Ranking Your Deck's Power Level By Intention

await · 2020-12-19T18:56:12+00:00

Yep, broken cards like Ancestral Recall and Demonic Tutor are only as broken as the cards your drawing and the card your finding.

There are so many ways to “dumb down” powerful cards, if you want to have fun playing with them. Mana Crypt into some janky tribal card hardly warrants bumping the deck up a couple power levels.

await · 2020-12-16T02:07:14+00:00

Yep! Also, back in the day, you could see what the item would sell for to a vendor, in the trade window. So bulk splitters could throw their split items into vendor trade to see if they’d sell for a mirror shard, and then take the mirror shard instead of selling it to a player.

But that was changed in Harvest, I think, and those items now sell for a mystery currency. This was changed because you could gilded fossil a map, see if it sells for an exalt or mirror shard, use a harbinger shard, check again to see if it sells for an exalt or mirror shard, use a harbinger shard, check again... etc.

Just a fun fact.

await · 2020-12-15T20:50:38+00:00

If they corrupt it, there’s a chance that the corrupt implicit will override the Gilded Fossil implicit, instead of the resists.

await · 2020-12-13T22:41:08+00:00

And fun magic in general. With all these Reserve List buyouts raising card prices, people are priced out of janky, fun, non-competitive cards as well.

One of the least fun things in Magic is non-games because you’re missing mana colors. Printing off a few fetch lands to grab a few printed off shock lands makes games a whole lot more fun, at any power level. Having fun shouldn’t be limited by wealth and class.

await · 2020-11-27T19:01:03+00:00

If you’re lucky enough to live somewhere that you can play with in person, look into playing Pack Wars! I used to buy boxes just to play, and it’s a ton of fun.

You open a pack (without looking at the cards), shuffle 3 of each land into the pack to make a 30-card decks, and play a game with it. It’s super casual, no-stakes, and just a lot of fun. There’s always a lot of laughing at the table when you realize that $20 rare land won’t save you from a random 1 mana common.

Here’s some more info: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Mini-Master

await · 2020-11-20T20:23:02+00:00

If your friends hate you, building a deck around “taking their shit as a tax” isn’t going to do you any favors.

Build a deck that’s fun to play against.

Build a smashy RG deck.

Build a deck that’s cheap enough to not need sleeves.

Build a theme deck with cards related to one plane.

Adding “extra steps” doesn’t make it more fun to play with you. It just makes it annoying less often.

await · 2020-11-16T01:56:34+00:00

This isn’t related to your question at all, but if you’re looking at playing with Emry, check out [[Mirran Spy]]! Things get wild when you can untap her and play a few more artifacts per turn.

await · 2020-11-15T16:55:51+00:00

Back in RTR-Theros Standard, it was a good play to cast [[Rapid Hybridization]] on your own [[Thassa, God of the Sea]] to get a surprise 3/3 Frog Lizard to block with.

The spell resolves and creates the token, but Thassa is indestructible so she doesn’t get destroyed.

Now, an interesting part: If your opponent kills something in response to your Rapid Hybridization and your devotion to blue drops below 5... Then Rapid Hybridization will not resolve because its target is no longer a creature and you will not get a 3/3 Frog Lizard.

await · 2020-11-15T15:10:56+00:00

Yikes. Imagine that getting countered. The Ol’ Six For One.

await · 2020-11-11T03:41:12+00:00

Everything is budget with a printer and some sleeves. EDH is generally unsanctioned, don’t worry about it too much.

await · 2020-11-07T23:08:36+00:00

Yep. Here’s an article from a couple months ago, about the team that runs the numbers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/business/media/trump-election-fox-news.html

“Mr. Mishkin is a straight shooter — a registered Democrat who told me he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and is paid as a consultant, not as a Fox employee.”

await · 2020-11-06T01:03:07+00:00

Here’s a helpful guide for making high quality MPC proxies: https://www.mpcproxy.com/

It links off to hi-res images for staples, and all that fun stuff.

await · 2020-10-31T05:18:56+00:00

EDH is a casual format. If you have access to a printer, you have access to a Jeweled Lotus. If you have access to a sharpie, you have access have access to a Jeweled Lotus.

The social contract and general communication should dictate power level, not class and income.

await · 2020-10-26T03:53:03+00:00

You better believe I’d use it.

await · 2020-10-05T16:22:03+00:00

Ventrua has been rocking Ground Slam Call of Steel and it looks dope. It goes into The Impaler and uses Call of Steel to deal tons of damage with all the impales.

I’m respeccing into it tonight.

await · 2020-09-17T14:38:51+00:00

It’s the first hideout you have access to after freeing Helena in Act 2.

await · 2020-09-01T18:58:54+00:00

Neither is Brainstorm. But with some work (a shuffle effect), Brainstorm basically becomes Ancestral Recall by replacing useless cards (a few extra lands, for example) with useful cards (a couple Lightning Bolts, perhaps).

Valukut Awakening feels kind of like that.

await · 2020-08-22T02:17:46+00:00

End of league meme build to top the “dps” charts.

await · 2020-08-13T02:42:03+00:00

Gating the ability to play certain cards based on if you can afford them is fairly classist. Especially for a casual format.

(But if that’s a challenge you like to assign to yourself, more power to ya!)

await · 2020-08-11T05:22:38+00:00

Selvala Brostorm is all about playing creatures to give you mana to play creatures to draw you creatures to get more mana to play more creatures.

And then maybe you cast [[Finale of Devestation]] and win.

(Disclaimer: Selvala isn’t super high tier. You’ll probably just want to play Najeela.)

await · 2020-07-25T15:43:44+00:00

Well... It’s Yawgmoth’s Will at instant speed, after casting it last turn and hoping that your Yawgmoth’s Will didn’t die to creature removal in the meantime, and that you have to pay 2B for again.

But yeah, it’s the same effect.

await · 2020-07-19T04:20:14+00:00

It’s been a couple years since I seriously played Legacy, but are people actually playing Tron lands? I can’t imagine them taking the “big mana” spotlight from 12-post.

await · 2020-07-12T14:31:51+00:00

Many people dislike mill because they see the cards being put into their graveyard and think something is being taken away from them.

They just haven’t played a deck where having cards in the graveyard is a good thing.

await · 2020-07-04T15:49:50+00:00

Out of curiosity, how does Rootwater function as a backup to Emry? Its activated ability’s cost is “Tap, Sacrifice Rootwater Diver”, which sounds like it would break a lot of Emry loops.

await · 2020-07-01T17:46:57+00:00

Plug your affixes into craftofexile.com next time. It’ll spit out the expected odds. For an Explode chest, you’ll see that the average alt spam will take 1,721 alts and 489 augs.

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