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[MTG] Pack Rat Fever (BOTG Sealed League, see pg 20)

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    I go in the pauper section and sometimes the budget areas for modern and legacy. That's about all I can take.

    My SteamID Gamertag and PSN: TheLawinator
  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Considering just building America Heroic in Magic Online. Convincing people that the cards in this deck work the way they do is a chore.

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    I go in the pauper section and sometimes the budget areas for modern and legacy. That's about all I can take.

    pauper is the only section anyone needs imo

    I keep getting bopped in the monthly events we have at our store though, whoops

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    Another deck I'm never gonna make but I liked all the ways for white to semi-safely build life and also the couple ways it has to turn that life into counters so I made this

    You know a deck idea is truly bloated when you try to make everything in it a 3-of just to have room to stuff it all in and still have land
    3x Archangel of Thune
    3x Archetype of Courage
    3x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
    3x Eidolon of Countless Battles
    3x Nyx-Fleece Ram
    3x Nyxborn Shieldmate
    3x Oreskos Sun Guide


    3x Sunbond
    3x Banishing Light
    3x Ephara's Radiance
    3x Ethereal Armor
    2x Spear of Heliod

    2x Hall of Triumph

    3x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
    20x Plains

    All goldfishing this deck has really shown me is that Turn 3 Brimaz followed by Turn 4 Eidolon bestow is fucking disgusting and I should just make a deck that is 4 of each of those and then 52 lands

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    Take out archangel, put in precinct captain

    Take out sheep, put in spirit of the labyrinth. Ethereal armor makes Spirit get out of hand quickly.

    You need a spot for a one drop, put in Soldier of the Pantheon

    You need countless battles to be a 4-of

    My roommate has made a mono white aggro deck and its crazy good. He is hoping nobody figures it out, but if it becomes popular he'll stop playing it and I can start winning again

  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2014
    Also: Boros reckoner

    tugga on
  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Sunbond doesn't seem like something I'd wanna play, its too clunky + slow

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    oh yeah its not a good deck I just wanted to try and play with the life gain into counters thing

    some of the stuff there I would definitely keep if I was gonna make it a real deck (along with those suggestions)

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    I tried doing the same but white green around voracious wurm and it didnt workout. Lifegain to counters is clunky and way too dependent on the stars aligning.

    Instead id rather focus on pure counter gain vis a vis white green with the journey cards.

  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    well the original idea was white blue and sunbond on sage of hours I just had a lot of white creatures so I made a white only version first

    which led to the predictable lesson of "an incredible mythic with an incredible rare is way stronger than a gimmick buff"

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    my current project is to try and find a deck I like for prophetic flamespeaker

    my two non-red devotion ideas are either in some red aggro deck with a bunch of one drops, everflame eidolon, titan's strength, rubblebelt maaka

    or alongside boros reckoner with a ton of cheap burn, spite of mogis, trying to curve into dictate of the twin gods

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    my current project is to try and find a deck I like for prophetic flamespeaker

    my two non-red devotion ideas are either in some red aggro deck with a bunch of one drops, everflame eidolon, titan's strength, rubblebelt maaka

    or alongside boros reckoner with a ton of cheap burn, spite of mogis, trying to curve into dictate of the twin gods

    Hey I've been building around him too
    22 Creatures
    3 Experiment One
    4 Rakdos Cackler
    4 Burning-Tree Emissary
    3 Firefist Striker
    4 Prophetic Flamespeaker
    4 Ghor-Clan Rampager

    11 Instants
    4 Titan's Strength
    3 Magma Jet
    4 Lightning Strike

    6 Enchantments
    3 Dragon Mantle
    3 Madcap Skills

    21 Lands
    4 Forest
    9 Mountain
    4 Stomping Ground
    4 Temple of Abandon

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    tugga wrote: »
    Take out archangel, put in precinct captain

    Take out sheep, put in spirit of the labyrinth. Ethereal armor makes Spirit get out of hand quickly.

