It's playability also depends a bit on how many Putrefys will get played. Because attacking with a platemailed creature opens you for a nice two-for-one against Putrefy.
How is Putrefy a two-for-one against Plate Mail? You can only blow up the Mail or the creature, not both.
the thing that irks me the most, more than that if i spend 4 dollars on a pack i have almost no chance of opening 4 dollars in cards, is that the lgs suffers when they design crappy sets.
It's like that with pretty much every set though. For every good rare, there's like ten bad ones. It's always been this way. Return to Ravnica spoiled people IMO.
If you don't like 5/6s for 2, I don't know what's wrong with you.
I think everybody likes 5/6s for two, they just don't like $110-20 5/6s for 2, because then there's divisiveness between the haves and the have-nots. For what it's worth though, Goyf isn't an auto-include in green decks. Neither Pod deck plays him, presumably because Pod decks are half creatures, and Scapeshift doesn't play him either. He's really at his best when paired with a heavy amount of removal and discard spells or counterspells. The countermagic is kinda lacking in Modern, so the BGx shell is really the best place for him.
I like this idea. It's technically easier to cast than Obby in the deck, and anti-sweeper tech is sweet. That being said, I don't play Obstinate Baloth to begin with, as my sideboard is as follows:
I'm experimenting with the Wear/Tears in place of Ancient Grudges, because Blood Moon is such a beating against this deck, I'll sacrifice a little of my Affinity match-up to deal with it, but I think the overall amount of instants in my sideboard's notable. Basically, I try to make my maindeck as combo/Domri-friendly as possible, then sacrifice a little bit of that games two and three for relevant hate. Path is definitely the most important card. It deals with opposing Pod-fueled combos, Goyfs, Collonades. Pretty much everything except for dorks and Geist.
Hi guys, what do u think about Phantasmal Image after the new rules? he can't kill linvala (and so on) anymore but he can make the 1 and 2 drop pod chain.. perhaps would agree to remove it to make room for another? Just 1 exarch ( 2 drop chain and help A LOT vs GR tron) or another silver bullet..
Image has to stay, as the one-two chain is too important to the deck.
Roughly, the odds of any mythic rare is 1 in 8 packs, and there are 11 mythics in Dragon's Maze, so the odds of getting a Voice are 1 in 88 packs.
Foils are 1 in 6 packs. Assuming that they have the same rarity distribution as non-foils, there's 1 foil Voice in every 528 packs.
Putting this together, there's a 1 in 46,464 chance of opening a pack with both a foil and non-foil Voice.
Your math is slightly off. Maze's End only appears on the land sheet, and shouldn't be considered for these calculations. Theoretically, it's possible to get three mythics in one pack when opening DGM.
Likewise, I will honestly be surprised if Theros doesn't have a tribal theme, given reprints like Mutavault and Door of Destinies in M14, not to mention the whole M14 Sliver thing that's priming that pump.
Consider that a wager, if you like.
Why would you be surprised when both of those rares are pricey (one waaaaay more than the other but still) yet not so pricey as to anger 'collectors' with a reprint, and they're both pickable for Sliver limited. Mutavault and Ooze alone guarantee this set will sell. Hell, I might just start going to drafts and forcing Slivers every time I go so I can pick Vaults and Doors without feeling bad. They just did tribal with Innistrad, so even if it is a theme, it's going to be a minor theme, while enchantment stuff might be meaty enough to be a landfall-worthy mechanic.
On the cards at hand, Blightspeaker is junky and Plate Mail, while flavorful, isn't that awesome either. All the awesomeness has been released. Spoiler season is in the dying embers, alas.
On second thought, Plate Mail both in and against decks with Supreme Verdict makes sense. In the decks with Supreme Verdict, you can stick it to your Aetherlings, and against it, you have a Batterskull-equivalent buff to P/T to let you slow-roll your creatures and a dude for when they sweep.
I'm quite surprised that nobody's posted this yet, but I'm curious as to how the threesome of novellas ended. If somebody could spoil it for me, I'd be most appreciative.
Anyone tried tossing around the old Mythic Conscription deck or something?
Heck, looks like it's even in Modern archives somewhere...
Mythic Conscription doesn't work without Jace, the Mind Sculptor to prop it up. You need him as both a solid plan B in case a Pyroclasm wipes out your dorks and as a way to shuffle drawn Conscriptions back into your library.
Okay thanks. And yeah two people at my LGS play mill and one doesn't play extractions so they just lose to it.
In that case, I'd recommend Loaming Shaman over/in addition to Emrakul. It doesn't auto-shuffle when it hits the 'yard, but you can Pod into it, blink it, and copy it, and once it's done it's job, you can keep moving up the chain.
Wow, I can't believe my LGS is the highest-priced so far. $50 a draft. I don't know what the prize support is because there's no way I'm shelling out that much to play a format I don't like.
