Walking the Planes: The Magic the Gathering Club

So, i dont know how many people play MTG, but its a kind of a big part of my life, and i wanted to create a place where people from Fakku could get togather and talk about the game, and our experiances playing.

Please post decks you're woking on/ have built, and if you want, a Skype adress where people can play magic with you over the computer. (sounds weird, but i do it all the time.)

Here's mine: Holo_of_Yoistu


EDIT 01: My Modern Deck!

4x Flooded Strand
1x Ghost Quarter
2x Glacial Fortress
4x Hallowed Fountain
5x Island
2x Mutavault
3x Plains
2x Tectonic Edge
Instant (16)
2x Cryptic Command
1x Dismember
4x Mana Leak
4x Path to Exile
2x Remand
2x Spell Snare
1x Sphinx's Revelation
Sorcery (1)
1x Supreme Verdict
Creature (15)
1x Baneslayer Angel
2x Blade Splicer
2x Kitchen Finks
4x Restoration Angel
4x Snapcaster Mage
2x Vendilion Clique
Artifact (2)
1x Batterskull
1x Sword of Fire and Ice

*irrelevant post* Cool guy with awesome waifu taste, we should talk more @Holoofyoistu .

digin ur nekopara sig :)

Thanks man :3 I wanted it as a avatar but not enough for size and I'll be adding 2 waifus and a husbando in a bit whenever I can get a sign made for them.

off topic, u play magic?

Nah man that's totally on topic XD I don't, only played yugioh awhile ago and it seemed interesting at least.

aww make me so sad. You should learn, its now my task to convert you :D

ahaha yes, convert me to playing magic and League I encourage you man :) , though no isn't the best time for me since i'm going through a lot of feelings and things atm. You should do that later though :)

Hm. Used to. Was even part of the forum over at Anycraze for awhiles.

Stopped playing around the Kamigawa era, though- my circle of friends was shrinking due to the various life factors of life.

you should pick it up again (wink wink nudge nudge) financially speaking, right now everything is, or is about to be much cheeper than before

used to play, still have my cards, had one deck for every color. Although I did branch out and try and black and white deck once.

I'm in.
So in.

Shall talk more after work.

For now, I shall post my current Modern deck: Jeskai Ascendancy Combo.
It's still in improving stages. Ever since Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise got banned, I've yet to determine how best to fix it up. ESPECIALLY since Abzan is top-tier, this deck is nearly unplayable against them.



I'm considering trying out Wind Zendikon as the alternate combo creature instead of Conclave. It's much more fragile, but lets you use more kinds of mana while you combo, instead of just being locked into blue.

Sideboard is incomplete, but for now, I'm trying a Gifts Ungiven package. It lets you grind out slower matches better, or sometimes offer free wins against specific decks. It's also why I randomly have Island and Snow-Covered Island as opposed to 2 Islands. If I really need to, it lets me get both of those.



sakabato actually had an interesting SB plan of transforming into a Geist of Saint Traft and Young Pyromancer control deck, which I thought could be quite reasonable, too. All the cards that work with Ascendancy also work with Pyro, and Geist is simply a very fast clock.
And now, with Monastery Mentor out, that transformative plan might be even better, for the same reason as Pyromancer. It's probably better than Geist in that respect. It's something I'm gonna try eventually; on paper, it's a sweet idea. They might board out a chunk of removal and now you got all sorts of creatures lined up for them.

There is a thread in the Figures, Mechas, and Toys section you know right? Blink you should know by now. :\ No-one has bumped that thread in a while.

Anywho, slowly building Jeskai Delver for Legacy, but still have Dredge as a back up deck. For modern, been playing Twin with Main Board Blood Moon, because I like the list that Blink put up earlier, in said thread.

This deck is really strong right now, its smart to build it while the peices are cheep.
Two or three things
1.) The gifts package in board is good, but with the current meta, neither Norn or Iona are really viable for the delivery, right now you dont want a threat that can shut them down like Norn, you want a big mother fucker thats going to run them over and kill them, think baneslayer.
2.) This deck loves mana leaks main board, and i would put them over remand most times, which brings me to my last comment
3.) Between Telling time and anticipation, telling time is better if your running remands, but if you want to run the leaks in place, or in some kind of combanation of them, the anticipation is better, since it lets you scoop both card.

Also, are you planning on going to any GPs? just curious.

I play casual MTG. I got a life gain deck that will probably never win me games for standard, I got a mono white tiny winnies modern deck (hasn't won a game yet), a mono green infect modern deck (50/50 to Tron, but loses to everything else), and a Omnath of big stompy stuff commander deck (currenly loses to everything due to people just ganging up on it). Currently trying to build a mono red Ashling the Pilgrim deck for Tiny Leaders and a mono red Rakka Mar deck for Commander (both of which will also fail horribly).

I may play a lot of magic, but I am no where near a professional level, so GPs are out of my league.

if you want to do go to GPs, go here and net deck one of the cheep standard decks they got. Thats what i usually do for standard, since modern is more my deal, but the group of people i play with love standard. I just built one of the top teir decks there that i could afford, it was like 200 bucks, and now i just wreck face with my buddies.

