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RedSoxFan3
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Fan of Red Sox
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posted December 04, 2008 05:30 PM |
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Quote: Liliana looks pretty good. Here's the two decks that I goldfished in Magic Apprentice.
Vintage:
2 Ad Nauseam
2 Grinding Station
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Pact of Negation
4 Ornithopter
4 Jeweled Amulet
1 Feldon's Cane
2 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Claws of Gix
1 Zuran Orb
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Dark Ritual
1 Black Lotus
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tolarian Acadamy
4 Glimmervoid
4 Underground Sea
6 Swamp
6 Island
Legacy:
2 Ad Nauseam
3 Infernal Tutor
2 Grinding Station
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Pact of Negation
4 Ornithopter
4 Jeweled Amulet
1 Feldon's Cane
2 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Claws of Gix
2 Zuran Orb
4 Dark Ritual
4 Lion's Eye Diamond
4 Glimmervoid
4 Underground Sea
7 Swamp
7 Island
I avoided all pain lands because I need every point of life I can get.
As for life gain, I found a couple cards that may work more efficiently that what I've found from Zuran Orb and Claws of Gix.
Scrapheap
Leonin Elder
So I posted this deck a while back and it occured to me that the deck is vulnerable when grinding station gets countered or disenchanted and when Ad Nauseam gets countered. I was trying to think if Pact of Negation, Chalice, and Erayo were the best choices for pushing the combo through. Perhaps Duress and Welding Jar should be more seriously considered.
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sith_of_ziost
Promising
Supreme Hero
Scouting the Multiverse
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posted December 13, 2008 09:26 PM |
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Wizards of the Coast just put up the first bit of real Conflux spoiler in the Arcana! A wallpaper of Nicol Bolas fighting the four Alara Planeswalkers!
Here it is: Wallpaper Link
Its awesome!
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Ecoris
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted December 14, 2008 01:51 PM |
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A semi-official site also managed to spoil the entire list of card names from Conflux.
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sith_of_ziost
Promising
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Scouting the Multiverse
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posted December 14, 2008 06:07 PM |
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Of course, this I already know. But speculation and supposed lists cannot compare to actual releases from Wizards.
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RedSoxFan3
Admirable
Legendary Hero
Fan of Red Sox
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posted December 15, 2008 05:06 AM |
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So wizards announced the winner of this years World Tournament.
It was a Faerie's Deck. No surprise there. In fact 7 of the top 8 had Bitter Blossoms, and 3 of them weren't even Faerie's Decks. One of them was Red Deck Wins that splashed black for metagame reasons, one of them being Bitter Blossoms.
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Ecoris
Promising
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posted December 15, 2008 11:38 AM |
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Edited by Ecoris at 11:52, 15 Dec 2008.
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And Jamie Parker was kind enough to knock out Tsuyoshi Ikeda in the semifinals. Ikeda played blightning beatdown which is a horrible matchup for faeries.
The last game of legacy in the teams finals was very interesting, but the commentators' knowledge of the rules is disappointing.
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RedSoxFan3
Admirable
Legendary Hero
Fan of Red Sox
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posted December 22, 2008 01:23 AM |
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I'm working on a new Deck based on War's Toll.
The idea is to tax my opponent or take advantage of all his creatures being tapped.
Here are some of my ideas so far. I'm looking to see if I'm overlooking anything with this deck.
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Mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted January 04, 2009 03:54 AM |
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had a nice casual game
i was playing my esper wizards deck, my bro was playing a casual faeries, my firend was playing naya beatdown... the game ended when i knowledge exploitationed a titanic ultimatum and swung for 40.
netting me nearly 70 life
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sith_of_ziost
Promising
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Scouting the Multiverse
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posted January 04, 2009 04:05 AM |
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Ooohhh...that was really evil. Naya is very vulnerable to the Exploitation. With their Ultimatum, Charm, and whatever beatdown comes in the deck. Ooh...I can just see the look on their faces. Probably like this...
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted January 08, 2009 06:36 PM |
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Hi,
I am still trying to learn this game...and whilst doing so I found this a little fun flash game. Anyone that knows others like this ?
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Who is this General Failure, and why is he looking at my disk ?
