I had thought about the inclusion of Bloodghast on that list myself. Hitting a Bloodghast period with any form of discard is bad. It WILL come back. That's the bad part about it, and what makes Vampires even remotely viable. It's a rough deck otherwise, but mass removal could answer it without Bloodghast. With Bloodghast, however... There's just no way to stop the guy short of Path to Exile, and then there's three more in that deck somewhere.
Well, your reading comprehension skills are obviously good. Just a shame you're such a condescending a-hole.
I find it amusing how you consider me the troll, but when I come with a long (and not completely retarded) piece of criticism, I get a reply like that. Guess I might as well go to the WoW forums next time.
"ZOMG! You can't play Legacy online because FOW is so expensive, but I can! LOLOLOL"
Is all I hear from your end of the table. Now who's being immature and unconstructive really?
I don't know if it is a feature of the eternal community that you belittle people that question if it is right to spend XXXs or XXXXs of dollars on the hobby, but really, if it makes me a troll to question this fact then brand away. At least I don't need to ridicule others because they have a dissenting or differing opinion.
@ ShardFenix
Just stop your retarded hate campaign. The fact that you find it necessary to mention my name in half of your posts says enough, but the fact that you keep repeating the same boring sentences over and over is really what makes it truly nauseating to read.
And yes, I don't play a FoW-based deck, so please stop "recommending" that over and over. In case you were wondering this is the decks I'm working on:
These are fairly outdated decklists, but you get the point. I'm just sying that it's sad that online deck building too suffers from the "you can only be creative if you are willing to spend enormous sums"-syndrome.
core card of jund: bloodbraid elf
core card of uw: jace
core card of mythic: lotus cobra (sovereigns?)
core card of nlb: vengevine
core card of uwr: any of the 4cc/5cc planeswalkers
core card of naya: bloodbraid elf (knight of reliquary?)
biggest problem of inquisition is that it rarely nabs the key component cards that you really want to stop and then you also of course run the risk that they do not hold any cards that are 3cc or less. perhaps in the right deck, and only in that deck, can inquisition of kozilek be playable.
Agreed Shard, is why I don't see the point in the above posts about denerding magic. We can laugh at a humor based article (especially when a huge amount of the audience has encountered/lived with these stereotypes,) I just think looking any deeper into denerdifying magic is silly.
I see a little banter back and forth in the comments about trying to denerdify magic. What is this about? I enjoyed the article, but it is not going to denerd magic, neither is a few more girls playing. I'm assuming everyone reads this article plays magic, we are nerdy. That is ok:)
Well written article and an unusual and challenging deck.
Out of theme for this article; I was wondering if you have done any updates to "The Rare Drafter" article from 23 April?? Did I miss it or was the idea taken down?
i wasnt necessarily trying to bash the article, i was trying to convey a joking around attitude while making a relatively small point. I've been married 5 years. I take my wife out for new clothes and don't own dual lands because I have my priorities straight. you've got nothing to teach me my friend, my wife can attest to that.
You have to understand if you write an article about testosterone and revoking man-cards, even if you are trying to un-nerdify the game of magic by extolling male virtues and comparing them to cards, that it doesnt come across as female friendly. the game is dominated by guys and i suppose you're trying to write for your audience, but my wife plays magic, and she reads puremtgo, and she's repelled away from a site devoted to magic articles when the article is about the "Man-card," not drawn-in, and I'm just trying to point out that, even though i know your article is a joke as I mentioned, the whole reason magic is dominated by men is because we make it unfriendly, uncomfortable or have an air and atmosphere that projects a man's club. whether you mean to or not, it just helps perpetuate the sausage party that is magic, and at the very least certainly doesnt help.
