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Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:08 am**

Stardust is always on the case.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:10 am**

Thank goodness.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:11 am**

I had a guy playing u/b polymorph insist that he could take birthing pod with inquisition of kozilek cause he saw it on the "Main Mtg Site". lol

Better yet was him casting the polymorph into my zealous conscipts he knew was in my hand and when he was at 18. Sorry buddy, emrakul is not pro-red.

Knowledge is power.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:12 am**

Stardust is always on the case.

You must be silenced.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:16 am**

I'm silent, even when I'm saying something.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:28 am**

Streaming 8-mans with PyroRed in 10 mins (and possibly some sealed later):

http://www.twitch.tv/valdarith

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:10 am**

Stardust is always on the case.

I can't take a shit at work anymore without feeling like I'm him doing detective work in a bathroom stall.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:11 am**

But, for serious, Stardust is doing great work.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:18 am**

But, for serious, Stardust is doing great work.

You must be silenced.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:23 am**

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Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:24 am**

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Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:45 am**

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I type the first letter of one of my porn sites into my ipad's address bar, and it autofills with this site instead...

There, have some mental-imagery

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:48 am**

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:51 am**

Happy birthday, Calamity!

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:29 am**

Went 0-3 in three different 8-mans tonight. Really feels bad. My opponents had all the answers and I dc'd one time to come back without being able to sideboard. Funny enough I got two of my dead cards in that matchup for the second game. Definitely feels like someone was out to get me tonight.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:39 am**

FYI, I've heard threw a contact that Onslaught fetches are gonna be reprinted when shocks rotate...
That would be nice for Modern, 16 lands that could tutor for a Mountain. VVVVAALLLUUUUEEEEEE

Actually 19, assuming you are counting things that can fetch shocks. Allied fetches, enemy fetches, shard fetches, terramorphic expanse, evolving wilds, ghost quarter, and flagstones of trokair. Bonus points if you break the flagstones with [card:
2hpmz3yu]hammer of purphoros[/card].

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:41 am**

Darth:

One day I'll manage to kill an opponent entirely with Mountains or things that came out of Mountains.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:41 am**

Calamity!

You're older!

Happy day of getting older!

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:42 am**

Remember when I tried building Jund at the beginning of the season? Yeah, we're working on that again. Cause I'm frustrated with magic and I want to play something sweet.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:51 am**

Darth:

One day I'll manage to kill an opponent entirely with Mountains or things that came out of Mountains.

koth of the hammer
hammer of purphoros
valakut, the molten pinnacle
gruul guildmage
shard volley
fireblast

That's nearly a deck there, and none of those cards are bad. Obviously we are talking about casual, but it seems fun. Cast new horizons, and then start throwing those lands at people.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:54 am**

Darth:

One day I'll manage to kill an opponent entirely with Mountains or things that came out of Mountains.
koth of the hammer
hammer of purphoros
valakut, the molten pinnacle
gruul guildmage
shard volley
fireblast

That's nearly a deck there.

You could also use things that make lands into creatures. I believe zendikar had some of that, no?
Also, [card]
awaken the ancient[/card]. Might not be amazing normally, but hey, it's a 7/7 mountain. Sounds good to me.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:59 am**

I made a thread about that deck in the restricted areas. It's called MOUNTAIN and I've been crushing filthy casuals with it for weeks.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:00 am**

AWESOME Shirt alert! TeeFury.com...this one is truly over the top...
Sweet. Thanks for the heads up!

I keep an eye on riptapparel often, but I forget about the other daily deal sites.
Oh, IPie...let me introduce you to the bane of T-Shirt addicts everywhere: Day of the Shirt. They are an aggregator site for Ript, TeeFury, TeeVillain and
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Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:01 am**

Yes Calamity, Happy birthday!

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:04 am**

You could also use things that make lands into creatures. I believe zendikar had some of that, no?
Also, awaken the ancient. Might not be amazing normally, but hey, it's a 7/7 mountain. Sounds good to me.

I believe you are thinking of crusher zendikon, and kamigawa offers the similar genju of the spires. awaken the ancient is probably the best card in the vein, not counting koth.

This brings the list to
[cards]koth of the hammer
hammer of purphoros
awaken the ancient
crusher zendikon
genju of the spires
genju of the realm
valakut, the molten pinnacle
shard volley
fireblast
Flame fusillade
Gruul
guildmage[/cards]

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:06 am**

Went 0-3 in three different 8-mans tonight. Really feels bad. My opponents had all the answers and I dc'd one time to come back without being able to sideboard. Funny enough I got two of my dead cards in that matchup for the second game. Definitely feels like someone was out to get me tonight.

I watched that game against R FoM, damn...

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:09 am**

I made a thread about that deck in the restricted areas. It's called MOUNTAIN and I've been crushing filthy casuals with it for weeks.

I would loev to look at that, along with many other things in the restricted forums...

However....

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:15 am**

You could also use things that make lands into creatures. I believe zendikar had some of that, no?
Also, awaken the ancient. Might not be amazing normally, but hey, it's a 7/7 mountain. Sounds good to me.
I believe you are thinking of crusher zendikon, and kamigawa offers the similar genju of the spires. awaken the ancient is probably the best card in the vein, not counting koth.

This brings the list to
[cards]koth of the hammer
hammer of
purphoros
awaken the ancient
crusher zendikon
genju of the spires
genju of the realm
valakut, the molten pinnacle
shard volley
fireblast
Flame fusillade
Gruul guildmage[/cards]

If we really wanna maximize the usage here, it might be good to include a bit of land fetch/ramp... (What little of it there is to be had in red...)

