Lost CanuckWorld's Greatest Escape ArtistDoctor Vundabar's Murder MachineRegistered Userregular
I pulled a Domri in my Arena sealed packs and he’s a lot of fun. In both games I’ve gotten him out, my opponent has conceded rather than let me use his ult.
Won a second commander pod with Baral out, castung Mission Briefing into flashback High Tide into cast baby Niv into equip swiftfoot into respond to removal with Frantic Search into pull Snapcaster and net mana into flash back Remand into flash Ophidian Eye on Niv into killing two people into rewinding my own Opt to untap enough land to Loot away and then cast memory to have enough cards in library to kill the last guy.
Undergrowth isn't a keyword, it's an ability word :P
You know what I meant
0
Options
astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
edited January 2019
5-1'd a traditional draft with Rakdos control starring:
Theatre of Pain
3 Skewer the Critics
2 Get the Point
3 other removal spells
3 Goblin Gathering and their best bud, Priest of the Forgotten Gods.
Had my first boarded in Ill-Gotten Inheritence as well, as pseudo removal for the other dude's Inheritence :P .
Edit: The game I lost featured the 1/1000000 sequence of Get the Point to put us both in top deck mode. I'm at 9, they are at 12. I see Priest on scry and figure it is awful on an empty board and bottom. Next 3 draws are Goblin Gatherings 1-3. I die slowly to two beefy boys.
Undergrowth isn't a keyword, it's an ability word :P
You know what I meant
Nitpicky joking aside, not really. These abilities are incredibly straightforward IMO.
Addendum: Cast this during your main phase and get a bonus
Afterlife: When this dies, make a token (or more).
Spectacle: ... Ok, Spectacle is a little wordy. I'll give you that one.
Riot: This enters either with a counter or tapped and attacking.
Adapt: Put counters on this if it doesn't already have them.
If you're a new player I can see this being slightly overwhelming, but overall I think it's less complicated than the ability suite in Guilds (Mentor was tricky, Convoke is weird even on its third reprint, and Surveil has a lot more strategic options than, say, Riot). For a veteran player it's just riffs on Bloodthirst, Unleash, and Monstrous plus an incredibly common line of text (make a token when this dies) and Addendum.
KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
apparently Adapt was a little complicated for my last opponent, who had a Zegana with a couple counters on her already and then tried to Adapt her. Womp womp.
I haven't played magic in a competetive sense really ever mind you so in that context you could consider me a new player, most of my magic experience is from kitchen table games with hand me down cards circa invasion or so. But I mean I threw a deck together in guilds that worked and drafted twice and felt like I could see good combos there and did ok but playing sealed with this just left me at a loss for what is actually good about some of these abilities.
Presumably it was there to help Karn get stuff on the board, because the only non-planeswalker spells I saw were Settle and Cleansing Nova
0
Options
Kevin CristI make the devil hit his kneesand say the 'our father'Registered Userregular
Oh god this game sometimes.
Him: mono White lifegain
Me Sultai control
I end up stealing his Ajani with the Reborn Saga, kept it alive long enough to use the ult. But he had Warleaders and Pridemates that just grew huge. One pridemate reached 37/37 because I bottom decked my draw and exile removal. he had another Ajani in addition to those welcome enchants buffing and bringing back the Pridemates. As well as protecting his ajani with a few settle the wreakages while I was getting mana flooded and blocking with the tokens. Finally was able to exile the damn things and punch Ajani then him in the face.
