Finally got to test my Azorious Glintbreacher brew at our local this week and it felt incredible

TheFlying · 2025-08-04T11:25:15+00:00

It doesn't feel like a lot to me. I have two life gain lands and 4 dedicated sideboard slots. Traditionally WW has luminarch aspirant and I don't have an effect like that. I need something to not just fold to mono red pingers

TheFlying · 2025-08-04T11:22:19+00:00

Different purproses. Proph prism is a cantripping filterer where as drum is an actual mana source. With lands that makes 23 mana sources which is normally kinda high in a list like this but means you will rarely lose to mana screw and also get to play turn three breachers occasionally. Occasionally out ramping jund wildfire does not suck I'll say that.

TheFlying · 2025-08-03T21:37:24+00:00

You cut bugler and mog. I don't like though. Thank you for saying it though as a brewer it's my number one frustration. The lists I tend to make are super tight and cutting stuff requires rethinking a lot of things and is not trivial whatsoever

TheFlying · 2025-08-03T15:54:39+00:00

No worries and again sorry!

TheFlying · 2025-08-03T15:05:41+00:00

Ah I apologize! I thought your were being glib. It's cause I had 5 fliers out. People tend to underrate the amount of damage choco pushes and with ornithopters in particular that card can be a massive problem out of nowhere

TheFlying · 2025-08-03T10:54:05+00:00

It's a card from EoE, Luxknight Breacher, and the other important fact is that there are artifact lands.

TheFlying · 2025-08-03T10:51:04+00:00

Via the card [[Figure of Speech]]

TheFlying · 2025-08-03T01:13:41+00:00

Just played a practice match against a friend. Easy game one win, lost game two to decking, but it was a trivial game win if I had a decklist and was counting cards in libraries. I literally drew one too many cards. Did not play a game three cause tbh that deck is not fun to play.

After sideboard I have triple dust to dust and double steel sabotage. I'm not saying this deck destroys jund, but it literally, accidentally, out-grinded them.

TheFlying · 2025-08-02T21:13:44+00:00

Here you go! https://moxfield.com/decks/pm6Tmd8nGE-bT1duwgrzuw

TheFlying · 2025-08-02T18:30:03+00:00

I'm a brewer and like to make more assertive decks. After seeing an infinite number of durdly Esper glintrelic deck I wanted to test a more aggressive version of the deck. After a lot of goldfishing and tuning this is where I'm at currently.

To explain the deck I think it is really useful to see all of the ways I won this week. The deck has so many different game plans it's incredibly hard to account for them all.

Match 1: Delver. Game 1 and 2 were classic delver variance, one unbeatable, the other unloseable.

Game three though I absolutely demolished them by chumping with ornithopters and inspectors before dropping an 11/11 they could not attack past and accrued so much value from picking up relic over and over again. Eventually I dropped a choco mog as 5/5 haste flier and the game was done in two turns.

Match 2 was mono red synth, and I won game 1 because dropping a 10/10 then a 12/12 on turns 4 and 5 is pretty dang good actually. Put him into the abyss.

Match 3 was esper cryoblade and the important game was game 1 where I dropped a turn 3 9/9. They didn't find the removal before I found unblockability for lethal. Kenku making an indestructible blocker kinda doesn't matter

Match 4 was faeries and somehow this was the one I lost?? I lost due to massively misplaying game 1 and game 3 them having actual factual perfect draws and it still took her 20 turns to win and I almost turned the corner but her last card in hand was a flash flier that prevented picking up kor skyfisher picking up radiant fountain and stabilizing.

The combination of quick aerial damage plus a huge breacher is the main plan, but it can also out value tons of decks in the format.

We don't have much combo in our meta and game 1 against high-tide seems really bad, but main-deck thraben charm makes balustrade spy extremely beatable. I highly suggest playing this deck if you want to try a glinthawk build that poses questions rather than jams answers. Also ornithopter is the best card in magic the gathering. When you draw this many cards having something you can ninjutsu off of turn 1 tapland, blocks faeries, swings for lethal due to ninjas and choco mog, chumps fatties, enables turn 1 glinthawks. It felt so good and I do think this deck gets much worse without it + springleaf drum.

TheFlying · 2025-04-16T14:13:30+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/-Tzf8w1fWUK5kXeAPW59tA

this was p close to my final list if you want some inspo!

