I'm really glad to be here. Believe me, I'm not going to be doing lame pimping of myself every article, I am just horrible at breaking into sites that I had never written for before. I'm not going to take any offense, because you have presented very good concerns, and well, if I am going to take offense to contrustive criticism, than I do not need to be writing.
I have a vision for what I want to do here, in all honesty, my limited success has been based on the back of receiving sealed decks that well, very bad players could build correctly.
Limited is a very weak part of my game, and I want to improve on that.
As for the red, I should have played it. There is no doubt in my mind going back that I should have ran the deck as a green red number. We'll see how things go with future sealed decks, and see how awesome 10th is for limited.
i jonestly expect more from a professional writer. Good to have you here though, especially if your work returns to be the quality material it once was.
I had never heard of Joshua either before because I don't follow paper that much but since posted this article several people have mentioned it was awesome he is writing on the site. Joshua didn't even act put back earlier when I asked him if he had any previous articles he had written. Super nice guy and glad to have him on board writing for us.
Just to let you know, I meant no offense with that first comment (apparently another person thought you might take intrepret it differently than I intended). Make no mistake, it was purely critical in the writing sense, not a personal sense.
1) "I'm sure you all know who I am from real life events in Kentucky." Well, I don't know of anyone who lives in Kentucky (I life in California), and I've sure as hell never read anything you've written before. So try to avoid blanket statements like that.
2) "I knew that was going to happen, and I took a risk by not playing the removal that I had in red." You absolutely took a risk you shouldn't have. Both Orcish Artillery and Bloodfire Colossus are bombs, and you have two fine removal spells in Shock and the Hammer. I would have at least splashed for those (though granted double-red is pushing it bit), so you would have been trading consistency for quality.
Overall, good article, good style, hope to see more!
I think one way to sort of handle the power imbalance that results from sort of budget decks vs 1000+ tix manabases is to make the game asymmetric, e.g. find a different strategy for winning than the usual.
I recently got back into prismatic (if I was ever into prismatic in the first place that is) when I brainstormed up a crazy deck idea and then soldiered on to see if it worked or not. If any of you guys reading this have watched my games in the casual play room, you may have noticed that my deck has a capacity to 'just win' out of nowhere, even vs some of the most expensive decks imagineable (I.E. playing vs deeds and vindicates and winning). If you haven't seen the deck in action, I'll just say it abuses Traumatize and Tunnel Vision, with TV being the poor backup actor. I might write an article on it just for kicks, so I don't want to get too much into how it works (but I'm sure most people could probably figure it out relatively quickly).
But yeah, prismatic is really fun (except that one deck that really is just 80 counterspells). While no good deck in the format can really be cheap, it is possible to be semi-competitive without spending infinite amounts of money on lands. (My deck has 2 shocklands, 1 painland, and 0 fetchlands, and I don't usually have mana problems, although more shocklands would be nice :)
And can I say that the font size in this commenteditor is atrociously small?
the shrines are definately meta. like 2/3rds of the decks i played today have them.
however. id like to se the expression on their faces when you confiscate their Honden of Night's Reach.
Cloudchaser Kestrel is another very versatile card for your 3 white drop. it can also make you go around protection from colors other than white.
Stonecloaker can definately be a good card in the right circumstances, like right before your 5/5 flyer gets struck by terror. i had it in my deck for awhile, i just found the Kestrel more useful overall. especially since i also run stormfront riders. which absolutely owns with cards like Sage Epityr, and Anarchist.
Did i hear anybody say recurring Tribal Lightning, Recollect or Call of the Herd?
So far we've seen the 'secret project' as Masters Edition, we're still waiting on V3 beta, and the new website.
Also, Masters Edition leaves them open to reprint cards from post Mirage, as well as cards not included in the first Masters Edition if they should deem them necessary.
I like this article... I like the flashback to the Exo days...
Anyway... about the copyrighted image... you can always just take a screenshot of it then make your own file out of it... of course I wouldn't want to do this is WotC's suff but it comes in hand when all you wanna do is show a pic of an old card from a site and their site won't let you link it =/
Just some speculation- if the Master's set is going to feature cards from pre-Mirage, does that mean that may release more "Master's Sets" featuring cards from after Mirage?
