Yeah; for those of you who haven’t heard the news, our new episodes are being released on MTGCast on a roughly 24-hour delay (I had to have some incentive to view the ad-supported version, after all).

DrawGo Radio #7

Speaking of ad-supported, it looks like we might just have our own website up and running in the next few days. I’ll keep you informed, true believers.

My my, i checked out this deck on starcity games, and its looks good so lets go!

Ok so you had a good look at the deck?  Its just green white tokens,
My my green and white
Kinda like this

Ahaha this pic is awesome

Ahem where was i…Oh yeah this GW deck.
Looking @ it, its freaking awesome.  Token making ftw, not too sure what the pridemage is in there for, but its GW so it cant hurt.  Oh its used to explode opponents eldrazi monuments. i see why its better than the eldrazi green.
Lets go over some of the key cards,

Lotus cobra – there to look good.  No im kidding, useful for the landfalling and to throw out whatever you have in your hand.
Eldrazi Monument -  there to own face
Conqueror’s Pledge – there to own face with soldiers or known as 6 dudes
Master of the wild hunt - helps to own face with wolves
Emeria Angel – flying angel to help own face with more flying birds, along with eldrazi monument makes them epic flying? (no there is no actual thing called epic flying in magic)
Birds of paradise and Noble Hierach, – Mana makers to help own face
Elspeth – this card needs no introduction or does it need any more comment.
Knight of The Reliquary – ooo finally a place for this card,  its there to blow up your forests or plains and to search for a fetch land where you can blow that up again and get another basic land out, so thats 2 lands in the graveyard.  This card is good for land filtering, and just making landfall for lotus cobra or make a load of birds.

You get the idea its owns some face.
Hmm i think i can actaully make this deck woohoo.  Need master of the wild hunts though, urgh i think their prices have gone up now… hmm $7 US.  That should be ok i think…ARGH dont want to get birds of paradise…

Ahem anyway thats all for this deck.

Enough of this Magic,
Andrew Chin, – shoulder still killing…

He also sees the winning lotto numbers

In order to get more EDH out to the public, I’ve decided that here on 99EDH, we’re going to link to the articles and points of interest that this week had for our favorite format. While searching for the usual suspects, I’ll need some help from my readers.

If any of you like any other EDH articles or posts from this week (Sunday to Saturday) that didn’t make it, mention it in the comments below.

While you read the internets during the week and you notice something awesome about EDH about the past week, e-mail (99ehdproblems AT gmail.com) or twitter (@mtgcolorpie) me the link. If you submit it and it makes it, guess what, you get a mention and a hearty thumbs up for spreading the word.

Week #1

I Got 99 Problems But a General Ain’t One

• Derfington’s Corner: Playing with Fire – Jaya Ballard – Derfington – A new author on our site admits his love affair with a certain General in a tight leather catsuit. Taking a more Timmy approach to the deck building (we love all player types on 99EDH), he goes into making it a fun deck. Also, decklist.

Mananation.com

• pIRATE! The deck – Ben Mcdole – Riffing off last year’s Pirates vs. Ninjas Duel Deck April fool’s day joke, Ben decides to actually build a pirate themed EDH deck. Hilarity ensues. Still a little sad that he went 5 colors instead of fewer.

MTG Deck Source

• The Sliver Hive – MTG Deck Source – Taking a look at the recently released Premium Desk Series: Slivers, he decides to build an EDH deck from it. This is a different direction then our take on the Sliver EDH (which will appear in the new few days).

Star City Games

• Feature Article – Mono-Black Stax in Elder Dragon Highlander – Brian Coval – Taking a more Spike tone with EDH, Brain shows his his Maga, Traitor to Moratals EDH deck that’s build for competitive play. I do like his scale of evaluating EDH decks and plan to release my own sometime.
• Embracing the Chaos – Meet the Committee – Sheldon Menery – The “Godfather” of EDH speaks about the rest of the “Elder Dragons” that form the rules committee. Plus some history on the format.

