Even though an angel as a planeswalker would be boss, however I'm really hoping for a Reya-esque archangel again. This is mostly because I play Kaalia in EDH, but also because if she is to push back the darkness almost single handedly she needs to be as good, if not better, than Reya. That being said Reya is by far my favorite card in my Kaalia deck because of how powerful she is, and you can do some pretty amazing stuff with her, but what about an archangel who has the same power for a few less mana but who's also pro black? Shes supposed to push back the darkness right? And dismember is the one card that kills almost everything in standard right now. So why not have Avacyn be a 4/4 for 4WW who has the same ability as Reya, or with like one stipulation, and also be pro black?
On a side note I know I was disappointed when Darksteel Angel wasnt really a card, the one image from the New Phyrexia posters looked like Platinum Angel only Dark. Wizards may be cooking up some crazy powerful things for the future, and why not bring out crazy powerful angels that work as a mechanic with the humans. I mean humans are the ones who pray to the gods and angels look after them. I can see it happening
New chandra loves cards like tez gambit and volt charge, however I'm turning her into a mill engine. A WHAT! YES A MILL ENGINE! How you may ask? Duh her -2 ability. She copies instants AND sorcery's. So you splash in 4 mountians that you can fetch with either scalding tarns, or arid mesas (ill get to why mesas are in the deck in a second) so you can drop chandra and then the deck has traumatize in it, and ive done the math. If you drop a chandra turn 5 and a traumatize turn 6 with her minus ability with your opponent having played first and having no extra draw power, aka your opponent has the maximum number of cards possible to be in their deck on turn 6 they would have 48 cards still in their library, which means traumatize mills them to 24 cards left. But wait! theres more! chandra copies traumatize so you drop your opponent to 12 cards, 11 when they draw on their turn, and if you happen to have new jace in hand at this point now you can drop him and put your opponent in the awkward position of having to beat you on their next turn. granted these things take time to organize and plan out in the game so you have leaks and pierces to take care of stuff and still have your guys like hedron crab, hence mesas are in the deck! you run every fetch land that gets both blue and red mana misty, tarn, and mesa. Reason being that crab becomes huge with that many fetches, and say you start off with a mesa in hand, PERFECT! you use it to get one of your mountains and youre set or say you start off with a tarn in hand, PERFECT! you can sit on it for a few turns to see if you hit something to get you red mana and if not you use it to get it if you have chandra. second reason mesas are in the deck? And i actually thought of this while writing this post! you can run splinter twin combo in your sideboard. So game one youre milling them like crazy and it ends up working, so they prepare for quicker play and faster beats and you swap out milling engines that take awhile to drop for twin combo which takes a while to drop and your opponent never sees it coming. or game one doesnt go well so you swap out for twin combo for the same thing they never see it coming, and then if you win game two they dont know what to side in or out because you have 2 different things to throw at them to tear them down.
1 Only bad players will run elixer of immortality in their sideboard. why run a 4 of in your side just in case when you can run a one of Emrakul in your side.
