Dies to Removal

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Did testing last night with Z mana base, shouta list with stoke replacing Mizzium Mortar against mono black. SB was [deck]3 Flamespeaker 2 Chandra 2 Pillar 2 B-Light 1 Wear 3 Mizzium Mortars 2 Assemble[/deck] The mono B list was running NVS instead of Lifebane. -4 Skull crack -4 BC I was not a fan ...

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I mean how my videos have a significant amount of black space around them which is probably from the cropping when I originally recorded it.

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So now I'm trying to figure out how to appropriately remove the letterbox from youtube. Any ideas?

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Black is very inconsistent about what they board in and out. In the end, it does need some amount of threats and not being able to be chumped by tokens does make it a valid one.

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So my 35 minute videos (yeah, I suck) are almost right at a gig and take almost 6 hours a piece to upload but the quality is good. Yay?

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If you think of Boros Charm and Skullcrack as counterspells, Magma Jet as Serum Visions you'll approach the matchup correctly. You're in a control mirror, you want to resolve and protect a threat and exploit your mana efficiency advantage. Card advantage is paramount. Ok, so I just need to practice...

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is it worth killing your own phoenix if it gets sphere'd? That's something I usually do if I have something like a shock/magma jet in my hand. Depends if you have other threats, other burn to quickly recur it, etc. Early game, yes, it's probably best to counterspell dsphere since the first burn spe...

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Huh, didn't know there was an afk limit. Good to know when I'm taking so long on a decision. Does it give you a warning?

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If you think of Boros Charm and Skullcrack as counterspells, Magma Jet as Serum Visions you'll approach the matchup correctly. You're in a control mirror, you want to resolve and protect a threat and exploit your mana efficiency advantage. Card advantage is paramount. Ok, so I just need to practice...

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Ummm, tier 1 is UWx Control, MBC, Mono U and Burn. Flamespeaker is fine in that meta and excellent against lower tier decks that you WILL face at a larger event. Sure, it's bad if your approach is to YOLO everyone, but that not the cards fault, it's just not going to synergise with your strategy ve...

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I can respect that.

I tease MDU but I understand that he and I are on opposite ends of the offense/defense spectrum. Neither is wrong.

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You still haven't tested it, have you? :p Speaker is still good against Bx and Ux. Both is probably better. Not sure what Khaos tried but I'm flirting with 2 Hush, 1 pillar, 3 speaker. My problematic slots are how many trouble and mortars to run. I could jam a 2nd pillar but that might be too much w...

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I'm willing to try almost anything. My only gripe about the Shouta list had nothing to do with the cards. It was with the hivemind that touted it as the hottest thing since the creation of the Lightning Bolt yet couldn't understand the basic fundamentals of how the sideboarding worked. People were ...

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The extra 5 minutes per round is kind of annoying. Two matches now over the 1 hour mark.

Also, I got a bye. I should have assumed that was possible but never actually seen it. Good thing since I lost to an odd early aggro version of Black devotion.

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Since I'm still pre m15 on mtgo, I'm trying a straight cut of the reckoners for t/t again. Glad flamespeaker was working out for you. I was genuinely surprised how much people hated on the card (without testing it).

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I killed it at FNM tonight with the Saito list running Stoke in the Mortars main spot, Mortars over Reckoner, Pillar of Light over Reprisal, and Hushwing over Wear//Tear. A few notes : 1) Flamespeaker is fucking bonkers. 2) Hushwing embarrasses Master of Waves for all the lolz and is just absurd. 3...

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I killed it at FNM tonight with the Saito list running Stoke in the Mortars main spot, Mortars over Reckoner, Pillar of Light over Reprisal, and Hushwing over Wear//Tear. A few notes : 1) Flamespeaker is fucking bonkers. 2) Hushwing embarrasses Master of Waves for all the lolz and is just absurd. 3...

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Chatting can increase the rate of boosters earned though.

Gahhhh!!!! I hate the beta, now that you can presnipe queues - people just mass quit queues whenever regulars queue up....

I bask in my eternal ignorance of who the regulars are both in paper and online.

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Makes sense.

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I wouldn't call it brain-dead to pilot since it clearly still needs proper sequencing but it does sacrifice almost all element of control to count to 20, yes.

I'm surprised I missed the lack of magma jet.

I may test it for giggles tonight since it's certainly unique.

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I dont think he spends very much time throwing these things together

It does seem neat to run out in a meta dominated by boss sligh though

Yeah, I just noticed from the RDW thread that he did one for that too so I'm going with untested thrown together. Doubt he even had a sideboard in mind.

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Did Saito get some inside information that they banned black devotion from standard? Because if they did, deck isn't bad.

I assume this increases his control matchup even without skullcrack? Really not sure.

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It is very, very dependant on the mirror's build. I've yet to draw it against the mirror If they're on the eidolon/searing blood plan, it makes some of their cards cards quite weak but could maybe be a sorcery do nothing. If they're on the DTR style builds, it's almost certainly too slow since all t...

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MDU, that's some fucked up shit...

Good job!

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A couple times it was better for me than wear but if I'm going with a one of, I agree with you. Keening is more interesting if you have multiple as the chance of swinging goes up.

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Yeah, the chat/game log is really not easily visible. Although, I guess you can try cramming it on the right hand side like it works before.

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While Pillar might have a couple of targets against blue devotion, I think it's a bit too narrow to use there. Mortars/chain/banish are more versatile and/or cheaper with more upside. Plus, the cards it kills there are cards you don't necessarily want to focus on killing. Pillar is a solid upgrade a...

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You can really only hold them until you run out of tickets so if you're trying to build a bankroll like me, it's difficult to hold them when they might rise in price.

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Link?

No video sadly.

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@Z, ah, burn. The deck that was never truly understood.

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I actually think you would have to play the deck more than a little to get this, not just play against it. When you play against it, it seems like "oh, of course they have the burn spell" I guess. "Man, you got lucky drawing so much burn." "Actually, I think it's the 4 dama...

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Yeah they just don't understand that you cannot ignore your opponent's board state in many matchups. I wish we could but it doesn't work that way -_- Yeah but the deck is regularly played now and it should be readily apparent after a few games against burn that permanents can race the spells. And t...

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You can see my attempt to use the flamespeakers against UW sphere control go really badly here although I think I played the sequencing almost as badly as possible. Definitely was trying to jam it way too hard in that game when it would have been better to focus on removing his Jace's. My game one v...

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No, I think that guy lost actually too. He had the same thought as Reid that if you focus all your burn on killing his creatures, you somehow can't win with...all your recurring damage? I'm kind of confused, the deck's win condition against creatures is kind of obvious but it seems like they have a ...

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HK is also featured in:

Sam Pardee game (also on Ux Devo, in which after the game Sam provides some rather dodgy advice and tells HK that he doesn't understand the MU at all D:)

Was that the guy who said something about not understanding why he pulled out charm/crack for creature removal?

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I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not regularly a red mage. The last season I played boros midrange more to play with Seance with haste effects before deciding I actually liked the red slice of the deck. The FoS people really did help me tweak it to where it was The Dreaded at FNM which is why I why ...

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I will consider playing forests once lifebane zombie is gone =p.

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So the difference between friendly and competitive is probably your competition in friendly may be shit because the payout is shit? interesting.

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That's why I'm asking. Your post board looks like +6 anti aggro cards, -6 weenies, leave in 18 cards that die to anger. Anger in these kinds of decks always feels like "hope I draw it by turn 3 to sweep, start playing creatures, and hope I never draw one after turn 5." Doesn't BTE and reck...

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That was basically what I was asking. Thanks.

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Why exactly are you wanting to wrath your own board?

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