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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Yaxley » 25 Jun 2011, 10:13

JenSev wrote:I haven't been into Magic for a very long time (+10 years or so) but I do remember a rather great card that could improve your deck if you are concerned about the Trample. I'm not sure if that card is still around or playable in the standard formats but I was just reminded of it and personally I loved that card.
It's called Overrun. It's a sorcery for 2Green 3 colourless and gives all your own creatures +3/+3 and Trample till the end of the turn.

It looks like they are reprinting Overrun in M12.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Geoff_B » 25 Jun 2011, 12:18

And as it turns out I don't have any overwhelming stampedes so for now it looks like the overruns stay. I'll keep a lookout though.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Lacerta » 25 Jun 2011, 13:43

There's always Triumph of the Hordes for the lulz.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Geoff_B » 25 Jun 2011, 13:45

haha that would be great with liege of the tangle and his army of walking 8/8 trees :D
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Lacerta » 25 Jun 2011, 14:06

Unexpected poison is the best poison. I've actually won with Caress of Phyrexia and it's hilarious.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby RytelCSF » 25 Jun 2011, 19:09

Speaking of Caress of Phyrexia, I posit that anyone who manages to simultaneously win a game through damage, poison, and decking by playing that card has won Magic forever.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Ottoman » 25 Jun 2011, 19:16

Well, I dunno about you guys, but I have a new mission in life.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Lacerta » 25 Jun 2011, 19:59

Decimator Web deck anyone?

I mostly love that card because whoever designed it knows what the word "decimate" actually means.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Ottoman » 25 Jun 2011, 20:07

Yo, Decimator Web, I'm real happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Keening Stone is the best mill artefact of all time. OF ALL TIME.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Lacerta » 25 Jun 2011, 20:22

Back in my day all we had was Millstone. Millstone and Howling Mine and all milling decks basically had to be discard decks too.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby the_lone_bard » 26 Jun 2011, 00:36

RytelCSF wrote:Speaking of Caress of Phyrexia, I posit that anyone who manages to simultaneously win a game through damage, poison, and decking by playing that card has won Magic forever.



I'd just like to say, i've won a 4way game by killing all 3 of my opponents in one phase with my ally deck.

Loose 140 cards, take 140 life and this 1/1 now becomes a 140/140 with flying vigi and haste also i kill all your creatures and ressurect everyone of mine.

I miss that deck.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Roadie » 26 Jun 2011, 00:47

i had an equipment deck before poison came around. using a raven guild mage, sword of body and mind and added double strike with a fireshreiker.

mill for 40 each time it hit, add one of those new whisper silk cloaks to it and you put the opponent on a 2, max 3 turn clock
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby JenSev » 26 Jun 2011, 14:56

Just tried my first Drafting match after over 10 years of not having played Magic on Magic Online. First match went 2-0 against me.
First round got 2 lands and no cheap creatures and didn't draw anymore lands. 2nd round only drew lands...
Really bad luck....

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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Lyinginbedmon » 26 Jun 2011, 15:22

Let's see...

Turn 1: Voltaic Key
Turn 2: Energy Chamber
Turn 3: Wall of Spears for defense
Turn 4: Decimator Web, +1/+1 on Wall of Spears
Turn 5: +1/+1 on Wall of Spears, Pyroclasm to clear the field a touch, Geosurge+3 into an Everflowing Chalice (5) into an Unwinding Clock

Every turn, you can then tap Chalice to tap Decimator and untap it with Voltaic, then pay 4 mana to tap Decimator again. And then during your opponent's turn you can tap the Chalice to tap Decimator again because of Unwinding Clock. Meanwhile you either have a 4/5 first strike for defense or are building up even more mana, and have plenty to use for instant damage effects and such.

So each turn overall your opponent is losing 6 life, getting 3 poison counters, and milling 18 cards. You can use Decimator during their turn 5, so they're dead by turn 8 (conceivably even less if you use the Red propensity for instant damage effects).
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Yaxley » 26 Jun 2011, 18:28

It's less funny and incredibly cheap, but...

