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eSporks posted:I'd settle for any format really. I think the last one we had was koth right? Chandra Pyromaster was playable until they printed outpost siege.
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little munchkin posted:Eidolon is good against Ad Nauseam as well. With Pridemages to answer Phyrexian Unlife, you can keep them off the combo completely. Prevents cascade into Living End as well. Or Restore Balance if someone is playing that for some reason.
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Sigma-X posted:Defense Grid and City of Solitude are basically Duresses that are immune to Flusterstorm, and that you want to play early rather than holding for your critical turn like you do with discard spells. Also the aforementioned inability to top during your turn.
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suicidesteve posted:Oh right, I was thinking Eidolon was after they started giving you any rare as your promo. Nah that was the bullshit one where everyone was trying to get the white pack because of Dawnbringer Charioteers.
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Razzled posted:I'm super bummed that my little tier 2 modern deck somehow marauded it's way into a PTQ crushing deck that managed to get itself banned not 6 months after I bought all the pieces... GR titanshift maybe.
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L0cke17 posted:Luckily in their infinite wisdom, and in anticipation of this exact problem, WotC has produced a magical card to circumvent this issue entirely.
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standard.deviant posted:It feels like you're pretty much Leyline-or-bust against Burn and Ad Nauseam. Doesn't Ad Nauseam usually run at least one way to get around these types of things (e.g. Lab Maniac)?
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RIP MIracles
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Yeah I'm tempted to swap to UWR blade with maindeck blood moons.
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The March Hare posted:Guess who has two thumbs and just bought elves. Hot tip for those of you down for a good spec, people are selling SP+ cradles for ~$120 on MKM. So what you're saying is I should run engineered plague.
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EvilBeard posted:But it's already a well established reason for banning. Top was already banned in two other formats for this reason. Do I think they NEEDED to ban Top? No. Can I see why they did it? Yeah. It's not the worst decision they've made. Wait what other format besides modern?
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suicidesteve posted:You know what would make this deck better? A black splash for Deathrite and Abrupt Decay. And Leovolds right?
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I think thopterbalance was running enlightened tutor, but that was also a countertop deck. Presumably any kind of Etutor control like list is going to be running some sort of combo finish (e.g. RIP/Helm, Thopter/sword) that is tutorable by Etutor along with haymaker permanents like RIP, blood moon, etc.
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:this is the deck list i've waited my whole life to lay eyes on. it's beautiful And you need to get those out before you die to keranos triggers assuming your opponent doesn't have a creature with >3 toughness.
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Soul Glo posted:Are there any cards from Amonkhet that'll be staples (or at least playable) in non-rotating formats a la Fatal Push from AER that I ought to pick up? Some people are speculating that As Foretold might be playable since you can do stuff like cast Ancestral Vision, Living End, or Restore Balance from your hand, but I don't think there are any slam dunks like Fatal Push. Maybe Harsh Mentor in sideboards, but it's not as good when people aren't activating top a billion times per turn. kirtar fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Sampatrick posted:Do y'all think that the UB Faeriestill deck gets any better in nuLegacy? Do Faerie decks get better in general? Spellstutter Sprite is still the nut and we'll probably see less Decays which means Bitterblossom is probably a better threat. Can my dream deck of Esper Faerieblade be viable now? Not Esper, but http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=15126&d=291656&f=LE. Note: the Chandras are because he lost a bet.
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Tim Raines IRL posted:>.< no it's terrible I thought it said draw a card. Okay, that's just a one of. Your planeswalker options at 3 CMC in RUG are Domri Rade Jace Beleren Nissa, Steward of Elements Nissa, Voice of Zendikar Nissa, Sage Animist Saheeli Rai E: how did I forget Jace, Telepath Unbound? kirtar fucked around with this message at 18:03 on May 3, 2017 |
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C-Euro posted:Does the phrase "mana cost" in As Foretold let you do something like that? I'm honestly not sure if that's how it works, the wording is general enough that it should but it also doesn't line up with wording that they've used for other alternate cost effects in the past (like trying to Snapcast a Trap card for its trap cost) To me it looks like they're retemplating "without paying its Mana cost" as pay {0} instead.
