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Post by Dub H on Jan 5, 2018 7:06:52 GMT -5
Well I didn't intentionally get any Magic related items, however I did get one Kaladesh Booster pack as a stocking filler. Alas a lot of the cards I already had and I didn't get a cool invention. However I did get this guy as my rare: Although not worth much I am thinking of building a commander/edh deck with him. Not big on the rules for Commander... This card only has an effect when it comes into play, and you can cast your Commander over again if it dies but it costs more each time, right? If it costs more each time, doesn't that reduce it's effectiveness? There is ways to repeat the effect,to make him enter the battlefield multiple times such as Conjurer's Closes,Panharmonicon,Erratic Portal.Plus,up to 8 mana it would be realistic to cast Gonti
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 11:57:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 16:25:42 GMT -5
And here we go. First white: Baffling End-I've gone back and forth on this one. There are a lot of great creatures with CMC 3 or less in standard (Gifted Aetherborn, Longtusk Cub, etc...) but them getting a 3/3 trample dino token once this is destroy stinks. Bishop of Binding-Nice removal spell but you have to make this the target vampire that gets the counters in a turn or else it more than likely dies. Blazing Hope-It costs a white but this has to be a late game card obviously. Cleansing Ray-Nice answer against vampires. Perfect sideboard card for limited, especially if you're doing Dinosaurs. Divine Verdict-No double white like settle the wreckage and it only kills one but it can be used by blockers. Everdawn Champion-Nice limited card but not strong enough for the 5 color humans modern deck. Exulant Skymarcher-Eh, 1 and two white kinda sucks for a 2/3 flyer. Famished Paladin-Yeah, this one is nice. Obviously perfect in limited and might go into the standard vampires deck that could emerge. Forerunner of the Legion-A vampire tutor that pumps vampires? Yeah, another great uncommon for the set. Imperial Ceratops-Almost a Ripjaw Raptor for white except you gain life instead of card draw. Probably restricted to limited Legion Conquistador-Reprinted already? Like last set, a nice curve filler for draft. Luminous bonds-This is DAMN good for a common. 2 and white that says this creatures can't attack or block? Great limited card but enchantment status probably forbids it from standard. Majestic Heliopetrus-Ok for limited but probably costs a bit for standard. Although the possibility of making something like Ghalta fly... Martyr of Dusk-Makes a lifelink token but there are better ones in standard. Curve filler at most. Moment of Triumph-Could this actually fit in my Boros Burn deck? 1 white instant that makes your creature +2/+2 and gains you two life? Top that with the interactions with Boros Reckoner (Opponent would lose FIVE life) and ESPECIALLY Swiftspear (4/4 on turn two? Oh yeah) and you have something interesting. Definitely want two of this card. Fantastic common. Paladin of Atonement-This card will be VERY tough to resolve but if it does, it does damage. Probably a sideboard card in the vampire deck. Pride of Conquerors-Give all creatures +1/+1 until end of turn is already nice...+2/+2 if you have the blessing? Insane. Radiant Destiny-Vanquisher's banner except no card draw but possible vigilance. I'd like to see how this card does early on in this meta. Raptor Companion-Another Ixalan reprint. LOVE this card for draft when it resolves. Would pair it with Adanto Vanguard and Territorial Hammerskull early. Sanguine Glorifier-If you get bounce effects on this etb, it can do good vampire things. Skymarcher Aspirant-Meh on this. Skymarch Bloodletter is the better card that has skymarch in it and even that is limited to...uh, limited. Slaughter the Strong-Oh yeah...NOW we're talking. Sure, they keep nice low cmc cards but this gets rid of Sacrab God and Gearhulks. Bomb in limited. Snubhorn Sentry-Another late game, low cmc card although it having 3 toughness means you could probably bring it out mid game. Sphinx's Decree-This one is good for limited. Play this, hope your opponent has a low number of cards and play a nice enchantment. Squire's Devotion-Eh, nice curve filler and that's about it although it's another card that can be bounced. Sun Sentinel-Nice cheap body for draft/sealed. Sun-Crested Pterodon-Bit too costly for what it does imo. Temple Altisaur-This one is...ok. It can combo REALLY well though with... Trapjaw Tyrant-A 5/5...that EXILES CREATURES WHEN IT'S DEALT DAMAGE. Good lord what a nice mythic. This card is amazing to play on curve. Mythics can be good.. Zetalpa, Primal Dawn-...but sometimes, rares are even better. Yes it's 6 and 2 white but look at the text. LOOK AT IT. MARVEL AT ITS BEAUTY! Overall grade: I'll be conservative and give this a B now but I think there's A potential down the road.