What variation of twin you running, Im almost done with Humble Twin, but i know a lot of people prefer the clique approch

I know there is, lol. I was the one who made it.

Ahh, so you got on that Splinter Moon deck, nice, lol. Yeah, I've been loving it online, and have been meaning to build it RL.



I have to disagree with that. I do think it's a powerful deck, but I don't like it against Abzan, of which there is a lot of. Any deck with lots of hand disruption is very annoying for me to deal with.

Also, to address your 3 points:
1) I agree that the meta is not necessarily suited for this particular Gifts package, though it can be easily changed to accommodate the right cards. Besides, I can always just have various pother sideboard cards to find with Gifts. I don't particularly like Baneslayer specifically, but a big life-gaining creature does sound like a good one.
I, personally, am probably gonna use the Token transformative package now, I think. The one where I board in a pile of Monastery Mentors and Young Pyromancers. It's such a big juke that still works decently well with the deck, and lets me take out my combo, that I think it's a really good idea. Also, it simplifies sideboarding lol. All I have to now think about is "Transform, or no..."

2) I'll be honest: I HATE the card Mana Leak. I hate that it falls off so fast, I hate that it doesn't really get much extra value.
Meanwhile, I LOVE the card Remand. I play 4 in most lists I play, and even in this deck, it's there because it's a very good tempo play. Halt their spell for a while, and dig deeper. It's possible for the card to help combo off, too, since you remand a spell you cast and get to cast it again. I'm never gonna come off of Remand, lolol.

3)I think Anticipate is the better card in general, but I like Telling Time a bit more in this deck, but I still am testing it. There's a lot of times I wish I had Telling Time since I actually see many more spells than lands. However, Anticipate is best in the below-average case scenarios where you see too many lands, so you get to push them to the bottom. For now, I'm going with Anticipate.


I may go to another GP one of these days. I've been busy with school, but the next time I can catch a break, I'll likely go to one. I went to GP San Jose, and it was an absolutely awesome experience.



He's probably running a list similar to what I posted earlier in my M:tG thread. It's a more controlling UR Twin list with less combo pieces, more control cards, like Clique and various counterspells, and many more basics to support maindeck Blood Moons.
I'm a huge fan of ANY deck with maindeck Blood Moon, because it wrecks essentially EVERY tier 1 and tier 2 Modern deck. People are waaaaaaay too greedy with their mana bases.
Here's the list I posted: https://www.fakku.net/forums/figures-mecha-and-toys/magic-the-gathering/page/94#4409121

When I build Twin, though, I'm probably gonna still go with a more typical list, leaving the Blood Moons side, and playing utility lands. It's still UR, so I still have plenty of basics when I bring in my Blood Moons to wreck people with.
I haven't locked in on that decision, though. I love maindeck Blood Moons so much. For a long time, I was a Blue Moon player (Mono-U control splashing Blood Moon), but when I finally saw a Splinter Twin list with main deck Blood Moon, I had to play it.

I, respectfully, disagree with you about mana leak vs remand. This deck wants to kill you turn three or four maybe even sooner. That being said, after reconsidering, yes, remand, in this deck is better than leak, because you dotn care if they keep the peices that interupt your combo if your just gonna kill them that turn, but that being said, i feel that mana leak is over all a stronger card. Look at it this way, in most decks that want to run a playset of remands vs a playset of mana leaks, ie any control deck, twin, some storm decks, etc- those decks are trying to stablaize, and by the time mana leak falls off, if you arnt able to cryptic, verdict, or do somthing that will control the board state, you've probably already lost the game. Also, what do those decks really need to fear? Hyper agro, affinity, infect, red-deck-wins. In those match ups, they will almost never be albe to pay the extra 3, meaning, particulary against infect, you've bought at least a turn. If you turn two mana leak a burn decks Eidalon, and can throw a a blade splice or a kitchen finks in front of the guide or hte swiftspear,they usually wont have enough burn to go to the dome to end you. You dont wnat to trade remand for a spell that they can jsut cast again

All you need is time, and Remand buys it AND digs you to the premium stuff or the game-enders. In that respect, Remand I feel is better in that position. And when we get to the late game? Sure, there's Cryptics and Verdicts and what not, and if we have those, yeah, the game is basically locked up.
But, what if we keep topdecking more two-mana counters? Mana Leaks are garbage, but at least Remand cycles, or at least has other applications, like using them to counter our own spells to nerf their Remands and Cryptics.
The tempo you get from Remand always feels relevant. It doesn't matter to me that they get the spell back, you get a card, too. Most cards that get Remanded don't usually get cast again in that turn. You've bought a whole turn of not needing to deal with it. And in the case that they are able to cast it in the same turn, Mana Leak likely would have been COMPLETELY dead, because they probably would have just paid 3, whereas Remand at least drew you a card. If you're in that late-game scenario, then who knows, maybe that card you draw is the Cryptic you wanted instead of the two-mana counter, and you would've only gotten it if you played Remand, and you should be able to cast it, because, again, we're assuming we've made it to the late-game.

Your point about Remand being bad against Affinity and Burn is correct, but I still like it better over Mana Leak against Infect, and I board out most of my counters anyways against aggro, so I think it's a moot point.