What cards are your favorite closers? Most fun to win the game with? Or make you happy because you had to satisfy some deckbuilding requirements to get them to work?
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General Most Satisfying Finishers
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Chris Taylor
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Onderzeeboot
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Some really fun stuff was talked about in this thread:
http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/making-control-decks-more-interesting.1268/
Seeing gifts talked about piques my interest re: "The Baron" being talked about by grillo several times recently. Making "The Baron" work at a slightly higher power level would be really really awesome, and gifts seems like a great component to how that deck would function.
http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/making-control-decks-more-interesting.1268/
Seeing gifts talked about piques my interest re: "The Baron" being talked about by grillo several times recently. Making "The Baron" work at a slightly higher power level would be really really awesome, and gifts seems like a great component to how that deck would function.
Chris Taylor
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I second Rise from the Tides
Makes me think of
How would you rank the following for control/spells matter?
Rise from the Tides, Mizzix's Mastery, Spelltwine
It seems like Mastery is nearly strictly better than Spelltwine while Rise from the Tides hits the spot from a different angle.
In the same vein of Rise, there's a finisher called Spider Spawning and an easier to handle/interact with in the form of Kessig Cagebreakers, which on the other hand both scale up very fast. How do these finishers play out for you? atm I have them all sleeved up, but didn't play with Rise and Cagebreakers and am asking myself if all three of them could coexist in the very same cube as I'm very unsure about their respective power level.
I'm also interested in making the Baron deck work at a higher power. I really, really wish there was a higher power version of Epitaph Golem available (aside from Elixir, which I run), because I'm fascinated with the idea of your deck getting marginally better and better as the game goes long. We could go with self-mill > reshuffle, possibly also including Labman as an alt wincon? Another wishlist: Perpetual Timepiece that sacs instead of exiles, leaving it in the yard before its shuffle effect goes off.
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Chris Taylor
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How is field of souls?
tbqh I have the most experience with it in EMA, which I drafted an unhealthy amount online (really enjoyed that format and performed very well with it, and it was a top contributor in my decision to power down my list). That said, I found it to be an excellent inevitability engine, and for cube I would assume it probably compares favorably to Teysa, Orzhov Scion, which has always been one of my multicolor pet cards. The only reason I haven't tested it in my list so far is that
already does aristocrats a little too well, and this would just cement the pair's power level too high for my tastes. It's very high on my list of white includes though, and I'd love to see how it performs outside of EMA.
Onderzeeboot
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Man, Teysa, Orzhov Scion looks awesome in the stax archetype!
Do you find Ulvenwald Mysteries too slow or in the wrong colour for that purpose?
I cut Evolutionary Leap for it and am quite happy.
I cut Evolutionary Leap for it and am quite happy.
Onderzeeboot
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You mean in stax? Ulvenwald Mysteries looks like an awesome combo with Smokestack or Braids, Cabal Minion (though
isn't a color pair in my cube), I have to admit. One nontoken creature will last you three sacrifice triggers!I'd rather sacrifice recurrable threats to get a token and draw a card every turn. :>
Requiem Angel looks like an alternative that costs more and is easier to remove but also a hard-hitting threat on its own.
Requiem Angel looks like an alternative that costs more and is easier to remove but also a hard-hitting threat on its own.
Onderzeeboot
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Your enablers need to be cheaper than Smokestack and Braids, in my experience, to be reliably useable. You want to get your stax pieces online as early as possible, and if you have to wait for your six drop to be able to grind out your opponent, you're already too late. A card I really liked as an enabler is:
Dear RavenbornMuse
How are finding Platinum Angel? Is it frustrating for the Dimir player that he has a hard time dealing with it or does the 4 flying power finish the game fast enough anyways? How much removal are you running? How much cheat are you running?
How are finding Platinum Angel? Is it frustrating for the Dimir player that he has a hard time dealing with it or does the 4 flying power finish the game fast enough anyways? How much removal are you running? How much cheat are you running?