Magic the Gathering

I really want to re-create a new RDW after seeing a lot of the new spoilers, especially with the two new goblins that have been recently been shown.

Legion Loyalist especially. It'd already be not bad as just a 1/1 haste for R. All that other cool stuff definitely is making me pick up my monored again, and making room for four of that guy.

That other goblin I'm a bit iffy on, but when your deck's plan is turning your creatures sideways anyways, the drawbacks pretty negligible since now you won't need to run Fervor if you were so inclined.

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Went 2-3 today in a box tournament with my Nivmagus deck. Pretty sweet. Also got to see my favorite deckbuilder at the place tear it up with his Grixis deck. He always has more interesting builds which do very well. I kinda wanna face him with mine, since our plans are slightly different (he's control, I'm midrange).

Gatecrash prelease is imminent, so what guild are you guys going to pick, likely dimir/orzhov (I never do well at these things, so I may as well pick the guilds with stuff I want){

Dimir for sure in the first prerelease event, then Simic or Orzhov for the next ones.

What in Orzhov and Dimir stand out to you that's making you want to play them?

I'm really envious of how people can go to pre-release events. I really wish to go into one. No matter, as long as I get my Promo Fathom Mage I'll be good.

On topic, given the choice, I would really love to go Orzhov. I just like Black/White compared to other colors. I would also like to try Boros, but I think a lot of people would go Boros so I'll likely avoid that guild.

If you guys haven't updated Cocktrice, for those who use it, there's an update for Gatecrash. Get it and start building!

Oh, awesome. Yeah, there are cards I've been dying to try out.

EDIT:

So, midnight prerelease was super fun. I went 1-3 with an Esper deck (since I got bombs in some nice extort cards and Deathpact Angel). Every game I lost, it was due to my mana. My deck was otherwise unbeatable when it developed its mana right.

My friend went Orzhov and had a nice solid deck. Another friend there went Simic (a bunch did since the Fathom Mage promo is so beautiful), and they did pretty well. The best one had the most insane Evolve deck, when it curves out, it just wins turn 4.

I went to a midnight prerelease and another one during the day. Went 1-1-1 with a Simic Deck and 3-2 with a Gruul deck. Kinda got screwed on cards, but it was real fun.

I'm just curious,
If you are given access to every card available, what guild would you build?
Also, what's an Esper deck?

In this set alone, I'd probably build Bant (Blue-White-Green), Esper (White-Blue-Black), or Naya (Green-Red-White), in that order. They seem like the most fun for me. Obviously, 2 colors are more consistent, but some guilds work very well together.

Where Esper (White-Blue-Black) and all those other names come from are the "shards" of the Alara block, which were sets of cards that featured 3 colors.

Meanwhile, today, I chose Simic, but my pool for Simic was quite weak, so I just built an aggresive Orzhov deck which was actually not bad.

Gruul was thought to be one of the more powerful guilds, which it does seem. Boros still seems stronger cus their aggro is almost unbeatable if you're playing one of the slower guilds, but Gruul seems more resilient. Any notable cards in your pool?

So yeah, some pics of what I got at my pre-release just a while ago.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/072dfc234179289
http://www.imagebam.com/image/b2d912234179290
http://www.imagebam.com/image/465bac234179291

Played four matches in the league tourney that happened then (I'm sure everyone here knows how these work). Came out 0-3-1. I'm satisfied, though, since this was technically the first deck I made IRL from scratch (no deck given beforehand).

Went 3-1 at the prerelease I went to, playing b/w/r/u stuff, my b/w pool was really meh, I got some bomby r/w stuff and splashed blue for a couple of playables and a key rune. Did a lot better than I thought I would (my pool was crap honestly), although 2 of my matches WENT TO FREAKING TIME (they were both new, but seriously, you have one card in hand, the same one you've had FOREVER, what new play could you possibly have that you couldn't have done SEVERAL TURNS EARLIER..../rant)

Simic, huh? Did you manage to make a Green-Blue deck? The last prerelease event I went to several hours ago, I chose Simic, but I ended up building a Black-White aggro deck because my pool was quite weak for Blue, and not as many good cards for green, lol.



Lol, could be worse. I saw at least 2 people needing to play four color, too (one of those actually went five, but didn't do so well).

What R/W stuff looked good to you, and what did you splash blue for?

I pulled the Simic guild leader in my promo pack for Simic, that was really the only notable mythic i got. Got like 3 shock lands, probly gonna sell them.

My Gruul deck did good for what it was, but i only pulled 3 cards with bloodrush, and ended up having to splash a good bit of blue into the deck to make it playable. I did win a game by bloodrushing twice and doing 17 damage to a Boros player who was silly enough to tap out all of his creatures.

Haha, that guildleader is actually insane if she enters the battlefield with enough counters on her.

Not the shocklands you needed? Or just don't really have a use for them? Because, even in our casual playgroup, we value lands pretty highly since it's the best fixing we can get, except for the older members, the high school teacher and the uncle, who have beta duals.

You don't need many Bloodrush cards to have a great Gruul deck, theyre more just about the beatdown, with Bloodrush to add more power to it.

And lol, but they're Boros, they kinda have to be the aggro, too.

Probly gonna sell the lands becuase I'm not sure if im actually going to play this set, i usually just go to the prerelease tournaments for each set to try them out. I only have a few friends who play, and i dont really have the time/money to make a competitive deck for FNM.

And i still did pretty good without alot of Bloodrush, i just didnt have that great of cards to put in the deck, most of the rares i got were black, i made a second deck out of them, but i played a few quick games against my buddy who was there and it wasnt working out very well.

Would hold onto the lands honestly, don't know how much your going to get honestly (if to a store, MAYBE 9 a piece) and they are perfectly playable cards

Dat feel when you finally have your playables sorted :) (the small red box of magic I have is worth TONS more then the ps3 it's next to)

Orzhoved people on my third and final prerelease day. Went 2-2, winning my non-Orzhov mirrors. Some friends walked by wondering why my first match took too long, and when they passed by, they understood why. Always getting into boardstalls, each extorting the hell out of each other.

Second match wasn't so long since I was stuck on two lands most of the game on the final game. :/

And, on the note of the new Modern bannings: FUUUUUUUUUUUCK, Seething Song got banned.........
So did Bloodbraid Elf, which upsets my friend since that's one of his favorite cards. He was thinking up Naya and that was a key part of it, too. Apparently, Wizards is weakening Jund and Storm because they're too strong decks; Jund is overwhelming and Storm apparently wins turn 3 consistently enough which Wizards isn't gonna allow.

NO! I was about to finish my Storm Deck too. sadfaic.jpg. I was also looking into trying out Jund too because of Bob and Bloodraid Elf. Oh well...

Anything else that's getting banned besides those cards?