Banecat
Don Corleone
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Post by Banecat on Feb 8, 2013 10:40:12 GMT -5
Blue counter/direct damage self built deck placed me 2nd place in a regional tournament... You should check out Return To Ravnica. This set contains more Izzet Guild (red/blue) cards which could fit in perfectly with your deck theme.
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El Pollo Guerrera
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His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 9, 2013 1:09:11 GMT -5
My favorite new card is a blue enchantment called Omniscience. For three blue and seven any spell cast from my hand has no mana cost. Play that with any type of draw cards and its devastating. Good lord, how is this legal?
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Banecat
Don Corleone
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Post by Banecat on Feb 9, 2013 7:30:43 GMT -5
My favorite new card is a blue enchantment called Omniscience. For three blue and seven any spell cast from my hand has no mana cost. Play that with any type of draw cards and its devastating. Good lord, how is this legal? So far it's really only useful in our commander games. In a duel, most likely the game would be over before I got 10 mana available (especially when I'm playing 9/10 games I'm mana shafted).
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Post by Red Impact on Feb 9, 2013 8:54:08 GMT -5
My favorite new card is a blue enchantment called Omniscience. For three blue and seven any spell cast from my hand has no mana cost. Play that with any type of draw cards and its devastating. Good lord, how is this legal? Its really only good if you can cheat it out early. By the point where you get 10 mana, the game is typically over. Even if you do get 10 mana, you need to spend more than 10 mana a turn to really make it worth it. In the current set there are two cards. One says When you damage your opponent, you gain that much life. Another says When you gain life, your opponent takes that much damage. See if you can find a game breaker in those two cards... Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood the next. I love that combo, but yeah, if They're playing blue or white and they have protection, you're screwed. It's pretty expensive since both cost 5. Blood Tribute works well with it too.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Feb 9, 2013 10:51:08 GMT -5
My favorite new card is a blue enchantment called Omniscience. For three blue and seven any spell cast from my hand has no mana cost. Play that with any type of draw cards and its devastating. Good lord, how is this legal? it's a mythic rare so it's very hard to get without forking over big bucks, and its mana cost is prohibitively expensive. won't get much play at tournament level because by the time you can actually cast it the game's long over. basically, every card is designed so it's either got strong utilities, is cheap, or has no drawback, but NEVER all 3. plus cards' power level overall is much higher than it used to be (albeit you'll never have a card like the power 9 ever again).
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Feb 9, 2013 11:05:35 GMT -5
Another blue enchantment that people have immense fun with is Training Grounds. It makes activated abilities of creatures cost 2 less. One of the best "build-around me" combo cards printed lately in Magic, and in one of the best sets in my opinion. (Rise of the Eldrazi) I prefer blue when it is not just a draw-go counter deck.
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Post by Joker on Feb 9, 2013 13:03:19 GMT -5
Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood - Various enchantment destroying instants should end there threat if they are a common issue.
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Banecat
Don Corleone
Speak of the devil and he shall appear
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Post by Banecat on Feb 9, 2013 16:16:39 GMT -5
Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood - Various enchantment destroying instants should end there threat if they are a common issue. Yeah the problem is my friend never announces he's playing either of those and it's hard to keep track of 8+ people in a casual game. Plus disenchants and tranquility type cards aren't as prevalent as they used to be. I know what I need to do, meta a disenchant/tranquility commander deck just to troll the rest of the table.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Feb 9, 2013 17:45:29 GMT -5
I used to buy the occasional pack to collect the pretty pretty pictures but the only time I ever played was with the computer version made by MicroProse.
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