2 I love new Jace he is now the key engine in my new RU mill deck. YES I SAID RU! Reason for the Red is because of new chandra and being able to make herself a mill engine as well. Deck runs 2 Baby Jace 4 New Jace 3 New Chandra. Reason shes a mill engine is her minus ablity. Now granted turn 5 youre plusing her to set up hopefully for the next turn, but her minus makes her an engine because the deck runs a 3 of traumatise and I'm trying to find room for tome scours. Now before you all hark on tome scour and how bad it is IK IK however it fits the deck for one and for two it helps chandra be a mill engine. back to how she becomes one her -2 ability lets you copy your next instant or sorcery so tome scour for 10 or if youre super duper crafty you traumatize someone for minimum 24 cards dropping their deck to only 24 cards, but oh wait theres more copy traumatize and stick your opponent with only 12 cards left to play with. Now in order to pull this off you need to stall a bit with leaks and pierces and seas and things of that sort, but it works out. Also deck runs a mill staple in headron crab, thank god i now have my scalding tarn, arid mesa, and misty rainforests. Reason for mentioning a crab? because you dont run arid mesa in a mostly blue deck for a card that only needs one single red mana. however because of mesa you have more double land drop with crab and you have more ways to hit the 4 basic mountains the deck runs. say you open with some islands and a mesa, GREAT! you have your red mana. Or say you open with some islands and a tarn, GREAT! you can sit on the tarn for a couple turns to see if you pull that mesa, and if you absolutely have to use the tarn for red you go for it. I honestly love the deck idea, and it would be awesome if it pans out, because i honestly have a soft spot for mill decks, so hopefully new jace and m12 will make it happen
In limited JMA will be a god! But I honestly think with the rotation of standard in october we're going to see a new style of magic. Gone will be the days of recent control decks, and back will be the days of big beasty guys who hit the field. Personally I saw Quicksilver Amulet and went EEEE WAAA!!! Think about it 8 mana for a Blightsteel, 8 for an Emrakul big dudes for cheap. Plus if you pair JMA with Gideon as a bodygaurd you might have a control based mill deck. And with IRR coming around word is theres prob a new RU planeswalker, so dont judge to quickly people. Nobody thought SFM was going to be that good. Not enough equipments in the format and she went to the wayside, and then two sets later with Scars coming out she started looking ok, then Besieged came around and she got even better and started to see play, and then NPH came out and she got busted, busted as in the police had to be called and she and her buddy JTMS got ban. So keep an open mind to JMA.
Ps. Now we may have the Goldilocks trilogy of Jace's
Pappa bear (Jace, the Mind Sculptor) Too Hot, To Powerful
Mama bear (Jace Beleren) Too Cold, To Weak
Baby bear ( Jace, Memory Adept) Just Right, Possibly
I would just like to poit out a few things. One just because you're a veteran and you play a lot doesn't mean you're one of the best it just means you have more experience and even an experienced veteran can lose. Main reason decks today get so powerful is because of the internet and top 8 decklists being posted. If we didn't have top 8 posts it would be up to every player to find the best deck and test it locally before going to a tourny. That being said I didn't really care what got banned if anything. Yes I'm happy to see a deck that basically owned standard for awhile being shut down but the only reason other decks started winning more recently is because caw blade was geared for the mirror match now rather than taking down the other decks. Yes banning jtms and sfm will mean the second coming of valikut however for weeks now I've watched vamps and another local deck (plan on running it come gp pitt) taking down caw blade and valikut, even some versions of soul sisters have been taking first (proud to say me and my buddy came up with a vairant build that's stronger) so when all is said and done yes caw blade is gone, but jtms and sfm are only ban in standard. Just wait R months and your precious will be back for the exxtended season. Also watch out for tempered steel deck people, its coming
You don't HAVE to work with 3 tribes you just can if you want. For my build I went mostly angels with a few choice demons and dragons in there. Its a matter of finding that balance and as I run the deck more and more I'm finding out that the basic number of around 35 land is actually high for this deck. Did you hear that 35 land in a mostlu bomb edh deck is HIGH! Completely counter intuitive ik but its true. Can't wait til Friday to stomp on some people who decided to prey on me in edh this week. As Kaalia says "Ill have my revenge if I have to call on every force from above and below"
Also, this card might just be too amazing. I love it. To death. But everyone else does too. I do not want to play a 4-player game against 4 Kaalia decks, lol...
Where you play you dont have the rule of one at a time? If I have the deck built and its my only playable deck I use it and nobody else builds or plays it because multiplayer with the same generals just means oh i play mine, then you play yours they die. Its just like a respect rule. Already told the main people who play locally that I'm building out of the "Heavenly Inferno" deck at least Basandra, but now I also will be building Kaalia because I really only have 1 playable EDH deck right now and all the rest of them have like 8
Even more happy to see what she does now! Had to tell my shop what deck I wanted when I preordered because dudes only getting 5 of each.