Very excited to hear about this, and can't wait to play these cards in a Limited enviorment.
"Planned for an on-sale date of September 10th, 2007, Masters Edition is a 195 card, Magic Online only set of some of the greatest cards from Magic's past. All cards in the set have appeared in pre-Mirage Magic sets and will appear with their original artwork and old-style frames."
I was informed that it's not the gleemax podcast, but is actually the Gamer Radio Zero podcast. I have changed the areas where I referenced it as gleemax podcast. My apologies to Gamer Zer0!
plague sliver +poison = you get poisoned online. also in some cases poison still effects if the damage has been provented. these are known issues. but people should be aware of them.
Forgot to tell you I really enjoy reading your articles, prefer them over Karsten's. I wanted to start playing competitively OL and felt your articles helped me out alot. Just though I should share that w/ you
I've been playing this deck for a week or so and have discovered on MOL there is a bug that when you use Psionic Slivers ability on your opponent it will give your opponent poison counters if you have virulent slivers in play.
Nice article! You are correct, it is a week late or so. I've seen a bunch of people starting to Sideboard Plague Sliver and Hail Storm to deal with the awesome power of the slivers!
Thanks for the article. I currently play a reanimator deck and a singleton deck. The reanimator deck is Prismatic/Ext so I can play even when there are no pris player around.
I like the look of your transmute deck and might have to try it out.
I was stunned at how much there really is to say on Prismatic. It seems that the large deck inspires large articles because there really is far more to say on the subject than just one article can do just to.
On two occasions, you make it sound like Stonecloaker can bounce opponents' creatures. If it was just once, I would have thought its a typo. You do realize, it only bounces a creature "you control", right?
I'm really glad to be here. Believe me, I'm not going to be doing lame pimping of myself every article, I am just horrible at breaking into sites that I had never written for before. I'm not going to take any offense, because you have presented very good concerns, and well, if I am going to take offense to contrustive criticism, than I do not need to be writing.
I have a vision for what I want to do here, in all honesty, my limited success has been based on the back of receiving sealed decks that well, very bad players could build correctly.
Limited is a very weak part of my game, and I want to improve on that.
As for the red, I should have played it. There is no doubt in my mind going back that I should have ran the deck as a green red number. We'll see how things go with future sealed decks, and see how awesome 10th is for limited.
thanks again guys!
Lets break down your article.
Opening: Lame pimping of yourself.
Middle: Boring card evaluations.
End: I built a terrible deck.
i jonestly expect more from a professional writer. Good to have you here though, especially if your work returns to be the quality material it once was.
I had never heard of Joshua either before because I don't follow paper that much but since posted this article several people have mentioned it was awesome he is writing on the site. Joshua didn't even act put back earlier when I asked him if he had any previous articles he had written. Super nice guy and glad to have him on board writing for us.
Just to let you know, I meant no offense with that first comment (apparently another person thought you might take intrepret it differently than I intended). Make no mistake, it was purely critical in the writing sense, not a personal sense.
Sorry if there was any misunderstanding.
- Nick
Good article. Two things:
1) "I'm sure you all know who I am from real life events in Kentucky." Well, I don't know of anyone who lives in Kentucky (I life in California), and I've sure as hell never read anything you've written before. So try to avoid blanket statements like that.
2) "I knew that was going to happen, and I took a risk by not playing the removal that I had in red." You absolutely took a risk you shouldn't have. Both Orcish Artillery and Bloodfire Colossus are bombs, and you have two fine removal spells in Shock and the Hammer. I would have at least splashed for those (though granted double-red is pushing it bit), so you would have been trading consistency for quality.
Overall, good article, good style, hope to see more!
- Nick
I think one way to sort of handle the power imbalance that results from sort of budget decks vs 1000+ tix manabases is to make the game asymmetric, e.g. find a different strategy for winning than the usual.
I recently got back into prismatic (if I was ever into prismatic in the first place that is) when I brainstormed up a crazy deck idea and then soldiered on to see if it worked or not. If any of you guys reading this have watched my games in the casual play room, you may have noticed that my deck has a capacity to 'just win' out of nowhere, even vs some of the most expensive decks imagineable (I.E. playing vs deeds and vindicates and winning). If you haven't seen the deck in action, I'll just say it abuses Traumatize and Tunnel Vision, with TV being the poor backup actor. I might write an article on it just for kicks, so I don't want to get too much into how it works (but I'm sure most people could probably figure it out relatively quickly).
