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EX33396948 posted a message on Do you 'hoard' one (or a handful) of a card?Foil Silver-Inlaid Dagger. Thumbs up if you get it.Posted in: Magic General - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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I played in the PTQ today (yesterday) and I just got land flooded every game. I went 1-2 and dropped. Needless to say I was frustrated. I drew so many lands and so many Aether Vials. I lost to U/W Gifts for god's sake.
I really like that list a lot. I love the focus on the synergies and intricacies of the deck. After tweaked and all that, this is what I am currently working with.
3 Judge's Familiar
4 Tidehollow Sculler
4 Leonin Arbiter
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Flickerwisp
3 Blade Splicer
2 Brimaz, King of Oreskos
2 Mangara of Corondor
3 Restoration Angel
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
4 Aether Vial
4 Path to Exile
//Land
4 Godless Shrine
2 Isolated Chapel
4 Ghost Quarter
3 Tectonic Edge
1 Eiganjo Castle
7 Plains
2 Swamp
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
3 Stony Silence
2 Eidolon of Rhetoric
2 Dismember
2 Rest In Peace
2 Pithing Needle
1 Engineered Explosives
Judge's Familiar is starting to feel really awkward to me. In some matchups it's great, but sometimes it's bad. In other matchups it's bad, but sometimes great. Since it's not 4, it's not always in your opening hand, and that's when you want to see it, but running 4 means you'll see it more often throughout the game. I am thinking about cutting it for something more consistent, or with more synergy. I'm thinking either slotting Pack Rat back in, or running some number of Stonecloaker or Whitemane Lion or Jotun Grunt. I like Jotun Grunt because he's big and cheap, but he doesn't really feel like he fits the deck's plan very well. I like Stonecloaker because he doubles as grave hate and can randomly win your fights against Tarmogoyf or Reanimator Strategies, and is very synergistic with Mangara, and our ETB effects, but our 3 drop spot seems crowded. I like Whitemane Lion. He's cheap, effective, synergistic, but is very lackluster and "vanilla" feeling. Pack Rat is great because he avoids flooding, and is actually useful in multiples.
So many choices. I love this deck for that reason. There are so many varieties of this deck that everyone plays their own sort of "flavor", and most of them are good.
Edit: Has anyone tried Crucible of Worlds? The old Crucible + Strip Mine lock...And with Pack rat you can discard lands and then play them. Just brainstorming here...
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4 Reaper of the Wilds
4 Nightveil Specter
4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
2 Lifebane Zombie
2 Desecration Demon
1 Pack Rat
//Spells
3 Underworld Connections
3 Thoughtseize
2 Whip of Erebos
2 Hero's Downfall
1 Putrefy
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Ultimate Price
2 Devour Flesh
1 Gaze of Granite
4 Overgrown Tomb
3 Golgari Guildgate
3 Temple of Mystery
2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
13 Swamp
3 Pharika's Cure
3 Duress
2 Dark Betrayal
2 Pithing Needle
2 Golgari Charm
1 Lifebane Zombie
1 Gaze of Granite
1 Erebos, God of the Dead
I haven't figured out a situation where I wanted Desecration Demon more than Reaper of the Wilds yet, hence the 4/2 split in favor of Reaper. Reaper is just so insane right now. I was running no Demons, but I think 2 is fine. He's still really good from the graveyard via Whip.
I rarely can't cast something in my deck due to color. Usually it's because I'll have Nykthos in my opening hand and draw into Specter or something, but that's rare. Only 2 lands that can't cast Specter.
Also having specter and the ability to produce 3 colors means that I can naturally cast things from almost every deck right now.
