I dont think Godsend is a very good card for what you wanna do. It's a 6 mana investment that you can be using for more pump cards. Launch the Fleet is probably very good in the mainboard and not the maybeboard, and its definitely better than Martial Glory. I don't know what number of Iroas you really want....
It's probably worth ditching Twinflame altogether, too. I don't think it's going to be big enough to warrant keeping around. Ajani's Presence and Fall of the Hammer are both definitely good enough to be mainboard cards.
It's doubtful that Godsend will ever find a place in Constructed. Equip costs greater than 2 tend to be a bad omen; Batterskull skirts this issue by virtue of only superficially being a piece of Equipment.
I feel like Loxodon Warhammer may have had a time to shine, but otherwise it's a lot of 3 or less to cast and Equip 2 — a standard seemingly dictated by the Swords (of X and Y).
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I would recommend someone play MTG for like 9 months before trying to get into an eternal format, then choose either Modern or Legacy, and spend some cash each month buying cards into the format they want.
I kind of fell into that trap on MTGO a little (despite having played paper years ago). Luckily I didn't spend much on the deck (like I think maybe just another $10 or something just for funs, no tournaments), then my brother and I encountered the infinite mana on turn 2 etc and to pauper we went.
I would recommend someone play MTG for like 9 months before trying to get into an eternal format, then choose either Modern or Legacy, and spend some cash each month buying cards into the format they want.
modern is quickly coming to the point where it is getting into legacy level costs for decks
Like one time I sort of was interested in building a Bruna deck, then was told that I would probably get shit on by the local EDH community for playing Bruna. Kinda NOPE'd my way out of the format after that.
I would recommend someone play MTG for like 9 months before trying to get into an eternal format, then choose either Modern or Legacy, and spend some cash each month buying cards into the format they want.
modern is quickly coming to the point where it is getting into legacy level costs for decks
Yeah, but at least WOTC has control over Modern prices by doing reprints, even if they are a bit slow in doing them.
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Like one time I sort of was interested in building a Bruna deck, then was told that I would probably get shit on by the local EDH community for playing Bruna. Kinda NOPE'd my way out of the format after that.
make a memnarch affinity deck and tell those people to go fuck themselves
Like one time I sort of was interested in building a Bruna deck, then was told that I would probably get shit on by the local EDH community for playing Bruna. Kinda NOPE'd my way out of the format after that.
make a memnarch affinity deck and tell those people to go fuck themselves
To be fair I was going to build a Bruna deck as a slow, control type build.
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Like one time I sort of was interested in building a Bruna deck, then was told that I would probably get shit on by the local EDH community for playing Bruna. Kinda NOPE'd my way out of the format after that.
make a memnarch affinity deck and tell those people to go fuck themselves
To be fair I was going to build a Bruna deck as a slow, control type build.
nowhere near as rude as augustin or memnarch or sen triplets or kaalia
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Like one time I sort of was interested in building a Bruna deck, then was told that I would probably get shit on by the local EDH community for playing Bruna. Kinda NOPE'd my way out of the format after that.
make a memnarch affinity deck and tell those people to go fuck themselves
To be fair I was going to build a Bruna deck as a slow, control type build.
nowhere near as rude as augustin or memnarch or sen triplets or kaalia
Or Omnath, Asuza, Lost but Seeking, Zur the Enchanter, Oloro, Animar, Nekusar the Mindrazer, Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Mayeal the Anima, Sharuum the Hedgemon, Azami, Lady of Scrolls, Jhoira of the Ghitu, Rafiq of the Many, Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Maelstrom Wanderer, The Mimeoplasm, Skitherix, the Blight Dragon, Riku of Two Reflections, Krenko, Mob Boss, or Karn, Silver Golem.
A Bruna deck can be good, but it is hardly a broken general compared to the stuff above.
My Ob Nixilus, the Fallen deck gets some complaints sometimes, usually when I Death Cloud for 5 with Crucible of Worlds, Sol Ring, Grim Monolith, and Mox Diamond out on turn 3. That deck still isn't T1 (maybe 1.5).
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haven't played in forever, finally got some recent matches in with my buddy via lackey
green devotion is pretty fun atm
also fun: dumb market festival ramp decks that drop turn 4 double walkers in nissa and fat garruk, even after missing that turn's land drop
I sometimes feel weird because I have no interest in EDH .
I have tried, many times, to get into EDH.
