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I am actually pretty happy with how the deck performed tonight all things considered:
vs UWR Control: It was a basic countermagic battle. G1 he had a pretty scary Assemble the Legion about to kill me but between AEtherling blocking + Barter in Blood killing two of them + lol top deck a Crypt Incursion to gain 18, I think it ended up okay. He scooped to Crypt Incursion. G2 I got Jace online after he tapped out for AEtherling, then got Tamiyo online the next turn by negating his counterspell. Milled him out shortly after with doubledrownyard + Jace 0.
vs NUWEN'S DOS RAKIS: Beat down G1 with Aetherling. Lost G2 to a stupid stupid stupid misplay where I had an Evil Twin Reckoner out on the board and didn't redirect the damage to her PITHING NEEDLE'D FALKENRATH ARISTOCRAT and just got beat down. G3 I mulled to 5 and still only found one land then drew four nonlands in a row - variance is OP. I just scooped after I top decked yet another Augur of Bolas.
vs the Brian Kibler RG deck: G1 was over before I even had 5 mana out on the field. G2 I milled him. G3 I missed my fourth land drop twice and then was just dead because I couldn't cast my damned Barter in Blood.
vs Junk Reaminator: G1 was easy as I beat him down with an AEtherling. Oh, by the way, this was some 7 year old kid who took 35 MINUTES to play G1 and his dad was sitting right beside him the whole time. G2 I just scooped after 10 minutes so we could hopefully have enough time to go to G3, then G3 went to turns and if I had LITERALLY ONE MORE TURN, I had Jace live on the field with Drownyard too and he only had 40-ish cards in his deck so I could've milled him (especially since I cast Crypt Incursion with 10 creatures in his library). It actually kinda pissed me off... I lost because this little kid took too long and I can't really be a dick and go JUDGE HE'S PLAYING SLOW but I still got fucked over because of it. Then once it's all said and done his Dad makes him drop anyway because "it's past your bedtime and I told your mother we'd be home". Then why not just fucking give me the win instead of fucking me over for your stupid son's fucking inability to decide SHOULD I PLAY VOICE OF RESURGENCE OR AN ARBOR ELF.
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I do think this deck has more issues with aggro than I realized but I haven't been able to get a clear mind about it yet because I keep getting fucked by variance... I never get mana flooded, I only get mana screwed WHEN I'M RUNNING 25 LANDSgreen shirt thursdays-
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Psychic Strike is so good though
IMO Rewind isn't nearly as good as you want it to be because it's only good because you can untap and use the mana for something else but it's not exactly gaining you an advantage... and in a control matchup it ends up just being a 4 mana counterspell sitting on the stackgreen shirt thursdays-
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Just got back from a sad excuse for a gameday. Got 2nd, and I only lost because I'm an IDIOT and I tapped the wrong amount of mana for Syncopate (tbf I think he should've let me tap an extra one because it's REL and I specifically asked him how much mana he had available but whatever).green shirt thursdays-
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I said "Okay, Syncopate for 2"In post 3205, hasdgfas wrote:
Did you say "Syncopate for X" or just "Syncopate"?In post 3199, xRECKONERx wrote:Just got back from a sad excuse for a gameday. Got 2nd, and I only lost because I'm an IDIOT and I tapped the wrong amount of mana for Syncopate (tbf I think he should've let me tap an extra one because it's REL and I specifically asked him how much mana he had available but whatever).green shirt thursdays-
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AGGGHHHHGHHGGHH. GODDAMMIT LSV
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Put together a cheap mono green infect deck for Modern on MTGO but man it's not that great :\
I mean I won a couple games just because I turn 2'd him but I don't have a sideboard yet which is problem #1 and problem #2 is FUCK SPELL SNARE IN THE BUTT
Instant (24)
4x Apostle's Blessing
4x Giant Growth
4x Groundswell
4x Mutagenic Growth
4x Predator's Strike
4x Rancor
Creature (16)
4x Blight Mamba
4x Glistener Elf
4x Ichorclaw Myr
4x Necropede
Land (20)
20x Forest
Anyone have ideas for a cheap sideboard? Or any cards they'd let me use that would go well with the deck? I know Inkmoth Nexus is one of the first things I need to put in.
Did fine in the just for fun queue; did a 2-man to see how the deck does and I won G1, lost G2 very narrowly (fucking 9 infect counters and I topdecked 4 forests in a row, no pump spells), G3 I got stomped by Tarmogoyf & Spell Snare, good lordgreen shirt thursdays-
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Phew, those lands.
Maybe I can do:
-2 Apostle's Blessing
-2 Giant Growth
-4 Predator's Strike
+4 Might of Old Krosa
+4 Vines of Vastwood
I really really want to run 4 Inkmoth Nexus but they're $3 a pop right now so I'm going to have to hold off
The goal here is to play this deck and win just enough times to start picking up cards for Trongreen shirt thursdays-
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http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=11329
REALLY? ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT UB CONTROL... THIS TIME SPECIFICALLY MILL!?green shirt thursdays-
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This is how I was when I first started... try drafting. It's casual, nobody has an innate advantage from having cards, and it teaches you the fundamentals on what makes a good deck.In post 3283, Oman wrote:I'm probably more interested in the casual environment rather than trying to be amazing, I'm more interested in the craft, metagame, and strategy than in making "my ultimate deck". I.e. I'm more interested in draft than anything else.green shirt thursdays-
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Main or side?In post 3291, Thestatusquo wrote:i've been trying to tell you to play deadly recluse since you started testing the deck.green shirt thursdays-
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Do it!In post 3303, Oman wrote:I am considering going to the games shop locally for Friday Night Magic. Just thought I'd let you know...
