Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:27 am
If my desk space wasn't taken up by a model M1A1,i'd be taking a part my decks and redoing them.
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I can post it if you like. I just feel weird about posting any of my heavy theme decks since they can look like kind of a mess sometimes. You know, more art than power level. I'm never sure how much interest there is in that.
Sure -- or if you'd rather message it that's cool. The theme itself is what sounds intriguing since it suites Volrath so well. I like a bit of theme myself, though I tend to loosely splash a bit into certain decks more than devote to a theme (at least, in a Vorthos sense).Segrus wrote: ↑4 years agoI can post it if you like. I just feel weird about posting any of my heavy theme decks since they can look like kind of a mess sometimes. You know, more art than power level. I'm never sure how much interest there is in that.
Plus, I won't get to play it in a real environment until next Monday. Just testing for now.
Don't feel weird about it. Just write it up to make it clear that it is what it is. There's plenty of other forum members here who build for themes. I know Sanity's Eclipse does, and while I haven't had time to post them here yet I have a series of 3 theme decks based around a series of books I enjoy. They're not ubiquitous so anyone walking into them without realizing what they are wouldn't necessarily get them but I don't care. Sometimes being the victor at the table isn't the only win condition, you know?Segrus wrote: ↑4 years agoI can post it if you like. I just feel weird about posting any of my heavy theme decks since they can look like kind of a mess sometimes. You know, more art than power level. I'm never sure how much interest there is in that.
Plus, I won't get to play it in a real environment until next Monday. Just testing for now.
Interacting with the LGS I've been going to lately and coming from reddit has made me hesitant. They both have or give the appearance of increasing power level which doesn't make it easy to find a good spot for getting theme decks out there (reddit likes established themes, like Chair tribal and Ladies Looking Left, but it rough seas outside that). Combine this with the deck being super not tuned, and it makes me feel vulnerable.toctheyounger wrote: ↑4 years agoDon't feel weird about it. Just write it up to make it clear that it is what it is. There's plenty of other forum members here who build for themes. I know Sanity's Eclipse does, and while I haven't had time to post them here yet I have a series of 3 theme decks based around a series of books I enjoy. They're not ubiquitous so anyone walking into them without realizing what they are wouldn't necessarily get them but I don't care. Sometimes being the victor at the table isn't the only win condition, you know?
I have a weird fascination with Event Horizon, or at least the concept behind Event Horizon's story. So this seems pretty awesome to me.WolfWhoWanders wrote: ↑4 years agoI made a theme deck for the movie event horizon/the true story of the Marie Celeste. It's actually a pretty good deck, but not very fun for your opponents. Naturally, skeleton ship is the commander
This does sound difficult to find the right cards. Are you going to get to try the horde deck out any time soon?cryogen wrote: ↑4 years agoWell I finally got all my cards and tokens ordered for a new Dungeons and Dragons themed horde deck I've had brewing in my head. I think it's going to be fun, but probably not very high powered. It was surprisingly difficult to find on theme tokens and creatures that were a broad spectrum, as opposed to a typical tribal style horde deck.
Hopefully in the next month. Cards won't arrive for probably another week, then have to build the skeleton and test it out.Segrus wrote: ↑4 years agoThis does sound difficult to find the right cards. Are you going to get to try the horde deck out any time soon?cryogen wrote: ↑4 years agoWell I finally got all my cards and tokens ordered for a new Dungeons and Dragons themed horde deck I've had brewing in my head. I think it's going to be fun, but probably not very high powered. It was surprisingly difficult to find on theme tokens and creatures that were a broad spectrum, as opposed to a typical tribal style horde deck.
I'll go take a look after this. All Aboard the Marie Celeste--in case there's others lol.WolfWhoWanders wrote: ↑4 years agoSegrus
I actually just posted it because it came to mind. I always want to break it but never do, now I at least have it for posterity. Not sure how to link it but it's called all aboard the Marie Celeste, a skeleton ship adventure in the event horizon. It might still be on the first page of the decklists... Depends when you see this I guess haha
I've built a few different horde decks for a Planeschase variant thing I'd thought up. The three of them were fairly generic or had an easy theme though, so nothing like what you're doing.
