i enjoyed it very much... i had no idea of the "big card" display or the "compact".. the cards look GREAT... better than real cards..
I know you are probably working on it. but it seems the videos may have messed up your spaces for a lot of the words in the "article" part.. some are jumbled together..
Not sure what you are shooting for in this column, other than listing some of "your favorite cards"
I would consider the following from Rav Uncommons worth picking up more so than the above. Most if not all fall in the budget catagory. If they fall into the staples, then perhapse they should be mentioned in a "staples list" at the top of the set:
Staples:
Remand
L. Helix
Watchwolf
Putrify
I would try to pick up 4 of the following also:
B. Swiftblade
Carven Caryatid
Darkblast(prob. a staple)
Devouring Light
Rerout
Supression Field
Telling Time
-additionally the guild lands are all worth picking up(some more than others), all Guildmages, and all of the transmute cards(I esp. agree with Clutch)
This is just Rav, may look at G&D if i get the time.
This site has some of the best content I've seen in a long while. Online Tech was my favorite article, but Flores isn't the best replacement for Frank Karsten. I thoroughly enjoy this Extended Play series. Can there be links to decklists though? It's very hard to find them. Thank You!!!!
Alright, audio on all but the last video, which was too large to recode and add audio and fit in a video hosting site. Hopefully all the preceding video's explain what's going on enough for that to be able to be followed.
nice article. i would love to read your comments on why those percentages are moving and how the "forces" of the metagame can pull it from way one to another. keep the good work on becoming the "must read" of wednesdays!
I'm in the process of adding audio to each walkthrough. I've updated the Settings Screen, the Chat Filter and the Marketplace into talkthroughs instead of walkthroughs. I'm working on Replay and Close scene tonight and should have the rest finalized tomorrow throughout the day. I'm also slowing the video down a little. Hopefully it will make the video's easier to follow. :)
I'll post another comment when I'm done updating them all.
Great article jamuraa. GW big mana gives interesting options.
I would give a try to quagnoth instead of Enforcer MD and Eyes of the Winsent SB to improve match against MUC Guile.
I´ve noticed the absence of (Arctic Flats) in the deck. It could be useful if it is used insted of Relics ...I dunno. Its a very interesting build and fun to play. I will give it a try with 1 singleton Sacred Mesa instead of evangelize (molten disaster resilient tokens! yay!
I downloaded the client like a month ago. When I try to start it, I get an error. Just to be sure, since I'm not in on the testing, is that error normal, or should the program load up and just no allow me access to the server? I just click it to start it up, and get an error with the first loading screen "Could not find a settings files, LoadingScreen.xml", with the only option to shut down the "starting up..." screen.
So, my question here, is that normal? Or do I need to download it again to find that file?
Many thanks. One issue though. As I have posted in MTGO boards, I get messed up screens with renderind enabled, not disabled. And I do have a popular graphics card (ATI 9250) with the driver updated.
For some reason those allow you to click 'full size' and resize them larger than the default. I have no clue why they're not allowing me to resize the ones linked. *grumble*
For what it's worth, my maindeck was pretty different from what Umii has up there -- I didn't think to run Rule of Law or Luminesce, both of which are obviously good against dragonstorm.
I ran wall of roots over BoP because BoP dies to all of the pyroclasm type effects that the deck runs, and wall is a nice blocker vs. oni and such.
I prefer squall line to hurricane mainly beacause the faerie draws that actually beat you involve multiple mistbind cliques/pestermites during your upkeep. The mites usually don't hurt too much, but T3 Clique, T4 Clique can be devastating. Being able to respond with a wrath effect allows you to beat those draws. You won't be able to stop T3 clique on the draw, but with fertile ground you can stop it on the play and you can certainly stop t4 clique.
On a random, unrelated note: I hate Jhoira decks with a passion. They can be good, but they are so random and unfun to play against. I find playing with them to be awful too as when you win it's usually because you got lucky and hit the jackpot whereas when you lose it's often because you whiffed one too many times. Basically, I think Jhoira should be banned, smashed, burned in a fire, reconstituted, disintigrated, reconstituted again and finally shot into the sun.
For what it's worth, my maindeck was pretty different from what Umii has up there -- I didn't think to run Rule of Law or Luminesce, both of which are obviously good against dragonstorm.
I ran wall of roots over BoP because BoP dies to all of the pyroclasm type effects that the deck runs, and wall is a nice blocker vs. oni and such.
I prefer squall line to hurricane mainly beacause the faerie draws that actually beat you involve multiple mistbind cliques/pestermites during your upkeep. The mites usually don't hurt too much, but T3 Clique, T4 Clique can be devastating. Being able to respond with a wrath effect allows you to beat those draws. You won't be able to stop T3 clique on the draw, but with fertile ground you can stop it on the play and you can certainly stop t4 clique.