That’s it for this week. If I missed anything or if you want to give your recommendations, throw them in the comments down below. Have a good weekend and see you next time.

Hola a todos, esta entrada es solo para ver si  ya se nos  hace un torneito que nos hace mucha falta, espero que sea pronto un convivio de estos me hace falta creo, aunque no soy un buen jugador es bonita esta convivvencia, solo espero que si. Creo que ya paso un tiempo suficiente para el cambio de decks y demas cosas que estoy seguro que mas de uno ah estado haciendo en todo este tiempo. Solo queda la pregunta al aire Hasta Cuado…

Bueno me despido hoy espero poner varias entradas de las cosas que siento algunas inquietudes asi que hagan caso omiso a lo medio cursi jajaja xD

Check out Shane Moore’s Abyss Walker series here:

http://skullvines.com/?page_id=1047

The Lady in Red

I must confess, I’ve always had a smoldering nerd crush on Jaya Ballard. The feisty Task Mage is the hotness, hands down. With a blazing bod and a fiery personality to match, this girl is almost too hot to handle.

Okay, no more fire puns. Let’s talk about mono-Red in EDH.

Compared to the other colors, Red seems like it’s got the short end of the utility stick. The other colours are well-equipped with counters, versatile card draw and spot removal, reliable mana acceleration and tutors of all shapes and sizes. So what has Red got?

There’s no inherent enchantment removal, which is dangerous when your buddies play fun cards like Debtors’ Knell. Tutors? Gamble, while funky, is no Demonic. But Red’s got great sweepers (both damage-based and non), brutal X damage spells, respectable artifact and land removal, and some of the scariest creatures anywhere.

I don’t think many players gravitate towards Red as readily as they do towards other monochrome options because they feel it might play too narrowly. I think there is merit to this belief, but I aim to prove that mono-Red can scrap as well as the rest, while being a tremendously fun EDH archetype to play.

Here’s the text of the totally sweet Jaya:

R, T, Discard a card: Destroy target blue permanent.
1R, T, Discard a card: Jaya Ballard, Task Mage deals 3 damage to target creature or player. A creature dealt damage this way can’t be regenerated this turn.
5RR, T, Discard a a card: Jaya Ballard deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

Now tell me that isn’t spicy.

Part 1: TEH FIREBEAST

The other peasant-burninator

When did this fascination with mono-Red begin? It was during a Zendikar Prerelease Sealed event and I was playing my third round, going 1-1 over my first two rounds with my R/G deck. I needed a win for any hope of getting monies. I lost Game 1 to a sneaky Windborne Charge, so I was steamed. I swore it would never happen again. The board during the second game had grown to a huge stalemate, and I needed an out. I ripped the next card off the top of my deck: Obsidian Fireheart. TEH FIREBEAST (as I shall call him) single-handedly won me that game. My opponent died by losing 5 life in one turn to the burninating whims of TEH FIREBEAST. Spoiler Alert: I won Game 3 after.

TEH FIREBEAST became my favourite card in Zendikar. I wanted to, once again, experience the throes of ecstasy that can only come from setting random objects and small animals ablaze. I suddenly considered a marriage of awesome red cards and EDH. Let’s take a look at a couple other EDH offerings from Zendikar:

Chandra Ablaze: Speaking of ablaze, the other mistress of incendiary delights would prove to be irresistible. All of Angry! Chandra’s abilities looked very playable in a mono-red scheme.

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle: A potential mono-Red EDH deck seemed like it would have a fair number of mountains. Colorless damage sources are quite welcome in a deck that might be easily hosed by a Story Circle. But in a deck of 99 cards, how can I get this scrumptous land more quickly?

Expedition Map: Oh Wizards, you know me too well. In a deck with few tutors, the Map can pull any of your other utility lands in a pinch.

But enough of Zendikar; I digress.

Part 2: Building around Ballard

Why choose Jaya? Besides being one smoking hot lady, I mean.

