While I don't agree with the whole ban list, it has forced me into actual deck building which is a lost art int his era of net decking. I used to be able to design decks, but I just went with the hive mind too much and it sort of became a crutch for me. Now I am having to relearn a lot of design fundamentals and it has been great. I would argue that though certain aspects of the ban list are frustrating, there are infinite possibilities for good decks in this card pool.
This is actually what has made the format more fun for me so far. It has been pretty open for deck building, and at the same time there hasn't been all that many lists people can netdeck. So far it's been a blast, tons of homebrew decks showing up at tournaments. There's so few t1 decks showing up that it's easy to run hate for them, but so much homebrew that the t1 decks can't truly be prepared for all of them. Too bad this won't last.
It is not a problem of removing the creature, it is a problem with removing is fast enough... killing Nacatl, Goyf and something else in first 3-4 turns is what breaks most control decks... NOT the fact that Goyf is harder to remove, we are simply having a VERY hard time keeping up with Zoo´s speed and loss of our own lives with the shock manabase and 3/3s in the first turn. THAt is the problem, not the fact that Goyf is XY higher than Nacatl.
yeah, it's definitely ahead of the curve. I mean even when you get to late game, that goyf that hit turn two is looking as big as a 4 drop, and the knight that hit turn 2 or 3 looks like a 5 drop.
StarCity over the past month notified me wastelands were cheap and SP'ed ZEN fetches. I'm wondering if anyone is buying this stuff. The minute duals come down to sub-100 prices, I might take a hit and pickup a bunch of them. While Savannah has climbed steadily, Trop and Tundra have deflated to ~100 (from ~120 mid summer). I'm looking into why this happened.
Not sure why tropical island and tundra have gone down, but savannah rising is most likely from the popularity spike in maverick.
cool, thanks. I was kinda leaning towards that, I can play a pretty good version of stiflenought without snapcaster, but not without the other two. I just wanted to get someone else's opinion first because I'm not the best at predicting price increases. I'm kicking myself for undervaluing Clique when it was cheaper, but oh well that's the way it goes sometimes.
I play UR in legacy, and the only cards I'm really missing for my build are 4x stifle, 3x Vendilion Clique, and 4x snapcaster. Looking at all of them, stifle seems to be the most stable in it's price, but it's seeing a fair amount of play now with misstep gone. Clique has been crazy in the past few months, it went from 9 dollars to 50 then back down to mid 20's. Snapcaster is kind of an unknown, started out at 30 and it's been slowly dropping, some people are speculating it to steady out at 15-20 and others 30. Both Clique and Snapcaster are going to be modern staples which could drive their price a little bit.
I really can't decide what I should go for first, so what I really wanna know is what cards would you go for first? Also do you expect snapcaster's introduction to lower clique's price? I'm thinking it could possibly push the clique out of some lists, but maybe not enough to effect the price that much.
has anyone ever tried throwing a couple armageddon/life from the loam in the md? I know it's not optimal, but my meta has a lot of decks that this strategy would hurt. Any thoughts? Should I just stick to the more standard build?
I just really like aggro loam but don't have the duals to build it so I'm trying to adapt maverick to the same sort of style.
Any suggestions for a aggro heavy meta? I'm considering splashing red for fire/ice and lightning bolt in the md. And maybe flametongue kavu in the board. Also wondering if aether vial is worth running if you never run into counterspells?
I've never seen a top 32 list, but I remember reading an article about this specific deck. I'll try and find it and link. Yes it was highly unfavourable, but there were still people that tried it out. I imagine people will try it out this time around as well, maybe even more with 12-post gone, even if most think it's unfavourable. I don't think it will do that well, but in this situation I would like to be proven wrong.
I still think recruiter is too powerful to see play but it would be an interesting experiment to unban it, I still think Black Vise is a safer but still damaging to control option.
I'm thinking vise would push affinity up to a more dangerous level.
Lets wait for the worlds shall we? I have a feeling that we will be seeing a couple of Teaching/Fae tempo/Gift control decks in there... and possibly some lonely NLU
There was a gifts deck in the top 32 at PT Phili, and control was supposed to be impossible in in the same format as 12-post. Control will definitely show up in some form at worlds. I haven't been impressed with it so far, but I also haven't played a pro built and tested control deck yet.
Wondering how all the decks performed.
This is actually what has made the format more fun for me so far. It has been pretty open for deck building, and at the same time there hasn't been all that many lists people can netdeck. So far it's been a blast, tons of homebrew decks showing up at tournaments. There's so few t1 decks showing up that it's easy to run hate for them, but so much homebrew that the t1 decks can't truly be prepared for all of them. Too bad this won't last.
yeah, it's definitely ahead of the curve. I mean even when you get to late game, that goyf that hit turn two is looking as big as a 4 drop, and the knight that hit turn 2 or 3 looks like a 5 drop.
Not sure why tropical island and tundra have gone down, but savannah rising is most likely from the popularity spike in maverick.
Goyf should have been banned on the first list, I think too many people will be upset now if it gets banned.
I really can't decide what I should go for first, so what I really wanna know is what cards would you go for first? Also do you expect snapcaster's introduction to lower clique's price? I'm thinking it could possibly push the clique out of some lists, but maybe not enough to effect the price that much.
I just really like aggro loam but don't have the duals to build it so I'm trying to adapt maverick to the same sort of style.
I'm thinking vise would push affinity up to a more dangerous level.
There was a gifts deck in the top 32 at PT Phili, and control was supposed to be impossible in in the same format as 12-post. Control will definitely show up in some form at worlds. I haven't been impressed with it so far, but I also haven't played a pro built and tested control deck yet.