Dies to Removal

Attach as an Instant for

I'd find room for Etched Champion. It's expensive for the deck at but it + Plating will just win you the game.

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.

Dragonshift looks pretty snazzy. Instant speed surprise dragons in my favorite colors. I'll be making this work, somehow.

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.

Do you intend to start working towards a non-budget version? If so, this is what I play.


[deck]Realsteel.[/deck]

You don't really need Cranial Plating at instant speed, it's pretty hard to beat even at sorcery speed.

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.

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.

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.

Blugh... didn't know Ravagers and Nexi were going for so much...

Blugh... didn't know Ravagers and Nexi were going for so much...

It's a popular deck for grinders because you can literally just buy the whole list at an event and play it to an 8-X finish with no prior experience. People do that a lot, so it drives the price up on the staples for it.

Makes sense - deck is strong and fairly straight-forward.

On a completely unrelated note... anyone seen Dane lately?

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.

Do you intend to start working towards a non-budget version? If so, this is what I play.


[deck]Realsteel.[/deck]

You don't really need Cranial Plating at instant speed, it's pretty hard to beat even at sorcery speed.

Yep, that's the plan. Thanks for the list. I will use it as a reference for future investments.

Ugh... people getting defensive in the trade ideas thread.

Sure am glad we left the whole "us -vs- them" mentality behind us...

Too much snow.... Hate it. Its April!

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

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

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

My Legacy deck is tezz affinity, but I lucked out and someone donated me all the cheap pieces. I don't use arcbound or Blinkmoth though. I also never get to play it, so bah.

It's a cool 63F here at work. Sunny but no spring feeling in the air yet.

Its like 35 here

Its like 35 here

I wouldn't have done that.

Its like 35 here

Its like 35 here

I wouldn't have done that.

Its like 35 here

I wouldn't have done that.

It's funnier when it's 79, sunny, and breezy outside with blue skies and those big fluffy white clouds.

You'll just have to trust me on that
one.

It's like 75 and sunny as fuck out. I hate it.

I'm starving. Wife isn't home until 9:30 so I'm going to order some wings. Who wants some?

EDIT: oh, and I just failed the Ham Challenge a couple hours ago. I was on day 23

Wings for me please! Day 68 of the challenge.

How did it feel going back to day 1? Worth it?

Wings for me please! Day 68 of the challenge.

How did it feel going back to day 1? Worth it?

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

The Ham Challenge is a cruel mistress

Well, it was worth it for a moment. Then not worth it. Then I took a nap. That was worth it.

[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 [/quote:w1jro45g]
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.

Crap. I'm stuck at work with nothing to do and it's beautiful outside.

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....

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.

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.

Crap. I'm stuck at work with nothing to do and it's beautiful outside.

Pretend to be going to the loo, then head on outside and breathe the fresh air!

Ugh... people getting defensive in the trade ideas thread.

Sure am glad we left the whole "us -vs- them" mentality behind us...

Here or on Sally?

edit: nevermind, I think I found what you were talking about.

It's a balmy 39, overcast, with 20 mph winds here.

Its like 35 here

I wouldn't have done that.

There is plenty of snow in Toronto where my family is too. It's sunny and high 20's (Celsius, sorry I don't know Fahrenheit) here in
Japan. Enjoying it now before the typhoon season starts.

LOL cold weather

Wings for me please! Day 68 of the challenge.

How did it feel going back to day 1? Worth it?

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.

Grew up in Holliston, live in Malden now. North and South shores are both much different vibes than metro west.

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.

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.

Very similar to my list. I don't run an Reckoners MB - 3 in the side. In their place I run
+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.

Alex: I think that means you lived in right part

It's like 80 and humid as balls here. Effin Mississippi.

Oh wait, now it's apparently thunderstorming
Mississippi: If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes.