MTG Salvation

League of Legends has a much worse community than Magic does.

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This is hilarious because my Local Game Shop shares a next-door wall with my Local GameStop.

I personally like to keep 6 Commander decks.

* Sliver Overlord Aggro Toolbox: My first Commander deck, and Slivers are my favorite creatures. Naturally, I have to keep this for sentimental reasons. It's also a hyper-aggressive toolbox deck, and can overcome most other decks in 1v1, though tends to fall short in multiplayer if people start aggressively targeting me as a group. I rarely play this deck because of how powerful and consistent it is. It also covers my Tribal quota.

* Atraxa Artifacts: I wanted an artifact deck, and I wanted silly win conditions. So I went with stuff like Mechanized Production, Revel in Riches, and a lot of artifact clone cards, as well as Doubling Season etc.. I once had a game where I made 20 Indestructible Hexproof 5/5 Etherium Cells and 8 Indestructible Hexproof Platinum Emperions and still didn't win, so this deck has a lot of shenanigan potential. Originally evolved from Thada Lord of the Rings since I wanted to add B, but also wanted to include Glissa, Behemoth Sledge, and the token doubling effects.

* Bolas Community Chest: This used to be Sygg at the helm, but I decided I wanted to run Wheels. Think Nekusar without the burn. Stuff like Dictate of Kruphix, Font of Mythos, Forced Fruition, etc.. My only reliable win conditions are Omniscience into Laboratory Maniac after casting my entire deck in a turn - it's very spellslinger-oriented - but I consider myself the spiritual victor if I power somebody into a win.

* Endrek Sac Control: I had to have a mono-B deck. I tried Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed as a reanimator/big black mana/quasi-control deck, but it durdled way too much. Somewhere down the line, I decided to try out Endrek, and never looked back. The deck uses a lot of sac abilities and tiny creatures with neat abilities for maximum value, and is all about incremental draws/life drain/etc. with BBM for Yawgmoth's Will/Blood Artist shenanigans. Fun for nobody that isn't me at the table.

* Rashmi Fatties: Previously, this was an Animardrazi deck, but I got sick of my threats getting removed and Animar being the only way I could do anything. So, I ported the deck over to Simic colors with basically every huge Indestructible/Hexproof/Shroud creature I could jam in there, and made it combo-oriented with a lot of triggers like Rashmi, herself, with Mind's Dilation or just cheating fatties out with stuff like Genesis Wave or Selvala's Stampede and profiting with Elemental Bond, Garruk's Packleader, etc.. The deck is wildly inconsistent and will immediately fold to sac control, but boy, when it goes off, it goes off. I actually think I'm going to re-tool this into Muldrotha Favorite Spells and see how that goes for me since I don't like how inconsistent this build feels, as strong as it can be.

* Grusilda EtB: This is a fresh deck, and I'm actually currently waiting on the remaining pieces to arrive before I can test it out, but it abuses a lot of EtB destroy/burn effects such as Noxious Gearhulk, Inferno Titan, and Panharmonicon, looting cards (such as Goblin Lore and Control of the Court), a few Wheel effects, and some value stuff like Heartstone and Illusionist's Bracers. Of course, the deck will fold to a well-timed Bojuka Bog since Grusilda is the sole reanimator card (though I have God-Pharaoh's Gift as back-up), and I wanted to try to be a little more Equipment-centric with it, but I think the current build is cute and should be fun when I am able to actually get to try it out. If I don't like it...well, then maybe I'll just have 5 decks. Or make a coin flip deck. That sounds like fun.

I like a deck cache of varying playstyles, colors, and archetypes, so mixing it up like this helps keep me entertained with what I'm running and I can switch without having to worry about whether or not I have something built that I'm in the mood to play. I used to have 14 potential decklists, but realized pretty quickly that it was ill-advised to have so many as I rarely got to play more than 3 decks a week, and it felt like some decks were not getting the attention they should have been getting from me to be worth keeping around. (It was also hella expensive.) On occasion, I do sometimes lament about other decks I wish I could build or have built before but no longer have (Kresh Hydra Tribal was fun, as was Ulasht, and Circu Cantrips seems fun to play), but I try to exercise self-control and not overspend on Magic like I have been since I picked the game back up. (I'm starting to foray into Legacy, so as you might imagine, that can be difficult, at times.) But yeah, that's the gist of it - hope this was what you were looking for.

