I think we have a winner here, turning the double mill guy into kinda mill-voltron archetype, taking out one player at a time. Kinda fun. The swallower and traumatize are two nice payoffs for double-mill and traumatize is easy to recur and find in blue.
Jun
20
2020
/u/bboomslang on Best Underworld Breach deck?
I just decided to try the led+ub+Wheel Combo in my Jhoira, because ever since we lost Paradox engine, she is looking for something solid. She synergies well with the combo, helping to get to your payoffs quicker. And she still can run the sweet blood m…
Jun
19
2020
Metagame Project v2: Month 2 Update!
Hello everyone!
Since it’s been about 2 months since Flash met its rightful demise, it’s time for another Metagame Project update.
This update sees some things that have moved up and down in popularity and success, some things that have stayed the same, and a couple things that had me really scratching my head.
And, as always, if you’d like to contribute game information to the project, please use this google form to do so:
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Jun
19
2020
/u/bboomslang on Command Zone and Protecting Your Cards
double sleeving with dragonshield inners and dragonshield mattes here. The dragonshield mattes are superior in shuffling over the Ultra Pro stuff. I was on KMC before, but I like the dragonshields actually better nowadays (after they came up with the m…
Jun
18
2020
/u/bboomslang on [JMP] Allosaurus Shepherd
well, it is just an Autumn’s Veil on legs, what could go wrong 😉 (at least they didn’t make it also draw a card and gave it flash)
Jun
18
2020
/u/bboomslang on Budget Rhystic Study?
That too. And [[Turnabout]] can turn into a solid draw spell if you don’t need it’s ritual capability. Or [[Gigadrowse]] still being a nice scaling tap-down-and-draw option. And well, the decision on what to tap for [[tangle wire]] get’s really “fun” with verity circle out 😉
Jun
18
2020
/u/bboomslang on Budget Rhystic Study?
Another nice and budget way to sometimes draw a ton of cards is [[Verity Circle]] – there are lots of situations where creatures want to tap without attacking (just think about the load of mana dorks in many pods) and you drawing off that can really help. It just doesn’t help against that 100-strong goblin army coming at you.
Jun
17
2020
/u/bboomslang on [JMP] Behind the Scenes of Designing Jumpstart
It is more a smashup clone. Where you also mix two decks together to get a ready to play deck.
Jun
17
2020
/u/bboomslang on [JMP] Thriving Lands
A bit fiddly, because you have to note down what choice you made, and in EDH budget decks you might do that 5 times … but still, like them as budget fixing, despite the “comes into play tapped”. I would have loved them to have some kind of clause to come in untapped in specific situations, but well, you can’t have everything. What really is a bummer, though, is that they are not fetchable. Dang. Missed opportunity.
Jun
14
2020
/u/bboomslang on Which mtg formats do you find fun?
Modern was my poison of choice online for a little while, but since I prefer paper magic a lot, I then went with Pauper with a coworker. After a while we went into 1v1 Commander and from there got a full-on Commander pod going, tending towards higher p…
Jun
14
2020
/u/bboomslang on Which mtg formats do you find fun?
Pauper was my main format for a long time, until we got a commander group organized. It is really a fun format, but towards the end I was really longing for higher power cards, especially after they killed blue power cards. Gush was badass and gave Pau…
Jun
14
2020
/u/bboomslang on I got super lucky and pulled a Nicol Bolas flip planeswalker out of a hhgff! What should I do for a commander deck for him?
I have a non-budget Nicky B, but the main focus is getting Blink effects – [[ghostly flicker]], [[displace]], [[Illusionist’s stratagem]] all allow flickering him in creature form, having [[archaeomancer]], [[mnemonic wall]] or [[izzet chronomancer]] o…
Jun
12
2020
/u/bboomslang on Goblins! Who is the commander of choice to be competitive now?
I scanned and nobody mentioned [[Grumgully]] yet. It is a great commander for combo goblins, enabling his own persist combo and just being a good lad for other goblin strategies. That freshly spoiled [[conspicious snoop]] goes right in. My current list…
Jun
08
2020
/u/bboomslang on It is deeply troubling that a CAG member did not know how the command zone replacement effect worked
The job of the CAG is to give the RC insights on the reactions out in the field. The RC don’t need the CAG to teach them rules, they are all deep-rules-knowledged people. What they were lacking was wider spread connections to the community, and that’s what that specific CAG member provided: most of the community probably didn’t know it either.
The more irritating thing is that the rules got more complicated by the change. I would have preferred to take a “the rules stay, we clarify” stance instead. The new wording just treats the “if it changes zones, decide to move it to the command zone instead” beauty in a two paragraph monster, that treats target zones differently. Not a fain.
I understand WHY they made the change, but to me personally those few commanders just aren’t worth the clunky rules change. But then, I am not playing any of those commanders …
Jun
07
2020
/u/bboomslang on Can anyone suggest a more colorful commander for my overly complicated artifacts deck?
Zirda the Dawnwaker can totally work, white gives some nice artifact synergies. Or Saheeli the gifted for the blue splash and some artifact synergies of her own – she shouldn‘t have a too bad reputation either. Kykar can work nicely, too, as you get Sp…
Jun
03
2020
/u/bboomslang on Looking for the name and rules of a format – 100 card singleton shared deck, no lands
or on it’s homepage: https://www.mtgcubelet.com/
Jun
02
2020
/u/bboomslang on When Did The RC Ban Sideboards?
It always was optional. Using archive.org to go to the history of the rules, if you click the following url, you see the "optional" part where you can go to "sideboard". When going to 2016, you see it renamed from "optional&quo…
May
31
2020
What’s the best creature deck in cEDH? -Play to win gameplay
This week we’re trying to find which deck packs the strongest punch on the ground. Momir Vig – An elf ball list looking to hack momir vig, to break the game in half – https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/primer-momir-vig-hackball/ Chulane – Leaning on a fe…
May
31
2020
/u/bboomslang on LED
Underworld Breach gave it its second combo, and that one is strong, as two cards already are staples – wheels and breach itself. It goes well with wheels already, but now can form a really solid way to go deep into your deck, so I see it show up in mor…
May
23
2020
/u/bboomslang on Is Kozilek the great distortion competitive?
It mostly is the lack of colors, as there is not really a good colorless 99 to base the deck on. Far too less ways to handle the board or break parity on Stax elements (most of them being in some way colored). A colorless shell is neither here nor ther…
May
23
2020
/u/bboomslang on Gadget Hackwrench, Lord High Artificer
I actually quite like it – it gives a frame (pun intended) of reference for card altering when you want to play non-magic IP related alters. People like their weird alters, especially in EDH, even building theme decks of outside IP. Now there is a clea…
May
21
2020
/u/bboomslang on Is it rude to ask if the other player wins during a long turn combo? Is it rude to scoop and just let them win?
Yeah, it is my „I just had a lobotomy, let’s play some magic“ deck, because the only setup it needs is Grenzo at power 3, then flip cards. Get enough flips and chances are you have a win sooner or later. It really is the deck that wins out of nowhere, …
May
19
2020
/u/bboomslang on Do you guys have also have casual decks?
I still have casual-ish decks and even a slightly improved precon for super-casual days, just because I prefer to play than not play, even when people are only in a casual mood. I prefer competetive or at least high power, but well, if people want to go battle-cruiser, that’s ok, too.
May
18
2020
/u/bboomslang on Are cards more expensive in Europe?
Exactly. Expensive cards are cheaper in Europe than the US, but cheap cards – at least those at the bottom of cheap – are more "expensive". Not much penny stock for example when I limit my search to EU or German traders.