Magic the Gathering

Question about Lotus Petal,
Can I put a land and Lotus Petal at the same turn? Also, can I put 4 Lotus Petal in one turn?

It's not a land, so yes. It's why it's so wonderful. It's an artifact that costs 0, so you're still casting it, it can be countered or responded to and whatnot.
It's like Moxes, which are banned; they're 0-cost artifacts that produce mana. At least Lotus petal has to be sacrificed, but even then it's still banned in some formats.

Which reminds me... Nicol Bolas is such a cheater... He's the last boss in the Duels of the Planeswalkers video game, and his mana base is mostly moxes... So he has tons of mana available and just continually creul ultimatum's you and casting Titans and whatnot while you're stuck at 3-4 lands... I've only ever beat him with the mill deck in that game because it also has the most control elements. And his deck's fairly slow otherwise, as well.

Yeah, black lotus is a card they've yet to make a playable, yet not completely broken variant of, of the ones I know of, Petal, Lions Eye Diamond and Gilded Lotus, two of them have been banned, both of which are still easy to exploit. Moxen they've nailed down, turns out, it's easier than you think to make mana rocks balanced and playable

Immensely dislike how they set up DoTP, when games turn into hoping your opponent draws nothing but lands (or none at all), that isn't fun.

Lol, right I needed some Mox Opals, surprised I didn't get one in the two Scars boxes I got.

And one thing I really don't like it the limited customization. Sure, you do have some good control of what's in your deck, but my biggest problem is you can't adjust the land count. All the decks have a land count of 25 which is awkward, espicially my variant of the mill deck which I've made much cheaper, mana-wise.

So theoretically, it would be better for me to remove all my Polluted Delta and replace it with Lotus Petal?

I like fetchlands better... The delta's great because it thins your deck of lands, makes you less likely to draw them. You don't want to be topdecking lands later in the game, once your mana base is all set.

Also, it makes your Brainstorms A LOT better. Draw three, put the stuff you don't need back on top, then shuffle it away so you reduce your odds of drawing them again. Thus, you basically drew three cards. The things you lost by shuffling are things that shouldn't be worth anything in the current situation you'd be in.

So more like, you might be better off taking out some other lands. Not the Delta. The Delta is good.

EDIT: Also remember that the Delta will get any Swamp or Island, so you can get things like Underground Sea or Watery Grave, which are both.It doesn't have to be basic.

Oh my gosh! Why did no one tell me that when I was playing? I guess you are right then.

Just to confirm, I can play a land then activate Lotus Petal to get a land again right? Because I think I'll just use this at my Exalted deck.

Lotus Petal doesn't get you a land. It just produces mana by sacrificing it. But it's great because, yes, you can play it (or multiple if you so desire) in addition to your land, because it's not a land, it's a 0-cost artifact. You'll be temporarily ahead in mana, which sometimes brings you to a point where your opponents can't really get into the game, before the game ever really takes off.

Ahh.... Now that makes much more sense... Guess I'm not using it anymore hahahaha

Awww, but mana accel is so nice. =(

Meanwhile, I must decide whether to spend the next 100 or so dollars I have on either getting Bonfires for my RDW(been proxing them), or finishing off one of my Cardfight Vanguard decks, another card game I'm into. Ahh, maybe I oughta just buy a box of AVR... If I pull a Bonfire, that will have paid off about half of the box already.

Yes, you may pull Bonfire, but I highly doubt you'll pull four. I really think buying singles is better. Still, it's just a gamble. If you buy a box, chances are you'll get more.

When I was playing today at my comic shop, the shop keeper bought a booster box of RtR for himself. I'll just say he didn't get that much. But when my friend bought a box, she got 3 Jaces and one of them was a foil.

Today too, I bought a single booster pack and when I showed my friend what I got, everyone walked away from their tables and stopped talking.

I got 1 Vraska, the Unseen foil hahahaha

EDIT:
Actually, just go with the proxy,
In the shop where I play, proxies are fine except during tournaments. Proxies actually really help in deciding whether to get a card or no. We also have a good printer for proxies but the cards only stays inside the shop.

I will be taking it to tournaments, so I'll need the real thing. And that chances of getting four of any rare is ridiculously slim, especially Mythic Rares, where one only appears in about every 8 packs.

Besides, I want more than just Bonfire out of it, it just so happens my only good Standard deck right now needs Bonfire. If I do decide on a box, I'll just trade my reject rares for Bonfire.