Even in a balls-to-the-wall deck like this one, I like having utility and flexibility in my generals. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Heartless Hidetsugu are both powerful options, but everyone knows their intentions and will gun for them at the earliest opportunity. Jaya can fly under the radar more easily, taking a defensive stance until later in the game when you have the resources to send damage flying everywhere. It’s counter-intuitive to the common perception of Red, but subtlety goes very well with unpredictable, explosive finishers…which win more than a few EDH games.

So, I decided on Jaya. How to build around this mistress of molten magnificence?

I needed her to act immediately once she came out. Sitting uselessly out in the open for a turn is bad for a 2/2 General. Haste was therefore a necessity:

Anger
Hall of the Bandit Lord
Lightning Greaves

Jaya’s first ability hoses blue players, but what if there were ways to make her ability a little more universal?

Painter’s Servant: Infamous with Grindstone and Teysa, it’s a natural fit with Jaya.
Scuttlemutt: Mana dork and targeted Jaya enabler, recommended to me by a man wiser than I (He wrote that, not me – MtGCP).

Other equipment cards to enhance Jaya’s durability and effectiveness, thus making her more awesome:

Shield of Kaldra
Magebane Armor
Sword of Fire and Ice
Quietus Spike

The inclusion of all this juicy equipment warrants the inclusion of the one and only red equipment searcher-upper: Godo, Bandit Warlord!

The Quietus Spike and Shield of Kaldra are fairly straightforward additions, but the Sword of Fire and Ice, besides being a great piece of equipment, protects Jaya from her “Ultimate” Inferno ability. Magebane Armor, generally considered playable only in M10 Limited, functions excellently in the same role.

We’ve established a few good ways to get Jaya out fast and get the most out of her. What about the rest of the deck?

Part 3: Recruiting the J-Team

Disco Inferno!

The deck needed to be more than just burn. Any Red deck can burn – this one needed a strategy to use Red’s destructive spells to control the opponents’ boards, while minimizing any collateral damage.

First, the burn spells:

Banefire: Should always be used at full effect.
Demonfire: X damage spell with Exiling goodness and a nice bonus if you Jaya’d your hand away.
Hammer of Bogardan: Recurring burn spell, and plays well with Jaya.
Molten Disaster: The split-second kicker is key.
Rolling Thunder: Versatile X damage spell.
Starstorm: A cycling, instant sweeper. Just the kind of utility we need.

The ubiquitous nukes:

Jokulhaups
Obliterate
Ruination

Now we come to the mana acceleration package. Red needs a lot of artifacts to help out in this regard. These should be straightforward:

Darksteel Ingot
Extraplanar Lens
Foriysian Totem
Gauntlet of Power
Journeyer’s Kite
Mana Vault
Ruby Medallion
Sol Ring
Thran Dynamo
Braid of Fire: Not an artifact, but works great with all our activated abilities. And with the loss of mana burn, it doesn’t hurt you to have it in play.

This may seem extreme, but it’s not. The deck needs tons of mana. However, it’s dangerous to completely rely on artifacts for mana, so casting things like Wildfire and Decree of Annihilation might feel like shooting yourself in the foot…with a grenade launcher. Also, Fracturing Gust is not our friend.

Some artifacts to help out with drawing cards:

Font of Mythos
Howling Mine
Mind’s Eye

We also need artifacts to help remove enemy enchantments:

Nevinyrral’s Disk
Oblivion Stone
Capricious Efreet: He’s not an artifact, but he nukes enemy enchantments (and other non-land stuff too).

See? Not entirely screwed.

Blood Moon: As scary as it sounds

Red has a nice enchantment subtheme of screwing people over for doing dumb things like not playing Red or casting creatures. We can try to play on this a little bit:

Blood Moon
Furnace of Rath
Vicious Shadows

For the most part, we’re going to be using basic Mountains because having reliable red mana is really important. But the non-basics we do use will also be important:

Dust Bowl: Once we’re rolling in mana, we can start taking out those annoying lands that we don’t like.
Kher Keep: Who doesn’t like Kobolds? Combos with Capricious Efreet and Vicious Shadows. Provides chump blockers in a pinch as well.
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea: Nice card draw when we need it; also searchable with Expedition Map. I’d rather have my opponents draw too than get stuck on bad draws all game. It garners goodwill as well, so politics-wise it’s a boost.
Spinerock Knoll: Easy to activate in EDH.
Thawing Glaciers: Another way to keep pumping out Mountains. Fixes mana screw and powers both Jaya and Valakut.