Yeah, my first one was a zombie tribal deck, so the only moving parts were a few cards which weren't straight forward. This one will have some elements to really give it a feel like you're doing an actual dungeon crawl.Segrus wrote: ↑4 years agoI'll go take a look after this. All Aboard the Marie Celeste--in case there's others lol.WolfWhoWanders wrote: ↑4 years agoSegrus
I actually just posted it because it came to mind. I always want to break it but never do, now I at least have it for posterity. Not sure how to link it but it's called all aboard the Marie Celeste, a skeleton ship adventure in the event horizon. It might still be on the first page of the decklists... Depends when you see this I guess hahaI've built a few different horde decks for a Planeschase variant thing I'd thought up. The three of them were fairly generic or had an easy theme though, so nothing like what you're doing.
I'd be interested to see it after it gets complete.
Mine are based around the Malazan book of the Fallen series. Some are more just 'vibe of the thing', others are more directly describing a series of events, which gets a little trickier. None of them play amazingly, but yeah, that's not the aim of them at all. For myself I kind of reserve them for kitchen table style games and games at LGS with newbies or new to the store folk.Segrus wrote: ↑4 years agoInteracting with the LGS I've been going to lately and coming from reddit has made me hesitant. They both have or give the appearance of increasing power level which doesn't make it easy to find a good spot for getting theme decks out there (reddit likes established themes, like Chair tribal and Ladies Looking Left, but it rough seas outside that). Combine this with the deck being super not tuned, and it makes me feel vulnerable.toctheyounger wrote: ↑4 years agoDon't feel weird about it. Just write it up to make it clear that it is what it is. There's plenty of other forum members here who build for themes. I know Sanity's Eclipse does, and while I haven't had time to post them here yet I have a series of 3 theme decks based around a series of books I enjoy. They're not ubiquitous so anyone walking into them without realizing what they are wouldn't necessarily get them but I don't care. Sometimes being the victor at the table isn't the only win condition, you know?
I have a theme deck for the Dragonriders of Pern, so I'm not unfamiliar with the idea of basing a deck around a book.
Making a deck around Dancer sounds really neat, actually.toctheyounger wrote: ↑4 years agoMine are based around the Malazan book of the Fallen series. Some are more just 'vibe of the thing', others are more directly describing a series of events, which gets a little trickier. None of them play amazingly, but yeah, that's not the aim of them at all. For myself I kind of reserve them for kitchen table style games and games at LGS with newbies or new to the store folk.
Ultimately I think you just have to be satisfied with the fact that you're building the deck mostly for yourself and satisfying a metric that you know best. That's mostly the case with every deck but much more so with these. People can make suggestions or critique the deck but you know best what's optimal for your build. Reddit can be pretty savage for saltiness, but forget them. Post your decks here, we're pretty supportive.
This is literally why I love Baton of Morale in random decks.
One of them is Shadowthrone/Dancer/High House Shadow. OG Lazav is the commander. It's...ok, but it has been a while since I've looked at it so it's very casual. One day I hope to have the time to post them here.Airi wrote: ↑4 years agoMaking a deck around Dancer sounds really neat, actually.toctheyounger wrote: ↑4 years agoMine are based around the Malazan book of the Fallen series. Some are more just 'vibe of the thing', others are more directly describing a series of events, which gets a little trickier. None of them play amazingly, but yeah, that's not the aim of them at all. For myself I kind of reserve them for kitchen table style games and games at LGS with newbies or new to the store folk.
Ultimately I think you just have to be satisfied with the fact that you're building the deck mostly for yourself and satisfying a metric that you know best. That's mostly the case with every deck but much more so with these. People can make suggestions or critique the deck but you know best what's optimal for your build. Reddit can be pretty savage for saltiness, but forget them. Post your decks here, we're pretty supportive.