Ultimately the problem is that I just don't like singleton.
I thought I would have this problem, but there are so many redundant card effects and tutors that your games actually play out fairly similarly, like a 60 card Constructed deck.
EDH being a singleton format is what got me into it. It gave me a place to use all the singles I'd collected playing random drafts with my friends. Though a 100 card decks? Sometimes I find it a bit unwieldy but if it had the standard 60 card deck size I doubt you'd see some of the more odd cards being used.
I dont think Godsend is a very good card for what you wanna do. It's a 6 mana investment that you can be using for more pump cards. Launch the Fleet is probably very good in the mainboard and not the maybeboard, and its definitely better than Martial Glory. I don't know what number of Iroas you really want....
It's probably worth ditching Twinflame altogether, too. I don't think it's going to be big enough to warrant keeping around. Ajani's Presence and Fall of the Hammer are both definitely good enough to be mainboard cards.
I was already planning on ditching Martial Glory for Launch the Fleet for rotation, so thats good news.
I like the idea of Godsend, but yea, I have to agree that its a bit too expensive and basically does exactly what Iroas and Hammerfist already do.
Ajani's Presence is also a rotation spot taker from Boros Charm. I just don't know if I also want to have Fall of the Hammer and what to replace for it.
And post-rotation this seems to be turning from a R/W into W with a splash of R.
Yea, I have it in my sideboard for when I need direct removal that Ajani's Presence doesn't provide.
I forsee this working very well against creature based decks. Although Gods Willing is amazing against control, so we shall see.
Like one time I sort of was interested in building a Bruna deck, then was told that I would probably get shit on by the local EDH community for playing Bruna. Kinda NOPE'd my way out of the format after that.
make a memnarch affinity deck and tell those people to go fuck themselves
To be fair I was going to build a Bruna deck as a slow, control type build.
nowhere near as rude as augustin or memnarch or sen triplets or kaalia
is it ok if I play Kaalia but focus on destroying everything instead of actually winning
Gods willing doesn't protect against sweepers. Ajani's Presence is gonna be way better in a lot of matchups, I think.
Especially now that UW seems to be favoring Planar Cleansing over Banishing Light/DSphere. Pretty much the only removal it doesn't work on is Ajani's Presence.
Or Omnath, Asuza, Lost but Seeking, Zur the Enchanter, Oloro, Animar, Nekusar the Mindrazer, Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Mayeal the Anima, Sharuum the Hedgemon, Azami, Lady of Scrolls, Jhoira of the Ghitu, Rafiq of the Many, Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Maelstrom Wanderer, The Mimeoplasm, Skitherix, the Blight Dragon, Riku of Two Reflections, Krenko, Mob Boss, or Karn, Silver Golem.
That sounds like a who's who of my friend's commanders.
I finally had to break down and build an Omnath deck just to compete, and I gotta tell ya, Omnath into Hornet Queen into Overwhelming Stampede was glorious. When I finally put Helix Pinnacle in the deck, I realized I had probably taken things too far and dismantled it.
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so I'm going camping this weekend and like any good camper I want to bring some magic decks so we have something to do when the majesty of nature becomes simply too much
I also don't want to worry about losing anything of value in the woods so I want to build some pauper decks
Anybody know some fun pauper decks that can be built entirely (or mostly) with just RTR and Theros block cards? Because those are all I have
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A while ago some friends and I played a peasant-style Standard format where you make a 40 card deck with 4 uncommons, 1 rare, and the rest are commons. You could expand that to make 60 card decks (maybe 6-8 uncommons, 2-3 rares?); I made a white bestow/Ethereal Armor weenie deck (rare was Spear of Heliod), a green devotion deck (rare was Wild Beastmaster) and a black devotion deck (i forget what the rare was, but with Gary it doesn't really matter).
Gods willing doesn't protect against sweepers. Ajani's Presence is gonna be way better in a lot of matchups, I think.
I guess this is true.
Someone was saying that I should put some more creatures. I was thinking Akroan Skyguard would be perfect, but I'm not sure what to cut for it. Probably a instant/sorcery since I want to keep enchantments for Hero of Iroas and Eidilon of Countless Battles.
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Its a R/W Heroic Aggro Deck. I have a few ways of winning by turn 5. And a lot of ways to keep the board clear in case I don't win early.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/08-05-14-to-victory-1/
It's probably worth ditching Twinflame altogether, too. I don't think it's going to be big enough to warrant keeping around. Ajani's Presence and Fall of the Hammer are both definitely good enough to be mainboard cards.