On a random, unrelated note: I hate Jhoira decks with a passion. They can be good, but they are so random and unfun to play against. I find playing with them to be awful too as when you win it's usually because you got lucky and hit the jackpot whereas when you lose it's often because you whiffed one too many times. Basically, I think Jhoira should be banned, smashed, burned in a fire, reconstituted, disintigrated, reconstituted again and finally shot into the sun.
For what it's worth, my maindeck was pretty different from what Umii has up there -- I didn't think to run Rule of Law or Luminesce, both of which are obviously good against dragonstorm.
I ran wall of roots over BoP because BoP dies to all of the pyroclasm type effects that the deck runs, and wall is a nice blocker vs. oni and such.
I prefer squall line to hurricane mainly beacause the faerie draws that actually beat you involve multiple mistbind cliques/pestermites during your upkeep. The mites usually don't hurt too much, but T3 Clique, T4 Clique can be devastating. Being able to respond with a wrath effect allows you to beat those draws. You won't be able to stop T3 clique on the draw, but with fertile ground you can stop it on the play and you can certainly stop t4 clique.
On a random, unrelated note: I hate Jhoira decks with a passion. They can be good, but they are so random and unfun to play against. I find playing with them to be awful too as when you win it's usually because you got lucky and hit the jackpot whereas when you lose it's often because you whiffed one too many times. Basically, I think Jhoira should be banned, smashed, burned in a fire, reconstituted, disintigrated, reconstituted again and finally shot into the sun.
For those of you who might be curious, my deck would have had a better mana base and a more focused sideboard, but I worked with the cards I had. Also, I would advise against playing faeries as there will be plenty of hate for them in the future. Overall nice article, I enjoy the crazy formats.
The vanguard page does not list all of the avatars, it does not get updated in a timely manner. You can see the whole list in your collection though, go to the VAN tab and set number owned to >=0 instead of the default of just >0.
Very cool, I can't wait for more articles like this to show up. I think an envisioned time when a majority of players are all cognizant of many formats, whether they be sanctioned or player-generated due to efforts like this is ideal and worth striving for
I loved the article.. these are how deck analysis articles should be written.. it seems like a fun format and I can't wait to build some decks to play with
i enjoyed it very much... i had no idea of the "big card" display or the "compact".. the cards look GREAT... better than real cards..
I know you are probably working on it. but it seems the videos may have messed up your spaces for a lot of the words in the "article" part.. some are jumbled together..
Not sure what you are shooting for in this column, other than listing some of "your favorite cards"
I would consider the following from Rav Uncommons worth picking up more so than the above. Most if not all fall in the budget catagory. If they fall into the staples, then perhapse they should be mentioned in a "staples list" at the top of the set:
Staples:
Remand
L. Helix
Watchwolf
Putrify
I would try to pick up 4 of the following also:
B. Swiftblade
Carven Caryatid
Darkblast(prob. a staple)
Devouring Light
Rerout
Supression Field
Telling Time
-additionally the guild lands are all worth picking up(some more than others), all Guildmages, and all of the transmute cards(I esp. agree with Clutch)
This is just Rav, may look at G&D if i get the time.
regards,
___helper_monkey on MTGO
This site has some of the best content I've seen in a long while. Online Tech was my favorite article, but Flores isn't the best replacement for Frank Karsten. I thoroughly enjoy this Extended Play series. Can there be links to decklists though? It's very hard to find them. Thank You!!!!
Alright, audio on all but the last video, which was too large to recode and add audio and fit in a video hosting site. Hopefully all the preceding video's explain what's going on enough for that to be able to be followed.
~Erik
nice article. i would love to read your comments on why those percentages are moving and how the "forces" of the metagame can pull it from way one to another. keep the good work on becoming the "must read" of wednesdays!
Thanks so much Eric it makes it much easier to follow with sound.
Update 1-2-07:
I'm in the process of adding audio to each walkthrough. I've updated the Settings Screen, the Chat Filter and the Marketplace into talkthroughs instead of walkthroughs. I'm working on Replay and Close scene tonight and should have the rest finalized tomorrow throughout the day. I'm also slowing the video down a little. Hopefully it will make the video's easier to follow. :)
I'll post another comment when I'm done updating them all.
~Erik
Great article jamuraa. GW big mana gives interesting options.
I would give a try to quagnoth instead of Enforcer MD and Eyes of the Winsent SB to improve match against MUC Guile.
I´ve noticed the absence of (Arctic Flats) in the deck. It could be useful if it is used insted of Relics ...I dunno. Its a very interesting build and fun to play. I will give it a try with 1 singleton Sacred Mesa instead of evangelize (molten disaster resilient tokens! yay!
That file can be downloaded from http://mtgobeta.wizards.com/LoadingScreen.xml and saved to your Magic Online III folder (should be in c:/program files/ folder).
~Erik
I downloaded the client like a month ago. When I try to start it, I get an error. Just to be sure, since I'm not in on the testing, is that error normal, or should the program load up and just no allow me access to the server? I just click it to start it up, and get an error with the first loading screen "Could not find a settings files, LoadingScreen.xml", with the only option to shut down the "starting up..." screen.
