An energy package could actually allow 1-2 Aether Hub, which would help with mana and untapped lands. I definitely killed a Worldbreaker last night with Die Young.
BW runs Lilianas to kill creatures, slow the game down, and threaten ultimates. She's legit in that regards. Chandra hasn't been spectacular so far because Nissa aggressively keeps her in check it seems, but I also don't think she is worse than Arlinn. She removes creatures, draws cards, and pressure planeswalkers, which all seem important in the format.
Maybe Transgress has to be main, but I don't love it. There has to be something that smashes creatures and artifacts a la Anguished Unmaking in BW.
Why no Liliana? There's no way Arlinn is better than new Chandra in a control deck trying to trigger Kalitas. I think I would want the fourth Evolving Wilds over the fourth Marsh. I was testing a Live Fast/Die Young package, but Brutality might just be better; actually, I'm not sure how good the Duress effect actually will be in an artifact heavy meta.
Lathnu Hellion and Harnessed by Lightning seems the most exciting thing to combo with Voltaic Brawler and few lists are running those cards in combination.
Not sure, but I feel like your list seems strictly worse than a Psychatog list built around Fact or Fiction and Gush. You don't want cantrips insofar as you're not putting together a combination of cards and just want raw card advantage. You want to run out of fuel, not put together a combo. Brainstorm and Ponder just aren't worth it, but if you insist on Brainstorm, Terramorphic Expanse seems better than Dismal Backwater.
Not sure, but I feel like your list seems strictly worse than a Psychatog list built around Fact or Fiction and Gush. You don't want cantrips insofar as you're not putting together a combination of cards and just want raw card advantage. You want to run out of fuel, not put together a combo. Brainstorm and Ponder just aren't worth it, but if you insist on Brainstorm, Terramorphic Expanse seems better than Dismal Backwater.
Not sure, but I feel like your list seems strictly worse than a Psychatog list built around Fact or Fiction and Gush. You don't want cantrips insofar as you're not putting together a combination of cards and just want raw card advantage. You want to run out of fuel, not put together a combo. Brainstorm and Ponder just aren't worth it, but if you insist on Brainstorm, Terramorphic Expanse seems better than Dismal Backwater.
I don't think the phrase glass cannon can accurately describe a deck that can go off through multiple pieces of disruption. One of the reasons to play this deck is its resilience.
Agreed, but there are definitely situations where you will have to concede because your opponent had a mainboard leyline of sanctity in their opening hand or something similar. I'll look into rephrasing it.
Not sure who runs Leylines in Legacy, but boarding in bounce solves that issue. The deck has ways of playing through permanent hate. The deck can beat Chalice of the Void; it isn't a glass cannon.
I guess there are images missing for the starting hands?
No mention of City of Solitude interacting with SDT.
"The Green Party calls for a complete, thorough, impartial, and independent investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including the role of the administration of George W, Bush, various U.S. based corporations and interests, and other nations and third parties."
Haven't got a clue what to make of that.
Isn't this a reference to an investigation into the Saudi role in 9/11?
I don't think so. I find "including the role of the administration of George W, Bush, various U.S. based corporations and interests," very telling.
I think it's what Tiax wrote.
I just read this as an investigation of Cheney and Haliburton. Among other private corporations that used the rebuilding funds as an ATM only to flee the country and not complete any work based off of clauses that freed them from any obligation in "combat situations."
The Green Party itself has a reasonable platform that I would support. Stein herself isn't all that impressive and says some dumb things that panders a little hard to the folks that Whole Foods panders to as well, i.e., folks who want to be healthy but talk about crystals. I'm fine with folks being dumb, though, being dumb and opposing GMOs in a way that halts monocropping and global strong-arming of local economies to embrace them is fine by me if it comes off the support of worried moms. We entered a war for less than that, at least ending the commodification of genetic plant material is a worthwhile endeavor based on false facts. Also y'all being against homeopathy obviously don't know what it means, unless you're totally convinced that every ailment or pain whatsoever ought to be cured with a pill. Homeopathy doesn't equal being anti-vax and often just points to corporate interests in and the impersonal nature of our medical system that could use more focused care and less prescriptions.
Homeopathy; as defined; is the act of taking extremely small negligent amounts of a natural poison; adding it into a solution and intaking it. That doesn't work. There's no science to prove it works. And there's absolutely no medical reason to do something like that. Either the elements aren't present so there's no affect; or, they are and you poison yourself.
I wouldn't confuse the side effects and efficacy of prescription drugs and alternative treatments with an argument in favor of pseudo science.
Did you by any chance mean to talk about alternative medicine? Or did you actually mean homeopathy? Homeopathy is solidly in crystal-land.
If you meant medicine should just be practiced differently; I'd recommend reading some Atul Gwande. I've heard the man speak, and I've read portions of his books. His works feature an excellent scientific approach to medicine and the social aspect that often gets lost. What's more, he spends a lot of his time actually testing out his ideas. He's a practitioner of the highest degree; not just a theoretician.
I feel like I've heard homeopathy referred to completely different things than what y'all are pointing to, but I'm willing to be wrong. I'll accept alternative medicine as the catch all for what I was referring to.
The Green Party itself has a reasonable platform that I would support. Stein herself isn't all that impressive and says some dumb things that panders a little hard to the folks that Whole Foods panders to as well, i.e., folks who want to be healthy but talk about crystals. I'm fine with folks being dumb, though, being dumb and opposing GMOs in a way that halts monocropping and global strong-arming of local economies to embrace them is fine by me if it comes off the support of worried moms. We entered a war for less than that, at least ending the commodification of genetic plant material is a worthwhile endeavor based on false facts. Also y'all being against homeopathy obviously don't know what it means, unless you're totally convinced that every ailment or pain whatsoever ought to be cured with a pill. Homeopathy doesn't equal being anti-vax and often just points to corporate interests in and the impersonal nature of our medical system that could use more focused care and less prescriptions.
