Chris Taylor
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CML
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yes for green devotion stuff (Kalonian Tusker and Predator Ooze) and the 4 accumulated knowledges, no on vamps, inconclusive on goblins, zur, and artifacts but leaning towards "nah" for the latter two. at least now i get a bunch of black slots and can use what i freed up in the other colors on even-worse cards from this terrible new set!!
CML, your optimism warms the cockles of my heart.
CML
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PLUS
Bonehoard
Hedron Crab
Bonfire of the Damned
Dismember
Living Death
Chainer's Edict
Coffin Queen
Diregraf Ghoul
Oona's Prowler
Stinkweed Imp
Makeshift Mannequin
Throat Slitter
Raven's Crime
Seal of Fire
Gore-House Chainwalker
Champion of the Parish
Gideon Jura
Master of the Wild Hunt
MINUS
Blade of the Bloodchief
Trading Post
Cloudthresher
Earthquake
Punishing Fire
Mogg Fanatic
Vampire Nocturnus
Kalastria Highborn
Vampire Lacerator
Blood Artist
Dark Prophecy
Vault Skirge
Bloodline Keeper
Bloodthrone Vampire
Urborg Justice
Gitaxian Probe
Stoneforge Mystic
Honor of the Pure
Bonehoard
Hedron Crab
Bonfire of the Damned
Dismember
Living Death
Chainer's Edict
Coffin Queen
Diregraf Ghoul
Oona's Prowler
Stinkweed Imp
Makeshift Mannequin
Throat Slitter
Raven's Crime
Seal of Fire
Gore-House Chainwalker
Champion of the Parish
Gideon Jura
Master of the Wild Hunt
MINUS
Blade of the Bloodchief
Trading Post
Cloudthresher
Earthquake
Punishing Fire
Mogg Fanatic
Vampire Nocturnus
Kalastria Highborn
Vampire Lacerator
Blood Artist
Dark Prophecy
Vault Skirge
Bloodline Keeper
Bloodthrone Vampire
Urborg Justice
Gitaxian Probe
Stoneforge Mystic
Honor of the Pure
You must let us know how Living Death is. Obviously the card is badonkalicious, but I want to know if it's too powerful. Does it get drafted around (presumably with that Hedron Crab) or does it just get played. Coffin Queen looks like a cool one.
CML
Contributor
they rotate in n out. i think the ur-cube had living death, i've been inspired by last week's deck feat. lots of dredging and fatties
Living Death always sucked here by virtue of not having a shell of a deck that was good enough when you didn't draw Living Death.
Dom Harvey
Contributor
Living Death sure is fun to have in hand when you have Mirror Entity in play.
CML
Contributor
Is Mirror Entity a real card? I stopped running it some months ago and don't even think I have a copy any more. Maybe since I like tokens I could give it another whirl. It's even a cat for Brimaz. Meow
Updates (concrete)
IN
as well as
courser of kruphix
kiora, the crashing wave
ephara, god of the polis
mogis, god of slaughter
satyr firedancer
searing blood
spiteful returned
herald of torment
drown in sorrow
spirit of the labyrinth
brimaz, king of oreskos
OUT
Updates (abstract)
IN
-every BNG card that could possibly work
-a little more devotion support for Ephara
-more reanimator targets
-each rune snag gets you 2 rune snags now (this is likely not worth it for "annoyance creep," even if it is well-developed)
-second birthing pod because i had taken it out on accident, i guess
-small overhaul of the funsies draft, 3 glimmerposts / cloudposts as well as UW temple in for Nimbus Maze (woteva)
-couple of snow cards because basics are snow, you know
OUT
-Goblins and Vamps -- didn't work
-Zur -- didn't work (the sumbitch costs 3 goddamn colors, still a dealbreaker)
HELP ME
-Tezz -- the jury is still out, though with the Cloudposts and Glimmerposts coming in, I give this kind of deck a much higher chance of working. It just needs some nice artifacts. Some ideas I've been throwing around include
sweet. ty guys
Updates (concrete)
IN
as well as
courser of kruphix
kiora, the crashing wave
ephara, god of the polis
mogis, god of slaughter
satyr firedancer
searing blood
spiteful returned
herald of torment
