Any of you folks have a budget version of Varina? There's a weekly league that I am considering with a $150 budget cap. I was thinking Yuriko, but then thought Varina could probably get under that cap without giving up too much of the game plan. The biggest pain is losing a lot of untapped fixing, ...

To be honest, lands like this, and Field of the Dead, are precisely why I still have Strip Mine , Tectonic Edge , and Demolition Field in my decks. When you do strong things, can't be salty about opponents wanting to stop them. ;) I don't find myself striping lands much at all, so little so that I ...

Dunadain wrote: ↑

3 hours ago

Stickers are banned in legacy and vintage! 🎉🎉🎉

Good lord what a stupid ass idea stickers were.

This is the kind of stuff that causes my interest in Magic to fluctuate so wildly. I hope this set tanks...but it won't. Yeah, it's at the point where almost every new set completely obsoletes a variety of old playstyles and strategies, so if you're playing out in the wild like I often do, you're b...

The only enchantress I play much anymore; 3 mana is too much for the effect for me. I play this one and Sythis, Harvest's Hand and sometimes Eidolon of Blossoms (since it can be Open the Vaults'd)

My god, they seem absolutely dead set on invalidating any card not made in the last 5 years.

I really do not understand how you can possibly walk back from the kind of power creep going on.

Hi all! I've been lurking for a while understanding card decisions and making some changes my varania. Couple of questions I have while learning to pilot what do you all typically tutor for with enlightened and vampiric/diabolic? Also, what are your thoughts on raise the palisade? Would love some t...

Hi all, its been a while. Today we got a very promising zombie sacrifice outlet [Warren Soultrader] from an unofficial leak. 2B - 3/3 zombie goblin wizard Pay 1 life, sacrifice another creature: create a treasure token. This seems very easy to abuse and interested to hear your thoughts. Hopefully w...

materpillar wrote: ↑

1 day ago

Speaking of random meetups. Anyone going to GenCon this year? I'll probably be there some.

We are planning to go next year when kiddos a little older and has had some time to learn dnd (she's starting a club for it at the library this summer :D).

Had an interesting game with this deck against decks I forgot; one of them was an The Ur-Dragon dragon tribal that friggin Balefire Dragon 'd me which was very unpleasant, on the eve of me cutting Nylea's Intervention :( A Haktos the Unscarred deck finally won the day by killin us, and I couldn't qu...

Had a pretty good game with Ephara in which, was is becoming typical, at least one player starts shuffling up out of sheer demoralization. Against Tivadar of Thorn , Zask, Skittering Swarmlord and Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist in which I dunno stuff happened. I can't pretend to remember everything tha...

I also have this funny section of my brain going "you need to crank the powerlevel of your decks some to match that meta" which I don't want to do because most of them are perfectly placed in my current meta. Yeah games like those make me feel like I should crank it up honestly (except fo...

materpillar wrote: ↑

2 days ago

I feel like my internet credibility might have taken at hit from the absolute shlocking I got. Maybe not.

No way, commander is just too big of a random factor to make any assumptions like that.

Can confirm Anzrag, the Quake-Mole is great at least. I popped him off a Mosswort Bridge on turn 5 or 6 and won off activating his trigger the next turn even though he died (since he untapped my 12/12 Bloodthirster who had been tapped by a Koma, Cosmos Serpent who ran out of sneks). My read on that ...

First of all materpillar it was awesome hanging with you, thanks for makin the drive! I really enjoyed getting to see some decks I've followed for years in person. I'm now very much on team ban Sol Ring. Same, it ruins every game it shows up in pretty much. Adds very little to the format. But if you...

Man I just really like Tymaret, the Murder King. No real great reason for it. It's a bad card for the most part. :D

Honestly @Zed117 I think you have enough of a deck together to just start playing and seeing what you like. don't get analysis paralysis

I've never seen this not get invalidated by random crap. Mana rocks and dorks, sometimes winding up kingmaking by stopping interaction in another players turn. Trash. Might play in a mono g enchantress I guess.

I can't help but wonder if a few mana dorks with keywords wouldn't be worth considering;

Sylvan Caryatid Birds of Paradise Gilded Goose Beastcaller Savant Maraleaf Pixie Ornithopter of Paradise etc. could be a pretty useful set.

I have been dabbling in the white catch-up ramp package in Mono-white, but nothing multicolor yet, and I have not gone full tilt since I don't have many fetch options in mono-white. I am putting in a Guildless commons and maybe even a Arid Archway if it works out. 1/2 my ramp turns off if I find a ...

I don't ever maintain more than one mono color of each color. Just too samey for me, even if the gameplan is different. I'll make whatever two color decks as much as I feel though, they can be quite distinct

10 shocks 10 Battlebond lands or slow lands I think you'll find this to be horrible. There's no way it'll be balanced. I'd play the color picking gates and thriving lands over off-color pairs you won't use much. But I really strongly agree with your Farseek manabase and think that is almost surely ...

This card seems like it probably has awful play patterns. That's a lot of mana for removal, and if you hit someone with a big grip who isn't blue they'll probably be encouraged to empty their mitt in response -- and if they're blue, they're forced to counterspell it. Awkward.

I had an idea I wanted to note; I think this deck could be done with Skybind as the engine in a Bant shell. blinking Serra's Sanctum or Gaea's Cradle would let you go bananas with Thrasios, Triton Hero 's ability making lands which trigger field. Kind of another way to hit that Lego Seedborn Muse ef...

toctheyounger wrote: ↑

1 week ago

I'll also recommend Champion of the Perished. I saw it on your maybes.

I have played Dreadmalkin and it was pretty good :D Literally any 1 drop zombie that can attack is massively better than people think it is. Ones that become 10/10s or draw cards are a slam dunk :D