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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Vehicles - Casual & Low Budget

« il: Settembre 11, 2023, 06:10:39 am »

Appreciate you dude. I still think its hilarious how much value Scaretiller always ends up providing my board state between Shorikai's card drawing engine and the instant speed Crew mechanic. With my mana curve's average being below 3 and with all of the mana available through artifacts and creatures, I often populate my board so steadily that it makes the Otharri, Suns' Glory player turn jealous. 

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Vehicles - Casual & Low Budget

« il: Settembre 10, 2023, 07:45:55 pm »

Well now I'm confused. These are my first forum posts and I posted a casual theme deck that I currently play with but somehow I've gotten negative karma for sharing my fun $25 deck. This is disheartening.
 
Should I instead post perfectly theory-crafted decks built for maximum optimization so that I don't get negative scores? Again, disheartening...

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Vehicles - Casual & Low Budget

« il: Settembre 10, 2023, 07:15:47 pm »

If you can't tell, this was the Neon Dynasty "Buckle Up" precon that I deck-teched up a bit with some cards on hand. The Ironsoul Enforcer still being in the deck allows me to toss expensive artifacts to Shorikai's early activation discards. (Parhelion II and/or the Goblin Firebomb retrieval at key moments have won me many games). Other than Ironsoul Enforcer, I only have Dance of the Manse as a means of recovering my vehicles following a Vandalblast -esque board wipe.

That said, I can definitely see why you love the Verge Rangers and they are definitely now on my permanent 'to acquire' list along with any mana rock I find available for trade. I limit myself to booster popping and in-person player-to-player trading with no single card purchases allowable because it adds a fleamarket-esque metagame element in my returning to MTG after a over a decade-long hiatus.

I started playing with the release of 4th Edition's Starter's Kit and stopped playing in 2006 after the Ravnica sets when I joined the service; returning home in 2011 and finding that my entire collection had been lost was heartbreaking and I'm just now getting back into the game. The new powerscale on cards is crazy! For reference, one of my favorite casual decks I'd play at the local shop was a simple-to-play 40-card Golgari deck (our local group preferred constructed-40 over constructed-60 because a larger variety of deck types got played) built with:

14 Creatures - 4x Diligent Farmhand; 4x Elvish Archers; 1x Elvish Herder; 2x Kokusho, The Evening Star; 3x Vampire Bats
7 Instants - 4x Muscle Burst; 3x Terror
5 Enchantments - 3x Sinister Strength; 2x Rancor
14 Lands - 8x Forest; 6x Swamp

Even the decklists of today are power-ramped... 

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Commander Deck Reviews / Vehicles - Casual & Low Budget

« il: Settembre 10, 2023, 05:21:52 am »

Scaretiller is one of my favorite cards to have on the board. Who'd've thunk it that he'd be so good at playing Shorikai's discards from behind the controls of a mech suit?

Deck: Vehicles

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