So looks like I'll be building my Angels, Demons, and Dragons (ADD) deck around her now.
Just hope and pray Basandra comes in the "Heavenly Inferno" deck because I had my heart set on RW Angels as well as what I like to call Overlord with Basandra.
Looks like I'm going to be spending alot of money on EDH this summer
New Deck Ideas: RWB Kaalia bringer of foes RWAngels Basandra RAshling
I think Nin makes those mono blue EDH decks all the better, granted this is if they have creatures out. Its like "Oh hey you're ending your turn EOT I'm going to use Nin to shoot my biggest guy for 1 less than lethal and draw a bunch of cards so I can hopefully get my combo off quicker"
On a side note I know I was disappointed when Darksteel Angel wasnt really a card, the one image from the New Phyrexia posters looked like Platinum Angel only Dark. Wizards may be cooking up some crazy powerful things for the future, and why not bring out crazy powerful angels that work as a mechanic with the humans. I mean humans are the ones who pray to the gods and angels look after them. I can see it happening
1 Only bad players will run elixer of immortality in their sideboard. why run a 4 of in your side just in case when you can run a one of Emrakul in your side.
2 I love new Jace he is now the key engine in my new RU mill deck. YES I SAID RU! Reason for the Red is because of new chandra and being able to make herself a mill engine as well. Deck runs 2 Baby Jace 4 New Jace 3 New Chandra. Reason shes a mill engine is her minus ablity. Now granted turn 5 youre plusing her to set up hopefully for the next turn, but her minus makes her an engine because the deck runs a 3 of traumatise and I'm trying to find room for tome scours. Now before you all hark on tome scour and how bad it is IK IK however it fits the deck for one and for two it helps chandra be a mill engine. back to how she becomes one her -2 ability lets you copy your next instant or sorcery so tome scour for 10 or if youre super duper crafty you traumatize someone for minimum 24 cards dropping their deck to only 24 cards, but oh wait theres more copy traumatize and stick your opponent with only 12 cards left to play with. Now in order to pull this off you need to stall a bit with leaks and pierces and seas and things of that sort, but it works out. Also deck runs a mill staple in headron crab, thank god i now have my scalding tarn, arid mesa, and misty rainforests. Reason for mentioning a crab? because you dont run arid mesa in a mostly blue deck for a card that only needs one single red mana. however because of mesa you have more double land drop with crab and you have more ways to hit the 4 basic mountains the deck runs. say you open with some islands and a mesa, GREAT! you have your red mana. Or say you open with some islands and a tarn, GREAT! you can sit on the tarn for a couple turns to see if you pull that mesa, and if you absolutely have to use the tarn for red you go for it. I honestly love the deck idea, and it would be awesome if it pans out, because i honestly have a soft spot for mill decks, so hopefully new jace and m12 will make it happen
Ps. Now we may have the Goldilocks trilogy of Jace's
Pappa bear (Jace, the Mind Sculptor) Too Hot, To Powerful
Mama bear (Jace Beleren) Too Cold, To Weak
Baby bear ( Jace, Memory Adept) Just Right, Possibly
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Where you play you dont have the rule of one at a time? If I have the deck built and its my only playable deck I use it and nobody else builds or plays it because multiplayer with the same generals just means oh i play mine, then you play yours they die. Its just like a respect rule. Already told the main people who play locally that I'm building out of the "Heavenly Inferno" deck at least Basandra, but now I also will be building Kaalia because I really only have 1 playable EDH deck right now and all the rest of them have like 8
So looks like I'll be building my Angels, Demons, and Dragons (ADD) deck around her now.
Just hope and pray Basandra comes in the "Heavenly Inferno" deck because I had my heart set on RW Angels as well as what I like to call Overlord with Basandra.
Looks like I'm going to be spending alot of money on EDH this summer
New Deck Ideas:
RWB Kaalia bringer of foes
RWAngels Basandra
RAshling