I had a similar concept during Shards Block where i would just throw out an Emerkul at the end of my opponents turn and yeah sometimes it wasnt an Emerkul but it was a Terastodon or Pekkula Wurm. Whatever it was, it was a fat creature and it would always present an issue for the dominant Jund deck at the time And now is no different.
there are tons of decks that take off from the beginning of the match and most games end between around turn 3-5 in Modern so why not be one of those decks that races out of the gates. With this deck you have a few options, you can A. summoning trap a fatty into play after they attempt to Remand or Cryptic one of your spells B.Turn 3 Dramatic Entrance a Progenitus into play using Radha during combat phase C. Ramp into either Dramatic Entrance or Summoning Trap or Elvish Piper to get your fatties out. There are plenty of lines you can take with the deck.
and yeah there are tons of things i still need to add to the deck, Obviously Emerkul and Stomping grounds seem like a good idea. the mana for the deck isnt the best at this point but it still produces positive results and can get those kills when you need them to. Temple of Abandon does a lot of work for the deck, so while it looks like it can be slow, at some points its ok because it lets you look past the bad stuff and put it on the bottom.
ill probably have more in the next few weeks as i am going to put more time and cards into the deck, so we will see what happens.
3 Elvish mystic
2 Llanowar elves
2 Elvish Piper
2 Arc Trail
4 Explore
4 Time of Need
1 Manamorphose
3 Radha, Heir to Keld
3 Dramatic Enterence
4 Thragtusk
4 Summoning Trap
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
3 Progentitus
3 Copperline Gorge
4 Karplusan Forest
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Temple of Abandon
2 Mountain
4 Forest
2 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits.
Sideboard
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Blastphomus Act
2 Boil
3 Char
1 Dramatic Enterance
3 Eyes of the Wisent
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
1 Terastodon
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
What
Conley woods currently has this deck sleeved up as is completely
different from what it originally was. It was an awesome graveyard
games deck that not only let you dig through your deck and find the
answer or fatty that you are looking for but also rendered your
opponents thought seizes, counterspells and creature removal useless
And that was the main appeal to me. Your graveyard is just as
important as the cards you draw from the main deck and in some cases
much more important. You were able to put creatures into play Via
mana dorks and cheaper mana costs and if they were killed off or
countered, you were able to whip them back into play the very next
turn and they would still be a threat even if just for a turn. And if
Whipping a creature back into play wasn't good enough, let us not
forget the fun part of the deck, the part where we launch fatties
with Jarad for a tiny cost. One of my favorite parts honestly, but
this deck has so many layers and that’s what most people miss.
As
I said, this deck renders your opponents answers to your threats
quite useless for two reasons. 1! Whip of Erebos is I think the most
important card in the deck. It keeps you in the race with fast decks
like White Weenie, Red Deck Wins and Mono Red Akoran Crusader decks
and it also lets you have answers late game by gaining a life
advantage from a very large Nighthowler or Jarad, or in the late game
just throwing out a Nemesis of Mortals with a very cheap Monstrosity
cost of GG. Ten life and the potential to get in that lethal damage
sounds good no? And 2! honestly ask yourself, if you had never seen
this deck before and had planned for lets say Mono Black and White
Weenie, how are you going to side against this? You have the upper
hand playing a relatively unknown deck with many powerful angles to
attack your enemy with while they are stuck thinking of how to stop
your larger creatures or stopping Jarad from doing a sweet sweet
launch at them while forgetting that Whip brings back duders or that
Nemesis of Mortals can come down on turn three... and Four... and
Five, it happens and its awesome and oh the amount of pressure you
opponent is under when they don’t have board wipes. And while your
opponent may have heard about this deck, there is a very very slim
chance that they have actually played against it enough times to know
how to strike you or make you struggle to win the match.
So
while Conley has slowly but surely strayed away from the whip plan
into the “hey! Look I can make fat guys over time” this is what I
am currently working with
Der
Land
4
Golgari Guildgate
4
Overgrown Tomb
5
Forest
6
Swamp
The
dudes
4
Nighthowler
4
Lotleth Troll
4
Herald of Torment
4
Nemesis of Mortals
4
Sylvan Caryatid
4
Elvish Mystic
3
Shadowborn Demon
2
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Non-Creature
spells
3
Whip of Erebos
4
Grisly Salvage
4
Commune with the Gods
I
am currently tweaking the sideboard so that’s why I didn’t post
it but uhhhh Thats dope right? I know right, thanks. As you can see
the dynamic of the deck is a little different but I am keeping a lot
of what makes the deck awesome...well awesome and I am testing out a
new way to attack your opponent when there is a stalemate or you just
want to get ahead on life while taking away your opponents.
