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Until the blink deck gets more PTing in, I won't use that. Superfriends will be retired for a bit too, think I need to relearn the meta before I play that at the store.
So, here's the deck I think I'm gonna take to FNM. It deeds some tweaking for sure, but has actually done surprisingly well in some play testing.
Mono-black.get there(hopefully haha)
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Lands: 24
24x Swamp
Creatures: 18
2x Vault Skirge
4x Geralf's Messenger
3x Solemn Simulacrum
4x Phyrexian Obliterator
1x Mikaeus the Unhallowed
2x Grave Titan
1x Rune Scarred Demon
1x Griselbrand
Instants: 3
1x Go for the Throat
2x Tragic Slip
Artifacts: 8
2x Ratchet Bomb
4x Lashwrithe
2x Caged Sun
Sorceries: 7
3x Black Sun's Zenith
2x Distress
2x Despise
Sideboard: 15
1x Killing Wave
1x Batterskull
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Go for the Throat
1x Army of the Damned
2x Sever the Bloodline
2x Hex Parasite
2x Tragic Slip
2x Dismember
2x Surgical Extraction
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Mono-black isn't a deck. Your sideboard will never be good so there are just some match ups that you simply can't win in.
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I love how every time Judicator posts it`s to bring reality crashing down into some hopeful person`s MTG life. Not that he`s wrong, I always agree with him. He says things you should listen to.
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On May 25 2012 05:21 Judicator wrote:
Mono-black isn't a deck.
^^^^^ every single set....
"hai guise I liek mono b frum odysei blok n i herd it waz ovr3powdered so i remaded it"
NO STOP IT.
I really really hope planechase comes to mtgo soon. I might start playing again.
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On May 25 2012 09:33 hkf wrote:^^^^^ every single set.... "hai guise I liek mono b frum odysei blok n i herd it waz ovr3powdered so i remaded it" NO STOP IT. I really really hope planechase comes to mtgo soon. I might start playing again.
First time I have ever made a mono black deck. I even resisted the urge during the vampire upswing in Zendikar. But there's something about Phyrexian Obliterator. I just have to try at least once.
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Well if you do want to try and make that deck work, add more land. 24 is not enough.
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On May 25 2012 09:25 Rainofpain wrote:
I love how every time Judicator posts it`s to bring reality crashing down into some hopeful person`s MTG life. Not that he`s wrong, I always agree with him. He says things you should listen to.
I try to live the dream more than most people. I refused to play Jace in post-Shards Zendikar T2 while playing online, opting for mono-green Elves, UB Painful Quandry and then GW Eldrazi, same when Splinter Twin and Cawblade came into being. Post-ban Jace/Stoneforge, wanted to make mono-black work.
Wanted to play Solar Flare and then enjoyed fighting off Wolf-ramp, then played UB and enjoyed fighting off Delver, playing Esper and enjoying the fight against RG. I just enjoy finding the deck that seems to be there but not quite and tweaking it to no end.
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On May 25 2012 12:34 Judicator wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2012 09:25 Rainofpain wrote:
I love how every time Judicator posts it`s to bring reality crashing down into some hopeful person`s MTG life. Not that he`s wrong, I always agree with him. He says things you should listen to. I try to live the dream more than most people. I refused to play Jace in post-Shards Zendikar T2 while playing online, opting for mono-green Elves, UB Painful Quandry and then GW Eldrazi, same when Splinter Twin and Cawblade came into being. Post-ban Jace/Stoneforge, wanted to make mono-black work. Wanted to play Solar Flare and then enjoyed fighting off Wolf-ramp, then played UB and enjoyed fighting off Delver, playing Esper and enjoying the fight against RG. I just enjoy finding the deck that seems to be there but not quite and tweaking it to no end.
That was a thing? I like that.
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It was UB control with extra win more enchantments.
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anyone knows if there's a channel on magic online similar to what Auction was a few years back?
or does all trading go through the marketplace tab alone?
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On May 25 2012 16:20 bobbob wrote:
It was UB control with extra win more enchantments.
