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So willieg what have you been doing?
Well lately I have been playing alot of league of legends. Like alot. Before innistrad I just kinda gave up on standard and was just making joke decks. Then when innistrad came out I started brewing like crazy. At one point I had something like 4 decks? It was good and finding a deck that i have fun with is what is important to me and I'm pretty sure I built something serious and very competitive.
Hmmm I was also considering doing a podcast with one of my friends and it seemed to be a solid idea because of the lack of casts on the west coast but he decided that his band was going to play more shows so he decided to do that instead, no biggy.
Well what's the deck willieg?
Well the deck is a UG control kind of deck. It uses viridian emissaries and mayors of avabruck to apply early pressure while your able to protect them with counter magi. Late game, if it get there, frost Titan, wurmcoil and metamorphs finish the game. If mayor of avabruck stays in play, he applies enough pressure to win you the game as mist decks in the format are numb to armies of 3/3s. I took this to fnm and went 3-1 with it and while I beat wolf run, uw control and infect I couldn't race the mill deck and fell in the last round. The deck is something like
4 mayors
4 emissaries
2 wurmcoil
2 metamorph
1 frost titan
2 acidic slime

4think twice
4 mana leak
3 ponder
2 forbidden alchemy
2 shrine if piercing vision
2 garruk relentless
2 dissipates
2 negates
Add lands USE GHOST QUARTERS

The sideboard has changed alot so there's nothing concrete yet

That's pretty much the deck.

So you still listen to podcasts? You luh da podcasts.
Well yes and no. I love incontention cast. I don't know why i haven't been listening longer. They have fun they break down decks they give well thought out opinions, it's great. Untapped is dead unfortunately. I love the cast and those guys but it's dead. I don't listen to the eh team anymore and I was actually going to give them a shot again but I found out that Jesse is too busy to cast so I decided to not waste my time. Jesse actually helps drive me to build stronger rouge builds and without him on the cast it's just commander, joke plugs about other podcasts and... Scotty Mac doing his thing. Much love to scotty Mac. And know what fuck yourself kyt... Hi jay :) I just started listening to the bridge as I love drunk banter and small amounts of mtg talk in-between. And obv I listen to top8 magic cast. I listen to thier cast at least three times and they have a shit Ton of fantastic things to say. People may not like mike (eat shit dbags) but the man knows his stuff.
So what is willieg going to do now?
Honestly I don't know. I was going to shut this blog down cuz honestly, nobody reads this. It's random unedited there's swearing and I'm not a pro player. If I'm not a pro giblving out decklists, I get a lot less attention. Now for the people that actually read my blog, thank you and I'm not going to shut it down. I was actually considering switching to wordpress but I will probably keep this and wordpress something else.
Ummm for a bit I really wanted to do something like frank lepore does for tcgplayer and dm'ed him of twitter but I think he thought I was trolling him. Which kinda sucks cuz I could have used his advice. Maybe I'll ask trick when we hang out at worlds :D
I think that's about it for now. If i think of anything else I'll just put a part to up oh oh wait everyone remember when Medina top 8'd? Big ups to medina!
Oh oh wait... Remember when other Flores was winning with caw blade? Not so easy now is it? I hear yugimon is still awesome :)

Later peoples

innistrad top 5s...briefly

White

Constructed

angelic overseer

humans are in in M12 and there are plenty in Innistrad. Its a solid 5/3 body at a reasonable cost. Its ability is what really puts it over the top. As if Indestructible wasn’t enough, they gave it hexproof so killing it and bouncing it aren’t going to be enough. The Angel forces the opponent to kill every other human on board while it lays the beats

sleeper pic is Champion of the Parish

with so many white humans in this set and Grand Abolisher, Mesa enchantress, Azure mage etc etc from M12, its kind of hard not to see a Fish deck or a White Weenie deck come out of Innistrad. Dropping the Champion on turn 1 is one of the best things your going to be able to do in innistrad

Fiend Hunter

its great creature removal. This 3 toughness is what gives it the edge and again, its going to have a home in a White Weenie deck or Fish deck.

