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New Primers / Re: Meren golgari combo

« on: September 26, 2021, 03:13:05 pm »

No problem man.

If you're afraid of Cursed Totem and Linvala, you could try cards like Wood Elves and Yavimaya Granger. They can be pretty great with the recursion of Meren. Note that Wood Elves also gives you an untapped forest into play, and Granger triggers Meren without the need for a sac outlet.

I guess in the end it's a personal decision. I always try to maximise synergy, and I know that this can lead to big blowouts if someone plays something like a Cursed Totem (or a Rest in Peace, or Torpor Orb, or Leyline of the Void...). However it has rarely happened to me to meet such cards in a game, since their effect is pretty niche and not many people run them. So I'd argue that it's worth the risk, but this of course depends heavily on your meta.

I think it depends on the goal of the deck and also on the meta in which the deck should perform. Maximizing the synergy is absolutely correct but for me maximizing is a combination of synergy and flexibility to allow the deck to answer on different cards and also still perform in different situations. I looked at your meren and also liked it because I think your deck is very good, nevertheless your deck is very different from mine, because I try to win quickly with combos. That leads to the fact that I play more tutors and also try to be able to win independently of meren and the typical meren cards.

Wood Elves and Yavimaya Granger are both great in this deck and I have already looked at these cards and also considered playing them. However, I decided against 3 mana creature-based ramp to make the deck faster and less susceptible to certain cards or mechanics.

Btw this is my Meren list, in case it could give you some ideas. I don't run combos on purpose though, and focus on a midrange/attrition strategy.

https://deckstats.net/decks/149180/1755348-meren-aristocrats-midrange

Yep I´ve already checked and liked your deck :-)

I´ll also add malakir rebirth (completely forgot that this card exists, dunno why)
And I´m thinking of swapping dance of the dead for Journey to eternity. But I think that dance of the dead is better because I just wanna go for my combo and can bring necrotig ooze or what ever I needed back from graveyard while Journey to eternity has a similiar effekt like malakir rebirth. I think I should test it.

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New Primers / Re: Meren golgari combo

« on: September 25, 2021, 02:46:17 pm »

The combo as explained in the primer looks fine. You get infinite death triggers so with a pinger you can win the game.

Thank you, I I thought I forgot something or did something wrong.

My suggestion for you: I'd cut Talisman of Resilience, Farseek, Nature's Lore and Three Visits. You want most of your ramp to be creature-based in Meren, to take full advantage of synergies with Grim Haruspex, Guardian Project and similar.
You can play more mana dorks as Elves of Deep Shadow and Llanowar Elves, and also Dawntreader Elk is pretty good with Meren since you can recur it. Also consider 3-mana ramp, such as Wood Elves and Yavimaya Granger. Slower ramp than mana dorks, but more resilient to board wipes.

A very good point (as you would expect from someone called the the golgari guy).
The main reason why I´m not running that much of dorks is that I don't want to aggravate the bottleneck from this deck by make everything in this deck creature based. In Germany there is a saying: "don't put all your eggs in one basket", that means if your basket falls on the floor you will lose all your eggs (not sure if this makes sense in english tbh but nvm :-D). I don´t wanna lose all my mana into a mass removal or gravehate or to cards like humility, cursed totem or linvala, keeper of silence. So I need and want an other way to ramp to be more flexible and the 2 mana sorceries are some of the fastest and best ramp spells there in my opinion. They also don´t have summoners sickness so you can use the lands from Three visits and nature's lore in the same turn if needed.
But Talisman of Resilience can easily be swapped out for elves of deep shadow (I like the fact that a green creature can make black mana, because to play this card you need a green mana source which means you have green mana on board and with this dork you can bring a black mana source in game to fix your mana). I think I will accept your suggestion on this point. Thanks for this great feedback

Also, you have many tutors but you're a bit light on card draw. Despite yours being a combo deck, I'd still play 2 more sources of card draw. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Midnight Reaper are two great card draw engines in Meren.

