Magic: The Gathering

[Malacite]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

I'm torn on that, because on the one hand I miss playing Goblins, but I also really, really like how well Human decks work right now.

Frontline Medic is just going to break all kinds of aggro decks. Selesnya did NOT need that guy rofl...

[Firewind]

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I did want to organise a little "Tribal War" thing between our group. Basically one person picks a tribe and makes a deck around it.

Then I realised just how many tribes we would actually have to ban to make things not retarded XD

[Malacite]

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Depending if it's standard or not, Goblins would have to be banned rofl.

[Yellow Mage]

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I already have a Modern tribal deck. The Mono-White one, that uses Lapse of Certainty.

Also, I think I've finally made a fun WU deck, though it doesn't do half the things I wanted it to initially, thanks to the process of cutting it down to 60 cards. Who'd think I'd have to cut so much from a Standard pool of cards?

Anyway, somebody log on and play me! :D

[Taskmage]

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I found this second place deck list from GP Toronto to be enchanting:

Sam Pardee's Melirapod

4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Forest
1 Swamp
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Godless Shrine
1 Temple Garden
2 Razorverge Thicket
2 Woodland Cemetery
3 Gavony Township
4 Kitchen Finks
1 Eternal Witness
1 Orzhov Pontiff
3 Viscera Seer
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Deathrite Shaman
1 Noble Hierarch
3 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Wall of Roots
2 Murderous Redcap
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Reveillark
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Spellskite
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Chord of Calling
4 Birthing Pod

Sideboard:
1 Shriekmaw
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Obstinate Baloth
2 Lingering Souls
1 Baneslayer Angel
2 Dismember
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
3 Thoughtseize
2 Rule of Law

It's a Birthing Pod deck, so there's that, but there's also this delicious synergy between Melira, Sylvok Outcast and persist creatures that goes full on combo when you add a sacrifice engine like the aforementioned pod or Viscera Seer, which allows you to gain infinite life with Finks and deal infinite damage with Redcap while stacking your deck for good measure. And of course there's always plan B of kicking teeth in with some big guys you just tutored up with the pod. Clever, and looks like a lot of fun.

[Yygdrasil]

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You know whats fun? Color wars.

5 players
Everyone builds a mono color deck of their decided color
Each player has 2 alli colors and 2 enemy colors based on the elemental wheel*
First person to defeat both their enemies wins

*Your allies are the 2 colors adjacent to yours on the wheel. The other 2 are your enemies.



Example: Red is allied Green and Black and needs to beat White and Blue to win.
Example 2: Blue is Allied with White and Green and needs to beat Red and Black.

The overlap is what makes it fun. Red and Blue are trying to kill one another even though both are allied with Green. In turn, Green won't help either one against the other.

Also:

also this delicious synergy between Melira, Sylvok Outcast and persist creatures that goes full on combo when you add a:

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This combo scares me too. Mostly because it's dirt cheap and threatens a 3rd turn unlimited combo win in the right circumstances... or 4th turn in the worst.

[cidbahamut]

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But what would you put in the rest of the deck?

[Yellow Mage]

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Murderous Redcap, Kitchen Finks, Elvish Visionary, Baubles, Gitaxian Probe, Manamorphose, maybe some 1-drops and Birthing Pod.

R/G Combo isn't hard. I have a R/G Modern Aggro-Combo deck on Cockatrice myself, and you can bet the fire lit under your bum that the upcoming Burning-Tree Emissary is going in there as soon as Gatecrash hits.

[Firewind]

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Eh I'm not a fan of 1/1 One-Drops in Multiplayer decks unless they actually do something useful like these guys:



Multiplayer games tend to last long enough to make mana curves a non-issue and Fast Aggrocentric decks tend to run out of steam and maybe take out one player before keeling over.

[Yygdrasil]

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But what would you put in the rest of the deck?

I built it. Play me and see for yourself.

[Yygdrasil]

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the more I playtest it... the more badass it feels.

So far I've run 30 tests and 26 of those tests have won on turn 4. I'm happy with the end result.

[Firewind]

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Turn 0 Combo Breaker, Persist and Undying creatures go straight into exile :3

[Yellow Mage]

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Of course, failing that . . .

[Firewind]

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Actually, burn tends to screw that Combo over anyway, I just wanted to post something bit different than "Just set Melira on fire"

[Yellow Mage]

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"Oh, you're Melira, Sylvok Outcast? What a funny coincidence . . ."