Actually, with JBL, its subtle, but you can tell when there's a bit of extra emphasis to distinguish the Clothesline from Hell from a regular clothesline.
Monty Brown's finisher may be legit to his character, but that dosen't mean it still dosen't look stupid. I wish he'd just use the Alpha Bomb. In fact, he should the one using the Spear or the Gore. At least those look impressive, the Pounce just looks like he's bumping into you really fast.
Mark Henry is main-eventing. Wow. Just wow. There is no justice. They couldn't give Christian a main-event push when he was there, but Mark friggin Henry gets one. At least Kurt Angle will carry him to a solid two-star match with Kurt earning 1.9999 of those stars.
I will still cry.
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Tomko and Snitsky's boot to the head gets honorable mention though.
Snitsky's using the big boot now!?! Hogan's ghost is everywhere....
More improtantly, Edge is the champion. MWA HA HA HA FINALLY.
Man, having sex with Lita and screwing over Matt Hardy has done his career a ton of good.
Edge v. Ric Flair in a TLC LAdder Match on RAW for the WWE Title. Either Flair's winning the belt or he's going to freaking die in the middle of this match falling off the ladder. Seriously, WTF are they doing?
_____________2UU
Creature - Weird Shapeshifter
:2mana:: _____ becomes a copy of target permanent until end of turn and retains this ability.
Whenever you draw a card, untap ______
2/1
Wow, we've made it to eight battles. I'm happy for that.
Hi, everyone. I'm not back for ICS yet, just stopping in for a quick hello and a congratulations to our two new Iron Chefs, Chimpanzee and armlx. Welcome to the show.
Hey, fellas. Just letting you guys know I'm not dead or anything. I just have some family issues to take care of that's taking away most of my time.
@Jake: Remember that Battle of the Blocks article me and TAN was starting, we're still doing it. It's taking a little longer than we would have liked, but we will get it done. (I don't know if you remembered or not, but Nightmare told me he hadn't mentioned it in a while.)
I am your honorable Chairman, Darksteel Underpants
Meet your Iron Chefs
Iron Chef Black - Greebo
Iron Chef Red - CynicalSquirrel
Iron Chef Green - NavyJoe
Iron Chef White - Greebo
Iron Chef Blue - Bluemage76
Iron Chef Artifact - Disrupt_Your_Hymn
**The names in parentheses are the challengers in the melee battle for the title should an Iron Chef lose three matches
Rules - Maybe you want to know them
1. The battle will begin with the Chairman choosing a card to be the 'secret ingredient' of each match. Multicolored cards will count as both or all of their colors. (Example: If the Chairman chooses Vindicate, it can be the secret ingredient of both Black and White)
2. Both the Iron Chef and challenger will have three days to make and post a deck that features the 'secret ingredient' card. There MUST be four copies of the card in the deck, and at least three in the maindeck (you can have one in the sideboard). Sideboards are not required for your deck, but it wouldn't hurt.
3. After the three day time limit has passed, I will post a poll featuring the matchups and the decks. If a player does not post a deck or edits the deck after the time limit has passed, they are immediately disqualified. The poll lasts for two days and the people, the Salvation community will decide the winner. [NOTE: Yes, you can vote for yourself as well as vote in the other match-ups.] If the poll ends in a tie, there is no winner to that match and an immediate rematch will be scheduled. Only Green Teabagger and Darksteel Underpants will be prohibited from voting in the polls.
4. Decks made for the matchups must be legal for the Legacy format. If you do not know the Banned and Restricted List for Legacy, here is a link to the Legacy B+R list. Decks do not have to be mono-colored. (Example: If Iron Chef Red is making a deck that the 'secret ingredient' is Fire Elemental, they can make it a red-green deck as long as it appears four times overall in the deck.) You can also include a brief explanation as to the goal of your deck.
5. Decks are judged based on originality, creativity, how well they used the 'secret ingredient', and the overall strength of the deck. You may also consider which deck would win if the decks played a series of games. When your deck is finished, either post it on this thread or Private Message it to either Darksteel Underpants or Green Teabagger.