On
a recent Top 8 Magic podcast, Mike Flores brings forth an interesting
question about the future of black decks and questions whether black
decks could just become Heralds, Merchants, Specters and Whips for
maximum devotion damage. While the idea didn’t stem too far( it was
a set break down and obv there are tons of cards to go over) it got
me thinking about how I could just use Merchant to hit along side
Jarad. While having 3 Jarads main deck, there are many ways to get
him into your hand or graveyard you are only allowed to have one in
play at a time and yes you can make them fodder for the Troll, you
could also just change them into Merchants for an automatic 4 ticks
of life loss with Whip in play.
Perhaps
the two biggest changes from my list and Conley’s list are what I
consider his biggest mistakes with the deck. He removes the whips
completely from the list and making the cards he casts and draws the
only resources left. No longer is the graveyard resource and no
longer can he catch up in the late game against decks like Mono Black
that have fantastic removal and Thoughtseizes while still having
creatures that hit hard at your life total. He doesn’t even have
them in the sideboard... easily the biggest mistake. And the second
mistake he made with the deck is removing Shadowborn demons form the
list completely then adding them to the sideboard only. The deck has
zero removal main deck and has no way of clearing the way for the
fatties to get through other than attacking into your opponents
creatures and that’s where Demon comes into play. A hasted flying
fatty that takes someone with him seems like a fantastic card to have
in the main deck not only that but its reasonably costed. Yes, Mono
black does run a Demon of their own but Specter isn’t a demon nor
is Merchant and There are targets for the demon to hit and getting a
demon of your own to stick is great isn’t too bad either.
As
you see I have also added a new card from Born of the Gods, Herald of
Torment, into the deck and it was something that involved a ton of
thought. You already don’t have a lot of wiggle room to add and
remove cards, but I felt that having a cheap flier that stops
Specter, Precinct Captain and Pack Rat would improve the match up
against aggressive creature based decks. While you do lose a life
each turn, you have Whip to counter that ability and he has a
reasonable Bestow cost that allows your fatties to fly over and get
in that extra damage. So far my favorite interaction is with
Nighthowler, Whip of Erebos and Merchant as you are able to stack so
much Black Devotion to get in extra damage. As I said earlier you get
four points in with Merchant and Whip but with the cheap cost of
Herald and Howler you are able to get in more damage.
One
creature card I am hesitant to add into the deck Is Satyr Wayfinder.
Yes it is a creature that digs into the deck for more lands while
pitching threats into the bin, but I have had a few problems with it
in testing. The main one is that it is of 2 CMC and that is the same
as Caryatid, Commune with the Gods and grisly salvage and potentially
putting something down with 3 mana cost. There are just other things
id rather be playing to further my board advantage or fill my hand
with cards I actually want. Sure its a creature that add to the
graveyard count for Jarad and Howler, but I dont think its enough.
With the land count already at 19, simply digging for a land will
most likely find you a creature you actually want or perhaps throwing
away a Whip and yes you could be potentially throwing away a Whip
with Grisly Salvage, you can choose to take a creature instead
Well,
this is what I have been playing and if I am able to playing at the
Large Channel Fireball event in the beginning of march, that is what
I will most likely be playing as I know the Mono Black match up very
well and feel the deck has a 50-50 chance against it. I have tried to
stay as close as I can to the original list because I feel what
Conley has turned it into is a different way to approach the “Dredge”
and is slightly weaker compared to what it once was. No longer being
able to attack from different angles and using your graveyard as
another resource is no longer an option in his current build.