Edit: Agree with toc; the brew is half the fun! I've made so many decklists.

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Isn't there also a blue sort-of counterspell that removes all spells from the stack or somesuch?

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Teia Rabishu is no longer a moderator for the site. We wish her the best of luck going forward.

Welcome back, Mikey!

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Iso's retirement from the council has left some big shoes to fill, and we're looking for folks who are interested in coming on board with some fresh energy and new ideas for directions to guide the sub going forward. If you're interested, let us know.

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Make a series of 5 or 6 cards depicting the effects of the Eldrazi's mind control overlapping with the Glistening Oil of Phyrexia. Use a 1/1 Human for {W} as the basis, and your interpretation of the internal struggle he goes through as a result. Bonus for flavor text!

Pummeled Wanderer W
Creature - Human (C)
Vigilance
Tamiyo: "Something comes on the Eternities' currents."
Hygos: "I suppose nothing good can come from there."
Tamiyo: "You're not going to like what the future holds."
Hygos: "I don't much like the present either."
1/1

Converted Sleeper GW
Creature - Human Construct (C)
Infect
"Given the choice between being a free outcast and a cherished slave? I know where I fall." - Hygos of Alara
2/2

Half-Cured Worshiper 2G
Creature - Human Horror (U)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on Half-Cured Worshiper.
T: Add C to your mana pool.
"I have changed mortal overlords for divine." - Hygos of Alara
5/5

Misaimed Ambusher 2RG
Creature - Human Beast (U)
Haste, protection from colorless and from sources with infect
"If I'm not even fit to be a pawn, who will touch me?" - Hygos of Alara
3/3

Concluded Despoiler 3RW
Creature - Human Mutant (R)
Double strike, infect
When Concluded Despoiler enters the battlefield, destroy target multicolored or colorless permanent.
"They aren't the only ones capable of killing worlds." - Hygos of Alara
2/2

Determined Adjurer 3RGW
Creature - Human Avatar (R)
Infect, haste, vigilance
Determined Adjurer's power is equal to the number of multicolor permanents you control and its toughness is equal to the number of colorless permanents you control.
T: Add CC to your mana pool.
"I have no master. I have... disagreeing partners." - Hygos of Alara
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That was far from easy.

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Effective immediately, I am retiring from the Mafia Council.

I think the lurking mostly comes from a place that post quality just has to be up there, even as a town player. I think if it was more relaxed, like on other sites, people would post most, even just one-two liners. Yes, only one post like this a day is going to be obnoxious, but I can struggle to post a day, when I feel like I have to actually type a paragraph.

The only thing is that's a playerbase issue, and not something a moderator can do about that. But for making a post, I found it easy to just look at the game on my phone, respond to maybe one post at a time, just to put out a little content.

@Iso: Sorry to hear that man, I'll miss ya.

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Also, I'm moving for DotArchon to be placed on probation, his lurking has become untenable.

Seconding this.

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Effective immediately, I am retiring from the Mafia Council.

I'm sorry for the sudden announcement. It's been a wonderful number of years with all of you, but lately, I've felt like my responsibilities to this site have been more of a burden to me than not, I just don't have the same fire or passion for Mafia that I used to, and I find it extremely difficult to enjoy the game as of late. I'm also sorry if that's detrimentally affected any of you guys' abilities to enjoy the game, yourselves. I'm not as in-tune with the lifeblood of the playerbase as I used to be, and I don't feel like there's a whole lot more I can do for our community in the capacity that I have been in. I've brought a lot of reform and new ideas to MTGS Mafia in order to inject vigor and structure into our routines, and I hope that I'm remembered fondly in that respect, as well as an enjoyable person to have played with (at least in my earlier years on the site). I will remain on MTGS staff (including in Mafia) for the foreseeable future, however, as I have several projects I'm working on.

Once my current Mafia game is completed, I will also be retiring from forum Mafia for a very long time, if not forever. I may occasionally sign up for a game but I will not have anywhere near the level of activity that I once had.

I will complete my reviews of the two setups I'm currently looking at, but please remove me from all reviewer lists.

Thank you all for all the memories; may your lynches always hit scum, and may your Nightkills always hit power roles.

Sad day

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Phyrexian Soulgorger, another card I liked in the set. The phyrexians built a freaking giant robot dinosaur. It's a robot, so it doesn't freeze to death in the snow.