A lot of non-basics you see in EDH come into play tapped. Non-basics are cool, but if everything CIPT (Still a relevant term besides the Battlefield term – MtGCP) then we’re slow, sad pandas. We’ve got a schedule to keep.

Part 4: Putting it All Together

Card draw, more than any other EDH deck I’ve run, is so key to this deck. The resources need to keep flowing in order for Red to get its game on, because it’s so focused in what it does. Much like a standard burn or RDW deck, the moment you run out of gas is the moment you lose. The conclusion I’ve currently reached is that a deck like this one would let its true strength shine in EDH duels.

That’s not to say that Jaya is unviable in multiplayer – on the contrary, she’s a blast to play. It takes time to get mana set up and make cards stick, but it’s a thing of beauty to see all the little combos go off. The current high point of the deck is one-shooting an opponent in multiplayer with 40 damage from Akroma, Angel of Fury (with Furnace of Rath, 16 age counters on Braid of Fire and many untapped lands), and proceeding to win the game with dominant board position. That game I had Mikokoro and Mind’s Eye out, which only emphasizes the deck’s hunger for card advantage. The huge combos don’t happen every time (I had a Demonfire Distressed out of my hand with 12 lands, Furnace of Rath and Gauntlet of Power in play), but the thrill of it is enough to keep going.

And your opponents’ reactions are priceless.

Click here to view the full deck list.

There are a few cards I’d love to include but just don’t have yet, but I’d like to hear your thoughts. Have you ever built a mono-Red deck? What strategies do you run?

I still need more experience under my belt with Jaya (holy double entendre, Batman!), but I have been, and still am, giddy about the deck’s potential. I hope to mine deeper into Red’s card pool and develop the list into something that people would be even more scared to face. It’s not going to be easy, but you know Jaya and me – we’re in it for the long haul.

What I'm having for Thanksgiving

This week in the United States, there is a Federal Holiday called “Thanksgiving.” And on this holiday, you gather with your family and “give thanks” to all the blessing you have in your life. Due to this holiday, there will be much more eating of turkey and being with family. It also means some time off and being awesome.

I’ve been really busy with life lately and I haven’t been keeping up regularly with the posts. In case you haven’t noticed here on this blog, I don’t have any ads, and I don’t have premium content (Thanks Star City!), so everything I put into this blog is my own free time and my own effort. So, while I love to read and write and design Magic, paying the bills and spending time with my wife comes first (those without a wife, I guess you don’t understand). Most of the blog posts that go up tend to be written within a day or two of being published. If I’ve been busy at work, or sick, I don’t have anything in reserve. This is not really professional nor smart if I want to keep putting out content for you to enjoy (and looking at my numbers, quite a few of you do read my work rather then google a word and get here by accident).

So, what does this mean? Does this mean I’m leaving? No, not at all. It’s because of feedback from you and your support (moral, not financial) that I continue to write this blog. My blog niche is not something that is highly sought after; reading about the newest Type 2 tech is in more demand then reading why Legends have gotten better in the past few years. The EDH Blog (I Got 99 Problems But a General Ain’t One), is getting tons of EDH traffic, and in due time I suspect it to get more traffic then this one. But here I do my jokes and talk about Magic design, something that my friends and other Magic players know I’m passionate about.

Alright, fine. I didn’t answer the above question. See, I’m taking a few weeks off (not that you might have not noticed around here) to write some articles. I need to get ahead in my writing. Hardly any of my posts are time sensitive (they’re not tournament reports) and I have some ambition about what I want to accomplish here. Talking with another Magic blog author this week has made me re-evaluate what I’m writing on this blog. I want to get back to some of the design aspect of Magic (something your blog visits are telling me) as well as humor (blog hits as well). I’ve found that writing a decklist and saying why you made your choices and a little strategy on the deck takes less time to write then a post on a missing color in Magic; it takes less research and less arguing then why you went with that one card. Yes, I do a ton of research for my posts (look at all the tabs open in Firefox in this screencap) so naturally they take longer to do.

