But it is soooo darned pricy! (--edit-- oops it's only 20-22 tix on mtgotraders.com so not TOO bad.) Life from the loam's a good place to start though.
Hello there, thank you for reading. Honestly I don't think that Crucible of Worlds will get banned and if by a chance it would, it will cost more or less the same either way so you won't lose too much money. The card that is certainly problematic is Strip Mine. If you are on mono green or heavy green deck I'd buy Crucible of Worlds no matter what happens after new cards are banned. But you can also wait with buying and still play (still there is Life from the Loam which might actually get banned, but hope it won't). If you don't want to play in a sea of blue decks and play cards like Carpet of Flower I'd wait for next Wednesday.
Thanks. I think there will be a new week 1 next week^_^ (or not, depends if I manage to play or not). So far I hope Wizards of the Coast will be banning cards slowly and carefully and not mess it up.
I'd definitely go for an Elf ban for the elves, but Scouts usually win through combo, often land-based, so Charbelcher could be a good fit there. Definitely worth remembering that the Belcher deck didn't win, losing to the standard Natural Order package. It may be an idea to give Dragonlord Atarka, Hornet Queen, Woodfall Primus and Craterhoof Behemoth the Progenitus treatment and limit them to their tribes, given the regularity they show up, individually or together, as offtribe splashes in green creature tutor decks. I acknowledge we want the archetype to be extant, but we don't necessarily want a constantly used go-to set of creatures regardless of tribe.
Banning stuff in limited is just really silly. If they didn't ban Pack Rat, or Jitte, both of which I feel are better than Glorybringer or Angel, then the level of power needed to ban in limited is significantly high, and would have to be the result of an actual mistake, something like a production error.
I don't really use my twitter so much but in drafting you hardly get these cards so banning them is the wrong call. If you get those cards it is just your luck.
Thanks for the interview! I enjoyed playing against Kasparadi and wished I'd face him more often when playing Vintage.
Seems like his approach to putting something tribal together was same as mine^_^. I just put something together from my collection and called it 'tribal'. His passion for Vintage was showing quite clearly in his decks.
So let's hope he will be able to run modo again and play the game he loves!
Iname as One would need to be cast from hand, and so would need an unreasonable amount of shenanigans. If you're going to build around it, sure, but that's another deck.
So it is. This one is on me, my apologies.
I don't think so. there are many cards that are way too OP than this, so far.
Just noticed the title is wrong. Should say Episode 422.
Will Demonic Tutor be on the chopping block in the next round of bans, anyone believe so?
But it is soooo darned pricy! (--edit-- oops it's only 20-22 tix on mtgotraders.com so not TOO bad.) Life from the loam's a good place to start though.
Hello there, thank you for reading. Honestly I don't think that Crucible of Worlds will get banned and if by a chance it would, it will cost more or less the same either way so you won't lose too much money. The card that is certainly problematic is Strip Mine. If you are on mono green or heavy green deck I'd buy Crucible of Worlds no matter what happens after new cards are banned. But you can also wait with buying and still play (still there is Life from the Loam which might actually get banned, but hope it won't). If you don't want to play in a sea of blue decks and play cards like Carpet of Flower I'd wait for next Wednesday.
Thanks. I think there will be a new week 1 next week^_^ (or not, depends if I manage to play or not). So far I hope Wizards of the Coast will be banning cards slowly and carefully and not mess it up.
Good overview. My big decision about 1 vs 1 commander is do I buy a Crucible of Worlds and start playing now, or just wait until it's banned.
Thanks for the snapshot into what the format looks like so far. :D
I'd definitely go for an Elf ban for the elves, but Scouts usually win through combo, often land-based, so Charbelcher could be a good fit there. Definitely worth remembering that the Belcher deck didn't win, losing to the standard Natural Order package. It may be an idea to give Dragonlord Atarka, Hornet Queen, Woodfall Primus and Craterhoof Behemoth the Progenitus treatment and limit them to their tribes, given the regularity they show up, individually or together, as offtribe splashes in green creature tutor decks. I acknowledge we want the archetype to be extant, but we don't necessarily want a constantly used go-to set of creatures regardless of tribe.
Excellent interview. It really is a globe-spanning event, not just north and south of the equator, but north of the arctic circle!
Banning stuff in limited is just really silly. If they didn't ban Pack Rat, or Jitte, both of which I feel are better than Glorybringer or Angel, then the level of power needed to ban in limited is significantly high, and would have to be the result of an actual mistake, something like a production error.
I don't really use my twitter so much but in drafting you hardly get these cards so banning them is the wrong call. If you get those cards it is just your luck.
Thanks for the interview! I enjoyed playing against Kasparadi and wished I'd face him more often when playing Vintage.
Seems like his approach to putting something tribal together was same as mine^_^. I just put something together from my collection and called it 'tribal'. His passion for Vintage was showing quite clearly in his decks.
So let's hope he will be able to run modo again and play the game he loves!
Iname as One would need to be cast from hand, and so would need an unreasonable amount of shenanigans. If you're going to build around it, sure, but that's another deck.
"(You can also technically fetch him with the 12-mana Iname as One, but that seems unworthy of consideration.)"
Unworthy? I'm pretty sure this is your Sistine Chapel waiting to happen...
Man you could have pretended it had some hidden meaning and we'd have fallen for it. (Welcome back btw. Glad to see you still posting articles.)
hahahaha ummmm
that was dummy text that I forgot to replace :X
I missed you so much, Cotton!
Say, I didn't get the "asdlfkj and asdfklj" joke from the Summary, is it a mock acronym?
Mono green became very strong and is the only deck that can actually win among the flood of blue generals. Strip Mine being legal helps that a lot.
Mono green became very strong and is the only deck that can actually win among the flood of blue generals. Strip Mine being legal helps that a lot.
There is a lot more mono green being played than I could have ever imagined I think.
Day 1: · Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
· The Gitrog Monster
· Leovold, Emissary of Trest
· Breya, Etherium Shaper
· Narset, Enlightened Master
· Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
· Leovold, (again)
· Nissa, Vastwood Seer
· Zurgo Bellstriker
· Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
Day 2: Baral, Zurgo, Nissa, Nissa 2, Thrasios/VialSm, Animar, Tasigur, Tasigur 2, Thrasios/VialSm 2, Tasigur 3
Day 3: Tasigur, VialSm/Thrasios, Breya, Vendilion Clique, Baral, Titania, VialSm/Thrasios 2, Baral2, Nissa, Tasigur2
Day 4: Sidisi (Josh), Azusa, Nissa, Baral, Jace, VialSm/Thrasios, Jace2, Baral2, Tasigur, VialSm/Kraum
That's not a bad idea at all.
...All right, fine. You have one month, everyone.
The thought occurs you could stick prizes like this on the Top Players Lockout to count them down when one of us monopolises something.