Dies to Removal

I hate these weeks between set release and MODO release. So hard to test properly (player skill on Cockatrice has been abysmal). For the Open this weekend, do I run:
[deck]Jeskai[/deck]
or do I cut a Charm and a Slash for 2 Anticipates? This assumes my Ojutai and 4th Regent arrive in the mail today before I leave. There is no way that I will pay the jacked up prices SCG will charge on site.

Perhaps me as well.

Kait actually speaking wisdom? These forums really are doomed...

Okay guys I need a bit of help here. I've never been to the SCGopens, and mostly do all my playing on cockatrice.
So I have zero real life cards and need to get them. Do they sell them before the tournament at some kind of scg card sales traveling shop. Or do need to travel to the no-so-local gaming store that sell magic singles? Advice?

Ah and I'm pretty settled on mardu. I'll post the list I'm looking at in a bit. Hopefully some of you know for sure. Thanks in advance M_v

I would suggest buying them all online if you have time to get them shipped to you beforehand. SCG jacks up the pricing on site.

Anyone have thoughts on a viable, flash-in-the-pan shell that can run Drown in Sorrow, HDF, Anger, Archfiend of Depravity and enchantment hate? I know that I'm going to be seeing GW Devotion, red-based aggro and Naya Walkers...Jund would be interesting but the mana seems too ridiculous.

Much of this is SB material...the question is whether there is an RBx shell that can run BB and RR as needed.

Perhaps a Mardu Control strategy? Early burn and sweepers, rely on things like Butcher, SBD, Elspeth, and Sorin to kill your opponent.

Fly over them and Erase the Unseens?

If all we are ever likely to use it for is Skullcrack mode, we may as well just play Skullcrack and not deal with more spells needing green mana.

Holy fuck, that new Narset is insane.

[deck]
Creatures (10)
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique

Lands (22)
1 Forest
6 Island
1 Mountain
1 Breeding Pool
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Wooded Foothills

Spells (28)
2 Vedalken Shackles
3 Blood Moon
2 Spreading Seas
2 Boomerang
2 Cryptic Command
2 Electrolyze
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Mana Leak
3 Remand
2 Spell Pierce
1 Vapor Snag
4 Serum Visions

Sideboard
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Spellskite
1 Blood Moon
1 Aetherspouts
2 Flashfreeze
2 Magma Spray
3 Nature's Claim
1 Negate
1 Vandalblast
[/deck]

Even more fun than siege rhino?

Having your arms and legs melted off with a slow acid is more fun than Siege Rhino.

You strike me more as one of those Manaless Dredge players that only pretend that they actually know how to play Magic.

Only because you have never actually played either game.

Only if it was a stampede to the inevitable barbecue.

All I see are Siege Rhinos failing when they were needed most. Most glorious indeed. May we feast on rhino meat and gain cosmic power!

Rules question:

If multiple Flamewake Phoenix cards are in the graveyard, can they all be brought back with just one [mana]R[/mana] at the beginning of combat?

No, each Phoenix in the graveyard puts a trigger on the stack that says "Pay R to return this to the battlefield". You have to handle each trigger separately.

The only redeeming qualities of a Siege Rhino are the sounds and smells it eminates as I roast them from the inside out. Their howls of agony are just sublime and they make reasonable BBQ.

Those need to be thrown on a pile and melted down.

I've been 10-1 against UB Control with my Abzan aggro deck since the new year. It's literally impossible to lose to if you know what you're doing.

I got second in Game Day today though. I lost to Sultai Control when I flooded out, but it's fine since my opponent and I decided to "share" the mat and sell it to someone wanting to buy it right away. We split and got $35 each.

You got $70 for that mat? I might have to rethink my plan for just storing mine.

Managed to salvage a 6-3 finish after an 0-2 start at Regionals yesterday. Tournament report is here.

So much hate for my local players. Every last one backed out of going to regionals next weekend. Makes it a little hard to justify going.

Their moms were too busy to take them?

They didn't want to deal with a 6 hour drive and a hotel stop. The annoying part was that they were all but certain that they were going when I asked last week.

Kait: I know you make a ridiculous amount of cash at Subway but some of us have more trouble handling a sudden large jump in expenses.

So much hate for my local players. Every last one backed out of going to regionals next weekend. Makes it a little hard to justify going.

I use Mentor as Rabblemasters 5-6 in my Jeskai deck.

Probably because it boosts his other attackers and has 5 toughness.

So team italia is a bad idea? lol

While I am not so sure Team Italia is a good idea anyway, that isn't what he was suggesting. He wanted a burn deck with a few white/blue/black cards to answer Iona, Grislebrand, Emrakul, and Leyline not a value deck that just happens to have some burn spells in it.

I'll probably post both here and Sally(since there are actually people there to talk to affinity about).

Be careful what you wish for. I sometimes go to Sally to check up on the Burn thread (cuz I end up talking to the same 3 people here) and always regret it. Like, I'll read a page of posts and just want to kill myself because of the stupidity.

And then I come back here and want to kill myself because of the stupidity.

I feel your pain. I am trying to explain to this moron in the Legacy Burn thead why we don't want to splash two colors just to deal with a few oddball threats now that Cruise is banned and the old meta with Wasteland everywhere on its way back. I must enjoy pain or something.

No, it counts as a creature spell on the stack.

Because BBE was a feared card in a deck that had a "high" saturation in Modern whereas Siege Rhino is a Standard card that is just starting to see play. I am not saying you are wrong, just going over their likely reasoning.

Is it really that incorrect to call it pointless when I spent all that money only to have the primary card I made the changes for get banned before I could even use the deck? I do still have the cards and I can trade/sell them which is why I don't call it a loss but that money would have been much more useful spent elsewhere.

Not just the duals, although Volcs are going to drop in value. The foil Cruises, Swiftspears, Leylines, etc. All just trade fodder now.

At worst, you can probably trade all of them to pick up some judge promo lightning bolts instead of those full art ones

I may do just that. I have wanted a set since GPNJ.

Not really. The format was adjusting pretty well. 3 decks with Cruise in the last Open. Two were the new RUG Delver decks and one was a Grixis Control brew.

Not just the duals, although Volcs are going to drop in value. The foil Cruises, Swiftspears, Leylines, etc. All just trade fodder now.

I don't think they will ever restrict anything other than in Vintage.

Well there is that. I was meaning more Wizards saying that any deck that starts dominating will be looked into.

I am not surprised at the Pod ban. It has won so many GPs lately that they really had no choice if they wanted to stay true to their beliefs on Modern.

I am not overly surprised at Modern but the Legacy ban is very disappointing. My $1000 investment into Cruise Burn just became pointless.

at the same time blaklanner's list looks good and it uses all the good new cards

I am going to be making a few more modifications to the list in the coming days now that I have some testing on trice under my belt.

The entirety of DTR can be summarized thusly:

Two groups of poorly adjusted people cross-shitpost in each other's forums, never quite sure if they've accidentally become friends.

Spoiler Alert: They haven't.

Holy shit they gave us Pyrotechnics back. If it is a good enough card any more is more in question.

Cards like Swan Song

Given us another "play this so your Searing Blood always works" trap?