That would be a terrible play, it would make Eye of Urgin waaaay better.Seriously, make me start considere playing the next steamflogger boss it would take at least 2 Eldrazi that cost 4 or less and even there it would probably be only 1 or 2, land that doesn't produce mana are bad.
On the actual card, this card scream timmy more then ever, I want one foil, will I ever play him?A creature that cost 10 and doesn't pass the removal test?Not a chance.
Have you tested Jace, the Mindsculptor in the deck?Seem like a good finisher instead of the random Bloodwitch MD.How about a Quicksand or two to deal with weenie deck?
How is the deck doing against fast creature deck (like bushwaker)?You dont seem to have a lot of removal and drawing multiple recursion spell early on can realy cripple you.
You can use Platinium Angel against Eldrazi since they dont have any kind of creature removal, just keep a path or two for the Master of the Wild Hunt.
I loved the combo, you know the part where you play baneslayer angel and attack with it.Then I saw the Celestial Mantel, the Grappling Hook and the Sanguine Bond.All those card are terrible attacking with a Baneslayer Angel should be enought to give you the game why would you want to play all those terrible card that aren't doing a whole lot by themself?
... oh and celestial mantle is just horrible, I think it's the cause of the earthquake in Haiti...
Your playing a game where 2 drop are either 4/4 or 4/5 and three drop are even more monstrous, what chance would you stand with Volcanic Hammer kind of removal?
Creature are incredibly powerful in standard, you need the removal to deal with those creature and Lightning Bolt do the job perfectly.
Drawing a Sphinx is awkward in almost every situation when your playing Ascension, you should use that slot to make you more resilient.
My friend used to play a lone Gargoyle Castle MD as an alternate win condition.It doesn't use a slot and get the job done, but now with the new manland maybe the Serra Angel one would be better.
What happen when you ask a spike to build a Group-Hug deck?It hurt, you dont know why but it hurt, like eating too much of something good, like running out of air while laughing.
Basicly, you make them draw, they are happy, then you play Underworld Dream/Black Vise/Megrim/Ebony Owl Netsuke/Worlds of Wind(Waste,War)/Phyrexian Tyrany/Spitefull Vision/Chains of Mephistopheles and watch them burn.
Kamigawa dragon are usualy good rattlesnake, not only it become difficult to attack you but they can't kill them otherwise something bad will happen to them (you have awaaaay to many untap step, skip on please :D)
Hallowed Burial over Wrath anytime.Most of the time I want my sweeper to be more then just a sweeper, wrath is cool and everything but for 1 more mana I can deal with general/a casted Genesis/Darksteel Colossus.
Thanks a lot to everyone!In the end I decided to build not one but three white deck because I could chose, so here I come Dalkon Brion and phelddagrif(Seriously your purple hippo is dope)(awesome blog btw you got there dude, cant wait for your worldwake set review ) and Angus Mackenzie!...
Ok I have a little problem.It has been a whole week that I try to make a white/something(or not) deck but there is a problem, I have no freaking idea what I want.I want a good deck but I want to do ''whiteish'' thing.Prison/Lifegain/Control/Aggressivity/Protection, I dont care what but I want to get away from my blue/red/black general asap!
There is where you help me, can anyone convience me to play a deck?Please get your best white/something(or not) general and tell me what so awesome about him.No need for decklist needed,, just who's the general, what he want to do, his advantage his weakness, anything that would make me want to play the deck!
Ok first 1 lost = 2 win worth of point?Something wrong here...
* Turn One Kill: +100pts
* Good Sportsmanship: +10pts
* Bad Sportsmanship: -10pts
So first turn killing your opponent is a good thing but I must be joyful and ''fair'' when I combo out like a crazy?I dont like the sportsmanship point at all.
How decide if you deserve Good Sportmanship point or not?The player?If so anybody could just call people for bad sportmanship just to recude the number of point your opponent will gain.You?Just looking at Clem tourney, there is 38 player, will you realy read all the game log and decide if player deserve point?What if the game was normal?Nobody *****ing, nobody talking just playing magic?Good or Bad Sportsmanship?
Use of a Handicapped General: -50pts
Great if I want to use an handicapped general I dont win point at all for winning game or do I ''only'' start the tourney with -50 point? (Great way to start btw)?
* Draw Game: -50pts
Ok this is overdoing it.People have life, if for some reason they and there opponent can't scedule a match and decide to draw they lose a victory worth of point?This is way to severe, just not gaining any point would be ok as a way to stop people to draw into top8.
These Generals provide an automatic 50pt deduction when using them:
I see Ashling and Horoki on your list but no Zur/Sharuum/Azami?What about Ashiling, are you that affraid of 99 mountain.dec?
* Victory within the first 5 turns due to an opponent having 2 or less lands.
So because my opponent is manascrew and decide to just scoop I have to lose a bunch of point?
* Autowin due to opponent rage quitting or other factors. (At the T.O. discretion.)
Because my opponent is an immature brat there is a chance that i'll lose point?That is totaly wrong, the ragequitter should be penalised, not you.
Overall I hate the point system.The value of win/lost/penalty are just waaay to unbalanced and some of them just contradic other (Winning first turn is ok but going infinite or dealing damage during the 5 first turn is not ok?Then how I'm suposed to win during the first turn?).Even if the point system was balanced I think it fit more a league then a tournament.