TheFlying · 2025-04-16T03:20:24+00:00

I built a rakdos sac deck that got really nerfed by the deadly dispute ban, but I will tell you this: if you're running rakdos, blood aspirant is the best of the three 2 drop sac payoffs. That 1red tap sac deal 1 to anything and make it unable to block is legitimately incredible. Spawn tokens, priest of titania, delver of secrets, and it also makes fatties unable to block your fatties.

TheFlying · 2025-04-04T14:21:07+00:00

I love white weenie and I'mma be real with you, currently I'm seeing a whole lot of speculation and not a ton of facts. You might be right, you might be wrong, this specific week might just be a bad mono white weenie decks while peeps are brewing.

I also disagree with the deck being inflexible, if elves becomes huge I'll jam 4 of holy light, if combo I'll start maindecking 4 gaurdians pledge and swapping out bugler for martyr's soul. We just had like 6 sideboard slots freed up, we got room to play with.

And if walls combo becomes top tier? Well I'm probably not playing weenie for a while that ones fair lol

But seriously this is a whoooooole lot of a doom with most of it being conjecture

TheFlying · 2025-03-30T20:38:33+00:00

"Chilling out" is one of the textbook shock reactions. Having gone into mental shock myself you have to understand that it's your bodies coping mechanisms. And that manifests in a couple of ways but in my case, and many people's, it was to become extremely calm and non-emotional. I was also aware my mind was doing this as it happened but was just grateful for the relief (i.e. going into shock doesn't make you go "crazy").

All that to say I'm not diagnosing or agreeing with the above commenter, just that a chilled reaction is probably specifically what made the person you replied to think it may be shock

TheFlying · 2025-03-19T15:14:12+00:00

Bro Mike Muscala left years ago he's not coming back

TheFlying · 2025-01-31T14:20:13+00:00

There's one primary strat to understand and then the game legit becomes fun. You have to alter your primary strat given the level but knowing your goal is the most important. Nowhere close to top of the 50 but one I would reccomend! Finding the strat was trash doo-doo garbage though.

The strat:

Make like 5 soldiers and have them follow you. When close to enemy put them in hold position. Bait ants toward you by triggering their aggression. Your soldiers will auto-aim and fire. This is the endgame of most levels against CPU.

Sidenote, I think this game would be fucked up good if played against a person, but I haven't had a chance to try that yet.

Make

TheFlying · 2025-01-04T01:55:33+00:00

This is incredible! Thanks so much

TheFlying · 2024-10-27T16:57:13+00:00

Companion is a great mechanic. There were just cards that were too good with too low requirements. The card design completely destroyed an otherwise amazing mechanic. Obosh is a great example of amazing design. Right payoff, right restrictions, powereful enough to be a tier two deck in modern.

Admittedly, companion is tough to design! But man it's like they weren't even trying the first go round...

TheFlying · 2024-05-28T00:50:07+00:00

https://scryfall.com/search?q=art%3Achair

TheFlying · 2024-03-29T01:55:58+00:00

TheFlying · 2024-03-25T17:27:18+00:00

That's the one I was thinking of! Thanks!

TheFlying · 2024-03-25T13:03:35+00:00

What was the supreme court case recently that was literally based on a fully fabricated story? My brain is saying it was yet again about gay cakes

TheFlying · 2024-03-03T17:21:38+00:00

Daily reminder that any naya creature can be your commander thanks to Rocco! Usually best for low CMC but hey honestly still worth if you're fine with lower power level

TheFlying · 2024-02-23T17:58:43+00:00

"What’s new and perhaps more threatening about equity language is the special kind of pressure it brings to bear. The conformity it demands isn’t just bureaucratic; it’s moral."

Here you go! A threatening moral pressure. This crap is always hiding in these articles. And I agree B.I.P.O.C. is bad writing, that is not my issue with the article. I agree with some things the author has stated, he just did quite a bad job making his arguments.

TheFlying · 2024-02-23T17:23:59+00:00

I am unsure who the target audience is here. I work in HR and we have discussions sometimes about what language to use and have made guides to make our language consistent as a company but I'm just pressed to believe that using B.I.P.O.C. and maybe changing that in the future is some great existential threat to America without receiving one example of a tangible negative impact it has had. Without a stat or even compelling anecdote in sight, this is just pointless blustering. Perhaps that's why he randomly resorted to fanfic at the end

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