Well another very good point here. I like the idea to play Yawgmoth, Thran Physician instead of vampiric rites. He is a creature, he has a sac ability, the sac ability can be used by necrotic ooze as well, he can sac for just 1 life and no mana is needed and last but not least, you can distribute some -1/-1 counter and kill some stuff as well.
Midnight reaper is also a great card in this deck but as I already mentioned, I don´t think that I need that much of card draw in this deck and don´t forget that asmodeus is also a draw option in this deck even if this card is not in the cdraw section.

Again thanks for this great feedback I hope my explanations were understandable and I was able to explain my point well.

I´ll add this into the primer soon.

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New Primers / Re: Meren golgari combo

« on: September 24, 2021, 11:16:58 pm »

Just to consider: the mikaeus + ballista combo doesn't work that way, as ballista gets +1/+1 from Mikaeus. It works with triskelion, though, which is a great combo.

Which combo do you mean? That one with protean Hulk? If  yes than could you kindly explain why it doesnt work?
Ballista will get +1/+1 from Mikaeus and a +1/+1 counter. So Ballista is a 2/2 if I remove a 1/1 counter he is a 1/1 and if I use this counter to dmg himself he will die or am I wrong?

You're missing a step here. This combo needs a sac outlet in order for it to work. Otherwise you have an infinite sac loop but no payoff. You did specify this in the primer itself, but it's not very clear.

Well the infinite sac loop is the infinite combo there because in the primer I mentioned that for this combo zulaport cutthroat or the blood artist is needed on the battlefield. I don't know how to write that any more clearly either to be honest.
Or are we talking about another infinite combination within the primer and I'm just don´t get it?

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New Primers / Re: Meren golgari combo

« on: September 24, 2021, 03:09:49 pm »

Just to consider: the mikaeus + ballista combo doesn't work that way, as ballista gets +1/+1 from Mikaeus. It works with triskelion, though, which is a great combo.

Which combo do you mean? That one with protean Hulk? If  yes than could you kindly explain why it doesnt work?
Ballista will get +1/+1 from Mikaeus and a +1/+1 counter. So Ballista is a 2/2 if I remove a 1/1 counter he is a 1/1 and if I use this counter to dmg himself he will die or am I wrong?

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New Primers / Meren golgari combo

« on: September 23, 2021, 06:01:08 pm »

Hi everybody,
here is my meren golgari combo primer.

I look forward to your suggestions and constructive criticism

https://deckstats.net/decks/118014/2243181-meren-of-golgari-combo#show_description

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Primers / Tovolar the howlpack alpha

« on: September 23, 2021, 04:27:14 pm »

Hi everybody,
here is my primer for a tribal that I have been waiting for for a long time. the strategy for a gruul werewolf deck is actually quite simple, but i tried to highlight various cards that are important for the victory and to explain the mechanics again clearly.

I look forward to your suggestions and constructive criticism

https://deckstats.net/decks/118014/2218583-tovolar-dire-overlord-the-howl#show_description

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Deck Comments / Re: cEDH - K'rrik the Dark Prince - Comments

« on: July 26, 2021, 10:03:06 am »

Ive started my own list. Including Tormod, The Desecrator. It allows you to generate infinite mana thru phyrexian altar / ashnod's altar or just go wide. Zombie creature type pairs well with gravecrawler. I may be mistaken but your only instance of zombie is on carrion feeder. Phyrexian altar also helps cast Thassa's Oracle , but I love the idea of playing enemy lands.

Sounds great! there are many ways to play K'rrik and your idea absolutely sounds nice, but I´m playing carrion feeder and gravecrawler just for one combo. I could swap the gravecrawler for something else and carrion feeder for a viscera seer as well. I decided to play carrion feeder over viscera seer just for the possibility of another Aetherflux infinite combo.
Also carrion feeder costs 2 life to play while phyrexian altar or ashnod's altar need 3 generic mana and can´t be grap with  buried alive.
Another reason is - infinite mana won't win the game for us in this deck, with K'rrik you can use your life as mana and quickly go through your deck to get the right combo pieces and win it. There is no real benefit in getting infinite mana. Most of time we just need K'rrik, life and a tutor or peer into the abyss :-D

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[de] Deck-Bewertungen / [EDH / Commander] Wulfgar - Attack (Dance) till your dead

« on: July 12, 2021, 04:57:58 pm »

Wulfgar - Attack (Dance) till your dead

Let´s try to make this dude playable :-D He is slow but still fun tho.

