Dies to Removal

GoblinWarchief

Well, it doesn't seem strange to me. I understand how it can be cool to save your creatures from burn spells, or live the dream of triple growth + boros charm double strike, but in the end i think it is just a high risk- high reward card that burn tipycally doesn't want. i want cards that deal damag...

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trawis woo posted an article on channelfireball recently about painter's servant in modern

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I saw the norin combo deck on mtgpulse, it won a quite big tournament in japan. It looks fun and have lots of synergies, between norin/soul sister's/pridemate/champion of the parish/ and even purphoros.

I found it: http://mtgpulse.com/event/18469#260497 well, not big, there were 30 players

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I am currently playing a 7th protection spell main deck , (ajani's presence), plus the stock six (4 god's willing 2 feat of resistance). I like it because i feel like if i don't have a protection spell i can only: - play creature after creature, that can be decent against control/heavy removal deck ...

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Main deck is basically Tom Ross one - 2 eidolon of countless battles +1 heliod's pilgrim + 1 treasure cruise. Nice to see that good players come to the same conclusions (almost).

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It's very real :) i feel like it is similar to last season's aura hexproof deck : most of the times you are doing absolutely broken things, but sometimes you draw the wrong part of your deck and do nothing. Zemanjaski's testing the deck too, he wrote some posts in the clan thread. Let's see if he co...

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I'm pretty sure 20 lands are too few in U/W heroic ; excluding the case of turn 1 oplite turn 2 ordeal, all your other creatures cost 2, so you always want to hit at least 3 land drops to cast ordeal + protection spell turn 3. Besides, the deck is not totally prone to flooding, because 4 defiant str...

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You are right, i should just have said that i believe smash to smithereens is a strictly better card in burn. You want wear/tear for enchantments, but if have to deal only with artifacts smash is the better choice. Look at it this way: wear/tear is just a 1 for 1 removal spell, and burn is not looki...

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I like playing 2 wear/tear 2 smash to smithereens , because sometimes you want to board in 1-2 artifact destruction spells for annoying cards like dragon's claw, and the upside of dealing 3 damage is huge. I can't justify boarding in a spell that doesn't deal damage to destroy something that my oppo...

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U/W heroic is both fun and a powerful deck..... sometimes though i just end up mulliganing into oblivion mainly because of color screw or 0 creatures in hand.

Some days ago someone posted an article here about someone who was sure watanabe cheated a lot of the time.

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So you don't like blue. Best non blue deck at the moment is probably elves, but you dislike green too. This leaves you with few options : stompy decks (dragon stompy and MUD are the best), death and taxes, burn, imperial painter. Burn is fine, but you just lose to combo decks all the time. Death and...

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None of those decks really appeal to me.

Is Deadguy Ale still a deck?

Black is not good anymore in midrange decks (jund,deadguy), since discard spells get crippled by treasure cruise.
The only way to play black is to pair it with blue or play fast combo.

GoblinWarchief

You should play some number of daretti's if you want to play red in MUD.
I also saw lists running grove of the burnwillows/punishing fire.

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If anyone cares the world championship is streaming right now.... they just had 3 rounds of vintage masters and now they will be folowed by 4 modern rounds.

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I built this deck too after tom ross' awesome performances with it, but i have to say i am not impressed. I mean, i am conscious that i should improve my play because the deck is quite unforgiving -- make a mistake at the wrong time and you just lose-- but what concerns me is the very high mulligan ...

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can someone pm me latest tom ross article ? i don't have premium but i need to see some lists for a local event next week ...

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There are 2 different types of mud , one with daretti and goblin welder that needs some mountains / great furnaces in the manabase, the other one with all colorless spells that gets to play cloudpost and glimmerpost so that it can consistently hardcast bombs when is not able to cheat them into play ...

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All decks that feature a high curve with a manabase of ancient tomb and city of traitors (sol lands) can randomly lose to variance. You don't get to play brainstorm, force of will, treasure cruise. If you want a very competitive deck i would not recommend building mud. However, i always avoid playin...

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Elves is an even matchup and a lot is decided by the die roll. Of course to win you have to see a mix of searing effects and lavamancers/eidolon. Just killing their creatures without applying pressure is a losing proposition because they have a lot of card advantage and will eventually recover and k...