6. Now. This is the important part to the Iron Chefs. Each normal battle is a one-on-one match. But...........If you lose three matches, your position as Iron Chef is in jeopardy. If that happens, there will be a FOUR-WAY CHALLENGE between the three challengers that defeated the Iron Chef and the Iron Chef themselves. The winner will become the Iron Chef for that color (or perhaps retain their job) That means you can become an Iron Chef even after the original battle. [NOTE: There has been a change here. The three match losses needed to have a melee battle for the title of Iron Chef no longer need to be consecutive. -- GTB]
7. To challenge an Iron Chef to battle, you need only PM me or Green Teabagger with the Iron Chef you wish to challenge. I will arrange the battle as soon as possible. I will be trying to have all six Iron Chefs battling at the same time. Please only challenge one Iron Chef at a time.
8. Any of these rules can be changed at any time. I will announce updates to the rules as they are decided upon. There will also be rounds when I make a 'special rule' for your battle. Sometimes, a special rule battle may need additional time to make the deck. Example: I may decide that the decks must be a Highlander format deck where other than basic land (and the secret ingredient) you can only have one copy of every card in the deck.
Normally by the three-day rule, this battle would be over on Christmas Day which would stink. Neither I or Green Teabagger have no intention of being near a computer on Sunday (except to get away from our families ) Therefore, this will be a FIVE-DAY BATTLE. Appropriate I guess for such a monumental battle.
The deadline for decks will be 6:00 P.M. EST on Tuesday, December 27th.
draygn: Green is the upcoming melee battle for the title of Iron Chef Green.
Blue was just taken less than ten minutes ago. All other spots are open.
@Greebo: Nuh-uh. That we're not having. You got two titles already and that is enough. Iron Chefs challenging other Iron Chefs isn't allowed. The fact is that you will be the only person in ICS history when all is said and done that has held two Iron Chef titles at the same time, as I would prefer to have six different people at the positions. I'm not going to take a title away from you, but nobody's gonna have two titles again.
After the three day time limit has passed, I will post a poll featuring the matchups and the decks. If a player does not post a deck or edits the deck after the time limit has passed, they are immediately disqualified. The poll lasts for two days and the people, the Salvation community will decide the winner. [NOTE: Yes, you can vote for yourself as well as vote in the other match-ups.] If the poll ends in a tie, there is no winner to that match and an immediate rematch will be scheduled. Only Green Teabagger and Darksteel Underpants will be prohibited from voting in the polls.
Decks are judged based on originality, creativity, how well they used the 'secret ingredient', and the overall strength of the deck. You may also consider which deck would win if the decks played a series of games. When your deck is finished, either post it on this thread or Private Message it to either Darksteel Underpants or Green Teabagger.
Since there are multiple polls, multiple votes will obviously be allowed. Please vote once in each battle which will be indicated by a capitalized letter. If you vote more than once in a battle, ALL YOUR VOTES IN THIS ROUND WILL BE IGNORED.
We had five battles this round...
Poll A -- Iron Chef Red CynicalSquirrel v. draygn_mage
Secret Ingredient: Mana Cache
The basic idea is a U/W control deck that uses the Tomb to lock or activate Karma. The Karma, Tomb, and enchantments can also be used with the Whim of Volrath. Tomb can now mana screw black decks, Karma can deal damage without Tomb, and Douse/Justice go crazy.
Poll C -- Iron Chef Black Greebo v. AJFirst
Secret Ingredient: Season of the Witch
So we have a semi enchantress deck semi toolbox deck whats not to love? Early game set up your mana quick With land grants tithes and wall of roots, land light opening hands are not a big a factor as you might think here with Tithes, and Grants. The first creature you'll want to play apart from the wall is Argothian Enchatress, followed by the wombat. Then with whatever enchantments you have in hand start up you draw engine and be relatively liberal with attacks. As soon as you can drop an auratouched mage and tutor up a flickerform, one turn later enchant and activate the form and you have infinite access to you enchantments. Our wish Targets are pretty self explainatory, extra copies of our important main deck creatures, a bit of enchantment/artifact destruction, an infinite card recycler(with flickerform) and a control hater. Apart from that our sideboard has the star disenchant, and aggro killing loxodon heirarch finally to stop any graveyard shenanigans we have tormod's crypt to nuke a graveyard before things get out of hand.