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General Magic / Re: Asmodeus Combo

« on: July 08, 2021, 05:04:08 pm »

Or just put 2-3 activations on the stack and sac Asmodeus to an Ashnod's Altar.

Yep, that´s the reason why I was thinking about this combo in K'rrik, because you can activate and sac it into Carrion feeder.

Still, as you mentioned Meren, Muldrotha, and Gitrog, I would probably run one of the spikier Nooze combos over this.

Or just both? I mean for example Muldrotha, will play a bunch of sac outlets and can use this cards also for some other stuff and if you already playing the ooze with some other combo, then you just have to add 1-2 cards for another combo. And if you don´t combo you can just activate and sac as you already mentioned

I think this is one of the spikier Necrotic Ooze combos. Unlike the other buried alive combos, this one doesn't use any dead cards. Skirge Familiar is a little dead, but less so than Phyrexian Devourer.

tbh I think the same. Skirge Familiar isn´t that nice but in Gitrog is discard necessary for the combo and in Muldrotha is discard not as bad as in other decks. For example you can use skirge familiar to discard a land and then play this land from your graveyard.

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General Magic / Asmodeus Combo

« on: July 08, 2021, 01:08:56 pm »

What do you guys think about Asmodeus the Archifiend?


There is a nice combo with Necrotic Ooze and Skirge Familiar. With these three cards you can draw your entire deck, which seems pretty nice.

I was thinking to play this in K'rrik because you can also draw a bunch of cards with K'rrik + Asmodeus + Carrion Feeder.

This Combo could be nice in Meren, Muldrotha or Gitrog decks as well. What is your opinion?

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Deck Comments / Re: Black Hole Son - Comments

« on: July 03, 2021, 03:36:34 am »

This is Mervius´ Deck -> https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ksOWqeElwUaNmAeybXoEjw
If you're already copying his deck, at least share the link :-)

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Deck Comments / Re: tiamat omniscience - Comments

« on: June 30, 2021, 02:34:00 pm »

GoliathIII is right!
Enduring Ideal = Omniscience on field but you can´t cast anything else :-D so totally useless
Doubling Chant = what are you trying to do with this card? You can´t tutor for anything

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Deck Comments / Re: cEDH - K'rrik the Dark Prince - Comments

« on: May 25, 2021, 12:05:59 am »

Hey theslipinglord,
thx for the feedback.
Of course I know that :-D I decided to play each land just onces because of the card tainted pact and krrik. I don´t need basic lands in this deck.
The Multicolor and enemy color lands are for Praetor's Grasp - Thassa's Oracle combo.

Krrik can replace the black mana so no need to play basic lands.

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Deck Comments / Re: cEDH - K'rrik the Dark Prince - Comments

« on: May 05, 2021, 02:31:02 pm »

thx man :-) glad to hear that

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General Magic / Re: What universe crossover do you want?

« on: April 28, 2021, 03:04:48 pm »

I would like to see some other TCG like yu gi oh, duel masters or pokemon crossovers. Dark Magician in a Magic Artwork could be very nice.

There's a TCG for it already, but I'd love a Transformers crossover that didn't stop at Optimus Prime, Inspiring Leader.  Plus it's a property their parent company already owns so unlike the Walking Dead it won't be a "dead end", har har...

I hate licensing.  Originality exists for a reason.

There is also a movie for "Iron Man" but ppl still like "The Avengers" :-D but nvm

Basically I think it's okay if nothing is licensed and there are no crossovers at all, but if I have to, then I would find a mashup between TCGs quite nice.
But to be honest, the Magic lore still offers so many possibilities and unique characters, so that they don't need to do a crossover but can simply print existing lore cards. Instead, they are doing the 100th liliana and a couple of crossovers