General Decks that have 3-0'd your cube
- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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Oh boy, what don't they do? Well, I play a ton of sacrifice and threaten effects, and both Sarkhans are nuts. The last time I played with Sarkhan the Mad he spent all draft turning little dorks into 5/5 dragons. In my cube it's not uncommon to see either Sarkhan involved in a "steal your creature, sacrifice it for huge value" type of play.
Ive never gotten a chance to try Sarkhan the Mad. Vol was amazing for me in the deck I posted earlier. I never got to use the threaten affect but pumping my team and giving a guy haste is just awesome. Heres how one game went.
T1 - Savannah Lions, T2 - Attack(18)/Play Stromblood Berserker, T3 - Attack(13)/Play Blade Splicer, Turn 4 - Play Sarkhan/Attack for lethal.
My opponent was too busy durdeling around.
I can't wait to play a game with him and Gargadon
T1 - Savannah Lions, T2 - Attack(18)/Play Stromblood Berserker, T3 - Attack(13)/Play Blade Splicer, Turn 4 - Play Sarkhan/Attack for lethal.
My opponent was too busy durdeling around.
I can't wait to play a game with him and Gargadon
I can't wait to play a game with him and Gargadon
Yeah, these types of combinations are a lot of fun.
My last game at the Modern Masters sealed last night, he had Sarkhan Vol out, and two goblins. I had Dreamspoiler Witchers, and when I played dragged down was able to kill both tokens. Yay me!
Then he cast Glacial Ray, Empty the Warrens for six goblins, Vol'ed them into 2/2 hasters, won the match. Haste is such an underrated ability...
Then he cast Glacial Ray, Empty the Warrens for six goblins, Vol'ed them into 2/2 hasters, won the match. Haste is such an underrated ability...
Chris Taylor
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This was a lot of fun to play. If I wouldve had some more 1 drops I wouldve probably kept Armada in the side. Overall though it was the quickest most aggressive deck for the night and beat out 2 UB Control decks and one UG Midrange.
What program is that from Sterling?
Interesting, I don't think I've ever seen people arrange their decks by card type. I can't tell what some of the cards are in the picture, but it looks like fun!
The convention I've seen is to sort by converted mana cost, but it's not so important. I can't tell what some of the creatures in the UWR deck are.
Chris Taylor
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Usually I do Creature/Noncreature, then by curve (Assuming I'm not lazy)
The creatures from the top down in UWR: Azorius Guildmage, Wind Drake, Boros Reckoner, Mercurial Chemister, Ascended Lawmage, Minister of Impediments, Boros Guildmage, Gelectrode, Frostburn Weird, Viashino Firstblade, Fluxcharger, Giant Solifuge.
This was actually my deck. My mentality going into packs two and three were to try to pick up Gelectrode, Fluxcharger, Wee Dragonauts, and Nivix Cyclops to run something like Izzet Blitz. Unfortunately, the guy to my right was also in UWR, so I missed both Dragonauts and Cyclops. I ended up having a much more solid list than him in general however.
As usual, I stunk up the joint, but my two teammates did quite a number on our opponents.
Cruel Ultimatums cast: 3
Number of one-landers kept with only Halimar Depths, that won easily: 2
Grixis Control
| Creatures (8) 1 Dungeon Geists 1 Epochrasite 1 Falkenrath Aristocrat 1 Murderous Redcap 1 Olivia Voldaren 1 Shadowmage Infiltrator 1 Thundermaw Hellkite 1 Vendilion Clique Spells (12) 1 Compulsive Research 1 Condescend 1 Cruel Ultimatum 1 Cryptic Command 1 Duress 1 Into the Roil 1 Remand 2 Rune Snag 1 Threads of Disloyalty 1 Thoughtseize 1 Ultimate Price Artifacts (3) 1 Mind Stone 1 Prismatic Lens 1 Wayfarer's Bauble | Lands (17) 1 Blood Crypt 1 Cascade Bluffs 1 Creeping Tar Pit 1 Desolate Lighthouse 1 Faerie Conclave 1 Polluted Delta 1 Shivan Reef 1 Steam Vents 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 1 Wooded Foothills 4 Island 1 Mountain 2 Swamp | Sideboard (3) 1 Liliana's Specter 1 Spell Pierce 1 Stone Rain |
Simic Hexproof (kinda)
| Creatures (13) 1 Arbor Elf 1 Delver of Secrets 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest 1 Frost Titan 1 Gyre Sage 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner 1 Looter il-Kor 1 Noble Hierarch 1 Ohran Viper 1 Pelakka Wurm 1 Simic Sky Swallower 1 Thrun, the Last Troll 1 Troll Ascetic Planeswalkers (2) 1 Garruk Wildspeaker 1 Jace, Architect of Thought Spells (10) 1 Ancestral Vision 1 Bribery 1 Life from the Loam 1 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss 1 Overrun 1 Plow Under 1 Ponder 1 Preordain 1 Revenge of the Hunted 1 Thirst for Knowledge | Lands (15) 1 Halimar Depths 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Mystifying Maze 1 Shelldock Isle 1 Yavimaya Coast 5 Forest 5 Island | Sideboard (1) 1 Oblivion Stone |
Halimar Depths is one hell of a land.
CML
Contributor
^^^ in legacy there is a thing called being "brainstorm-locked" and it is very bad
Teach me the ways of knowing the contents of the top of your library.
CML
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once upon a time there was a blind dude who played L5R in these parts (according to legend) by the name of jamie tachiyama. as he was sightless, when his foes brought foiled-out decks his was brailled-out. quickly he and his assistant compiled a ludicrous record, perhaps with enough cash prizes to constitute not just beer money but money for other kinds of fun teenage things. alas, it all came to an end when jamie's assistant looked away for a minute, and a judge caught him in the act of slipping a number of cards from his library (or whatever they call it in that game) into a pouch and drawing from that pouch an equal amount. (jamie still plays mtg -- he's at nearly every big event in seattle and environs -- and i dunno if his integrity has ever been impugned after that. the details of the story have been submerged by time, and i'd be worried that someone would find this post if riptidelab had a braille thing going on.)
really, though, usually i'll pitch one-landers
really, though, usually i'll pitch one-landers
This is how it went.
Bryan: Hmmmm. [Shows me one-lander with Halimar Depths and a bunch of four & five drops] Is this ok?
Me: THROW THAT BACK
Bryan: (Thinking) Ok. Keep.
Bryan: Hmmmm. [Shows me one-lander with Halimar Depths and a bunch of four & five drops] Is this ok?
Me: THROW THAT BACK
Bryan: (Thinking) Ok. Keep.
I'm liking the new background color on the decklists.