Magic the Gathering

Don't forget Whelming Wave exists... it might turn around more games than you expect by pure virtue of delay.

It's funny, you could run Ashiok and Wealth in the same deck and just... take everything. xD

Aetherspouts is better in many ways. I've tried Whelming Wave in the previous format, and once I had Aetherspouts, it just accomplished so much more.

I... didn't think about Ashiok in a Wealth deck. So evil. "What's yours is mine. What's mine is mine." lolol


Btw, here's the UB deck list I mentioned. I just added in the four Silence the Believers, which, in theory at least, feel awesome, but I'm trying to make room again for one more Dig Through Time and one more Murderous Cut. I underestimated how long my deck stalls out the game for, and how quickly I'm able to fill up my graveyard for Delve.

This is the current list:



The reason I cut the second Murderous Cut in the first place was that I hated drawing it early, but, again, I underestimated how quickly I can actually fill my own graveyard. Hardcasting it is fine, too,if I wanted to cast Dig Through Time or something. The second Dig might be a bit sketchy, but I enjoy casting the card so much. Looking at seven cards and taking the best two feels powerful. Doing it again seems like it'd be absurd, so I really wanna find another slot for it.

I would cut a Font, an Ingenuity and a land: 26 is a fine count, especially with scry lands and fetches in the format. I would definitely run another Ashiok, the fact that it's 5 counts as soon as you drop it is ridiculous! It ticks up FAST, and you can just as soon take one of the exiled creatures after you Spouts. Also would cut 1 Radiant Fountain for maybe another basic land, you're already gaining enough life out of your tapped lands and the other Fountains.

The last bit of advice I would give is to cut some Dissolves and add in maindeck Disdainful Stroke: preventing Stormbreath, Rhino or Hornet Queen from hitting the field is huge, and the use is not that narrow at all because you already have Thoughtseize, Cut and Downfall to deal with Rabble, Knuckleblade, Anafenza, etc.

I'm always wary about cutting lands, especially since I like hitting my land drop every turn in a control deck, even on turn 10.I ran 28 before in this deck, and 27 in a previous UB build back in an older Standard. Any less causes me to be worried. Against another control deck, I'd just lose if I miss a crucial land drop. I'd rather be flooded than screwed.
The Radiant Fountains are better than the duals, since they enter untapped. If I was to cut one, it'd be a Dismal Backwaters.
Also, I've played with 3 Ashioks before, then got smashed in by an aggro deck. It's only good after you stablize, before then, you barely want to draw it.

Font has actually over-performed so far, it lets me hold up mana for imprtant things, and STILL letting me draw afterward. An Ingenuity might be fine, though, since it costs so much.

I'll definitely think about it. I've wanted a two-mana counter in my deck, but I thought having Stroke main might be pushing it. I need to confirm what my meta looks like, (since it's mostly aggro, where itd be dead against, so far at least)) but if there's enough midrange decks, I'll make the switch.

I'll try cutting some number of Ingenuity's. Dig is basically better Ingenuity anyways, only upside is that Ingenuity doesn't need to be Delved

Good man Blinks. Make sure you tell me how it goes in your next FNM. :) I'll do the same... whenever I can actually play FNM... I'm working on Fridays and I'm not back to the base until like 7-8 PM usually. :( I have to rely on Standard events throughout the week, but since I'm off on Monday/Tuesday, those events are usually Modern only... I added a Dig Through Time and 2 Flooded Strands to my Geist deck, so we'll see how that performs. I have high hopes.

Looks like I'm playing Legacy, though!!

EDIT: After playing some matches today I'm SUPER indecisive if I want to keep going with Temur Ascendancy or Temur Superfriends! The idea of blocking/control for days and ticking up Kiora/Nissa/Sarkhan/Chandra is too damn appealing! Nissa is a wallet slayer though...

