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Feb 3, 2014Ganman posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite card is explore. I love the speed of it and the card advantage. Take that together with the fact that the dominant mechanic in the block was landfall and you have one crazy card.Posted in: Announcements
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Dec 15, 2009Ganman posted a message on Need Help with angel deckIf you really want my suggestions, then here I go:Posted in: iona Blog
Platinum Angel is too vulnerable. It dies to a well-placed Burst Lightning with kicker cost paid in full, or a Path to Exile, Journey to Nowhere, or Oblivion Ring, (Path to Exile is majorly popular in white standard.)
Planar Cleansing is probably not something you really want. Consider Martial Coup instead. White is all about creature-advantage, and if you clear the field, you and your opponent are almost on equal levels (depending on what's in your hand.)
I will say that white lifegain has never been majorly popular in anywhere outside of casual. It tends to be slow, and lifegain tends to want to stall the game.
Find more honor of the pure. They're going to be what this deck ultimately needs. It's definitely a 4 of.
Consider removing the Gleam of Resistance in place of an Honor of the Pure. Its effect stays on the field longer, and ultimately it has more applications for your deck as a result.
Take out Kazandu. If you're only running a copy, his effect isn't going to benefit you (especially since you're running so few allies.)
Valiant Guard is probably not something you absolutely need.
I like World Queller, but he's just too darn vulnerable.
If you're on a lower budget, sigiled paladin is probably a 4 of.
Also, the Palace Guard can probably go...
your deck needs bigger threats than what it has now. Since lifegain is a plus for you, but not necessarily devastating to your opponent, you might want to focus on more than just lifegain as a strategy. I like that you've got O-ring and Path in there- that's the kind of thinking you need. Just try to focus on how you're going to stop your opponent as quick as possible, rather than stalling them, because ultimately, there are some really fast decks out there. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Somewhat back to a primary discussion though, I love seeded packs, and hope that they continue to print them, even if they do something different with prereleases. Almost every pack I got back in THS block had a god in it or some other mythic as the secondary rare, and it seems like the mythic to rare ratio was elevated somewhat for seeded packs, unless I was just really lucky. Given that I collected the gods, I had a lot of fun with seeded packs.
3. Ob Nixilis is an interesting card, but he counters *much* more than just fetchlands. There are still plenty of other cards that search libraries, so I don't see how you could justify his existence indicating the future inclusion of one type of searching.
4. As you said, the staves were already printed last core set, so this explains nothing. Also, what? "...by gaining the life right back" *facepalm* No. The drawback is *supposed* to be there. It's just like how in black, you often wind up paying life for the mechanics. Efficiency with lands generally has a small drawback.
5. Fetchlands have synergy with a lot of things. Domri isn't standard. Unless some of the next 49 cards to be spoiled in M15 have landfall, I think your case falls flat.
The only evidence I can see for any sort of fetchland inclusion are all the Zendikar themes and characters that they're including. This really says nothing though. Also, it's been four or five years since we've gotten fetchlands, so I'd think they'd print more eventually - likely within the next three or four years. Possibly if they ever actually return to Zendikar, another of their best-selling sets, they'll add five or ten of them, since those worked thematically with the block. But I see very little reason for them to include fetches at this point.
It's a 6/6 flyer for 6, as established, and comparing that to a load of other better 6/6 flyers doesn't automatically make it the worst card ever printed. I'm sure people will still play it in casual and draft, if that last ability doesn't wind up having some miraculous use in a really unconventional deck.
But you're right. At 6 mana, it's not likely to be used in constructed. Very few cards are used at that cost.
Does that mean it's awful? Does that mean it isn't "worth the ink used to print it"? No. None of the above. It still has some use to some people.
Let's think rationally here.
Overall, I liked the block, but more details on Xenagos' ascension would have been nice. He feels like a plot device.
Is it loyal to Greek mythology? No. It's an homage. I do feel like the larger mechanics were very close to ancient Greek mythology and culture though (devotion, heroic, monstrous, bestow, tribute, inspired, and an emphasis on scrying). Devotion, tribute, bestow, and inspired really highlight ancient Greek city-state mentality/nationalism, while heroic and monstrous seem to draw out something especially Spartan in the warrior/monster mindset.
So, bottom line: Yes. It does the loyalty to Greek mythology/culture very well sometimes, but others it seems contrived, and the plot suffers as a sort of accessory at times as well.
Also, don't buy into the noob mentality. Everybody's a new player at some point. I once seriously tried to push Deft Duelist into standard. That was a mistake... but most of us make them at first. I'd recommend not calling players noobs, and not thinking of others as one- we're all learning, constantly.
