There's nothing quite as good as the Finks, but for a decent creature which could be fetched up by Bloodbraid, you could do a lot worse than Bloodhall Ooze (don't forget to add borderposts as suggested). For something less dependent on your board position, you could try Briarhorn (also rotating, but is only $0.08 anyway on MTGO Traders) or Spellbreaker Behemoth. If you don't want to miss the lifegain, go Naya and add the Shepherd. Really, any of the creature I've mentioned will work, but watch your curve.
Thanks for the comment!
@Paul - the worst thing I've ever spilt on my keyboard is milk. Doesn't matter if it still works, in a couple of weeks you'll want to throw it out anyway...
I haven't had the opportunity to listen to the podcast yet (mine is a laptop from the stone age!) but thanks for mentioning the interview. You may expect me to explore the Vorthosian side of Magic in the future when the time and the subject is right.
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Why did you ruin my super fun manajank deck by showing it to the world?!? haha. There's almost no funner play than getting +6/+4 and trample from two mana...until you kill a creature and tack on another +11/+9 because you cast bit blast pre-combat and cascaded into another collosal might! This is an incredibly fun deck to play. (*I take no responsibility for bad math).
Ah, perhaps I misunderstood. I was thinking of those who specify a minimum deck size of a few hundred in the casual room rather than the official big deck formats.
imho if it is legal as a deck before and after sideboarding just because it changes from a faeries to a rogues deck shouldn't matter. I think that one is fairly straight forward.
but I don't entirely agree. Particularly about the big deck crowd. I mean I wouldn't call Kurt Hahn or BDM or anyone else who plays 5 color and or highlander at pts Timmys or even subsection timmies. I really think its a different out look.
I think it could look clumsy to have comments on all cards except a couple. Secondly, newer players won't necessarily know what a card does just from its name, and they may not click on it to check. And thirdly, I've just splilt an entire glass of water on my keyboard and it still appears to work, so go me.
Thanks for finishing the fish article. Fantastic write up. The boros deck, while interesting, just doesn't seem to have what it takes. I don't see what advantages this has over WW, Burn, Slivers, or Affinity.
As to the legacy tribes, it would take a fair bit to bring them up to the regulation 20. Goblins probably need the least work, but the faerie decks tend to rely on Bitterblossom and have a substantially lower creature count in some cases.
Absolutely, it would need sideboards. But there's the rub: Your deck needs to be 33% the same creature type, and it doesn't check that after you've sideboarded. If sideboards were enabled, you'd basically be able to switch out all but 5 of your tribe members for noncreatures if the situation warranted it. Even if it were able to check post-board, it also thrws up other anomalies: Say you swap out a few nonrogue faeries for a few nonfaerie rogues, so that you no longer qualify under the same tribe you entered but under another tribe altogether. Should that be possible?
How much tweaking would it take to make legacy goblins/elves/merfolk/faeries tribal legal? Probably not much... Still, you've got your 3 pillars just there (aggro, combo, control)!
If it were to become truly competitive, I think you'd need to have sideboards. Also, meglonoth probably wouldn't make the cut, which is always a letdown.
Multiplayer is a good point: Wizards do design for it, but it could be considered more of a modifier. You have multiplayer Spike cards like Kokusho the Evening Star, multiplayer Johnny cards like Burning Enquiry and multiplayer Timmy cards like Verdant Embrace. Timmy is not so much flashy big creatures as it is about a certain mindset, namely that fun trumps efficiency. Bear in mind the random pile of elf example: A Timmy elf deck can be an 80-100 card pile of his favourite legolas clones, a Spike elf deck is a black-green netdeck from Lorwyn block, and a Johnny elf deck contains blue elves and generates insane card advantage. In that example the Timmy deck isn't about big creatures but what they consider fun: the finicky big deck crowd are a subset within the Timmysphere.
There's nothing quite as good as the Finks, but for a decent creature which could be fetched up by Bloodbraid, you could do a lot worse than Bloodhall Ooze (don't forget to add borderposts as suggested). For something less dependent on your board position, you could try Briarhorn (also rotating, but is only $0.08 anyway on MTGO Traders) or Spellbreaker Behemoth. If you don't want to miss the lifegain, go Naya and add the Shepherd. Really, any of the creature I've mentioned will work, but watch your curve.
Thanks for the comment!
@Paul - the worst thing I've ever spilt on my keyboard is milk. Doesn't matter if it still works, in a couple of weeks you'll want to throw it out anyway...
is it the First Pirate on MTGO ? ( Ramires DePietro) we realy need a Pirate deck..
no more Elfs and Imps Pirates are the next generation
You lied about the dancing monkeys! I demand some kind of a refund!!! You cheated me!
