Hi everyone, after the ban of Eye of Ugin I was wondering what to do with all my processing eldrazi and came up with this sweet brew that I'd like to share. The idea is to exile cards with Pyxis of Pandemonium, then process the opponent's exiled cards into scions and use the mana to activate the Pyxis into a shower of eldrazi! This isn't always achievable, in which case our other route to victory is to ramp into Ulamog, using Courser of Kruphix and Traverse the Ulvenwald to tutor the needed Temples or Eldrazi (which conveniently Courser helps a lot for delirium). The deck was a blast to play, having tons of synergies and interactions rarely seen.
Some of the fun stuff includes activating Scavenging Ooze then Void Attendant into a loop which makes your own version of the thopter combo (albeit at 1GG per loop), using Pyxis to select your draws with Courser of Kruphix, and of course processing two suspended Ancestral Vision with a Blight Herder (happened in one game). The deck is a bit too slow for super competitive play but is perfectly fine at FNM. The sideboard is a bit slanted to fight Thopter combo with cards such as Extirpate and Raking Canopy.
If people ask for it I'd be happy to write more detailed match-ups and sideboarding strategies.
Went 2-1 at FNM with this brew which is more about death and less about taxes. Was lots of fun to play, and vialing in a 4/4 epochrasite always catches people off guard!
Went 2-1 at FNM with this brew which is more about death and less about taxes. Was lots of fun to play, and vialing in a 4/4 epochrasite always catches people off guard!
I love that list with Epochrasite and Akroma! That is right up my alley of play, very solid choices. I will definitely try this list out.
Great, tell us your results! I did many surprise blocks vialing in the 4/4 Epochrasite. There was one game however when I choose to cast it from my hand in order to block Daxos of Meletis with him and Blade Splicer .
Epochrasite was MVP as it resisted removal and put in some mean 4/4 beats. I also managed to pull off the morph Akroma + Resto into real Akroma a few times, as well as ticking an aether vial to 8 once.
Suppression Field also did a lot of taxing, so many things taken for granted suddenly become very expensive to use (fetch lands, planeswalkers, pod, deathrite, manlands, aetherling, etc)
Too slow? Bears are the bread and butter of aggressive decks. Black aggro certainly wants a 2/2 for 2 that can potentially draw you extra cards.
Current aggro decks with black are generally paired with white or red which have much better two drops (Precinct Captain, Imposing Sovereign, Goblin Jester, Ash Zealot, etc). Pain Seer's upside is just too slow and too conditional for a typical aggro deck, which is why a tempo deck with blue (Hidden Strings, Triton Tactics) would be a better fit.
Pain Seer doesn't belong in an aggro build, he's just too slow. He really belongs in a delver-style tempo deck. Right now the cards to make it competitive in constructed aren't there, but we'll see what the rest of the set holds in store.
I believe Pain Seer does not belong in control (because of high CMC) nor aggro (because no haste). If he finds a home it will be in a delver style tempo deck. We'll see if more cards are spoiled to support such a deck. Competitive or not I'm definitely making this deck, seems like a lot of fun and very skill testing.
The game is so new that I recommend you first do some "free play" events and see how many people are interested. Afterwards you can contact Enterplay at their facebook https://www.facebook.com/Enterplayllc or the reddit page http://www.reddit.com/r/MLPTCG where several mlp judges hang out.
So I've been wanting to play legacy for a while but I still have no idea what I want to play.
I like decks that lock down their opponents and prevent them from playing anything but still want to have multiple win conditions. I have a love a spot removal and unique board states so I don't want every game to wind up being exactly the same.
My number one goal to is have a deck that is fun to pilot and I won't mind using for several years. I'd prefer a relatively inexpensive deck as I don't have an enormous deck budget.
I will second the choice of pox as a lockdown deck, however the monoblack version tends to be repetitive. The black/green version (with entomb package and life from the loam) leads to much bigger decision trees and varied board states.
I run Blood Baron of Vizkopa in my casual modern and it's been pretty good for me. Dodges just about every relevant removal in the format and the lifelink will win races. Don't use Falkenrath Aristocrat unless you build around it, it's much worse without the zombie/human support.
Considering anyone with half a brain who demo'd it at GenCon could have (and did!) inform them that Rainbow Dash's ability was nine kinds of broken...
The game at GenCon was terrible. Absolutley abysmal. My discussion with the designer who was there left me with little hope that they could (or would be willing to) fix it. That said... readily available collectors cards for my three year old who loves ponies? Sure. I'll buy some.
