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Postby Jack » Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:42 am

The best thing about a 99 Mountain Ashling deck is every hand is a nut draw.
That's a cool way to look at it.

What is a "mulligan" anyway?
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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:14 am

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Postby Mcdonalds » Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:48 pm

Maybe if you're getting your deck out of the bonnet of your Smart Car to play EDH at Tea Time.

Here in 'Murica, though, we only play with God's lands.
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Postby redthirst » Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:51 pm

Maybe if you're getting your deck out of the bonnet of your Smart Car to play EDH at Tea Time.

Here in 'Murica, though, we only play with God's lands.
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Postby Mcdonalds » Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:59 pm

Can't just go around and break out the McRib everyday

Went to jail last time I did that.

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Postby D6Damager » Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:25 pm

Noob question, but how does the 99 mountain deck work? Isn't ashling's damage limited to 3 each turn since it auto resolves after the third pump?

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Postby Stardust » Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:52 pm

That's why you only activate the ability twice in one turn.

Turn 2: Play Ashling
Turn 3: Attack with 2/2 Ashling
Turn 4: Attack with 4/4 Ashling
Turn 5: Attack with 6/6 Ashling
Turn 6: Attack with 8/8 Ashling... then pump her once more and explode!!!

Repeat as necessary.
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Postby Jack » Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:51 pm

Noob question, but how does the 99 mountain deck work? Isn't ashling's damage limited to 3 each turn since it auto resolves after the third pump?
I literally have a section in the primer entitled "how does a 99-mountain deck work?"
But yeah, Stardust explained it pretty well. You can only deal three if you try to do it all in one turn, but the counters (or potential energy, as I like to think of them) accumulate over multiple turns.
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Postby Jack » Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:54 pm

If you are able, try to hold up 6 mana until the person to your right's end step.
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Postby Stardust » Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:12 pm

The last time I played Ashling, I was done for. 4 life remaining with four other players still in the game all between 20 and 40 life. Gaddock Teeg in play made half my hand dead and my other spells kept getting countered since the blue player feared this deck like no other. Frustrated, I told the table that I would just play Ashling and not even bother attacking, just pump her up until she was 40/40, then explode for the draw. Luckily, Gaddock Teeg was a huge threat. If Teeg attacked me, I would explode, making her lose her advantage (while I kill myself in the process). If anyone else attacked me, I wouldn't explode, and they would be overrun by Teeg's army. So they left me alone. Teeg took out one player, then another, leaving just me and one other player. At this point Ashling was 18/18, Teeg was at 30 and Vorel (the other player) was at 20. Knowing what was coming, Vorel decided a draw was acceptable and attacked Teeg
with everything, hitting her for 10, allowing me to explode for 20 and draw the game on my turn. So I played Glacial Chasm and just won instead.
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Postby LaZerBurn » Sat Nov 02, 2013 1:34 am

I'm in :D I got my Ashling and my 99 mountains on MTGO :)

My first ten cards are going to be Scythe Of The Wretched, Earthquake, Darksteel Plate, Devil's Play, Red Sun's Zenith, Sol Ring, Gauntlet Of Power, Gauntlet of Might, Caged Sun and Valakut :)
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Postby Jack » Sat Nov 02, 2013 1:08 pm

Fault line > earthquake.
The three lifeline equipment ( loxodon warhammer, batterskull and Basilisk Collar) are also sweet with Ashling, since you can gain dozens of life (sometimes even a hundred) from every explosion.
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Postby LaZerBurn » Sat Nov 02, 2013 2:09 pm

Faultline it is :)
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Postby LaZerBurn » Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:38 pm

I lost my first game as T1 Pithing Needle naming Ashling is difficult to beat :)
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Postby DocLawless » Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:00 pm

Shattering Spree can raise some hell in a deck this mana heavy. Pithing Needle go boom, as does the Sol Rings everyone runs as a staple, Library of Leng, Sensi's Divining Top if you can catch them tapped out, Birthing Pod, Curio, the Gauntlets, Scroll Rack, the Swords, Caged Sun, all the artifacts that make commanders hexproof/shrouded... there's a long list of EDH artifact staples.
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Postby Jack » Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:18 pm

I prefer Vandalblast.
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Postby DocLawless » Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:21 pm

I forgot that one had an overload mode.
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Postby Jack » Sat Nov 02, 2013 7:42 pm

The only upside of Shattering Spree is that you can play politics with it. If there's an artifact that's helping you out or hurting your opponents more than you, you have a choice on whether or not to blow it up.
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Postby LaZerBurn » Sun Nov 03, 2013 7:30 pm

Vandalblast went straight onto my list after
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Postby Jack » Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:02 pm

Does anyone have an extra Scythe of the Wretched, Caged Sun or Gauntlet of Power that they'd be willing to trade? They're the three on my wishlist that I feel would be the most useful. I've been looking for them for a while now, and nobody near me has them.
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Postby DroppinSuga » Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:22 pm

I'm partial to New Phyrexia mountains. I like the evil look of them.
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Postby Stardust » Mon Nov 04, 2013 4:26 pm

The only upside of Shattering Spree is that you can play politics with it. If there's an artifact that's helping you out or hurting your opponents more than you, you have a choice on whether or not to blow it up.
Spree is also more difficult to counter. Vandalblast is only on the stack once, but if there's one key artifact you need dead, Spree can target it multiple times if you really fear a counterspell or other trickery.
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Postby Kazekirimaru » Sat Dec 28, 2013 1:59 am

How have I not heard of this deck before?

This is epic in every way.
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Postby DarthStabber » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:37 am

It's better than the 99 mountain kumano deck I was playing with a while back.
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Postby DroppinSuga » Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:05 pm

I picked up an Ashling a few weeks ago. I've got the 99 Mountain version put together, just need some sleeves to throw it in. I was contemplating playing it tomorrow since I haven't seen anyone play Pithing Needle in our group.
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Postby Wraith223 » Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:30 pm

Wow. I feel stupid not thinking of this build. Although, gain control of target creature card after you are tapped out seems rather scary. At my meta, gain control of cards are a big part of the game. Might want to think about that. Also, no burning wish?
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Postby Jack » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:14 pm

I'll put it on my wishlist. See, with this deck, I made a rule that I couldn't just go on TCGPlayer and order all the cards I wanted; that I had to search around a bit to get the deck together. Because of this, I am still missing a lot of key cards (most notably the mana doublers). My current list doesn't even have Snow-Covered Mountains, because I only have 55 of them, and only around 30 non-mountain cards that I want in there.
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Postby DarthStabber » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:59 pm

Why snow-covered mountains in everything? If you were using skred or something else that cared it would make sense. I'm using rimescale dragon in nekusar and the only adjustment I made was to switch the basics (all 12 of them) to snow and it's been more than sufficient. Unless you are using skred you don't need all snow lands.
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Postby Jack » Sun Dec 29, 2013 1:47 am

Pretty much every other Mountain deck has non-snow mountains, so they couldn't benefit from my Extraplanar Lens if I used snow mountains.
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Postby DarthStabber » Sun Dec 29, 2013 4:24 am

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Postby Helios » Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:00 am

A mulligan is when I drunkenly stumble into somebody's bed and realize it's not mine. I either stay there or have to get up and find another place to stay.
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Postby Khaospawn » Mon Dec 30, 2013 11:12 pm

A mulligan is when I drunkenly stumble into somebody's bed and realize it's not mine. I either stay there or have to get up and find another place to stay.
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Postby rezombad » Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:23 am

Totally won a league game the other day after someone foolishly cast mycosynth lattice while I was holding vandalblast, about 14 turns into the game.
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Postby redthirst » Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:46 pm

Never play Lattice unless you already have Darksteel Forge in play.
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Postby DroppinSuga » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:02 pm

Never play Lattice unless you already have Darksteel Forge in play.
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Postby Stardust » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:57 pm

I think I want to add some cheap, instant speed removal to my Ashling deck. Something to easily get rid of Gaddock Teeg, Crypt Ghast, that sort of thing. Let's say I want 2 spells. Magma Jet and Punishing Fire? Are there any other good ones out there?

[card]Dead/Gone[/card]? Sudden Shock? Has anyone tried these cards?
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Postby DroppinSuga » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:58 pm

Lightning Bolt?
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Postby Stardust » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:04 pm

Bolt is good, but I think I'll do better by getting more utility instead of more mana-to-damage ratio.

Also, nothing in EDH has 3 toughness. The little dinks I'll be shooting for all have 2. Any other annoying guys seem to have 4.
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Postby Jack » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:34 pm

Burst Lightning is nice, since it can hit for 4 and still gets around Teeg
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Postby DocLawless » Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:13 pm

Looking for enchantment hate in Red, but magiccards.info is down and I should technically be working and not playing on the internet. :( Any ideas off the top of your heads?
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