Turn 1: Grindstone
Turn 2: Painter's Servant
Turn 3: Mill your opponent's whole deck

Simple, elegant, and certain to make your friends not want to play against you anymore.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby vazhkatsi » 26 Jun 2011, 19:02

dunno if anyone bought dOTP 2012, but if you did, i'm looking for people to play, username is the same as my username here.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby gcninja » 26 Jun 2011, 23:29

We need some videos of people opening their boosters and what not
I got my New Phyrexia Intro Pack: Devouring Skies (Blue/Black) and 5 boosters coming so I'm thinking of youtubing me opening them. Anybody up for watching? It'd make my life easier without listing all the cards so I can get some hints. My voice isnt the best (especially with my lisp) but I'd like some tips
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby the_lone_bard » 27 Jun 2011, 00:59

gcninja wrote:We need some videos of people opening their boosters and what not
I got my New Phyrexia Intro Pack: Devouring Skies (Blue/Black) and 5 boosters coming so I'm thinking of youtubing me opening them. Anybody up for watching? It'd make my life easier without listing all the cards so I can get some hints. My voice isnt the best (especially with my lisp) but I'd like some tips



Same intro pack i got.
I pulled an unwinding clock out of the booster insdie the pack.
And i also bought 5 boosters, got nothing at all useful out of them other than 2 more blinding zealots.

Co-incidentally, i've now just bought the black/blue poison event deck and built off of that. As soon as i get 4 contagion engines and maybe a couple more phyrexian crusaders etc it'll be golden :D
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Geoff_B » 27 Jun 2011, 03:29

One of the best boosters I got resulted in my only mythic card - the booster pack that came with one of the intro decks for SOM (I forget which one) contained liege of the tangle! Not bad for only my second ever magic purchase :D
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Lyinginbedmon » 27 Jun 2011, 04:30

Suddenly, Ninjas Deck
"I swing with Liege of the Tangle."
"Okay, I block it with an Ornithopter and take 6."
"Great! I turn all my lands into 8/8s!"
"Echoing Truth your basic lands, and I swing with Mistblade Shinobi and bounce Liege of the Tangle."
"... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

Suddenly, Thopters Deck
"I swing with Liege of the Tangle."
"Okay, I block it with 8 1/1 Thopter tokens."
"... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

Myr Engine Deck
"I swing with Liege of the Tangle."
"I take 8."
"Great! I turn all my lands into 8/8s!"
"I pay 1 and tap Nevinyrral's Disk, all my artifacts survive because of Darksteel Forge."
"... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby Geoff_B » 27 Jun 2011, 04:40

Would echoing truth work cos it targets nonland permanents and my lands are still lands? oh and i have asceticism in play.

otherwise i would say well played :D
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Postby Lyinginbedmon » 27 Jun 2011, 04:42

By turn 8 if your big dude is only just coming out, Suddenly, Ninjas has already won generally speaking, by virtue of Higure, the Still Wind and Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni.

So if you'd prefer:

"I play Liege of the Tangle."
"Echoing Truth Asceticism, use Higure to make Throat Slitter unblockable this turn, swing with Throat Slitter and destroy Liege of the Tangle."
"... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

Or even just:

"Echoing Truth Asceticism, swing with an Ornithopter, ninjutsu it for Throat Slitter, Liege of the Tangle is destroyed."
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Postby Geoff_B » 27 Jun 2011, 04:47

well it would be worth seeing in action at least. i'd probably laugh if that actually happened.
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Postby Lyinginbedmon » 27 Jun 2011, 06:28

It happens all the time and it annoys the hell out of everyone that plays my Suddenly, Ninjas deck, which is also why I sideboarded to basically rewrite it into the Suddenly, Thopters deck if they get too complacent or want a change of pace.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering: Whatcha mean, there's no thread yet?

Postby theDreamer » 27 Jun 2011, 13:05

Yeah, just because the Forests are now 8/8 creatures, they are still non-lands.

That doesn't stop any of your other things from working though.

That said, if the liege DOES get to swing before your ninja's destroy it, you now have 8/8 creatures to deal with, possibly many of them.
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