This... this will make him much more difficult to deal with.
Multicolored cards eat up the metagame in many circumstances, and this deck's biggest weakness is mid-range. Also, I just don't see the appeal of the hoplite. He seems really slow and isolated. If I'm going to add in a heroic spell, I want something that isn't going to just pump itself and something that has a permanent effect. Fabled is an exception to this rule because he's not at all slow for a turn three.
Basically, the reason is efficiency. If I'm going to have even a minute chance of standing up to some of the scarier decks, I want the deck to do what it can as quickly as possible, and I don't want to sink the spells on a heroic that only targets itself and only becomes a 2 power when it's targeted once. The life gain from it has been good, but mostly the ability to not be blocked by multicolored is a huge help.
4 Temple of Triumph
4 Sacred Foundry
7 Plains
7 Mountain
Creatures (18)
4 Fabled Hero
4 Soldier of the Pantheon
2 Boros Reckoner
4 Phalanx Leader
4 Minotaur Skullcleaver
4 Magma Jet
4 Ordeal of Heliod
4 Celestial Flare
4 Boros Charm
4 Dragon Mantle
4 Immortal Servitude
3 Peak Eruption
4 Chained to the Rocks
4 Stormbreath Dragon/Skullcrack
Anax and Cymede is simply too slow. You play it and it doesn't do anything until the next turn. Additionally, its ability is not static. It lasts one turn. The enchantment factor of Hopeful Eidolon is nice, but it's too slow for its enchantment bonus and it's a turn one 1/1 lifelinker. I've had issues with Chained being bumped back to my hand, so I don't main deck it against much. I tried planeswalkers, but this build sort of fights their addition with what it's trying to accomplish, which is a quick win against mid-range and everything else.
Possibly so, but the reliance on enchantments is iffy. Also, there's no heroic synergy, so I don't really know if it could be called "heroic". Your only heroic creature is Favored Hoplite, and even that doesn't give global benefits based on heroic. The problem with it is that its benefit is limited to itself. Also, Dryad Militant seems like a really niche card.
Thank you! In this meta, you have to have pretty good justification for not using mutavault.
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Temple of Triumph
7 Mountain
7 Plains
Creatures (20)
4 Hopeful Eidolon
2 Akroan Crusader
4 Soldier of the Pantheon
4 Phalanx Leader
2 Fabled Hero
2 Boros Reckoner
2 Anax and Cymede
2 Purphoros, God of the Forge
4 Martial Glory
2 Gods Willing
2 Boros Charm
2 Coordinated Assault
2 Mizzium Mortars
4 Chained to the Rocks
I've revised this slightly. I'm still not sold on manavault, because with so many one-drops, we can't afford the colorless mana source, I don't think. I keep as many one-drops as possible to keep the tempo, and Chained is great for this.
Then I was like, "Whoa. Red card draw. :("
This does NOT go in red deck wins. If you're playing red control (because you're a rebel) then sure. Go ahead. This is your card.
But will this help RDW?
HELL no.
If you need card draw in RDW, you're either horribly unlucky, you have too many lands in your deck, or your curve is WAY off.
Ideally, ramp decks shouldn't need this either.
My question is where it was confirmed that it's a new plane. I can't find anything to that effect, and would like to see it.
Where was the official announcement? Could you link?
I'm apparently a little out of the loop, and I'm coming up with nada googling it.
If that's the case, I'd say it's fairly likely we can expect enemy-color dual lands.
Also, "Innistrad" sounds very much like the name of a prison. The name "Horror Lurks Within" sounds like it entails the opening of a prison. What it sounds like is that there's some object within the prison that needs to be found (or somebody,) and that to get to that object means bypassing the hordes of "bloodthirsty" prisoners. We might be getting some creatures who are less sane and more brutal, and likely that they will be quite hostile after being locked away for so long. (EDIT: On second thought, it sounds like a hostile takeover of a prison by the gothic prisoners. Note the bars on the window in the spoiler image.)
The one thing that punches holes in my theory is that WotC are essentially offering tribute sets twice in a row. We got Mirrodin after seeing the return of Scry, and now we'll likely see Ravnica (meaning enemy-color creatures) after seeing the return of Bloodthirst.
I don't know how many times I've had to reinstall. And I'm not terrible with software either.
If you're having similar problems, don't chock it up to your own incompetence. In the couple years that I've worked with MWS, it seems it is way more complicated than it needs to be.