I understand that the idea behind this is to encourage players to draft the best decks they can to focus on, you know, actually winning instead of just rare drafting. I respect the intent, but I still think it's a crap idea that leads to feel bads. Imagine going to an LGS for your first ever draft, opening some awesome splashy mythic bomb that you really want for your tiny collection, going 0-3 because it's your first draft, and then losing said mythic to the Spike that drafts 10x/week on MTGO/MTGA/paper and has a trade binder worth more than your car.vandertroll wrote: ↑4 years agoPlayed draft for the first time after a decade.. Apparently drafting pools in my LGS don't let you keep your pulls. Instead, all mythic / rares are being pooled and the winner player picks first, the 2nd place goes after etc. I didn't pull anything valuable in my packs,I came third and since I play EDH I got what I wanted. Still, i felt mildly annoyed about it. Does this happen regularly?
NoNeedToBragoBoutIt wrote: ↑4 years agoThe mono decks have been a wild ride so far!ShowHideWith most pods being 4 player pods, it wasn't surprising that it took me quite a few rounds to win with Traxos, Scourge of Kroog.
I ended up winning against a pod consisting of Anje Falkenrath, Thassa, Deep-Dwelling and Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero eventually. With my first swings i took out Gerry, since i feared his deck would be the most resilient. Anje ran through her deck, but blanked mostly. A timely Tormod's Crypt later she was dead in the water and an easy prey. Thassa was obviously very sturdy, being able to tap down my commander repeatedly. When i resolved Clock of Omens my time had come. With Blackblade Reforged and Strata Scythe (Wastes ) equipped i was able to one-shot.
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle is an absolute mess to play online, since you can't fast forward through triggers like you can in paper. Let's just say i haven't made friends due to the down time.
The winning pod was against Golos, Tireless Pilgrim which folded on the spot to a From the Ashes by Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, who in return got annihilated by my Tragic Arrogance. The remaining creatureless Kruphix, God of Horizons wasn't able to rebuild fast enough, so i stomped him with a Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx supercharged Mirror Entity, Memnites and Ornithopters. I was a bit sad that i couldn't fire off the Charge Across the Araba in my hand, though.
Talrand, Sky Summoner manhandled a pod consisting of Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca and Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow in his very first game. A t-2 Sapphire Medallion, t-3 commander and ciphered t-4 Hidden Strings quickly got out of hand. Chaining Coastal Piracy into Gravitational Shift with counter backup had me winning within the next 2 turns.
As usual Gonti, Lord of Luxury had to edge through a lenghty game. Jodah, Archmage Eternal, Golos, Tireless Pilgrim and Atraxa, Praetors' Voice were worthy opponents with lots of good stuff (ba dumm tsss) to steal. Lacking originality, this wasn't too entertaining, unfortunately.
In the end Sidisi, Undead Vizier corpse danced into Bubbling Muck and Torment of Hailfire to finish things off.
Zada, Hedron Grinder had me struggling for a while. Several hours of crushing defeats later i was able to outpace and overcome a pretty aggressive pod. Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale didn't hit much else but weenies from the get go, Omnath, Locus of Rage was crucially counterspelled by Alela, Artful Provocateur and when it came to her game-deciding Cyclonic Rift, Pyroblast turned things around for me. With Invigorated Rampage, Twinflame, Dragon Fodder under Kari Zev's Expertise, it was all over.
A bunch of games in, Ezuri, Renegade Leader was facing various control decks in Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King and yet another Golos, Tireless Pilgrim list. Being the obvious aggressor Korvold, Fae-Cursed King had me on the brink of dying to commander damage. The life-saving Squall Line got me down to single digit life, but i top decked Vitalize, which was just enough to swing for the remaining life of the table.
I completely agree.MeowZeDung wrote: ↑4 years agoI understand that the idea behind this is to encourage players to draft the best decks they can to focus on, you know, actually winning instead of just rare drafting. I respect the intent, but I still think it's a crap idea that leads to feel bads.vandertroll wrote: ↑4 years agoApparently drafting pools in my LGS don't let you keep your pulls. Instead, all mythic / rares are being pooled and the winner player picks first