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Disturbed-Gnu
Supreme Hero
Pro Bacon Vodka Brewer
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posted January 11, 2009 11:30 AM |
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Sphere# I normally hate flash games, but this one is actually a little bit fun
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Vidoja
Bad-mannered
Known Hero
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posted January 11, 2009 02:48 PM |
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Hey MTG people! If you don't know, I'm a very very active player of MTG, but I didn't see this thread.
Recently I pwned with this decklist: http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=21251
What do you thing? (Its T2)
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Ecoris
Promising
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posted January 11, 2009 03:06 PM |
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Edited by Ecoris at 15:08, 11 Jan 2009.
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It looks decent, but the mana curve is too high and I think you should run more removal.
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sith_of_ziost
Promising
Supreme Hero
Scouting the Multiverse
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posted January 11, 2009 03:31 PM |
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Well, here's my rundown of your deck...
One - What I noticed straight off is that you have one basic land in your entire mana base. Which has both a pro and a con. The pro side is that you're invulnerable to the islandwalkers and mostly invulnerable to forestwalkers. The con is that most nonbasic lands have a catch to make them the most useful. Like the Brushlands damage. However, making use of the Reflecting Pool is interesting.
Two - Your deck is rather loose. I think you could get by without the Birds of Paradise because those are good for activated abilities needing a mana pump. Another thing is Rafiq. Sure, he's great if your attacking with an appointed crusher, like Mossbridge Troll or perhaps an Exalted base. However, when you have several brawlers (Shorecrasher Mimic, Garruk's Beasts, Animated Villages) Rafiq starts to lose his value. Sure, you can adjust your strategy for a 1 attack easily, which leads me to my next point.
Three - This deck is very versatile. If you need it, Garruk doubles as an "Overrun"er, Your Liege pumps up your unblockable Infiltrators and the War Monk becomes quite a threat. Furthermore, your Liege has quite the useful feature of make all your threats able to block after attacking, which guards you. However, your Liege may not turn up, for which you have the Command and Charm to fight off threats if things go badly. If you need it, Garruk gives you some strength with extra land at the end of turn. Its a very well synergized deck, but lacking some internal synergies, like Rafiq to a large creature.
Overall your deck is a good piece of work, with many things going for it. I know that my deck would love to take it on, but, alas, it is not up to me, but the tectonic plates that make up the Earth. Ha.
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Ecoris
Promising
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posted January 11, 2009 03:49 PM |
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There are no relevant forestwalkers in standard.
Another thing about the deck: It runs 9 pain lands. That's too many.
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Vidoja
Bad-mannered
Known Hero
Checker for Heroes Competiton
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posted January 11, 2009 04:41 PM |
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My real decklist was:
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Rhox War Monk
4 Jhessian Infiltrator
3 Rafiq of the Many
4 Shorecrasher Mimic
4 Bant Charm
3 Cryptic Command
2 Remove Soul
3 Broken Ambitions
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
3 Giant Growth
1 Might of Oaks
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1 Adarkar Wastes
4 Javimaya Coast
2 Brushland
3 Flooded Grove
2 Mystic Gate
4 Seaside Citadel
2 Wooded Bastion
2 Treetop Village
1 Plains
2 Forest
It's really an aggro/control deck, the one I linked to is not really similar. So, what do you say on this? (I would put Reflecting Pools but I really don't have any)
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Mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted January 11, 2009 04:54 PM |
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sideboard?
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sith_of_ziost
Promising
Supreme Hero
Scouting the Multiverse
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posted January 11, 2009 07:41 PM |
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No relevant forestwalkers?
Sorry, but I think you're mistaken.
Your new deck, vidoja, seems to have a greater amount of control, Giant Growth, and the Might of Oaks. Bigger Beatdown, bigger control, i like it better.
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Ecoris
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted January 11, 2009 11:24 PM |
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No one plays Elvish Champion competetively. Really.
It saw play in elf decks in the time following Lorwyn's release. But decklists become more focused over time (the first elf decks didn't even run Tarmogoyf!) and eventually Elvish Champion was cut. Its symmetrical effect is bad in the mirror; all you can use it for is to alpha-strike your opponent. If you are a little behind it is easily a dead card.
The superior Imperious Perfect was of course kept and Civic Wayfinder is usually the other 3-drop.
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Vidoja
Bad-mannered
Known Hero
Checker for Heroes Competiton
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posted January 12, 2009 01:37 PM |
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I'm sorry, but I really haven't seen any competitive deck with Elvish Champion (it isn't even played in the Extended Elves due to the aggro/control nature of that deck)
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