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Star Man posted:Play Assemble the Legion every chance you get. That card didn't so much work for me in RTR-THS standard
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Death Bot posted:I played a copy in fog gates bc it dodged the pithing needles that hit all my other wincons That's actually the original reason I was playing it, but it also worked really well in UWR control because mono B basically couldn't do anything about it (nobody played illness in the ranks).
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I don't think Affinity has ever dropped out of Tier 1 if we use the Modern Nexus criteria
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:Speaking of which, have you read this? http://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2017/05/build-around-mee/ 61 cards without good justification 
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L0cke17 posted:#freetop If D&T is a specific target, would sulfur elemental be worth considering?
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L0cke17 posted:D&t isn't the specific target. It's for elves and d&t and grixis Pyromancer. I was going for if D&T is particularly prevalent in a local meta.
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Star Man posted:No it doesn't. Trinisphere just adds mana to the total casting cost of the card, but effects that change the total casting cost of a card do not change the converted mana cost. So where exactly is your disagreement? He is saying that the added casting cost from Trinisphere makes it possible to use Boseju or Cavern uncounterable mana where it might not otherwise be possible. This of course stops working if you drop a Blood Moon.
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L0cke17 posted:Elves, D&T (gently caress mom/sanctum prelate on 1), mentor/pyromancer mirrors, anything with DRS. It shines in basically every match where they try to win with a creature. Doesnt kill leovold obviously, but you have blasts and swords and snapcasters for that. Also doesnt do much vs Aluren besides hitting their deathrites, but still, its a really solid card right now. Being able to take cavern harpy off the board sounds OK vs Aluren, but it depends on the exact build and what they have in hand.
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Walked posted:The aim is to: Manaless dredge?
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Stangg posted:They are great... because they pushed down the price of actually nice full art lands (In my subjective opinion) They're great because now I can play mismatched, but also sort of matched full art lands (all different art, but John Avon).
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suicidesteve posted:Do you want to win or do you just want to play legacy? If you just want to play, Death and Taxes is just barely above unplayable and is the cheapest deck that's not super linear. Maverick is like Death and Taxes except in addition to not being able to beat midrange and having a hard time against control, you also can't beat combo. Stoneblade I don't think has been good ever, or at least in 5+ years. Miracles is fine but it still seems really bad to me. I hate the idea of relying on Search for Azcanta. Like if you're getting to a point where Search for Azcanta is good as a control deck, you've probably already won the game. I will say that once you've stabilized, Search for Azcanta makes it almost impossible for your opponent to claw back into the game. If you're playing Deathrite and not playing Delver or Jace, you're making a mistake. Also if you're not playing Deathrite you're making a mistake. Stoneblade was fine right after TNN was printed and people somehow couldn't figure out how to deal with it, though that's riding right up on the 5 year mark at this point. There was also a minor resurgence during cruise/dig meta, but both of these were more favorable to UWR delver and Deathblade than to Stoneblade. kirtar fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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suicidesteve posted:Those times you're talking about were the same time. I didn't feel like mentioning every time Stoneblade actually was good for 3 days, not that I think it was a good deck back then. And UWR Delver was never a good deck. UR Delver was the deck when Cruise was legal and Omnitell after that. They were offset by nearly a year since it was Commander 2013 and Khans of Tarkir.
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I haven't really had time to play recently, but Modern Affinity has been my longest running deck since I bought into Modern in 2014.
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TheKingofSprings posted:The bar for equipment to be playable in Modern is honestly pretty absurdly high, so I don’t see non-Swords/Skull hitting that mark. I could potentially see it tutoring for Sword of the Meek or Cranial Plating but that’s about it. And of course  at the idea of jitte ever being unbanned
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ilmucche posted:I think it's overhyped but can be a mean gotcha card out of sideboards Actually the only reason I had notion thief in my sideboard. Unfortunately I missed my opportunity to do it in favor of actually putting a threat on the board. The real gotcha was slamming back to basics with force backup the moment my opponent tapped out though.
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ilmucche posted:Every now and then I get blue decks with choke the same way. Feels good I had an awkward stare down where I had back to basics and my opponent had choke.
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