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Apr 7, 2019JPoJohnson posted a message on Magic Market Index for April 5, 2019So curious to see how WAR lines up upon release! Thanks again for these great articles.Posted in: Articles
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Mar 17, 2019JPoJohnson posted a message on Magic Market Index for March 15th, 2019This insight is so fantastic. Thanks <3Posted in: Articles
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Mar 15, 2019JPoJohnson posted a message on Magic Market Index for Feb 8th, 2018Sorry to hear that man, hope all is well.Posted in: Articles
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Mar 14, 2019JPoJohnson posted a message on Magic Market Index for Feb 8th, 2018I’ve always loved these posts and they are one of THE reasons I regularly come to MTGS.Posted in: Articles
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Jan 27, 2019JPoJohnson posted a message on Magic Market Index for Dec 28th, 2018Where has this gone?Posted in: Articles
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Feb 4, 2014JPoJohnson posted a message on Launch Giveaway!Snapcaster Mage - It allows for so much versatility. It boost the control shell or the tempo shell of various decks.Posted in: Announcements
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2. People will never stop complaining.
You're talking about magic players, complaining is their second favorite thing!
I think it would still be a fair thing to play. I would like it more then. (:
Sure, you can win without him, but the insurance/inevitability that he brings to your deck is crucial to me. I would never mainboard him, but he's not going to leave my sideboard right now either.
Fun to catch you in twitch today! I'm going to have to see how Cautery Sliver works out in my local meta. Which matches have you seen that they're the worst draw/bad topdeck that you wished they were something else?
Completely unnecessary. The only thing they are helpful for is:
Like I mentioned though, completely unnecessary. They make the decks that are running Blood Moon and Fulminator Mage have less dead cards against you.
The reason I ask is because I'm curious if Boomerang early game is better than the slightly more specific, yet more powerful endgame bomb, Cyclonic Rift. I don't think so, but want to explore all avenues.
* Only 'creature' that they run is Thassa (except sideboard Lab Man)
* Most run Jace Beleren
* 4x Serum Visions
* Most run Telling Time
* Variance with Boomerang/Exhaustion/Gigadrowse
Why aren't we taking actual results in tournaments (some as large as 300 people) and applying them to our decks to find the optimal list? I don't feel like there are really different versions of this deck anymore, they've kind of come together.
Not so. Going infinite with enough mine effects and time walks can net you cycling through your library with Elixir and decking them with Jace and Mikokoro. If you run Snapcasters, I think cutting Elixir and aiming to win with just atking through would be optimal. The odds of decking yourself are smaller if you're trying to swing through quicker.
20 Island
1 Calciform Pools
1 Dreadship Reef
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
Instants (11)
2 Cryptic Command
2 Gigadrowse
2 Telling Time
1 Spell Snare
3 Remand
4 Serum Visions
4 Time Warp
2 Walk the Aeons
2 Part the Waterveil
4 Temporal Mastery
2 Exhaustion
Enchantments (5)
1 Thassa, God of the Sea
4 Dictate of Kruphix
Artifacts (2)
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Howling Mine
1 Jace Beleren
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Aetherize
1 Dispel
4 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Gigadrowse
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spellskite
2 Vedalken Shackles
2 Cryptic Command
These are cards that I will test in both main/side throughout the coming events to see what I think is ideal for my meta. I think all of them have a place, it just depends on what I expect to come up across.
1 Thassa, God of the Sea
4 Boomerang
4 Hibernation
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Bribery
4 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Swan Song
2 Wipe Away
1 Snapback
I like it quite a bit.