Indirectly with the stations. [[Blasting Station]] and [[Grinding Station]] and [[Altar of Dementia]] can turn a stream of thopters into glorious damage and mill, the stream generated with Emry, [[Intruder Alarm]] and X creatures like [[Stonecoil Serpe…
/u/bboomslang on True or False: Emry is not a good general for a casual playgroup
Emry can play Sai and [[Efficient Construction]] and [[Mirrodin Besieged]] and now your egg loops and bauble loops generate Thopter that you can pump with [[steel overseer]] if you have [[intruder Alarm]] out to the wazoo. Or with [[dragon Throne of Ta…
/u/bboomslang on True or False: Emry is not a good general for a casual playgroup
You can do a lot in mono U. Bug fish beaters. Go wide with Thopters. Combo. Synergies with Throne of the God Pharao and Go Wide. Draw decks with self-mill and LabMan, or opponent mill. Prison decks with twister effects and Omen Machine. Stax decks wher…
/u/bboomslang on True or False: Emry is not a good general for a casual playgroup
But Arcum is fun, too! 😉 – ok, he was linear Combo at cEDH level with Paradox Engine still legal. But he was my favorite deck to pull out against my coworkers Brago, when playing 1v1. I loved his super clear game plan, the whole deck only built to onl…
/u/bboomslang on True or False: Emry is not a good general for a casual playgroup
Yeah, my saying about my Emry deck is that if I have 10 permanents out, I probably have 2 combos already online that I didn‘t notice. I still think she can be great for higher power casual, but definitely not at precondition level. She just is too fast…
/u/bboomslang on Need a cedh viable niv Mizzet parun
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/niv-mizzet-combo-updated/# is the list from Cameron from the LabManiacs. I like it for its more controls interactive setup. Still haven’t sleeved it up, though, because I am still having fun with Jhoira in those colors.
/u/bboomslang on Who’s the best Artificer?
Most lists go for Emry Eggs – small artifacts with cheap (best CMC 0 or CMC 1 with cost reducers) and self-sacrifice abilities, like the baubles. That in combination with untap effects for Emry ([[Intruder Alarm]] if you go for cheap creatures and sac outlets, [[Mirran Spy]] if you go for normal artifacts) allow you to dig deep into your library and grab stuff from there and rebuild or win. She tends to go combo, but you can also go token go-wide with stuff like [[Sai, Master Thopterist]], [[Mirrodin Besieged]] and [[Efficient Construction]]. And you can even combine the stuff to have multiple strategies. For more casual tables I would opt to not run tutors but to rely more on deep draw and digging spells and creatures, so you don’t go linear combo win but instead see what happens and comes up.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/tin-elves/ is my list that runs most of what I talk about above 😉
/u/bboomslang on Who’s the best Artificer?
For competetive settings I love love love my Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain deck, because it’s super fun and consistent – but for casual tables it is super overpowered. It’s not cEDH tier 1, but it’s tier 2 at minimum. So for more casual settings that are still higher power, I went with [[Emry, Lurker of the Loch]], because she can circumvent commander taxes in a way (just have enough artifacts out when you need to replay her). Arcum Dagsson was my go-to commander when Paradox Engine was still legal, but that again was mostly a cEDH tier 2 deck. Urza – well, I love Urza and play him in my 99 in many artifact decks of mine, but it’s damn hard to not build him in a totally broken way. So both Arcum and Urza will usually experience a lot of table hate. Emry on the other hand kinda flies under the radar at first and even if she gets concentrated on, she is still easy to get out.
An alternative could be to go wider in colors and go for Jeskai, with either [[Elsha of the Infinite]] or [[Kykar, Wind’s Fury]], as they add the good artifact tutoriing of white to the already passable artifact tutoring from blue. I myself built me a Kykar deck that concentrates on equipment and vehicles and uses Kykar as kind of a battery to get the mana for equipping stuff after playing. Definitely a way to get more and broader interaction and synergies than in mono-blue.
/u/bboomslang on Single Card Discussion: Chain of Vapor
So, it sounds a lot to me that someone is sitting in a salt mine here. But let’s try one last time: there is a winning player. You have an answer. You decide to not take care of the problem, but instead try to gain advantage on another player, that did…
/u/bboomslang on [Fan Art] Painted a Slivdrazi Monstrosity!
The mana slivers do not make Eldrazi mana. That one colorless pip can be damn hard to come by if your deck is meant to get to WUBRG fast and consistent and you shun colorless mana producers.
/u/bboomslang on Looking to dabble in cEDH
Yeah, when your decks average cmc is below 2, the Teeg suddenly looks much less problematic.
/u/bboomslang on Single Card Discussion: Chain of Vapor
Look at it from a different perspective: I am already losing anyway, that is the assumption in the discussion. I don’t have answers and supposedly no one had answers ready but that lonely chain of vapor in your hand. You targeting someone else in the e…
/u/bboomslang on How necessary is Timetwister for Opus Thief?
