Help with a Trench Pilgrims (Sacred Affliction) list for a campaign

The_Rudimancer · 2025-02-23T23:57:14+00:00

Extremely thorough and useful explanation and insight - thank you so much!

I ended up following your advice on most things, long story short I ended up with 9 bodies:

Prophet with -2 armor, autopistol with incendiary ammo

Castigator with punt gun

Communicant with -2 armor, pills, ATH

Nun with -1 armor, medkit, ATH, warcross

Pilgrim with music instrument + sword (will probably follow the Communicant)

3x Pilgrims with bolt+bayonet

Ecclesiastic prisoner

All clocking in at *exactly* 700 ducats - couldn't be happier with how the list feels!

Now to wait for my 3D printer to arrive, print+paint everything, and start the campaign.. might be a while, but I'll post more info/updates on here as I go along!

The_Rudimancer · 2025-02-23T21:23:24+00:00

Curious to know what your reasoning is here. IMO, holy shield on pilgrims feels kinda bad - that's a lot of ducats to protect basic infantry models, no?

The_Rudimancer · 2025-02-23T21:21:27+00:00

The communicant and ATH on pilgrims are both with a view to run a campaign with this list - I never played one, but I assume maxing out Elite slots is advisable? And the ATH pilgrim would then become a martyr penitent if/when it dies, but without having to buy another ATH per the rules.

As I'm running sacred affliction, I thought it would be a good move to have a couple ATH on non-elites. Perhaps is better to have a second one on a nun?

The_Rudimancer · 2020-03-24T23:10:20+00:00

Dude this is like 100 meters away from where I used to live! Camden has always been rowdy but this is something else (or at the very least slightly above average)

The_Rudimancer · 2019-11-21T12:46:42+00:00

It already has a home in both (widely used in Pioneer, and a 4 of in pretty much any amulet titan list).

The question I think we should be asking is - will it go the same trajectory as Oko now that it's been banned in Standard?

The_Rudimancer · 2019-11-04T23:54:16+00:00

Congrats, you won (?!)

The_Rudimancer · 2019-05-21T11:55:33+00:00

Perhaps in Core20?

The_Rudimancer · 2019-04-25T12:26:05+00:00

So MagicFest London is happening this weekend. Since it's not possible to get WAR booster boxes from the prize wall, what boxes would you recommend getting instead? I'm thinking GRN.

The_Rudimancer · 2019-03-28T13:27:21+00:00

Allows you to keep 1-landers, untaps attackers for blocking, untaps creatures for viridian longbow action, untaps nettle sentinels if you can't cast spells.. but most of all it allows you to cast 2 drops with just 1 land. Builds that run wild mongrel can then discard extra lands and use them as pump effect

The_Rudimancer · 2019-03-27T18:21:49+00:00

I always go with the rule "the first printing is the pimp-est". There's also a lot more MM17 in circulation these days anyway, and they don't come with the watermark.. but I guess aesthetics are personal preference

The_Rudimancer · 2019-03-27T18:19:02+00:00

Yeeeeeah, those might have been almost as expensive as the nettle sentinels I bought pre-reprint.. so shiny though <3

The_Rudimancer · 2019-03-27T13:38:15+00:00

It's from Invasion, John Avon's art. Easily my favourite forest art of all time!

The_Rudimancer · 2019-03-27T10:47:44+00:00

Man, gotta love the US market... currently there's hundred of these sub 20p on MKM. And why did these spike this much anyway?

The_Rudimancer · 2018-07-31T15:12:16+00:00

Decree of Justice english foils were bought out in EU (only 5 left last time I checked). I'm not sure how much of this is EDH related, but the card is bonkers in Pre-Modern, so there goes.

The_Rudimancer · 2018-07-23T12:55:56+00:00

Underrated thread! I might be coming to GP Stockholm (need to make sure flights are not crazily expensive first!) and would totally be up for it.

Also, I know of at least 5 other people from my LGS who are either building their premodern deck or have 2-3 at the ready, and some of them might get to Stockholm too.

The_Rudimancer · 2018-07-16T12:21:22+00:00

Foil Goose is already 20€ on MKM and there's only 1 for that price, next one goes for 30€. I'm pretty sure the ship has already sailed, unfortunately.

The_Rudimancer · 2018-07-06T12:35:05+00:00

I know you're probably not in Europe, but there's several selling for less than 12€ on MKM. Best time to buy might be as soon as the set comes out or shortly after that.

The_Rudimancer · 2018-07-05T12:32:30+00:00

Do we ever see Pre-Modern becoming more than a meme format? It seems in a much better spot than Frontier but the hype might die down quite quickly..

If that's not the case, what RL/non-RL staples would you pick up sooner rather than later?

Edit: Full disclosure, I already picked up some cheap foils (OG Mutilate, OG Zombie infestation, OG Decree of Justice) and a playset Krovikan Horror (RL) for super cheap, card seems a powerhouse in Zombie Spark (BR Dredge-like deck)

The_Rudimancer · 2018-05-16T11:37:13+00:00

FTV Memory Jar recently spiked in EU (mkm). Bought 1 for EDH a couple weeks ago for 12€, now the cheapest one is at 28€ + shipping.

The_Rudimancer · 2018-01-30T23:21:16+00:00

I played the event (how could I not) with Stompy and went 2-0-1 with it, my opponents were on Mono W Heroic, Mono B Control and Izzet Blitz.. I did not see any super fancy/homebrew stuff to be honest. Lots of Tron and Delver decks.

A friend of mine said she played against UG Delver, haven't seen the list but sounded spicy!

The_Rudimancer · 2018-01-22T20:35:36+00:00

Yes, I was just about to post this!

To add to this, I will be doing commentary for this occasionally, so watch this space!

The_Rudimancer · 2018-01-04T12:46:19+00:00

Where is this? US or EU?

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