That would be a terrible play, it would make Eye of Urgin waaaay better.Seriously, make me start considere playing the next steamflogger boss it would take at least 2 Eldrazi that cost 4 or less and even there it would probably be only 1 or 2, land that doesn't produce mana are bad.
On the actual card, this card scream timmy more then ever, I want one foil, will I ever play him?A creature that cost 10 and doesn't pass the removal test?Not a chance.
How is the deck doing against fast creature deck (like bushwaker)?You dont seem to have a lot of removal and drawing multiple recursion spell early on can realy cripple you.
... oh and celestial mantle is just horrible, I think it's the cause of the earthquake in Haiti...
Creature are incredibly powerful in standard, you need the removal to deal with those creature and Lightning Bolt do the job perfectly.
My friend used to play a lone Gargoyle Castle MD as an alternate win condition.It doesn't use a slot and get the job done, but now with the new manland maybe the Serra Angel one would be better.
1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
1x Magus of the Jar
1x Arcane Denial
1x Mana Drain
1x Cerebral Vortex
1x Grave Consequences
1x Remand
1x Sudden Impact
1x Runeflare Trap
1x Trade Secrets
1x Wheel and Deal
1x Words of Wisdom
1x Vex
1x Vision Skeins
1x Evacuation
1x Twincast
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Burning Inquiry
1x Diminishing Returns
1x Prosperity
1x Skyscribing
1x Temporal Cascade
1x Wheel of Fate
1x Wheel of Fortune
1x Wind of Change
1x Urza's Guilt
1x Soulquake
1x Demonic TUtor
1x Grim Tutor
1x Imperial Seal
1x Decree of Pain
1x Damnation
1x Chains of Mephistopheles
1x Forced Fruition
1x Megrim
1x Mystic Remora
1x Phyrexian Tyranny
1x Spiteful Visions
1x Standstill
1x Underworld Dreams
1x Words of Wind
1x Words of Waste
1x Words of War
1x Copy Enchantment
1x Hive Mind
1x Meishin, the Mind Cage
1x Anvil of Bogardan
1x Black Vise
1x Howling Mine
1x Memory Jar
1x Sol Ring
1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
1x Sculpting Steel
1x Horn of Greed
1x Ebony Owl Netsuke
1x Ivory Tower
1x Jace Beleren
1x Sorin Markov
1x Reliquary Tower
1x Academy Ruin
1x Tolaria West
1x Vivid Creek
1x Vivid Marsh
1x Vivid Crag
1x Crumbling Necropolis
1x Dragonskull Submit
1x Drowned Catacomb
1x Sulfurous Srings
1x Underground River
1x Shivan Reef
1x Jwar Isle Refuge
1x Akoum Refuge
1x Magosi, the Waterveil
1x Scalding Tarn
10x Island
8x Swamp
8x Mountain
Basicly, you make them draw, they are happy, then you play Underworld Dream/Black Vise/Megrim/Ebony Owl Netsuke/Worlds of Wind(Waste,War)/Phyrexian Tyrany/Spitefull Vision/Chains of Mephistopheles and watch them burn.
Any suggestion?
Also, maybe it's just me but Treachery should be in every deck that can tap his land for blue... just saying...
There is where you help me, can anyone convience me to play a deck?Please get your best white/something(or not) general and tell me what so awesome about him.No need for decklist needed,, just who's the general, what he want to do, his advantage his weakness, anything that would make me want to play the deck!
* Game Loss: -90pts
Ok first 1 lost = 2 win worth of point?Something wrong here...
* Good Sportsmanship: +10pts
* Bad Sportsmanship: -10pts
So first turn killing your opponent is a good thing but I must be joyful and ''fair'' when I combo out like a crazy?I dont like the sportsmanship point at all.
How decide if you deserve Good Sportmanship point or not?The player?If so anybody could just call people for bad sportmanship just to recude the number of point your opponent will gain.You?Just looking at Clem tourney, there is 38 player, will you realy read all the game log and decide if player deserve point?What if the game was normal?Nobody *****ing, nobody talking just playing magic?Good or Bad Sportsmanship?
Great if I want to use an handicapped general I dont win point at all for winning game or do I ''only'' start the tourney with -50 point? (Great way to start btw)?
Ok this is overdoing it.People have life, if for some reason they and there opponent can't scedule a match and decide to draw they lose a victory worth of point?This is way to severe, just not gaining any point would be ok as a way to stop people to draw into top8.
I see Ashling and Horoki on your list but no Zur/Sharuum/Azami?What about Ashiling, are you that affraid of 99 mountain.dec?
So because my opponent is manascrew and decide to just scoop I have to lose a bunch of point?
Because my opponent is an immature brat there is a chance that i'll lose point?That is totaly wrong, the ragequitter should be penalised, not you.
Overall I hate the point system.The value of win/lost/penalty are just waaay to unbalanced and some of them just contradic other (Winning first turn is ok but going infinite or dealing damage during the 5 first turn is not ok?Then how I'm suposed to win during the first turn?).Even if the point system was balanced I think it fit more a league then a tournament.