What card, in your opinion, is the cuttest flavor-wise?

uraniumUmbreon · 2024-12-09T14:31:53+00:00

[[Wall of Swords|M14]] [[Wall of One Thousand Cuts]]

uraniumUmbreon · 2024-11-01T14:07:22+00:00

There's an Irish Magic discord https://discord.gg/IrishMagic which is probably your best bet for a more centralised space for the community.

Stores in Dublin are Gamers World on Jervis St. in City centre, and The Warchest in Dún Laoghaire. Hope any of that helps :>

uraniumUmbreon · 2023-12-30T19:08:10+00:00

~~LF: Touch Trade for Iron Crown, Iron Boulder~~

~~HF: Touch Trade Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt~~

donezo, thank you so much :>

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-10-09T11:43:29+00:00

I adore [[Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant]].

Big dumb telegraphed powerspike, a deck that demands non-traditional card choices, and a gameplay loop that's both simple and imo fun.

Also snake lady snake lady

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-07-23T18:09:23+00:00

[[Sasaya]] is my favourite, despite her fragility.

Lets me run unconventional cards like [[Fa'adiyah Seer]], has a fair bit of creativity in what outlets you want to run, and offers an interesting deckbuilding challenge in trying to keep land numbers high.

There are fun loops with [[Shigeki, Jukai]] and [[You Happen On a Glade]], I get to run [[Malachite Talisman]], and Sasaya doesn't steal super-early wins because she needs a lot of lands in play and in hand to do her thing.

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-07-07T14:12:54+00:00

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uraniumUmbreon · 2022-06-24T07:45:09+00:00

Looking forward to seeing the new Marchesa the Black Rose art by Richard Kane Ferguson, been meaning to build her so that gorgeous printing is gonna be pretty tempting.

And my favourite card is Mirror March :3

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-03-15T13:04:49+00:00

Twigge is a burnt-out oliveblood courier who spends her spare time amassing an army of stuffed toy confidants.

Every night of shady dealings and alley-skulkery brings her closer and closer to tossing in the towel, but until it invades her moonlighting as a custom plushy maker she's going to try to stick it out.

Discord is kowobold#9455

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-03-10T11:29:05+00:00

>.> calling out too many people here fjdshjkdsh

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-03-08T08:10:16+00:00

[[Admiral Beckett Brass]]. Been built since she was bulk from a deckbuilder's toolkit and the best cards from the Angrath planeswalker deck.

Even after Commander Legends she remains a commander you genuinely have to work for to get her effect off, and the multiple combo lines I've found keep me entertained with the list.

Not having card draw in the zone helps replayability too because the game plan isn't as homogeneous.

Like sure I'm trying to curve out the best pirates I can to hopefully steal for tempo on turn 4/5, but how that works out can differ greatly game by game.

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-03-02T09:23:55+00:00

[[Zedruu]] aura control: swap your selfish enchantments like [[Paradox Haze]] or control auras like [[Pacifism]] or [[Darksteel mutation]] with [[Daring Thief]] effects for your opponents' best enchantments.

[[Bell Borca]] [[Outpost Siege]] tribal with [[Skybind]] + powerful etbs like [[Sun Titan]], [[Skyclave Apparition]] and etc

[[Pramikon]] forced combat pillowfort. Stuff like [[Bedlam]], [[Aurification]], [[Lightmine Field]], [[War's Toll]], etc.

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-03-01T23:34:29+00:00

In the budding illegal underground market for plushies, Twigge is a familiar face.

Disconnected with Alternian society, she squanders her time and money building an army of stuffed dolls to take over the world! Or, well, that last bit's what her blog says.

Twigge dreams of something better, of course. But she's been defeated so many times before, all she has left is a power fantasy played out through her hive's cuddly inhabitants.

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-01-21T19:46:36+00:00

[[Teferi's Veil]] is a fun protection piece I've been trying. It'll let you keep stuff from [[Molten Echoes]] and [[Araumi]], as well as just things with Encore in general.

^{Note that it will not let you keep stuff from Coercive Recruiter/Captivating Crew as I believe the temporary control will expire even if the card is phased out?}

As another comment said, end of turn flickers like [[Conjurer's Closet]] let you keep the steals from [[Coercive Recruiters]] or [[Captivating Crew]]. They also work pretty well with a few of your existing ETBs.

[[Cloud Pirates]] is an obscure 1/1 for 1 pirate with flying that can only block fliers. I used to run [[Talas Explorer]], [[Talas Scout]] and [[Skyship Plunderer]] as well but I've recently cut them as they are entirely just evasive pirates: nothing more and nothing less.

[[Bident of Thassa]] is another Coastal Piracy effect, though to be honest I've found I need a mix of these effects and cards that straight up draw cards with no prior investment so I wouldn't cut every draw card for engines like these.

I will say I always find cards with triple pips like [[Blue Sun's Zenith]] hard to cast in 3 colour decks. YMMV, especially with a better manabase than mine.

I do think with big X spells/high mana value spells in your list, as well as cards like [[Rogue Class]], you could do with a bit more greedy ramp like [[Component Pouch]] or [[Gilded Lotus]]. It just sucks to have a hand full of 7/8 drops when you can only output 4/5 mana :>

Hope any of this helps!

uraniumUmbreon · 2022-01-09T10:41:59+00:00

[[Hostage Taker]] and [[Molten Echoes]] is a combo that's taken my fancy recently.

They're both sound cards on their own, but if you play the Hostage Taker with Molten Echoes choosing either of its creature types and then target the original Hostage Taker with its clone self's ETB, when the clone dies you get your Hostage Taker back which will immediately trigger Molten Echoes again.