Here’s the deal: I’m not going away, but I am taking a little time off for this blog (I’ll still be around on twitter (@mtgcolorpie) the EDH blog and e-mail (mtgcolorpie @ gmail.com). My next “scheduled” post on this site is the December Mailbag (questions, please!) but I’ll get something up before then (something my twitter followers said they would like). Give me another week or two to start getting a number of posts backed up for me to publish and we’ll get back to a more normal schedule. There are some articles I want to finish (like the “Four Colors Magic” and the “Better Know a Card Type” series) and I don’t want them to feel rushed. Will any of this stuff be done by the new year? No, but it will be on it’s way. I will still write decklists and posts on the EDH blog (if you want to write for it, please send me an article. I want other player’s voices heard) in the mean time, but nothing too deep (there is going to be a “best cards in each color” series but not until I get some work done here).

Lotus Cobra is Evil will get the full run on here on Sundays, so you won’t miss your Sunday funnies. In the mean time, I leave you with my five favorite articles that didn’t get much attention the first time around so you can read them over and over again while you wait for new content.

Magic Cinema – Aarongarry Aaron Ross: One of the most recent posts I did. After the run away success of my first Magic Cinema post (A Few Good Lotus Cobras) I thought this one would be another surefire hit as well. Personally, I think they’re about equal in quality, though the Glengarry Glen Ross was the first scene I thought of. And yes, even though I know Randy Buehler doesn’t work at Wizards anymore I don’t think that Wizards farms out card design to old people either (at least there’s been no official denial from Wizards). If you click on the movie posters in the posts, you get video of the actual movie scene. NSFW language.

Design Class – How Much Fetch Could a Fetchchuck Fetch, Ohh, You Get the Idea: My blog about why fetchlands (Arid Mesa, etc…) are rare and if you want affordable fetchlands, there are some that have been printed. I took the idea from a post about them from the amazing financial Magic blog “Quiet Speculation.”Could the title have been Fetchlands instead of Fetchcuck? Sure, but I went this way instead. Still would’ve liked the title “Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen” and almost punched my computer screen when I first saw it used. One of the best titles ever (for those that are curious, it’s from the movie Mean Girls).

From the Vault: Exiled – Why They Were Exiled: Ah, the long lost article. You may not recognized this because it wasn’t actually printed on MtGColorPie. Instead, it was for a guest post for Magic: the Blogging. He focuses more on competitive Magic which is why those cards were banned at one time or another, so it seemed like a fit. The first draft of it was more of a ranting about which ones should have been included in the set, but luckily some re-writes made it into the post it is today. Teaching you young Whippersnappers why Kird Ape was/is good.

After MaRo – Rejected Lorywn Promos: I took the idea of Wizard’s commercials of Lorwyn that they ran on TV and made my own. The best one I did was the George Carlin bit, in my opinion. I know that’s how alot of players felt when Lorwyn first came around and since they were still printing its “Lord” in 10th Edition, it never made sense. The videos are short, sweet and should be shared by all.

Design Class – What Happens When Wizards “Steals” Your Keyword: A look at when you have an idea for your own Magic set close to something that Wizards just released. I take a look at my keyword, Aggression, and compare it to Wizard’s, Envoke. They both played out somewhat the same, and the first draft of Envoke was eerily close to Aggression. Maybe one day I’ll come back and visit it (this isn’t like MaRo foreshadowing something and you going, “Gee, I wonder if that’s going to happen.” It’s idle thinking).

That’s it for now. I want to thank all of you for your understanding. You guys have been great supporters and always have interesting ideas of what I write and talk about. Believe me: I have not run out of ideas, nor interest of this site, but need to spend some time getting the articles right for you guys. If you have any suggestions, comments, or what you would like on this blog, tweet me (@mtgcolorpie) or e-mail (mtgcolorpie @ gmail.com), or even the comments down below.

