There's a pretty sick Tempered Steel/Erayo deck up for BoaB this week. I like it.

To elaborate, it's basically Modern Tempered Steel (with Ethersworn Canonist, Master of Etherium, and Court Homonculus along with all the standard staples) plus Erayo, Soratami Ascendant, who, with a billion spells costing 1 or less, is easy to flip and along with Canonist, provides a soft lock on your opponent: the first spell of every turn is countered and players can't play more than 1 nonartifact spell...good luck if you aren't affinity

MCMcEmcee

United States1609 Posts

November 23 2011 08:31 GMT

#2062

Modern is very expensive to get into if you don't already have a decent collection of the staples. Almost might as well go into Legacy instead (more likely to find local support for the format, though I guess Modern is going to be a PTQ format soon...)

Red Affinity (w/ Atog, Fling, Shrapnel Blast, Galvanic Blast, Blood Moon) is probably the cheapest competitive deck to build in Modern. Zoo is probably the most expensive (Jund also up there), though I guess some of the 4+ color control decks are getting up there now that they are running Liliana.

The 18 point lists at Worlds were Tzu-Ching Kuo's red Affinity, Shuhei Nakamura's 4CC, Scott Richards' RUG Faeries/Delver, and Andrew Roistan's Boom//Bust Zoo. The cheapest deck out of those by far is Affinity.

Meta

United States6225 Posts

November 23 2011 09:40 GMT

#2063

Is there any love on TL for the EDH/Commander format? Been playing this a bunch on cockatrice lately, technically is a "casual" format but I tend to make completely abusive decks and nobody on there likes to play with me.

Also, I was wondering if people would be down to set up a "for-fun" cockatrice draft this weekend using ccgdecks, with me and a couple friends I know. We wanna draft a bunch but don't have the money, and the bots on ccgdecks tend to draft poorly, so we just need more people willing to competently draft with us.

Judicator

United States7270 Posts

November 23 2011 15:10 GMT

#2064

On November 23 2011 15:32 deth2munkies wrote:
There's a pretty sick Tempered Steel/Erayo deck up for BoaB this week. I like it.

To elaborate, it's basically Modern Tempered Steel (with Ethersworn Canonist, Master of Etherium, and Court Homonculus along with all the standard staples) plus Erayo, Soratami Ascendant, who, with a billion spells costing 1 or less, is easy to flip and along with Canonist, provides a soft lock on your opponent: the first spell of every turn is countered and players can't play more than 1 nonartifact spell...good luck if you aren't affinity

That deck's been around since the inception of Modern...it's shittier than the normal list by a mile.

Vitozerm

Canada25 Posts

November 23 2011 17:51 GMT

#2065

Team fireball's Worlds top 8 domination was unreal..

so proud of Conley and PV in particular.. Tempered Steel is not a comfortable deck choice for either of them, yet they buckled down and bulldozed the field with it.

sick meta choice and now the team wont have to run white weenie for a long time as their display with they deck should firmly plant itself in the memory of the competitive world.

zhurai

United States5660 Posts

November 24 2011 08:53 GMT

#2066

Lol I just moved all my old cards from apparently kamigawa area that I had on mtgo on another account into my current account...

I need to sort through these cards to actually make a deck, also not sure, maybe might play some drafts or somethiing to get more cards.... I guess I'll be doing 2012 since my playstyle has been/currently is something like aggro/burn type, and apparently 2012 is just like from what i get... beatdown or something, so it should be easier to transition to, than jumping right into standard (when I haven't played for months... 2-3?)

on another note...

http://www.gatheringmagic.com/when-ahead-stay-ahead/ SC2 reference!....
semi old post apparently, but I'm like going through ALL posts that look interesting on multiple websites for MTG so I can get back into the game o_O idk... I just found it was kinda funny~ oo

ticki

56 Posts

November 25 2011 19:19 GMT

#2067

I wanted to get a discussion going about Koth, mainly because I don't know where else to discuss this. World's top 8 had Caplan top 8 with RDW and 0 Koths. He had a very low curve (1-3 cc) and I really don't know how I feel about this. To me, Koth and shrine together are the reasons why RDW can survive against board sweepers and other shinanigans. When building my RDW, I plan to have 2-3 koths and 23 mountains. What do you guys think?

dignity

Canada908 Posts

November 26 2011 00:50 GMT

#2068

I feel koth is only really useful against decks that can't deal with planeswalkers, such as MBI. White has o-ring, green has beast within, blue has counters and bounces, red has burn. Koth doesn't offer anything except damage for red aggro, so a hero of oxid ridge would probably serve the same purpose and get the job done faster to boot.

