I'm thinking it instead of Frogmite. He's only $4 a piece so I guess I'm okay with buying a playset. It seems like nobody around here has any modern staples whatsoever. It's only recently become a "thing" around here with events at the two local LGSs on the first Friday of the month.Attach as an Instant for![]()
I'd find room for Etched Champion. It's expensive for the deck atbut it + Plating will just win you the game.
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Do you intend to start working towards a non-budget version? If so, this is what I play.Redbros, I need help with my budget mono red affinity list. Is it good?
[deck]Budget Mono Red Affinity[/deck]
Blood Crypts are only there because 1) I already have a playset and 2) extra black sources for Cranial Plating.
Wish I could get some Blood Moons for the sideboard. I feel like I want more burn, but I also feel like I need at least 24 creatures for maximum benefit with Cranial
Plating and Signal Pest.
[deck]Realsteel.[/deck]
You don't really need Cranial Plating at instant speed, it's pretty hard to beat even at sorcery speed.
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Forgot about Steel Overseer - that's only a few bucks too, right?
Hell, with the exception of Mox Opal, that whole list is pretty easy on the wallet.
Hell, with the exception of Mox Opal, that whole list is pretty easy on the wallet.

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Archbound Ravager is like $30, Blinkmoth Nexus' are also like $20. I'd be playing another Ravager if I could (going -1 Shrapnel Blast) but I just don't own one.Forgot about Steel Overseer - that's only a few bucks too, right?
Hell, with the exception of Mox Opal, that whole list is pretty easy on the wallet.
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Blugh... didn't know Ravagers and Nexi were going for so much...

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Makes sense - deck is strong and fairly straight-forward.
On a completely unrelated note... anyone seen Dane lately?
On a completely unrelated note... anyone seen Dane lately?

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Yep, that's the plan. Thanks for the list. I will use it as a reference for future investments.Do you intend to start working towards a non-budget version? If so, this is what I play.Redbros, I need help with my budget mono red affinity list. Is it good?
[deck]Budget Mono Red Affinity[/deck]
Blood Crypts are only there because 1) I already have a playset and 2) extra black sources for Cranial Plating.
nWish I could get some Blood Moons for the sideboard. I feel like I want more burn, but I also feel like I need at least 24 creatures for maximum benefit with Cranial Plating and Signal Pest.
[deck]Realsteel.[/deck]
You don't really need Cranial Plating at instant speed, it's pretty hard to beat even at sorcery speed.

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Ugh... people getting defensive in the trade ideas thread.
Sure am glad we left the whole "us -vs- them" mentality behind us...
Sure am glad we left the whole "us -vs- them" mentality behind us...

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79, sunny, a few fluffy clouds, and breezy.

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Move to an area where God doesn't hate the people and you can have nice weather too.

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81 and partly cloudy here. Oh, and I'm moving into a house with a pool in a month. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!

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I wouldn't have done that.Its like 35 here

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It's funnier when it's 79, sunny, and breezy outside with blue skies and those big fluffy white clouds.I wouldn't have done that.Its like 35 here
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EDIT: oh, and I just failed the Ham Challenge a couple hours ago. I was on day 23
EDIT: oh, and I just failed the Ham Challenge a couple hours ago. I was on day 23


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I grew up in and still live in New England. We still have some of that Puritan shit going on over here and all the guilt associated with it.Wings for me please! Day 68 of the challenge.
How did it feel going back to day 1? Worth it?
So no, not worth it


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[quote="[url=viewtopic.php?p=55110#p55110:w1jro45g]rcwraspy » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:56 pm[/url:w1jro45g]":w1jro45g][quote="[url=viewtopic.php?p=55100#p55100:w1jro45g]hamfactorial » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:53 pm[/url:w1jro45g]":w1jro45g]Wings for me please! Day 68 of the challenge.
How did it feel going back to day 1? Worth it?[/quote:w1jro45g]
I grew up in and still live in New England. We still have some of that Puritan shit going on over here and all the guilt associated with it.
So no, not worth it
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I must have lived in the wrong part of Massachusetts, because in New Bedford there wasn't even a guise of "puritan bullshit." It was some serious Jersey Shore type shit.
How did it feel going back to day 1? Worth it?[/quote:w1jro45g]
I grew up in and still live in New England. We still have some of that Puritan shit going on over here and all the guilt associated with it.
So no, not worth it

I must have lived in the wrong part of Massachusetts, because in New Bedford there wasn't even a guise of "puritan bullshit." It was some serious Jersey Shore type shit.
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It's sunny, a few clouds in the sky, and I want to say it's low 90's outside. Perfect beer drinking weather.
@redthirst: I was wondering the same thing about Dane today myself....
@redthirst: I was wondering the same thing about Dane today myself....

