I played a game of Welcome to the Dungeon.
/u/bboomslang on [Organized Play] The London Mulligan – Starts with Core 2020
BR Goblins is tons of fun. This Grenzo list is a list I enjoy playing. Nice for times where you just want to ride with your lucky strike, but still controllable enough to push for a win when the right boardstate emerges. Just be aware of it’s major weekness: board wipes. Sure, there are ways around it like [[Balthor the Defiled]] or [[Garna, the BLoodflame]], but still – if someone in your pod plays “boardwipe, the game”, it won’t be a lot of fun for you.
London Mulligan to be introduced with Core Set 2020
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/london-mulligan-2019-06-03 praise Karn, our lord and savior. What does this mean for the format? I would say that it is a nerf to UR Phoenix. It definitely benifits dredge and tron. What do you think? …
/u/bboomslang on Casual doesn’t have to mean ”bad”
Well, sure, you played a wincon. That is surely competitive. /s But what many players really mean with Casual is βyour deck puts up a good fight against min, but in the end I still winβ – anything that goes against that is deemed competitive and un-fun…
[MH1] Echo of Eons
Echo of Eons 4UU Sorcery Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Flashback 2U submitted by /u/MortalWombat5 to r/CompetitiveEDH [link] [comments]
A Time-Twister you can cast off Lion’s Eye Diamond
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/u/bboomslang on (MH1) Llanowar Tribe
Probably only because [[Elvish Aberration]] covers more than that π
/u/bboomslang on Blazing chant
Well, sentinel tower starts to count anew each turn, but counts your opponent turns. This one carries counter over to next turn. Still don’t think it really does enough to make it worth it.
/u/bboomslang on [[Spoiler]] The First Sliver
It is at least the coolest FC commander I could imagine. I mean, flooding the board with a horde of slivers – what could be better?
/u/bboomslang on [Brew] Urza Paradox Scepter (UPS)
Yeah, I would play it over Recurring Insight, but I would probably play Aetherflux Reservoir, too, and go the primary storm route.
/u/bboomslang on [Brew] Urza Paradox Scepter (UPS)
Yeah, I guess it is a question if Urza’s native storm is a prime focus or just an incidental value. No point in playing a potential dead card for incidental value. In an aetherflux reservoir focused list it could make more sense, since we want to get to our reservoir and his play-for-free ability would open up another line to that easily. If the focus is more the infinite swan thing, that changes the picture drastically. I probably would feel more comfortable to keep him on an artifact centric combo, though, because of the easier tutoring for those. But that might just be that I find the Swan-Combo overly fiddly in explaining π
/u/bboomslang on [Brew] Urza Paradox Scepter (UPS)
I wonder if [[Mana Severance]] could make sense – easy to find via Muddle or Spellseeker and will make sure your storm doesn’t whiff.
/u/bboomslang on [[Spoiler]] Urza, Lord High Artificer
Cursed Totem switches him off in the two relevant abilities. That is a relevant weakness. And he is only the finisher, not the enabler (or more like half the enabler with his Mana ability). Very good, but definitely manageable. Iβd say he is βjustβ a d…
/u/bboomslang on [[Spoiler]] Urza, Lord High Artificer
I already checked how many red cards my Jhoira stax storm deck plays, not that much I need to change to make the switch …
/u/bboomslang on Urza, Lord High Artificer
I think the fact that Cursed Totem switches him off is balancing him – but he breaks parity on many stax pieces and that could be the best way to build him. And he might be great in UR artifacts, as you can find him easily and he brings a lot to the ta…
/u/bboomslang on Izzet Blitz post ban
I think Probe can easily be replaced by Manamorphose – sure, you don’t get the peek, but you keep mana going and have an essentially free spell early on in your chain. But Gush as free spell that could draw you into another free spell (draw 2 just ups the chances a ton compared to draw 1) will really be missed.
/u/bboomslang on Gush, Daze and Gitaxian Probe banned: now let’s look at the factor pushing away several decks
Yeah, I played a lot of TortEx in paper (because I love weird cards that just make you go “that was a common????” when you read it), where there is no clicking at all. Still lost a ton with it, because it’s plain too slow and fragile and more often than not just loses to itself durdling to hell. I mean, I had lots of fun durdling with it, just had to accept that winning mostly meant misplays by my opponent.
/u/bboomslang on To put today’s bans in perspective: they just banned the 2nd, 7th, and 11th most played cards in the format.
Tron is the gateway deck that keeps aggro in check. Gush-Decks preyed on Tron. That’s how it always goes with strong gateway decks that keep a whole archetype down – people will start to play what preys on that. And the result will be a middle-tier placed gateway deck and the predator decks on top of it. They banned pieces of the predators of Tron.
Not saying Gush didn’t deserve the ban (although I am sad about it still, as it is a super cool and unique card and definitely made Pauper feel very special to me), but just looking at the rankings and deducting what is the actual problem is just plain stupid.
Will be interesting to see how the meta shakes out after this. Luckily it’s Pauper and switching decks doesn’t kill you financially like in Modern or Legacy π
/u/bboomslang on Delver and combo players right now
you can still count to 20, yeah. I guess we have to rely on you guys now to keep Tron low π
/u/bboomslang on [MH1] Force of Vigor
I just realize that probebly my wishful thinking is typing in above comment, because if other lists are green-heavy enough to run this, several of my decks will probably be relegated to casual π (Jhoira doesn’t feel that good right now and Paradox Arcum already was on the bleachers but might not even be allowed into the stadium anymore)
/u/bboomslang on [MH1] Force of Vigor
Maybe for Brostorm or Gitrog? I mean, there aren’t that many lists so green-heavy that the alternate casting cost is reliable, or are there?
I wonder, if they do a cycle (as it looks like), what will the others be? The black one will be some creature removal, I guess – and that one could be super interesting, if it is, since many decks are heavy on black. Red some kind of direct damage, most probably, and I guess too small to matter in cEDH. But what will white be? Some kind of exile? Or just some free tokens?