Which
is this
Well,
thats all I have for now, thanks for reading :B
oh look, born of the gods stuffs :D
Hey
look, cards that stand out from Born of the Gods
Hero
of Iroas
I
love love love this card! I haven’t fallen in love with a card this
much since Kor Spiritdancer and they are kind of similar in a few
ways and are both powerful engines once you get them going. Right now
we have some awesome Auras including Flinching Courage, Ethereal
Armor, Gift of Orzhov and Madcap Skills just to name a few. Those
auras definitely give a power boost to the Hero which immediately
make him a threat and with his first ability of lowering the cost of
auras, you are able to protect him with cards like Gods willing which
also trigger Heroic AND lets you scry for 1, awesome right?
I
have been coming up with a bunch of lists revolving around auras,
Hero and Fabled Hero and so far the best color combination is UW in
semi-control shell and along with the hard hitting Heros. There is
counter magic, protection spells and strong auras like Gift of
Orzhova, Ethereal armor, Ordeal of Thassa and Aqueous Form. While
Aqueous form may be the weakest aura in the deck, The Heroic Triggers
on the Heros really give them the strength they need to hit hard.
Fabled hero is actually...a hero in this deck as he can become a
flying or unblockable , lifelink, doublestriker with Gods Willing
mana up to protect it. I am really going to be putting some time into
seeing if this deck could possibly become something competitive and
of course it really depends on how the Standard meta game shifts, if
at all.
Can
I just say how much I fucking love Gild? Seriously, I think this card
is so fucking great. Exiling the creature is what really sells this
card for me. I play Elvish Mystic and having a Gild available on turn
3 is fantastic AND you get a Lotus Petal in the process! Yeah you do,
not your opponent, you do! All the value from this card! Got a pesky
god in your way? Gild that sucka! Opponent getting you down with a
fatty Desecration Demon or Strombreath Dragon, Smelt those bad boys
down to a gold token for yourself. I love this card and I will be
watching and waiting with my sets sitting in my binder.
Nullify
I
for one, welcome our new counterspell overlord. I practically shat
myself when I first saw that this was a real card, OK maybe not
actually shat myself but i got pretty fucking close to it. Right now,
its pretty much Counterspell and if you were like me when
Counterspell was legal, I fucking hated it and wanted to not play
against blue decks fucking ever. And with the way Standard is shaping
up, its pretty much Counterspell as there are a great amount of decks
that are creature based and have tons of targets. For me, I feel like
it should be an auto 4 of in most blue based deck,looking at you UW
control and Esper and I guess Grixis if people are still willing to
try that.
While
there are a shit ton of Creatures out there that you can target, lets
not forget about the powerful auras out there too. Detention Sphere,
Underworld Connections,Boon Satyr, Chained to the Rocks,
Domestication, the ENTIRE Hex-proof deck, Contaminated Ground, and
pacifism...yeah pacifism... well maybe not the last two but
considering Nullify counters an entire deck that is powerful due to
your opponent not being able to interact with you, its a pretty big
deal.
So
welcome to standard Nullify, I am sure you will be just as annoying
as Counterspell was and just as good.
Courser
of Kruphix and Kiora, the Crashing Wave
I
am seeing a lot of people make a big deal out of Courser of Kruphix
and I guess I am not sure why? I see the interaction with Domri Rade
and thats pretty cute right? And I also keep hearing the comparison
with Oracle of Mul Daya and I just kind of chuckle at how ridiculous
that statement is. I actually played with the Oracle and Courser is
not that card. Yes, they both reveal the top card of your library.
And Yes, they both allow you to play a land from the top but that’s
it. Courser does not allow you to play extra lands and yeah she does
trigger green devotion, but who really care about that? But let us
not forget about the great CC and her awesome badonkadunk shes got
going on with 4 toughness.... awww yeah badonkadunk. Yes I expect
this card to see some kind of standard play as its easy to cast, the
dadonkadunk and its life gain ability and the fact that you can play
with the top card revealed...kinds sounds like I like this card
doesn’t it? Its a good card don’t get me wrong, but I don’t
think its as great as people are claiming it to be.
I
love Kiora, the Crashing Wave. The art, the abilities and the casting
cost, hell I am even glad that its green and blue and not just blue.
I am also glad we all got the Two Explore joke out of our systems
quickly, hurr hurr. While the Master Mike Flores didn’t really like
the ultimate on her, I think its fantastic as you get a fatty
forever. If you were able to watch the first Born of the Gods
Standard event on SCGLive, you were able to see BBD place the emblem
in play during the coverage and it was pretty much GG after that. You
were also able to watch him lock down two creatures with two
different Kioras, one after the other, which was really fucking sick.
