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 Cryptek of Awesome wrote:

 PotentiallyLethal wrote:
Played a 5-way Commander game last night... 2 hours later

Was a fun game, now just to put my own deck together

We got big into Elder Dragon Highlander/Commander and it was fun for awhile actually until Wizard's put out the pre-built commander decks.

Had a pretty fun deck that stole creatures from everyone and they make that common land that just destroys the entire deck. Derp - ok I guess they really don't like Control Magic. :p

Speaking of donkey-cave control decks, I played with this just last night and almost won but was ruined by an oversight on my part. No stealing creatures for me, just discarding and making sure I get what I want. Strangely enough, playing Rhystic Study as early as I did didn't feel that dickish because I didn't draw a lot of stuff that I was looking for and one of the players actually wanted me to deck myself out this way because he himself played mill. I understand that it loses it's effectiveness later in the game once people have enough lands out too.

 Cryptek of Awesome wrote:

 PotentiallyLethal wrote:
Played a 5-way Commander game last night... 2 hours later

Was a fun game, now just to put my own deck together

We got big into Elder Dragon Highlander/Commander and it was fun for awhile actually until Wizard's put out the pre-built commander decks.

Had a pretty fun deck that stole creatures from everyone and they make that common land that just destroys the entire deck. Derp - ok I guess they really don't like Control Magic. :p

Was thinking of doing something like that in black with Chainer as the commander, but at the moment building a deck based around Ob Nixilis, Unshackled as every opponent seems to be searching their deck for something

Please note the last text in the box.

Saw teferi, I was so estatic! Need another planeswalker/commander? Why not Urza or Sierra?

Rumor has it as:

White: Serra
Red: Jaya Ballard
Black: Leshrac
Green: ????

That panther planeswalker? Lord something or other.

The Ghoulcaller is a real wanna be for my Zombie/Graveyard recursion commander deck that I'm building

Looking forward to seeing Leshrac as a Planeswalker

Teferi actually doesn't seem very practical as a General. If he is you're general, that means you're playing mono-blue and you're stuck with him, Jace, Tamiyo, Tezzeret, and Karn. Not a whole lot of use out of his ultimate.

 Wilytank wrote:
Teferi actually doesn't seem very practical as a General. If he is you're general, that means you're playing mono-blue and you're stuck with him, Jace, Tamiyo, Tezzeret, and Karn. Not a whole lot of use out of his ultimate.

Dunno if you really need much other than those;

It hasn't been ruled yet, but you may be able to use his ability during EVERY players turn.

In a Stasis/Stax deck, could mean you +1 on your turn, -1 on someone elses turn (Untapping at least one land to pay for stasis), +1 on the third persons turn, -1 on the last players turn (Untapping more things while everyone else remains tapped).

If that is the case, he'll be a bonkers Stasis Commander. Not that he'll be overpowered due to actually being able to attack him directly.

Alrighty......recently, i purchased the b/r m15 intro pack, (just for the indulgent tormentor), but when i opened the pack, it was the red/blue intro deck! in the red/black intro/deck's packaging! And the indulgent tormentor was in the front! odd packaging error, but the REAL 'magic' started to happen when i pulled a Nissa, worldwaker out of the booster pack!!!! So maybe the packaging error led to my lucky pull!!!! Has anyone else had a packaging error like this??

My friend did that once with an M15 intro pack. The entire intro deck minus the face card was miscut. He got Ajani out of one of the boosters though.

Hey everyone, i was just curious on what might be the better idea at the moment..... now that post rotation will be coming shortly, or has already happened, i will have to update mt standard deck.... which might take a while, or even make a new standard deck altogether! BUT, that is not really the reason for this post..... The real reason, is that i was curious on what i should use, in the time i am re-building, and building a new standard deck, as a standard deck, that will be a strong deck? I was thinking maybe use a born of the gods or journey into nyx event deck (maybe add a few cards though)? Or combine the 2 clash pack decks into the deck people have been talking of? Just curious! Also, does anyone have any good budget lists for mono green devotion? or any good post rotation decks? I found some on mtg salvation, but im still looking around

Hi orkkiller21 i guess the first question would be to ask what sort of deck are you running at the moment. as you may have some cards that are still going to be in standard after rotation that can still be used in a new deck.

the second one would what deck are you looking to run im very into green to the point where all my decks run green as the main colour.

i suppose thats all i really need to know for starters but as a example of the deck i run at the moment and im not saying its game breaking as there is always a deck that will beat a deck that is made. but a fair few of the cards for this deck or substitutes can be found in the m15 clash pack and the rest are all fairly low cost rares with a few mythics thrown in

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/post-rotation-ug-hydras/

Well, right now, i run a mono black devotion deck, a izzet spellheart chimera deck, and a u/g flash deck ( i netdecked this one to try it out), which i have only tried once, since i wanted to find a playstyle for it, before i tried it at another FNM, cuz the first time, it didnt go so well for that deck.... ( these are my main decks for standard) Otherwise for pauper, i run a nivixfiend deck, and i have some other decks i randomly throw together to see how well the idea would work.




