The card I associate most with Commander is actually Parallax Wave, as everyone in my local playgroup has it in his preferred deck - and it often results in a contest who can pull off better moves with it.
So far, I only play the L-formats (Limited, Legacy and eLder dragon highlander). With Modern establishing itself more and more in my area, I would like to join in on the fun.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Combo. Especially decks that allows me to burst out massive X-spells. Too bad High Tide isn't Modern legal ...
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): FNMs, local tournaments
Favorite Cards/Colors: Black/Blue/Green. Blue Sun's Zenith and similar stuff
Budget: I should be able to trade for or borrow most missing cards, so anything goes
Staples Owned: a huge amount of 1- and 2-ofs, thanks to EDH. Shocklands, some fetches, Legacy stuff. No Goyfs though (traded them for duals).
Note: Since I occasionally will both judge and play - if the tournament is small enough and at Regular level - the deck should not be too durdly.
5 colour draft: Any set that features the Domain mechanic (Invasion block, Alara block, Modern Masters), any Ravnican set, Conspiracy (my favoured Conspiracy archetype is '4-5 colour mess'). Throw in something like Legends if you're feeling experimental.
Chaos draft is great. Make sure to add a booster of Unglued or Unhinged if you play paper Magic.
The defenders, especially Guard Gomazoa (aka 'I don't care what you're attacking with, I'll just block') and Overgrown Battlement (turn 1 Joraga Treespeaker, turn 2 levelup + wall, turn 3 another wall, tap lands, speaker + first wall for 7, cast Pelakka Wurm ...)
'Oh, that's interesting. Thanks a lot! I'm sure I can make good use of it.'
He bade the professor farewell and left the laboratory, while unfolding the city map. That Ice peak sure sounds interesting. I know very little about frost pokémon. But the professor is right - I have to expand my team before I can go up there. Doduo is accustomed to the tropic Safari Zone, it won't like the cold.
With these thoughts, he walked through the city, towards the routes.
'Good afternoon, Professor Willow. I heard you're the local capacity when it comes to pokémon. I just arrived from Fuchsia City, and am planning to study pokémon in the wilds. Can you offer me any advice on interesting locations?'
Leaving the Trainer Registration Center, Phil unfolds a city map. Hmmm ... now where should I ... oh ... Pokémon Lab. This sounds interesting. He wanders through the garden in front of the lab, admiring the plants in bloom. Finally, he enters the building. He checks out the sign near the entrance, makes his way to Professor Willow's office and knocks at the door.
Name: Phil Neumann
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Hight/Weight: 1.72m/65kg
Appearance: short brown curly hair, brown eyes
Outfit: bleaked out jeans, t-shirts with the Safari Zone logo
Reason for becoming a trainer: His parents, who work for the Safari Zone in Fuchsia City, encouraged him to travel the world to observe pokémon in the wilds. He hopes his research can prove useful to the preservation of rare pokémon.
Had no real decent removal, but 2 Sower of Temptation and a couple of decent faeries, so decided to run most of them and play 'combo', resulting in a mainly blue deck splashing green for Lignify (cool with all thse flyers), Briarhorn (another amazing Flash creature) and Epic Proportions, and black for Dreamspoiler Witches.
Hm ... I'm just looking forward towards the protection paladin stamina buff (and perhaps the more raid viable ret-pally, although my pally would never switch his beloved block device for a two-hander) ... about the deathknigt, don't really know. I hope Blizz will not screw up the storyline too hard - and if we could actually take out the Lich King in the expansion ... well ... what will be left for us to kill afterwards, when we just managed to take down the probably most powerful entity on Azeroth?
4th place with a 4-1 record. Bad tiebreakers because of a loss in second round. Ran a great B/W/U deck packing fliers ranging from 2/1 to 5/6 and black removal (including Nekrataal).
I'm my multiplayer group's rules doc and highlander weirdo with a heavy tendency towards controllish decks that do odd stuff at instant speed (and spam end of turn steps).
*sigh* I think that it would be a harder sell to say that martian micro-organisms have weapons of mass destruction.
Hm ... what about ... themselves? Civilisations got wiped out thanks to getting in contact with Europeans (yes, we brought influenza and the common cold along. no, you don't have antigenes. enjoy yourself ...). And that was just terrestrial microbes. How our immune system will react to extraterrestrial stuff - go figure ... (or vice versa - what will our microbes to those poor aliens?)
by the way: scientists speculated on life on Europa (the Jupiter moon), but it seems to be pretty hostile up there, kinda sulfur-rich waters, underwater volcanism and the entire stuff ... hm ... wait ... wasn't there that other hypothesis life developed actually around underwater volcanic vents?