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Post by Joker on Jan 9, 2018 6:26:37 GMT -5
Not big on the rules for Commander... This card only has an effect when it comes into play, and you can cast your Commander over again if it dies but it costs more each time, right? If it costs more each time, doesn't that reduce it's effectiveness? There is ways to repeat the effect,to make him enter the battlefield multiple times such as Conjurer's Closes,Panharmonicon,Erratic Portal.Plus,up to 8 mana it would be realistic to cast Gonti I could also choose to send Gonti to the graveyard and then reanimate him from there with a variety of Black cards, I could also return him to my hand instead of the command zone with the right cards thus only having to use his original casting cost, although mono-black isn't so good at that. Black is also good at generating vast amounts of mana so even the commander cost increase wouldn't be too tricky.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 18:40:29 GMT -5
I've decided not to do anymore previews. I'm just not there with my knowledge yet. On another note, I have my first draft for a Bant Merfolk Commander deck I want to put together. Looking for additions/subtractions for it: deckstats.net/decks/92688/885853-bant-merfolk/en
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Post by Dub H on Jan 10, 2018 20:48:12 GMT -5
I've decided not to do anymore previews. I'm just not there with my knowledge yet. On another note, I have my first draft for a Bant Merfolk Commander deck I want to put together. Looking for additions/subtractions for it: deckstats.net/decks/92688/885853-bant-merfolk/enthat is not how commander works. you can only use colors your commander has.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 22:52:59 GMT -5
I've decided not to do anymore previews. I'm just not there with my knowledge yet. On another note, I have my first draft for a Bant Merfolk Commander deck I want to put together. Looking for additions/subtractions for it: deckstats.net/decks/92688/885853-bant-merfolk/enthat is not how commander works. you can only use colors your commander has. Crap, I forgot about devotion. Will have to go back to the drawing board.
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Post by Joker on Jan 11, 2018 5:17:48 GMT -5
that is not how commander works. you can only use colors your commander has. Crap, I forgot about devotion. Will have to go back to the drawing board. The never ending challenge of Commander/EDH trying to build something with a limited colour pool
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Post by Dub H on Jan 11, 2018 7:09:38 GMT -5
Crap, I forgot about devotion. Will have to go back to the drawing board. The never ending challenge of Commander/EDH trying to build something with a limited colour pool I was making a Baron Von Count EDH. If only it had blue,green or white on it...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 8:54:19 GMT -5
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Post by Joker on Jan 11, 2018 10:35:40 GMT -5
Is this for 1v1 Commander or Multiplayer? Some usual Simic cards I could add would be Mystic Snake or Coiling Oracle, netiher are merfolk but that shouldn't be a problem as you already have 38 Maybe could use some sort of board reset card like Nevinyrral Disk or counterspells, for dealing with difficult cards especially in mutliplayer.
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Post by Dub H on Jan 11, 2018 12:41:43 GMT -5
Heavy Fog won't be very useful,it is not that good and you have many cards that does similar but better things. I have big amount of experiencein EDH,i could tell you exactly what a good and fun EDH deck needs,but that would need quite a bit of reworking and would take fun out of learning how to make a deck. But for just fun a Kumena deck goes wonderful with Seedborn Muse. And you missed some of the best and most fun Merfolk, Kiora's Follower, Tishana and some merfolks that makes other merfolks stronger
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 11, 2018 13:59:00 GMT -5
I have big amount of experiencein EDH,i could tell you exactly what a good and fun EDH deck needs,but that would need quite a bit of reworking and would take fun out of learning how to make a deck. Any tips for making an EDH deck around Ashling the Pilgrim?