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4 Desecration Demon
4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
4 Nightveil Specter
3 Lifebane Zombie
1 Abhorrent Overlord
//Permanents
4 Underworld Connections
2 Whip of Erebos
//Spells
3 Thoughtseize
3 Hero's Downfall
2 Doom Blade
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Golgari Charm
1 Gaze of Granite
1 Devour Flesh
4 Overgrown Tomb
3 Golgari Guildgate
2 Temple of Mystery
2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Mutavault
13 Swamp
4 Pharika's Cure
2 Duress
2 Mistcutter Hydra
2 Pithing Needle
1 Fade into Antiquity
1 Erebos, God of the Dead
1 Golgari Charm
1 Devour Flesh
Powering up a huge Gaze of Granite or Mistcutter Hydra off of Nykthos is so much fun it should be illegal.
Temple of Mysterys are in there because they are green sources that don't mess up being able to cast Nightveil Specter. The lands have been changing around a decent amount. I may want another Temple in there instead of the Golgari Guildgate. This will be much easier when I get the B/G Temple =( I hate guildgates.
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After much (agonizing) consideration, I dropped Boon Satyr. He's really good, but sometimes he's just too slow and too unreliable as a removal spell. Same with Polukranos. I shifted some numbers around and tweaked my removal suite and my current list is this:
4 Reaper of the Wilds
4 Sylvan Caryatid
3 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
3 Desecration Demon
3 Lotleth Troll
2 Scavenging Ooze
2 Shadowborn Demon
//Permanents
2 Whip of Erebos
2 Underworld Connections
//Spells
2 Thoughtseize
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Devour Flesh
1 Golgari Charm
2 Hero's Downfall
1 Putrefy
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Golgari Guildgate
1 Mutavault
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
8 Swamp
6 Forest
3 Pharika's Cure
2 Lifebane Zombie
2 Duress
2 Pithing Needle
1 Deadbridge Chant
2 Mistcutter Hydra
2 Fade into Antiquity
1 Thoughtseize
I also agree with Mistcutter in the side. He can just end games against control so suddenly.
Everything is coming together very nicely, and I'm very happy with where my list is and where this deck has evolved to.
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When you cast Hidden Strings, you must target two separate things because it says "...another target permanent." You cannot target the same things twice, and therefore cannot trigger Akroan Crusader twice
Yes, you may 'untap' an already untapped permanent for the sake of triggering Heroic, it just doesn't do anything.
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As long as he uses completely opaque sleeves, it generally shouldn't be a problem. However, if you were to simply write on the front of the card, as long as it doesn't provide any strategic advice, it would be much more unlikely to get called as a marked card.
Alternatively you could do what Macius said, and just write on a clear sleeve on the card and that would make sure it's never a problem, and if would also not depreciate the value of the card at all.
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B) The stack would look like this...
Path to Exile (Targetting Kor Spiritdancer)
Draw a Card from Kor Spiritdancer
Rancor
Path to Exile would resolve, exiling your Kor Spiritdancer (and you can search for a basic land), then you would draw a card, then Rancor would fizzle due to its target being illegal.
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From what I can tell, this works.
It would go something like this...
Cast Lightning Bolt, it gets exiled, then casts again.
Stack-
Lightning Bolt (Copy1)
Then cast Spellshift targetting Lightning Bolt, let it get exiled, and then copy it and Lightning Bolt.
Stack-
Spellshift (Copy, targetting Lightning Bolt Copy 1)
Lightning Bolt (Copy2)
Lightning Bolt (Copy1)
Spellshift's copy will resolve, countering Lightning Bolt 1 and then finding you another instant or sorcery. We'll say, Rift Bolt. Eye of the Storm triggers.
Stack-
Eye of the Storm Trigger (For Rift Bolt)
Rift Bolt
Lightning Bolt (Copy2)
Eye of the Storm trigger resolves, exiling Rift Bolt and copying Rift Bolt, Spellshift and Lightning Bolt. Spellshift can then target the Lightning Bolt Copy 2.
Stack-
Spellshift (Copy)
Rift Bolt (Copy)
Lightning Bolt (Copy3)
Lightning Bolt (Copy2)
Lightning Bolt Copy 2 would be countered, and you would do it again.
This would effectively cast every Instant and Sorcery in your library.