Dies to Removal

Happy cake day. Make a memory tonight.

Thanks for the analysis, Valdarith. Your suggestion to beef into midrange seems like the way to go; RDW posted awesome results with a bigger landbase, more fatties, and more tap-out. His extra threats come in the form of Exava (4/4 first strike is no joke), more Hellkites, and Stensia. I want Bloodg...

How do you guys fare against RWU control & Bant Control? Any approximations of your win% on the play/draw? I have a hard time fighting past any hand with common combinations of Snapcaster + Pillar, Renounce the Guilds, Azorius Charm or Augur cantrip -> relevant spell. How aggressively do you mul...

Tribute to Hunger: Going to the Races vs. Bant Hexproof & Bant Flash. Geist is a solid value card that people enjoy playing (especially w/ Advent and populate in the Flash version); I see people trying to get their value out of these decks before rotation. Tribute is a trump card among our outra...

I am in love with Imposing Sovereign.

but but Mr. Spike Jester.

Your fav of either Dos Rakis or Gruul aggro. I enjoy Dos Rakis because the deck's role changes from matchup to matchup (transformational sideboard is what you guys call it?), it runs Rakdos' Return, and fatty dragons are cool. G/B control will get knocked out by Bant control or RWU; you can't rely o...

n+1 hand size seems good and gets better as opponent's hand size nears 0. Anything that can fix hands and give a consistent deck even better odds seems worth it, imo (8 outs for lethal? 16 outs for lethal? Two chances on one turn seems valuable). I think she'll "protect" herself by daring ...

Additionally, just a small note, you can't Mizzium Mortars your own Boros Reckoner; most (all?) of the overload spells read "target... an opponent controls."

I'm a pretty big scrub, but learning every day.

Saw my first tournament results with this sexy deck. Fate and I took 5th and 6th yesterday (I was seeded 1st going into the top 8 cut w00pw00p), walked away with $100/each. Sure beats sitting in an office for a day's work. [deck] Land (23) 4 Blood Crypt 4 Dragonskull Summit 11 Mountain 2 Rakdos Guil...

4-0 with Dos Rakis to best three Gruul sligh variations (including Fate) and a baddie homebrew featuring Guardian of the Grove. Lost every dice roll, but only had two games taken off me all night.

Making a triple-layer peanut butter mousse cake, unrelated to above.

Nuwen = gleighn Fate = Fallen Daemon NA & EU-W We're mostly scrubs floating @ gold elo. Sometimes we spark a bowl and decide to build TTTs (Turbo Tiamat Teemos AKA lulz builds). If you're serious about grinding the elo ladder, you'll need to be patient and realize that 4x randoms are just meat s...

Yep, "et" was slurred into ampersand ligature when cursive styles started to replace blocked fonts in texts. Eventually became a discrete letter.

/Classics major, Latin & Attic Greek

/in

I'll try to recruit some old hat mafiascum people. Fate might play too.

Couldn't get there game 3 against rites. Lost the dice roll and game 1, took game 2 with two nobles w/ traitorous thragtusk and aristocrat (wouldn't have curved into conscripts for the 12 damage blowout, glad I played tblood today). Game 3 was thragtusk hard cast three times, resto, angel of serenit...

Fate just left for the GP. He's wearing a red shirt, non-fitted jeans, and a chibi The Punisher lapel pin. I'll be repping Dos Rakis later @ 2 & 7 PM, wearing a black floral-printed skirtie. Say hi if you see us yo. We made about sixty or seventy bucks crawling Fremont by abusing club promos (an...

Anybody know any Xbox 360 games that are fairly old that I should pick up? I just bought a 360 (finally, found it on Craigslist for $20, all I had to do was fix the disc tray) and I've just been picking up cheap games that are <$10. I got Civilization Revolution for $5 and I have been playing the s...

Uh, just stopped in to say "we won't mug you, unless you ask nicely."

I -think- this is the card that Fate picked up and looked at before he scooped up to slimes G1: http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/ ... eid=247116

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A free-at-the-point-of-delivery platform is the best model to introduce high testing rigor to a game or dataset. Hazbro shut down a high-quality platform because it competes with their lower-quality MTGO platform. Unsurprisingly Hazbo is viciously protecting their online market from possible competi...

GETTING BUFF. Here's the Fabfab variant I'll be taking to cashprize Standard tonight. It's short a single Snapcaster, but hopefully I can trade/borrow a 4th tonight with my pretty eyes. The deviations mostly spring from necessity, rather than innovation. I opted to run 2x Olivia in a 1-1 split in li...

Sup Alex, where did undying evil fall short in your play tests?

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/standard/26060-Seerious-Business.html [deck] Creatures (12) 3 Augur of Bolas 4 Duskmantle Seer 4 Snapcaster Mage 1 Olivia Voldaren Lands (24) 1 Island 3 Blood Crypt 2 Cavern of Souls 1 Desolate Lighthouse 1 Dragonskull Summit 4 Drowned Catacomb 4 Steam Vents 4 Sulf...

I'm still pretty new to Magic, so I'd appreciate critiques of my logic and approach to this archetype.

Hi. The control archetype is currently dominated by Sphinx's Revelation (for good reason, too). I'd like to open discussion about control shells without Sphinx's, particularly in B/U/R colors. A chosen few control players refuse to run a Sphinx-inclusive shell, either on principal or for the experim...

Desperate Ravings is an awesome card in a Pike deck. Let us know how your testing goes. I've tried to make Guttersnipe work in a bunch of shells. As a card, I think his trigger effect is over-budgeted and he needs to be a 2/3 for 3 CMC. I probably wouldn't play him without Undying Evil and stronger ...

Re: Delver - I love this card want desperately wanted to make it work in a U/B/* tempo deck. Fate and I playtested somewhere between 150-180 games of Delver-complimentary decks against current net. Dimir charm is great, but it's no ponder. Delver packs a lot of potential energy but is horribly incon...

I've been playing a UBR deck for the past couple FNMs. Like yours, Dimir Charm & Delver interaction is a quick and dirty wincon but unlocking red gives me strong burn finishers, hand destruction. Dimir Charm also sets up Bonfire, a potent nuke/boardwipe, and fishes for wincons/pike wielders. You...

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q703/windstrider13/dosrakisbanner_zpse6b9f8b9.jpg Last Edited Added [card]Chandra's Phoenix[/card] and Chandra, Pyromancer to the Show Time section. Updates 5/16/2013 Added The Competition , a section containing dpaine88's analysis of the current decks. Moved Tri...