Category: Syndicated

I try to have originals and duplicates in my main battle box (a quiver with 5 ready built decks) that I can carry to an event, but have additional decks built with Proxies of the expensive cards. Still slowly fill those up if the deck is fun to have th…

It‘s okay, I own 2 Mox Diamonds and 3 Transmute Artifact … (not my fault I am addicted to artifact decks, dammit)

Syr Konrad was it for me, very fun deck concept and very solid in his list. I turned it up for a while now and still play it from time to time. Definitely worth to grab one that gets your attention, as they are really dirt cheap and in my opinion a bet…

Yeah, we had a game yesterday, where first all three of us planned out how to stop me or not stopfe, then after they (correctly, I have to admit) killed me, we all worked together to find out which of the other two decks going off would have the upper …

Jin is good in Re-animator shells, one of the solid three Re-animator targets you see most often – look at Razakats for example, a solid cEDH deck. Jin is bad in decks that need to hardcast him, but if your deck is focused on cheating out fatties, he i…

Combo players getting salty about counterplots to stop them are just bad magic players, sorry. Of course I fully expect my opponents to try to stop me and pay attention to what I am doing. I usually get punched early on more than others, because my gro…

Or you could just accept that you are a combo player. I mean, we are not totally evil, only when we go and protect our combos with Stax 😉 – if your play group is fine with you being the combo player, just embrace it. I tend to power down a bit by goin…

Yeah, I don’t get it either. Being fine with Animar Statue combo, but disallowing the answer to that sounds like madness to me. I’m running a Lavinia Hatebears on planes list sometimes, I could understand someone not wanting to polar against that – it …

You need the X mana cost creatures, because you cast them for X=0, so they die and can be recast by Emry. Ornithopter would just stay in play, you would need sac outlets for those (also doable of course). I prefer the X cost creatures over 0 cost creat…

I actually think, after the ban of Paradox Engine, they are mostly on par. Sure, Arcum tutors from your library, but if you build Emry on self mill as a base, she „tutors“, too. Their abilities are quite similar, just using different zones. And it is e…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…