Meanwhile Wizards takes forever with its PTs and doesn't even put up most of the GPs that do have Coverage.
It's kinda weird. You think Wizards would be all over that! It's money! Sure the YouTube ad money probably isn't great, but it wouldn't take much effort to put all the coverage up! It's basically free money!
You have the time to put up those ridiculous Walking The Planes videos (I'm not the biggest fan of them, though the 'Intervention' one with the coverage teams did make me laugh). How about ACTUAL Magic???
ACTUAL Magic that's already been filmed and commentated!!!
You just need some intern to slash it into Match sized chunks.
Why is SCG kicking your butt at this? We all know you love money. And this is free money!
won a game vs hexproof where I mulled to 5 on a 1 lander with triple merchant because im da bes
cracked 2 packs before we started for kruphix and deicide, then won 6 more which were all hot garbage aside from foil magma spray that I actually wanted
Me and two friends did a team sealed today. We won. The prize was a box and each of us took our third and started rummaging through them. My friend starts to open a pack and looks at the first card.
'Oh hey, Iroas". For a moment I think about how weird that is and then time freezes as everybody around us realizes what just happened. There is much cheering and he got his picture taken and we all congratulated him.
I'm not even bitter.
Nope.
Not even.
The bastard.
+1
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Two different lists, one that's more counterburn and one (saito's revised list) that uses a mana creature base to have actual ramp into those fatboy spells if it comes to it
I finished opening the box I got of Nyx, and it was... interesting. I suspect that it got screwed up by a god pack going in nearby in the line, because I got a lot of duplicate rares. Two Keranos, two Twinflame, two Master of the Feast, two Battlefield Thaumaturge, two Skybind, and two Temple of Epiphany.
I probably did okay in terms of value thanks to a Mana Confluence. Not spectacular, but whatevs.
Man, you've cracked/traded for at least 3 Brimaz's?
I've only got the one, and am considering trading it because any deck I want him in I want 4x.
Also: Fuckin' do it. You can take that shit into any room and put on a clinic. Most people aren't boarding against that type of deck. Just hold a few cards against control.
I'm just gonna say, not planning for a late game is pretty terrible deck construction. Some games are going to run long for any number of reasons. You need to be prepared for that eventuality.
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as a minor anthem note, I think I'd rather have 3x spear and 2x hall of triumph rather than vice versa
maybe even 2x of each? but not more hall than spear
also where's your requisite brave the elements to prot yer boys
I'm just gonna say, not planning for a late game is pretty terrible deck construction. Some games are going to run long for any number of reasons. You need to be prepared for that eventuality.
no, you should be trying to close a game out before that game has run its course in the case of the deck above. that is how aggro decks work by nature, not "terrible deck construction". not every deck intends to play a long game. trying to make a deck like that work at all stages of a match means you probably arent doing any one thing particularly well
most good white weenie decks end their curve at like 3 mana this format, for example. nowhere do I see them trying to shoehorn in archangel of thunes for "dat endgame playz". someone should have already lost by then because that is what the deck is designed to do
also I think 2 hall 2 spear is good just because they're legendary and you never wanna see a duplicate. I would just cut the dictates and a hall for x4 brave and possibly find room for more guys
tl;dr a deck intending to bring you from 20-0 as fast as possible is designed specifically so there is not an endgame, and such a phase of a match occuring has been how you beat them for the past eternity, as was written in the dead sea scrolls
The idea is that it's a bit more like monored devotion, it's 3 slots and it's a good idea to have a sudden trump. It's a fanatic of mogis. Also yes brave the elements please, probably replacing smite and revoke existence.
its a sudden trump if you're already winning. it is very different from monoR devo slamming out a dragon out of nowhere. fanatic is also, at absolute worst, a 4 power 1 mana cheaper dude on an empty board that will probably have haste and have bolted them due to hammer. dictate is very bad on an empty board
my issue with subpar "lategame" strats is the decks who are designed for lategame will do it better than you anyways
i think dictate of heliod belongs in some kind of midrange shell but white probably isnt there right now. There's a huge difference between slamming down a Fanatic of Mogis and slamming down your Dictate of Heliod, because 9 times out of then the fanatic is generating some other kind of card advantage via punching a dude in the face or killing a planeswalker. He doesn't need other permanents on board to make it worthwhile (it just makes it a bigger threat for 2 seconds) while the dictate absolutely needs creatures
you're gonna get blown out casting dictate of heliod in response to an obzedat, is what im saying
i think dictate of heliod belongs in some kind of midrange shell but white probably isnt there right now. There's a huge difference between slamming down a Fanatic of Mogis and slamming down your Dictate of Heliod, because 9 times out of then the fanatic is generating some other kind of card advantage via punching a dude in the face or killing a planeswalker. He doesn't need other permanents on board to make it worthwhile (it just makes it a bigger threat for 2 seconds) while the dictate absolutely needs creatures
you're gonna get blown out casting dictate of heliod in response to an obzedat, is what im saying
I could see it in a version of Esper humans or a BW midrange humans deck but Ghost dad and Daywalker are just better game enders.
I mean theres a reason its not exactly taking the world by storm except in commander
potentially standard playable dictates are probably the howling mine and grave pact (imo)
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Uh, Fanatic of Mogis does need other permanents on the board to make it worthwhile, unless you're saying a ping of damage to the face is a bevy of card advantage.
