this is the only good green deck i managed to draft, needing green rares in order to have a high enough power level to beat blue commons is not a good place to behttp://imgur.com/a/ze7eA
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
my sole 3-0 BR deck had 0 nobles -_-
there are several different decks under the esper umbrella and several under jund but within each they are close enough to be functionally the same, although for the former there is a much faster WU deck. i haven't had GW really come together since my first online draft except the time i opened craterhoof. i have been beaten a couple times now by GW soul warden / the fog populate / the indestructible populate decks which count among my most miserable magic experiences. in terms of off the wall decks, i lost handily with a strong jund deck to the ol' UG explore/mist raven/flicker/genesis deck. i literally only saw those cards, and in multiplies. i think overall the payoffs for bant aren't there, RW and naya are very bad, and a UR/grixis core while intriguing seems hard to pull off.
but yeah, i did a couple more drafts over the weekend and realized i was just choosing between esper or jund.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 3 April 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
looking at the deck cider posted there, lingering souls plus a couple anthems really is how you are trying to win with GW
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 3 April 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
lingering souls is just an absurd card in limited regardless of the format
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
i think it was probably the 2nd best card in DKA, after huntmaster and ahead of sorin. a true mythic uncommon
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
i recently took souls p1p1 over voice of resurgence. i wasn't 100% sure that i was right but i slammed it all the same.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 3 April 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
phantom, obv
it's def better than voice
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
yeah lingering souls always seems like the easiest first pick in the format. not only is it always strong in limited, but this particular grind-y format is the perfect place for it. also lots of the rares aren't even that strong in limited. the rares I'm looking out for are niv mizzet, deadeye navigator, cruel ult, olivia, thragtusk. I think souls is better than any other non-mythic rare.
― iatee, Monday, 3 April 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
oh wait olivia is mythic
― iatee, Monday, 3 April 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
I thought of another...damnation
― iatee, Monday, 3 April 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
Drave Heaven looks pretty solid - better than Lightning Rift even? Not sure why the "cycle or discard a card" wording is necessary, unless they're just helping people to connect the dots.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link
I mean obviously it'll depend on what the cycling cards look like. but it seems like a viable Standard build-around card.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
Standard is faster now than in Astral Slide's heyday, but I think it's possible. Depends a lot on what the Std cards look like - so far Renewed Faith slots in pretty well
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
wanted to say it makes a neat combo with Smugglers Copter but then I remembered it was banned
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
there may be others but a little sad to see the cycling buildaround at rare.
blue god is kind of interesting. it doesn't seem particularly strong in any deck that would care about getting a dragon out for 3 mana, but maybe a control finisher in some format? idk, hand size requirement maybe just too finicky for the payoff.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
yea really would love if it was "6 or more" but that seems a bit too good
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
6 or more would be obnoxious since it would come down online on turn 3 without any additional work
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
right - but you'd still be limited to playing one card per turn
that said I did misread the activated ability, which lets you online this on turn 4
it still seems a bit hard to use. I'm not sure really what kind of deck wants this. It looks like a finisher for the sort of draw-go decks that don't really exist anymore. Skies-type decks can't use it. It's easy to imagine a deck using the Red one, this one on the other hand....
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
nu-Gideon is hilarious, wotc is really trolling all the people who have been calling for a ban on the BFZ one.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
i think the planeswalker card type would just be better all round if the typically competitive/midrange pw were 5 mana and the cheap/aggro one 4, rather than 4 and 3. they would be less dominant and they could do more with them.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
gotta sell those packs tho
― Moodles, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
remember that when they developed this set, it was supposed to rotate BFZ out of standard. so we're gonna see some weird vestiges of that, like the discard spell that's real similar to transgress the mind, and this gideon
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
that said, this gideon is one of those cards that reads better than it is. it's not nearly on the same level as the BFZ one.
