Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[Siveure DtTrikyp]

Yay kinda picking up magic!

Yay doing draft!

Yay getting a booster pack for coming like top 2 in the draft or something?!??!?!

Yay actually having some cards now!

[Knight of Cydonia]

So yeah, doing a booster box opening for the store I work at, pack 1 foil Polluted Delta... pack 2 regular Polluted Delta... pack 3 regular Flooded Strand and a foil Surrak Dragonclaw. Everything after that was just gravy, especially considering with staff discount I got the box for £67.

[bv310]

Nice pulls. I'm planning to pick up a box of Khans in the near-ish future.

[Thestatusquo]

I listened to the first episode of CR. Was fine. Probably would continue listening.

[Thestatusquo]

Watching SCG pretty intently today.

[Knight of Cydonia]

be interested to see if anyone is playing Abzan/Junk Aggro, with Fleecemane, Rakshasa Deathdealer, Anafenza, Herald of Torment, Master of the Feast etc. I've been toying with a list and going Soldier of the Pantheon -> Fleecemane/Rakshasa -> Anafenza/Herald/Master/leave up mana for Downfall seems pretty strong.

[Thestatusquo]

I don't think the mana is good enough for 3 color aggro without the shocklands. I could be wrong, though.

I think 3 color is going to mainly be a midrange control thing.

[Knight of Cydonia]

I don't get the chance to play against many serious decks in paper but I've rarely had an issue with not being able to cast stuff. The occasional flood, but that's variance for you.

[Shanba]

I think you might be able to get away with it if you don't mind taking 10 damage a game, with mana confluence and painlands. Probably not worth it though.

Mostly I don't see why you would need to add colours when you can have really strong mono-coloured aggro decks with the cards available

[Knight of Cydonia]

True, the mono-B aggro list on the stream right now looks pretty good.

[Thestatusquo]

The main issue is that all the good mana fixing is tap lands, which are just so miserable in aggro decks. I played a bit of naya and you really couldn't run more than 2 colors of 1 drops easily. The turn 1 untapped mana fixing just got worse.

I could be wrong. Its a new format. Everything is worth testing.

[bv310]

In spite of the fact that it's losing, I'm really liking the WRu Tempo list

[Knight of Cydonia]

Well, I already know what the one guy at my LGS who doesn't know how to play anything but burn lists he finds online will be playing.

[Shanba]

The main issue is that all the good mana fixing is tap lands, which are just so miserable in aggro decks. I played a bit of naya and you really couldn't run more than 2 colors of 1 drops easily. The turn 1 untapped mana fixing just got worse.

I could be wrong. Its a new format. Everything is worth testing.

There's also the m15 painlands. Like, if you're playing 3 colour aggro, your manabase probably looks like 8 painland 4 confluence and you're a pretty big dog to any aggro mirror, I think.

[hasdgfas]

In a move that shocks nobody, mono-black aggro looking strong at SCG post-rotation.

I was a bit surprised to see a lot of awkward 3-color control decks at FNM last night. Was able to go 1-1-1 against them with my ridiculous Necromancer's Stockpile deck, and I won the match against a more midrange-y GW heroic-based deck.

[Knight of Cydonia]

The main issue is that all the good mana fixing is tap lands, which are just so miserable in aggro decks. I played a bit of naya and you really couldn't run more than 2 colors of 1 drops easily. The turn 1 untapped mana fixing just got worse.

I could be wrong. Its a new format. Everything is worth testing.

There's also the m15 painlands. Like, if you're playing 3 colour aggro, your manabase probably looks like 8 painland 4 confluence and you're a pretty big dog to any aggro mirror, I think.

I'm currently on 6 pains, 3 Confluence, 2 tri-lands, 4 Temples, 4 G/W fetches and a handful of basics, so yeah, it's definitely a painful base.

[Thestatusquo]

6 CIPT lands in a deck that wants to play 1 and 2 drops on curve seems pretty fricken miserably bad.

[chamber]

I feel like fetches are probably better fixing than pains. But obviously you have fewer fetches than pains in wedges.

[chamber]

Would anyone be interested in a sealed or standard tournament?

[Shanba]

Would anyone be interested in a sealed or standard tournament?

I would love to but for whatever reason mafiascum run tournaments have generally been pretty poor. I'm in, but I'd like a lot more strictness about people playing each other promptly, even understanding that it can be difficult to find a time that works for both people. 1 week should be plenty.

[chamber]

1 week? If I'm running this I was thinking more like 3 days.

[Knight of Cydonia]

6 CIPT lands in a deck that wants to play 1 and 2 drops on curve seems pretty fricken miserably bad.

And yet, I have had one game in 13 I played today at my LGS where I didn't have a solid T1-T2-T3 curve out, and that was on a mulligan to 4. Obviously I need to test

a lot

, but it feels like it just gets there most of the time.

Would anyone be interested in a sealed or standard tournament?

I would love to but for whatever reason mafiascum run tournaments have generally been pretty poor. I'm in, but I'd like a lot more strictness about people playing each other promptly, even understanding that it can be difficult to find a time that works for both people. 1 week should be plenty.

^

P-edit: A week feels better just because people might have work schedules that mean occasionally, that 3-day cycle is gonna screw them where a week-cycle wouldn't.

[bv310]

I'm in, and approve of stricter deadlines

[Thestatusquo]

Thats because 13 games is a ridiculously small sample size. Play 130 games and then tell me what percentage of games your production was hindered.

[Natirasha]

I'm in as long as we use cockatrice or damage because I refuse to boot up MTGO again.