Vraska's a funny card. Totally deters player from wanting to attack it with that first ability, but you'll have to to avoid the ultimate which is active in 3 turns uninterrupted. Also it's nice that the second ability is a maelstrom pulse, without the multiple target clause.

Then buy a box, I love the Avacyn set, they have really good art. It's actually funny, because of this set, I took one angel of everything from my cousin to place in my binder for display.

Actually, for me, what I noticed from Vraska, is that she's just a Captain Obvious?
Yes, her 2nd ability is awesome, but her final ability is something that won't really save you if your losing. If you're winning, chances are it doesn't matter because by the time you activate her final ability, you should have won the game. Populating her tokens doesn't also help that much because of the mana cost. That's just my noobish opinion.
Unlike the other Planeswalkers that I see, you activate their final ability and it's pretty much over.

Planeswalkers aren't really meant to be used for their Ultimate (most expensive ability) anyways, though, unless they can reach it very fast like Vraska, like Karn, like Bolas. What all three of these have in common is that they're among the more expensive Walkers, too (in terms of mana cost).

Also, it is still pretty devastating, even if you're winning. They will have to take out the tokens somehow, otherwise they risk immediately losing. There are plenty of ways to give a form of evasion. Return to Ravnica itself has Rogue's passage, which makes a creature unblockable, and Golgari Decoy, a creature that forces all your opponents creatures to block only him. Also, the assassin's ignore any life buffer your opponent may have created. Sometimes, a deck will use spells that allow them to gain life, thus making you need to grind out the game longer. The assassin's ignore all that; prick em and they die.

Also, Populate wasn't Golgari's thing; it was Selesnya's. But that's a great idea. If you have more tokens, it's more that they'll need to deal with. If you had 4 Assassin tokens and they had three creatures on your attack, they need to answer that fourth one or its over, even if they had a quadrillion life.

Well still need to decide, because there's an upcoming tournament for a different card game and I need to complete one of my decks for that soon. The Bonfire's can wait a litle while.

Ahh, bad draft for my first RtR draft last FNM. I'm pretty good at sealed if I can say so myself, at least compared to the other players at the shop; I'm only decent at draft. Drafted a Golgari deck since my first pack, but the deck ended up having a top-heavy curve and little removal since I didn't get any decent ones. At least, in my prize pack, I got a foil Steam Vents, yay. Cashed that in along with some other stuff for one of the Bonfires I needed.

And I was suggested again for me new standard deck to splash green for better hate in my sideboard as well as for Kessig Wolf-Run. I'll post a revised list after looking up some stuff to go with these suggestions.

Just got this in today :



Got to also test out and modify the decks as well as play them at our weekly gathering games. Really liked Azorious' Detain ability. Really annoyed people with that. Also had a turn 4 win with Rakdos' unleash deck that I've modified. So freakin' quick.

Trying to make a Selesnya/Knight Deck for Extended. What do you guys think?

Deck - 60 Cards

Creatures - 19
2x Hero of Bladhold
3x Wayfaring Temple
2x Captain of The Watch
3x Knight Exemplar
3x Attended Knight
3x Azorius Arrester
3x Gatecreeper Vine

Spells - 19
4x Parallel Lives
1x Growing Ranks
3x Selesnya Charm
4x Cloudshift
3x Sundering Growth
2x Rootborn Defenses
2x Knightly Valor

Lands - 22
4x Selesnya Guildgate
2x Sunpetal Grove
6x Forests
10x Plains

I kinda don't like the Gatecreeper Vine because it just feels like it should ramp... It doesn't, it just gets added to your hand.
Everything else looks good enough, though I'll want to relook over some of it since I don't remember exactly what everything does.

Anyways, fricken nice haul, saka, I'd be jealous, but I got plenty out of Ravnica already from prereleases and the box I opened myself. Let us know what good stuff you pull.

Not going to lie, extended is pretty much dead, good luck finding a game

He apparently got third in an extended tourney recently, so I imagine where he's at, they hold some.

I've been proven wrong than



Isn't wolf run dead due to no rampant growth/Prime time?

if your going to make a knight deck for extended, pick up Student of Warfare, Brave the elements and honor of the pure. Student is a sick one drop, swinging 3 turn 2 (with first strike), brave invalidates opposing removal and allows you to alpha strike with no worry. Mirran Crusader and accorder paladin are pretty nice as well.