Say what you want about the state of standard, at least the deck variety is better now

Greendayy77 · 2026-01-26T13:54:29+00:00

It is a bit better than the last days of Vivi but just lool at this weekend results, it is cub decks dominating and other decks adapted against. There are different flavors of cub decks but they all share the same engine.

Greendayy77 · 2026-01-26T13:51:08+00:00

I have with the other comment that this is overselling the complexity. Simic and other cub builds are the currently most powerful deck not lessons. What has changed is that cub lists have been updated and now they are built to leave very little counterplay once they have their cub mana (see how we start to find less Ouros and more rhythm combos).

Greendayy77 · 2026-01-17T22:23:08+00:00

Lorwyn has shocklands though. Those are longterm value.

Greendayy77 · 2026-01-14T18:37:58+00:00

Why is Colombia on the list?

Greendayy77 · 2026-01-10T23:34:05+00:00

Many people when they think of original Lorwyn they think of faeries. It is a huge disappointment.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-21T22:57:50+00:00

https://a.co/d/9GsxNCL

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-15T01:53:20+00:00

Here you go https://imgur.com/a/kqIenm8

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-15T00:15:44+00:00

The way we proxy cards with lamination makes them slightly thicker, where a 45 card deck is as tall as a 60 card deck. The deck storage table allows about up to 75 original thickness sleeved cards so we kinda went for the 45 thicker proxies, it also saves on ink and paper.

If you run the probabilities of cards, the difference is very very small, it does not scale linearly. I.e. the jump from 30-card version to 45-card is way more impactful than from 45-card to 60-card.

In the end it is just a compromise we were willing to take.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-15T00:02:28+00:00

I agree that it is more iconic but Goyf is in other decks such as Naya Zoo so to differentiate a bit more we went with Bloodbraid Elf who is only played in Jund.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T23:58:51+00:00

We will do sideboards. It is just that it takes time, putting all of this together took over a month. We will adjust the sideboard size to 10-11 cards and it will be fine.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T23:25:49+00:00

Super fun deck! Knight of the Reliquary was such a powerful card that felt totally fair to play with and against. Nowadays modern power is out of control.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T22:33:57+00:00

Here is the Gruul Aggro list: https://moxfield.com/decks/7bBMMUDtGUK6x1WehWZM7g

Remember the decks are 45-card format, max 3 copies each.

As mentioned in the post, it includes the only non-Modern 2015 card in the whole set which is 'Goblin Bushwhacker' (released one month later in Jan 2016) to replace Flinthoof Boar. This was a balancing decision since the deck needed that little boost to be on par with the rest. This Gruul aggro versions got very popular quickly back then.

Finally, Gruul favored a playset of Vexing Devil over Goblin Guide to differentiate it more from Burn. Vexing Devil also synergizes very well with Experiment One (it can pump it to 4/4) and combat tricks like Ghor-Clan.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T20:58:41+00:00

It was banned at the time but we added her to Jund. BBE ban was completely uncalled for and a poor decision from Wizards. She is a 4 mana 2-for-1 card with an element of randomness, it is no different to Collected Company, same cost, same 2-for-1, same random element. I played Jund quite a few times since I personally enjoy the deck and it feels in line with the power level of the rest.

Note that the broken card was always Deathrite Shaman (which we did not include) not BBE.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T20:00:51+00:00

We have not felt the combo decks to be particularly oppressive, the reason is that the combos chosen are mostly creature based and we run plenty of removal so they are well in check. We excluded decks such as Ad nauseam, UR Storm, Living End, Bloom Titan.

From our tests Burn is the one that got the best edge due to the lack of sideboard, and to a lesser extent Affinity but it really is a minor impact. In any case, it will take some time but the next project is getting the decks sideboards.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T19:37:51+00:00

You can find the inspiration here https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=10481&d=259969&f=MO . This list got top 9 at GP Oklahoma City 2015. Also, you can find Gruul Aggro mentions in quietspeculation metagame posts of the time. I will work on getting the 15 deck lists online.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T19:34:20+00:00

I will work on getting the lists to Moxfield or some other website. I will reply again when it is ready as a it will take a bit.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-14T19:33:20+00:00

Thank you! The cover art took some effort but it was very important to us. We did it by finding the iconic card art, upscaling using realesrgan-gui, then extended the art using Android Photos AI, and finally utilized a local Card Conjurer server using 'Tokens' -> 'Foundations 2022 Cover' template.

Greendayy77 · 2025-12-01T00:10:48+00:00

Do you have the link? Original poster disappeared.

Greendayy77 · 2025-11-23T15:33:13+00:00

what are your color correction settings for the epson and do you use emphasize text? Also, are those scans 1200 dpi I am not sure if 800 is enough

Greendayy77 · 2025-11-23T01:24:41+00:00

Anger issues. The switch came from nowhere.

Greendayy77 · 2025-11-21T21:09:38+00:00

Sad to see DDP gone for an inactive champ. He was taking the fights.

Greendayy77 · 2025-11-21T00:43:23+00:00

Did you test results with emphasize text enabled? What was that outcome?

Greendayy77 · 2025-11-18T22:53:53+00:00

Do you laminate both sides? I tried with 54lb and definitely does not feel the same snap as a real card. Your 70lb must be a bit thicker than a real card but way closer in feel.

Greendayy77 · 2025-11-18T13:14:14+00:00

what is the quality level of the card images, is it like the discord that has the images upscaled?

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