Apr

2019

Architects of the West Kingdom

I played a game of Architects of the West Kingdom.

Apr

2019

Magic: The Gathering

I played a game of Magic: The Gathering.

Apr

2019

[Primer] Food Chain Niv

I hope you all are even a fraction as excited as I am. Niv is one of my absolute favorite characters in the lore, and I’m thrilled to get to play him at the helm of my favorite deck.

I’ve reworked the Food Chain Tazri primer for the new Niv.

I’ve also made a $700 budget build (as of 4/12/19).

Decklist & Primer

Budget Decklist

and the wonderful Niv-Mizzet Discord

Recent list changes

Extract -> Sterling Grove: Since adding Entomb for Squee (an instant speed version of Extract), I’ve felt that I may have too many tutors for the cast-from-exiles (CFEs). Sterling Grove is a (great) hit off Niv, tutors Food Chain, protects FC (from Decay!) if it’s redundant, and can pivot to Necropotence or Remora.

Timetwister -> Vexing Shusher: Timetwister is very low synergy in the deck and is worse with more people abusing Smothering Tithe and wheel-steal in general. Happy to have Vexing Shusher in this high-interaction meta.

Swords to Plowshares -> Dovin’s Veto: New Veto is amazing, and Swords is currently the weakest piece of interaction in the list. Since Trophy’s printing, I’ve been preferring the more flexible removal options over dedicated creature removal.

Other multicolor considerations: Manamorphose, Wear//Tear, Treasured Find

Outlets

Hydroid Krasis: The highest utility outlet, but not a hard outlet. Extra draw, even if overcosted, is welcome on a combo piece. When comboing, cast this first to draw your deck on a cast trigger, and Silence/counter to protect subsequent hard outlet execution.

Circu, Dimir Lobotomist: A hard outlet. Its value case is fairly memey, but he’s relevantly a 2/3 and exile-mill is a more solid win condition than graveyard-mill by Hallimar Excavator.

Sparkcaster: PEW PEW PEW. Not much more to say about infinite burn as a hard outlet stapled to a 5/3.

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Sawtooth Loon: A soft outlet that sees more cards. A great budget alternative to Hydroid Krasis. To win with LabMan, use Niv to pull out your multicolor cards, Loon to cycle them back into the deck and redraw them with Niv. Cycling this draws and empties the library.

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain: Another soft outlet, probably worse than Hydroid Krasis. Good value interaction with Squee.

Balefire Liege: The next best hard outlet. Fairly clunky.

Comparison to Tazri

No verdict on superiority. Tazri and the allies are forwardly more castable than Niv and his outlets, which on the very surface is the more powerful thing for a fast, aggressive deck that needs very minimal mana. The most important interaction being playing out the 2 mana allies for later Food Chain mana; secondarily, Tazri tutors allies to improve Consultation odds and is a solid aggro-soak as a 3/4.

It’s unclear if the extra utility of Niv and his pieces outweighs the specific castability upside Tazri and the allies have, but as new multicolor cards get printed, Niv has the potential to get progressively stronger.

Happy spoiler season!

Shaper

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Apr

2019

Architects of the West Kingdom

I played a game of Architects of the West Kingdom.

Apr

2019

The 99 | Let’s Play Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain | Strategy & Combos

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Apr

2019

[The Spike Feeders] Better Know a Combo – Kiki-Jiki Combos (NEW SERIES)

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Better Know a Combo

In this series, we look to explain combos that you might encounter in the wild. For each combo we explore in this series, we’re going to be explaining:

1) What does the combo look and sound like when someone executes it?

2) What are the steps and actions that have to be executed to complete the combo?

3) How can you react to the combo at each point where you receive priority?

4) How can you prevent the combo from happening in the first place?

Kiki-Jiki Combos

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Apr

2019

[WAR] Fblthp, the Lost

Fblthp, The Lost 1U

Legendary Creature — Homunculus

When Fblthp, the Lost enters the battlefield, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead.

When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner’s library.

I’d say whatever experiments he was doing, they kinda went well – maybe not for his body, but for his existence. I mean, he is one of the actual Parun – the founders of the guilds. The whole system broke down and was replaced by some dude impersonating the guildpact that wasn’t even a Ravnican. I guess that didn’t sit well with Niv. My guess is that he somehow is pulled into the whole kerfuffle – in his old stories, he is said to have eliminated all other relevant dragons on Ravnica, only leaving him as the last one. So he is quite territorial. Now this monstrous dragon with his army of blue zombies shows up. Add to that the fact that Niv is a bit suspicious of planeswalkers due to their powers outside of his abilities and understanding – and this friggin dragon at the doors of Ravnica is a planeswalker. I am sure that doesn’t sit well with Niv. The little blue guy might have been tolerable, but a giant dragon-god with no tolerance towards other dragons? Nope, not gonna sit well with Niv.

Just speculation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes at Bolas’ throat and brings the full power of the guild pact (or something similar) now being concentrated into himself. Kicks Bolas out of Ravnica, but keeps the Immortal Sun to make sure that those pesky Planeswalkers don’t bother him anymore. Then just being a curious and chill dragon on his home plane, rebuilding (don’t forget that the Izzet are one of the progressive powers, bringing technological and magical betterment).

I mean, it might be complete nonsense what I wrote, but I would like the story to take that twist. As much as I like Bolas as a character in the old magic lore, he is quite a bit of an asshole and far too arrogant in the newer lore and needs to be cut down to size.

Apr

2019

/u/bboomslang on [Spoiler] Niv-Mizzet Reborn

I think what is much more interesting than his 5C is that he grabs cards when he enters the battlefield. Over on the cEDH discussions (well, I first saw it on the Facebook group), he is already talked as a wincon in Foodchain decks. Which makes totally sense even for optimized decks, as when your deck can make infinite colored mana with Foodchain, running him out and continually sac’ing him to find the stuff needed to close out the game is very solid.

So even if you don’t go cEDH, going full-on value deck with his 5c and having him as a card-selection engine to run out when the coast is clear sounds like a very nice plan. Far less build-around as the other Niv’s of note, and you couldn’t do those non-combo. But this one could easily be, by just using blink effects and such stuff to dig into your deck and pull out your 2c bombs.

The restrictions are moderate, because you can still run your mono-G ramp pieces easily, as you won’t grab them when he comes out anyway – and probably you want to run ways to grab as many of those as possible anyway. What I would do is use a ramp setup that uses green creatures and spells to grab lands and put them into play or hand, just to thin out the deck, and some creature tutors to pull those rampers out, too. Then have a bunch of guild-colored bombs to finish people off when you have everything setup nice and tight.

When my normal decks get stomped too often, I pull out what I lovingly call my bullshit deck – a budget Paradox Arcum deck. Arcum is just a damn consistent combo machine, even in a sub-200 € list. And well, I like to play combo and win turn 3/4 sometim…