But yeah, prismatic is really fun (except that one deck that really is just 80 counterspells). While no good deck in the format can really be cheap, it is possible to be semi-competitive without spending infinite amounts of money on lands. (My deck has 2 shocklands, 1 painland, and 0 fetchlands, and I don't usually have mana problems, although more shocklands would be nice :)
And can I say that the font size in this commenteditor is atrociously small?
the shrines are definately meta. like 2/3rds of the decks i played today have them.
however. id like to se the expression on their faces when you confiscate their Honden of Night's Reach.
Cloudchaser Kestrel is another very versatile card for your 3 white drop. it can also make you go around protection from colors other than white.
Stonecloaker can definately be a good card in the right circumstances, like right before your 5/5 flyer gets struck by terror. i had it in my deck for awhile, i just found the Kestrel more useful overall. especially since i also run stormfront riders. which absolutely owns with cards like Sage Epityr, and Anarchist.
Did i hear anybody say recurring Tribal Lightning, Recollect or Call of the Herd?
They are going to print FORCE OF WILL.
OMG.
Really.
So far we've seen the 'secret project' as Masters Edition, we're still waiting on V3 beta, and the new website.
Also, Masters Edition leaves them open to reprint cards from post Mirage, as well as cards not included in the first Masters Edition if they should deem them necessary.
I like this article... I like the flashback to the Exo days...
Anyway... about the copyrighted image... you can always just take a screenshot of it then make your own file out of it... of course I wouldn't want to do this is WotC's suff but it comes in hand when all you wanna do is show a pic of an old card from a site and their site won't let you link it =/
Just saying =) good job
Just some speculation- if the Master's set is going to feature cards from pre-Mirage, does that mean that may release more "Master's Sets" featuring cards from after Mirage?
Very excited to hear about this, and can't wait to play these cards in a Limited enviorment.
"Planned for an on-sale date of September 10th, 2007, Masters Edition is a 195 card, Magic Online only set of some of the greatest cards from Magic's past. All cards in the set have appeared in pre-Mirage Magic sets and will appear with their original artwork and old-style frames."
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/magiconline/article072007a
Holy crap this is insane!
I was informed that it's not the gleemax podcast, but is actually the Gamer Radio Zero podcast. I have changed the areas where I referenced it as gleemax podcast. My apologies to Gamer Zer0!
Thanks hammy.
Always a pleasure to read your stuff.
plague sliver +poison = you get poisoned online. also in some cases poison still effects if the damage has been provented. these are known issues. but people should be aware of them.
Forgot to tell you I really enjoy reading your articles, prefer them over Karsten's. I wanted to start playing competitively OL and felt your articles helped me out alot. Just though I should share that w/ you
I've been playing this deck for a week or so and have discovered on MOL there is a bug that when you use Psionic Slivers ability on your opponent it will give your opponent poison counters if you have virulent slivers in play.
Nice article! You are correct, it is a week late or so. I've seen a bunch of people starting to Sideboard Plague Sliver and Hail Storm to deal with the awesome power of the slivers!
No, I didn't realize it returned only your creatures. I could os sworn it said a creature. Thanks for pointing it out.
Your welcom Thomas. :)
Thanks for the article. I currently play a reanimator deck and a singleton deck. The reanimator deck is Prismatic/Ext so I can play even when there are no pris player around.
I like the look of your transmute deck and might have to try it out.
Looking forward to part 2.
I've recently Gotten into Prismatic as well. Its a great format and it can be done on a relative budget.
You don't need a $300 manabase, maybe a $75-$100 one, but it can be done!
Good work and i look forward to have more people to play!
I was stunned at how much there really is to say on Prismatic. It seems that the large deck inspires large articles because there really is far more to say on the subject than just one article can do just to.
-Erik
i wanna play rainbow stairwell
thanks hammy for this great article!!!
i guess i shall have to dust off my prismatic deck again.
On two occasions, you make it sound like Stonecloaker can bounce opponents' creatures. If it was just once, I would have thought its a typo. You do realize, it only bounces a creature "you control", right?