness By Force Costs [mana]2R[/mana] more to cast for each target beyond the first. Gain control of any number target creatures until the end of turn. Untap those creatures. They have haste until end of turn. --- I think I like the multitarget Ac...

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I think Kait's got it. Seems like it could be fun. There might be some cool Nykthos strategy that lets you cheat something out.

@imopen2 - George Fan probably signed some contract so law ninjas don't shank Wizards up the ass for taking someone else's idea.

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I'm skeptical about the new Ajani, part of me wants to like him, part of me thinks he's not where a deck wants to be. I like his 2nd +1 where he basically draws you a card that you need. But damn, 5 mana... @Pendulum, I kinda know what you mean. All I get out of it is, Elspeth has hardcore PTSD and ...

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I really like Keranos and Godsend. The raw CA and VCA that card gives is freaking ridiculous. Reveal land, draw a card? Yes, please. Reveal shock, send 3 to the face and then shock for 2 more? Yes, please. Going by Frank's article, 10 blue sources is all the deck would need for 90% chance to have bl...

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Khaos, I'm a little late to this, but I'm not going to tell you to get your degree because degrees open doors or whatever. I've got 2 of them and they're completely worthless. Actually, they're worse than that. They actually hinder me from getting jobs because I'm somewhere between "overqualifi...

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Am I thinking of the old PyroRed lists then? I might be... derp. In that case, go with the cackler. If it's only for control matches with black in them, blank as many cards as possible. No reason not to. Do you think that Everflame Eidolon will fill the same role that Stonewright did in INN-RTR or w...

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Didn't you pick Firedrinker Satyr so he could fight through x/3's like Sylvan Caryatid that usually end up stone walling Cackler/Ash Zealot on the ground? Those cards seem to be more problematic than ultimate price/doom blade which are already weak against burn because there's so few targets to hit ...

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Hide ya kids, hide ya wife, 'cause Z cuckolding erybody out here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR30knJs4Xk

Dem Ozzies are always after our women. Gotta watch'm reaaaal close.

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http://imgur.com/gallery/6tHut2W This had to be shared. . . because its something that one of you might have posted! Wow... fucking wow, that's fucking hilarious. Okay... I went 4-0 with my Boros humans deck at a modern FNM. Most of it was homebrews, a guy's B/g devotion deck that had its Deathrite...

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I did though. I never got much of a chance to play with the weaboo fightin' magic classes but they looked fun. Challenging players who know how to build characters without the game becoming rocket tag is tough. Challenging the player instead of the character is a good way to do that. The other one I...

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I use a Razer Death Adder. Works well enough, not sure what else you would need beyond that. Some of those fuckers have like 20 buttons on them.

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@ MDU - The second meaning, it's better because there's only 2 colors.

DerWille

Nice videos. My buddy and I run a G/W hexproof deck, it's a bit different (probably a touch weaker but has better mana), but it can probably help with this. The biggest problem we've had is that it can sometimes be hard for the deck to close out games. Ajani really helps with that and a 3 of in crea...

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Mana base B only has 10 white sources. Please quote your preferred mana base. Mana base A, post side board potentially 17/37 cards or 45% of the non-land cards have a [mana]W[/mana] in them. I want the highest chance possible to play 45% of my deck in games 2 and 3 on time. CFB Reader suggestion: W...

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That's the first time I've heard anyone use the word "faghag." And now I can't stop laughing. The more you know... It's a thing, gay men and straight women go together like peanut butter and chocolate, in that they're fun together, but chocolate is never going to fuck peanut butter, even ...

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A lot to go through. I haven't been able to play as much as I've wanted to lately, but here are my thoughts: @Mana base I'm in favor of swapping out a mutavault for another land. My biggest problem with it has been that I can't make use of multiple mutavaults. This deck seems like it wants to keep a...

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I just watched one of the most awesome games of Magic. Dickmann was playing against Blue Moon and needed to draw an Ancient Grudge at 4 life with his opponent having Vedalken Shackles, Spellskite, and an unequipped Batterskull that was blocked by a Thrun with Dickmann having no open mana. Draws Ser...

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