Dies to Removal

RaidaTheBlade

I feel your pain, LD (still feels weird calling you that... ;-;)

I've thought about getting into mtgo a LOT, but rebuying my deck on there is just too much money. It'd be great for testing and derping around, but still

RaidaTheBlade

Careful there Dechs, you're starting to catch onto the political pundit's tricks.
You know what happens when you ask too many questions...

RaidaTheBlade

So, kinda just wanna do a bit of housekeeping. It seems like we've pretty much got the core of the deck settled. (Please forgive the formatting, deck tags don't like some things) Land X Mountain X Swamp 4 Blood Crypt 4 Temple of Malice 2-4 Rakdos Guildgate 0-2 Mutavault Creatures 4 Spike Jester 4 Ch...

RaidaTheBlade

I had an amusing idea about reprints and card value. Nothing in portal: three kingdoms is officially on the reserved list, yet they are some of the rarest most expensive cards. I kinda wanna see a full reprint of portal: three kingdoms with modern frames (still only legacy legal of course). Would go...

RaidaTheBlade

I'd only ever bring the mortars in vs a uwx control deck if they were esper, since only blood baron doesn't die to dreadbore or downfall. Even then, dragons, fwphoenix, or double burn kills/trades with him, so you've gotta wonder if it's worth it. What I bring in is 3 lbz, 3 skullcrack, dropping 2 j...

RaidaTheBlade

Yeah, I agree on the lbz. The next match, I didn't bring him in. And was the nice list to this one or the one from yesterday? I honestly would not drop the third stormbreath. Having that heavy-hitting topend is so important. I would much rather drop a piece of low-impact removal if you want a whip m...

RaidaTheBlade

Alright, time for fnm write-up. Decklist I had was: Lands 24 7 Mountain 5 Swamp 4 Blood Crypt 4 Temple of Malice 2 Rakdos Guildgate 2 Mutavault Creatures 20 4 Rakdos Cackler 4 Spike Jester 4 Chandra's Phoenix 3 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch 2 Flame-Wreathed Phoenix 3 Stormbreath Dragon Spells 16 4 Light...

RaidaTheBlade

Again, it just came down to topdecks. If either game I had drawn anything at all but land in the last 3 or so turns, I'd have won instead. The deck was interesting cause it was a mix of blitz aggro and red devo. It top 8'd the atlanta open (which honestly was a metagame fluke. The deck is nice, but ...

RaidaTheBlade

Just got back from my first fnm since my month-long hiatus.
Went 4-1 with my only loss being a really close fun match against what is one of my worst matchups anyways.

I had fun

RaidaTheBlade

Just got back from fnm, went 4-1, only loss being to a blitz monored, and that was a 1-2 with the 2 games I loss being topdeck battles where I found land and he didn't. And one I facerolled cause of the whip.

Full writeup in the morning, but I'm happy with it.

RaidaTheBlade

So apparently there's an iq tomorrow that I just learned about... Not sure if I should go or not...
Of course, considering my current lack of a car, transportation WOULD be difficult...

RaidaTheBlade

Heh, is it bad that the 75 I currently have sleeved up is 72/75 the same as mdu's 'greedy deck'? It's just my speed of greedy. The 3 cards are the whip and the rr's. The whip argument convinced me, so I am gonna make that change, but I think keeping shocks over rr might be a better idea, though I do...

RaidaTheBlade

I'm really liking the look of that list... I personally would put the dragon back in, cause I run up against a lot of u/w/x (bant seems popular where I am). And even meta aside, having those big late-game hasters is so important. I'd proly drop a single downfall for it. Not the best cut, but yeah. A...

RaidaTheBlade

I still don't like bringing in doomblade over creatures. The burn list's creatures are all easily killed by our burn, and those can also be used for other things. The doomblades just feel like they're not gonna have targets all the time, and that having a threat on board would be better in that matc...

RaidaTheBlade

Actually, MDU, Guttler is right. Match 2 of your most recent videos, you sided out the jesters and dreadbores for 3 doom blades and 4 skullcracks. Then after game 2 switched the cacklers out for the jesters again. I actually commented on it earlier with my thoughts, which I'll repost here: "Hey...

RaidaTheBlade

No, no it's not the phoenix himself but the way the lands get setup. There's two builds here, one with phoenixs, 7 mountains, 4 swamps; and then one with zombies, and an equal number of mountains and swamps. The thing I'm saying is that when running the more red list with phoenixes, hero's downfall ...

RaidaTheBlade

Lesse' not much to report, besides I'm using the RB version with equal color split. (LBZ main instead of vexing phoenix [love that nickname btw]) I like it atm because it makes hitting the double black for downfall or lbzs out of side easier. That said, I want 3 downfall in this version. Not sure if...

RaidaTheBlade

Will look.

Careful, if you keep being awesome, I might have to hug you.

RaidaTheBlade

The main reason for satyr right now is that it trades with bigger things. Slvan carytid is a bastard.

I personally still use cackler, just for ease of casting, but in that red-based list satyr works fairly well.

RaidaTheBlade

I will keep looking for Asuka sleeves.
Any chance I can wire you some money and get you to look for some anime sleeves for me too? ;P
What are you looking for specifically?

Tsumugi Kotobuki from K-On.

What can I say, I have a weak spot for cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime...

