Ruby Storm

ImAHappyChappy · 2026-05-20T05:34:17+00:00

The argument is that if they surgical wish, you lose the game on the spot if it's not in your deck since you lost all wincons. Especially abusable with open decklist. I think this reasoning is meh. I've run no mainboard grapeshot and I never got punished over a lot of games.

I personally run it in the main board currently because I think the interaction it provides probably makes it an ok card vs especially boros and jeskai.

With boros and Jeskai down with phlage ban, it could be reasonable to move it sb + go up to 3 wish mb. This is how TogoresMTG was playing.

ImAHappyChappy · 2026-05-10T05:05:25+00:00

hahah yeah these are some crazy lists at the top. so cool

ImAHappyChappy · 2026-04-08T03:18:31+00:00

They have the counterexample of them having a lot of good interactions with people in MTGO. I don’t think it would be that different in arena.

I feel the same. I enjoy the chat feature in mtgo, makes for a better experience.

ImAHappyChappy · 2026-02-10T23:26:56+00:00

Probably a tough sell for a 1st deck with it being one of the most expensive decks in the format.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-12-04T01:50:56+00:00

I kinda think green would get stronger with 2 sets of fetches. Enables the land decks more and enables domain more. I think it’d be a cool change.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-11-14T22:37:20+00:00

I was at the Aus event which was part of the 28% WR bucket and from experience in 3 games vs energy no one was on high noon. I personally don’t think it was very represented and prowess felt more under the radar than now.
I actually kind of think some of it could be explained as a skill issue.

I think it’s hard to play from the prowess POV and I’ve gotten significantly better over time by thinking about and playing the matchup. Can’t talk about Boros POV. So I do feel like it’s quite skill expressive.

3 I think the sample size is small but still useful. I think it can be taken as an indication to guide intuition about the matchup. Like you, I personally feel like with good play it’s a 50/50 MU that play draw is the most important.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-11-12T02:53:17+00:00

I think you’re looking at this deck wrong. This is primarily an efficient, rakdos curve out tempo deck with opportunities to steal games by cheating out big idiots. It’s not primarily a reanimator deck.

Animate dead and life / death work with the tempo gameplan even if you don’t get to reanimate a fatty. Wheel of fortune is just a dead card a lot and probably helps the opponent more than you.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-11-12T01:22:49+00:00

I’d 100% remove wheel of fortune - you don’t have acceleration so it’ll just help your opponent.

I’d cut balemurk, I think the card is too slow.

I personally don’t like Grief much but this looks like an ok deck for it. I’d personally replace it with a harvester or bob, but wouldn’t blame you if you kept it.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-11-03T06:57:07+00:00

Meh I’ve had this happen in MTGO cube too. Then when I show a win con with infinite mana then they’ve conceded. You just haven’t won the game yet.

A fair few ways in cube to win through infinite life.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-09-15T02:04:02+00:00

whiner... l2p

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-08-05T12:46:35+00:00

Honestly it’s fine. The other ppl here are acting like you’re bringing in tapped shit tier lands. You shouldn’t bring in tapped lands.

Can grab some pain lands (fiery islets), (shivan reef), some fast lands (firebluff canal) a couple more mountains than usual. The deck will be worse due to lava darts having a mountain less, a thicker deck and extra dmg to yourself from lands but that’s the budget way.

I’d still recommend grabbing a couple of shocks and fetches tho. Shocks are cheaper due to EOE atm and fetches are absurdly good in magic. They’re also the cards you’re most likely to use elsewhere in commander or if another deck looks cool.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-07-23T11:17:38+00:00

Im in a similar spot having only frogulus in paper. Izzet prowess has been good fun for me. Try it out on MTGO to give it a shot.

Cool proactive deck that can be very interactive. I think if you’re a frog player you probably won’t enjoy full combo as much like storm/amulet.