Shotcoder

United States2316 Posts

November 26 2011 06:10 GMT

#2069

So today I picked up:

4 Hallowed Fountains
4 Mystic Gates
4 Path to Exile
1 Spell Snare
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Spell Snare
2 Elspeth Knight-Errant

for
2 Vensers
3 different Chandras
1 Ajani Vengeant
1 Skittles
1 Grave Titan
2 Thruns
3 Blade Splicers
4 razorverge thickets
1 Blackcleave cliffs
and a bunch of bulk rares.

think I did pretty good for myself today.

Risen

United States7927 Posts

November 26 2011 06:25 GMT

#2070

Spell Snare is my favorite card ever printed.

slyboogie

United States3423 Posts

November 26 2011 22:12 GMT

#2071

On November 26 2011 15:25 Risen wrote:
Spell Snare is my favorite card ever printed.

My lord they need to reprint that wonderful card.

dignity

Canada908 Posts

November 26 2011 22:25 GMT

#2072

I rather they print a draw spell that makes you discard your hand at the end of your turn. Might be too crazy in aggro decks though.

Only reason I would prefer that is because spell snare would kill my heartless summoning deck I am brewing up right now. That and it might make control way too strong.

zhurai

United States5660 Posts

November 26 2011 23:10 GMT

#2073

Hmm Just wondering

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Archive.aspx?tag=buildingonabudget&description=Building on a Budget

Are these decks (for standard at least) actually decent/able to get 4-0's or 3-1's in tournaments on mtgo (Constructed 8 or whatever) ?

Shotcoder

United States2316 Posts

November 27 2011 00:19 GMT

#2074

I think the only one that is decent is the Mono Black Infect but that's because it's almost identical to the actual MBI deck that catches a lot of people off guard. i guess the GW human build is good too.

zhurai

United States5660 Posts

November 27 2011 01:00 GMT

#2075

On November 27 2011 09:19 Shotcoder wrote:
I think the only one that is decent is the Mono Black Infect but that's because it's almost identical to the actual MBI deck that catches a lot of people off guard. i guess the GW human build is good too.

daaaaaaaamn

when I was looking on Academy bots for the cost of the mono black infect deck... so much ==''
Bought most of the GW Humans one except for like 4 cards, but... oh well ==, I guess I'll play around with that deck, and eventually...and hopefully win some tournaments in the near future so I can actually buy better cards and all o.o'

MCMcEmcee

United States1609 Posts

November 27 2011 01:28 GMT

#2076

I honestly think that GW deck sucks lol.

zhurai

United States5660 Posts

November 27 2011 02:00 GMT

#2077

On November 27 2011 10:28 MCMcEmcee wrote:
I honestly think that GW deck sucks lol.

~_~

oh well I'm pretty poor anyways I get what I can~ hopefully I'd win with the deck anyways and get better cards for a better deck then ~~ Lol... Meh

Shotcoder

United States2316 Posts

November 27 2011 02:03 GMT

#2078

On November 27 2011 10:28 MCMcEmcee wrote:
I honestly think that GW deck sucks lol.

It's a budget deck, you can't really build a beast deck for the $30-40 that this deck costs.

MCMcEmcee

United States1609 Posts

November 27 2011 02:41 GMT

#2079

you could build a better version of the same idea tho, that GW deck was brewed before Innistrad was even out, it's just a goldfish deck that isn't even that sick of a goldfish deck

imo if you have budget restraints, you are saving more money in the long-term by just getting actual good cards over time rather than dumping money right now into a bad deck that won't have a great win% anyways, then spending more money entering tournaments with a bad deck
also GW tokens and UW Illusions are two of the most popular decks, which means every round of a tournament you are either going to play against a better, more resilient aggro deck and/or a deck that is metagamed to beat aggro decks