Dark Deal I can get behind, Diminishing Returns is dangerous. Not exactly Demonic Consultation dangerous, but close. And it is one mana higher in CMC, which is astonishingly relevant. And yes, I know that you have more experience in that area than I wi…
/u/bboomslang on Single Card Discussion: Chain of Vapor
Oh, sure, totally valid to take that risk. just don’t come back to me with the complaint that I am throwing the game, is all I’m saying.
Every chain has at least one originator deciding to get some more value out of it instead of taking care of the actual problem.
/u/bboomslang on Single Card Discussion: Chain of Vapor
Exactly. And hey, when the chain comes back to you, you are free to sac one of your own lands to take care of that scepter yourself again.
/u/bboomslang on Single Card Discussion: Chain of Vapor
This. The original chain targetting the lesser threat and trying to force the player already getting set back taking another setback to take care of the main threat almost feels like – totally valid according to game rules and the competetive mindse, no doubt, but still – angle shooting. I totally see a “screw you” reaction to that as a valid answer, too, because players are humans.
If I am the target of said chain and the land I have to throw in to “not throw the game” would leave me completely outside a winning situation, You’d bet I will think long and hard who is the actual problem. One of the guys sitting at the table is only trying to win the game as we all are trying. One other is trying to play me while doing so. 🙂
/u/bboomslang on Emry players, rise up! Who’s been playing Emry, and how have you been building your lists? Here’s my Eldraine subthemed Emry control list.
I added some description stuff from my notes from Bologna.
/u/bboomslang on Emry players, rise up! Who’s been playing Emry, and how have you been building your lists? Here’s my Eldraine subthemed Emry control list.
I know it and play it in a lot of my lists – my Emry on purpose doesn’t run any tutors aside from Inventor’s Fair, because I want to mainly focus on getting there by draw loops with Emry and some baubles or other things like that. It’s a power level decision. If I go for combo decks in a more casual setting, I leave out tutors, going for more redundancy and draw instead. Produces a more varied game play.
If I was going for a more linear combo play style, Drift would definitely be in, it’s one of my favorite tutor effects, because there are so many great targets at CMC 3 (and for CMC 2 I use Muddle the Mixture, as that is also a passable counterspell). And it being almost uncounterable (aside from Stifle effects and who plays those) is another upside.
/u/bboomslang on Emry players, rise up! Who’s been playing Emry, and how have you been building your lists? Here’s my Eldraine subthemed Emry control list.
Intruder Alarm is “2U, random opponent discards a removal from hand” in this deck, because if that doesn’t happen, I flat out win. Very many of my loops are based on creatures ETB/LTB – usually one of the X creatures with X=0 does the trick, or some mana producing creatures and Ancestral Statue.
So no, Intruder Alarm never was a liability, because so far I haven’t seen the game progress with it on the board beyond my turn, one way or the other 😉
Her combo plan plays a lot like Teshar Loops, just trading the silence effects for counterspells and draw effects. Was by far my best performing list at Bologna, and most wins weren’t on the first combo run, but required (and were able to do) multiple runs at winning. So games were really fun, even for others at the table – in two cases my opponents and me discussed the board state to find out wether I did or didn’t have infinite, then proceeded to find the best way to stop it to see if I could get through with my grip of interaction or not.
/u/bboomslang on Emry players, rise up! Who’s been playing Emry, and how have you been building your lists? Here’s my Eldraine subthemed Emry control list.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/tin-elves/ is my list. I call it “Tin Elves”, because it plays a lot like combo elves, just with artifacts. It contains a lot of sac-reanimate loops and some etb-based loops, tons of overlapping combos. I ditched tutors, because it is meant for more casual but still higher power tables and it performed really good at MF Bologna for me. It’s a lot of fun to play, because you almost always win in new and weird ways. My saying is that when I have 10 artifacts out, I probably have at least two combos out, which I just might not yet see myself 😉
My non-combo plan – which also worked out charmingly – is token and Throne of the God Pharao, because that can just end games.
The thing I love the most about her is the cost reduction – in one game at Bologna she was a 12U commander and I just played her again for a single U, because by then I had enough thopters and myr to reduce her cost fully. Very resilient commander with some really fun options.
I told my wife I don’t want to be buried when I die…
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/u/bboomslang on How to beat Krenko?
Overlord can find your first sliver for all the cascading fun. You know what overlord can find, too? Morophon. Oh, and I would like to introduce you to this neat little enchantment named Training Grounds.
/u/bboomslang on The most unusual plays
Stroke of genius with X as 4 on the guy with the boardwipe to find a land to play said boardwipe.
/u/bboomslang on Alex Ullmans thoughts on Tron being OP
You are not alone. His sole existence seems to have been reduced by him to just complaining.
/u/bboomslang on [The Spike Feeders] How do you feel about Laboratory Maniac (or: can you still have varied gameplay without changing win conditions)?
Yes, totally. People get to hung up on Wincons, it is the game play how to achieve the Wincon, how to force it through and how to protect it, that matters. Inf8nite Mama can also be run into a walking ballista, sure, but that still would 9nly make it i…