Not tryint to bust your balls, but can you tell me any of the decks that play the cards that you quoted?
For reference:
Huntmaster of the Fells
Falkenrath Aristocrat
Olivia Voladaren
Gravecrawler
Geralf's Messenger
Restoration Angel
I don't know of any that play any of those, and honestly, considering how quickly Modern picks up on playable cards, if they were Modern playable they'd already be played consistently.
Restoration Angel is a solid 3-4 of in Kiki-Pod, you know. Couple that with the fact that it's an Angel and it should hold some value.
Norn is one of the two creatures that's part of the Gifts Ungiven/Unburial Rites reanimation package that is featured in some decks in Modern. The other one is Iona, Shield of Emeria. As a Kiki-Pod player, which means I play a lot of small creatures as well as four different colors, Norn is much more devastating against me than Iona. I can't combo off with it in play because Kiki's toughness is reduced to 0, and the debuff coupled with the 4/7 vigilant body means I probably won't be winning the beatdown game either.
I've won a few games by getting a Frost Titan down the turn before or after Primeval Titan comes down. A couple
I only won by getting two Frost Titans down. Generally, they need two Primeval triggers to screw you, I've found, and being able to hold off one of those can make the difference. Everybody loves Wurmcoil Engine too (myself included). Oh, and being able to tap down an opposing Frost Titan is priceless and playing green means you'll be on the giving side of that more often. In this next couple of months we have of being beaten down by mythic 6/6s, the anti-6/6 is definitely one of the top 3 reasons to play blue IMO.
1 - Players use card art to recognize cards, so changing all of them kinda screwed the pooch there.
2 - A lot of the art sucked.
It's like that with pretty much every set though. For every good rare, there's like ten bad ones. It's always been this way. Return to Ravnica spoiled people IMO.
I think everybody likes 5/6s for two, they just don't like $110-20 5/6s for 2, because then there's divisiveness between the haves and the have-nots. For what it's worth though, Goyf isn't an auto-include in green decks. Neither Pod deck plays him, presumably because Pod decks are half creatures, and Scapeshift doesn't play him either. He's really at his best when paired with a heavy amount of removal and discard spells or counterspells. The countermagic is kinda lacking in Modern, so the BGx shell is really the best place for him.
I like this idea. It's technically easier to cast than Obby in the deck, and anti-sweeper tech is sweet. That being said, I don't play Obstinate Baloth to begin with, as my sideboard is as follows:
I'm experimenting with the Wear/Tears in place of Ancient Grudges, because Blood Moon is such a beating against this deck, I'll sacrifice a little of my Affinity match-up to deal with it, but I think the overall amount of instants in my sideboard's notable. Basically, I try to make my maindeck as combo/Domri-friendly as possible, then sacrifice a little bit of that games two and three for relevant hate. Path is definitely the most important card. It deals with opposing Pod-fueled combos, Goyfs, Collonades. Pretty much everything except for dorks and Geist.
Image has to stay, as the one-two chain is too important to the deck.
Your math is slightly off. Maze's End only appears on the land sheet, and shouldn't be considered for these calculations. Theoretically, it's possible to get three mythics in one pack when opening DGM.
Why would you be surprised when both of those rares are pricey (one waaaaay more than the other but still) yet not so pricey as to anger 'collectors' with a reprint, and they're both pickable for Sliver limited. Mutavault and Ooze alone guarantee this set will sell. Hell, I might just start going to drafts and forcing Slivers every time I go so I can pick Vaults and Doors without feeling bad. They just did tribal with Innistrad, so even if it is a theme, it's going to be a minor theme, while enchantment stuff might be meaty enough to be a landfall-worthy mechanic.
On the cards at hand, Blightspeaker is junky and Plate Mail, while flavorful, isn't that awesome either. All the awesomeness has been released. Spoiler season is in the dying embers, alas.
On second thought, Plate Mail both in and against decks with Supreme Verdict makes sense. In the decks with Supreme Verdict, you can stick it to your Aetherlings, and against it, you have a Batterskull-equivalent buff to P/T to let you slow-roll your creatures and a dude for when they sweep.
Mythic Conscription doesn't work without Jace, the Mind Sculptor to prop it up. You need him as both a solid plan B in case a Pyroclasm wipes out your dorks and as a way to shuffle drawn Conscriptions back into your library.
In that case, I'd recommend Loaming Shaman over/in addition to Emrakul. It doesn't auto-shuffle when it hits the 'yard, but you can Pod into it, blink it, and copy it, and once it's done it's job, you can keep moving up the chain.
Also, Back to Nature is some pretty sweet anti-Bogle tech.
Restoration Angel is a solid 3-4 of in Kiki-Pod, you know. Couple that with the fact that it's an Angel and it should hold some value.