Magic: The Gathering C/D

purphomancer decks w/assemble just fold to like, everything though rn but man that feels sweet

do any of you MTG nerds play on OCTGN?

nope

cockatrice is the current standard for free MTG-ing, as far as i know. dont know anyone who still uses OCTGN

whoa

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/other/10212013/vintagemasters

essentially power 9 cards are coming, but they're basically as rare as foil mythics, and the set itself is gonna be double MSRP. dunno how this is going to be much different than Masters Edition

here's what i'm working on for standard now:

4 elvish mystic
4 experiment one
4 burning-tree emissary
4 kalonian tusker
2 scavenging ooze
4 boon satyr
4 reverent hunter
4 ghor-clan rampager
3 nylea, god of the hunt
1 polukranos, world eater

3 domri rade

4 stomping ground
4 temple of abandon
2 mountain
12 forest
1 nykthos, shrine to nyx

sideboard:
4 mistcutter hydra
3 nylea's disciple
1 polukranos, world eater
2 flesh//blood
2 time to feed
2 garruk, caller of beasts
1 bow of nylea

basically trying to build the best ghor-clan rampager deck since that card is way underplayed right now. blood is also awesome and should maybe just be maindeck, it's only bad vs supreme verdict decks.

looks like it would be fun to play. is there no room for savageborn hydra?

i like arbor colossus a lot in those r/g lists

this deck's too aggro for either of those, its not the ramp deck where you're generating a ton of mana

idk if you cant play a 6/6 for 5 in yr elvish mystic deck than

also if if you're playing 3 nyleas it seems good? i am terrible w/ r/g decks though, i could not find any success w/domri decks last season

yeah i might try it but i want to be more compact i think. mana efficiency seems to be the key to beating the sea of mono-black attrition decks

yeah monoblack is everywhere online despite it not being that good in the meta. i dont really like that deck and have been playing both u/w control decks w/prognostic sphinx and variations on r/w control to some success. i really, really like the u/w list but its not a deck that i enjoy playing esp because of the uptick in control mirrors over the last week. the r/w list is more fun but kinda loose.

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/silvestri-says-stats/

yeah i saw that - biggest takeaway i can find so far is that sea god's revenge is incredibly overvalued, several 'bad' commons are outperforming it in this sample

or maybe not, i misinterpreted how the scoring works here, but it still seems like its worse than the good commons and good cheaper uncommons

it really depends on your deck. a fast uw deck doesn't really want it more than another heroic trigger, but for other decks it's regularly a blowout.

also although the ordeals have a high win % they also have a high 'this is why you lost' factor when you get lightning striked

I keep complaining to lamp about them, I think they are the biggest mistake in the format

yeah ordeals are some of the most swingy high risk/high reward cards we've gotten in a while

also i am reasonably certain now that nimbus naiad is the best common, stats be damned

I wouldn't take it over voyage's end or lightning strike but yeah...it's really good...

I'd take it over Voyage's End at least!

Sea God - yes it definitely seems a little overrated. My first thought was that it was almost an Uncommon Cyclonic Rift but THS is faster than RTR and doesn't have a token strategy, plus the sorcery speed really does hamper it. As good as it can be I think it fits into that category of "expensive + situational" which does not make for great limited cards.

I seem to get murdered by the Ordeals over and over - turn 2 play on a Hoplite is nearly unbeatable unless you have the Voyage's End right then and there. I'm surprised that anyone would diss the Hoplite, it's a 1-drop that's revelant late game and is really hard to block.

ehh come draft w/ me and give me all the voyage's ends and sea god's revenges

yeah stupid ordeal wins are (among) the reasons why lightning strike and end are even better than normal

I'm fully aware of the strength of Voyage's End, just that my evaluation of the 3 strongest commons are Lightning Strike/Nimbus Naiad/Voyage's End. The Naiad just does so much in this set, I think just in general I tend to value proactive cards over reactive ones. Maybe to a fault.

the numbers actually push god's willing ahead of all of those

i don't like the rescaling by CMC for cards with 1-4 CMC since its rare to be able to win a game where you don't hit 4 regardless of how many cheap spells you have

i think gods willing is the 2nd best white common but there's no way it's better than wingsteed rider.

