Magic the Gathering

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BlinkXPoke Cards and Hugs abound
w34km1nd3d wrote...
Mello wrote...
Also, who plays Commander? My last deck used Sakashima the Impostor as the general, and the entire deck was steal/trade/copy effects with mana ramp and a ton of mass removal. I loved being able to Spelljack that one spell that gives you 1/1 fliers equal to your life total...


I play commander...exclusivly.

I play my Mimor Vig steal yo lands .deck (prophet of kruphix broke that deck),

I also use a Tolsmir elves/angels deck (a fun deck that turned out being badass)

...and I'm making a Rahda elves/dragons deck (meant to be a different take on Tolsmir, but it's not looking nearly as good...).

I had a glissa deck, but i scrapped it once i found out my combo was a no go....

There is a guy in our playgroup that might play alot like you do. He plays Jeleva . He just sits there and constantly snags people's stuff, or he proceeds to warp the game state to the point were we're not even really playing magic anymore. His deck doesn't even really have a win con. It's just extremely annoying to play against, lol. Actually, no lol. It's not funny. His deck is a douche. q_q


Oh (since you guys are talking about zoo) have you seen that kitten zoo deck? It's one of the coolest things i've seen in a while. It's a pauper deck that uses nylea's presence to get domain effects off.
inb4 who cares, no one here plays pauper.


I take offense to that last remark, lol. I like playing Pauper. It's pretty interesting having a "commons only" limitation. This said, I've only ever built two pauper decks, and they're both kinda oppresive: Mono-G Infect, and Mono-U Delver.
I liked the Storm decks people came up with in Pauper, except they always get nerfed whenever someone finds a new Storm card to break, so I never want to get into that for fear I won't get to play it for long.

I don't think I've actually seen that, but that sounds interesting. I forgot that Nylea's Presense actually turns a land into all five basic land types.
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sakabato24 World Warrior
I've finally just gotten around in building a Pauper Cube. I've got to say, drafting commons and only commons has got to be some of the funnest drafts that I've ever done.
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I've played Slivers in Commander, and that is the path of least resistance to become the most hated player on the table. QQ

So when that happened, I 'downgraded' to Rafiq of the Many and the Voltron effect, and it got ugly whenever Rafiq and Elspeth, Knight-Errant were on the board together... I can't win! Everyone hates!

So I settled for Sakashima, where everyone else's wincon becomes your wincon. I figure that doesn't pack a lot of hate-- I mean, shit, when someone has Essence of the Wild out and they cast Storm Herd, I don't want 45 6/6's, I want 34 1/1's on my side of the field. Thanks, Commandeer! And oh, what's that? You got an Eldrazi out and it got returned to your library? Lemme cast Bribery on that real quick.

Oh, and because I was harmless during the first 10 turns of the game and politics of peace were involved, I have some artifacts that make all my lands give me like 4 mana each. If you break the non-aggression truce, I'm popping this Disk as a response.
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Mello wrote...
I've played Slivers in Commander, and that is the path of least resistance to become the most hated player on the table. QQ

So when that happened, I 'downgraded' to Rafiq of the Many and the Voltron effect, and it got ugly whenever Rafiq and Elspeth, Knight-Errant were on the board together... I can't win! Everyone hates!

So I settled for Sakashima, where everyone else's wincon becomes your wincon. I figure that doesn't pack a lot of hate-- I mean, shit, when someone has Essence of the Wild out and they cast Storm Herd, I don't want 45 6/6's, I want 34 1/1's on my side of the field. Thanks, Commandeer! And oh, what's that? You got an Eldrazi out and it got returned to your library? Lemme cast Bribery on that real quick.

Oh, and because I was harmless during the first 10 turns of the game and politics of peace were involved, I have some artifacts that make all my lands give me like 4 mana each. If you break the non-aggression truce, I'm popping this Disk as a response.


Rafiq with Sovereigns of Lost Alara is the worst:

1. Swing Rafiq
2. Get free Eldrazi Conscription on Rafiq
3. ???
4. Profit

But yeah, your deck sounds alot like the Jeleva player's deck i was talking about. His mentality is "I don't have good cards so imma just steal/eff with urs *trollface*". It's basically a NTR. deck. It induces rage like NTR too.
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w34km1nd3d wrote...

