Dies to Removal

Is there a facebook group or something that I didn't know about?

Every deck I've brewed for post-rotation has been shit. Notably, all of these decks feature zero Siege Rhino. If this Grixis Dragons deck doesn't do well tomorrow, I'll be forced to play the Rhino on Saturday...

So abbot of keral keep, a great red card from origins or the best red card from origins?

And is anyone else dealing with the urge to curve into avaricious dragon in standard? Last year curving into fanatic of mogis got me a lot of packs.

Card's actually insane. Trying to get some foil Abbot's now since I'll probably be playing them all format long.

Tested Avaricious Dragon, and it seems pretty meh.

Anyone else on here going to the Columbus Invitational? Also, if anyone has any tips, id be happy to read them.

Planning on playing Mardu Dragons for Standard, and RW Burn for modern. Ive also been playtesting Hamfactorials Baby Boros, and it seems really strong, im just not too comfortable in Modern.

Mad Max was fucking amazing, end of story.

Senpai noticed me guys...

I don't even know how to respond.

And I can't buy a single C14 deck because the stores here only sell all decks as a set.

Commander

Pleb.

Pedos of Salvation

Savage Knuckleblade is in the same boat as Mantis Rider. They can both only be played in those exact 3 colors. I don't expect either one to go higher than $5 ever again.

Ashcloud Phoenix on the other hand has just one color requirement, and can therefore be played in multiple different decks. What confuses me about this card is that it has been in many Top 8 decklists, in the main and sideboard, and yet managed to drop $1 in price after the Pro Tour. It only bugs me because I bought/traded for 20 of them, lol.

2nd place at Gameday with Boss Sligh. Game 3 of the finals I kept a 1 lander with 2 Dragon Mantle's and a Titan's strength. Scryed a non-land to the bottom before my draw step. Drew 9 cards before I hit my second land. Oh well.

Probably can't play it again tomorrow, because everyone will just main board Anger of the Gods and Drown in Sorrow. Lame.

You mean to tell me this isn't my personal blog? Trying to tell yall bout the future Mrs. Scroatles here.

Also, after our first kiss, she mentioned that she was a bad kisser.

I said, "Well, I guess we'll just have practice more".

I've decided on what to play at States, after my experience tonight at FNM. I played RW Burn, still not enjoying the deck, and got raped by Abzan Reanimator. A girl that I've went on a couple dates with decided to play in her first ever FNM, and for whatever reason she decided to borrow this other guys spare deck from him. After I get buttblasted in round 1, I went over to see how she was doing. I look in her hand, and see 2 Feed the Clan, and some basics, with fucking Spirit of Spring in play, or whatever that stupid blue 0/3 is that fetches for a land is called. After she loses in 2 to Siege Rhino dot deck, similarly to me, I go sit down back where my stuff is, and start working on a deck from my spares. I remember that she likes the color red, in general, and also enjoyed playing one of my RW decks last Standard when I taught her to play. 37 commons and uncommons later, with a couple random rares, and I'm done. No sleeves necessary.

5 minutes later, I walk back up to her, and ask to thumb through the deck she's playing. It has fucking Banner's in it, and a bunch of other random bad shit, with a couple Fetches and other cards that are valuable, yet useless without an actual deck to be in. I look her in the eyes, and shake my head, and then go on to explain that the deck is shit. Hopefully the decks creator was in ear-range of what I said. Anyways, I hand her the deck that I just finished, and tell her that nothing would make me happier than to see her play this deck next round. I once again explain how crappy the RUG deck she borrowed is. Nevermind the fact that it has a bunch of useless synergies and shit that a new player wouldn't give 2 fucks about, or even 1 fuck for that matter.

She takes it, and I tell her to get 21 mountains out of the land box behind the counter. A couple riffle shuffles later and it's time for round pairings. Her opponent is sitting diagonally from where all my shit is, giving me a front row seat to watch, as she plays against none other than one of the stores best players, and former head judge. He's playing Jeskai Ascendancy combo. I ignore my own game for the most part after I realize my opponent is only pointing burn spells at my face, except the bad burn spells, such as Bolt of Keranos and lol, Spark Jolt.

I instruct her to just attack each turn, and play her hand out as efficiently as possible. She wins the die roll, and off we go. She opens mountain into Monastery Swiftspear. Judge plays a painland into an elf. She untaps, plays a mountain into a Valley Dasher, and gets in. Judge plays a Caryatid and a tapland, passes. She plays a mountain, Thunderous Might onto the Valley Dasher, and attacks, no blocks, [card]Titan's Strength[/card] on Swiftspear. Judge does some more irrelevant shit, still trying to set up all the combo pieces. She sets down an Archetype of Aggression, and the judge scoops.