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I would replace the souleaters with etched champion. Souleater isn't that good without stuff that abuse his free pump. So many decks just have no way of dealing with him.Redbros, I need help with my budget mono red affinity list. Is it good?
[deck]Budget Mono Red Affinity[/deck]
Blood Crypts are only there because 1) I already have a playset and 2) extra black sources for Cranial Plating.
Wish I could get some Blood Moons for the sideboard. I feel like I want more burn, but I also feel like I need at least 24 creatures for maximum benefit with Cranial
Plating and Signal Pest.

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Here or on Sally?Ugh... people getting defensive in the trade ideas thread.
Sure am glad we left the whole "us -vs- them" mentality behind us...
edit: nevermind, I think I found what you were talking about.

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Grew up in Holliston, live in Malden now. North and South shores are both much different vibes than metro west.I must have lived in the wrong part of Massachusetts, because in New BedfordI grew up in and still live in New England. We still have some of that Puritan shit going on over here and all the guilt associated with it.Wings for me please! Day 68 of the challenge.
How did it feel going back to day 1? Worth it?
So no, not worth it
there wasn't even a guise of "puritan bullshit." It was some serious Jersey Shore type shit.

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Updated list bringing to WMCQ on sunday, looks better now?
[deck]Creatures:30
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Stromkirk Noble
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Flinthoof Boar
4 Lightning Mauler
4 Boros Reckoner
2 Ghor-Clan Rampager
4 Hellrider
Spells:8
2 Pillar of Flame
2 Rancor
4 Searing Spear
Lands:22
12 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Stomping Ground
2 Temple Garden
Sideboard:15
1 Pillar of Flame
4 Mizzium Mortars
4 Skullcrack
4 Traitorous Blood
2 Hound of Griselbrand[/deck]
Won't have time to try it at FNM tonight as I'm gonna be catching Olympus has Fallen with my girl. Any feedback would be appreciated!
EDIT: Think some bonfires could be good.
[deck]Creatures:30
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Stromkirk Noble
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Flinthoof Boar
4 Lightning Mauler
4 Boros Reckoner
2 Ghor-Clan Rampager
4 Hellrider
Spells:8
2 Pillar of Flame
2 Rancor
4 Searing Spear
Lands:22
12 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Stomping Ground
2 Temple Garden
Sideboard:15
1 Pillar of Flame
4 Mizzium Mortars
4 Skullcrack
4 Traitorous Blood
2 Hound of Griselbrand[/deck]
Won't have time to try it at FNM tonight as I'm gonna be catching Olympus has Fallen with my girl. Any feedback would be appreciated!
EDIT: Think some bonfires could be good.

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Very similar to my list. I don't run an Reckoners MB - 3 in the side. In their place I runUpdated list bringing to WMCQ on sunday, looks better now?
[deck]Creatures:30
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Stromkirk Noble
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Flinthoof Boar
4 Lightning Mauler
4 Boros Reckoner
2 Ghor-Clan Rampager
4 Hellrider
Spells:8
2 Pillar of Flame
2 Rancor
4 Searing Spear
Lands:22
12 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Stomping Ground
2 Temple Garden
Sideboard:15
1 Pillar of Flame
4 Mizzium Mortars
4 Skullcrack
4 Traitorous Blood
2 Hound of Griselbrand[/deck]
Won't have time to try it at FNM tonight as I'm gonna be catching Olympus has Fallen with my girl. Any feedback would be appreciated!
EDIT: Think some bonfires could be good.
+2 GCR and +2 Rancor MB. Reckoners are great when you're in the mirror or playing against a faster aggro deck, but I find they slow the deck down in other matchups.
I feel like you don't need your SB cards to all be 4x. You can bring in some more diversity by dropping to 2x and 3x. Cards to consider if you do that would be Bonfire, as you mentioned, Flames of the Firebrand, Volcanic Strength, and the Reckoners. If you add Bonfires or Flames you likely won't need the 1x Pillar SB - I'm still not seeing many zombies any more, but it's a meta call.
And I personally don't have any Skullcracks in my 75. If you free that spot you can start packing more answers in your sideboard.

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