NavyJoe did not submit an entry again. Therefore, Enigma91 is your winner.
O SNAP.
That makes NavyJoe's third loss against a different opponent. Two days from now after the polls close, we will have a four way battle for the title of Iron Chef Green!!!
Poll E -- Iron Chef White Greebo v. bateleur
Secret Ingredient: Elder Land Wurm
Unfortunately, both bateleur and I messed up. bateleur PMed me his entry a couple days ago and I did not notice the Skullclamp that was in it. Skullclamp is illegal in our contest as it is not Legacy legal and therefore I had to DQ bateleur for this round. Greebo wins by default To be fair, I have PMed bateleur about both our errors and I have offered him a chance to face Greebo again in the next battle.
COMMENT: Thumbs up to Greebo for having some serious guts to use both Season of the Witch and Elder Land Wurm in one deck and using it for both battles regardless of the results.
Polls as usual end in two days.....
Next matches will be up for Thursday...I'll go ahead and reveal the scheduled match.
Thursday's Matches
FOUR-WAY MELEE BATTLE FOR THE TITLE OF IRON CHEF GREEN
Reigning Iron Chef Green NavyJoe v. ak1200 v. Chimpanzee v. Enigma91
Right now, this is the only match scheduled.
As always, its first come first serve, but that dosen't mean you can't get in line to challenge someone else.
One more thing, please only challenge one Iron Chef at a time. I assure everyone that their challenge will be answered even if it takes a few days. Thank you.
Hit and Run :1mana::symr:
Instant
Kicker--Sacrifice a creature.
The next time target creature would deal damage, deal that much damage to target player.
If the kicker cost was paid,
Monty Brown's finisher may be legit to his character, but that dosen't mean it still dosen't look stupid. I wish he'd just use the Alpha Bomb. In fact, he should the one using the Spear or the Gore. At least those look impressive, the Pounce just looks like he's bumping into you really fast.
Mark Henry is main-eventing. Wow. Just wow. There is no justice. They couldn't give Christian a main-event push when he was there, but Mark friggin Henry gets one. At least Kurt Angle will carry him to a solid two-star match with Kurt earning 1.9999 of those stars.
I will still cry.
Snitsky's using the big boot now!?! Hogan's ghost is everywhere....
More improtantly, Edge is the champion. MWA HA HA HA FINALLY.
Man, having sex with Lita and screwing over Matt Hardy has done his career a ton of good.
Edge v. Ric Flair in a
TLCLAdder Match on RAW for the WWE Title. Either Flair's winning the belt or he's going to freaking die in the middle of this match falling off the ladder. Seriously, WTF are they doing?Steph's pregnant. O GOD NO
They 100% sure Hunter McMahon is the father?
_____________ 2UU
Creature - Weird Shapeshifter
:2mana:: _____ becomes a copy of target permanent until end of turn and retains this ability.
Whenever you draw a card, untap ______
2/1
Next: Phyrexian Reaper
Hi, everyone. I'm not back for ICS yet, just stopping in for a quick hello and a congratulations to our two new Iron Chefs, Chimpanzee and armlx. Welcome to the show.
@Jake: Remember that Battle of the Blocks article me and TAN was starting, we're still doing it. It's taking a little longer than we would have liked, but we will get it done. (I don't know if you remembered or not, but Nightmare told me he hadn't mentioned it in a while.)
Welcome to Salvation Stadium....
I am your honorable Chairman, Darksteel Underpants
Meet your Iron Chefs
Iron Chef Black - Greebo
Iron Chef Red - CynicalSquirrel
Iron Chef Green - NavyJoe
Iron Chef White - Greebo
Iron Chef Blue - Bluemage76
Iron Chef Artifact - Disrupt_Your_Hymn
Win-Loss Records of Iron Chefs**
Disrupt_Your_Hymn: 2-2 (draygn_mage, armlx)
Greebo (Black): 2-2 (Enigma91, AJFirst)
Greebo (White): 1-1 (Jobie)
CynicalSquirrel: 1-2 (Enigma91, draygn_mage)
Bluemage76: 0-2 (Hellbent4hollywood, ak1200)
NavyJoe: 0-3 (ak1200, Chimpanzee, Enigma91)
**The names in parentheses are the challengers in the melee battle for the title should an Iron Chef lose three matches
Rules - Maybe you want to know them
1. The battle will begin with the Chairman choosing a card to be the 'secret ingredient' of each match. Multicolored cards will count as both or all of their colors. (Example: If the Chairman chooses Vindicate, it can be the secret ingredient of both Black and White)
2. Both the Iron Chef and challenger will have three days to make and post a deck that features the 'secret ingredient' card. There MUST be four copies of the card in the deck, and at least three in the maindeck (you can have one in the sideboard). Sideboards are not required for your deck, but it wouldn't hurt.