Rafiq with Sovereigns of Lost Alara is the worst:

1. Swing Rafiq
2. Get free Eldrazi Conscription on Rafiq
3. ???
4. Profit

But yeah, your deck sounds alot like the Jeleva player's deck i was talking about. His mentality is "I don't have good cards so imma just steal/eff with urs *trollface*". It's basically a NTR. deck. It induces rage like NTR too.


I never used Sovereigns and Conscription in my Rafiq deck, personally-- I felt that I was painting too much of a target on my head by being able to pull that kind of stunt off. That amounts to almost as much aggro as playing Slivers by that point...

I find it funny that the mentality of 'not having good cards' translates to 'taking others' cards', because you need good cards in the first place to be able to steal the more precious things. xD Things like Vedalken Shackles, Keiga, Phyrexian Metamorph, even Vesuvan Shapeshifter and Sculpting Steel. I remember I struggled a ton to get some of the really good cards I wanted... who was that-- there was a legendary that stole other legendaries.... Queen something. And because of the wording on Sakashima, you could copy everyone else's commander, too. But yeah, even a deck that takes others' stuff needs its own reset buttons, nukes and accelerators. Playing blue was best. *-*
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Mello wrote...
w34km1nd3d wrote...

Rafiq with Sovereigns of Lost Alara is the worst:

1. Swing Rafiq
2. Get free Eldrazi Conscription on Rafiq
3. ???
4. Profit

But yeah, your deck sounds alot like the Jeleva player's deck i was talking about. His mentality is "I don't have good cards so imma just steal/eff with urs *trollface*". It's basically a NTR. deck. It induces rage like NTR too.


I never used Sovereigns and Conscription in my Rafiq deck, personally-- I felt that I was painting too much of a target on my head by being able to pull that kind of stunt off. That amounts to almost as much aggro as playing Slivers by that point...

I find it funny that the mentality of 'not having good cards' translates to 'taking others' cards', because you need good cards in the first place to be able to steal the more precious things. xD Things like Vedalken Shackles, Keiga, Phyrexian Metamorph, even Vesuvan Shapeshifter and Sculpting Steel. I remember I struggled a ton to get some of the really good cards I wanted... who was that-- there was a legendary that stole other legendaries.... Queen something. And because of the wording on Sakashima, you could copy everyone else's commander, too. But yeah, even a deck that takes others' stuff needs its own reset buttons, nukes and accelerators. Playing blue was best. *-*


That whole taking other people's cards things was his words, not mine. So apparently that mentality is true enough for him. Doesn't matter to me either way. I hate decks whose sole purpose seems to be controlling other people's stuff. Doesn't matter to me if it uses good cards or not.

I dislike the way wizards seems to be taking commander. I wish they would stop releasing legendaries just for commander, because i hate each batch more than the last.

inb4 this coming from the guy who plays two Karador decks.
I dismantled Karador. Cuz he's too simple for me. Just like all the other commander legends.

EDIT: Damn that post has got alot of QQ in it. Guess im just feelin salty today.
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w34km1nd3d wrote...

That whole taking other people's cards things was his words, not mine. So apparently that mentality is true enough for him. Doesn't matter to me either way. I hate decks whose sole purpose seems to be controlling other people's stuff. Doesn't matter to me if it uses good cards or not.

I dislike the way wizards seems to be taking commander. I wish they would stop releasing legendaries just for commander, because i hate each batch more than the last.

inb4 this coming from the guy who plays two Karador decks.
I dismantled Karador. Cuz he's too simple for me. Just like all the other commander legends.

EDIT: Damn that post has got alot of QQ in it. Guess im just feelin salty today.


Don't worry, I like to eat my morning eggs with a little salt. lol

The good variety of commander definitely comes from all the new cards that get released with each set (read: not Commander-only sets), though I have to say, I do appreciate that Wizards took the support for a new game mode seriously and dedicated resources to it.