I originally didn’t think much of her other than Explore but after
watching her in action I can see that she is going to be quite the
handful in the future.
Randoms
While
Karametra is my favorite god in the set, its pretty obvious that
Xenagos is the most powerful god we have in Born of the Gods and
potentially out of all of them competing with Thassa. While Mogis,
God of Slaughter, has a powerful ability, pumping a Dragon or a fatty
creature with trample can potentially end the game. The best part of
the ability is that it happens the turn it comes into play and you
don’t have to wait or pay for the trigger like you would with
Ephara or Nylea.
Pain
Seer is shit. OK maybe its not in a Black aggressive deck but come on
everyone, its time we all stop comparing this card to Dark Confidant.
Its not that card, and shouldn’t be treated as such.
Hands
down Fanatic of Xenagos is the best Tribute creature in the set. And
while I am think Oracle of Bones has some potential to drops some
super sick bombs if allowed to, Fanatic is so powerful in both modes.
I can see many players in future matches making the wrong choice with
whether to give tribute or not.
I
also read Satyr Firedancer wrong the first time and thought it was
creature OR player and not just creature after you aim something to
their face...meh lost complete interest in the card as a 1/1 for 2
with immediate effect doesn’t really do much until later in the
game and if you hit your opponent in the face and they have no
creatures what does this actually do...besides, doesn’t this card
die to that one spell that kills a creature if its a cyclops?
Ummm
Brimaz is fucking great Obv
Bile
Blight and Drown in Sorrow change everything...like actually changes
everything. The removal cards in black are already very powerful and
with the addition of these two cards it only makes black based decks
stronger, thanks for joining the party Thoughtseize.
Did
I mention I love Auras? I am expecting big things from Herald of
Torment. The body and casting cost on Herald of Torment is
ridiculous. Sure you lose one life a turn but its not enough to not
play this card. I think the best part about this card is that its
flying and has a reasonable Bestow cost that really makes this
creature something else. I know I read an article not too long ago
but Owen Turtenwald about how much he liked this card and I share the
same respect for the card. Should be fantastic in standard.
Welcome
back to Standard, Rout.... or Fated Retribution. Instant speed board
wipes are the shit and this one takes Walkers with it.
Good
News everyone, we can go back to trying to make Biovisionary work
with Fated Infatuation. Lets make some copies brah.
And
I cant put my finger on Eidolon of the Countless Battles... I don’t
know if hes good or not. Sure he could be put into a WW shell but at
the same time he could also be put into the Naya Auras deck or any
kind of deck with Hero of Iroas. I want this to be good but its like
70/30 to me.
And
last but not least Unravel the Aether and Revoke Existence are...how
can I put this lightly...well they are going to fuck shit up. I think
it was Josh Silvestri that mentioned those two cards in his top ten
cards from Born of the Gods list and I agree with him 100%. Green now
has a way to remove pesky Gods and while white has a few options with
dealing with them, those resources can now be aimed at creatures and
removing game changing auras in play.
My
actual sleepers for the set are Hero of Iroas, Herald of Torment,
Hero of Lenia Tower, Whelming Wave and Oracle of Bones. As you can
tell, I love auras and that explains the first 2 cards as my
sleepers. I really enjoy Hero of Lenia Tower and her +X/+X from her
heroic trigger, late game you are able to just attach something small
and dump mana into her trigger which I think is pretty sick. Whelming
wave is a poor mans Global removal card and hopefully we get some
reasonably costing Octopuses to have in play and Oracle just maybe
one day will let us cast Cruel Ultimatum for free. Its kind of like
Browbeat more than anything else and thats not really a bad thing.
But anyways, I bought sets and more of them and I am hoping some of
these cards will jump up in value.
Well
that’s pretty much all that’s going through my head about the
noticeable cards in Born of the God's. There is a high chance that
you have read something similar on other websites for some of the
cards, but it doesn’t hurt to get someone else's opinions does it?
Lets hope that Minotaur tribal gains some steam because that would be
fucking awesome, eh? We have the cards people! We have the cards to
do it!
Monday, October 24, 2011
:D
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
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
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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
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.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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 :]
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 :]
Monday, September 5, 2011
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
As much as I love crazy talk, I didn't love this episode
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