3. After the three day time limit has passed, I will post a poll featuring the matchups and the decks. If a player does not post a deck or edits the deck after the time limit has passed, they are immediately disqualified. The poll lasts for two days and the people, the Salvation community will decide the winner. [NOTE: Yes, you can vote for yourself as well as vote in the other match-ups.] If the poll ends in a tie, there is no winner to that match and an immediate rematch will be scheduled. Only Green Teabagger and Darksteel Underpants will be prohibited from voting in the polls.
4. Decks made for the matchups must be legal for the Legacy format. If you do not know the Banned and Restricted List for Legacy, here is a link to the Legacy B+R list. Decks do not have to be mono-colored. (Example: If Iron Chef Red is making a deck that the 'secret ingredient' is Fire Elemental, they can make it a red-green deck as long as it appears four times overall in the deck.) You can also include a brief explanation as to the goal of your deck.
5. Decks are judged based on originality, creativity, how well they used the 'secret ingredient', and the overall strength of the deck. You may also consider which deck would win if the decks played a series of games. When your deck is finished, either post it on this thread or Private Message it to either Darksteel Underpants or Green Teabagger.
6. Now. This is the important part to the Iron Chefs. Each normal battle is a one-on-one match. But...........If you lose three matches, your position as Iron Chef is in jeopardy. If that happens, there will be a FOUR-WAY CHALLENGE between the three challengers that defeated the Iron Chef and the Iron Chef themselves. The winner will become the Iron Chef for that color (or perhaps retain their job) That means you can become an Iron Chef even after the original battle. [NOTE: There has been a change here. The three match losses needed to have a melee battle for the title of Iron Chef no longer need to be consecutive. -- GTB]
7. To challenge an Iron Chef to battle, you need only PM me or Green Teabagger with the Iron Chef you wish to challenge. I will arrange the battle as soon as possible. I will be trying to have all six Iron Chefs battling at the same time. Please only challenge one Iron Chef at a time.
8. Any of these rules can be changed at any time. I will announce updates to the rules as they are decided upon. There will also be rounds when I make a 'special rule' for your battle. Sometimes, a special rule battle may need additional time to make the deck. Example: I may decide that the decks must be a Highlander format deck where other than basic land (and the secret ingredient) you can only have one copy of every card in the deck.
9. Please use proper deck tags or card tags, preferably cardtags. Here is an explantion on how to use the tags
In our last round....
bateleur was DQ'd in his battle against Greebo for using a Skullclamp (which I also missed)
CynicalSquirrel and NavyJoe didn't submit an entry and lost their battles by default to draygn_mage and Enigma91 respectively.
Disrupt_Your_Hymn after coming out the gates like a ball of fire has hit a small slump losing in a battle of Cyclopean Tombs to armlx 7-1
AJFirst knocks off Greebo using Season of the Witch by a score of 5-2
Today's Battles - The Reason You are Here
Today, we start three battles including a melee battle for a title
4-WAY MELEE BATTLE FOR THE TITLE OF IRON CHEF GREEN
Reigning Iron Chef Green NavyJoe v. ak1200 v. Chimpanzee v. Enigma91
Game Preserve
Iron Chef Blue -- Bluemage76 v. armlx
Day of the Dragons
Iron Chef White -- Greebo v. draygn_mage
Roar of Reclamation
Normally by the three-day rule, this battle would be over on Christmas Day which would stink. Neither I or Green Teabagger have no intention of being near a computer on Sunday (except to get away from our families ) Therefore, this will be a FIVE-DAY BATTLE. Appropriate I guess for such a monumental battle.
