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PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 02 2014 Location: New Hampshire Status: Offline Points: 1195 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:19 | |
Unless you've got the mana to cover the cost, as well as a few cancel/negate instants to counter your opponent's panic-stricken rebuttal, as well . That's actually the beauty of my deck; it's so well balanced, that I lure my opponent in then capitalize and send in the Prognostic Sphinx with hexproof to finish the deal. Banishing light is an awesome card that I've gotten quite a bit of use out of already.
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Luna
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 28 2010 Location: Funky Town Status: Offline Points: 12794 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:21 | |
HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS THREAD
I play mostly EDH (Sen Triplets and Oros), but have Modern Green Nykthos/Genesis Wave and am about halfway through building U/B Fae. I'm extremely excited for Khans as BWR is a favorite color combination of mine.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:22 | |
Welcome to the party!
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Horizons
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:23 | |
EDH and Modern are completely out of my reach ahaha.
That Triplets card is awesome and quite flavorful. I can see em being great commanders.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Luna
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:29 | |
I have a modern infect deck that's <$20 and can win consistently (unless there's any removal whatsoever). My mono green nykthos deck isn't much more expensive than a Standard deck (though it only preforms slightly better than one). Here's the list.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:30 | |
ALL of what Luna was just saying is beyond my comprehension at this point, lol. I'm glad there are some serious players here to learn from .
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Luna
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:36 | |
I've been playing since the release of Avacyn Restored (2.5 years?), and while I have a lot of experience, it definitely doesn't show .
Allow me to explain my posts: EDH (also known as Commander) = Elder Dragon Highlander. It's an alternate format with a 99 singleton card deck and one "Commander" which must be a legendary creature. In commander, the creature gets its own zone in the game and you may cast it any time you can cast a creature (providing you have the mana). If it gets killed/exiled, you can send it back to the command zone and the next time you cast it, it costs an additional 2 colorless mana. Cards in your EDH deck are limited to your commander's color identity, meaning that cards in your deck must match a color in the casting cost of the commander (there are some exceptions but it's complicated). Modern is a format which is in between Legacy and Standard. All cards with the "modern" card frame are legal unless otherwise banned. It's fast paced and expensive as hell. U/B Fae is basically a Modern control deck which uses Faerie creature cards to make your opponent mad at you until he/she concedes. |
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:44 | |
Thank you so much for that insight/information! If I may ask, what exactly makes Modern so much more expensive than Standard?
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Horizons
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:46 | |
Cards are more rare and aren't easily available.
Plus they're op as f**k sometimes.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:50 | |
That was my initial assumption, but I wanted to be sure.
It's pretty logical that there's a hierarchy of players who would want to hoard as many OP cards as possible, and make crazy decks. Do you guys go to FNM much? That's something I'd really like to start doing.
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Horizons
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:51 | |
Yes i've gone to some but my decks were bad then. I took a break from magic recently but now that im back into it with my kitchen-top bud, we'll prolly go again soon.
Pre-releases are fun too.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:58 | |
Yes, I've seen some cool pre-relase vids on YouTube (boogie2988 is one of my favorite YouTube personalities in general).
I'd love to start going to FNM once I've got a little more confidence, lol. My gf and I started playing about a month back, and we really enjoy it. I love building decks and testing them; I was a Pokemon TCG fanatic back in the day (1998-2002) and would play in-store tournaments all the time. I can't believe it took me this long to discover MTG.
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Luna
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 23:02 | |
I go to FNM sometimes, but only to draft since I don't have a standard deck. Pre-releases are awesome and I always recommend attending.
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Horizons
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 23:03 | |
Same with me, i was nervous and i particularly love making decks too.
I would really build up a "beefy" deck before joining FNM, though there you can get a lot of help and advice from friendly players. So it could really go either way. It's cool that your gf enjoys it too, having a friend or significant other being involved in eachothers' hobbies is a really nice thing.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 02 2014 Location: New Hampshire Status: Offline Points: 1195 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 23:10 | |
Something with strong counter spells/instants and a beefy offense is exactly what I'm aiming to achieve. I'm sure I'll get my ass handed to me plenty, but my blue deck is getting increasingly more impressive. And I agree; I'm incredibly lucky to have a gf that's into both MTG and progressive music.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 07:34 | |
Also, thank you for linking to DeckBox.org, Luna.
That site is exactly what I've been looking for .
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Luna
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 07:50 | |
It's a pretty good site, though tappedout.net is also worth checking out. My EDH deck on tappedout.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 08:01 | |
I've checked out tappedout.net before, it's not bad. Any new cards/pulls for you lately? Do you usually go for boosters or singles? I've gotten two 2015 deck builder's tool kits and a 2015 fat pack since starting about a month back, and I haven't regretted the purchases. Great way to get started and build an inventory, IMHO. Have you ever gotten a booster box? Those things are so tempting but such a gamble. I saw a video of a guy pulling a foil NIssa Worldwaker on his second pack, essentially paying for the entire box lmao.
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Luna
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 08:11 | |
I bought a Snapcaster a week or so ago, but haven't bought anything since. Haven't bought a pack in a while and am currently building a Pokemon deck.
I've only bought 1 booster box. Dragon's Maze. |
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 08:17 | |
Dragon's Maze is on its way out, correct? So that means it's not "legal" outside of casual play? That's where I still get confused; Standard is what, only this year's cards/cards that were previously printed, but part of the M15 series? Casual = any and all cards, correct?
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