As for the stealing, well... commander gets cheesy past the 10th turn no matter what, so as opposed to rushing down someone's life, it becomes a competition to see who can make the flashiest play. Don't you think so too? The opportunity to cast those big game-changing spells that you would never be able to pull off in a regular game...

Except when someone casts Warp World, Scrambleverse or Thieves' Auction. Fuck.
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sakabato24 World Warrior
I like to see my opponents suffer. Tarjic on board, I like to use Obliterate + Boros Charm, and watch as my opponents scoop.
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I used to have an Avacyn deck that revolved around swinging wit her with Worldslayer equipped. So cheesy, but sooooo fun :3
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sakabato24 World Warrior
Pro Tour for Born is streaming now and through the weekend :

http://www.twitch.tv/magic
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BlinkXPoke Cards and Hugs abound
sakabato24 wrote...
Pro Tour for Born is streaming now and through the weekend :

http://www.twitch.tv/magic


I missed Day One, but I was pretty happy to see Michael Hetrick at the top of the standings. I follow his articles fairly frequently on ChannelFireball.com, and I love me any Living End deck, especially one's as fine-tuned as his (since it's what he plays most often for Modern). I'm trying to catch up watching the Replay and missed the draft section, but at least I get to watch all of the Modern play.

Hoping Travis Woo and his brother are doing well, too. I didn't see them at the top of the standings, but I'm a big fan of his.
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sakabato24 World Warrior
Good ol' Modern Season. So nice to see so many decks pop up (e.g. Blue Moon, Signet Combo, etc.) as well as good favorites return. Just not good for anyone's wallets. :P
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BlinkXPoke Cards and Hugs abound
sakabato24 wrote...
Good ol' Modern Season. So nice to see so many decks pop up (e.g. Blue Moon, Signet Combo, etc.) as well as good favorites return. Just not good for anyone's wallets. :P


I loved that Blue Moon deck (I thought for sure it'd win the whole thing), but I don't think it's gonna last. It was an excellent metagame call, but now, people are gonna be more careful about Blood Moon, or just shift to less greedy decks to combat it. It's still a nice choice against Zoo, though, as they're forced to go tri-color, at least.

I wonder if there's gonna be any reaction to the fact that there was so much Splinter Twin in that Top 8. I feel like that, too, will be pretty nerfed for a while since people are gonna metagame against it pretty hard over the next few weeks or so.

In any case, this was a great Pro Tour to watch. Interesting decks came out of it, and pretty good players were exhibited. Feel like I learned a lot.
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sakabato24 World Warrior
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Hey look~! It's Deathrite Shaman being banned from Modern with the new Remand artwork! *Laugh*
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BlinkXPoke Cards and Hugs abound
sakabato24 wrote...
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Hey look~! It's Deathrite Shaman being banned from Modern with the new Remand artwork! *Laugh*


Wait, what? Is that a new promo or a reprint? Either way, that's awesome. I kinda want a set, even if it is a promo. If it's a reprint, then just "Yay!".
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sakabato24 World Warrior
It's the new artwork print from the Duel Deck - Jace Vs. Vraska. I would like to have this as well.
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sakabato24 wrote...
It's the new artwork print from the Duel Deck - Jace Vs. Vraska. I would like to have this as well.


Ohhhh, I see. Well, then I have some incentive to buy this Duel Deck now. So is there a decklist posted for the Duel Decks, then? I kinda wanna see if there's anything else in there.

EDIT: Yup found it. I realized I actually haven't checked DailyMTG for a while.
I'm liking that Future Sight art. It's one of my favorite cards ever, too, ever since I discovered it for my first EDH deck. I might want it for that, too.
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sakabato24 World Warrior
Wondering if I should go the the only GPT in Korea next week...
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BlinkXPoke Cards and Hugs abound
sakabato24 wrote...
Wondering if I should go the the only GPT in Korea next week...


You should do it, it seems like a great opportunity.
What's the format?
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sakabato24 World Warrior
BlinkXPoke wrote...
sakabato24 wrote...
Wondering if I should go the the only GPT in Korea next week...


You should do it, it seems like a great opportunity.
What's the format?


Standard.