by the way, my wife refers to herself and friends as chicks. I refer to chicks as chicks. I can call girls chicks, and still think this article isn't helping the all male-nerdface that magic wears. besides I already mentioned i was trying to be joke-y in my post, but i suppose without smiley faces peppered in there it didnt convey humor or non-seriousness as much. I certainly didnt expect a dissertation on why your wife is awesome and how you respect women and how "there are lots of ideas I could give you to be a good man in order to attract women." Nor did I really think my post warranted that. If you automatically assumed the worst of me because I said 'chicks' then imagine how many readers saw your definition fo a mancard and got the wrong idea about you-- is all im saying.. heh
also you can try to de-nerd magic all you want, however you like, but you can't put a dress on your pillow and call it your girlfriend. we all know its a pillow. a pillow with cheeto dust fingers. :D
you're obviously sensitive about your article, but its garnered tons of comments and views and no need to worry, enough people found your man-card comparison funny.
Magic obviously is a game dominated by Male Players. The article wasn't about that, it was about the fact many people view Magic as a nerdy type of game.
Besides, you can't bash the article and then refer to women as "Chicks"
Personally, I've been married for over 10 years, there are lots of ideas I could give you to be a good man in order to attract women. In light of my article, I have a great respect for women, especially my wife who bore the burden of delivering all 3 of my children without pain meds.
Did I really just read an article on how manly magic is? isn't magic a big enough sausage party, without praising how manly it is, even jokingly (hint: I know it's a joke article)? The ratio of cheeto dust and mountain dew breath on the fingers of the guys at a magic tournament instead of beer and hotwings sort of keeps sneaking up as a reality check to me.
Seriously though, do you know how to get some chicks to come to your party? clean your bathroom, and when they show up, you probably shouldn't be flexing the whole time while farting and fixing a hotrod engine. That might get one or two chicks to stay at the party but that's it. Now what do you suppose the ratio of chicks vs guys on magic is? A couple of chicks who stayed at the party, Maybe we should clean the bathroom, put on a nice shirt, and NOT stand there flexing, even in jest.
I not a huge lover of merfolk, but I will build the new list and start working on the build and possibly write an article based around it. Merfolk would be better suited for my play style than dredge.
Wow, in that case, I bow down to you. I definitely would not have the patience to go through every match in all those dailies to get the archetypes (and thus assumed you used the daily event results).
Myr Matrix is indestructible. (“Destroy” effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.)
All Myr get +1/+1.
5 Mana: Put a 1/1 Myr artifact creature token into play.
No offence intended, but I usually don't like your articles - way too many of them & too little substance - that critique aside, this one is very strong. PLEASE keep it up.
I would like to see you do the 16 lord no Standstill -Merfolk list. It is gaining ground in Legacy. I think it is not only better suited for the mirror, but against decks like Zoo with Dispel(flat out countering Bolts,Helix,PtE,StP) in the board and open slots for Snare/Pierce as well as Corralhelm flying over the top.
I always like your articles and still read them on TCGplayer. I assume tracking all decks played is a very daunting task being that you have to manually catch all replays.
The std season is looking fun, aside the huge costs to play the best decks. Hard to tell what really is the best deck now; there is UW, UWR(best win%), Next Level/Mythic and Jund all capable of winning it...Go Go parity even if it's 1k a deck.
I meant the 4cc Landstill lists are much more open to Waste-screw(most only play 1 basic island), same reason they have to run Stifles/Crucible/Loam against decks like Agg Loam(recurring Wastes) or lose.
I had thought about the inclusion of Bloodghast on that list myself. Hitting a Bloodghast period with any form of discard is bad. It WILL come back. That's the bad part about it, and what makes Vampires even remotely viable. It's a rough deck otherwise, but mass removal could answer it without Bloodghast. With Bloodghast, however... There's just no way to stop the guy short of Path to Exile, and then there's three more in that deck somewhere.
against vamps why pick bloodghast? you win dice and discard bloodghast ur giving them a free 2/1
The funny thing is, I really didn't consider Expedition Map until AFTER I had submitted the article. >_<
I thought the same thing and did an instantaneous facepalm. If I do a v2.0, I'll definitely be adding the Maps.