Mikaeus the luminarch

Luminarch is a solid finisher for white. It pumps itself and other creatures and when dropped late game, hes just a beast. Now your 1/1 tokens you play late game can grow and put on the pressure to your opponent.

midnight haunting

its no spectral procession. And its only going to give you 2 guys instead of 3 but I think you can play it at instant speed makes up for the 1 missing spirit. Its only 1 white source so its splashable in other decks. Should see play in standard.

If Standard sees more Vamps, Wolfs and Zombie decks then Inquisitor will see heavy play. I am hesitant to actually pic these up because if no decks use any of those types, then the card is dead. I am also on the edge about Nevermore. We've had Meddling mage in Shards and it really didn’t do much. And Stoney Silence is something I am keeping my eye out for. People see to think its going to shut down most of the decks that use cards from SoM but Stoney is like Torpor orb, its great when you need it and its terrible when you don’t.

Blue

Snapcaster mage

do I really need to say much about this card that hasn’t already been said. Its great. Bring back ponder, mana leak, day of judgment, doomblade, the list can go on forever. Its surprising that its not a mythic. Probably the best card in the set if Liliana doesn’t pan out.

dissipate

Graveyard denial is going to be critical. The large building group I am in is heavily considering a Reanimator style deck and need need need snapcaster to flashback spells. Countering and removing critical cards shuts down the deck for the most part and I see that everyone is very excited to play flashback again so dissipate is great. Plus, people are wondering what counters are playable and Dissipate is going to be a great tool in control decks

invisible stalker

when I first saw this card I automatically said this would be caws blades squad hawk replacement. I also want to point out that I didn’t see that this card had Hexproof, which makes this card perfect for holding a sword.

think twice

instant draw a card and with flash back. We've all seen how good this card was in Time Spiral and its no different now except that Ponder is here. I would just use maybe a 2-3 of Think twice and full set of ponders. Still a good card no doubt

sturmgiest

kind of remind of me of Aeon Chronicler. Its flies, its X/X is the cards in hand. I like the draw a card when damaged thing. Solid finisher in a WU control deck and even a UB control deck. The only issue that this card might have to face is Consecrated Sphinx as the Sphinx might be a little better because you draw when your opponent draws, the Giest has to deal the damage.

I am on the Edge about Mindshrieker only because if you invest in the ability and you hit a land then your out 2 mana and its just a 1/1 flier. Its also kind of fragile and dies to everythinghink Skaab Ruinator is just bad. The creature itself is great as a 5/6 flier. Dodges Dismembers and that’s great but it forces you to play a creature deck if your not playing a Pod deck with him in it. And its 3 creatures to get him in to play, that’s a lot of creatures you need to be dead. And I think spectral flight is great. Flying and +2/+2 for 2, seems great to me.

Black

bloodgift demon

black loses Sign in blood with rotation and is looking to pick something up in the way of card draw. While this source of card draw is on a 5/4 body that flies, its one of the more effective card drawing abilities. 1 life for 1 card is great as we all saw in Phyrexian arena but how good is this ability going to be in later in the game when you drop him on turn 5? I love this card but I question how good its going to be as people put decks together.

diregraf ghoul

2/2 for 1 with a small draw back. Its aggressive, it stops early transforming cards and unlike most early drop black creatures, this one can actually block. This will definitely be on people radars when building black decks
Liliana of the Veil

same deal at snapcaster. This card is going to be huge in the coming months. The Edict ability is great and I don’t really see myself casting the ult ability unless its late game against a control mirror. I would rather be killing off creature and taking apart their hand. And like I said earlier, if Vess finds the right home to shine in, she'll be the best card in the set.

unburial rites

everyone popped boner when this card was revealed and its going to be great to try to build with. We haven’t gotten a solid reanimator card in standard in some time and this one has flashback which only makes it better.

bump in the night

add some red burn and you have a heavy burn deck that someone is going to try to make. We lost bolt and gained Bump and while you cant target creatures, you do get to play it again for a total of 6 damage for 1 card.

