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Deck Reviews / Re: [Modern] Unbelievable Demons

« on: April 07, 2017, 02:39:07 pm »

Thanks Abe

Deineltan, In this case you are incorrect- the phrasing in myr superion specifies that only mana SPENT on it must come from creatures, without actually specifying that mana MUST be spent at all. This is reasonable because it has a cmc of 2, after all. However, heartless summoning brings its effective casting cost to zero. You're not spending any mana to cast it and thus where the non-existent mana comes from is a moot point.

Myr superion is a staple in all heartless summoning decks, I've found, but you get used to needing to explain it to folks who have not encountered it before

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Deck Reviews / [Modern] Unbelievable Demons

« on: April 07, 2017, 04:43:22 am »

Unbelievable Demons

Seriously, who in their right mind would play any of these cards? the drawbacks.. they're.. they're too much!

Okay, the bread and butter of this deck is Heartless Summoning. It's why we're comfortable playing all these relatively high CMC creatures. It makes Myr Superion free, turns sin prodder and dusk urchins into 1drops, and makes most of our heavy hitters 2-3 cmc, allowing us to empty our hands of high mana creatures extremely quick- which is good, because we're going to deal a heavy blow to our opponent by removing their hand with sire of insanity! bonus points if you get their hopes up with master of the feasts or shah of naar isle first

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Deck Reviews / [Modern] Wither is FUN! Budget (Amonkhet)

« on: April 05, 2017, 11:27:26 pm »

Wither is FUN! Budget (Amonkhet)

Uses -1/-1 counters- through wither and effects such as scar and blowfly infestation - as a source for controlling your opponent, through cards such as kulrath knight, crumbling ashes, and necroskitter.

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Deck Comments / Re: Tortured existence - Comments

« on: April 02, 2017, 06:39:39 pm »

I like it quite a bit!! I DO recommend Greenseeker, however, perhaps in place of krosan tusker- I just played a couple games online with that deviation, and giving yourself the option of steady land influx is a HUGE bonus, since really, once you get rolling with that dredge and tortured existence life, mana is your only limiting factor

LOVE your deck!

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Deck Comments / Re: UR Fevered Burn - Comments

« on: March 30, 2017, 01:34:51 am »

I playtest on https://untap.in/ You're right, by the way- combo decks tend to be strong against this, although depending on the combo, bounce/exhaustion help. Burn is very strong against this deck as well, naturally.

I also replaced the dictate of kruphix with Howling Mine, and added a couple ebony owl netsuke in my latest testing spree ^^ with the amount of three drops in this deck, going to a two-drop that doesn't require UU is a huge streamline, and with ebony owl netsuke / runeflare trap, giving your opponent that first extra draw isn't much of a hindrance

Also, I notice that unless they're close to death, opponents almost ALWAYS take the 5 damage from browbeat rather than allow the card draw once they've realized what the deck is all about ^^

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Deck Comments / Re: UR Fevered Burn - Comments

« on: March 29, 2017, 05:17:00 am »

ouch, thought ancestral vision was like a seven dollar card, boy was I wrong browbeat is also turning out to be fun however ^^

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Deck Comments / Re: UR Fevered Burn - Comments

« on: March 29, 2017, 04:54:25 am »

I'm loving playtesting your deck Ancestral Vision is doing amazingly, either traditional usage but more often it works as another runeflare trap / cerebral vortex trigger ^^

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Deck Comments / Re: UR Fevered Burn - Comments

« on: March 27, 2017, 05:02:51 am »

this deck is testing very well with runeflare trap. Have you considered the card?

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Modern] Budget Death's Shadow??

« on: March 07, 2017, 06:29:49 am »

Thanks man! I'll have to edit the decklist here later, but i did fit in that last traverse, think you're right that it's a solid addition

Very interesting article about the temur battle rage by the way. Unfortunately, seeing as how the article is in favor of a build that revolves heavily around tarmogoyf as much as it does death's shadow, I don't think I can tweak my build in that direction while keeping it budgetable. Maybe one day!

