The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Feel the loving embrace of the cosmic tentacles with [Magic: The Gathering]
never die
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
This thread is for discussing all things Magic the Gathering.
I saw a fun combo earlier with All Will Be One and The Millennium Calendar and I love it.
I saw a fun combo earlier with All Will Be One and The Millennium Calendar and I love it.
Whippy on
0
This discussion has been closed.
Posts
That certainly seems like it might be a faster kill than building up to 1000 counters.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
I've only played one game with it, it generated a big mana pool right away, and then I was suddenly cascading and taking extra upkeeps and doing all sorts of shit. I also got both 12 and 13 on the board early and so I was able to play like 20-25 mana worth of spells on turn 6.
Played Timey Wimey again, but I used 11 and Amy Pond as commanders this time. That's a fun combo, doesn't seem to do much, but it sneaks up on you. Eventually I had a bunch of 3/2's and 2/2's on the board and 11 lets you pay 2 colorless to make a power of 3 or less unblockable, so, I started hitting my opponents with 28 unblockable damage.
EDIT: Oh also I already miss the Extra Life event, those decks were fun to play with and I love smashing precons against each other like that.
Also helps me save gold until either the dog shit eldraine or all will be one limited formats shift.
Avoiding mirrors was probably implemented specifically because BW lifegain was a deck.
E: Also it is extremely depressing playing No Bans, All Access and opponents just coming in with 250 card piles or draft chaff decks.
I wouldn't say I noticed necessarily any criticism, but I would say that for an enfranchised player, it's kind of just a pretty traditional Naya Ramp Into Big Fatties deck, with a dinosaur flavour. I've seen the play pattern here before and I don't feel particularly surprised by anything. It's a strategy that a lot of people like and they supported it. For a kid who presumably does not have my jaded gamer heart, this'll probably all be cool new stuff, and they say "dinosaur" on them.
I wouldn't say any of them do anything especially uncommon. You've got a naya ramp deck, a simic lands/counters deck, an orzhov aristocrats deck, and a grixis reanimator deck, all with creature type synergies. Although there's some really good cards for adjacent strategies in some of them (the vampire deck for instance also has good lifegain synergies with all the 1/1 lifelinkers it can dump onto the board). Still, there's nothing wrong with what works, and dinosaurs can do some really, really stupid things (Anyone who's ever seen Gishath get through for 6+ knows how fast that deteriorates)
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
LOTR scry decks are terrifying when they ramp correctly.
I kept modifying my rat deck throughout this set because I kept finding things that wouldn't give enough oomph or weren't as good as I initially thought.
But I'm still climbing each month to about Plat 3 or 4 with it, and that's through very casual play. But I also play Standard.
I like it a lot! I'm looking forward to watching my favorite streamers draft it and see how the limited environment plays out.
Journey to the center of the earth plus lost dino civilization. Oozes flavor.
@Doodmann here's what I've been using, modify it as you desire:
Deck
4 Lord Skitter's Butcher (WOE) 99
10 Swamp (LTR) 267
1 Ogre Chitterlord (WOE) 319
2 Lord Skitter, Sewer King (WOE) 97
2 Twisted Sewer-Witch (WOE) 114
4 Tangled Colony (WOE) 113
9 Mountain (LTR) 269
4 Harried Spearguard (WOE) 135
1 Virtue of Persistence (WOE) 115
1 Torch the Tower (WOE) 153
4 Blackcleave Cliffs (ONE) 248
1 Drown in Ichor (ONE) 91
3 Gnawing Crescendo (WOE) 131
2 Voracious Vermin (WOE) 116
1 Redcap Gutter-Dweller (WOE) 146
2 Rat Out (WOE) 103
1 Karumonix, the Rat King (ONE) 98
2 Totentanz, Swarm Piper (WOE) 216
1 Eaten Alive (MID) 99
1 Corrupted Conviction (MOM) 98
2 Song of Totentanz (WOE) 150
1 Sulfurous Springs (DMU) 256
1 Gnawing Vermin (BRO) 101
Yeah, I'm excited for the combination of a lot of little solid role player cards that might make lists (1 mana green explore dude!), some potential for the stuff that flips into lands, and Discover doing some dumb shit or value shit or dumb value shit
They still make those but they’re called “Challenger decks” and they’re designed to be kind of like an intro to a constructed format for Standard or Pioneer.
The last set came out in 2022 but they seem to still be available online.
Or if you just want any preconstructed 60 card decks, there's starter kits that come with two decks.
There's a 2023 one, a 2022 one, and a Lord of the Rings one.
The planeswalker focus was an attempt to make them more exciting with a flashy card type with a face character and reasonable consistency from the custom tutors, but that still failed, and Commander decks sidestepped all those issues because they can reprint a lot more exciting cards and make newer exciting cards that are a lot easier to make bad enough it doesn't get scalped but still fun for the very broad power band commander tends to be played at.
Usually, yeah. The 40K decks, in particular, are still bonkers expensive. The Doctor Who decks, by comparison, are very cheap. Grabbed one of them for $35.
But, if you don't like mono-black or artifacts, the other 40k decks you can find from like $45-$60 bucks and are still fairly potent and well designed. Worth the premium price I'd say.
Like, yeah, Iona sucks in cEDH and against 90% of decks, sure, but that doesn't mean that going back to the days of the one mono-color player being locked out while everybody else plays Magic are a good thing, and "just run Duplicant and All is Dust in every monocolor deck" was dumb in 2012 and is just deranged in 2023.
E: More broadly, most of the "does nothing except end games with a wet fart or creates a miserable experience" bans make a degree of sense with their banlist goals, even if those cards are very bad and worse than other "I win" cards.
And originally they banned Painter's Servant instead of Iona. You will note that nobody really plays Painter's Servant outside of a couple specific commanders (It's very good for Oona, it's a two-card infinite mill with Grindstone, etc).
I have a few cards I really think should be banned that aren't (Seedborn Muse isn't Prophet of Kruphix but it sure does feel like they're taking a new turn on everyone's turn with it still any time it shows up), but aside from bringing back banned as commander (/companion. Lutri would be fine in the 99) I wouldn't really remove anything on the list I think.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
There are still a few brain scratchers on the Commander ban list, I feel, and there's a whole lot of cards I think should be swapped in if those are removed to prevent them from becoming immediately broken. Like, Panoptic Mirror is a sick card! It can do all kinds of fun and/or goofy shit. But as long as Time Warp and the 15 cards that do that are legal in the format, we can't have our cool artifact. But, somehow, the response was to ban Panoptic Mirror instead of the cards people find irritating to begin with.