Joking aside, nice article as always. Oh and by the way Broodmate Dragon costs 6 and not 7 :).
LE
I haven't had the opportunity to listen to the podcast yet (mine is a laptop from the stone age!) but thanks for mentioning the interview. You may expect me to explore the Vorthosian side of Magic in the future when the time and the subject is right.
LE
What would be a good replacement for the Finks? I don't want to splash for them so close to them rotating out.
Great deck and nicely written intro by the way.
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Oddly enough, the mic didn't change.
Why did you ruin my super fun manajank deck by showing it to the world?!? haha. There's almost no funner play than getting +6/+4 and trample from two mana...until you kill a creature and tack on another +11/+9 because you cast bit blast pre-combat and cascaded into another collosal might! This is an incredibly fun deck to play. (*I take no responsibility for bad math).
Congrats on the new Mic AJ :)
I believe they are actually under a ticket now.
next time try orange juice...if it survives that you may have a winning keyboard. :p
by Alara Reborn I meant Reborn Hope. :p
Ah, perhaps I misunderstood. I was thinking of those who specify a minimum deck size of a few hundred in the casual room rather than the official big deck formats.
It boils down to 'spirit of the format', a nebulous and ever-changing concept.
imho if it is legal as a deck before and after sideboarding just because it changes from a faeries to a rogues deck shouldn't matter. I think that one is fairly straight forward.
but I don't entirely agree. Particularly about the big deck crowd. I mean I wouldn't call Kurt Hahn or BDM or anyone else who plays 5 color and or highlander at pts Timmys or even subsection timmies. I really think its a different out look.
Hi Paul and thanks for the comments. Life without MTGO couldn't be more relaxing!
And by the way budget Spike/Johnny decks is actually a nice idea. The next time I write about casual decks, I will also have this in mind.
LE
I think it could look clumsy to have comments on all cards except a couple. Secondly, newer players won't necessarily know what a card does just from its name, and they may not click on it to check. And thirdly, I've just splilt an entire glass of water on my keyboard and it still appears to work, so go me.
Thanks for finishing the fish article. Fantastic write up. The boros deck, while interesting, just doesn't seem to have what it takes. I don't see what advantages this has over WW, Burn, Slivers, or Affinity.
As to the legacy tribes, it would take a fair bit to bring them up to the regulation 20. Goblins probably need the least work, but the faerie decks tend to rely on Bitterblossom and have a substantially lower creature count in some cases.
Absolutely, it would need sideboards. But there's the rub: Your deck needs to be 33% the same creature type, and it doesn't check that after you've sideboarded. If sideboards were enabled, you'd basically be able to switch out all but 5 of your tribe members for noncreatures if the situation warranted it. Even if it were able to check post-board, it also thrws up other anomalies: Say you swap out a few nonrogue faeries for a few nonfaerie rogues, so that you no longer qualify under the same tribe you entered but under another tribe altogether. Should that be possible?
Just a tip, you may not want to leave comments for cards about which there's nothing unobvious to say. Two examples,
"Drumhunter: A possible inclusion with so much fat, free card draw would be quite likely. Also functions as colourless acceleration."
"Farhaven Elf: Accelerates mana, thins land from the library, and chumps when needed."
Otherwise, I liked the article :)
How much tweaking would it take to make legacy goblins/elves/merfolk/faeries tribal legal? Probably not much... Still, you've got your 3 pillars just there (aggro, combo, control)!
If it were to become truly competitive, I think you'd need to have sideboards. Also, meglonoth probably wouldn't make the cut, which is always a letdown.
It was fun to play against. Kind of like slivers for people with brains ;)
Multiplayer is a good point: Wizards do design for it, but it could be considered more of a modifier. You have multiplayer Spike cards like Kokusho the Evening Star, multiplayer Johnny cards like Burning Enquiry and multiplayer Timmy cards like Verdant Embrace. Timmy is not so much flashy big creatures as it is about a certain mindset, namely that fun trumps efficiency. Bear in mind the random pile of elf example: A Timmy elf deck can be an 80-100 card pile of his favourite legolas clones, a Spike elf deck is a black-green netdeck from Lorwyn block, and a Johnny elf deck contains blue elves and generates insane card advantage. In that example the Timmy deck isn't about big creatures but what they consider fun: the finicky big deck crowd are a subset within the Timmysphere.