What? Just because you twist it, it doesn't mean that whoever is using Stormtrooper as a general term to refer Storm pilots intend to send an antisemitic undercover message. And no, I'm not Jewish and I couldn't care less about any religion for that matter.
If I read Stormtrooper I inmediately think of Star Wars. I don't use the term to refer us Storm players, but you can't ask the people over the world to change the way on how they refer to the pilots of this kind of deck, specially when they mean no harm :/
Why would you choose abzan over jund? This is an honest question, since I haven't piloted any of those decks, and can't really see why abzan could be better than jund on the current meta. Thanks!
In competitive events, you are not allowed to look at electronic devices, however you are allowed to look at a set of notes in between matches. (Including during sideboarding) So you can print the sideboard guide if it isn't too long (not more than a page or two) and refer to that in between matches. (This is explained in detail in section 11 of the tournament rules: http://www.wizards.com/contentresources/wizards/wpn/main/documents/magic_the_gathering_tournament_rules_pdf1.pdf )
Thanks for the clarification, that's good to know! My last GP was back in 2000 (first GP in Argentina) and after that I had to quit the game for financial reasons. I'm getting back after 17 years, lot has changed!
You can refer to Caleb's blog. I'm not sure if you are allowed to look at your phone during tournaments (last time I played competitive Magic there were no smart phones), but in the even that it is allowed you can read his notes directly from the page.
The reason it works is because a blinked leonin arbiter is a new instance of leonin arbiter, so the one that was "paid for" no longer exists and your opponent has not paid to ignore the effect of the leonin arbiter currently on the battlefield. The relevant thing to remember in these interactions is that paying for leonin arbiter's ability is a special action that does not use the stack and the stack does not resolve until both players have passed priority without taking an action. So you can't respond to your opponent paying 2 to ignore leonin arbiter's effect (and your opponent may call you on this and try and argue this point) by blinking leonin arbiter, but you will receive priority again after your opponent pays 2 to ignore leonin arbiter's effect and before the fetch resolves as they have not passed priority without taking an action. Opponent's will often try and say "I pay 2 and the fetch resolves since this doesn't use the stack you don't get priority" which is incorrect.
I've a probably dumb question about a particular interaction: let's say I have a Leonin Arbiter and a Vial at 4. My opponent pays 2 for the tax and then cracks a fetch. When the fetch is on the stack I vial in a Restoration Angel targeting the Arbiter. When it resolves, if nothing else happens, do they have to pay again?
My understanding is that with multiple copies of Leonin Arbiters on the battlefield you have to pay 2 for each one of those, and if I flicker the only copy that is in play, when it comes back it is a brand new creature, applying a second tax which is different that the one my opponent already payed for. Is that how it works?
It would be probably a better idea to play just straight Abzan, or Jund for that matter, but that it's not the point. What do you think?
PS: I'm sorry if this is the wrong thread, I know that is for Assault Loam, but since there is little to no activity here I thought that a different Loam strategy may be welcomed to discuss.
My friend and teammate, the 8-0 Zoo player, beat Bertoncini in Round 7 with a top decked Archangel Avacyn in game 3. He said Alex's words were "what the heck?"
I think your friend is on camera! Also they may just had a deck spotlight on that Moon Zoon deck.
Some cards that I would consider for the sideboard are:
I really hope see you in camera!
My understanding is that with multiple copies of Leonin Arbiters on the battlefield you have to pay 2 for each one of those, and if I flicker the only copy that is in play, when it comes back it is a brand new creature, applying a second tax which is different that the one my opponent already payed for. Is that how it works?
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Swamp
2 Shambling Vent
1 Scattered Groves
1 Plains
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Marsh Flats
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Godless Shrine
2 Ghost Quarter
2 Forest
1 Bojuka Bog
3 Traverse the Ulvenwald
2 Thoughtseize
2 Raven's Crime
2 Path to Exile
3 Lingering Souls
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Liliana of the Veil
3 Life from the Loam
3 Fatal Push
2 Cast Out
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Siege Rhino
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Grim Flayer
1 Eternal Witness
2 Collective Brutality
1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Runed Halo
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Golgari Charm
1 Damnation
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Flaying Tendrils
It would be probably a better idea to play just straight Abzan, or Jund for that matter, but that it's not the point. What do you think?
PS: I'm sorry if this is the wrong thread, I know that is for Assault Loam, but since there is little to no activity here I thought that a different Loam strategy may be welcomed to discuss.