The Xantid Swarm are kinda soft. Against Miracles, you could try City of Solitude or Carpet of Flowers against Delver variants. I'm also not sure what the Krosan Grip is going for that couldn't just be the last Abrupt Decay and your green dual. I just like more fetches main.
For no reason other than this is the first I've come across it. I had previously admired Sam Black for his work on the Zombardment deck as well as his good tournament results generally. As stated in his apology denial article, he tries to be a good, active community member and present a positive face for the game.
He's a very well known player and I was utterly shocked to see this. The news is a bit old, I'll certainly grant that. To me it is still relevant.
It comes across as only attempting to smear the guy's name when often what he does for the magic community is more important than some game where he may or may not have intended on scumming someone.
As a person who has played a lot of combo in Legacy, sometimes your brain just gets burnt out. You play six or seven rounds thinking of permutations and lines constantly, during your turn and your opponents' turns and then trying to figure out what you could have done better in between rounds and sometimes you mess up. Something comparable to what Black did, I once was 6-0 at an Open in Philly, playing Storm against Lands, I had to go through some weird permutations with bouncing Spheres EOT and one during my turn and that left my opponent with one mystery card in hand, I cast all of my rituals and went to Tutor, I probably should have gotten a slow play for how long I looked, but the match was over either way once I settled on what I wanted. I went for a Past In Flames, despite knowing that he would have had no way of interacting with Ad Nauseam, whatever that mystery card was, then he goes for a Crop Rotation and Bojuka Bogs me. I probably did similar mannerisms to Black the entire time, thought about Bojuka Bog, but played right into a Crop Rotation.
Trying to think around things like that can push other stuff out of your mind and if your opponent, like Sam Black asked, confers information with what you thought then who are you to argue? You've been thinking about a lot of other things up until that point.
Goblin Piledriver. The art is awesome; in a set full of fun goblin art, it simply takes the cake as the best. I started during Onslaught block. Blue was never super powerful in Standard when I played it with Piledriver, but regardless he was so dominant that the one I had in my deck won me games by himself. Well, technically not by himself, but when he dropped the game turned around, putting the other player on the defensive immediately. After he rotated, I scored three more autograph copies and I played him during that extended season. Bidding Goblins was an incredibly fun deck to play, and he put it over the top. When I left Magic a few years later, I sold my Piledrivers for what was then much needed money. Eight years later, one of the first playsets that I ordered was a new playset of 'drivers for about three times the cost but I didn't care. I raced to the LGS after receiving them in the mail to get some games in with the guys. It was like nothing had changed; he is still a bomb.
BW runs Lilianas to kill creatures, slow the game down, and threaten ultimates. She's legit in that regards. Chandra hasn't been spectacular so far because Nissa aggressively keeps her in check it seems, but I also don't think she is worse than Arlinn. She removes creatures, draws cards, and pressure planeswalkers, which all seem important in the format.
Maybe Transgress has to be main, but I don't love it. There has to be something that smashes creatures and artifacts a la Anguished Unmaking in BW.
What are some ways of dealing with problematic permanents, like Decoction Module into Panharmonicon with Whirler Virtuoso? Or Aether Marvelworks to have a less janky suggestion?
1 Tireless Tracker
2 Oath of Nissa
1 Oath of Liliana
2 Ruinous Path
2 Anguished Unmaking
4 Die Young
3 Live Fast
3 Grasp of Darkness
2 Fumigate
3 Liliana, the Last Hope
3 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2 Nissa, Vital Force
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
1 Sorin, Grim Nemesis
4 Shambling Vent
4 Hissing Quagmire
2 Canopy Vista
4 Evolving Wilds
3 Forest
2 Swamp
2 Plains
4 Blooming Marsh
1 Concealed Courtyard
2 Call the Bloodline
1 Linvala, the Preserver
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
2 Flaying Tendrils
2 Lost Legacy
1 Ruinous Path
1 Sigarda, Heron's Grace
4 Transgress the Mind
Dovin Baan also has six fingers so if he's ultimately from Kaladesh it seems a Kaladesh particularity.
I would consider Infect.
4 Blazing Shoal
12 Forest
4 Furnace Dragon
4 Glistener Elf
2 Ichorclaw Myr
4 Invigorate
4 Plague Stinger
2 Plunge into Darkness
2 Predator's Strike
2 Ranger's Guile
9 Swamp
1 Vector Asp
2 Vines of Vastwood
4 Volley of Boulders
I guess there are images missing for the starting hands?
No mention of City of Solitude interacting with SDT.
As a person who has played a lot of combo in Legacy, sometimes your brain just gets burnt out. You play six or seven rounds thinking of permutations and lines constantly, during your turn and your opponents' turns and then trying to figure out what you could have done better in between rounds and sometimes you mess up. Something comparable to what Black did, I once was 6-0 at an Open in Philly, playing Storm against Lands, I had to go through some weird permutations with bouncing Spheres EOT and one during my turn and that left my opponent with one mystery card in hand, I cast all of my rituals and went to Tutor, I probably should have gotten a slow play for how long I looked, but the match was over either way once I settled on what I wanted. I went for a Past In Flames, despite knowing that he would have had no way of interacting with Ad Nauseam, whatever that mystery card was, then he goes for a Crop Rotation and Bojuka Bogs me. I probably did similar mannerisms to Black the entire time, thought about Bojuka Bog, but played right into a Crop Rotation.
Trying to think around things like that can push other stuff out of your mind and if your opponent, like Sam Black asked, confers information with what you thought then who are you to argue? You've been thinking about a lot of other things up until that point.