Regardless, Baneslayers and Cobras are seeming more stapleish (tell me if you are playing W or G you wouldn't want to play either of them?) and any rare that runs $30 a piece (ever) is ridiculous.
Agree about Goyf too. Great opportunity cost, bad beating on the wallet ($160-$170 a playset on Ebay right now, which is slightly lower than retail (geesh). If you want a slod 1.x deck you gotta drop a G. Seems bad.
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Oct 10, 2009apaulogy posted a message on 3 cards that should never have been printedPosted in: legacy dude 345 Blog
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Sep 17, 2009apaulogy posted a message on Its a hollow feeling, you know?Dude...good writing, first of all. It reads like a story.Posted in: Elysium Blog
Sorry to hear about this. I wondered where you were today in the Faerie thread. Anyway, I am sure a bunch of people have said this to you, but you are still young. So is she. You have a lot of things to look forward to. Just watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall and hope you meet Mila Kunis in Hawaii :smile:. You don't seem like you have any baggage yet, ride it out man.
Take it from a former junkie, who still managed to find someone beautiful and willing to put up with my crap/baggage. (this is sincere and not a brag, I promise) - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Hey Safeguard.
You whipped my ass a couple of months ago in a 2-man with Merfolk. I was playing Jund. Ever since that I have seen the potential of Fish and have played them off and on to a good effect. They are goddamn fast and resilient.
Since Master of the Pearl Trident, I have liked the deck more. I notice you hang on to Cryptic whilst I have cut mine. Spreading Seas seems to get the job done for me anymore. I also like how you have 1 MD Echoing Truth. I have borrowed that from you. I am just wondering your opinion on why the Cryptic remains. I can see the 1-of being a blow out when it is successful, but I can almost never rely on more than 3 land, so why not more cheap countermagic? or Spellskites (as mentioned above, it is a thought I have had)?
Just wanted to know what you think, since you seem to have a pretty decent grip on how this deck works.
Also, LOL @ Llawan since she could be an okay tempo play against Geist of St Traft too. Seems ok. 4 land again tho...
Wondering why no one is running Cavern. I have 2. Cryptic was the only thing holding me back from running it at all. I know we have Vial, but it is not always in the opener and then we randomly get blown out by what would have been rendered a bad hand with Vial (ie lots of remands and leaks by delver)
colored spells are not creatures
seems counterintuitive because creatures are technically spells on the stack, but sower (and shreikmaw fwiw) are EtB triggers that happen after the spell is resolved.
This is why sower can steal and shreikmaw can kill.
Phantasmal Image does happen on the stack. The trick here is in the wording.
The card says "You may have ~ enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, etc etc etc"
Since it doesn't target, it is not being targeted by a colored spell.
Neither of the EtB triggers can kill Progenitus, since he can't be targeted. However, he can be Cloned and Wrathed since they don't target.
lol
I like the idea of playing a deck that can successfully stick elesh norn or something that you are comfortable with.
UW Angel is a solid choice too.
Seems like the concensus is that Cryptic Command is an awesome card in decks that can pack it, but due to being 4 CMC and 3/4 of those it puts a strain on the mana base egro relegating it to dedicated control and some tempo decks.
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My board was empty he had assault 5 lands a Raven's Crime in the GY.
I top deck Cryptic Command. He crimes me I bounce draw and gcet a spell pierce. He Crimes me again. He drops the Assault again.
I topdeck another Cryptic. He dredges for Life from the Loam. He taps 2 for it obviously unable to Crime me. I Cryptic counter bounce. We go to my turn and 1 draw a third. He dredges again. This time I let it resolve. He crimes I cryptic counter draw into a mana leak. he plays a land and casts Assault which I leak. I go on to win the game and the match because i am able to chain a couple time walks with cliques.
This situation depicts beautifully the versatility of cryptic. and I didn't even need to tap everything down to alpha strike. This is a christmas land sort of scenario, but the point remains: You get to decide how to use Cryptic and because it has options, it is a blow out when it happens.
Leak, Snare, and Remand are all necessary to help you to get to Cryptic.
You are right about Firespout.
It worked for me before on MTGO, so I assumed it was the ruling...
thanks for correcting my correction...
Still probably worse than Jund Charm...
cage does nothing against living end. Living End exiles the creatures before they enter the battlefield, which Cage does nothing against.
cascade exiles the cards before casting them so you are not bringing them in from your library...
Cage is a dead card against Living End.
We should be running Jund Charm or at the very worst Nihil Spellbomb to stop opposing GY shenanigans.
Firespout does, in fact, work off of cascade. You get to choose how it is cast, actually. With either G or R. Same with casting any spell with "hybrid" mana, you actually have a point when you cascade to determine the type of mana spent, thought most of the time it is arbitrary. Also, Firespout would resolve first, leaving you with a BBE too...
Not saying it is good, just saying that is incorrect...
I am at the coast, but I should be able to skype from my laptop.
That is his user name on twitch too, so you just have to search for him and follow.
twitch has a feature that allows the user to archive their recordings for a period of time, which this guy hasn't done...
Here is the link to the dude's channel if you are interested
LOOL
My boy running around like a jaybird toward the end was probably a bit much too...
I am fun when I converse in person, despite what my text would indicate sometimes....:rofl:
I SOUND like a dick, but I am actually kind of cool (just kind of).
I am not advocating for anything to be unbanned or banned (for now)...you know how I feel about bannings.
AND
Had they just used different criteria for their basis for banning, I think the list would be better received.
I made it yesterday, but the Lantern couldn't...
I am kind of difficult. I work 8-5 M-F and live on the West Coast. then I have the kids on the weekend because my wife works...my days are generally filled with last minute plans and child-driven tumult!! both Feathers and Lantern are on the East Coast, so there is a three-hour time zone difference as an initial challenge to begin with...
Feathers and I had a nice long talk on Skype yesterday and we will try to get something going very soon.
Meanwhile, we are going to get something going. I just hope me being on the West Coast with all my stuff doesn't interfere too much...
Very reasonable choice by the staff. You do provide a very objective voice. Good luck!
Thank you. That clears up some stuff for me, including why some people are so up in arms to begin with.
I thought Legacy was just a loose criteria, but they really looked at how the cards were performing in Legacy....that is kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater in my opinion.
I think they could have had this list better received had they used old extended and overextended as the baseline as opposed to Legacy. As I said earlier, Modern and Legacy are completely different. There are really busted cards allowed in Legacy that can't be reprinted or that they won't. Apples to Oranges comparison...
Thank you for pointing to me to this article.