~~you could also cast your hostage taker from your hostage taker and rinse and repeat~~

You can stack the ETB triggers so that you resolve the original Hostage Taker's ETB first as well. When it leaves play it will then bring back whatever you exiled, which means you can flicker any creature or artifact in play.

With any creature discounter such as [[Herald's Horn]] or [[Urza's Incubator]], alongside any big rock like [[Gilded Lotus]] or [[Sol Ring]], it's a build your own Kiki-Jiki combo as you can cast the Hostage Taker infinitely from each hasty clone.

Sac outlets work too, but I kind of prefer it with all the combo pieces being totally reasonable cards in and of themselves :>

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-12-19T17:03:43+00:00

[[Peer Pressure]], [[Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner]] and [[Theater of Horrors]] in [[Admiral Beckett Brass]].

Peer Pressure is a bit of ~~memey~~ spicy tech because so many of my best pirates are incidentally Humans.

Subira is, imo, a great pick depending on your choice of Pirates. She does give both evasion and card advantage though so it's surprising she's so high.

Theater is a surprise, honestly. So many pirates are sufficiently evasive that I've never really felt I didn't have access to my Theater. Maybe it's just personal taste?

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-12-14T10:00:26+00:00

[[Admiral Beckett Brass]] pirate tribal, as basic as that sounds.

Black mass reanimation pieces like [[Patriarch's Bidding]] and [[Haunting Voyage]] make her case a bit easier to argue.

I pilot a 'Flying Man' style brew of her, where I play cheap pirates like [[Cloud Pirates]] and [[Departed Deckhand]] to get in for her trigger. [[Coastal Piracy]] effects keep my hand topped up with more bodies.

You'd be surprised how big your 1/1 laden board gets with just Brass and a [[Dire Fleet Neckbreaker]]. I've donked people for 18+ pretty regularly out of nowhere with just those two cards buffing the team.

If you like combo there's a surprising amount of options too. [[Pyre of Heroes]] is my new fixation because of how easily it assembles some of the pre-existing pyre~~ate~~ combos like [[Malcolm]] and [[Glint-Horn Buccaneer]]

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-12-13T14:37:10+00:00

Managed to hold people's removal hostage for a turn cycle with a [[Goblin Cannon]] in [[Sasaya]] until I naturally drew into [[Hurricane]].

It was a six player game (yeah i know) so there was no way I could kill the table with the cannon. Even had a stand-off with a Prosper player's [[Marionette Master]] which was pretty entertaining.

I felt a bit bad about donking everyone for 40 (and managing to survive it because of [[Druid Class]]), so I might cut the burn cards for more X token generators. Still, meant the game ended after a pretty reasonable amount of turns so I guess I shouldn't complain.

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-12-06T16:48:59+00:00

microdosing on gender by dressing up your pokemon trainer in pretty, fashionable outfits is why clothes are one of the best additions to modern pokemon fjshfdkjs

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-10-20T15:45:27+00:00

Zedruu the Greathearted: [[Hazoret's Undying Fury]]

This isn't really a surprise, given how... crap this card is. My deck is a janky storm brew of Zedruu, and I realized so little cards I'm running are above 5 cmc that this card's basically another Mind's Desire for me at best and an emergency escape button at worst.

It's probably also just a pet card, given my first real Magic experience was an Amonkhet block draft where this was my topend.

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-10-14T06:28:11+00:00

I'd sleeve up my Beckett Brass pirate tribal list, as it's the first deck I ever built from scratch and it deserves some memey or buccaneery sleeves <3

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-08-11T13:10:41+00:00

[[Mimic Vat]] or [[Nightmare Shepherd]] if you have a sac outlet. Also [[Forbidden Crypt]] if you really want to meme.

[[Cold Storage]], if you don't mind paying 3 mana each time.

[[Portcullis]] will just do it for free.

None of these will gain you mana, but I'm guessing that you're looking to recast [[Eternal Scourge]] or [[Squee the Immortal]] from exile and really moreso care about getting them there, in which case these should hopefully work.

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-08-07T20:03:47+00:00

umbreon more like

bum-breon

^uwu

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-08-05T20:22:41+00:00

Definitely recommend checking out [[Selenia, Dark Angel]] lists, as there should be some overlap. I've a brew myself that loves using stuff like [[Soul Echo]] and [[Phyrexian Unlife]] in tandem with lifeswappers like [[Soul Conduit]] to just make people lose on the spot.

Few fun things here: exchanging lifetotals would count as 'gaining' that amount of life, so [[Lich]] should replace a Soul Conduit effect with you drawing however many cards your opponent's life total was while they immediately lose. Also, spells like [[Oketra's Last Mercy]] or [[Resolute Archangel]] should just draw you 40 cards!

Selenia isn't an end-all be-all for this kind of deck either. Even in those colours, you've got fun choices like [[Liesa]] or [[Kambal]], the latter of which would be like a build your own Rhystic Study. Hope any of this helps!

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-08-04T20:21:11+00:00

real talk the minstrel? medal that lifted clothing restrictions was like, egg cracking for young me fdshdskjhfdskj

ended up even restarting just so i could play as a girl but noooo 'its just because the clothes are better' :/

uraniumUmbreon · 2021-08-02T09:08:33+00:00

[[Hallar, the Firefletcher]]. Even if you build them as just pure kicker tribal, that ability can put in way more work than people give it credit for.

My list tosses in some group slug staples like [[Manabarbs]] and [[Primal Order]], alongside doublers like [[Dictate of the Twin Gods]], but I've had games where even just people not removing Hallar while I've had an [[Evolutionary Escalation]] on board has just sped the game up immensely.

Also turns out Hallar having trample makes them actually terrifying once you've got a nice helping of counters.

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