His points about probe are in-depth and I find them interesting, however. It makes me wonder if i need to add in some more card draw- perhaps manamorphose, or re-adding the draw 2/lose 2 life drop sorc to reach the critical cards quicker. Metamorphosis lets me draw and cast what i draw unimpeded, while draw/lifeloss may leave me unable to cast on a critical turn 2, but definitely sets up a stronger turn past that. On the other hand, looking at previous decklists compared to today's decklists, it seems that traverse mostly negates the loss of probe, assuming delirium is reached quickly, which is the majority of games. Just going to take playtesting and more playtesting, I think!

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Modern] Budget Death's Shadow??

« on: March 06, 2017, 07:28:42 am »

https://deckstats.net/decks/65144/683419-budget-death-s-shadow-/en

Alrighty, I made some pretty hefty revisions. I've been playtesting them on untap, and it's doing excellently Chromatic Star is an excellent budget substitute for mishra's bauble! The early game mana fixing has even helped me out a couple times ^^

I guess as an extremely-budget player, I've always shied away from inquisition and thoughtseize, but they're not as expensive as I thought they were for some reason- I'll be investing in playsets, and dumping mishra's baubles made this deck even more budgetable despite adding them in! I don't have QUITE as much removal/hand disruption as you suggested as I want to keep traverse the ulvenwald integral- essentially running 7 death's shadow is extremely beneficial. I AM reaching delirium more consistently than I was before, I think. I had honestly considered seal of fire earlier today when I began putting this together, not sure why I didn't end up going with it. Excellent addition though!

I AM worried that although I've been fine without much removal, I haven't really been playing against decks in which it's necessary. Going to have to keep finding different decks to test against.



Any sideboard suggestions? Tormod's Crypt is an obvious one, and I've put my two kolaghan's command into the sideboard, but traditional death's shadow decks I've looked at have more colors than I possess in their sideboards.

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Modern] Budget Death's Shadow??

« on: March 06, 2017, 05:57:53 am »

Those are some excellent suggestions! Thank you, I will do some editing soon

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Deck Reviews / [Modern] Budget Death's Shadow??

« on: March 06, 2017, 12:52:06 am »

Budget(ish) Death's Shadow??

So, this is my attempt at making a Death's Shadow deck near MY budget- not above $300. I'm a Rakdos player so I own the bloodstained mires, blood crypts and kolaghan's commands, so I'm building around that. Pain lands are testing out extremely well. Mishra's Baubles are the most expensive part of the deck, but I'm loathe to do without them as they're an excellent delirium enabler, not to mention all around card- but if anyone has any budgetable suggestions, I'd love to hear them, not to mention your opinions about the deck overall

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Deck Reviews / [Modern] Grixis Tibalt!

« on: February 27, 2017, 12:49:55 am »

Grixis Tibalt!

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General Magic / Re: web sites for buying cards.

« on: February 24, 2017, 04:58:19 am »

I'm a fan of channelfireball.com

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Deck Reviews / [Modern] Tibalt, Our Lord and Savior! V4 blue splash?!

« on: February 16, 2017, 05:21:22 am »

Tibalt, Our Lord and Savior! V4 blue splash?!

Soo, this is completely based off my current RB Tibalt deck(purely for fun, I've beaten competitive decks with it several times but tibalt of course makes this largely luck based lol), but I realized today I have a thing in the ice , a Jace, Vryn's Prodigy , and a RU and a BU shock land- so hey, why not try to splash blue for funsies (I've acquired 3 Bloodstained Mire through trading, so breaking my budget no-fetch rule in RB decks is acceptable to me ^^)

Any suggestions to get this to work? Untap is unfortunately lagging right now so I can't playtest it yet! I considered adding delver of secrets, but I figure that blue is scarce enough that I'm best off sticking with monastery swiftspear for my 1drop.