RaidaTheBlade

I will keep looking for Asuka sleeves.

Any chance I can wire you some money and get you to look for some anime sleeves for me too? ;P

RaidaTheBlade

Yeah, stormbreath isn't necessarily the key, but he tends to be a very important factor. If I land a dragon vs white weenie, I tend to win. As far as pack rat, I ran 3-4 of them prebng to great effect, so I do like the idea of 2 here. Siding them out vs u/w/x and vs b/x works. And then on the spitef...

RaidaTheBlade

That deck sounds like a white weenie varient more so then a normal g/w shenanigans list, but all-in-all the matchups go the same. I'm gonna alk aout vs white weenies here, but a lot of it applies vs other aggro decks too. White weenies is always kinda a weird matchup when I play it. The key/turning ...

RaidaTheBlade

Yeah, hypermats are amazing. I've been using them since my lgs got them in. I will say that they've gotten a little grimey after a few months, even with playing on a mat at all times. That's just normal though. I've heard some reports of minor corner splitting but the worst I've gotten is a few bent...

RaidaTheBlade

I'm going to start judging at FNM this week!
missed trigger? DQ!!!

Make sure that all the player's sleeves are completely, 100%, opaque and all in the same direction!

RaidaTheBlade

I experimented with herald of torment earlier on in the season, and while he did good work, I was never as impressed as I was with the phoenix. Against any removal heavy deck, phoenix is one of our best creatures and I can't tell you how many victories I've had that are solely due to that card. Also...

RaidaTheBlade

I saw something similar... A couple of players at my lgs are trying it out. I know for a fact that one of them isn't having any success cause I played him in gameday. As far as I can tell, rw burn rides the line between fucking beautiful and horrendous. It seems like about 3/4ths if the decklists I ...

RaidaTheBlade

This is what I'm currently looking at for a good baseline deck that's fairly resistant to most metagames. Lands 24 6 Mountain 6 Swamp 4 Blood Crypt 4 Temple Of Malice 2 Rakdos Guildgate 2 Mutavault Creatures 20 4 Rakdos Cackler 4 Spike Jester 4 Chandra's Phoenix 3 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch 2 Lifeban...

RaidaTheBlade

Well now I'm curious

RaidaTheBlade

Is it worse then mine? I was facing a bant aggro-y midrangey thing (it was terrible, and I had been paired down) and they played a daxos. I quickly scanned the card, but I thought it did something with THEIR library, and was overconfident and hasty in my reading because I thoguht I already knew what...

RaidaTheBlade

Well again, I only have a tiny bit of testing (about a dozen matches with the deck), but I was running 1-drops and shocks in a 24 land deck with 3 vaults and the amount of times I had mana issues were almost nill. The magma jets and the scry lands smooth things wonderfully, and I was never stuck on ...

RaidaTheBlade

Was derping around on mtggoldfish, and found a rakdos aggro list that apparently went 5-1 in a standard premier. [deck] Creatures 24 4 Rakdos Cackler 4 Spike Jester 3 Spiteful Returned 4 Lifebane Zombie 2 Herald of Torment 1 Exava Rakdos Blood Witch 3 Desecration Demon 3 Stormbreath Dragon Spells 11...

RaidaTheBlade

I still want your babies Zem. me too. And me! Also, I played in a game day today. First standard thing I've done in about a month. It actually felt really good to play again, and I felt like I was playing well too. Got 4-0, 2-0ing every match, and got the playmat :3 Good way to return, imo. Also, n...

RaidaTheBlade

If I had to make changes based on how stuff played for me today (again not the most legit of decks, but still got to see how the deck ran vs a variety of styles), I would keep the list from before, the non-yp$ version, and definitely drop the cacklers. As much as I love me the cacklers, they just di...

RaidaTheBlade

Apparently he just went 0-2 in round 11 too... I have a feeling he might be tilting a bit...

That game loss was absolute bull. This is why they need to revise the rules, cause they are seriously draconian.

RaidaTheBlade

Don't have time for a full writeup at the moment, but just played at the game day in what was my first standard tournament or event in about a month. Took the rakdos aggro deck from a few pages back, with the cacklers still. Went 4-0 (8-0 in games), beating a r/w burn, a bant-chantments, a bant-midr...

RaidaTheBlade

The commentators just confirmed what I expected was happening offscreen.
Z just beat yet another esper control to end day one at 9-0!
He's one of only 2 undefeated players now.

Only thing I can say is holy crap! Z you are making the rest of us look bad ;P

RaidaTheBlade

Z's currently sitting at 8-0 after trouncing a GR Monsters HARD in the text coverage feature match. http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpmel14/welcome#12 And wanna know what is clearly and nicely visible in the shot of him? http://www.wizards.com/mtg/images/...

RaidaTheBlade

Couldn't sleep, so decided to randomly throw something together, like I occasionally do. This isn't anything too fancy, but I took mdu's Young Rakdos build, and do the thing that was discussed a few pages back about the normal version, aka dropping the cacklers for an extra dragon, land, etc. So her...

RaidaTheBlade

Yeah, a friend mentioned firefly to me and so I watched it one night on netflix. Needless to say I didn't much sleep that night. Also, been thinking about trying to get an rpg group going around where I live to play the Firefly tabletop. I've heard it's pretty damn good if you've got a dm who can st...

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