drown in sorrow
spirit of the labyrinth
brimaz, king of oreskos
OUT
Updates (abstract)
IN
-every BNG card that could possibly work
-a little more devotion support for Ephara
-more reanimator targets
-each rune snag gets you 2 rune snags now (this is likely not worth it for "annoyance creep," even if it is well-developed)
-second birthing pod because i had taken it out on accident, i guess
-small overhaul of the funsies draft, 3 glimmerposts / cloudposts as well as UW temple in for Nimbus Maze (woteva)
-couple of snow cards because basics are snow, you know
OUT
-Goblins and Vamps -- didn't work
-Zur -- didn't work (the sumbitch costs 3 goddamn colors, still a dealbreaker)
HELP ME
-Tezz -- the jury is still out, though with the Cloudposts and Glimmerposts coming in, I give this kind of deck a much higher chance of working. It just needs some nice artifacts. Some ideas I've been throwing around include
sweet. ty guys
Whaaaaaaaat Mirror Entity is the best Overrun on legs ever printed. Just the threat of open mana makes it hard for the opponent to come up with profitable blocks. Him and like two random other dorks usually represents a two-shot lethal attack. For as much as I keep trying to graft a tokens/Overrun theme onto green, it's ironic that white can do it so well without even trying.
Mirror entity is amazing. So so so good. You just kill them.
Whenever this happens in my cube, it represents enough joy to entirely justify its inclusion.
CML
Contributor
Wadds, what am I throwing in for the Cloudpost theme? So far I've got
Sundering Titan
Oblivion Stone
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Genesis Wave
maybe i should re-add Devil's Play or somesuch fireball variant
Sundering Titan
Oblivion Stone
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Genesis Wave
maybe i should re-add Devil's Play or somesuch fireball variant
Great thing is you don't really need to design around it that much.
I would say...
Red Sun's Zenith
Sphinx's Rev
Polukranos
Kessig Wolf Run
Karn
Kozilek
Genesis Wave is fine
Chimeric Mass is probably dumb but maybe not
I don't think Devil's Play is great because of Post decks might not be super into getting RRR. Could be wrong, so maybe you should test it.
Maybe a Chromatic Lantern?
I would say...
Red Sun's Zenith
Sphinx's Rev
Polukranos
Kessig Wolf Run
Karn
Kozilek
Genesis Wave is fine
Chimeric Mass is probably dumb but maybe not
I don't think Devil's Play is great because of Post decks might not be super into getting RRR. Could be wrong, so maybe you should test it.
Maybe a Chromatic Lantern?
CML
Contributor
I like the Karn idea. Fuuuuuuuuck I wish I'd gotten some before they were a million dollars. I'll also toss in Lantern
Devil's Play kinda sucks and Red has infinite X spells but I'd consider it over Red Sun's
Sure I don't need to design around it so much? I have shit for artifacts and (though my love of hybrid remains true) a lot of gold shit. I guess Nykthos is a thing, wish Green had stuff to be devoted to
Devil's Play kinda sucks and Red has infinite X spells but I'd consider it over Red Sun's
Sure I don't need to design around it so much? I have shit for artifacts and (though my love of hybrid remains true) a lot of gold shit. I guess Nykthos is a thing, wish Green had stuff to be devoted to
Cloudpost just lets you ramp into whatever. Play Grave Titan a turn early without casting any ramp spells. Red Sun's is one of the pieces that keeps Gravecrawler in check. Redrawing it later in the game is also a bonus.
Post support?
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Maybe, but like... pro white man.
You have polukranos, right?
You have polukranos, right?
The pro-white doesn't matter as much as you think. The game is usually ending by the time he comes down anyway, so all it really does is stick it to Baneslayer and Lingering Souls. Much like Thundermaw does anyway.