Dies to Removal

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How'd ya beat Staff of the Death Magus? I thought it was unbeatable.

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Dpaine, He tends to push his board states right to the edge where he kills his opponent right before his opponent kills him. Compare the board states when he ends games versus when mine end for example. The difference between him and the "pros" who talk about the deck is he is clearly able...

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Yeah, I realized that after I got done typing it out.

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Ok, all the videos are up. [deck] Maindeck 1 Shouta List Sideboard 3 Toil // Trouble 1 Assemble the Legion 2 Mizzium Mortars 3 Prophetic Flamespeaker 2 Banishing Light 1 Reprisal 2 Chandra, Pyromaster 1 Wear // Tear[/deck] I considered Boros Reckoner a bit of a crutch so I pulled it out. I would run...

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It is less explosive but more consistent. I'll be using Hushwing instead of Assemble because it hits more matchups and makes duress that much worse. I don't have the luxury of tight metas. You have to be comfortable grinding and using card advantage to make this work. I just happen to share Z's play...

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The only issue with forge devil against white is if they brave while the creature is on the stack, you'll be forced to ping one of your own creatures once the creature results and the ETB goes on the stack because none of their creatures are legal targets and the devil's trigger is mandatory. Be car...

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Neither of those is a 1/1 creature which means they can't damage players or trigger foundry denizen. Also, once the effect has gone off your opponent has to deal with a creature on the battlefield where they do not have to deal with a spell in your graveyard. It's a huge difference. Think Snapcaster...

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Yep, it's always down for maintainence Wednesday morning so you either have to play Tuesday evening or Wednesday evening. It's annoying since it disrupts my play in the morning plan.

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Here's the other removal sideboard version I played against MBC

I'll have the speaker version that I lost finished tonight.

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It will be the end of the day before I have the first two videos uploaded of my other MBC games yesterday but here's one of the games with the all removal sideboard plan. Also, it explains how you do the old v3 stack cards by name at about the halfway point since it seems like a lot of people are mo...

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Remember, when I say flamespeaker vs green, I mean non Carytid versions.

I eventually want to test a Gryff/speaker package against black but haven't had the chance yet. Theory being that Gryff they have to deal with which just burns up more removal.

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You trade them to bots. MDU recommends goatbots.

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Yup.

I'm just glad I had a pet card idea for once that actually plays out properly.

The execution is another story but that's what I get trying to play in the big leagues while only playing less than 10 hours a week.

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You should definitely google jessica nigiri as Firefist ace

That was worth it.

Something about me and fox ears don't mix. No clue why.

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How were you boarding previously, out of curiosity? How was your comparative experience without Skulkcrack? Previously, I was doing -1 mortar, -4 shock, -4 charm, 1 assemble, 1 reprisal, 3 speaker, 2 chandra, 2 banish. I'm pretty sure my first match that I tried this, I misplayed embarrassingly bad...

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i need to find a girl to fuck soon so i can stop worrying about getting my dick wet and start worrying about rupees again.

Much peril lies down this path. Tread carefully when trying to find a girl to fuck and then trying to go back to play more magic.

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I assumed the latter.

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Jessicanigiriasfoxmcloud.jpeg I...am...mildly worried about googling this. I do like that changing vectors is so simple with the deck making it kind of hard to prepare for. The shock/mortar plan actually helped a lot in the 3rd match too so I'll stick with that for a little until they do something ...

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1 and only 1 reprisal too. I just bring in a couple more mortars. I still want some toil/trouble in my board as an edge against UW since it's my weakest matchup. I'll have the videos later. I had a assemble discarded but I never hit 5 lands until end game anyway. 2/2 assemble/reprisal is still best ...

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Hit 2 MBC in the daily back to back. Lost horribly with my flamespeaker plan, won decisively with Z's board out skullcrack plan. First opponent I lost two got dropped from the tournament match 2 for being AFK.

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100*[1-(27/53*26/52*25/51)]%

87.5%

I should really learn to memorize those kind of basic calculations for burn.

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Do I actually miss anything not knowing who these people really are?

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http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=11941 It's the last deck in the article. I'm not clear what Electromancer is supposed to do here without the card draw to back it up. Was more exciting when flashback was around. Maybe someone gives you a very nice Augury pile. Looks FNM style fun though.

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Magic, where the fanbase accepts that writers post bad decklists for marginal gain.

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Seriously, define "deck".
Shut your face.

Finally found the list you were talking about. I admit I stopped reading that article when I saw the 21 land mono green build.

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Seriously, define "deck".

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Oh that one. I'm starting to learn that very few people test the decklists they put up in articles. Or they're tuned to beat metas composed of lunatics who never heard that UW control is better than Esper.

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One land hands are traps.

Of course the rest of the hand looks great. You've got six gas cards.

Sometimes when you've already mulled to 6 and you have a number of scry and/or early spells and are on the draw, you don't have much choice. At least not with burn you don't.

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I'm actually learning to keep more 1 land hands.

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TL;DR version - don't prioritize the head. Burn the forest to the ground around it and then make the head eat the ashes.

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Also, I killed Poly with Flamespeaker + 4 point burn plus have a chance to hit lands to ramp into end game quicker at least 5-6 times. That's not counting the times I just exiled it and swung into an empty board and drew two. Or he'd let it go through and give me a chance to hit one of my 11 removal...

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The version Zenbitz posted looks awful. But, yeah, don't run flamespeaker against the Carytid version and keep YP in since they don't have the chance of BTE smashing you or ramping out that quick. Purp, The deck you listed is almost exactly what he played. Most of the games weren't even close. Nissa...

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I need to start recording testing against high tier decks while on Cockatrice. Sometimes I can't hit the 8 PM daily or can't be on long enough for the full 4 matches. Plus sometimes you get someone playing a high tier deck that wants to grind some test games against burn to really get a chance to ex...

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This is my usual playstyle so YMMV but I found controlling green instead of racing them was a far better plan. I think I dropped 2 games out of my 15 or so post board and one was because I was stuck on 3 lands and the other was due to MDU's nightmare of exiling all creature removal with flamespeaker...

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Rhyno, how many enchantments do you expect to see right now?

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Eye test tells me I don't want to play Flamespeaker vs Green. Enough with the eye tests. DTR's success rate with it lately is frankly so bad that I'm surprised anyone still tries it for actual evaluation. Flamespeaker is horrible vs Carytid, amazing against anything else in Green if you're playing ...

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Anyone have experience vs the newer Mono Green decks? The inevitability they have seems intimidating. Burn is good against us. Burn/remove/kill our devotion creatures and mana dorks and we're screwed. You're practically given a free win G1 while post sideboard we only have Disciples. Yeah, I tested...

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They now actually require you to type in DROP after closing the window to drop I believe.

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On Z's point about mana curve, has anyone ran into serious issues with pillar's higher cost over reprisal? I had it happen once tonight but overall its power level feels a lot higher than reprisal.

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Part of it is my monitor has an odd 1440x 900 resolution. So I need to adjust to 720p it seems

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