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Well, right now, i run a mono black devotion deck , a izzet spellheart chimera deck, and a u/g flash deck ( i netdecked this one to try it out), which i have only tried once, since i wanted to find a playstyle for it, before i tried it at another FNM, cuz the first time, it didnt go so well for that deck.... ( these are my main decks for standard) Otherwise for pauper, i run a nivixfiend deck, and i have some other decks i randomly throw together to see how well the idea would work. Otherwise, I would LOVE to put my boon satyrs and temples of mystery's to good use, maybe create a u/g deck with nissa? (that would be fun to do), or, I had a b/w constellation idea that i would also like to toss together, BUt, my main plan, is to use my temples of mystery, nissa, and a few other cards i have in mind as well. I have found the mono green devotion decklist on the starcity games website, but i am REALLY gonna have to wait on buying the playsets of 4 for almost all the creatures, since my monetary situation is up and down currently. Otherwise, i am going to just order the sets off of amazon, once i get to college, since i wont have my parents there to tell me not to order more cards ( i have TONS). Otherwise, as i said before, would be to make a u/g deck that will destroy my opponents (like my mono black devotion deck), maybe even , and u/g seems like my best bet at the moment, a mono-green devotion, or even a gruul midrange deck i found which i will post below, otherwise g/w aggro............ i have way too many ideas......

http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/deck_tech_monogreen_devotion_w.html





MIDRANGE GRUUL
4 Temple of Abandon
12 Forest
8 Mountain

4 Elvish Mystic
4 Sylvan Caryatid
4 Voyaging Satyr
4 Polis Crusher
4 Polukranos, World Eater
4 Ember Swallower
4 Arbor Colossus

4 Lightning Strike
4 Magma Jet






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I managed to to play a conspiracy draft on Saturday at Gencon, and I have to say- it was awesome. One of the best drafts I've ever done. I went green/black after grabbing the mythic Hydra, Pernicious Deed, and Spiritmonger. I lost, but I can't say I didn't enjoy myself.

So two new keywords for Khans have been spoiled:

Raid: Whenever ~~~ enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, ____ happens. Keyword of the RWB wedge.

Prowess: Whenever you cast a Non-Creature spell, This creature gains +1/+1 until end of turn. Keyword of Murica.

Well this was to be expected.



It's cool to have wedge counterparts to Alara's triple lands.

So major changes coming to Magic, just so everyone is aware:

Blocks will now be 2 sets instead of three (So Return to Ravnica + Gatecrash instead of RtR + Gatecrash + Dragon's Maze) We know not if they are increasing card number per block or leaving it as is.

Core Sets are going the way of the Dinosaurs; New players have to deal with odd mechanics like Convoke, but Old players have to deal with things being dumbed down. No one was really happy with Core Sets according to data.

Three blocks in Standard at any one time, instead of two + Core.

Cards are now rotated faster, being in standard for 18 months instead of 24.

Will post link asap.

So are they slowing down releases for the first time? I've been ou of the loop since Theros. The new set every quarter just didn't feel like something I wanted to bother keeping up with. A set every six months on the other hand might pull me into standard.

So its the same schedule, every 6 months. Only now its 2 2-set blocks. No more core set. And standard rotates every 6 months and each pack being good for 18 months

Ugh, what garbage. So nothing really changes other than trimming down what's legal in standard at any time.

Hopefully, the cards will get better as a result of them doing away with their smaller releases. Dragon's Maze could have never existed and the only thing people would be missing is Voice of Resurgence. Same thing with Born of the Gods with Courser of Kruphix and Brimaz.

well its semi good news, 2 blocks now. so if you say hated theros well its only 6 months versus a year to a new block. It also lets them do more planes, he specifically mentioned how people have loved the return to blank blocks so I figure we'll see one new plane, one old plane.

I'm excited and optimistic, may haps we'll actually get a return to kamigawa

If we do return to Kami, I really hope they keep 90% of the mechanics and do them right. I really want to see more Arcane spells.

I've heard that wizards want to do more agressive reprints (Think Fetches or Lily of the Veil), but haven't actually heard anything official on that or not.

Kamigawa was great, but I really want to see shadowmoor/eventide again.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Kamigawa was great, but I really want to see shadowmoor/eventide again.

I hated the shadowmoor block novels. I understand what they were going for, but they turned the storyline they had going into garbage.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Kamigawa was great, but I really want to see shadowmoor/eventide again.

I hated the shadowmoor block novels. I understand what they were going for, but they turned the storyline they had going into garbage.

Never read the books, I just liked the cards. My first deck was from there. It has a really interesting feel, and a lot of great cards (as well as the first instance to my knowledge of hexproof in all but name).

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Kamigawa was great, but I really want to see shadowmoor/eventide again.

I hated the shadowmoor block novels. I understand what they were going for, but they turned the storyline they had going into garbage.

Never read the books, I just liked the cards. My first deck was from there. It has a really interesting feel, and a lot of great cards (as well as the first instance to my knowledge of hexproof in all but name).

Oh don't get me wrong- I loved the set much more than Lorwyn. It's definitely fun. Hybrid mana was so awesome to me when it debuted.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Kamigawa was great, but I really want to see shadowmoor/eventide again.

I hated the shadowmoor block novels. I understand what they were going for, but they turned the storyline they had going into garbage.

Never read the books, I just liked the cards. My first deck was from there. It has a really interesting feel, and a lot of great cards (as well as the first instance to my knowledge of hexproof in all but name).

Actually, hexproof was around for a while before SHA/EVE block, Most Famous instance? Troll Ascetic. lol Until it got a name, everyone called it "troll shroud"

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Kamigawa was great, but I really want to see shadowmoor/eventide again.

I hated the shadowmoor block novels. I understand what they were going for, but they turned the storyline they had going into garbage.

Never read the books, I just liked the cards. My first deck was from there. It has a really interesting feel, and a lot of great cards (as well as the first instance to my knowledge of hexproof in all but name).

Actually, hexproof was around for a while before SHA/EVE block, Most Famous instance? Troll Ascetic. lol Until it got a name, everyone called it "troll shroud"

Well I did say to my knowledge.