Magic: The Gathering C/D

scratch the land add, i miscounted initially and meant to delete that

yeah you got double blue and double red. if it were me though I'd still play the Sly Requisitioner. might sneak the Red Puzzleknot in too, I feel like AER has a decent amount of targets for that

yeah I like that suggestion roberto, I have a decent amount of card draw to hit those 4 sources and even if I don't it still does something as an artifact in play.

as a big fan of sly requisitioner in the right deck, imo it is not doing enough to be included here.

yeah this isn't much of a tokens deck and only barely has enough enablers

went 1-2 with that :( had pretty poor draws, the only time I saw a chandra's revolution (for a walking ballista) it was negated

right which is why I say "if it were me" - have a hard time shying away from cards like that even if they're wrong to play :)

how did the mini-Ultimatums work, by the way? I like the card but it's a bit...underwhelming?

I'm also curious to see how well those play. Sac a creature seems pretty bad in this format, but Raise Dead + draw + discard all seems good

I've played with them a bunch now. they are good but you can't expect it to get you out of a bad situation if you're super far behind. in a fair board state you're going to go to massively ahead and probably win. the sac effect the least reliable for sure because you're probably playing some blue aura removal and everyone has servos, but when it's good it's also the strongest effect. g1 vs me a guy cast a peema outrider and made it a 4/4 to outclass my 3/3 - if he knew I was playing the ult, he woulda made the servo and the game wouldn't have effectively ended that turn.

that was in retrospect a reason to be playing the puzzleknot main and I brought it in a lot

well this is the most broken start I've gotten off to in this format

http://i.imgur.com/NlqjXy3.jpg

ha nice

what do you guys think of the eldrazi tron deck in modern? I feel kinda set on playing lantern this weekend, but that deck has been doing pretty well

i don't think any one deck should be a factor in what you play in modern

are you playing the GP?

i dont think i would play lantern at a team event but have actively avoided playing modern for almost a year now and dont have particularly good opinions abt it

i think e_tron is probably good in so much as chalice of the void is really good rn but again see above

oh right this is the scg event

i still endorse through the breach valakut for modern. its braindead easy to play and has good matchups across the board

no I wasn't thinking lantern is bad because of e tron, it's prob pretty decent. lantern was one of the few decks that was still playable in eldrazi winter. was wondering if I should audible.

one of my teammates is pretty anti-valakut deck and another doesn't like the last minute audible idea so I think I'm priced into lantern.

yeah lantern sounds fine if you have recent practice w/ it

frogbs: that reminds me of the time the owner of my LGS thought it would be fun to play his Vintage deck against my Onslaught draft deck

modern seems like its pretty cheap online right now other than a few specific cards, with a new modern masters coming in a few weeks. i'm kinda tempted to start building out a collection rather than just maintaining one deck

the price of modern cards has decreased significantly over the last two years (i think? i havent actually measured this, just anecdotally) which is kinda interesting. it feels like modern is significantly less popular on mtgo than it used to be

i have been spending several hours a day playing standard over the last few weeks and i honestly think its pretty fun

What are you playing in standard?

standard is better than the last 2 seasons but still below average for the format i think

I felt like Kaladesh had greater diversity of decks, but I'm making peace with Mardu Vehicles

Of course, part of that diversity came from a huge pool of new cards and mechanics that took longer to solve

ive been trying a bunch of stuff but mostly mardu and g/b energy aggro. a friend had a bant marvel deck that had an insane g/b match-up but was ultimately too inconsistent/bad against mardu. i also played a couple leagues with shouta's RUG tower deck but thought it was p underwhelming

i really liked vehicles but it can be an frustrating deck to play with

lantern ended up being...idk, something between a bad choice and 'I got unlucky'. we went 5-3-1. fact that lantern won a gp (with a list very similar to what I ran) suggests it wasn't the worst meta call in the world, but I just didn't hit my bridges and had too many 0 land hands. I'm playing in my store's invitational this sunday and prob just gonna bring dredge.

i still like BR aggro in standard, feels like it has more balanced matchups than mardu at a time when walking ballista is freaking everywhere (even mardu ppl are playing it now as a mirror breaker, yuck)

having fun online http://imgur.com/a/7V0R0

lost that deck to sideboard bug, disappointing. was fun while it lasted

loool efficient construction is on my mental 'this persons a bye' list of cards

it was actually pretty good but I needed more blockers and not aether swoopers to have time to set it up

these decks are really good if you can get 2 Serpents. I've cast so many 2 mana 5/6s in this format. sadly I think the card moved way up in the pick order so good luck.

efficient construction has been good for me in grixis improvise decks. I don't take it highly cause they wheel, but it's def a card I'm happy to have as a one-of if my deck is 50% artifacts.

i'm getting kinda weary of improvise decks now but they always seem to be the only thing open, along with UW which i hate

this limited format definitely inspires some crazy, LSV-style decks

I recently 3-0'd a deck with 2x Call for Unity, it was such a dumb deck but it wound up working, I'd win by swinging in with a bunch of 7/7 Servos or something crazy like that. Granted most games I won I was at like 3 or 4 life but still.

UW is very much the open colour pair on mtgo right now, ppl are underdrafting both. in my last couple drafts i just leaned into it and got 3-0 both times with very similar decks - good fliers in combination with 3-power 2/3 drops and vehicles.

pvddr is the latest person i have seen saying that white is the weakest colour but more than half of my trophies have been with white decks, and although i haven't personally drafted it all that often, i do think WR is the strongest colour pair.

yeah i could be down with some traditional UW fliers decks, its the aegis automaton grindfest UW deck that turned me off of the color pair

the only improvise deck i want now is UR. if i have an opening 7 with say brawler and thopterist but no artifacts, it feels bad but i still have some % to win, whereas if my plan is to cast the 6s and 7s the range of unkeepable opening hands feels much broader.

I've seen the U/W gold uncommon wheel so yeah, definitely underdrafted. IDK if it's so much that white is weak as it is the deck is just boring in an interesting format.

emergency 3xKTK flashback on mtgo! w00t

lol is that compensation for them royally fucking up the old standard formats event?

yep. i hope they sort that shit out because it sounds like a blast, but for now i'll take this.

this set if any ought to be a real gauge for how significant the effect of crosspod drafting is

lost my first match to a naya deck

i have a love/hate relationship with khans where it's got some of my favorite individual cards and look&feel of the past 10 years but i've just never liked like the morph mechanic or formats where you have to draft mana fixing

really bummed that the flashback standard gauntlet got taken down before i got to play any

several of the decks were completely nonfunctional, it'll be back once they fix the bugs

opponent conceded on this turn. closest i came :(

http://i.imgur.com/jE3v8Nx.jpg

lucky, making infinite cats on mtgo is a pain