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Deck Reviews / Re: the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom

« on: May 29, 2019, 08:00:14 am »

Jolly good! Effort appreciated.

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Deck Comments / Re: Rackdos Aggro - Comments

« on: January 18, 2019, 10:32:08 pm »

Nice use of Rix Maadi Reveler. When would you side in Legion Warboss and Theatre of Horrors?

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Deck Comments / Re: Simic Incubation Druid Combo - Comments

« on: January 18, 2019, 07:39:21 pm »

Incubation Druid looks great. Three colored mana from a creature is quite a lot as it can power infinite combos like in your deck.

I like how you can fetch the combo pieces together, but why no countermagic in the deck?

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Standard] Mono Black Lich Control

« on: December 12, 2018, 02:56:54 am »

I like all Lich tries. The Treasure Map is indeed one of the best storages for the counters.

I'm trying a similar build in U/B. However, I found that when I was using only a few creatures they tended to die quickly and the Vraska's Contempts and white's enchantments tended to hit the Liches. I mostly use disruptive creatures like Kitesail Freebooter, to get their removal (with white I use it mainly for Settle), but that is rarely enough. I actually use Sparring Construct, Diamond Mare and Chamber Sentry as additional token storages for the Lich. These guys will die, but that is fine as I use them to fuel my Sai, Master Thopterist and Secrets of the Mausoleum.  Phyrexian Scriptures is my only wiper, but works well with both Sai and the Lich.

Secrets of the Mausoleum is the newest innovation I'm trying in this and it works well. It does not guarantee a Lich on turn 3, but with Stitcher's supplier it often helps to get a Lich by turn 4. I also use Lazav, the Multifarious to get Lich's I've put in the graveyard back in play.

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Standard] Selesnya Knights

« on: December 06, 2018, 08:38:06 pm »

Agree on Valiant Knight being overlooked. Good on it's own, as a lord and as a mana-sink.

I haven't played this with Sigiled Sword of Valeron, so don't have the hands on experience on how well it works. Seems a bit redundant in this deck as everything is knights already.

I would suggest replacing it with Song of Freyalise instead. This would give the possibility of truly explosive early turns and a nice indestructable vigilance attack with +1/+1 counters on all.

There is pretty good knight support already in standard, but do you think there might be more with the next Ravnica release?

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Deck Comments / Re: Counter Banter - Comments

« on: November 29, 2018, 07:42:23 pm »

Nice and fast. I play a Selesnya Explore deck and it would be interesting to build my sideboard so that I could switch to your main deck in game 2 when opponents sideboard in sweepers. Your deck seems to handle Defeaning Clarion, Find // Finality and Fiery Cannonade. Really only leaves Ritual of Soot (partly) or Cleansing Nova that can deal with the creatures. Hadana's Climb seems key to your strategy though, so would need to add the blue. I like it that every creature you have can become a real threat, so point removal gets exhausted pretty quick.

How about adding 1-2 March of the Multitudes instead of the Knight of Autumns? There is pretty good synergy here for going wide with Path of Exploration, Wildgrowth Walker and Shalai.

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Deck Comments / Re: Naru Meha Infini-Mill - Comments

« on: November 19, 2018, 10:13:25 pm »

The combo works really well. Release to the Wind is not cast more than once, but Naru-Meha will surely be cast many times. Diamond Mare and Drowned Secrets thus work very well. If you would only care about ETB effects then you could just combine with the cheaper Siren's Ruse and have Naru-Meha enter infinite times instead of being cast infinite times.

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono Green Song of Saproling (Budget 50$) - Comments

« on: November 19, 2018, 06:55:05 pm »

Save some money and remove the Pelt Collectors and or Verdant Forces. How about add a few Path of Discoveries at $1 each and 4 Wildgrowth Walkers. They would crush in this setup. Since Tendershoot Dryad is easy to remove, how about adding a couple of Find // Finality's. Would combo nicely in bringing Dryads or Walkers back and also with Song of Freyalise if you splash a bit of black. Erinoxe's suggestion of Sporecrown Thallids and Verdant Rebirths would also work great here.

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Deck Comments / Re: Naru Meha Infini-Mill - Comments

« on: November 15, 2018, 12:28:38 am »

Nice! I've played the the same mill with Expansion // Explosion, but did not think of adding Beamsplitter Mage. A board wipe would be quite important to include or lifegain. I've used the card that gives two damage to non-pirates when U/R, Phyrexian Scriptures when U/B, Diamond Mare or Ajani's Welcome when U/W. The nice thing is that with lifegain you can prolong the game as you await for the combo and even without a Drowned Secret, at infinite life with a mill deck you've pretty much won the game.

Just a note as well that Magic Arena is not the perfect place for playtesting the Naru-Meha decks. Instead of inifinite you have time for only 5-7 iterations.

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Deck Comments / Re: Merfolings - Comments

« on: November 09, 2018, 01:38:21 am »

I like the idea of the deck. Nice effects on your creatures when a bunch of saprolings enter the battlefield.

Do you think there is a bit of pull from Arcane Adaptation and Deeproot Waters to different directions in the deck or is the synergy good enough?

I think the you'll need some protection against boardwipes. I'd take in 4 counterspells, by cutting here and there. Tendershoot Dryad is great, but you'll also need a way to protect him. Maybe The Immortal Sun could work better instead.

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Standard] Best White Sideboard

« on: November 08, 2018, 12:48:56 am »

Ashes of the Abhorrent would be great, but it doesen't stop phoenixes like Arclight and still gives Izzet's Drakes and Golgari's Undergrowth value from their graveyard. It's almost like it would need Silent Gravestone to go with it.

I think Remourseful Cleric is probably the best bet for graveyard hate in white unless you are playing tokens and benefitting from the death trigger.

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Deck Comments / Re: Guttersniplicate - Comments

« on: October 31, 2018, 03:25:46 pm »

I especially like the name.

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[it] Richieste recensioni mazzi / Re: [Standard] R/B Pirates aggro

« on: October 30, 2018, 02:27:37 am »

How about lightning-rig crew into this? Could provide good defense and constant damage.

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Standard] One hour panic: Standard edition.

« on: October 28, 2018, 07:53:32 pm »

Been in a similar situation. Showed up once at a standard tournament with a zombie deck, but without any Death Baron's. Bought 2 from the store and traded for one. Unlikely as good of a payoff as you'll have.

I like the idea with the Islands altough as with zombies, they benefit from some synergistic cards.

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Standard] Infinite Flying Zombies Combo

« on: October 27, 2018, 01:19:55 am »

How about adding Bloodcrazed Paladin? He can be flashed in or brought back with Liliana as an infinite/infinite. This way with blue you only need to protect an Arcane Adaptation in play and can pull the combo off with 6 mana in one turn.