Mydecklist, baised on a streamer's deck but he had Karns instead of the Tyrants.:
Search for Azcanta x2
Moment of Craving x 2
Thought Erasure x 4
Assassin's Trophy x 3
Sinister Sabotage x 4
Cry of the Carnarium x 3
Chemister's Insight x 2
Devious Cover-up x 2
Ritual of Soot x 2
Vraska's Contempt x 2
Wilderness Reclamation x 2 (my new fav card for Sultai)
Eldest Reborn x 3
Carnage Tyrant x 3
Island x 5
Swamp x 2
Drowned Catacombs x 4
Watery Grave x 4
Overgrown Tomb x 4
Woodland Cemetery x 3
Hinterland Harbor x 4
Sealed is not necessarily a great barometer but my initial impression is that this is a less interesting limited format than the last one. I think simic green and gruul green just overlap too much and the decks there feel very samey
0
Options
Dogbone33I bleed Red and Gold!State of ConfusionRegistered Userregular
It turns out playing rakdos really does stop the show. That card is a beating.
Play Diablo 3 RoS with me. PSN-Dogbone19
Play Fanduel. One Day Fantasy Leagues use my referral
astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
edited January 2019
So glad I decided to pump $20 into Arena after cruising on free to play for awhile. 4 sealed and 3 drafts later and I'm sitting on 4500+ in gems and a good chunk of wildcards/rares for future use.
The 6 Goblin Gathering deck was an absolute blast to play. I tabled 3 from the first pack when I was already in Gruul aggro. The joy of casting number 5 or so and seeing the opponent's cursor double checking your yard is palpable.
Kevin CristI make the devil hit his kneesand say the 'our father'Registered Userregular
Played a few games verses an Esper Mill Deck, using that one new planeswalker that exiles stuff from the GY. lost the first match but won the second by catching them with tapped mana to counter stuff and rip stuff from thier hand. Still only had 10 cards left in my deck. (Using the same Sultai deck I posted about earlier)
I would say it's less fun to play against than Nexus decks.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
More than one guy I played at the prerelease was mad because of the rares I was using.
I went Orzhov, but opened like, 2 Rakdos bombs and some rakdos removal/card advantage.
Turns out hellkites are good!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
0
Options
KayWhat we need...Is a little bit of PANIC.Registered Userregular
More than one guy I played at the prerelease was mad because of the rares I was using.
I went Orzhov, but opened like, 2 Rakdos bombs and some rakdos removal/card advantage.
Turns out hellkites are good!
Hellkite is a Gruul card, tho! It has the Gruul watermark and everything!
My prerelease was a wash. I had a mediocre Rakdos deck, and a mediocre Azorius deck in there. I ended up splashing white (via a pair of plains and an Orzhov Locket, no Orzhov Guildgates) for some efficient afterlife fliers and Mortify, but the power just wasn't there.
KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Ethereal Absolution is an interesting card for standard but goddamn, it is terrible to have it at rare in limited. Especially now that I mostly just play Arena so getting a playset of any particular mythic is much easier than shelling out $200+ for a set of Teferis.
I had a decent board position both games before it came down, my opponent had one creature, and I suddenly just couldn't attack at all. It's way too much.
Posts
Just like Addendum!
Nintendo Switch friend code: SW-4012-4821-3053
This probably isn't helping with the confusion bud
ineedmayo.com Eidolon Journal Updated
Fun!
You know what I meant
Theatre of Pain
3 Skewer the Critics
2 Get the Point
3 other removal spells
3 Goblin Gathering and their best bud, Priest of the Forgotten Gods.
Had my first boarded in Ill-Gotten Inheritence as well, as pseudo removal for the other dude's Inheritence :P .
Edit: The game I lost featured the 1/1000000 sequence of Get the Point to put us both in top deck mode. I'm at 9, they are at 12. I see Priest on scry and figure it is awful on an empty board and bottom. Next 3 draws are Goblin Gatherings 1-3. I die slowly to two beefy boys.
Nitpicky joking aside, not really. These abilities are incredibly straightforward IMO.
Addendum: Cast this during your main phase and get a bonus
Afterlife: When this dies, make a token (or more).
Spectacle: ... Ok, Spectacle is a little wordy. I'll give you that one.
Riot: This enters either with a counter or tapped and attacking.
Adapt: Put counters on this if it doesn't already have them.
