Magic the Gathering

Very interesting. Haven't really played around with infect cards at all, so really don't know about deck composition for infect decks.

Did build one infect deck today though using iMTG via my iPhone. Thoughts on this? :


Also built another deck using iMTG yesterday on a green-artifact indestructible deck. Might need to tweak this one a bit :

As nice as it looks, 30 lands is A LOT. Infect is usually fast, and even control infect's mana curve isn't that high. As you noticed, mine only ran 20 land, and another I have only has 18 since its so low.

That being said, black has the more expensive spells in infect... Only ever played Green, Blue, and Artifact Infect.

Anyways, it's solid to me, though, I don't think those Inkmoth Nexus's are necessary in your deck. In fact, since your deck is multicolor, it may hinder you since it'll only net you colorless mana if you needed mana.

Also noticed it's an oversized deck. 77 cards? Oughta cut it down. Only two reasons I could think of for a deck over 61 cards (I know minimum is 60, but sometimes I have 61) is for a format that requires a larger deck (such as commander), or for a Battle of Wits deck (requiring at least 207 cards).

EDIT: As for your second list, cut out the Infect if that's not the main direction you're going. Infect damage does only poison damage, and no regular damage. Otherwise some of your creatures will be going only for your opponents life total while the others try to poison him. Neither help each other in making the opponent become closer to death.

EDIT2: You could actually go either way with that second one, I think after having a closer look, but it needs to be one or the other. Either Infect or normal damage.

Ah here we go.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1040

Woo Vesuva.

Tried out the M13 online game on XBL. Not too bad, considering that deck building is limited, but still a fun MTG game. Also gave me some good ideas on what to do better in my red/white human deck.

Played it too, finished everything but the challenges. I found Jace's mill deck to be the best one, cus once you unlock the right stuff, it's so eficient... xP Also like using Talrand's deck.

And I was excited when they fixed a problem, now you can tap your mana the way you want to, but then there was only one multicolor deck. OTL Though the challenge decks are multicolor, I guess...

Anyways, what in the game spark those good ideas?

When I first started up playing MTG again, I started with the Red/White Starter from Avacyn Restored. Was a Human creature deck which I liked, and started to build off of that deck. Just added more improvements from that deck to make it more of a Human Soldier deck, which the Mono White deck reminded me of my deck, just without red spells.

Was also playing a online game with that Mono White deck, and successfully countered the Blue mill deck with Oblivion Rings and Pussyfisims Pacifism. That makes me realize that I need more of those instead of Divine Verdict. That and probably adding more Harm's Way and removing the Incinerates for more Lighting Bolts (if I can find them D: ) into the deck.

The red/white deck I have now isn't as fast as I feel like it should be, but with more lower-cost soldiers, it should be a really quick deck.

From what I understand, Kamigawa standard was okay, between the low power of the set, Affinity (for all intents and purposes, Ravager Affinity was banned..also skullclamp) and Jitte (IRL, that type of weapon is the nastiest thing in the world), it isn't well regarded (although thanks to edh, the block gets a lot more attention now), although bare in mind, extended was still the most popular PTQ format (back when it was SEVEN years).

Also the most recent constructed GP was modern ;)

Woo storm winning GP ghent :)

Also, Maze of Ith and Ancient Tomb are in FTV..time to save up for playsets :D

Huh...

And I know, but still, I think at least 5 of the Top 8 decks were Delver decks.

@saka: Ahh, Odric's deck. Yeah, that one's a pain in the neck for the mill deck because it's real fast and can shut down the few permanents in the mill deck that help speed along the sculpting. All those tokens and cheap cheap creatures.

Speaking of Odric, had a soldier deck goin, stopped for now since the cards are too expensive for me to care ATM.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, when a one casting blue common CREATURE card from a relatively low powered (compared to say Zendikar or Scars) set has come to dominate not one, not two but all three of the commonly played constructed formats (Standard, Modern and Legacy), something has gone HORRIBLY WRONG.

Which reminds me, I'm still wondering why Mental Misstep is banned in those formats (cept Standard)... I don't get it. Especially legacy, where there's FoW...
It's the second best thing I can think of to take care of Delver off the top of my head.

the format devolved into U/W stoneblade and No Rug for 2-3 months with a couple of other decks showing up, most previously established archetypes basically died (gobbos, thresh, elves etc) with several decks being made to avoid 1 CMC spells (which legacy is primarily made up of), it made the format almost exclusively blue, and control heavy.

Put it simply, when mono-red goblins is playing mental misstep, there is a problem

As for modern, I'm not sure, the banning seemed random as the format doesn't have quite as many key one drops and would've helped with the several month long dominance of fast combo, with no Daze or FoW, misstep could be used to stop storm combo.

I don't regard delver as a problem, more a design mistake, I play G/W maverick and basically stomp delver decks in the face, in fact, there are plenty of legacy decks that can do so, RUG just so happens to be the most versatile deck in a open field (which a lot of times going into a legacy tourney is the case), and many people prefer options and versatility to linear decks (such as goblins or fast combo)

Ooh, okay... Yeah heard a couple of arguments similar to that, but not as detailed... Yeah, read things like how FoW's the card that "holds Legacy together" or something like that.

But, yeah, banned in modern doesn't make that much sense to me either.

And wow, it does that well, huh? Well, you did say you got second place in a tourney once.

ohai I just started playing this shit last week. Loving it.
I've built 2 decks so far, both using Myr's because robots kick ass.
The first one I call "Zeon's 10 Years", it's focus is sending out as many Myr's as possible, and swarming.
The second is "Sign of Zeta", a lifegain deck also utilizing Myr's.
Both need work but I'm doing pretty well for myself so far.
Sign of Zeta works fucking magic in Twin-Headed Giants games.

Good ol' Myrs. Some very easy combos are available with those guys, especially those infinite mana combos.

And Chinese-Taipei wins the World Magic Cup. Watched day 2 and 3, and yeah. Good players there.
Anyone else follow that? I just did out of boredom but got pretty into it.

And on different subject, compiled a monoblue EDH deck, but I'm trying to decide the commander. Top two choices are Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar or Arcanis the Impotent. Also thought Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir might be a worthy choice.

God dammit whats Ajani doing in league of legends -_-

Being awesome...I guess

Rebuilt my Red/Blue deck. Non-standard anymore since it has Ravnica as well as other sets in there as well. I'll post it up when I get the chance.

Ah, Izzet. Started wanting to build a Delver deck in those colors as well, since it seems it could be the best way to speed it up further.

Also, thought up a Death's Shadow deck, suicidal black-red aggro. I'll post that up as well when it seems right to me.

Do you guys know if pre-orders for Return to Ravnica will go out? I'm trying to check with the store back home from time to time, and I'm pretty sure it goes by location, but, I really want to get a general idea on around what time it will come out.

And, for those who haven't seen the World Magic Cup 2012 Finals