So, my question here, is that normal? Or do I need to download it again to find that file?
Many thanks. One issue though. As I have posted in MTGO boards, I get messed up screens with renderind enabled, not disabled. And I do have a popular graphics card (ATI 9250) with the driver updated.
The whole gallery of the videos can be found here: http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj272/hamtasticMTGO/
For some reason those allow you to click 'full size' and resize them larger than the default. I have no clue why they're not allowing me to resize the ones linked. *grumble*
Sweet article man! Thanks !!
How do you make the pictures bigger?
THANK YOU!!! What a great article. This will help the transition go much more smoothly for a computer dunce like me.
woah sorry for the multipost there... i was getting server errors but i guess the post got through anyway. Mods, feel free to delete the excess!
For what it's worth, my maindeck was pretty different from what Umii has up there -- I didn't think to run Rule of Law or Luminesce, both of which are obviously good against dragonstorm.
I ran wall of roots over BoP because BoP dies to all of the pyroclasm type effects that the deck runs, and wall is a nice blocker vs. oni and such.
I prefer squall line to hurricane mainly beacause the faerie draws that actually beat you involve multiple mistbind cliques/pestermites during your upkeep. The mites usually don't hurt too much, but T3 Clique, T4 Clique can be devastating. Being able to respond with a wrath effect allows you to beat those draws. You won't be able to stop T3 clique on the draw, but with fertile ground you can stop it on the play and you can certainly stop t4 clique.
On a random, unrelated note: I hate Jhoira decks with a passion. They can be good, but they are so random and unfun to play against. I find playing with them to be awful too as when you win it's usually because you got lucky and hit the jackpot whereas when you lose it's often because you whiffed one too many times. Basically, I think Jhoira should be banned, smashed, burned in a fire, reconstituted, disintigrated, reconstituted again and finally shot into the sun.
For what it's worth, my maindeck was pretty different from what Umii has up there -- I didn't think to run Rule of Law or Luminesce, both of which are obviously good against dragonstorm.
I ran wall of roots over BoP because BoP dies to all of the pyroclasm type effects that the deck runs, and wall is a nice blocker vs. oni and such.
I prefer squall line to hurricane mainly beacause the faerie draws that actually beat you involve multiple mistbind cliques/pestermites during your upkeep. The mites usually don't hurt too much, but T3 Clique, T4 Clique can be devastating. Being able to respond with a wrath effect allows you to beat those draws. You won't be able to stop T3 clique on the draw, but with fertile ground you can stop it on the play and you can certainly stop t4 clique.
On a random, unrelated note: I hate Jhoira decks with a passion. They can be good, but they are so random and unfun to play against. I find playing with them to be awful too as when you win it's usually because you got lucky and hit the jackpot whereas when you lose it's often because you whiffed one too many times. Basically, I think Jhoira should be banned, smashed, burned in a fire, reconstituted, disintigrated, reconstituted again and finally shot into the sun.
For what it's worth, my maindeck was pretty different from what Umii has up there -- I didn't think to run Rule of Law or Luminesce, both of which are obviously good against dragonstorm.
I ran wall of roots over BoP because BoP dies to all of the pyroclasm type effects that the deck runs, and wall is a nice blocker vs. oni and such.
I prefer squall line to hurricane mainly beacause the faerie draws that actually beat you involve multiple mistbind cliques/pestermites during your upkeep. The mites usually don't hurt too much, but T3 Clique, T4 Clique can be devastating. Being able to respond with a wrath effect allows you to beat those draws. You won't be able to stop T3 clique on the draw, but with fertile ground you can stop it on the play and you can certainly stop t4 clique.
On a random, unrelated note: I hate Jhoira decks with a passion. They can be good, but they are so random and unfun to play against. I find playing with them to be awful too as when you win it's usually because you got lucky and hit the jackpot whereas when you lose it's often because you whiffed one too many times. Basically, I think Jhoira should be banned, smashed, burned in a fire, reconstituted, disintigrated, reconstituted again and finally shot into the sun.
For those of you who might be curious, my deck would have had a better mana base and a more focused sideboard, but I worked with the cards I had. Also, I would advise against playing faeries as there will be plenty of hate for them in the future. Overall nice article, I enjoy the crazy formats.
The vanguard page does not list all of the avatars, it does not get updated in a timely manner. You can see the whole list in your collection though, go to the VAN tab and set number owned to >=0 instead of the default of just >0.
Very cool, I can't wait for more articles like this to show up. I think an envisioned time when a majority of players are all cognizant of many formats, whether they be sanctioned or player-generated due to efforts like this is ideal and worth striving for
YTMND IS DOWN , suck on that trebek!
fballs, ytmnd is down!
congrats on busting a FOW in MED Limited..
I loved the article.. these are how deck analysis articles should be written.. it seems like a fun format and I can't wait to build some decks to play with