Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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Mystic Muse
Yeah. Or they mulligan to 5 or even 4 and just draw exactly what they need, and you don't.
To be fair, I have mulliganed to 3 cards before and won. Admittedly, those three cards were swamp, cauldron familiar and witch's oven; still it was not a great start.
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Shadow of the Sun
I mean, if you want a game without variance, there are plenty of them.
It's just something you've got to learn to deal with.
That is not the problem here. It is because they grab a minimal-effort, 'top-tier' deck, and then don't use it to even a fourth of it's potential.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
I won a game a few weeks ago on 1 land on a mull to 4. Cauldron, familiar, drew the other three cauldrons and won off just 1 cat getting extremely baked. That was in Penny D but the combo is stupid good.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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Tvtyrant
getting extremely baked.
That's a funny way of putting it. :smallbiggrin:
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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enderlord99
That's a funny way of putting it. :smallbiggrin:
I thought so!
I actually have been considering moving my Penny Dreadful Aristocats deck to modern. The only real difference would be untapped duals, and it can run pain lands just fine. Oust would probably become Path to Exile, but Penny is as strong a format if not as finished of one. After all how many modern combo decks are as reliable as solidarity high tide?
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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Tvtyrant
but Penny is as strong a format if not as finished of one.
I highly doubt that's true.
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After all how many modern combo decks are as reliable as solidarity high tide?
That's because they're faster. Penny high tide seems much too slow for Modern.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
Wow, another giant round of bans. In Standard: 3 mana Teferi, Reclamation, Growth Spiral, and Cauldron Familiar. In Pioneer: Inverter, Kethis, Ballista, and Underworld Breach. Rec and Teferi are also gone in Historic. I really hope this next year will be better for balancing, since it usually takes about a year for play issues to get back to design.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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mythmonster2
Wow,
another giant round of bans. In Standard: 3 mana Teferi, Reclamation, Growth Spiral, and Cauldron Familiar. In Pioneer: Inverter, Kethis, Ballista, and Underworld Breach. Rec and Teferi are also gone in Historic. I really hope this next year will be better for balancing, since it usually takes about a year for play issues to get back to design.
NO! GROWTH SPIRAL, WHY MUST YOU LEAVE ME?!?!?
*cough*
I think these bans are a long time coming, honestly.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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Amechra
NO! GROWTH SPIRAL, WHY MUST YOU LEAVE ME?!?!?
*cough*
I think these bans are a long time coming, honestly.
Twin is dead again! Long live twin!
Combo dominated formats don't do super well, so this is good for Pioneer. Pauper was like that in the early days, with Storm racing Invigorate Infect before countless bans fixed it and then ephemerate broke it again. Modern too, although I think Pod/Twin/Jund/Affinity was more balanced back in the day than Pioneer has been.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
Just 0-3'd a double masters phantom draft on MODO.
First match, opponent went Plains, Mana Crypt, Ancestral Blade, Darksteel Axe, untap, second Blade, Abrade your blocker.
Game two, they went land, Flayer Husk, Mox Opal, untap, land, Golem Skin Gauntlets, Husk.
The match lasted two and a half minutes.
The following matches were against a dude who built eggs and recurred an oblivion stone eight times over two games, and a guy who built Cheerios and smashed me in two games with unblockable dudes covered in swords.
It feels...not great.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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Duos
Just 0-3'd a double masters phantom draft on MODO.
First match, opponent went Plains, Mana Crypt, Ancestral Blade, Darksteel Axe, untap, second Blade, Abrade your blocker.
Game two, they went land, Flayer Husk, Mox Opal, untap, land, Golem Skin Gauntlets, Husk.
The match lasted two and a half minutes.
The following matches were against a dude who built eggs and recurred an oblivion stone eight times over two games, and a guy who built Cheerios and smashed me in two games with unblockable dudes covered in swords.
It feels...not great.
Ouch. That doesn't look like a good draft environment.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
Hello Magic: the Gathering players,
I could use a little bit of advice regarding a decklist I've got in mind. As the Ravnica sets will be cycling out of Standard in a few months, I tried to build this deck without including any cards that won't be around then. Not certain what the meta will be, but I just wanted to see if my deck could be competitive.
Spoiler: Decklist
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Creatures:
4x Fervent Champion
2x Goblin Arsonist
4x Heartfire Immolator
4x Robber of the Rich
2x Rimrock Knight
4x Anax, Hardened in the Forge
4x Bonecrusher Giant
2x Bolt Hound
4x Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
Artifacts:
4x Embercleave
Instants:
2x Shock
2x Scorching Dragonfire
Lands:
4x Castle Embereth
18x Mountain
Advice on substitutions, tactics, potential meta, etc. would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
Early Zendikar Spoilers! Who else likes Evil Twin Jace?
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
Does Castle Garenbrig count as a Sol Land?
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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Gaius Hermicus
Hello Magic: the Gathering players,
I could use a little bit of advice regarding a decklist I've got in mind. As the Ravnica sets will be cycling out of Standard in a few months, I tried to build this deck without including any cards that won't be around then. Not certain what the meta will be, but I just wanted to see if my deck
could be competitive.
Spoiler: Decklist
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Creatures:
4x Fervent Champion
2x Goblin Arsonist
4x Heartfire Immolator
4x Robber of the Rich
2x Rimrock Knight
4x Anax, Hardened in the Forge
4x Bonecrusher Giant
2x Bolt Hound
4x Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
Artifacts:
4x Embercleave
Instants:
2x Shock
2x Scorching Dragonfire
Lands:
4x Castle Embereth
18x Mountain
Advice on substitutions, tactics, potential meta, etc. would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Looks decent. Two things though. Heartfire Immolator is great, but it might potentially be too slow. Remember Chandra's Pyreling and Igneous Cur exist in the 2 slot as well with the latter having good synergy with Embercleave. Not a fan of Dragonfire as it cannot go face. But removal/damage spells are always reliant on the meta. I am a fan of Raking Claws x2, because people just forget it exists.
Re: Magic the Gathering Thread XXIV: *Slaps Roof* This Thread Can Hold So Many Chand
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enderlord99
Does Castle Garenbrig count as a Sol Land?
I'd argue 'no'. Once you've got a lot of mana already it might function as one, but the thing that makes actual sol lands so powerful is that they give a lot of acceleration right from the start of the game.