Search results

Wall of Omens essentially kills up to 3/Xs. Until you invest more, Thraben Inspector only kills X/1s. I would argue that on average Wall of Omens "kills" a creature more often. If the thing matters enough that blanking it is not the same as killing it, they could usually just not swing with it...

Is it that much better than Elvish Visionary? (Which I'm guessing people don't play that much of?) Wall of Omens blocks very well though. This blocks....sometimes good.

Yea yea I know lol. I just figured I'd outline it since people were asking about the pure combo version.

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/30183_Making-Sacrifices-In-Standard.html Let's do some ROUGH math here.... To deal 20 damage you need: 1 Aristocrat, 2-4 Artists, and 5-10 pieces of Fodder (depending on how many artists you have in play). Theoretically, you should minimize the sum of...

* sigh * I spent 2+ hours typing up a response ...and my browser froze :| sorry Suicufnoc, sigh

How has Olivia, Mobilized for War been for people?

Also, I realize that deck was not quite the card advantage green deck you were looking for but * shrug * :p

Last night I got a chance to do a heads up "pancake draft" with my roommate. Before even inviting him to draft, I had full intentions of forcing a Zendikar Resurgent deck at my next draft (be it a 2 man with my roommate which I do semi regularly, or a full 8 man) for the benefit of the forums...

Woah, woah. You should try it before hopping on the "durdly" verdict. If your measure of durdlyness is that it doesn't kill them on the spot like Craterhoof Behemoth, then sure I agree. And I guess if casting 3-4 medium sized creatures the next turn is durdly...then I guess you can call it that...

We have not found it too slow, even played outside of a pure ramp strategy. Green decks with a bunch of creatures tend to be good at dragging the game out. We have not found it to be really win more or durdle more. It plays better than it reads...like a Sphinx's Revelation style finisher... it...

Yes, yes, yes! Genesis is exactly the card I want here. When I was talking to jahpan about how Nostalgic Dreams (in the single card spotlight thread) doesn't do enough in the average case, Genesis is the exactly the card I was thinking of as a more generically playable graveyard reward. It's...

Yup, yup. We're on the page now. I agree with all that. :)

Ahhhh booo... I forgot to include a power level caveat there. Yes, I agree... It gets better in slower cubes. But what you are describing to me are still best case scenarios. What about the average case? The close games where you're tight on resources? When you need all your lands and you need...

Geistblast: This just showed up in a heads up draft with my roommate. He had a UR Control Deck vs my GR Big Stompy Deck (a bunch of ramp at the small end, leading into Hammer of Purphoros / Surrak, the Hunt Caller and then other fattys). It was useful for killing my small utility guys (Birds of...

Geistblast: ...This hadn't previously been on my radar, but I'm going to try it over Desperate Ravings ...with the caveat that I run a deep 9 card "guild" section (not including fixing lands) and that my creature sizing might be smaller than average. But even for the average cube, I think 3 mana...

Oh hi there :eek: ...speaking of 3 years ago.... it's been about that long since I last posted. Looks like you inadvertently necro'd a user along with the thread. I still run Pyrokinesis happily. A vast majority of the time, it at least meets one of the two min cases of (A) going even as a 2...

Is Tymaret, the Murder King definitively better than Lyzolda, the Blood Witch? Being able to hit creatures also is insane. Tymaret, the Murder King just seems more aggressive to Lyzolda, the Blood Witch's control? It's not even a straight forward aggression. It's more of a slow grindy threat, at...

I don't think Huntmaster of the Fells would flip because Shelldock Isle still casts the spell, as opposed to AEther Vial, which puts it into play.

Yea I agree it's not all that deep. I guess I should note that for me and my cube, the vampire tribal idea is not as much a "vampire deck" as much as it is a thing you can incidentally get value out of while drafting a black aggro or black sacrifice deck. The only real pushes towards it are...

What do you mean? It definitely should please you in all those ways. Well yes, it isn't great on it's own (neither is Opposition without creatures :P) but it's definitely the type of card that would push you towards actually drafting vampires right? Especially if sac outlets are a thing in...