Onderzeeboot
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This depends on what you measure. If you want to plot the turn in which they play their main win conditions, the ramp/control circle is going to overlap with midrange.
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Overlap in card demand. This is all about draft environments, archetypes and drafting dynamics.
Onderzeeboot
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Cool, sounds like something I want to read 
jesus this came out huge
I have exams to study for.
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Article, about teaching kids to play magic, "Would you like to be sprayed with my Poop Hose?"
oh man infographics I should probably devote some attention to these things before i address them.
What does UG control look like guys? Flash creatures + counter spells + a splash colour?
Is generating insurmountable advantage on board with tokens / walkers etc controlling?
I mean, leme tell ya, its real hard to win when your opponent has got garruk 5 and tamiyo staring down at ya.
What does UG control look like guys? Flash creatures + counter spells + a splash colour?
Is generating insurmountable advantage on board with tokens / walkers etc controlling?
I mean, leme tell ya, its real hard to win when your opponent has got garruk 5 and tamiyo staring down at ya.
Stupid Living End, causing Fulminator Mage to be 13 tickets.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
This sounds fair with Goblin Bombardment!
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
Does it want a control shell? B, you take 2, B, you take 2, B, you take 2.
This wasn't a serious suggestion though. BS thread for a reason.
This wasn't a serious suggestion though. BS thread for a reason.
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
Yeah, in general its a pretty slow and clunky spell, that requires a fair amount of setup to really work.
In a controlish build, the game should go long enough for you to draw into it, and than you can convert flashback spells to turn your own card advantage mechanisms into a win con. That obviously requires a heavy graveyard commitment to be viable though.
In a controlish build, the game should go long enough for you to draw into it, and than you can convert flashback spells to turn your own card advantage mechanisms into a win con. That obviously requires a heavy graveyard commitment to be viable though.
I played a deck in standard once which killed with Gravecrawler/Rooftop Storm/Burning Vengeance/Sac Outlet.
Uh, I that would be its slightly older, smarter brother Jund doing that. Fulminator Mage got really popular in Jund sideboards in the summer when Bloom and Tron were everywhere in Modern. It's since calmed down a little bit (the Amulet hype-train sorta crashed), but still sees some play. Also, Jund players discovered that:
is disgusting against decks trying to develop any sort of mana (Grixis, Tron, Amulet, UWr, RUG Twin, Abzan).
Just an update on my MTGO "would be nice to have but haven't purchased yet" list:
The planeswalkers would be part of some poly slot. Feel free to make arguments for or against. Prices, for the curious: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Li9IvhqGz2y9WdQmS7n_E-g863Dctw4-yWdBWXCxJrI/edit#gid=0
The planeswalkers would be part of some poly slot. Feel free to make arguments for or against. Prices, for the curious: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Li9IvhqGz2y9WdQmS7n_E-g863Dctw4-yWdBWXCxJrI/edit#gid=0
Dom Harvey
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can probably lend a Cavern towards this
I thought this article was pretty interesting:
http://www.channelfireball.com/home/15-corner-case-interactions-in-standard/
Makes me more interested to run Abzan Ascendancy
http://www.channelfireball.com/home/15-corner-case-interactions-in-standard/
Makes me more interested to run Abzan Ascendancy
Frank Karsten did a similar article for Modern: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/frank-analysis-tips-and-tricks-for-modern/
He's really good at highlighting niche situations that are pretty cool. Bouncing a mountain with Valakut triggers on the stack from Scapeshift is my favourite.
Hey guys, you should draft my cube on saturday
I purchased a copy of this card thinking it cost
, and could be a suitable replacement for Glorious Anthem
Onderzeeboot
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I purchased a copy of this card thinking it cost
Oh noez! That must have cost a fortune!
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I purchased a copy of this card thinking it cost
That is how I read the card the first time I saw it too. And at 2W, it would have been sweet. But 4 mana? Landfall cards need to be cheaper than that unless you have a landfall trigger gimmick.
Speaking of which... it occurred to me for those running bounce lands... You can play a bounce land and just return it to your hand, meaning you can use it at the top of your curve to guarantee a land fall trigger each turn well past the point where you'd typically be out of land drops (assuming you are OK with not advancing your mana). That's sort of cool.