yea the "ultimate" is probably not very good at all - I wonder how often it'll actually get used
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
as one of my friends put it 'if you control a planeswalker, you can't lose' is not actually an emblem, mostly just a description of a magic board state
― iatee, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
the emblem is more interesting in eternal formats where there are decks whose plan vs planeswalkers is 'ignore them and combo kill opponent'
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
yeah legacy dnt is the deck I have the most experience w/ and I was excited about the possibilities for like, 3 seconds, but there just aren't enough of those decks in legacy / they generally have some way to do damage to a planeswalker too. even fewer in modern. even the purest of combo decks in modern (storm / ad naus) win can kill a walker on their combo turn.
― iatee, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
ad naus could play this instead of phyrexian unlife in some matchups though heh
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
the throwback standard gauntlet thing is back today. maybe it will work this time. i am def intrigued, could be fun to try out altho my own expectations for actually winning anything would be pretty low.
of course, my expectations are low in general currently after getting a sound beating at the hands of iatee in an mm3 league match yesterday.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
this was my deck btw
http://i.imgur.com/IojCWtE.jpg
gifts package def felt like cheating
― iatee, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
RS what's your mtgo name? curious if i've played you in the past year or however far back the game logs go
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
I've played one of lamp's friends while he watched before, and I've played multiple of my irl friends
it's kinda crazy what a small world mtgo is
― iatee, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
the player numbers on the draft leagues look high until you realize that pretty much everyone who plays mtgo plays those
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
right yeah. for legacy leagues it's like a small town where everyone knows each other.
― iatee, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
yeah gifts was a real groan both times. i was v jealous of how much more fun your deck was than mine.
btw i could see your last couple msgs after i conceded but of course it wouldn't let reply. another great mtgo innovation.
cider my username is onami. are you still smh? i don't recall ever seeing you
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
yeah i've been playing on an alternate account a bunch lately since it had some play points / QPs on it that i wanted to use but smh is still my main one and i'll be back on it for amonkhet
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I remember frogbs figured out from this thread that he and I had played against each other in Cube
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
sounds about right. I remember once playing against someone in a draft whose username was the name of a good friend of mine, someone I'd been playing Magic with since I was 11, but didn't know played online. I messaged him on FB - "dude, am I playing you on MTGO" right now? turns out it was him. he kicked my ass, by the way.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
we get Cat lord
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 April 2017 13:05 (seven years ago) link
also some good hosers for Scrapheap Scrounger, Saheeli, and artifacts in general
― Moodles, Thursday, 6 April 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
cat lord so strong for limited, getting ready to hate that card.
the throne strikes me as more of a fun that competitive card, but it is interesting coming right after improvise. could maybe be something there for standard.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
and another efficiently costed large blue flyer. i wonder if there might be some kind of blue dump-your-hand aggro deck here.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
lol at this 4/4 lifelink for 1w. always watching is still legal right? if we can get white a competitive planeswalker, maybe one that makes tokens even, there might be something here.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Throne being legendary makes it more difficult as a build around but it still seems quite good - are there any viable improvise decks in standard?
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
Really like some of the exert designs. The exert to draw creature seems like it creates two interesting decisions: a decision between racing and card advantage if they don't have a blocker; and a decision whether to "cycle" the card if they have a big blocker. combined with actual cycling, my hunch is that this will be a limited format pros will like
― Vinnie, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
the ceiling on this limited format is pretty high since it essentially has both of the 2 best limited mechanics (flashback and cycling)
― ciderpress, Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
one thing that people tend to get wrong though is they see mana sink mechanics with expensive costs like embalm, flashback, monstrosity and assume that they are getting a slow grindy format when it actually has the opposite effect - more things to do with mana means proactive decks get to play more turns before they run out of gas, and their 6th/7th land can remain live where in a set like kaladesh it was just a dead draw
― ciderpress, Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
the liliana is very good and deserves more attention than the gideon imo
― ciderpress, Thursday, 6 April 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link