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Simian spirit guide is bad in burn -- we are not trying to cast an extremely powerful spell early that wins the game on its own, we just aim to kill the opponent with 6/7 cards in the most efficient way. Every resource is very important to win in a reasonable time frame and we need our lands to stay...

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The 2/2 body on board is a huge difference when every spell costs 2 life. Pyrostatic pillar is at best a sideboard card against storm combo, while eidolon is good against almost everything. Just play with him a little bit and you will notice his strength.

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I would add 1 more land to your list. You need to hit land drops for searing blaze, and post board is tough to get away with 19 lands when you are playing both bridge and vortex. Especially bridge becomes useless if you can't cast your spells quickly enough.

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Dragon Stompy made top16 and top 8 in the 2 last scg opens. Actually it is "goblin stompy" , a list that uses as main threats goblin rabblemaster and moggcatcher. Rabblemaster is the best red 3 drop ever and i am impressed how good the card can be even in legacy. Moggcatcher gives the deck...

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Shattering spree can answer chalice of the void because copies are not cast and is versatile because you can cast it for any amount of mana. Smash to smithereens fits in the aggressive gameplan of the deck (although the dig/snap lists are less aggressive) and is a card i like because i can side it i...

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You should fit in some aggro and tempo cards in your pristaxcontrombmodruu deck

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I totally agree with LP, and i personally take a lot of time in the first 2-3 turns of the game when playing boss sligh. The average opponent won't understand why ever you are thinking so much before tapping a mountain and playing a dude, and will just complain about your slow play and scrump deck. ...

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You should all watch "the cabin in the woods". this is even a better suggestion than when i proposed "a serbian film"

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I would like to build this deck because at the moment it seems the best in the format to me, but i'm afraid that next bans could give U/R delver bad surprises. If they ban treasure cruises, would dig through time be a fine replacement or is cruise a lot better in this deck ?

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I don't think fetches are good at all. The deck has 17-19 lands and plays 3 drops, finding a 3rd land is not guaranteed so a lot of the time you will be thinning your deck with fetches even if you need another land to play all your spells.
Moreover, deck thinning is not as relevant as life loss.

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and men how i dislike the elvish mystic/caryatid/courser decks .... i tried playing that shell and i always seem to have all the mana accelerators or none, doing nothing as a result.

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latest version of boss sligh is a beast. today i went 2-0 in 4 consecutive matches (u/b control, jeskai ascendancy, mono black aggro, abzan midrange) never winning the die roll so always starting on the draw. maybe was just luck but... i don't think so.

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Where did you find ross' list ??

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A friend of mine runs a swiftspear list with a 1-of dynacharge maindeck and a couple mutagenic growths ..... dynacharge wins games in some occasions an i think could be a nice surprise tech.... i don't like growth but it can save swiftspears/flipped delvers from a bolt. He also runs unified will in ...

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Is aggro viable at all in this format ? I don't consider aggro jeskai wins or abzan (deathdealer/lion) that play ZERO one drops. The only aggro list i saw is the r/w heroic soldiers. We must do something about this

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I agree that the "busted" card is glittering wish, but i don't think that it is likely to be banned because it is not the card that make the deck so fast. And no, just 1 for 1'ing in the early turns won't do nothing, but if you pair a couple of removal/counterspells/lock pieces with a dece...

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Also straight burn has a good matchup against ascendancy -- the problem is not the deck itself because it can be beaten , but the fact that it can win consistently on turn 3 and turn 2 with a god hand, and this breaks modern rules according to wizards.

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I think this deck has a slightly favourable matchup against jeskai ascendancy.... fast clock + removal for all their mana dorks (except caryatid) + counterspells should be a nice mix.

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Tomorrow i have a decent sized tournament and i won to play burn this time rather than goblins or red skred, because now i can play my old fetches .... i'm a lot undecided about which colors to play ..... white, black, or green for revelry or even blue for treasure cruise ! Any suggestions ? i would...

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Hordeling outburst is a new card from khans that's barely playable. 3 creatures for one card is very good... but the big question is always the same : is it better than the option we already have like chieftain, goblin king, rabblemaster, shared animosity ? Probably not. Do we want to move the deck ...

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I don't know, wouldn't a 2/1 for 1 just be better ? I am sure the black 2/1 that recurs from the grave, the black 2/1 with bestow and firedrinker satyr are better than this thing ..... i just don't like the fact that sometimes this will be just a hasty 1 power dude. And it also clashes a bit with fo...

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