More accurately, UB control was Painful Quandry without Painful. PQ ran the Inquistion and Duress package before other people realized how good it was.
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Ended up running Judicator's exact esper deck list today at our saturday game day.
Went 1-2, losing match 1 to wolf run on a game 3 misplay (forgot to trigger my evolving wilds to hit my would've been game ending elesh norn)
Won match 2 on a Tamiyo/Gideon combo - actually hit the Tamiyo emblem. Forbidden alchemy is a funny card when that goes off.
Lost match 3 on game 3 to a birthing pod deck. Thalia really hurt (was on the draw) and archon of justice hit my 4th land drop (couldn't play the day on turn 5 to save it).
You couldn't have been more right though Judicator: I never ever felt like Mana Leak was even worth the time with this build, and amass the components was always positive every time I cast it. Will definitely be running that same deck list. Seems strong!
I couldn't find an instance (didn't know when) to side in devastation tide. What MU would that be sided in for?
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On May 27 2012 07:12 Durp wrote:
Ended up running Judicator's exact esper deck list today at our saturday game day.
Went 1-2, losing match 1 to wolf run on a game 3 misplay (forgot to trigger my evolving wilds to hit my would've been game ending elesh norn)
Won match 2 on a Tamiyo/Gideon combo - actually hit the Tamiyo emblem. Forbidden alchemy is a funny card when that goes off.
Lost match 3 on game 3 to a birthing pod deck. Thalia really hurt (was on the draw) and archon of justice hit my 4th land drop (couldn't play the day on turn 5 to save it).
You couldn't have been more right though Judicator: I never ever felt like Mana Leak was even worth the time with this build, and amass the components was always positive every time I cast it. Will definitely be running that same deck list. Seems strong!
I couldn't find an instance (didn't know when) to side in devastation tide. What MU would that be sided in for?
Whatever match up you feel it's good in, I only boarded it in online testing against random decks or against UW Control since well-timed Tides means 2 activations of PWs.
You need a fair number of games with any control deck in order to figure out proper lines of play or you end up just punting games. I guess the same can be said for any deck, but control just has so little room for error in today's meta.
And I remembered why I had Tide in there originally, it was for the mono-green decks (any version).
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< Game day champion here, out of 32 people. + Show Spoiler +
Was playing UB zombies with 4 Blood artist. Played my ass off against delver, UW humans, RG aggro, Junk Walkers, and in the finals naya pod. Sword of war and peace is a good card too. I'd change a lot with my list, and I got pretty lucky draws when it mattered. Terminus is dumb. Bonfire sure, day sure, entreat for 5 sure at least I get a chance to reach, but paying 1 white to completely blow out my board is pretty good. Lost to Junk walkers by that, but we had split into the top 8 first.
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Grats! Deck sounds cool too
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NOOO, you guys, now I really want to go pull out my cards. The newest cards I have are basically Time Spiral era or thereabouts.
What would you guys suggest if I want to get back into the game casually, day9 keeps talking about it haha
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On May 28 2012 12:24 thurst0n wrote:
NOOO, you guys, now I really want to go pull out my cards. The newest cards I have are basically Time Spiral era or thereabouts.
What would you guys suggest if I want to get back into the game casually, day9 keeps talking about it haha
Just go play draft and other limited formats then. There aren't any cheap decks since once again this is near standard rotation and AVR didn't really introduce any new decks (rather killing the 2 dominant ones and buffing every other deck in between).
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I traded a Tamiyo I p1p1'ed for a Liliana of the Veil and a Tibalt. Was that dumb ?_?
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Tamiyo will see marginal play in eternal/larger constructed formats while Tibalt and Liliana will see more play (by virtue of their mana costs). That being said, I don't see standard speeding up any more than it already is (Swords rotating out) so Tamiyo may be worth more in the upcoming months just from Standard.
It's not a bad trade by any means but M13 will kind of set the tone. Evaluations will hinge on how control will turn out according to Wizard.
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He told me Tamiyo was $32 on SCG and Tibalt was 14 and Liliana was 21. I basically took him at his word, $32 seemed like a lot for a sleek but only reasonably powerful Planeswalker.
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