This somehow reminds me of the dreams my grandfather had, shortly before he died. He lividly dreamed being led by a 'shiny person' through the village where he lived his entire life, visiting all locations that had played a role in his life.
I dream often and intensely - and I greatly enjoy doing so. There is the occasional slightly scary dream, but nothing I could really call a nightmare. Most confusing is when I dream to wake up, then realize I'm sleeping, wake up, realize I'm still sleeping, force myself to wake up only to discover I'm still sleeping ...
But when the dream tries to slide into a nightmare, I often manage to get control and force the dream into another direction by speaking a key sentence (simple stuff like 'I'm incorruptible'), which then remain in my memory for a long time and give me courage even when I'm awake.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Combo. Especially decks that allows me to burst out massive X-spells. Too bad High Tide isn't Modern legal ...
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): FNMs, local tournaments
Favorite Cards/Colors: Black/Blue/Green. Blue Sun's Zenith and similar stuff
Budget: I should be able to trade for or borrow most missing cards, so anything goes
Staples Owned: a huge amount of 1- and 2-ofs, thanks to EDH. Shocklands, some fetches, Legacy stuff. No Goyfs though (traded them for duals).
Note: Since I occasionally will both judge and play - if the tournament is small enough and at Regular level - the deck should not be too durdly.
Chaos draft is great. Make sure to add a booster of Unglued or Unhinged if you play paper Magic.
He bade the professor farewell and left the laboratory, while unfolding the city map.
That Ice peak sure sounds interesting. I know very little about frost pokémon. But the professor is right - I have to expand my team before I can go up there. Doduo is accustomed to the tropic Safari Zone, it won't like the cold.
With these thoughts, he walked through the city, towards the routes.
Hmmm ... now where should I ... oh ... Pokémon Lab. This sounds interesting.
He wanders through the garden in front of the lab, admiring the plants in bloom. Finally, he enters the building. He checks out the sign near the entrance, makes his way to Professor Willow's office and knocks at the door.
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Hight/Weight: 1.72m/65kg
Appearance: short brown curly hair, brown eyes
Outfit: bleaked out jeans, t-shirts with the Safari Zone logo
Reason for becoming a trainer: His parents, who work for the Safari Zone in Fuchsia City, encouraged him to travel the world to observe pokémon in the wilds. He hopes his research can prove useful to the preservation of rare pokémon.
Requested starter: Doduo
Had no real decent removal, but 2 Sower of Temptation and a couple of decent faeries, so decided to run most of them and play 'combo', resulting in a mainly blue deck splashing green for Lignify (cool with all thse flyers), Briarhorn (another amazing Flash creature) and Epic Proportions, and black for Dreamspoiler Witches.
Lys Alana Pranksters, Dreamspoiler Witches and half a deck of Flash cards or instants allowed for crazy plays during my opponent's turns. Play Pestermite, tap his biggest monster, kill a 1-toughness guy, bounce the Faerie Harbinger, replay Harbinger, bouncing Pestermite, killing another guy and tutoring for Sower of Temptations ...
Hm ... what about ... themselves? Civilisations got wiped out thanks to getting in contact with Europeans (yes, we brought influenza and the common cold along. no, you don't have antigenes. enjoy yourself ...). And that was just terrestrial microbes. How our immune system will react to extraterrestrial stuff - go figure ... (or vice versa - what will our microbes to those poor aliens?)
by the way: scientists speculated on life on Europa (the Jupiter moon), but it seems to be pretty hostile up there, kinda sulfur-rich waters, underwater volcanism and the entire stuff ... hm ... wait ... wasn't there that other hypothesis life developed actually around underwater volcanic vents?
I dream often and intensely - and I greatly enjoy doing so. There is the occasional slightly scary dream, but nothing I could really call a nightmare. Most confusing is when I dream to wake up, then realize I'm sleeping, wake up, realize I'm still sleeping, force myself to wake up only to discover I'm still sleeping ...
But when the dream tries to slide into a nightmare, I often manage to get control and force the dream into another direction by speaking a key sentence (simple stuff like 'I'm incorruptible'), which then remain in my memory for a long time and give me courage even when I'm awake.