Well they have made a lot of changes since GenCon so hopefully the game is more balanced now. With all new games there are some growing pains just like magic went through.
2x Scavenging Ooze
4x Courser of Kruphix
2x Void Attendant
2x Wasteland Strangler
4x Thought-Knot Seer
4x Blight Herder
2x Ulamog, the ceaseless hunger
Other
4x Pyxis of Pandemonium
4x Traverse the Ulvenwald
3x Abrupt Decay
2x Grisly Salvage
2x Dismember
1x Slaughter Pact
4x Eldrazi Temple
4x Verdant Catacombs
2x Wooded Foothills
2x Overgrown Tomb
4x Forest
1x Bojuka Bog
1x Swamp
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Wastes
3x Llanowar Wastes
1x Saltcrusted Steppe
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Extirpate
1x Pithing Needle
1x Thoughtseize
1x Abrupt Decay
2x Feed the Clan
1x Go for the Throat
1x Shrivel
1x Warping Wail
1x Flaying Tendrils
1x Trinisphere
1x Raking Canopy
1x Night of Souls' Betrayal
1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Some of the fun stuff includes activating Scavenging Ooze then Void Attendant into a loop which makes your own version of the thopter combo (albeit at 1GG per loop), using Pyxis to select your draws with Courser of Kruphix, and of course processing two suspended Ancestral Vision with a Blight Herder (happened in one game). The deck is a bit too slow for super competitive play but is perfectly fine at FNM. The sideboard is a bit slanted to fight Thopter combo with cards such as Extirpate and Raking Canopy.
If people ask for it I'd be happy to write more detailed match-ups and sideboarding strategies.
Went 2-1 at FNM with this brew which is more about death and less about taxes. Was lots of fun to play, and vialing in a 4/4 epochrasite always catches people off guard!
8 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Clifftop Retreat
4 Ghost Quarter
Creature
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Leonin Arbiter
4 Epochrasite
4 Wall of Omens
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Flickerwisp
4 Restoration Angel
4 Akroma, Angel of Fury
4 Aether Vial
Instants
4 Path to Exile
Enchantments
2 Oblivion Ring
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Pyroclasm
2 Disenchant
2 Rest in Peace
2 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Mirran Crusader
Went 2-1 at FNM with this brew which is more about death and less about taxes. Was lots of fun to play, and vialing in a 4/4 epochrasite always catches people off guard!
8 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Clifftop Retreat
4 Ghost Quarter
Creature
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Leonin Arbiter
4 Epochrasite
4 Wall of Omens
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Flickerwisp
4 Restoration Angel
4 Akroma, Angel of Fury
4 Aether Vial
Instants
4 Path to Exile
Enchantments
2 Oblivion Ring
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Pyroclasm
2 Disenchant
2 Rest in Peace
2 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Mirran Crusader
Oh, well so far I haven't had any mana problems. I'd rather switch out a Kitchen Finks or a Restoration Angel before switching out the Fields.
True, but generally it hurts my opponents more than it hurts me. Aether Vial and Ghost Quarter are too important for this deck to switch them out.
Great, tell us your results! I did many surprise blocks vialing in the 4/4 Epochrasite. There was one game however when I choose to cast it from my hand in order to block Daxos of Meletis with him and Blade Splicer .
4 Leonin Arbiter
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Epochrasite
3 Flickerwisp
3 Blade Splicer
3 Kitchen Finks
2 Aven Mindcensor
4 Restoration Angel
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
4 Aether Vial
Instants
4 Path to exile
Enchantments
4 Suppression Field
2 Oblivion Ring
Land
14 Plains
2 Cavern of Souls
4 Ghost Quarter
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Rest in Peace
2 Disenchant
4 Mirran Crusader
2 Wrath of God
2 Leyline of Sanctity
Epochrasite was MVP as it resisted removal and put in some mean 4/4 beats. I also managed to pull off the morph Akroma + Resto into real Akroma a few times, as well as ticking an aether vial to 8 once.
Suppression Field also did a lot of taxing, so many things taken for granted suddenly become very expensive to use (fetch lands, planeswalkers, pod, deathrite, manlands, aetherling, etc)
I will second the choice of pox as a lockdown deck, however the monoblack version tends to be repetitive. The black/green version (with entomb package and life from the loam) leads to much bigger decision trees and varied board states.
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=483236
I personally brewed a black/white version running Enlightened Tutor and I can see myself playing this for years to come. Total cost was about $800.
Well they have made a lot of changes since GenCon so hopefully the game is more balanced now. With all new games there are some growing pains just like magic went through.