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[Infinity 324]

Leonin lightscribe is a very good card

[Isis]

is there a way to go infinite with twincasting a twincast in standard right now? cause there'd be a lot of 3rd cards for it now.

[Infinity 324]

I think they do "copy the next instant/sorcery you cast" now

[Isis]

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[Micc]

I didn't jump right in but now that I have im impressed. strixhaven is an incredible limited format

[InflatablePie]

dumped some WCs into Historic to grind out gold for draft and went with the classic Izzet Blitz.

and people keep just... not blocking my Kiln Fiends? surprisingly it hasn't gotten old yet.

every time I can hear, "sure I'll take one or two. why block? I mean, what if they have a combat trick?"

I also crafted monoR Storm which is a fantastic pile of nonsense that sometimes wins a game

lots of clicking though

[Gammagooey]

dumped some WCs into Historic to grind out gold for draft and went with the classic Izzet Blitz.

and people keep just... not blocking my Kiln Fiends? surprisingly it hasn't gotten old yet.

every time I can hear, "sure I'll take one or two. why block? I mean, what if they have a combat trick?"

I also crafted monoR Storm which is a fantastic pile of nonsense that sometimes wins a game

lots of clicking though

Nice

Any ideas that could work for the Strixhaven-only Constructed thing on Arena? My draft decks keep not actually being a "I'm X college" so I feel like I might make a weird aggro red-black deck with a bunch of heated debates/2 drops/+1/+1 counter buff spells

[Ythan]

Hi Gamma!

[InflatablePie]

if I was on a budget I'd probably jam Silverquill Aggro tbh
if you have a chunk of Uncommon wildcards or a few dece pulls so far

off the top of my head I'd goldfish something like this and see how it feels:

Creatures (22)
4x Clever Luminancer - 0/1 Magecraft +2/+2
4x Eyetwitch - Flying 1/1 Learn-on-Death
4x Thunderous Orator - copies most keywords
4x Killian, Ink Duelist - Lifelink Menace 2/2
4x Shadewing Laureate - Flying 2/3 cares about fliers
2x Elite Spellbinder (R) - Flying 3/1, hand disruption

Leonin Lightscribe is dece at Rare (2/2, Magecraft give ur creatures +1/+1) but I think Thunderous Orator is fine given all the keywords.


I/S (16)
2x Professor's Warning - indestructible at instant speed
2x Vanishing Verse (R) - removal for non-gold-cards
4x Humiliate - turn 2 hand disruption + put a counter on your one-drop
2x Study Break - take out pesky blockers
3x Umbral Juke - removal for slower decks or a 2/1 Flying that still triggers Magecraft.
3x Silverquill Command (R) [if you pick the target creature option, Killian makes this WB instead of 2WB]

could also run Lash of Malice as a Shock or way to push more damage w Luminancer/Shadewing Laureate/most other creatures after 1 Counter.
I prefer Study Break for better game against midrange decks and easier Learn triggers (you have Menace/Flying on most things sans Luminancer tho)
and Professor's Warning to protect your creatures seems better than Lash to remove theirs

but there's also other options:
you could also run Mage Hunters Onslaught for BB Sorcery Removal w Killian out
Closing Statement at Uncommon (1WB with Killian or during End Step, plus a counter!)
or Baleful Mastery at Rare (1B Removal but opponent draws a card... or 1B Removal w Killian Out... at Instant, too)

there's 2-3 flex slots on the spells. feel free to fiddle.


Land (22) - as many rarelands as you wanna craft, maybe a Campus or an Access Tunnel. (but low curve means tapland/colorless land is less good)


Lesson Plan (7) [Eyetwitch death trigger, Study Break]:
Inkling Summoning (bonus flier)
Reduce to Memory, Necrotic Fumes (removal w downsides?)
2x Expanded Anatomy (this costs 1 w Killian out)
2x Introduction to Prophecy (for when games go long)

Pest Summoning is fine and Into to Annihilation is a bit pricey but also fine. think seconds of Anatomy/Prophecy are probably better than 2x Inkling Summoning?

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but yeah something close to like, 54 of this 60 is what I'd run


just remember it's 50 gold for 3 Uncommons going 3Win/2Loss, 200 Gold for 3 Uncommons at 2W/2L, 100 Gold Profit at 4W/0-1L
before you get too into tossing Rare wildcards in case there's some broken deck no one thought of because Block Constructed
(hence why there's only like 7 Rares here and why I tried to look for the better Constructed rares)

[InflatablePie]

if it's Bo3 not Bo1 then add 2 Fracture (removes artifacts/enchantments) just in case
the Lashes if you don't run em maindeck (like, 2-3)
then 3-4 cards to fill the sideboard

Go Blank can work; Mind Rot is fine in Block plus GY exile upside
Beaming Defiance for more protection or if you'd rather have Hexproof over Professor's Warning Indestructible
Academic Probation is a good miser Lesson if you have one, too.

[InflatablePie]

"sure I'll take one or two. why block? I mean, what if they have a combat trick?"

jesus christ people just block the goddamn kiln fiend

[Isis]

lol

[Thestatusquo]

So you want to play vintage.

[kdowns]

So you want to play vintage.

You forgot the NSFW tag.

[Infinity 324]

those are grapeshot copies on the right

[Isis]

No more pro player stipends or salaries. No more pro play. Period

[kdowns]

No more pro player stipends or salaries. No more pro play. Period

From what I gathered from the Article is that there will still be events including Pro Tour like events. Just that they won't be paying out salaries or Stipends to pro players.

[Thestatusquo]

Anyone who follows me on twitter will know how I feel about this.

[Isis]

I don't follow you on Twitter but hear me out I don't follow anyone on Twitter

[D3f3nd3r]

Going to play real, in-person Magic today for the second time since the pandemic! MH2 prerelease today at an LGS back home that I haven’t been to since, ironically, release weekend for MH1

[D3f3nd3r]

Bad news: my deck was trash and I didn’t win a game or match
Good news: the Scalding Tarn in pack 1 was the second most expensive card in its pack

[Infinity 324]

! What else did you open

[D3f3nd3r]

Foil Misty Rainforest! Also got a Marsh Flats later, but that was basically the entire value I pulled aside from a mythic that’s currently $8 and has to be on its way down.

[Infinity 324]

That should still pay for your prerelease with buylist right? Pretty cool

[D3f3nd3r]

Yeah absolutely. I looked into selling stuff at the LGS I played at, but they wanted to wait until actual release so that the prices have a chance to stabilize.