i think satyr hedonist is the burning-tree emissary of this set. way stronger card than it looks on the surface, lots of big red mana costs that are devastating when used a couple turns earlier than you're supposed to

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yeah i agree, the reweighting by cmc is superflawed. also agree that rider is better than gods willing. i also take eidolon over willing. in the comments to that article someone suggests a better way of weighting the win % and he and his friend rejig their formula a bit. i think those results are probably better although its still annoying to be basically guessing at these likelihoods.

haha fwiw i have used hedonist that way exactly once

my friend tried to convince me it was great and so I tried it exactly once and ramped into a 5 and got voyage's ended immediately and now I will never do it again

well i was talking about constructed there

but i completely missed on nykthos doing the same thing without having to play or throw away a 2/1

in limited its basically there to threaten monstrous early so you can attack your ill-tempered cyclops into a 4/4 on turn 5 or whatever. pretty circumstantial for it to matter

what is this...constructed...you speak of

constructed is an awful timesink, please continue to ignore it. don't end up like me, devoting actual brainpower towards single-set block constructed and the like

I'm slowly trading towards a modern deck

which one? modern is actually pretty sweet, probably my favorite format though i'm finally getting tired of birthing pod and shopping around for a new deck to learn now

uwr

which I know isn't very t1 atm but it's just how I like to play magic

cool, uwr not my style but like jund it's always a safe bet to be playable

the zendikar fetchlands are probably the worst part of modern now, i'm feeling pretty dumb for trading some away before they rotated from standard. had to buy them back later at like 25 bucks each instead of 10 and they're even higher now

yeah I have a friend in my edh group that has full sets of them and he's cool w/ sharing so I think I might just build the deck minus those and borrow for an event

cause spending $50 on a scalding tarn seems like a bad investment

yeah it seems very likely to get a reprint within the next few years, either in a modern masters 2, or a zendikar 2 since zendikar seems like the most likely set to get a sequel other than the inevitable ravnica 3.

its pretty weird in retrospect how zendikar was the set that saved magic commercially despite being a mediocre-to-bad limited format. i guess quality of limited play is just not that correlated with overall sales though.

iatee and i have talked about this - i would bet actual money on a reprint of zendikar and onslaught in the fall 2015 block. i'm not sure if they'll do zen II set but 2015 would be the same gap btw zen and zen II as they had btw rav and rtr. and it gives people enough of a break from shocks and 'good mana' in standard. and fetches are the biggest barrier to wider adoption of the modern format imo. mm 2 also showed that reprints of high-value utility cards don't hurt the price of original printings that much so people that have sunk money into onslaught fetches won't lose too much, they will still command a premium.

xp well look at avacyn restored, that set sold huge

I'm tooling around with B/R decks in Limited and it's actually working quite well. Akroan Crusader is working really well for me, you can put a Dragon's Breath, Ordeal, or Scourgemark on him and hit for 3 on turn two and even gain a little card advantage. Even Titan's Strength seems good, you can get in for 5 right away. Scry seems real good too since your plan is so well-defined. Two-Headed Cerberus is also quite good with all those cards. All of these are late picks too. I also love Kragma Warcaller as a late drop since it essentially can throw 8 power worth of attacks with haste out of nowhere. Runs smooth with 16 lands too.

RB is def the most underdrafted aggro deck yeah. but i actually think its strength is not having to play super-circumstantial cards like akroan crusader.

Yeah but you still want some kind of one-drop ideally. Potent of Betrayal can be nuts in this deck b/c the format sometimes revolves around building up big dudes that can't be taken out by anything short of Hemlock, and it seems like nobody ever really sees it coming.

by the way I'm gonna go ahead and reverse course on Akroan Horse, it's definitely not first-pick worthy but every time I've had it played on me it's been a nuisance. There are really not any ways for your opponent to just sac it and even if the "average" game only goes on for 3 turns after you play it you have to consider that the Horse is the sort of card that really encourages long games. Maybe it would be bad vs. decks with lots of fliers but I'm turning around on the card.