I am intrigued.green shirt thursdays-
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Hey! What's your decklist? There are some cool budget sliver builds out there.In post 3325, Oman wrote:I has cards now. Not good ones but enough that I could build a weird red/green sliver aggro deck.
Like I said, not good, but a start. I'm thinking of playing at the comp on Sunday just to get some game time in.green shirt thursdays-
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I'd probably run something like this:
4x Predatory Sliver
4x Manaweft Sliver
4x Sentinal Sliver
4x Striking Sliver
4x Bonescythe Sliver
4x Blur Sliver
2x Megantic Sliver
2x Thorncaster Sliver
Most of those are cheap as hell... the rare slivers might cost you $1 each or something, but that's the basis for a decent slivers deck. You have some options for the noncreature spells to run... I'd say farseek, Boros Charm, and a couple Hive Stirrings are good places to start. Could even run Gruul War Chant to give a fieldwide buff.
Lands are expensive if you want to do it right, but you can easily just run Guildgates/Basic Land instead (unless you have access to the shocklands). The "good" version of the sliver deck runs Domri Rade, but he's at like $26 right now, so not exactly a cheap investment.green shirt thursdays-
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I love that deck! I took it to the first ever FNM after DGM released and did pretty well. It's really fun a "combo"-ish, but it's not a true combo deck. Unfortunately, there aren't any of those in Standard right now (well, Unexpected Results was around for a little bit).
The actual cheapest "good" deck you can play right now is RDW, I'm pretty sure. Although... my UB deck was cheap as hell to build.green shirt thursdays-
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Gammagooey, here's your Boros post-rotation list you wanted:
4 Boros Elite
4 Dryad Militant
4 Firefist Striker
3 Frontline Medic
4 Gore-House Chainwalker
4 Imposing Sovereign
4 Legion Loyalist
3 Viashino Firstblade
2 Boros Charm
2 Legion's Initiative
4 Magma Jet
8 Mountain
2 Mutavault
8 Plains
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...the point is that 4 sets are rotating out, and we're only getting 1 set rotating in. The cards we have in RTR block + M14 are going to form the backbone for any deck, so brewing decks based off of that that will only change out a couple of cards for new ones is fine. That list there won't change much at all with the THS stuff... maybe 1-2 of the cards will go in exchange for THS stuff, but it won't change that much.green shirt thursdays-
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I don't think it's asinine. I get your points, though. I just feel like, if you look at the previous sets, the big standard decks at first are all built heavily upon the previous sets with only one or two new cards shining through. The UWR lists when RTR came out still relied on Snaps/Tamiyo/Terminus/Entreat/Think Twice/Pillar as their big players, with cameo appearances by Azorius Charm & Supreme Verdict. Hell, Jund was literally just M13/ISD block cards featuring Mizzium Mortars. Zombies added Rakdos Cackler, and not much else. I guess Jace AOT saw a lot of play, but yeah, the core lists were still heavily based in old cards with only a sprinkle of new stuff. That's how I'm expecting it to go again.green shirt thursdays-
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I'm pretty sure the basic archetypes aren't going to suddenly get an overhaul because of Theros cards.In post 3438, Sudo_Nym wrote:I don't think deckbuilding is as simple as "Cut the rotating cards and look for replacements." You're going to be brewing in a new environment, and the interactions and meta are going to be different. Simply saying "Okay, this is sorta similar, so use it to replace" isn't going to work out very well.
I don't think when RTR was coming in, anyone went, "Well shit, I'd better not put Think Twice and Dissipate and Snapcaster in my control list because who knows what format shattering control stuff is coming in!" No, you knew you'd be playing those cards because they were the backbone of control.
Same goes for aggro. I don't actually think the mono red lists changed that much besides the loss of Shrine of Burning Rage, and people knew "Okay, Stromkirk Noble and Hellrider are going to be fantastic in this archetype so let's use them." Sure, Ash Zealot & Rakdos Cackler got printed, that only strengthened the archetype, it didn't fuck up anything pre-rotation.
"Build around me" cards will crop up, I'm sure, but those aren't the "typical" archetypes. When it comes to simple archetypal decks like RDW or UWx control or GW midrange, those types of decks will always be there and it's not like everyone will suddenly be playing Block Constructed in Standard. The cards that lend themselves to their respective archetypes now will still be good in those archetypes.
p.edit: So what? Planning a few lists and trying them out to see how the cards play together now is going to give you a head start on the decks when the full spoiler goes outgreen shirt thursdays-
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Okay.
You can easily, with a new account, accumulate enough value to keep playing for free. A new player phantom draft is 1 new player ticket + 1 regular ticket, which means you're spending $1 at most to draft. If you win, you get a pack of M14, which is worth 3 tix from bots. Rinse, repeat.green shirt thursdays-
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