There's something so fulfilling in watching a new player just utterly shit on a Judge playing a netdeck with a pile of unsleeved red cards. She takes the match in 3, and ends up losing the next round in a close 3 games, and then has to leave to give a friend a birthday present or something, idk. I talk to her some more, and she's pretty happy about how she did, and when she's leaving, she mentions that her car is parked behind the nearby restaurant since there were no other parking spots were available. I offer to walk her to her car.

A couple kisses later, I'm back inside with a grin on my face, and I've been reminded of the joy of Magic, and playing Mono-Red.



I went X-2, but I still got the girl. I'm going to play Boss Sligh tomorrow at Game Day, and then I'm going to give her the deck to use at FNM the next time she decides to play. Goals for the weekend include taking 1st place at atleast one of these GameDay's, and going on a 5th date with her, or however many there have been so far.

It's actually fairly tempting for me to just take Ross's states deck to the GP, but Jeskai burn, too strong.

I'm tempted to do the same. Speaking of that deck, anyone have access to SCG Premium who can send me the text from his article yesterday? The Brad Nelson one would be nice as well.

Yeah, I'm starting to think about going premium as well, I feel like I want to read Ari Lax's article on Abzan.

Ask, and ye shall receive.

Welcome to Dies to Removal.

Where every post is shit, and Magic the Gathering doesn't matter.




Where are the Tom Ross smiley's? I need like, 3-4 different Tom Ross faces.

Insomnious testing seems that this list may be actually working. I'd appreciate some feedback though.

[deck]
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
4 Ashcloud Phoenix
4 Stormbreath Dragon
2 Purphoros, God of the Forge

2 Hammer of Purphoros

4 Chained to the Rocks
4 Raise the Alarm
4 Magma Jet
4 Lightning Strike
2 Hordeling Outburst
1 Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

4 Wind-Scarred Crag
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Temple of Triumph
13 Mountain
[/deck]

It's been faring pretty well so far, on Cockatrice at least. Goblin Rabblemaster continues to kind of just exist, and not actually do a whole lot for me. Maybe Hushwing Gryff should be in the main, idk. Hordeling Outburst could probably be something else, but I've been swapping cards in and out of that slot for a couple hours and can't really find something that I like. Purphoros, God of the Forge has actually been okay in there, getting extra value out of the token generation, and Ashcloud returning to the battlefield. Randomly comes online with a hammer and a bird out too.

http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdat ... ckID=74450
Fulk's new r/w walkers list

Moves stormbreathdragon to main, plays seeker of the way in sideboard, switches out last breath for suspensionfield, plays more end hostilities.

TradeWind, is that you? http://mtgtop8.com/search?player=TradeWind.

I'll probably playtest some terrible red deck at FNM, and then on Saturday I'll play Boss Sligh. Can't play the same list at both, since all the locals will just fill their sideboards with hate.


All I want to do is play Stormbreath Dragon andAshcloud Phoenix in the same deck, but I can't decide what colors I want, or what else to fill the deck with. I miss Red Devotion already, where all my deckbuilding decisions were made by counting red mana symbols.

I can't seem to come up with a good Mardu deck which is frustrating.

Have you tried simply combining all the best removal spells with the best fliers in the format? Ashcloud Phoenix, Butcher of the Horde, Stormbreath Dragon, Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker.

An article on SCG that I recently read mentioned something about there being no good 1 or 2 drops, and the solution to that was to simply not play them. This means you run taplands, and your 3-drops are simply removal spells. Arc Lightning, Anger of the Gods, [card]Hero's Downfall[/card], Banishing Light, etc.


The other end of the spectrum really just looks like Mardu Tokens, featuring Mardu Ascendancy, which saves your ass from the lesser sweepers.

The highest I ever got in League was last season, when I went on a losing streak and stopped caring. I then played like 20 games as Gangplank in a row, and eventually ended up at Plat 2. So strange.

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/25011759

Haven't played in a while, mostly because there was MTG event every weekend for the last couple weekends.

What was different than the reality?


Does anyone want to play on Cockatrice with me? I don't like playing with randoms on there, they always get mad at me for not knowing all the controls, and various other things since I have no idea how the program is supposed to work.

Thought the second ability was to play, not to hand lol. First time it came up it was like... well fuck.

Yeah, he requires a lot of mana, and doesn't really do a whole lot for it.

What was different than the reality?


Does anyone want to play on Cockatrice with me? I don't like playing with randoms on there, they always get mad at me for not knowing all the controls, and various other things since I have no idea how the program is supposed to work.

Cockatrice has muddied itself with unnecessary separate releases. At any time you find yourself saying to your users "download this if you have version X, and this if you have version Y, and no, there's really no way to tell which version you have," then you've failed.

That said, it's still the best MTG application.

I generally just uninstall and re-install any time a new set comes out, because I'm too lazy to figure out which version I have, and how exactly I'm supposed to be updating this particular one.


What's everyone playing for Gameday?

Can't get it to work. Keeps coming up with an error. Oh well.

Have you downloaded the latest version?

http://www.woogerworks.com/index.php/weekly-builds