Medicine Runner has, like, pseudo-haste against Planeswalkers.
Card/Deck +1/+1 Counters
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FlowerSunRain
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After drafting yesterday I'm thinking about giving this guy a second look, the market for trample can be pretty huge
Any first hand experiences with these guys?
I have enough guys with counters but I could use a few more things to make the counters matter.
I have enough guys with counters but I could use a few more things to make the counters matter.
Chris Taylor
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Any first hand experiences with these guys?
I have enough guys with counters but I could use a few more things to make the counters matter.
I wouldn't really. Trample doesn't even seem worth it, and I'm not sure I'd run hellrider as a grey ogre without haste, and rage forger is well below that bar!
One card I have been having success with:
FlowerSunRain
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I sharpied my rage forger to be tribe agnostic (he puts a +1/+1 counter on another creature you control instead of each other shaman). The card pretty good. Three mana is so much less then four, its not even funny.
I just shoved in the paragon, I'm pretty sure its going to be useless.
I just shoved in the paragon, I'm pretty sure its going to be useless.
Chris Taylor
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Honestly I want more cards like volt charge. I love that card is something you want to be doing in basically every deck, but the synergy of adding a few counters goes from cool to devestating.
Maybe a boomerang with proliferate? Or a doom blade? I can't really think of a green or white card that you would want in EVERY deck, nothing really gets the milage volt charge does
Maybe a boomerang with proliferate? Or a doom blade? I can't really think of a green or white card that you would want in EVERY deck, nothing really gets the milage volt charge does
I held a cube draft this weekend, and I landed a Swans of Bryn Argoll with a Red Sun's Zenith in hand. Then my opponent landed an Ion Storm and I had to kill his Mikaeus, the Lunarch instead of drawing five cards. Ach! Anyway, things weren't looking too bad. That is, until he dropped Strangleroot Geist, Birthing Pod:
Oh boy did I lose that game.
Oh boy did I lose that game.
Chris Taylor
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The swan giveth, the swan taketh away
Onderzeeboot
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I would be interested at instant speed.
CML
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well it's completely unplayable in a leisurely format with a small +1/+1 counter theme and durdly board states so it would probably be a great fit in the etherium astrolabe
onderzeeboot post is classic because every time someone read that card in RGD drafts they would marvel at its not being an instant. you know, like Seance or whatever
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Probably just better:
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Much MUCH better:
Good point! I run both.
Chris Taylor
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Yeah I tried some mono white travel prep custom cards in my last draft (w1, flashback W2), and they were insane.
Both people were in GW anyways, but I wonder if I should just put prep in
Chris Taylor
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Bananas
Dom Harvey
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Okay summaries that list for me then? Not feeling like just digesting a whole cube!
Chris Taylor
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oh good lord!
Is there a single card in that cube that doesn't have to do with counters? (Other than cards like spikeshot elder?)
Chris Taylor
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I wonder if this card would be broken at U
Chris Taylor
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Oh yeah it is an instant.
Okay, so I'm thinking between:
- Volt Charge (Unchanged)
- Steady Progress at U, Sorcery
- Fuel for the Cause at UU1
- Thrummingbird as a 0/0, ETB with a counter
- Tezzeret's Gambit at 2U (I really hate phyrexian mana and night's whisper)
My conception of this deck has kinda always been
-Red/green dudes who naturally have counters
-As many Ajani's as you can get your hands on
-Volt Charge
If we branch out the proliferate from that single spell, I can probably break away from this being just an aggro theme.
Anyone have any cards that aren't necessarily for beating down that work well with proliferate? (Yes literally any walker works well)
I've got these:
Problem is that a few don't really need any help (Midnight Banshee, Incremental Blight), and Serrated Arrows is kinda slow
I probably want a better Serum Tank