My deck isn't working out splendidly, but I'll fine tune it for a while until I get enough for the Abzan deck I have a bunch of. I scored my fourth Siege Rhino and a Windswept Heath in draft today, so I'm slowly getting there. Still need a set of Brimaz, though... I hate the deck still, lol, it's way too simple, but at least it seems good. I'll post up the list once I calculate the mana base.

The planeswalkers sound MUCH better. I still have a low opinion of Temur Ascendancy, especially after playing with it in my senpai's deck. We both agreed that it should just be cut. It was underperforming for him, and when I tried it, and drew it, I conceded cus it did nothing for me in that boardstate, I needed to draw a real card to get back into it, which was basically any other nonland spell.

The issue with Ascendancy is that you MUST build around it. It's a beast enchantment with Genesis Hydra, and I'm considering going up to 4 Hydras and hitting Surrak instead of Nylea and cutting Xenagos for more Lightning Strikes, Stormbreaths and Polukranos. Definitely going to need more ways to trample so I'm keeping Terra Stomper and adding a single Sagu Mauler as the 2 6-drops.

These robots though...

Meet you new robot overlords, lol.

I guess in more rampy, controlly, or other late game Temur decks, it's okay. We play a pretty aggresive build.

Yeah, I couldn't resist it anymore... I jumped on the Jeskai Ascendancy combo bandwagon. It was just too sweet to pass up. My background as a Storm player caught back up.

THIS CARD IS UNFAIR AND I LOVE IT.
Still making sure my list is fully functional, but it's already showing consistent results, on the goldfish at least. I'm trying decide whether to play 12 mana guys, or 16.
To note, I'm playing the Standard version, so less good card draw is available.

ALLZ THE JAPNANEZE CARDZ!!1!



So glad that I'm getting all the fetches in Japanese while they are still cheap.

Standard Deck, Sultai Reanimator, is now complete as well, and with a lot of play testing against multiple decks, especially Jeskai Burn and Mardu Control and Mardu Aggro, I think my list is solid enough. It holds up against all of them so far. Dies to fringe decks like UR Ensoul or just super fast aggro decks like RDW, but that's to be expected with this type of deck.

Now just rounding off finishing Dredge for Legacy so I can start competing in the Legacy tournaments they hold here, and I think I'll be set for MtG up here in Hachinohe.

Hachinohe, huh... it's 4 hours away from me on the Shinkansen, with transport fees of like $150. Ugh. ><

I spent a long while setting up my Standard decks (RUG Monsterz and Ur Robots) thinking that there were some events going on today, but I was wrong. :( Looks like I have no choice but to wait until FNM to prove my decks' worth...

DON'T CROSS TO THE DARK SIDE BLINKS D=

THINK ABOUT THE VILLAINOUS WEALTH DECK

THINK ABOUT IT

AAAAHHHHH

THE COMBO... IT'S TOO APPEALING. MY INNER EGGS PLAYER REAWKENED.

I actually did have a funny plan for Villainous Wealth, though. Iwas gonna use an infinite mana combo to just immediately deck my opponent. Maybe use Altar of the Brood if I don't have the combo entirely set yet, since it lets me mill them a bunch when I get a bunch of permanents off of my opponent's deck.

Well to be fair... Ascendancy Combo is super cheap... nothing against building 2+ decks...

I'm sad that not a lot of people discuss Temur Monsters on mtgsalvation though...

Torn between watching the Pro Tour starting tomorrow, and playing in the first Standard event the LGS is hosting. I have my UB deck all ready to go, and my Acendancy deck is close enough to done that I could theoretically borrow the cards I'm missing (I've been playing with proxies). I'll definitely try to complete my Ascendancy deck for Game Day, since that mat is goddamn beautiful.

If I end up watching the Pro Tour, I hope Paul Cheon does well. I like his content on ChannelFireball's website, and it's his first time back on the Pro Tour for a while. It should be fun watching him play.


Here's my Standard lists btw. I don't think my UB has changed much, if at all. I might cut some number of Aetherspouts, though.

UB Durdlefest:



Sideboard:




JesColle (Named such since I used Kantai Collection cards as my proxies)

Jeskai domination is the real deal.

