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Postby hamfactorial » Fri Aug 28, 2015 4:42 pm

Awww yeah :yes:

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Postby Valdarith » Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:22 am

0-2 drop. Lost to affinity and tooth and nail with some horrendous luck. Think I'll stick to my normal stuff.
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Postby hamfactorial » Sat Aug 29, 2015 3:10 am

Clearly, blue decks have better luck

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Postby Valdarith » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:36 am

It's the teardrops.
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Postby Valdarith » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:37 am

But honestly, I think the missing piece is ramp. Deck should be green for Heirarch and Birds. Then at that point you wonder why you aren't playing Kiki Chord.
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Postby Lightning_Dolt » Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:36 am

Played the deck today to a second place finish at a local tournament. Lost to Twin in the finals. Lost game 1 to a main deck Dispell. Lost game 2 to drawing four answers to the combo and no action. For Lava-man'd to death lol.

Deck is really fun to play.

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Postby Valdarith » Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:56 am

Played the deck today to a second place finish at a local tournament. Lost to Twin in the finals. Lost game 1 to a main deck Dispell. Lost game 2 to drawing four answers to the combo and no action. For Lava-man'd to death lol.

Deck is really fun to play.
Glad you liked playing it. It's a blast when you aren't mulling to 5 and drawing all your Walls but no actual spells. My experience last night was admittedly the worst string of luck I've ever had playing Magic, because I was even having issues when I played some matches with Grixis, but it was certainly disappointing for me.

My meta is a bunch of green decks and Affinity (a ridiculous amount actually...it's actually unhealthy at this point), so I'll be playing Mardu at my next Modern event to crush all of them.
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Postby hamfactorial » Sun Aug 30, 2015 5:27 am

LD: I'm glad you had success and fun playing with my favorite color combination :yes:

Val: Affinity and green? Talk about degenerate!

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Postby Valdarith » Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:05 pm

LD: I'm glad you had success and fun playing with my favorite color combination :yes:

Val: Affinity and green? Talk about degenerate!
People love their robots and coco down here. Standard is usually the same way with people clinging to green ramp strategies. It really skews what's playable at FNM, and I don't attend often enough to play the deck that counters them and crush the field until they decide to switch. The decisions are usually budget-based too. This is a very low income area and most people can't justify a playset of Snapcaster Mages and Scalding Tarns or Tarmogoyf so they gravitate toward strategies that don't use them.
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Postby Khaospawn » Tue Sep 01, 2015 1:04 am

I know what you people mean by "low income."
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Postby hamfactorial » Tue Sep 01, 2015 1:17 am

Bro you're a 5k-ionaire now, you must dream bigger!

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Postby Valdarith » Tue Sep 01, 2015 2:12 am

I know what you people mean by "low income."
I mean minimum wage or slightly above. One player was bragging a few months ago of moving away because he got a job that made $11 an hour.
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Postby Khaospawn » Tue Sep 01, 2015 2:56 am

I get it. I was just trying to be funny. :stupid:
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Postby Valdarith » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:12 am

Okay, good. I didn't want you to think I was being snoody.
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Postby Khaospawn » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:23 am

Nah. ;)
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Postby GoblinWarchief » Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:06 am

Now that twin is banned, maybe a boros shell with restoration and kiki jiki has a real reason to exist. Also eldrazi displacer is a very powerful card that i would like to play, but it heavily conflicts with my inclination towards playing maindeck blood moons XD probably i should just drop moons so i can make good use of path to exile and ghost quarter too.

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Postby Toddington » Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:46 pm

Seems okay in the more aggressive deck you were playing with. FWIW Reid Duke posted a Red Devotion deck with Avaricious Dragon. I commented on his article noting that I liked his deck but didn't like how the Dragon made the Twin matchup a lot worse, and liked his suggestion of maindeck Spellskite to hedge.

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles ... color-red/
This deck looks kinda sweet if you don't have to worry about Twin. Molten Rain over Chandra? (maybe Fulminators work better with the devotion theme)

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Postby hamfactorial » Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:16 pm

Now that twin is banned, maybe a boros shell with restoration and kiki jiki has a real reason to exist. Also eldrazi displacer is a very powerful card that i would like to play, but it heavily conflicts with my inclination towards playing maindeck blood moons XD probably i should just drop moons so i can make good use of path to exile and ghost quarter too.
I think you can play PtE or Blood Moon MD, depending on the meta. I preferred PtE during Twin's reign, but with the T3 combo kill off the radar, it's much more enticing to tap out for a 3-drop like Blood Moon.

I believe that a small hate package (Leonin Arbiter + Blood Moon + tweaked mana base) could easily fit into this shell and fight Tron/Scapeshift without seriously hurting other matchups.

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Postby Toddington » Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:09 pm

Now that twin is banned, maybe a boros shell with restoration and kiki jiki has a real reason to exist. Also eldrazi displacer is a very powerful card that i would like to play, but it heavily conflicts with my inclination towards playing maindeck blood moons XD probably i should just drop moons so i can make good use of path to exile and ghost quarter too.
I think you can play PtE or Blood Moon MD, depending on the meta. I preferred PtE during Twin's reign, but with the T3 combo kill off the radar, it's much more enticing to tap out for a 3-drop like Blood Moon.

I believe that a small hate package (Leonin Arbiter + Blood Moon + tweaked mana base) could easily fit into this shell and fight Tron/Scapeshift without seriously hurting other matchups.
I've had a good time recently the shell of 4 Arbiter + 4 Ghost Quarter + 52 other cards. Not running fetches and having to include Quarters is balanced by Blood Moon fixing for Kiki.

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Postby hamfactorial » Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:45 pm

Are you on the FoS Facebook group? I posted a list there with that plan in mind.

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Postby Toddington » Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:50 pm

Are you on the FoS Facebook group? I posted a list there with that plan in mind.
No, I just check this thread from time to time.

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Postby GoblinWarchief » Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:27 pm

I just don't think is possible to run the leonin arbiter package + blood moon+ kiki jiki. How are you gonna build your manabase with 4 colorless ghost quarters, very little fetches or none at all, plus needing to always have one basic plain out in case you play blood moon, and triple red for kiki jiki ? Relying on blood moon for kiki-jiki fixing is optimistic because you can't count on moon always resolving/staying on the battlefield. I mean, i would love for all this to work and i'll be pleased if you show me a list, but i think something has to be dropped to make your manabase decent.

Another option is running boom/bust + flagstones of trokair, and could be an alternative to leonin arbiter that lets you run fechlands. I mention this just because Playing a Goblin-Dark-Dwellers with a boom bust in the yard lets you cast armageddon for free !


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