    You need a spot for a one drop, put in Soldier of the Pantheon

    You need countless battles to be a 4-of

    My roommate has made a mono white aggro deck and its crazy good. He is hoping nobody figures it out, but if it becomes popular he'll stop playing it and I can start winning again

    Does he realize it's been figured out for months except in the "strictly better with black" part? And when jou is out it's more like "you're bad to not play the black"

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    This has been a public service announcement from the "you did not think of it first" association

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    The Betgirl
  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    blackbeard has anyone thought of my junk skybind reanimator/blinker deck with eido of blossoms, pharika, triad of fates, whip, abhorrent overlord and gary

    because if someone could tell me my deck ideas are 100% dumb from a position of authority it would save me a lot of time

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    The Betman wrote: »
    my current project is to try and find a deck I like for prophetic flamespeaker

    my two non-red devotion ideas are either in some red aggro deck with a bunch of one drops, everflame eidolon, titan's strength, rubblebelt maaka

    or alongside boros reckoner with a ton of cheap burn, spite of mogis, trying to curve into dictate of the twin gods

    Hey I've been building around him too
    22 Creatures
    3 Experiment One
    4 Rakdos Cackler
    4 Burning-Tree Emissary
    3 Firefist Striker
    4 Prophetic Flamespeaker
    4 Ghor-Clan Rampager

    11 Instants
    4 Titan's Strength
    3 Magma Jet
    4 Lightning Strike

    6 Enchantments
    3 Dragon Mantle
    3 Madcap Skills

    21 Lands
    4 Forest
    9 Mountain
    4 Stomping Ground
    4 Temple of Abandon

    dang, seems like a super efficient use of BTE

    I've been trying to stick mono-red, but ghor-clan does look tasty on him

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    I'm not quite sure what a sidebaord consists of yet outside of Wasteland Viper but I'm gonna goof around with this build for a bit

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    So here's this W/G Planeswalker build I came up with
    Creature (13)
    3x Bassara Tower Archer
    3x Charging Badger
    4x Heroes' Bane
    3x Hundred-Handed One

    Land (24)
    11x Forest
    9x Plains
    4x Temple of Plenty

    Instant (11)
    3x Ajani's Presence
    4x Reprisal
    4x Solidarity of Heroes

    Enchantment (9)
    2x Dictate of Karametra
    4x Ordeal of Heliod
    3x Ordeal of Nylea

    Artifact (2)
    2x Godsend

    Planeswalker (1)
    1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes

    thoughts?

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    that is

    really low on creatures

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    The Betman wrote: »
    I'm not quite sure what a sidebaord consists of yet outside of Wasteland Viper but I'm gonna goof around with this build for a bit

    Viper is real as hell and don't let anyone tell you otherwise

    It helped a ruric thar take down 2 d-demons one time

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    The Betgirl
  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    So here's this W/G Planeswalker build I came up with
    Creature (13)
    3x Bassara Tower Archer
    3x Charging Badger
    4x Heroes' Bane
    3x Hundred-Handed One

    Land (24)
    11x Forest
    9x Plains
    4x Temple of Plenty

    Instant (11)
    3x Ajani's Presence
    4x Reprisal
    4x Solidarity of Heroes

    Enchantment (9)
    2x Dictate of Karametra
    4x Ordeal of Heliod
    3x Ordeal of Nylea

    Artifact (2)
    2x Godsend

    Planeswalker (1)
    1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes

    thoughts?

    If youcould get your hands on them, Polukranos and green mana dorks are always good

    Also if you were closer id totally loan you Korean foil hundred hands for that

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    already got 4 hundred-handeds

    cause that card is just hilarious and awesome in every fucking way

    what do you mean green mana dorks? like green creature tap for mana cards?