Something like fiery fall might be usable, since fetching mountains would help, and we're likely to have a lot of land/mana floating around if we HAVE to cast it as a lava axe...

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:16 am**

I made a thread about that deck in the restricted areas. It's called MOUNTAIN and I've been crushing filthy casuals with it for weeks.
I would loev to look at that, along with many other things in the restricted forums...

However....

Ditto.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:20 am**

[deck]

Creatures:30
4 Dryad Militant
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Legion Loyalist
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Soldier of the Pantheon
4 Azorius Arrester
4 Goblin Shortcutter
2 Imposing Sovereign

Spells:12
4 Boros Charm
4 Lightning Strike
4 Madcap Skills

Lands:18
9 Mountain
5 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry

Sideboard:15
4 Chained to the Rocks
4 Shock
4 Skullcrack
3 Peak Eruption [/deck]

Thoughts?

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:26 am**

36 hours and counting with no MTGO

Comp dies, get it fixed (allegedly) now MTGO won't load/run

And I had one of those 'can't win a game to save my life days' Sunday, def something in the air

Damn that's a lot of sadness for one post!

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:41 am**

Updated list:
[deck]
17 Snow-Covered Mountain
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Skred
2 Devastating Summons
4 Genju of the Spires
2 Blood Moon
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Hammer of Purphoros
2 Seismic Assault
3 Awaken the Ancient
4 Koth of the Hammer
2 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Wooded Foothills

SB: 4 Slagstorm
SB: 4 Shattering Spree
SB: 2 Blood Moon
SB: 3 Pillage
SB: 2 Boom // Bust
[/deck]

I really wanted to keep the deck all mountains and Valakuts, but the fetchlands are really good with Crucible and Top. I hate seeing 3 cards I don't want with Top and not being able to do anything about it.

Sideboard decisions:
I really wanted to play land destruction. In the casual rooms, a lot of people use ramp decks
and play land enchantments. These cards both provide a healthy dose of "fuck you "
A lot of the ramp decks are all-in elf decks as well, so Slagstorm does a nice job of sending my best wishes if Pillage didn't get the point across.
Blood Moon because Blood Moon.
Shattering Spree because many consider Affinity (not Brobots, the kind from Mirrodin before the deck got neutered) to be "casual."

Most up-to-date MOUNTAIN list.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:41 am**

Here's the deck that placed first yesterday at SCGLA if anyone cares:

[deck]
Creatures
2 Azorius Arrester
4 Boros Elite
4 Daring Skyjek
4 Dryad Militant
4 Frontline Medic
4 Precinct Captain
4 Soldier of the Pantheon

Planeswalkers
3 Ajani, Caller of the Pride

Lands
10 Plains
4 Mutavault
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Temple of Triumph

Spells
4 Boros Charm
4 Brave the Elements
1 Spear of Heliod

Sideboard
3 Banisher Priest
4 Fiendslayer Paladin
2 Burning Earth
1 Pacifism
1 Warleader's Helix
1 Wear // Tear
2 Glare of Heresy
1 Mizzium Mortars
[/deck]

In case you weren't aware by now, Scrylands are the real deal.

Looking at this list...I'm perplexed as to how it won. It looks shaky at best, and not a damn creature actually impacts the boardstate when in enters aside from it's presence. Apparently Anthems and protective spells really are enough to clock your opponent.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:22 am**

The deck worked because it swarms and can protect said swarm. They don't have haste, but they build up and then start screwing with your ability to block or get them off the table. Their creature density pretty much laughs at 1:1 removal, and if a sweeper bounces off Charm, that's likely lights out. The meta reaction will likely be a resurgence of mid-control to eat up their initial onslaught then win with CA. My guess, anyway...

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:32 am**

Latest SCG FNM list eh?

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:44 am**

Latest SCG FNM list eh?

Basically...it worked in the Open meta for the decks they hit. I remember Val running up against a similar list on stream...they nut draw, they roll over you, but that can be said of any reasonable aggro deck. I'd like to see his MU list for the day...reports and bits of games that I saw made it clear that even at the top tables through round 6 or 7 there was some really shoddy play.

OTOH, WW has been making showings on MODO for the past few days as well, though they seem way too linear to keep it up. They are getting their 5 minutes and making Wescoe a smiley boy.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:47 am**

I played against this deck during the DE's, its a cake walk with YP$ online - the only issue is Fiendslayer Paladin when you don't have Boros Reckoner or Chandra, Pyromaster online.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:49 am**

I honestly didn't think WW was viable with Thalia and Silverblade out of the picture. Huh.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:04 am**

Latest SCG FNM list eh?

This open was about as competitive as a GP. My 5th round, I had Huey Jenson to my left, Kibler down the table, and a buddy of mine was playing Josh Utter Layton in a fake feature match. As for the winner, Ben Lundquist has been playing magic at the competitive level for at least a dec(k)ade. I remember playing his Simic tron list in old extended. I wish they reprinted moments peace of all things into the modern card pool.

As for naysers on the deck, when Yarpus asked me about it, I tested some, and playing 12 one drops, 8 of them two power, along with protection spells is incredibly punishing and brave the elements tends to get you even if you play around it(which you can't always do). I lost to one of the players in the
top 16 playing a similar deck(though Ben is cool, while my opponent was an assehole) because double boros charm is 4 mana for 8 damage.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:31 am**

I'm just biased because the deck is a bye for my list, but I'd believe it's well positioned.

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