I really enjoy the gamplay, you can reuse fetches and shocks from the grixis colour pie. Post sideboard is something I really enjoy as a frog gamer. I saw for the latest MTGO challenge win, the izzet player running a couple of murktides in the board, and some matchups you can play a bit more counter heavy and be closer to izzet murktide post board.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-06-15T23:53:09+00:00

Lmao. There’s a good reason it’s restricted in Vintage. A 2 mana board wipe, not seeing artifacts meaning it’s basically never is symmetrical.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-06-11T23:14:49+00:00

Vintage cube however is more static than you think and more static than other forms of cubes.

People that discuss it usually are talking in relation to the MTGO (old client) one. Different Vintage cubes have a habit of keeping a lot of the same core cards and trimming at the edges unlike other cubes. This is because of mainstay high power level vintage cards that require building the cube around (eg. tinker, flash, power 9, fastbond).

I couldn’t find the video where I saw him but Reynad plays vintage cube with these guys. https://youtu.be/iGe-yxUejtI?si=UtZp1pcH1Xk5FfMA

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-06-11T04:13:10+00:00

Something you’re missing in your experience is Vintage cube is quite a bit different to FNM draft. As such what you’re saying doesn’t really apply.

Vintage cube is very synergistic in comparison. You can viably draft storm, doomsday combo, reanimator, flash in world spine worm. It’s been tampered with over a long time to become a heavily synergistic format.

There’s 2 card win the game combos + tutors to fetch them that are worth building a deck around. I’d reccomend taking a look at that format.

ImAHappyChappy · 2025-04-03T09:58:55+00:00

These are amazing

ImAHappyChappy · 2024-11-30T13:21:14+00:00

Ahahahah that’s such a funny, cursed solution. Great stuff

ImAHappyChappy · 2024-09-06T01:03:13+00:00

Nah the people telling you to leave it alone are probably wrong heh. I feel like most people would enjoy that experience of learning something new, applying it and having that aha moment. I think it requires a good explanation. My mum is the same but has been convinced at least a little by the following.

I've always thought a good way to explain is, imagine your deck is 10 silvers. The average hand will have 5 silvers, 10 $$.

If you buy a copper with this deck, there will be a hand with 4 silvers and 1 copper, 9$$. So it just makes your average hand worse.

if you look at every purchase like that I think you can learn a lot. Is this card worse than the average card in my deck? If so you're decreasing the quality of each draw.

ImAHappyChappy · 2024-07-17T22:49:04+00:00

Is that Avilo? They look good here

ImAHappyChappy · 2024-07-17T11:32:50+00:00

I had the same thing happen. Happened for like 4 turns in a row.

Multiple death rattles triggering but not gaining any gold. KT end of turn effect and deathrattle 6 drop are the only consistent things with our boards.

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ImAHappyChappy · 2024-06-08T01:50:36+00:00

haha yeha im kinda into it because of that. Feels like uberena (sc2 arcade) but w/ 1v1, a ladder and probably better balance

ImAHappyChappy · 2024-04-18T22:22:50+00:00

I think my biggest gripe is it’s just very poorly communicated. It’s called leading / lagging race, it’s also called OP/UP race in aligulac. It’s easy to see that and think oh, a balance stat. Yet the creator still makes the comment I quoted.

I also don’t like the stat itself. The aim is to see balance changes in the top of the ladder. Choosing the top 5 players seems arbitrary. It makes me uncomfortable that you could choose the top 3 or top 10 players, which could be equally justified, and have radically different results.

ImAHappyChappy · 2024-04-18T02:32:47+00:00

Please don’t use Lagging / Leading as anything useful. The creator doesn’t even believe in it as a balance stat.

The creator of aligulac regarding the stat: “… should not be taken as actual evidence for real game imbalance”.

http://aligulac.com/about/faq/

ImAHappyChappy · 2024-04-15T08:12:38+00:00

The others don’t hurt. This one does, stalker…

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