I decided to start a new weekly/bi-weekly/whenever thing on the blog where I post an absolutely terrible card and anyone who wants to tries to make a deck based around it or even just a combo. As we were eating dinner tonight William came up with a good one after I mentioned that I found one and tore it up because I goddamn fucking hate it.
Enjoy.
Make a combo.
Yeah, it is dumb. You’ll all live.
Creatures:
4x Bogardan Helkite
4x Kokoshu, The Evening Star
Spells:
4x Cabal Ritual
4x Dark Ritual
4x Footsteps of the Goryo
4x Buried Alive
4x Dread Return
4x Living Death
4x Burnt Offering
4x Infernal Contract
Enchantments:
4x Gravestorm
Lands:
16x Swamp
Best card in the deck? Burnt Offering.
Well, I finally decided to write a real article for the blog instead of just posting nonsense and complaining about stuff. Sure the article about the dumb Reanimator deck is still on its way, but how about something with a little more substance?
It seems the gang has been playing a lot more often as of late, and since Jake got another box of Planar Chaos and Ben decided to start building more decks, I’ve seen a lot of interesting things going down.
I suppose to begin this article, since its about a word and what that word means for Magic and is partially responsible for how much fun you can have with the decks you play and even play against, I might start by defining that word:
Continue reading ‘Synergy, Less Annoying, More Fun!’
Due to the constant reminders and tales of how awesome it is, I have finally given up and wrote the deck plan for DD’s discard Rack deck. It basically runs straight discard, a touch of reanimation, and of course DD’s favorite current beat stick…Calciderm! If anyone has comments about the deck then address them to Derrick since this is his idea.
23 Land: 1 Godless Shrine, 9 Plains, 13 Swamps
14 Creatures: 4 Ravenous Rats, 4 Shrieking Grotesque, 4 Calciderm, 2 Akroma Angel of Wrath
23 Spells: 4 The Rack, 4 Funeral Charm, 4 Cry of Contrition, 4 Smallpox, 4 Castigate, 3 Zombify
Personally I think the deck may have potenial or just be a pain in the ass. I envision the deck to be the same as the ultimate gayness of Teferi Flood Strategie so I probably wont make the deck. There Derrick, its designed, now fix it and GET OFF MY DICK!
So since I’m in a bit of conflict over some cards in this idea of a deck. The basic idea is to blow up as many lands in play as possible, including my own. To counter act my own loss of lands, I’m playing Crucible, but I’m just wondering if Avalanche Riders have a place in the deck or not. The best option to take out of the deck is the 2 Reality Acid for Avalanche Riders. Acid is there for annoying enchantments, artifacts, huge creatures, or other lands. Help me out guys, looking at you Brainasium and Nick the Nerd.
Land Devestator
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3 Terramorphic Expanse
3 Gemstone Mine
7 Mountain
7 Island
3 Plains
4 Boros Signet
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Stone Rain
3 Boom//Bust
3 Raze
4 Electrolyze
2 Reality Acid
4 Mana Tithe
2 Compulsive Research
3 Numot the Devestator
3 Lightning Angel
3 Shivan Wumpus
So its approximately 1:30am and I just started rattling off stupid things to do with Kokushu and Bogardan Hellkite to Bill while he typed crap into Magic Workstation. Lets put it this way, dumb dumb dumb. We both decided we are going to build this crazy deck and while I desparately want to let everyone in on the secret, I can’t.
When reading the comments on my last article “The Deal with Crovax” and after talking to Nick the Nerd, I have a few more questions about the targets of “nonwhite questions”. This one deals with Oros the Avenger. When Oros damages an opponent and you activate his white wrath ability, how does it target?
Well I was in my local shop talking with some of the local guys that play in a lot of the larger tournaments, and when we were talking about the Extended season coming up I asked about the best decks and what not. Turns out that the best deck in Extended right now IMO is an Astral Slide deck that is pretty much the same as the original but runs green for Life of the Loam, Eteranl Witness, and Loxodon Hierarch. Now this is not the first time that old decks that rocked people in the head have come back. I want to know why every time I talk to someone about new decks that they tote some old deck that I was around when it was created are so damn good!
Also makes me think about getting back into Extended as it is all my style.
Ascendent Evincar and his Planar Chaos opposite Crovax Ascendent Hero. Both give +1/+1 bonus to the other creatures of their color and both give a -1/-1 reduction to other creatures that are not their color. So out of curiousity what happens when they are both in play and you have a multicolor (black/white) Angel of Despair in play. Does the Angel get both bonuses, both reductions, or stay exactly the same. I can see that a white or black creature would stay the same with both Ascendents in play because they get a bonus and a reduction from the Ascendents but what about a multicolor creature? Answer me fellow guru’s of zomfg MTG
Pre Story:
Recently, last night, myself and two other guys from my dorm went downstairs for a little late magic action. The first game ended with a nice hurricane for 7 that killed all but the caster (who stopped collecting around Ice Age J). Then another guy came down and wanted to play so we went four way free for all, worst play of the night. The new guy ran straight burn and grafted skullcap/ensnaring bridge, that stopped my zombies, Bills madness, and Cody’s green beats. Ironically the game finally ended by yet another hurricane (I new I had no chance because anything that might have helped, ie shepherd of the rot, just got fried so with my one forest in the deck I imprinted it to extraplanar lens allowing Cody to stream of life and hurricane for 18+). All this to say that it was an amazingly boring game with the lock on turn 4 it lasted 45 minutes…. So I said to myself if games are going to be played this way I might as well use cards that nobody is prepared for, enter in you. Clicking through your old articles often inspire interesting deck designs. First I thought hey yeah banding that will get some rule books pulled out but then as I was reading though it in the comprehensive rules I realized it would just be too much work to convince people how it works/worked.