The deadline for decks will be 6:00 P.M. EST on Tuesday, December 27th.
Good luck to all!
draygn: Green is the upcoming melee battle for the title of Iron Chef Green.
Blue was just taken less than ten minutes ago. All other spots are open.
@Greebo: Nuh-uh. That we're not having. You got two titles already and that is enough. Iron Chefs challenging other Iron Chefs isn't allowed. The fact is that you will be the only person in ICS history when all is said and done that has held two Iron Chef titles at the same time, as I would prefer to have six different people at the positions. I'm not going to take a title away from you, but nobody's gonna have two titles again.
Just a reminder that the polls end in an hour,
Also, umm, I have only one battle for next round right now. The melee battle. If anyone wants in, PM me within the hour.
THX
This is the Iron Chef Salvation Poll Thread...
Huzzah
Voting Guidelines as pointed out in the Rules
After the three day time limit has passed, I will post a poll featuring the matchups and the decks. If a player does not post a deck or edits the deck after the time limit has passed, they are immediately disqualified. The poll lasts for two days and the people, the Salvation community will decide the winner. [NOTE: Yes, you can vote for yourself as well as vote in the other match-ups.] If the poll ends in a tie, there is no winner to that match and an immediate rematch will be scheduled. Only Green Teabagger and Darksteel Underpants will be prohibited from voting in the polls.
Decks are judged based on originality, creativity, how well they used the 'secret ingredient', and the overall strength of the deck. You may also consider which deck would win if the decks played a series of games. When your deck is finished, either post it on this thread or Private Message it to either Darksteel Underpants or Green Teabagger.
Since there are multiple polls, multiple votes will obviously be allowed. Please vote once in each battle which will be indicated by a capitalized letter. If you vote more than once in a battle, ALL YOUR VOTES IN THIS ROUND WILL BE IGNORED.
We had five battles this round...
Poll A -- Iron Chef Red CynicalSquirrel v. draygn_mage
Secret Ingredient: Mana Cache
No entry from CynicalSquirrel, so draygn_mage is the winner by default
Poll B -- Iron Chef Artifact Disrupt_Your_Hymn v. armlx
Secret Ingredient: Cyclopean Tomb
Poll C -- Iron Chef Black Greebo v. AJFirst
Secret Ingredient: Season of the Witch
Poll D -- Iron Chef Green NavyJoe v. Enigma91
Secret Ingredient: Rabid Wombat
NavyJoe did not submit an entry again. Therefore, Enigma91 is your winner.
O SNAP.
That makes NavyJoe's third loss against a different opponent. Two days from now after the polls close, we will have a four way battle for the title of Iron Chef Green!!!
Poll E -- Iron Chef White Greebo v. bateleur
Secret Ingredient: Elder Land Wurm
Unfortunately, both bateleur and I messed up. bateleur PMed me his entry a couple days ago and I did not notice the Skullclamp that was in it. Skullclamp is illegal in our contest as it is not Legacy legal and therefore I had to DQ bateleur for this round. Greebo wins by default To be fair, I have PMed bateleur about both our errors and I have offered him a chance to face Greebo again in the next battle.
COMMENT: Thumbs up to Greebo for having some serious guts to use both Season of the Witch and Elder Land Wurm in one deck and using it for both battles regardless of the results.
Polls as usual end in two days.....
Next matches will be up for Thursday...I'll go ahead and reveal the scheduled match.
Thursday's Matches
Reigning Iron Chef Green NavyJoe v. ak1200 v. Chimpanzee v. Enigma91
Right now, this is the only match scheduled.
As always, its first come first serve, but that dosen't mean you can't get in line to challenge someone else.
One more thing, please only challenge one Iron Chef at a time. I assure everyone that their challenge will be answered even if it takes a few days. Thank you.
Good luck in the polls.
Instant
Kicker--Sacrifice a creature.
The next time target creature would deal damage, deal that much damage to target player.
If the kicker cost was paid,
Battle over.....poll up in the next few minutes.
?
Simplicity is bliss.
Magical porn....:rofl: