Heh, I already posted which decks I think you should try in the wotc community boards. However if you aren't running an r/g Nissa list, Jund actually gets better with two copies of Oran-Reef the Vastwood over a forest and an M10 dual. End of turn kill my Thrainax, pump tokens up is amusing, but so are 4/3 bloodbraid elves.
And well, the milling deck that has no Howling Mines or Fonts looks 'fun' but I don't think it'll be getting match wins. Jhessian Zombies?
ok totally my fault on the elves list...i knew it looked wrong but couldnt think of why.
@ paul, i was wondering how to do that since i have problems with zendikar and MED3 cards.
Something Ive noticed with people using Jaamura's Deck builder, you need to manually change some of the formatting to make the decks look right. All your vampires except for Nocturnus are under 'Other Spells' where a simple cut and paste from the HTML would fix it (and then you could change the counts to be correct: 20 creatures, 16 other and 24 lands).
One of these days I will have to try and compete with my silly tribal decks. I just seem to miss it most of the time.
As for the Enchantress deck, the Enchantress shell itself seems pretty weak. How much overlap/card loss (beyond duals) would there be trying to switch closer to a straight-up Warp World deck like this one by BDM from Daily MTG's Daily Deck List Archive?
Why are people so happy to hear from mr. Fun/Unfun? Not like his (MaRo's) influence on Magic has given us a lot to be happy about these days, and he doesn't even answer some of the questions properly.
Still, the interview was very nice, and your questions were well-thought out and quite clever.
My bad. I didn't say it clearly :/. I see the PT top 8 itself, but I can't find the MTGO live event footage that they said they showed during the lunch break. ...The finals of the draft that was on mtgo and for $5000.
hmmm you should totally link the landfall deck ive been looking for some landfall plays on a budget, the best i have so far is a similar deck but using blue for living tsunami
Your comments on the progress of your son's Magic play are great, please keep them up. I think we were all Timmy's in the beggining, I remember when I started playing I bought a bunch of 4th and 5th edition packs and boosters to crack open with my friends, and learned how to play from the booklet inside. I recall I had a Necropotence, which I knew from a magazine I bought along with the cards that it was really valuable, but couldn't for the life of mine figure out why, but the most feared card from that first pool of cards was, far and away, Colossus of Sardia. Man, when that fatty came down on the table you could hear the thud and my friends gasping, that was awesome.
I don't have sons of my own, but I've tried to engage my two sons in law into playing Magic. They are a bit older than your son (10 and 11) and switch back and forth between Magic and the other dreadful japanese games like Bakugan, Yu-gi-oh and Dragonball Z. I wish your son stays on course. Best of luck.
Just to chime in on some otherwise trivial matter, I find the Hero/Villain terminology amusing, and right on the money. I don't play poker, so I'd never heard it before, so when I first read your column I thought that was your opponents nickname on MTGO, but then I got it when you started talking about the second match and there was the villain again. I remember thinking that was a cool nickname for MTGO (Villain, I mean, Hero would be too pretentious), I checked out and it's already taken.
Please continue using those terms, they're real fun.
tut tut, serious missed opportunity missing out the bartering section. my bf got me into the game, but i wouldnt play til he'd got me numerous pairs of shoes lol
Yeah, spot removal sure sucks when you're a beginner and you feel like you have the game won. It just doesn't make sense that this one stupid card can take down your awesome creature, and there's nothing you can do! One of my big breakthroughs in the game was realizing that it's okay to let my creatures die sometimes. I have 59 other cards in the deck, after all!
Good point about the contrast between someone who actually really wants to learn to play and someone who's reluctant.
I have to admit, I've never really gotten attached to a certain card. Probably because my favorite part of the game is discovering new cards, so I constantly try out new preconstructed decks. Although there was this time I won with a Skyreach Manta that I cast with all five colors. I'd love to do that again!
where is baneslayer i didnt see her at all...
Hey pete, good article once again but take some time reading through the article before submitting it. the high number of typo's distract alot.
It would be great for your gauntlet to include the naya lotus angel deck that has been gaining alot of popularity lately.
Here's a UW Mill deck I saw perform very well against Jund:
4 x Howling Mine
4 x Jace Belaran
3 x Path to Exile
4 x Negate
4 x Angelsong
4 x Day of Judgement
4 x Trapmaker's Snare
4 x Archive Trap
1 x Mindbreak Trap
1 x Whiplash Trap
1 x Pitfall Trap
4 x Twincast
LANDS
22 x Expensive lands
SIDEBOARD
4 x Safe Passage
1 x Hedron Crab
4 x Celestial Purge
2 x Pithing Needle
4 x Luminarc Ascension
*clone doesn't "target" progenitus, so it can make a copy. Then the legendary rule would kick in and both would go to the graveyard, right?
*Yeah, the Emeria is not going to work in the last deck, as you need more basic plains to trigger it.
*in the mill deck, how about Sadistic Sacrament and Traumatize?
These decks are not playing enough land. As an example, the last deck has 20 lands, and 5 elder dragons that cost 8.
In the last deck, did you realize that you don't have enough plains to actually ever use Emeria? The dual and tri lands are not plains.
A Land Tax deck without Zuran Orb?? Even more so with ravages...
Heh, I already posted which decks I think you should try in the wotc community boards. However if you aren't running an r/g Nissa list, Jund actually gets better with two copies of Oran-Reef the Vastwood over a forest and an M10 dual. End of turn kill my Thrainax, pump tokens up is amusing, but so are 4/3 bloodbraid elves.
And well, the milling deck that has no Howling Mines or Fonts looks 'fun' but I don't think it'll be getting match wins. Jhessian Zombies?
ok totally my fault on the elves list...i knew it looked wrong but couldnt think of why.
@ paul, i was wondering how to do that since i have problems with zendikar and MED3 cards.
I believe progenitus has protection from itself.
i played in the MTGO live event at gen con.. wasn't nearly this much fanfare.
Something Ive noticed with people using Jaamura's Deck builder, you need to manually change some of the formatting to make the decks look right. All your vampires except for Nocturnus are under 'Other Spells' where a simple cut and paste from the HTML would fix it (and then you could change the counts to be correct: 20 creatures, 16 other and 24 lands).
One of these days I will have to try and compete with my silly tribal decks. I just seem to miss it most of the time.
As for the Enchantress deck, the Enchantress shell itself seems pretty weak. How much overlap/card loss (beyond duals) would there be trying to switch closer to a straight-up Warp World deck like this one by BDM from Daily MTG's Daily Deck List Archive?
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/300
Clones don't race Progenitus -- they kill it... Right?
Skullclamp is banned in Tribal. So Elves runs without it.
Why are people so happy to hear from mr. Fun/Unfun? Not like his (MaRo's) influence on Magic has given us a lot to be happy about these days, and he doesn't even answer some of the questions properly.
Still, the interview was very nice, and your questions were well-thought out and quite clever.
GJ.
My bad. I didn't say it clearly :/. I see the PT top 8 itself, but I can't find the MTGO live event footage that they said they showed during the lunch break. ...The finals of the draft that was on mtgo and for $5000.
hmmm you should totally link the landfall deck ive been looking for some landfall plays on a budget, the best i have so far is a similar deck but using blue for living tsunami
Isn't that the truth! Just a matter of degree how quickly we overcame our initial "wow 6/4 rocks!" reactions.
Your comments on the progress of your son's Magic play are great, please keep them up. I think we were all Timmy's in the beggining, I remember when I started playing I bought a bunch of 4th and 5th edition packs and boosters to crack open with my friends, and learned how to play from the booklet inside. I recall I had a Necropotence, which I knew from a magazine I bought along with the cards that it was really valuable, but couldn't for the life of mine figure out why, but the most feared card from that first pool of cards was, far and away, Colossus of Sardia. Man, when that fatty came down on the table you could hear the thud and my friends gasping, that was awesome.
I don't have sons of my own, but I've tried to engage my two sons in law into playing Magic. They are a bit older than your son (10 and 11) and switch back and forth between Magic and the other dreadful japanese games like Bakugan, Yu-gi-oh and Dragonball Z. I wish your son stays on course. Best of luck.
Just to chime in on some otherwise trivial matter, I find the Hero/Villain terminology amusing, and right on the money. I don't play poker, so I'd never heard it before, so when I first read your column I thought that was your opponents nickname on MTGO, but then I got it when you started talking about the second match and there was the villain again. I remember thinking that was a cool nickname for MTGO (Villain, I mean, Hero would be too pretentious), I checked out and it's already taken.
Please continue using those terms, they're real fun.
I'll check into the charts... Not sure where they got disconnected.. Sorry about that folks!
tut tut, serious missed opportunity missing out the bartering section. my bf got me into the game, but i wouldnt play til he'd got me numerous pairs of shoes lol
insert card pic of Ill Gotten Gains here
Yeah, spot removal sure sucks when you're a beginner and you feel like you have the game won. It just doesn't make sense that this one stupid card can take down your awesome creature, and there's nothing you can do! One of my big breakthroughs in the game was realizing that it's okay to let my creatures die sometimes. I have 59 other cards in the deck, after all!
Good point about the contrast between someone who actually really wants to learn to play and someone who's reluctant.
I have to admit, I've never really gotten attached to a certain card. Probably because my favorite part of the game is discovering new cards, so I constantly try out new preconstructed decks. Although there was this time I won with a Skyreach Manta that I cast with all five colors. I'd love to do that again!