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Post by Dub H on Jan 11, 2018 18:33:34 GMT -5
I have big amount of experiencein EDH,i could tell you exactly what a good and fun EDH deck needs,but that would need quite a bit of reworking and would take fun out of learning how to make a deck. Any tips for making an EDH deck around Ashling the Pilgrim? Depend of your plan. Red is kinda weak in EDH by itself, so I recommend a lot of artifacts that ramp (Sol Rin,Mind Stone, Thran Dynamo) (Gauntlet of Power, Caged Sun are classics in monored) and that draw cards for you. Chaos Warp and Scour from Existence are your only way of dealing with enchantments, you will have no issue finding artifact removal. You shouldn't put many other creatures in the deck and only ones that can survive her ability, and there is a lot of unique interactios,add things like Magebane Armor,Heartstone. Add things that protect her at a low price( DarkSteel Plate, Lighting Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots) Heartless Hidetsu and spells that double damage will help you kill people sooner basilisk Collar is a insta-board clear with her if you go off. There is more stuff that are higher price which I don't think it is needed if you only want to have fun.If you want to go cheap I can suggest some cards
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 11, 2018 18:39:49 GMT -5
Last weekend took my all White Shadowgeddon deck to the local comic shop. Now I build this deck in 98 and haven't changed it much since then. Back then it was type 1 cause of having a Black Vise,Balance and a stripmine in it. After a few games no one wanted to play me.
Ain't like it is a super complicated deck. The deck is loaded with low cost creatures that have either protection from black or red and usually shadow. Get a few out,cause an Empirical Armor on a shadow creature then next turn cast Armageddon. Back when I built it everyone was playing black,red or black/red at tournaments. So I built a counter deck. It really only has issues with blue decks with lots of counterspells.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 12, 2018 0:51:14 GMT -5
Any tips for making an EDH deck around Ashling the Pilgrim? Depend of your plan. Red is kinda weak in EDH by itself... The plan is get Ashling on the table ASAP, protect it so I can get enough mana to lay waste, stuff to raise Ashling's toughness to survive the said laying of waste or things to prevent damage from the waste-laying, then cheap enough to bring back multiple times to wash-rinse-repeat. Also stuff to prevent the damage to me, because it is Commander Damage.
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Post by Dub H on Jan 12, 2018 1:19:46 GMT -5
Depend of your plan. Red is kinda weak in EDH by itself... The plan is get Ashling on the table ASAP, protect it so I can get enough mana to lay waste, stuff to raise Ashling's toughness to survive the said laying of waste or things to prevent damage from the waste-laying, then cheap enough to bring back multiple times to wash-rinse-repeat. Also stuff to prevent the damage to me, because it is Commander Damage. That is not how commander damage works. Commander Damage is only combat. But yeh what I said should work for what you want. Red doesn't get damage prevention,your best bet is doubling damage to others before you die. But Loxodon Warhammer and Basilisk Collar gives Ashling lifelink,which will work just as fine.
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Post by Joker on Jan 12, 2018 4:45:11 GMT -5
The plan is get Ashling on the table ASAP, protect it so I can get enough mana to lay waste, stuff to raise Ashling's toughness to survive the said laying of waste or things to prevent damage from the waste-laying, then cheap enough to bring back multiple times to wash-rinse-repeat. Also stuff to prevent the damage to me, because it is Commander Damage. That is not how commander damage works. Commander Damage is only combat. But yeh what I said should work for what you want. Red doesn't get damage prevention,your best bet is doubling damage to others before you die. But Loxodon Warhammer and Basilisk Collar gives Ashling lifelink,which will work just as fine. Yeah you won't find any damage prevention in Red, the only option in a literal sense would be the few artifacts like Pentagram of the Ages, Mourner's Shield and the land Glacial Chasm. That could work for the first two as Red has plenty of Artifact interaction, I'd probably skip Glacial Chasm I do like seeing mono-color edh decks though, so much fun. Although White & Red are the hardcore this isn't easy route.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 16:03:38 GMT -5
Went to pre-release yesterday afternoon and went 2-2. Next event is a SCG modern qualifier in the first week of Feburary. Pulled some decent cards. Here's what the rares and one mythic were.
Ixalan: Sorcerous Spyglass Hostage Taker
Rivals: Release to the Wind (Promo foil.) Ghalta, Primal Hunger Tetzimoc, Primal Death The Immortal Sun Golden Guardian Paladin of Atonement (Out of participation pack)
I also got two Merfolk Mistbenders (One out of kit and one out of the free pack.)
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Post by Joker on Jan 15, 2018 5:13:49 GMT -5
Nice selection of rares and mythics you managed to get there.
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