Well, your reading comprehension skills are obviously good. Just a shame you're such a condescending a-hole.
I find it amusing how you consider me the troll, but when I come with a long (and not completely retarded) piece of criticism, I get a reply like that. Guess I might as well go to the WoW forums next time.
"ZOMG! You can't play Legacy online because FOW is so expensive, but I can! LOLOLOL"
Is all I hear from your end of the table. Now who's being immature and unconstructive really?
I don't know if it is a feature of the eternal community that you belittle people that question if it is right to spend XXXs or XXXXs of dollars on the hobby, but really, if it makes me a troll to question this fact then brand away. At least I don't need to ridicule others because they have a dissenting or differing opinion.
@ ShardFenix
Just stop your retarded hate campaign. The fact that you find it necessary to mention my name in half of your posts says enough, but the fact that you keep repeating the same boring sentences over and over is really what makes it truly nauseating to read.
And yes, I don't play a FoW-based deck, so please stop "recommending" that over and over. In case you were wondering this is the decks I'm working on:
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?16885-[Deck]-The-Gate&p=455603&viewfull=1#post455603
These are fairly outdated decklists, but you get the point. I'm just sying that it's sad that online deck building too suffers from the "you can only be creative if you are willing to spend enormous sums"-syndrome.
core card of jund: bloodbraid elf
core card of uw: jace
core card of mythic: lotus cobra (sovereigns?)
core card of nlb: vengevine
core card of uwr: any of the 4cc/5cc planeswalkers
core card of naya: bloodbraid elf (knight of reliquary?)
biggest problem of inquisition is that it rarely nabs the key component cards that you really want to stop and then you also of course run the risk that they do not hold any cards that are 3cc or less. perhaps in the right deck, and only in that deck, can inquisition of kozilek be playable.
just my opinion.
Expedition Map while fetching less land than Sphere also lets you get a Valakut if needed. I'd definitely run it over Armillery Sphere any day.
Agreed Shard, is why I don't see the point in the above posts about denerding magic. We can laugh at a humor based article (especially when a huge amount of the audience has encountered/lived with these stereotypes,) I just think looking any deeper into denerdifying magic is silly.
I fail to see why being a man and being a nerd at the same time can not co-exist.
I see a little banter back and forth in the comments about trying to denerdify magic. What is this about? I enjoyed the article, but it is not going to denerd magic, neither is a few more girls playing. I'm assuming everyone reads this article plays magic, we are nerdy. That is ok:)
Hey Flippers.
Well written article and an unusual and challenging deck.
Out of theme for this article; I was wondering if you have done any updates to "The Rare Drafter" article from 23 April?? Did I miss it or was the idea taken down?
You and I seem to share a lot of ideas in common.
i wasnt necessarily trying to bash the article, i was trying to convey a joking around attitude while making a relatively small point. I've been married 5 years. I take my wife out for new clothes and don't own dual lands because I have my priorities straight. you've got nothing to teach me my friend, my wife can attest to that.
You have to understand if you write an article about testosterone and revoking man-cards, even if you are trying to un-nerdify the game of magic by extolling male virtues and comparing them to cards, that it doesnt come across as female friendly. the game is dominated by guys and i suppose you're trying to write for your audience, but my wife plays magic, and she reads puremtgo, and she's repelled away from a site devoted to magic articles when the article is about the "Man-card," not drawn-in, and I'm just trying to point out that, even though i know your article is a joke as I mentioned, the whole reason magic is dominated by men is because we make it unfriendly, uncomfortable or have an air and atmosphere that projects a man's club. whether you mean to or not, it just helps perpetuate the sausage party that is magic, and at the very least certainly doesnt help.
