MTG Salvation

Quote from Levgre

If you want to win with blue artifact you are likely going to have to focus on playing some bomb with the tons of mana you can conjure up with grand architect. Otherwise you just set up lots of mana but not much to do with it. But what artifact bombs are there, really, that compete with Eldrazi in power? What makes blue artifact better than land ramp? Can't think of anything off the top of my head.

Quote from yyiiii

This is an interesting idea.
Still a 4 drop like BBE>and easier to cast than it.
Can put allies from your hand into play, cheap, over multiple turns< BBE puts an ally and a 3 power attacker into play once but can do damage immediately.

if we are trying to be a lethal aggro deck, I'm left opting for the card which is effective sooner than later and stick with BBE. at least for now.

Quote from morgan_coke

Renewed Faith over Gilded Light. Why people why? I thought I'd already pounded this into everyone's head. You can get some very minor lifegain when you cycle Faith, or you can have a counterspell for 90% of the things you care about. Mindslaver, Tormod's Crypt, Gifts Ungiven, Brain Freeze, any discard, Echoes, any burn (including Hellbent Demonfire), the list goes on, and you're immune to the stuff for the whole turn.. Renewed Faith is a nice card, but it doesn't even pretend to touch Gilded Light in Slide.

EDIT: oh, and the best way to deal with Goblinstorm is to utilize Leyline of the Void out the board, it turns off Fecundity. Either that or just kill the Fecundity's as soon as they appear, or set up a "fog lock" situation. There are a lot of ways to work around that deck, its faster than traditional goblins but also much, much less resilient to hate and if it doesn't win by turn 5 at the latest, it just loses. Just practice against it a bunch and you'll get it down fairly quickly.

EDIT2: Cabral's list did well at LAST YEAR'S worlds. 4 sets have come out since then. Things have changed. The two keys to extended right now are nonbasic land hate and graveyard hate. Design your deck to take advantage of other decks' reliance on those while minimizing your own vulnerability to them. For a manabase that means running plenty of basics and different ways to fetch them, look at some Legacy manabases if you need inspiration. Dwarven Blastminer and Destructive Flow are your best bets for nonbasic hate right now, and Withered Wretch, Tormod's Crypt, and Leyline of the Void are what you want to be looking at for graveyard hate.

Quote from Iceman8352

Mystic Snake doesn't work well with Astral Slide. The Slide doesn't return the creature to play until the next turn, so the Snake would likely have nothing to counter.

Loaming Shaman allows the controller to choose the number of target cards and the target player.

Quote from Sephiroth The 7th

What about including Blue now for Mystic Snake and counters with Momentary Blink. I mean a Witness and cycle cards and you have a control for control as well as Aggro. This may just be influence from the deck in T2 but Slide could support it and possibly make it even better.

Quote from CheeseshireCat

Note that you will lose anyway unless you have Platinum Angel out in this case.

Effects of spell occur *before* the SBEs are checked, so even if you drive an opponent below zero by this, you'll die first.

Quote from Pouncing Kavu

It looks like echo, but it seems to have 1B after it. Maybe kicker? But no mention of what the kicker does, that I can see.

Quote from Celestial_kitsune

interesting alpha version of a deck, the Red Madness card(s) will most likely be put into this deck, expecially the burn one (if there is one), because we all know that madness + burn spell + jaya = fun for you, pain for them.

Quote from ninjew

is it just me or does jaya have synergy with grim lavamancer?

Quote from DS_McWerp »

Mexico could be interesting to, but we wouldnt want any magic pros getting kidnapped, so vancouver or montreal gets my vote.

**** Toronto.