Dies to Removal

BrainsickHater

Been playing the UR Storm deck for a while, thought I'd jump in on this forum. I've seen some discussion on Looting vs Ravings lists, and I am a firm believer that the Ravings lists are strictly better. Randomness might feel bad, but the deck is highly redundant and the graveyard synergies really ad...

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For the first scenario I think I would slam YP$. It's certainly not what we want to do, but I think it's what we have to do in order to have a reasonable chance of winning that game. If you slam the YP$ and he doesn't kill it then you can start spitting out tokens and trying to race. If he does answ...

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For the third scenario, I think if he doesn't take YP$ then he's banking on another card to take care of it. That could be a removal spell or more discard. If he takes the skullcrack then he might not have removal for it and have runner-runner gray metchants.

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"Tempo decks" are one of the worst travesties that have polluted the vocabularies of magic players for years. Mostly because that moniker doesn't mean anything.

This. So many people struggle with the concept just because the term has been thrown around so loosely.

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ah found it, thank you much

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If I wanted to write an article, where would I post it?

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You know the format is stale and we've discussed RW burn to death when we talk about significant others, site traffic, and random drama more than the deck this thread is named after.

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Yeah I go to the same events every week so it's clear that magic is a thing I do, at specified times of the week, not anymore, not any less. If I plan on playing more than I usually do (for an event out-of-town or something) I tell the lady very far in advance and mention it repeatedly so there's no...

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Yo Hammer's pretty janky. You want all your land drops against control, having 6+ isn't even awful because it lets you swing with mutavaults, throw multiple burn spells, and throw helix while holding up skullcrack. The haste is rarely relevant.

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I'd def play Reprisal over FotF/Muta

Yeah after typing that post I ended up shoving in the Reprisal. I find making posts very helpful for reaching decisions.

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Playing the shota maindeck with a slightly adjusted manabase and considering the following SB for paper magic (the only magic I play atm): [deck] 2 Banishing Light 2 Assemble the Legion 2 Chandra, Pyromaster 3 Prophetic Flamespeaker 3 Mizzium Mortars 2 Wear // Tear 1 Flames of the Firebrand [/deck] ...

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Or maybe I just remember all the games where I drew too many mutavaults because I got salty

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Yeah your point makes sense. I think I'd just go 12 and 12 since I've always been on the drawing too many mutavaults end of the spectrum. Plus, I like the SB plans which involve boarding in more creatures/threats than removal (not saying you don't I just don't know what your board looks like), so ha...

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I've always thought 11 white sources was enough, and I was just taken aback by the low mountain count. If it works for you go at it; I just thought I'd say something on the off-chance it was helpful. When Battlefield Forge is playable, I'll probably try 12 white sources. Your post + a recent beating...

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I run 13 Mountains and 11 White Sources; only 3 mutavault. Manabase is: [deck] 9 Mountain 4 Sacred Foundry 4 Temple of Triumph 3 Mutavault 1 Boros Guildgate 1 Temple of Silence 1 Mana Confluence [/deck] Idk how people get away with 10 white sources. It's criminal. EDIT: Post m15 I'll probably go -1 ...

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With only 11 mountains how do you expect to have a mountain for Chained to the Rocks reliably? I prefer 13 mountains for Chained to the Rocks, but I could be persuaded into 12.

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It's a joke guys

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Lately I haven't been able to play much magic and I've been consistently doing poorly at FNMs. I hope it's just my lack of play-time and me screwing up that's causing my losses. The last two times I've gone to FNM, they were really small and I played against the same guy playing a Bant Sphinx's Rev ...

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Shota made a list that boarded Reckoner + Flamespeaker. Many lists that board Reckoner are mimicking the list and thus also run Flamespeaker.

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Wear that shit out.

I'm curious about that actually. Do you (and others) feel it's appropriate to board in Wear//Tear against monoblue to hit Hall of Triumph and BIdent of Thassa? I've been bringing in 1 since it feels narrow but the cards it hits can be very relevant.

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Bident's not bad against us, esp. when we're playing full-on control. Some of the better players will likely keep it in.

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If Master of Waves is your problem, maybe your spice slot should be.....Rod of Ruin

Absolutely joking (but do it I dare you). Idk what your SB looks like but I think I would rather have more Mortars than more Searing Bloods.

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Im playing in a couple of events this weekend, what's the spiciest ridiculous haymaker you can think of for my 15th sideboard slot. I'm on mobile, my list is the 1 Mizzium Mortar list. Cards that come to mind: - Wild Ricochet - Tajic, Blade of the Legion - Aurelia's Fury (silence dem burn and contr...

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Greetings fellow red mages (: Been following for awhile but here's my first post, I have a couple questions mainly is there a "good way" to deal with hexproof? Specifically g/w hexproof but to some extent naya as well. There's a lot of that locally and It's really frustrating but I think ...

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Anyway to make shrapnel blast playable? Is it possible to activate mutavault(becoming artifact creature) and sac it?

This would not work. Mutavault gains all creature types, which are subtypes, and Artifact is a supertype on creature.

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I think it's pretty much a straight upgrade from Guildgate and Mana Confluence. I'll be subbing those out for forges immediately.

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IDK. Flamespeaker totally saved my ass last night in matchups against MUD and MBA. Once you start drawing cards with it you pretty much cant lose - mindsparker is nice, but it doesnt draw cards, which I feel like is the key thing about flamespeaker.

I concur.

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I think I would run Mindsparker if I was playing a 3/3/3 list instead of a Shota list. I actually really like that card now that I look at it. However, in a Shouta list I think that Flamespeaker just does more of what you want to do. In such a list, I want a creature that can come down late and thre...

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And I suppose the creatures don't hurt

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According to his reddit post, apparently Rakdos Charm.

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The deck is definitely a pile, no doubt about that. I was entertaining the possibility that DRS was good enough to support a pile.

But I doubt it, the manabase is so awful becasue of him and I don't think it gets much better.

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Saw this decklist: Dega Burn by planert41: 11-4 @ GP Chicago [deck] Land (22) 4x Blood Crypt 2x Mana Confluence 2x Mountain 3x Mutavault 4x Sacred Foundry 3x Temple of Malice 4x Temple of Triumph Sorcery (4) 1x Anger of the Gods 3x Dreadbore Planeswalker (1) 1x Chandra, Pyromaster Instant (20) 4x Bo...

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I think it depends on the prevalence of decks that play Stormbreath Dragon. But it's likely going to be what Khaos said.

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@NotARobot: I don't exactly recall, but I believe I took out 4 Shock and 4 Skullcrack (and some other stuff of course). @Khaospawn: I never boarded in 12 cards before Shouta's list because I didn't want to tamper with my ability to burn out my opponent quickly too much. The maindeck might only be th...

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To me, Shouta's list is better and I don't have any questions about the card choices. The deck is designed to give you the ability to play out longer games and beat your opponent most of the time if you play correctly. In the past, my plan against Junk was to burn them down before they could see a l...

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I'm considering boarding 4x tampon for the spurn mirror.

I 100% read that as "spurm mirror." My mind is not appropriate for these forums.

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I'm with Khaos. I think his list was probably based on weird Japanese meta. I'd much rather play the GP Moscow list.
So pretty much what we were playing with a less coherent sideboard.

THIS

Pretty much how I feel about the Shouta list compared to everything else after playing with it.

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I can't play anything besides the Shouta list; everything else just makes me think of tampons.

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rw spurn should not be tamponed with

>not be tamponed with
>tamponed with
>tamponed

hehe

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Played some Regular REL standard tonight, won an Obzedat as part of 1st. Considering lighting it on fire.

I lol'd

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