Yuuya Watanabe swept the floor with Jon Finkel to maximize the latter's mana screw... it was so uneven. Similarly, Shaun McLaren's Jeskai list was able to shoot his opponent for like 13 damage in a single turn...

I'll stick to my guns and play Temur though, since all Jeskai is doing is shoot Rabblemasters to like $30 and Mantis to like, over $10... but note to self: the Superfriends version might be too slow... Ascendancy, ramp or tempo are the next experiments.

Played a Standard and Modern tournament at a convention here on base today. Was loads of fun.

Played my Sultai Reanimator and was surprised that I went 3-2 with it. Pain lands suck though xP.

Went 4-1 with UR Twin in Modern and was happy with that as well.

Just good day for MtG and Street Fighter. :) (Played SF after Standard, won the whole SF tournament, then rolled into Modern. My brain is fried xP)

Got a box of JPN Khans. Pulled all 5 fetches, a foil Phoenix, and some decent rares here and there. (Posting pics in the morning)

So many different flavours, rofl xD. Burn, Control, Tokens, Combo... Geez. I was so happy to hear that the Ascendancy combo decks are doing well, and I like the Altar of the Brood tech. I should try it in my deck sometime. My tech, in case I can't just attack with my creatures, is Burning Anger.

Yeah, that's unfortunate. I kinda wanted to see Jon's deck go off. But that happens sometimes.... It's a darn shame it happened on camera.
Speaking of darn shames, it's almost comical how badly UB does on camera, even though people are doing well with it. I was actually a bit surprised that pros thought it was a real deck. Makes me pretty happy~

I had an idea for a sort of Arisocrats-like style of deck with Butcher of the Horde and Grim Haruspex and Bloodsoaked Champion, but I need to find more things I can repeatedly sacrifice, another sac outlet, and creatures with "when this dies" effects.
I also started having more inspiration for that Mysterious Plans deck, so hopefully I can compile a list in time.



How slow is your deck? I'd imagine you wouldn't want the pains at all if the games go long. My friend cut all of his fetches and most of his painlands in his RWU Narset since he expected games to go long. It was also a bit of a meta choice, he has some of the refuge lands in his deck specifically because there's a bunch of aggro players at our shop.
Of course, Reanimator is pretty combo-y, since it sneaks out a guy really fast, they might be fine, unless you truly are concerned about the damage.

Good job in SF and Modern~ What did you lose to in Modern? UR Twin is a pretty versatile deck, it could beat most things.

It's slow. I do agree, but I feel like I need untapped lands, but I have to look at my mana base and see if I can cut out a few more to accommodate more scry lands.

Modern, lost to Mono Black Rack. He had Fuminator Mages main board and first game I got stuck with 2 lands. Game two won with combo on turn 4, and last game it was a very back and forth game, he was dwindling me down, and I was digging hard just for Twin but couldn't find it. After the game I show my opponent what was on top of the deck... and it was Twin. FML.

How early are your first plays? I imagine some amount pf Caryatids and Thoughtseizes. Caryatid obviously you'd want ASAP, but discard spells I feel like they don't need much consideration to cast early, at least, not necessarily on turn one. I don't mind waiting til turn 2 or 3 to thoughtseize.
Maybe it's a curve consideration, too?

Geeez, that sounds pretty annoying. That deck seems so... I don't want to say bad, but inefficient. I don't recall ever losing to one. But bad luck happens sometimes.
How were the other matches?

First plays are usually : Scry Land, Satyr Wayfinder/Taigam's Scheming, Courser.

With as much aggro/burn in the format, you have to play something on every turn and get the graveyard fast to help delve for your Murderous Cuts and make sure you can try to reanimate something big with Whip on Turn 5. After that, you pretty much try to stabilize with Courser, and slowly slow-roll your opponent with fatties.

Modern match-ups were, Affinity, Affinity, RDW, Jeskai Ascendency (THANK GOD FOR MAIN DECK SWAN SONGS), Black Rack, and Jeskai Control.

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