White weenie can't compete when two thirds of the viable competitive decks are dropping 5/5s or bigger on the regular (or at least, stuff with 4 toughness that can still take down the weenies)
Uh, Fanatic of Mogis does need other permanents on the board to make it worthwhile, unless you're saying a ping of damage to the face is a bevy of card advantage.
nah not saying its THE SWING, just saying it still does something
as a minor anthem note, I think I'd rather have 3x spear and 2x hall of triumph rather than vice versa
maybe even 2x of each? but not more hall than spear
also where's your requisite brave the elements to prot yer boys
I somehow missed that Hall was legendary, so I'll cut one. My thinking was "multiples of hall is WAY better than multiples of Spear, since multiples of spear are blanks" but since they're both legendary that doesn't apply.
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SCG usually does have its stuff up quick.
Meanwhile Wizards takes forever with its PTs and doesn't even put up most of the GPs that do have Coverage.
It's kinda weird. You think Wizards would be all over that! It's money! Sure the YouTube ad money probably isn't great, but it wouldn't take much effort to put all the coverage up! It's basically free money!
You have the time to put up those ridiculous Walking The Planes videos (I'm not the biggest fan of them, though the 'Intervention' one with the coverage teams did make me laugh). How about ACTUAL Magic???
ACTUAL Magic that's already been filmed and commentated!!!
You just need some intern to slash it into Match sized chunks.
Why is SCG kicking your butt at this? We all know you love money. And this is free money!
/rant
won a game vs hexproof where I mulled to 5 on a 1 lander with triple merchant because im da bes
cracked 2 packs before we started for kruphix and deicide, then won 6 more which were all hot garbage aside from foil magma spray that I actually wanted
The good news is I got bearer of the heavens'd turn 4 in draft! Which was actually just kind of funny to watch.
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Kaernos
Mana Confluence
Kruphix
Godsend
Prophetic Flamespeaker
Buncha other stuff. Mostly not good.
I also got 2x Bearer of Heavens, and am trying to build a "FUCK YOU AND FUCK ME!" deck with them.
edit:
Vraska
Kiora
Garruk
Xenagos
Domri Rade
Ajani
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If you wanna make this deck, you absolutely have to use the Gift of Immortality Combo
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'Oh hey, Iroas". For a moment I think about how weird that is and then time freezes as everybody around us realizes what just happened. There is much cheering and he got his picture taken and we all congratulated him.
I'm not even bitter.
Nope.
Not even.
The bastard.
Two different lists, one that's more counterburn and one (saito's revised list) that uses a mana creature base to have actual ramp into those fatboy spells if it comes to it
And I will never play so many at once ever again
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it also makes the healing sheep a super strong defender
Ain't no joke if you can slam that down on curve in any kind of heroic/weenie shell.
It is even better that on turn five you are going to play your land and swing in, they will block and you will play dictate.
I just know I'm going to eat an Enter the Infinite to the face on game day. That is the worst matchup for turbofog.
I probably did okay in terms of value thanks to a Mana Confluence. Not spectacular, but whatevs.
4x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
4x Fencing Ace
4x Hopeful Eidolon
3x Imposing Sovereign
4x Precinct Captain
3x Dictate of Heliod
3x Path of Bravery
3x Hall of Triumph
2x Spear of Heliod
2x Revoke Existence
3x Smite
3x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
18x Plains
May put this together since I can build it for like a $50 outlay.
I've only got the one, and am considering trading it because any deck I want him in I want 4x.
Also: Fuckin' do it. You can take that shit into any room and put on a clinic. Most people aren't boarding against that type of deck. Just hold a few cards against control.
and not something white weenie wants to be casting
the spears are enough imo
also I think that list is pretty creature light especially for white weenie style
maybe even 2x of each? but not more hall than spear
also where's your requisite brave the elements to prot yer boys
no, you should be trying to close a game out before that game has run its course in the case of the deck above. that is how aggro decks work by nature, not "terrible deck construction". not every deck intends to play a long game. trying to make a deck like that work at all stages of a match means you probably arent doing any one thing particularly well
most good white weenie decks end their curve at like 3 mana this format, for example. nowhere do I see them trying to shoehorn in archangel of thunes for "dat endgame playz". someone should have already lost by then because that is what the deck is designed to do
also I think 2 hall 2 spear is good just because they're legendary and you never wanna see a duplicate. I would just cut the dictates and a hall for x4 brave and possibly find room for more guys
my issue with subpar "lategame" strats is the decks who are designed for lategame will do it better than you anyways
you're gonna get blown out casting dictate of heliod in response to an obzedat, is what im saying
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I could see it in a version of Esper humans or a BW midrange humans deck but Ghost dad and Daywalker are just better game enders.
potentially standard playable dictates are probably the howling mine and grave pact (imo)
A list of things, should you be of the gifting persuasion
nah not saying its THE SWING, just saying it still does something
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STEAM!
I just love watching it being played. It's like Magic porn for me.
I'm fairly certain this card is real as hell, but nobody has really given it too much of a chance yet
I somehow missed that Hall was legendary, so I'll cut one. My thinking was "multiples of hall is WAY better than multiples of Spear, since multiples of spear are blanks" but since they're both legendary that doesn't apply.
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