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Risen
United States7927 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On October 10 2011 01:23 Risen wrote: Everyone at my fuckin FNM has pretty much copy pasted the solar flare to the best of their ability. Kind of annoying... only a few other people run something different (a shitty mono white human deck, a weird RDW, and some other random Tempered Steel decks) Edit: And after this weekend... T-T The guy who won our FNM (I think it was the week before last) is running a Tempered Steel deck with 4 Mutagenic Growths and 3 Gitaxian Probes. It doesn't matter, he just goddraws 75% of the time. The token deck looks really fun though  | ||
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Risen
United States7927 Posts
On October 10 2011 01:47 deth2munkies wrote: The guy who won our FNM (I think it was the week before last) is running a Tempered Steel deck with 4 Mutagenic Growths and 3 Gitaxian Probes. It doesn't matter, he just goddraws 75% of the time. The token deck looks really fun though I was trying to run a parallel lives token deck Friday and it was just horrible. God draws are nice, but dealing with my threats is absurdly easy for solar flare and can't out aggro RDW. It was a fun concept but in practice it just doesn't work without the god draw imo probably going to move back to U/W or RUG if I can (I feel like enemy lands makes this a lot easier to run than in the past) The wolf run deck impressed me this weekend, but I can't help but feel like it will have some weakness found by a better player than I. I think solar flare is definitely versatile enough to handle it post sideboard now that the tech has been seen. | ||
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
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dignity
Canada908 Posts
Some things that might make this deck building challenge harder might be limiting ourselves to a budget on this deck. Anyone else up for it? | ||
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Risen
United States7927 Posts
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On October 10 2011 02:18 Risen wrote: I was trying to run a parallel lives token deck Friday and it was just horrible. God draws are nice, but dealing with my threats is absurdly easy for solar flare and can't out aggro RDW. It was a fun concept but in practice it just doesn't work without the god draw imo probably going to move back to U/W or RUG if I can (I feel like enemy lands makes this a lot easier to run than in the past) The wolf run deck impressed me this weekend, but I can't help but feel like it will have some weakness found by a better player than I. I think solar flare is definitely versatile enough to handle it post sideboard now that the tech has been seen. Cixah was running a mono-white token deck without parallel lives. Just 4 Honor of the Pure's and 4 Intangible Virtue's with Midnight Haunting, Doomed Traveller, and other stuff I didn't see. Nothing over CMC 3. | ||
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Risen
United States7927 Posts
On October 10 2011 05:46 deth2munkies wrote: Cixah was running a mono-white token deck without parallel lives. Just 4 Honor of the Pure's and 4 Intangible Virtue's with Midnight Haunting, Doomed Traveller, and other stuff I didn't see. Nothing over CMC 3. That's what I was originally running w/ bladeholds and 2 mikaeus but it just didn't have the answers and I felt like it was easy to sideboard against. Idk... I'm probably wrong. | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On October 10 2011 05:53 Risen wrote: That's what I was originally running w/ bladeholds and 2 mikaeus but it just didn't have the answers and I felt like it was easy to sideboard against. Idk... I'm probably wrong. Depends. It's easy to sideboard but also whether people want to dedicate those sideboard slots to it. | ||
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dignity
Canada908 Posts
On a side note, every one of my friends that play magic competitively built pod decks... | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On October 10 2011 06:15 dignity wrote: The current environment seems stable enough to attempt to make rogue decks. All I am seeing are solar flare decks, hexblade decks, pod decks, and RDW On a side note, every one of my friends that play magic competitively built pod decks... Then theres RUG and Kessig decks. | ||
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
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dignity
Canada908 Posts
How exactly are Illusion decks doing lately? Did it only do that well because of the fact that nobody expected it? | ||
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
On October 10 2011 06:50 dignity wrote: Its funny because I actually have my playset of those already. Although I was planning more on liquimetal coating land destruction in RUG. How exactly are Illusion decks doing lately? Did it only do that well because of the fact that nobody expected it? It's hard to say until after states, and even then, it's such a fringe deck that a low # of T8s might not mean anything. I think LD is probably quite bad in this format, mostly because there are so many maindeck efficient answers that are cheaper than the threats you'd be presenting. In most formats where LD works, the answers are expensive. A pure LD deck would probably need to pray to draw Thrun to win, but you could try for a rogueish LD pod list like the Conley special with 4 Acidic Slimes. I have a feeling it's a lot worse than GBR pod, but I could be wrong. | ||
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dignity
Canada908 Posts
I still haven't came up with how exactly to win except for maybe titans. So far its just been getting so far ahead of your opponent that they just can't do anything. I have no idea if this is viable since I didn't even put together a deck list yet, let alone playtest. | ||
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MCMcEmcee
United States1609 Posts
On October 10 2011 05:53 Risen wrote: That's what I was originally running w/ bladeholds and 2 mikaeus but it just didn't have the answers and I felt like it was easy to sideboard against. Idk... I'm probably wrong. just start with GW Token Town as your base. Gavony Township + anthem effects + Shrine. Adjust to your local meta/your own budget (choice of finishers and such) dignity - i've been working on a RG liquimetal coating deck for a while now lol. Bad casual deck is casually bad but it's fun. | ||
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Risen
United States7927 Posts
On October 10 2011 08:46 dignity wrote: Actually my idea was to go turn their lands to artifacts and then destroy them one by one with ancient grudges naturalizes, etc etc. Manic vandels and oxiddas make for good 2 for 1s. spellskites to protect your liquimetal coatings, run blue for draw spells which would be mandatory in such a deck. Colors being RUG as already mentioned. I was thinking of birds for early ramp and mana fixing. I still haven't came up with how exactly to win except for maybe titans. So far its just been getting so far ahead of your opponent that they just can't do anything. I have no idea if this is viable since I didn't even put together a deck list yet, let alone playtest. Faced a deck like this on modo. Was the most annoying shit ever, kept me at 1-2 land the entire match. Thankfully, siding in crush absolutely destroyed it. | ||
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
I think there maybe something to Shimmer Myr? 1 Mana for 1/1 Flash + your other artifacts get flash? Dunno, don't want to brew with that card. But Falkenrath Noble+Heartless Summoning+Myr Sire? Maybe get Glissa going? Hilarity! | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
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