  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    edited April 2014
    yeah, you got it, mana dorks are like llanowar elves, cheap creatures that tap for mana

    as is I'd say def more creatures, if you wanna keep your big boys then elves and such for sure would be a good addition

    cause right now you've got very few options until turn 4/5, what with only 3 creatures at 1cmc, 3 creatures at 2cmc, and a bunch of enchantments/instants/artifacts that are cheap but depend on you having one of those 6 creatures in play

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Solidarity of Heroes seems pretty narrow in that build - it's only ever going to do anything after an Ordeal or after you've gotten your one Ajani going. There aren't any heroic creatures to generate their own counters, and Heroes' Bane can double his own.

    The deck is sort of going in a lot of different directions. If you're trying to ramp into a big Heroes' Bane to win, try some mana elves, Nythos and maybe Nylea to make sure he can trample over chump blockers, and some Mending Touch/Ranger's Guile to protect him from removal. If you're trying to make Ordeals work, you'll need a lot more one-drops (maybe Gladecover Scout).

  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    maybe something more like this?
    Creature (18)
    2x Bassara Tower Archer
    4x Elvish Mystic
    4x Heroes' Bane
    4x Hundred-Handed One
    4x Sylvan Caryatid

    Enchantment (8)
    4x Ordeal of Heliod
    4x Ordeal of Nylea

    Land (24)
    11x Forest
    9x Plains
    4x Temple of Plenty

    Instant (8)
    4x Ajani's Presence
    4x Solidarity of Heroes

    Artifact (1)
    1x Godsend

    Planeswalker (1)
    1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes

  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Solidarity of Heroes seems pretty narrow in that build - it's only ever going to do anything after an Ordeal or after you've gotten your one Ajani going. There aren't any heroic creatures to generate their own counters, and Heroes' Bane can double his own.

    The deck is sort of going in a lot of different directions. If you're trying to ramp into a big Heroes' Bane to win, try some mana elves, Nythos and maybe Nylea to make sure he can trample over chump blockers, and some Mending Touch/Ranger's Guile to protect him from removal. If you're trying to make Ordeals work, you'll need a lot more one-drops (maybe Gladecover Scout).

    counters also work with the hundred-handed ones, but i definitely need trample in here

  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    And yes by mana dorks I in particular meant elvish mystic and caryatid

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

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    ???

  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited April 2014
    Oghulk wrote: »
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

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    ???

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    Armadillo Cloak grants trample and a form of not-quite-lifelink

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    It's amazing how much better one is than the other based on such a slight wording change.

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    So here's this piece
    Creature (18)
    4x Elvish Mystic
    4x Golden Hind
    3x Heroes' Bane
    3x Hundred-Handed One
    4x Sylvan Caryatid

    Enchantment (4)
    4x Unflinching Courage

    Planeswalker (1)
    1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes

    Instant (12)
    4x Ajani's Presence
    4x Gods Willing
    4x Solidarity of Heroes

    Land (24)
    11x Forest
    9x Plains
    4x Temple of Plenty

    Artifact (1)
    1x Godsend

    and doing test plays i'm swinging for lethal on turn 6 or less, so...

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=253587&type=card
    ???

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=220498&type=card

    Armadillo Cloak grants trample and a form of not-quite-lifelink

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=369074&type=card

    It's amazing how much better one is than the other based on such a slight wording change.

    Sadly new Arma-cloak doesn't work as a pseudo Pacifism.

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=253587&type=card
    ???

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=220498&type=card

    Armadillo Cloak grants trample and a form of not-quite-lifelink

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=369074&type=card

    It's amazing how much better one is than the other based on such a slight wording change.

    Sadly new Arma-cloak doesn't work as a pseudo Pacifism.

    I must be missing something, because I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=253587&type=card
    ???

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=220498&type=card

    Armadillo Cloak grants trample and a form of not-quite-lifelink

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=369074&type=card

    It's amazing how much better one is than the other based on such a slight wording change.

    Sadly new Arma-cloak doesn't work as a pseudo Pacifism.

    I must be missing something, because I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

    Armadillo Cloak gives life to the person that control the Enchantment.