by the way, my wife refers to herself and friends as chicks. I refer to chicks as chicks. I can call girls chicks, and still think this article isn't helping the all male-nerdface that magic wears. besides I already mentioned i was trying to be joke-y in my post, but i suppose without smiley faces peppered in there it didnt convey humor or non-seriousness as much. I certainly didnt expect a dissertation on why your wife is awesome and how you respect women and how "there are lots of ideas I could give you to be a good man in order to attract women." Nor did I really think my post warranted that. If you automatically assumed the worst of me because I said 'chicks' then imagine how many readers saw your definition fo a mancard and got the wrong idea about you-- is all im saying.. heh
also you can try to de-nerd magic all you want, however you like, but you can't put a dress on your pillow and call it your girlfriend. we all know its a pillow. a pillow with cheeto dust fingers. :D
you're obviously sensitive about your article, but its garnered tons of comments and views and no need to worry, enough people found your man-card comparison funny.
Magic obviously is a game dominated by Male Players. The article wasn't about that, it was about the fact many people view Magic as a nerdy type of game.
Besides, you can't bash the article and then refer to women as "Chicks"
Personally, I've been married for over 10 years, there are lots of ideas I could give you to be a good man in order to attract women. In light of my article, I have a great respect for women, especially my wife who bore the burden of delivering all 3 of my children without pain meds.
Did I really just read an article on how manly magic is? isn't magic a big enough sausage party, without praising how manly it is, even jokingly (hint: I know it's a joke article)? The ratio of cheeto dust and mountain dew breath on the fingers of the guys at a magic tournament instead of beer and hotwings sort of keeps sneaking up as a reality check to me.
Seriously though, do you know how to get some chicks to come to your party? clean your bathroom, and when they show up, you probably shouldn't be flexing the whole time while farting and fixing a hotrod engine. That might get one or two chicks to stay at the party but that's it. Now what do you suppose the ratio of chicks vs guys on magic is? A couple of chicks who stayed at the party, Maybe we should clean the bathroom, put on a nice shirt, and NOT stand there flexing, even in jest.
let's see how accurate you are. MOCS on june 5 - 324 players. figure out how many is playing what deck :)
I not a huge lover of merfolk, but I will build the new list and start working on the build and possibly write an article based around it. Merfolk would be better suited for my play style than dredge.
Subtlety is definitely not "manly", but 2-mana instants and subtlety beat... *scrolls up*... everything in this article.
Wow, in that case, I bow down to you. I definitely would not have the patience to go through every match in all those dailies to get the archetypes (and thus assumed you used the daily event results).
Nice job! :)
Myr Incubator up there Should be Myr Matrix:
Myr Matrix is indestructible. (“Destroy” effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.)
All Myr get +1/+1.
5 Mana: Put a 1/1 Myr artifact creature token into play.
No offence intended, but I usually don't like your articles - way too many of them & too little substance - that critique aside, this one is very strong. PLEASE keep it up.
Another very nice article Erik.
Article-highlight of the week as im too busy to keep up with all the price tables myself.
Looking very much forward to the step by step articles.
Keep up the good work!
-Neverloze
I would like to see you do the 16 lord no Standstill -Merfolk list. It is gaining ground in Legacy. I think it is not only better suited for the mirror, but against decks like Zoo with Dispel(flat out countering Bolts,Helix,PtE,StP) in the board and open slots for Snare/Pierce as well as Corralhelm flying over the top.
I always like your articles and still read them on TCGplayer. I assume tracking all decks played is a very daunting task being that you have to manually catch all replays.
The std season is looking fun, aside the huge costs to play the best decks. Hard to tell what really is the best deck now; there is UW, UWR(best win%), Next Level/Mythic and Jund all capable of winning it...Go Go parity even if it's 1k a deck.
OK. Wasteland does seem to hold a lot of decks in check.
I meant the 4cc Landstill lists are much more open to Waste-screw(most only play 1 basic island), same reason they have to run Stifles/Crucible/Loam against decks like Agg Loam(recurring Wastes) or lose.