Finding the top 5 cards in this color was kind of a challenge as most of the cards in black are good and if this morbid mechanic is good, then a bunch of these cards become great. Personally I think the mechanic is awful and wont be used as much. Its like the metalcraft of this set, people will dabble but not fully commit. I also really wanted to put either Tribute to hunger or victim of night but if creature decks are everywhere than Tribute is bad and if Vamps, Wolves and Zombies are everywhere then Night is bad. So I just left them both off the list. I think heartless summoning is a trap as you no longer get to drop useful x/1's anymore Snapcaster, Azure mages. And weakening your creatures just seems like a bad idea. Bloodline Keeper is a great card when you have the right amount of Vamps in play and you really need to flip him ASAP. And I personally like curse of deaths hold as it hoses the creature builds.

Red

Desperate ravings

instant speed card draw in red is a great thing. Its got flashback which makes it better.

geistflame

Firebolt saw play back in odyssey and Geistflame will see play with Innistrad. The toughness of creatures seems to have gone down a bit so there are plenty of targets and at instant speed, getting that last bit of damage is always important

reckless waif

someone said Wild Nactal is back so we will have to see about that. A 1 drop Double Face card is pretty cool too.

kruin outlaw

I really like this card as it gives your wolves double strike and they must have more than one guy to block you.

ancient grudge

artifact destruction in R with flashback of G. its cheap, instant and does the job right...twice

I don’t have much to say about red obviously. Red in Innistrad just compliments the red in SoM block. I even told a few people that red is now a powerful color with the addition of a draw card and the potential Demigod of Revenge card, Falkenrath Marauders.

green

Mayor of Avabruk

the WereWolf Lord, decent body, makes a dude, pumps other werewolves. Seems like the backbone of an aggro wolf deck. And even when hes a human he pumps the other humans as well.

bramblecrush

more permanent destruction for green.

moon mist

if there is going to be a wolf deck, that deck should probably have this in it to EoT transform.

creeping renaissance

creature artifacts w/e, just bring them back. And with all the potential mill decks,this card should probably be in green sideboards.

Again, haven’t really looked in to green much.

random

http://www.astrogaming.com/headsets/a40-headsets

planning on getting those. and i dont mind dropping 200 on a set of headphones, i really dont. it something that i have worked hard for and i need an upgrade :]

Part 2 of crazy talk... Sigh

I am just going to come out an say it.part 2 fucking sucked. There was absolutely no reason to split the episode into two parts. All of the build up was in part 1 with the cheating scandal and was just brought all the way down to just boring as fuck after the switch to modern talk. I really did think there was more to say about Alex but apparently that was it. People complain about cast length? So fuckin what, congrats on giving in kyt, I can only assume your the reason the cast was cut in 2. And while medinas star power was able to keep this cast somewhat afloat, the lack of frank input kept it from being a very good part to. More frank means more frank please. Hey and Alex was there :) alOng with kyts laughing at everything schtick, that shit is annoying man. Input, try giving it sometime
As much as I love crazy talk, I didn't love this episode

Congrats to the Eh team

congrats to the Eh Team for making it to 50 casts. it was obvious that they were going to make it to 50 and there is no doubt that they will make it 100 and beyond. they do a great thing for the community by providing a fantastic podcast. so i want to say thanks. thanks for letting me be a part of early life of the Eh team, thanks for being such great guys and thanks for continuing to give everyone a great cast. Happy 50th guys, keep up the great work...except for the commander casts, those sucked :]

UW contrololololol

2 azure mage
2 grand abolisher
1 sun titan
2 phyrexian metamorph
2 emeria angel
3 Solemn

2 day of judgment
3 oblivion ring
4 preordian
4 mana leak
2 mental misstep
1 Gideon Jura
1 Karn
1 into the roil
1 psychic barrier
2 dismember
1 jace's ingenuity

this is the deck that i used last night. i wanted to play an alternative to Caws so i used that mages and abolishers, they were fucking great.
as powerful as karn is, he doesnt end games and i might switch him out for another gideon or sun titan.
 Abolisher is amazing. azure mage is amazing, they should have no problem picking up the slack for Squad Hawks...
and there is a white sun zenith in the board and Solemns make casting the Zenith a lot more fun.
also considering putting 2 swords in the board..
and man are the UW control mirrors a bitch or what. i was to close to time all evening

