As a message of balance: I have always been suspicious of the suppression of communication on a topic, for the reason that "everybody knows." I speak for myself, not "the average MMI reader," and perhaps I am out of the loop, but I "didn't know," and I find it helpful that someone takes the time to quickly summarize goings-on.
Information on the Internet is easy to manage. If I choose to skim, I can skim. Eleven hundred words might be tl;dr for many, and scrolling might cause them some inconvenience. But considering the role you appear to have accepted, glossing over a significant phenomenon with little comment may be considered irresponsible in a sense.
And for the record, I personally could not have executed it in a superior manner.
Thanks.
J
Ha, thank you. Yes, I got neither a Wolf nor a Zombie token.
I thought nothing of the ruling at the time, but that night at home, I started wondering.
Thanks for the responses!
J
And PS: I am pretty lazy. I couldn't work up a sweat putting that token out there, which ultimately cost me the game!
I "flipped" Liliana, but I forgot to make a Wolf token.
Is this two triggers, one of which I missed, or is it one trigger that was executed improperly?
What should have been the correct ruling? The judge simply called it a missed trigger which my opponent naturally declined to put on the stack.
Liliana remained a Planeswalker, but I got no Wolf.
J
I kind of like Curby's idea of Scavenging Ooze, but I think it suffers for the same reason as Sc. Relic can start getting rid of that "graveyard mana" on Turn 1; Sc on Turn 3 for three mana; SO on Turn 3 for one (hard-to-get Green) mana. But, I'm embracing DnT almost becoming Maverick.
J
mtgsally won't properly post the link. You'll have to copy/paste the whole deal:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?sort=mana &action=advanced&text= [blue]&color=|[G]|[W]
Scryb Ranger might be the best on this list.
J
I will chime in also on your gripe. I have been running mono-White for something like five years. That's certainly not discounting it -- but the value of Gaddock Teeg dragged me in when Treasure Cruise was legal, and he's still good now that Dig Through Time is so common. That impetus to run Green just for him attracts the deck toward adding just a few other Green options. I have seen this be an evolution over the last year or so. If it appears to you that it's too dominant, I would probably encourage you to look further into the history (I also dabbled in Black splash during the Survival of the Fittest days, with the Red splash to try to force Blood Moon effects, and the Green splash once earlier, mostly for Gaddock Teeg).
I think a bigger question behind what you are saying (I'm trying to interpret a bit, which is easy to screw up just from a forum post) is about the "philosophy" of the deck, as I sometimes call it. If you are concerned about splashing Green just for one or two cards that you can't tutor, it is a fairly reasonable worry, but the "philosophy" of the deck allows for it. Each card in DnT is more of a puzzle piece than you find with other decks, in my opinion. In most other deck "philosophies" you are using one class of card (cantrip) to get to another class of card (Sensei's Divining Top, Jace) to set up another class of card (Terminus, Entreat the Angels). This is a simplification. In DnT, if you don't have the Thalia, you drop the Spirit of the Labyrinth you do have. If you don't have the Revoker, you drop the Swords to Plowshares on the Deathrite Shaman, and so on. It's a little different way of playing, which I am obviously struggling to communicate, but which, I have found, a lot of players have difficulty mastering.
J
Multiple Rest In Peace are redundant (don't stack, other than provide protection in case one gets blown up).
Relic of Progenitus is obviously cheaper, can confound Deathrite Shaman activations which are using your graveyard (now not unusual, due to Dig Through Time), and of course, it cantrips, especially if you have the RiP in place.
J
Sorry to respond to old news.
I personally don't like the "cure" approach that I feel like I hear.
In my humble opinion, a "prevention" approach is preferred.
A resolved Omniscience isn't gonna be good for no one.
I try to get the kill in before that happens, with Thalia, Spirit of the Lab, and then hope a Disenchant effect or Canonist closes the deal if they go off (the cure).
J
http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=89038
J
J
That's nothing. I've seen Griselbrand whiff plenty of times.
Well, the list is long, Sensei's Top (on their turn) and Big Jace are other candidates, as well as Griselbrand and Probe.
J
I don't agree with this, and I was running 3x Spirit main, but had to make room for Vryn Wingmare, so I've gone to 2x. Although DTT is present now in almost every deck (it seems), it doesn't get fed except by a Graveyard full of Brainstorms and Ponders, in my experience (and the chaff, like fetchlands, that those cantrips search for). DTT is still a fairly late-game, to at earliest, mid-game Hail Mary against Death 'n' Taxes, in my experience, and it often whiffs. Brainstorm and company, on the other hand, are universal set-up and smoothing spells that are found at every point in the game. These are frequently the main spells you disrupt with Thalia, which is the best creature in Death 'n' Taxes, in my opinion.
Disrupting set-up against any opponent is one of the keys to Death 'n' Taxes, if not the main line of attack.
I like Spirit against any deck running a Blue draw package, and I only consider taking it out when they don't run that package.
J
I would make a Revoker or a Seal of Cleansing into a Qasali Pridemage, and I would find a spot for one Spellskite.
I would also tweak the basic land count because a Blood Moon shouldn't spell curtains for DnT.
I loved Vryn Wingmare, and I don't think she replaces the 4th Thalia. She is a perfect 5th and possibly 6th. I didn't see Mosquito Guard all day, but Honor of the Pure carried weight.
J
I'll let you know. I am going to try to make a sideboard guide. I play against Mentor Miracle enough and it is similar enough to Miracles imo, that I can say it's pretty solid, with the usual disruption I have (tons of it) and not over-extending. Grixis I hope to playtest today but against Young P I can do Ok after sideboard. I am going to try to get to Chicago SCG IP tomorrow (Sunday) morning.
J
2x Phyrexian Revoker
4x Stoneforge Mystic
4x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2x Spirit of the Labyrinth
2x Gaddock Teeg
1x Vryn Wingmare
3x Mirran Crusader
3x Flickerwisp
1x Mangara of Corondor
4x Aether Vial
4x Swords to Plowshares
1x Umezawa's Jitte
1x Sword of Fire and Ice
1x Sword of Light and Shadow
1x Horizon Canopy
4x Wasteland
4x Rishadan Port
4x Karakas
2x Plains
2x Savannah
4x Windswept Heath
1x Sunlance
1x Pithing Needle
1x Enlightened Tutor
1x Phyrexian Revoker
2x Rest in Peace
2x Ethersworn Canonist
1x Seal of Cleansing
1x Absolute Law
1x Mosquito Guard
1x Ensnaring Bridge
1x Choke
1x Honor of the Pure
1x Batterskull
J
I'm sure somebody else has said it, but I'm going on the record.
J