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I feel like Loxodon Warhammer may have had a time to shine, but otherwise it's a lot of 3 or less to cast and Equip 2 — a standard seemingly dictated by the Swords (of X and Y).
"Hey newish player, why don't you play Legacy? I am sure you have $2000 just laying around."
"But it's cheaper in the long run!"
Just pick a deck you know nothing about for a format you know nothing about.
modern is quickly coming to the point where it is getting into legacy level costs for decks
Yeah, but at least WOTC has control over Modern prices by doing reprints, even if they are a bit slow in doing them.
make a memnarch affinity deck and tell those people to go fuck themselves
To be fair I was going to build a Bruna deck as a slow, control type build.
nowhere near as rude as augustin or memnarch or sen triplets or kaalia
Or Omnath, Asuza, Lost but Seeking, Zur the Enchanter, Oloro, Animar, Nekusar the Mindrazer, Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Mayeal the Anima, Sharuum the Hedgemon, Azami, Lady of Scrolls, Jhoira of the Ghitu, Rafiq of the Many, Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Maelstrom Wanderer, The Mimeoplasm, Skitherix, the Blight Dragon, Riku of Two Reflections, Krenko, Mob Boss, or Karn, Silver Golem.
A Bruna deck can be good, but it is hardly a broken general compared to the stuff above.
My Ob Nixilus, the Fallen deck gets some complaints sometimes, usually when I Death Cloud for 5 with Crucible of Worlds, Sol Ring, Grim Monolith, and Mox Diamond out on turn 3. That deck still isn't T1 (maybe 1.5).
green devotion is pretty fun atm
also fun: dumb market festival ramp decks that drop turn 4 double walkers in nissa and fat garruk, even after missing that turn's land drop
I have tried, many times, to get into EDH.
Ultimately the problem is that I just don't like singleton.
You could play Nekusar. Half your cards say "Do X damage when cards are drawn" and the other half say "Draw 7 cards".
I thought I would have this problem, but there are so many redundant card effects and tutors that your games actually play out fairly similarly, like a 60 card Constructed deck.
I was already planning on ditching Martial Glory for Launch the Fleet for rotation, so thats good news.
I like the idea of Godsend, but yea, I have to agree that its a bit too expensive and basically does exactly what Iroas and Hammerfist already do.
Ajani's Presence is also a rotation spot taker from Boros Charm. I just don't know if I also want to have Fall of the Hammer and what to replace for it.
And post-rotation this seems to be turning from a R/W into W with a splash of R.
it's not perfect removal but it's very good removal for a heroic deck specifically
I forsee this working very well against creature based decks. Although Gods Willing is amazing against control, so we shall see.
is it ok if I play Kaalia but focus on destroying everything instead of actually winning
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Especially now that UW seems to be favoring Planar Cleansing over Banishing Light/DSphere. Pretty much the only removal it doesn't work on is Ajani's Presence.
That sounds like a who's who of my friend's commanders.
I finally had to break down and build an Omnath deck just to compete, and I gotta tell ya, Omnath into Hornet Queen into Overwhelming Stampede was glorious. When I finally put Helix Pinnacle in the deck, I realized I had probably taken things too far and dismantled it.
And don't forget Sliver Overlord.
We could always organise a cockatrice/skype night once a week and just have a couple of drinks and bullshit back and forth if anyone is interested.
There is only one thing that matters, and that is the fact that there is a card (apparently a goblin?) named "Ankle Shanker"
I also don't want to worry about losing anything of value in the woods so I want to build some pauper decks
Anybody know some fun pauper decks that can be built entirely (or mostly) with just RTR and Theros block cards? Because those are all I have
I guess this is true.
Someone was saying that I should put some more creatures. I was thinking Akroan Skyguard would be perfect, but I'm not sure what to cut for it. Probably a instant/sorcery since I want to keep enchantments for Hero of Iroas and Eidilon of Countless Battles.
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Edit: Here you go.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/08-05-14-to-victory-1/
Slivers can be gross in EDH, but I think Child of Alara, Horde of Notions, and Progenitus are scarier 5C generals.
The indestructability is pretty real
In think Sliver Overlord is still the best commander. You can use it to tutor for Hivelord, or Queen, or Legion, or whatever answer you need.