Ravnica Resurgence: Magic the Gathering

drp527

also my other generals are Niv Mizzet, who is entirely hit or miss, and Zur who if he sticks will proceed to immobilize someone's entire field and steadily rack up general damage until they die

Melding

Niv Mizzet + curiosity = win.

drp527

Big Red Tie wrote:

i am all "mind control"
wooo

if he has no sacrifice outlet to get around mind control that's on him

I have like 8 things that serve almost no purpose save sacrificing things for free

Big Red Tie

8/100

and then i run so many counterspells...

drp527

Melding wrote:

Niv Mizzet + curiosity = win.

instakills like that are nice but I enjoy it more when I can pull off:

Niv Mizzet, Mindmoil, Thought Reflection

bonus points for Amulet of Vigor and Patron of the Moon

even more bonus points for Inner Fire, High Tide, Spiraling Embers, and the occasional lock where I do nothing but draw my deck, cast Beacon of Tomorrows, discard some stuff and shuffle the graveyard back in, then repeat

Big Red Tie

or wrath of god over and over

it was not a token friendly meta since everyone ran a lot of wraths

drp527

Big Red Tie wrote:

8/100

and then i run so many counterspells...

well yeah counters are among the things I have no answers to in anything I build

it's hard to have answers to counters other than other counters, especially in the early game

Big Red Tie

#1 favorite play

gwafa hazid

hesitation

drp527

made a Kira, Great Glass Spinner deck in lackey

that thing is nothing but counterspells and things that benefit from counters and creatures that can sacrifice to counter or tap to counter or enchantments that can counter

it tends to add a very large mana tax and then even if you can pay it, stops you from playing the spell some other way

Big Red Tie

was never a fan of mono blue EDH

SLyM

My favorite counter to blue EDH decks

drp527

Brooding Saurian is fantastic

but I think Boil gets the job done better

edit: at some point I will make a Brooding Saurian/Sky Swallower deck

I just need to put the time into figuring out how to make it better

Big Red Tie

wraaath oooof gooood

SLyM

I want to make a white/blue spirit deck with that new set.

Because hexproof flyers are pretty mean.

drp527

seeing all the new spirits in this and Innistrad made me happy because I thought I could combine them with some of the Kamigawa spirits

primarily Cloudhoof Kirin

superjoe

I have a mostly-still-together EDH/Commander deck featuring this guy as the general:



However, I recently took about 10 cards out of it to go into a cube, which is now about 50 cards away from complete. Cube is probably the best format, ever, of all the times.

Also had to butcher my Teneb, the Harvester EDH for said Cube. Thinking of salvaging it and re-building Rith, the Awakener, or possibly putting together an Azusa, Lost but Seeking.

Bucketman

Holy shit, Tragic Slip will fuck your creatures up for 1 mana

Big Red Tie

tragic slip is hilarious

Crimson King

damnit someone give me money so i can play dark ascension

nightmarenny

The Deck I'm currently using

1x Kalonian Behemoth
1x Godsire
2x Spearbreaker behemoth
1x Bull Cerodon
1x Spellbreaker Behemoth
1x Regal Force
2x Mosstodon
1x Beacon Behemoth
4x Woolly Thoctar
2x Pale Recluse
3x Drumhunter
1x Naya battlemage
2x Deadly recluse
2x Wild nacatl
1x Qasili Pridemaster
1x Elvish Visionary
2x druid of Anima
4x gift of the Gargantuan
3x Naturalize
1x Banefire
1x Blaze
3x Mighty Emergence
2x Rampant Growth
2x Titanic Ultimatum
1x Mayaels Aria
1x Sigal of the Nayan Gods
2x Naya Panorama
2x Jungle Shrine
4x Mountain
4x Plains
10x Forest

The Deck I plan on making

2x Godsire
2x Spearbreaker behemoth
2x Mosstodon
2x Beacon Behemoth
4x Woolly Thoctar
3x Drumhunter
4x Deadly recluse
3x Qasili Pridemaster
4x Birds of Paradise
3x gift of the Gargantuan
2x Banefire
2x Mighty Emergence
2x Rampant Growth
2x Titanic Ultimatum
3x Mayaels Aria
2x Naya Panorama
2x Jungle Shrine
4x Mountain
4x Plains
8x Forest

Any advise?

superjoe

Don't play Mighty Emergence. IMO, you never want to play cards that don't actually do anything on their own. Plus, it makes your already enormous monsters... even more enormous? There's a phrase for that among more serious Magic players; it's called a win-more card. Not needed.

nightmarenny

Would that make Mayaels aria a bad idea, too? Cause the decks based around it right now.

Bucketman

No thats your secondary win condition, also a great life gain and counters. Your primary win condition is "beat the fuck out of them"

nightmarenny

True. I guess I see what you mean.

Big Red Tie

nightmarenny

That. Is. Fantastic. Could I use that before Mayaels Aria?

Big Red Tie

yes

nightmarenny

I will have it.

Big Red Tie

also take out gift of the gargantuan

run

or http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=185137

Big Red Tie

also bloodbraid elf would be great except for the banefires

Peccavi

http://www.magicdraftsim.com/ has Dark Ascension up, for those that draft.

SLyM

That site is hilariously slow right now for me.

Is it getting slammed or is it always this slow?

Bucketman

superjoe wrote:

I have a mostly-still-together EDH/Commander deck featuring this guy as the general:



However, I recently took about 10 cards out of it to go into a cube, which is now about 50 cards away from complete. Cube is probably the best format, ever, of all the times.

Also had to butcher my Teneb, the Harvester EDH for said Cube. Thinking of salvaging it and re-building Rith, the Awakener, or possibly putting together an Azusa, Lost but Seeking.

I have never heard of cube format.

drp527

it's like drafting except you come up with the card pool instead of using a single block

like you get to pick every single possible card, how many of each, etc.

at least that's my understanding

Peccavi

SLyM wrote:

That site is hilariously slow right now for me.

Is it getting slammed or is it always this slow?

I haven't used it in awhile, but normally it was faster than this. Pretty sure it's just getting slammed since this is the first day DA has been on it.

Big Red Tie

cube is fun, but the guy putting it together does all the work

SLyM

Cube is the rock band/Guitar hero of magic formats.

nightmarenny

Big Red Tie wrote:

Ok looking at this card today I'm a little confused. Do I need a creature with 10 power or more to activate his ability. To put it another way could I have no creatures with power 10 or greater, tap nothing and activate his 20/20?

Antimatter

you need to have multiple creatures who have a power that adds up to 10 when you combine their power

or, a single one with 10

drp527

you need to tap enough creatures such that their combined power is ten or greater

so say you had 2 2/2 wolf tokens and a 6/6 Wurmcoil Engine or something, you could tap all three of those and trigger his ability once because added together, they have 10 power