    Unflinching Courage gives life to the person that controls the creature.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=253587&type=card
    ???

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=220498&type=card

    Armadillo Cloak grants trample and a form of not-quite-lifelink

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=369074&type=card

    It's amazing how much better one is than the other based on such a slight wording change.

    Sadly new Arma-cloak doesn't work as a pseudo Pacifism.

    I must be missing something, because I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

    Old lifelink ("whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life") was a triggered ability, and on Cloak and Spirit Link etc. it was an ability of the aura, not the creature. So if you plonked an Armadillo Cloak on your opponent's creature, whenever it dealt damage, the ability would trigger and you would gain that much life; usually it meant you took no damage when it attacked you.

    New lifelink is a creature ability that means "damage dealt by this creature gains its controller that much life"; Unflinching Courage grants it to the enchanted creature. So if you put Courage on your opponent's creature, your opponent will be the one gaining the life, not you.

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    If you go for more creatures, you could also play advent of the wurm and for trample the armadillo cloak thing I forget the name of in rtr is an option

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=253587&type=card
    ???

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=220498&type=card

    Armadillo Cloak grants trample and a form of not-quite-lifelink

    Image.ashx?multiverseid=369074&type=card

    It's amazing how much better one is than the other based on such a slight wording change.

    Sadly new Arma-cloak doesn't work as a pseudo Pacifism.

    I must be missing something, because I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

    Old lifelink ("whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life") was a triggered ability, and on Cloak and Spirit Link etc. it was an ability of the aura, not the creature. So if you plonked an Armadillo Cloak on your opponent's creature, whenever it dealt damage, the ability would trigger and you would gain that much life; usually it meant you took no damage when it attacked you.

    New lifelink is a creature ability that means "damage dealt by this creature gains its controller that much life"; Unflinching Courage grants it to the enchanted creature. So if you put Courage on your opponent's creature, your opponent will be the one gaining the life, not you.

    Oooooh, okay.

    I initially thought that's what it might be, but I couldn't figure out why it would be that way.

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    tugga wrote: »
    Take out archangel, put in precinct captain

    Take out sheep, put in spirit of the labyrinth. Ethereal armor makes Spirit get out of hand quickly.

    You need a spot for a one drop, put in Soldier of the Pantheon

    You need countless battles to be a 4-of

    My roommate has made a mono white aggro deck and its crazy good. He is hoping nobody figures it out, but if it becomes popular he'll stop playing it and I can start winning again

    Does he realize it's been figured out for months except in the "strictly better with black" part? And when jou is out it's more like "you're bad to not play the black"

    I am the one currently running black white so that is off limits in his book

  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    The Betman wrote: »
    I'm not quite sure what a sidebaord consists of yet outside of Wasteland Viper but I'm gonna goof around with this build for a bit

    Viper is real as hell and don't let anyone tell you otherwise

    It helped a ruric thar take down 2 d-demons one time

    Thats rad as hell

    I realized that what prophetic flamespeaker wants.... is a bow of nylea

    Steam PSN: YerFriendMolly
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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Side note: any good self shuffle effects ib standard right now in rg? Unravel seems like a decent thing

    Steam PSN: YerFriendMolly
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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    The Betman wrote: »
    The Betman wrote: »
    I'm not quite sure what a sidebaord consists of yet outside of Wasteland Viper but I'm gonna goof around with this build for a bit

    Viper is real as hell and don't let anyone tell you otherwise

    It helped a ruric thar take down 2 d-demons one time

    Thats rad as hell

    I realized that what prophetic flamespeaker wants.... is a bow of nylea

    yeah I was like WELL HE MUST ATTACK *tee hee*

    and he snap blocked

    bloodrush, fight the other one w/domri. proceed to the laugh phase as I topdeck my 2nd copy right after

    and uh the only in color self shuffle I can think of is signal the clans but its not good

    Daebunz on
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