If you're a new player I can see this being slightly overwhelming, but overall I think it's less complicated than the ability suite in Guilds (Mentor was tricky, Convoke is weird even on its third reprint, and Surveil has a lot more strategic options than, say, Riot). For a veteran player it's just riffs on Bloodthirst, Unleash, and Monstrous plus an incredibly common line of text (make a token when this dies) and Addendum.
I'm so fucking happy for that guy
I also got beat by Mono Red, but It Has Skewer the Critics, and that guy can go fuck himself
The former
Presumably it was there to help Karn get stuff on the board, because the only non-planeswalker spells I saw were Settle and Cleansing Nova
Him: mono White lifegain
Me Sultai control
I end up stealing his Ajani with the Reborn Saga, kept it alive long enough to use the ult. But he had Warleaders and Pridemates that just grew huge. One pridemate reached 37/37 because I bottom decked my draw and exile removal. he had another Ajani in addition to those welcome enchants buffing and bringing back the Pridemates. As well as protecting his ajani with a few settle the wreakages while I was getting mana flooded and blocking with the tokens. Finally was able to exile the damn things and punch Ajani then him in the face.
Mydecklist, baised on a streamer's deck but he had Karns instead of the Tyrants.:
Moment of Craving x 2
Thought Erasure x 4
Assassin's Trophy x 3
Sinister Sabotage x 4
Cry of the Carnarium x 3
Chemister's Insight x 2
Devious Cover-up x 2
Ritual of Soot x 2
Vraska's Contempt x 2
Wilderness Reclamation x 2 (my new fav card for Sultai)
Eldest Reborn x 3
Carnage Tyrant x 3
Island x 5
Swamp x 2
Drowned Catacombs x 4
Watery Grave x 4
Overgrown Tomb x 4
Woodland Cemetery x 3
Hinterland Harbor x 4
Steam: YOU FACE JARAXXUS| Twitch.tv: CainLoveless
Having access to Dovin, HoK, and Gideon was super good for early drops in superfriends
So naturally my blue/white pool was trash and I built 5-color Riot at the Gates.
3-1 is a good start. Lost in 4th round to the nuts Orzhov deck featuring promo Seraph of the Scales and like 8 removal spells. It happens.
2 biomancer's familiar, 1 slimefoot the stowaway, and 1 ruthless knave
is an infinite damage combo.
I fukkin'
Love this ooze
You should add an E on the end of your name.
Play Fanduel. One Day Fantasy Leagues use my referral
Be my friend on Magic Online! Dogbone19 is me.
Nintendo Switch friend code: SW-4012-4821-3053
Play Fanduel. One Day Fantasy Leagues use my referral
Be my friend on Magic Online! Dogbone19 is me.
2-1-1 with Temur (allegedly Simic). Hey, when you don't open creatures or fixing you have to get drastic.
8-3-1 overall, not a bad day.
The 6 Goblin Gathering deck was an absolute blast to play. I tabled 3 from the first pack when I was already in Gruul aggro. The joy of casting number 5 or so and seeing the opponent's cursor double checking your yard is palpable.
I would say it's less fun to play against than Nexus decks.
Steam: YOU FACE JARAXXUS| Twitch.tv: CainLoveless
I went Orzhov, but opened like, 2 Rakdos bombs and some rakdos removal/card advantage.
Turns out hellkites are good!
Hellkite is a Gruul card, tho! It has the Gruul watermark and everything!
My prerelease was a wash. I had a mediocre Rakdos deck, and a mediocre Azorius deck in there. I ended up splashing white (via a pair of plains and an Orzhov Locket, no Orzhov Guildgates) for some efficient afterlife fliers and Mortify, but the power just wasn't there.
3DS FCode: 1993-7512-8991
Opened a sick gruul pool yesterday. Ethereal Absolution is absolutely broken and not fun at all to play against.
Oh, bonus content:
ineedmayo.com Eidolon Journal Updated
ineedmayo.com Eidolon Journal Updated