Laundry and my modern top 5

Guess what I am Doing :/... Laundry huzzah! Bummer.. Well sort of. Doing laundry I this oven of a room gives me time to do a bit of blogging(not like many people read this thing anyways.) so lets get started shall we
I'll spare the awful details I would be giving about how modern came to be and just start by saying is quite possibly the greatest thing wotc has done for magic in years. As a player hat wants to get into legacy but is slighty hesitant about making the plunge, modern is the perfect half way mark. I can almost play every card I love and i don't have to worry about any little surprises that I never grew up with like carpet of flowers from Gerryt or horn of greed from ali aintrazi... Look it up people. But instead I get to play from mirrodin to now and ive played everything except kamigawa and mirrodin, affinity made me rage quit. Another thing about modern is that i get to play from the beginning. Like the players from the very beginning of legacy I get to see the very first decks that make an impact on the format. I get to see decks that make thier marks and I get to watch people try to crush them. And I have to say I am pretty excited about this whole new world of modern. So excited that I pretty much put standard, a format that I adore no matter how many mystics and jaces' were in play, completely aside and have started brewing and thinking about modern nonstop.
There are 3 reasons I have decided to write about modern today. 1. I am super pumped to play the format. 2. I am doing laundry and 3. If you having been Reading my tweets lately, then your missing out on my tweets about incontention. Not only is it a super solid cast but since modern was announced, they have put out amazing modern content. You could even say that it might be the best modern content out there right now. Sure Gavin is putting out lists, yo mtg taps touched on it a bit, several sites have people speculating on the format but incontention is the beat by far. So what I am going to do is give my top 5 modern cards. they are going to be random and probably very rougeish but its something different and i want people to be aware of such cards. get them out there ya know. :)

First card on my list is no surprise (LSV throw) dark confidant. Obvi dark confidant is going to be one of the hot cards in modern and has been mentioned by every under the sun. I have recently see it's power in legacy and vintage and have heard from several people that it is the Beat creature ever printed and i am starting to agree. Bob is easily splashable and can start the beats on slow control decks. While a deck will suffer for playing high casting cost cards, just drawing one more card than your opponent a turn from turn three will drown your opponent. Not only will your opponent be behind in card advantage, it your able to draw answers while your opponent struggles to catch up, your able to find yours sooner and end them quickly. I want to long out that while top is banned in modern, there are plenty of cards in modern that can help you avoid takin damage a an alarming rate. Here are plenty of scry cards so you shouldn't be afraid to play confidant. While he doesn't have a home in modern yet, his casting cost and the incredible mana fixing in modern allows you to splash him in everything.

Next on the next cards on the list are almost the same card (LSV throw) demonfire and banefire. Ink ow it's odd to see two burn spells on a top list but these two are special. You see when you tap 5 or more your able to have these two spells be uncounterable. Now if you look at some of the current lists out there you will see that Urza tron and cloudpost decks are decks that people feel are going to do well in the modern format. That's great and all but when you have those two cards pyromancer swath and ramp, you can burn alot of faces off. I mentioned this idea a while ago for legacy but I never took that anywhere. I think but is a legit contender despite it's failure in the past and i am curious why players that enjoy ramp/burn decks havent tried to build something like this. A Red splashing Green for ramp would fit nicely

Here's one cars that has been showing up in multiple formats (LSV throw) green sun zenith. While green sun is limited to fetching thruns and durgroves in standard and dryad arbors in legacy, there are tons of weapons to find in modern. Bloodbraids, kodama of east and west, finks, loxeodon hierach, chameleon colossus, both baloths, horde of notions! Beats people... beats. Greens doing somethin that green does beast and that's find the creatures hat beat the shit out of your opponent. Tutors are very powerful and this is just another one.

i am running (LSV throw) Blood Moons in my Thats no Moon deck for Modern. i love this card because it disrupts multiple decks mana base and gives you the upper hand from turn 2 forward. i rate it higher than Magus of the moon becuase you can just Path, Dismember or bolt of some kind him away while there are few answers to Blood moon in the format that are actually being played. i would like to go more into it...but thats my strat and its a huge part of my deck.