Magic: The Gathering - Page 186

On July 03 2012 08:22 Durp wrote:
Mutilate getting a reprint makes me very, very happy.

On July 03 2012 13:19 Judicator wrote:


Too bad MB is miles away from being an actual deck. Hey I have all these kill spells, stares down at hexproof and more than one creature. Man close game 1, let me look at sideboard, more kill spells and surgicals. >.<

It needs to duals to be good, but once RTR comes in some pretty good black cards rotate out.

On July 03 2012 14:21 deth2munkies wrote:


Depends on what's in R2R. If we get a cheap removal spell there or it somehow slows the format down by a lot MBC could be a deck. MB zombies is already a deck, though they're known to splash blue or red (red's better IMO). They really don't mind mutilate with a bunch of messengers and blood artists out, it's basically just a better Killing Wave. The only rotating cards they normally run are Go for the Throat and Mortarpod (which has been phased out lately but I don't know why).

They do have Barter in Blood and, for now, Geth's Verdict to kill off Hexproof. Mutliate will do the job too.

On July 04 2012 02:07 Judicator wrote:


No, no you really don't. MBC is not a deck until something like Coffers is reprinted. The problem is that the balance MB needs to find for its kill spells is harder than it was for UB control (since Blue offers ways of smoothing out your draws and hands, or in other words options). MB Zombies isn't a deck, Zombie Pod is a deck. The primary offenders of turn 2 flipped Delver, turn 3 Geist isn't solved by your Barters or Geth's Verdict. You have 0 ways of interacting favorably with Moorland Haunt or their equipment. Being black limits the way you can attack certain decks.

The biggest boon to Black right now is Duress. Gavin V did an article (with the appropriate level of inevitability) on MBC just today; the curve is ass.

Also, Messenger is not a MBC card, not even close.

On July 04 2012 02:25 bobbob wrote:
I would say that Mind Sludge is a bigger piece than Coffers. But I would also say that both are needed for MBC to become a deck. Nantuko Shade would also help a lot, but I guess Grave Titan can perform a similar role, but that's rotating too.

On July 04 2012 21:58 paralleluniverse wrote:
I've been looking into possible getting the new Magic game on Steam (Duel of the Planeswalker 2013). If anyone has it, can you answer the following question:

How does online work? Is there matchmaking and a ladder? Does everyone have the same access to the cards? If not, how are they unlocked? Is it true that if someone leaves the game a computer plays for them and you have to keep playing?

On July 04 2012 09:25 Judicator wrote:
No, I played against a few, thought they were pretty durdly. There were lists built to beat Delver before M13 and I don't know why you would want to play Grixis right now (based on the cards I saw people running).

On July 05 2012 08:41 Durp wrote:

Two words: Nicol Bolas

My first ever time playing magic was a sealed pool of Future Sight. I cracked a Sliver Legion first pick, and traded it to a friend for his krark clan ironworks/disciple of the vault deck (half his deck was proxies and he had a sliver deck without a legion).

The next time I played magic, which was reluctantly at the time, was a Conflux draft. I cracked Nicol Bolas p1p1, and won our 8 person draft to earn the 12 packs we'd allotted for the prize. Cracked Progenitus, Child of Alara and a foil Apocalypse Hydra in those 12 packs. Ever since then I've had a hard-on for Bolas planeswalker- he's just so awesome and got me back into Magic. Now that he's back in standard, I just have to play a deck with him

On July 05 2012 08:41 Durp wrote:

Two words: Nicol Bolas

My first ever time playing magic was a sealed pool of Future Sight. I cracked a Sliver Legion first pick, and traded it to a friend for his krark clan ironworks/disciple of the vault deck (half his deck was proxies and he had a sliver deck without a legion).

The next time I played magic, which was reluctantly at the time, was a Conflux draft. I cracked Nicol Bolas p1p1, and won our 8 person draft to earn the 12 packs we'd allotted for the prize. Cracked Progenitus, Child of Alara and a foil Apocalypse Hydra in those 12 packs. Ever since then I've had a hard-on for Bolas planeswalker- he's just so awesome and got me back into Magic. Now that he's back in standard, I just have to play a deck with him

On July 05 2012 10:28 Judicator wrote:


So...why would you work that hard for a 7 drop right now that isnt named Elesh or Grieselbrand?

On July 05 2012 12:31 Judicator wrote:
Shows you how much I care for either of those cards or viable 8 drops are.

On July 05 2012 12:59 hkf wrote:

Well everything automatically passes titantests when M12 rotates soooooooo.....