Have a good and safe Thanksgiving everyone. Or a normal Thursday for everyone outside the States.

Im letzten Monat dieses Jahres gibt es zum Abschluß eine nette Karte mit einem, wie ich finde, sehr gelungenem alternativen Artwork. Man darf sich nun also schonmal freuen und ein bisschen warm spielen für die Weihnachszeit und als Geschenk vielleicht auch einen der sicherlich begehrten Sakura Tribe Elder erlangen. Hier nun das Bild und viel Spaß im Rest des Novembers.

It had to happen eventually. Mike and I both brought our Dragon Decks to Lunchtime Magic this week. Mine was my retooled Hellkite Overlord deck, with four of the big guy and three Dragon’s Heralds. I’ve added Bloom Tenders for mana, plus several multicolor critters for sacrifice like Jund Hackblade, Bloodbraid Elf, and Sprouting Thrinax.

Unfortunately, it was hardly the epic battle that it could have been. We played four games, and in each of them, at least one of us had mana problems. I was happy to have won by getting Hellkite Overlord into play twice, but in both those games, Mike’s Dragon deck had let him down and he’d had to mulligan. In the game he won, he played a Dark Ritual and a Seething Stone to activate Dragonstorm and put three large Dragons into play.

Afterwards, we quickly took apart Mike’s Dragon deck and found that it had only 19 lands. It had about 13 accelerators like Dark Ritual, Seething Stone, and Ruby Medallion, but without the land, you can’t get started. He’s taken out a couple of the accelerators and put two more land in, which hopefully should improve things.

The thing I noticed about my own deck was that I didn’t always have the colors I needed: in one of the games I won, I had a very slow start due to a lack of green mana. In particular this led to having a problem with casting Sprouting Thrinax or Putrid Leech. If I see the same problems in our rematch on Monday, I may need to look for some hybrid mana critters that are easier to cast.

Começa o Mundial de Magic 2009, o mais importante evento de Magic da temporada, que nesse ano está sendo realizado em Roma na Itália.

Nossa seleção é representada pelo Paulo “PV” Vitor Damo da Rosa , atualmente melhor jogador brasileiro com reconhecimento internacional,  Carlos “Jabaiano” Romão , nosso Campeão Mundial de 2002, e Aristides Câmara que está pela primeira vez na seleção.

Ano passado o PV chegou até a 5ª colocação enquanto o Brasil mesmo tendo terminado a primeira parte do Mundial em 1º lugar acabou perdendo para a Austrália na semifinal.

Fora a seleção outros 8 brasileiros estão também competindo:  Rafael Coqueiro , Luiz Oliveira , Romolo Disconzi , Daniel Almeida , Allison Abe , Luis Michielli , Paulo Cortez , e Willy Edel . Somando um total de 11 competidores brasileiros no Mundial desse ano.

Estamos todos na torcida novamente para quem sabe pela segunda vez trazer o caneco para casa.

Caso queiram acompanhar a cobertura do Mundial 2009, segue o link direto da página da Wizards. clique aqui

Fonte: Recado Devir

A number of weeks ago, I wrote a post about magic.  On this post was a comment by a certain TJ, not the one from Temerity Jane.  In any case, TJ and I have a conversation there about his deck, and what TJ could do about it.  At the end of the conversation, I said I would eventually post about my decks on here in more detail.

Well, this one is for you TJ: Here is my big, most powerful deck, created and crafted over a period of several years to become the piece of shit it is.

Working Together For A Brighter Future Deck
WTFABF Deck for short.  Some have called it the What the %$#@, you ass-o-holic bastard %$#@ deck as well.  Drew, I’m looking at you.

History: I made this deck originally to play in tournaments, and it did reasonably well there.  As my deck evolved though, it wanted to do other things than Type 2 touneys, and so I let it.  As a result, I got 2nd place in a massive multiplayer free for all tournament, earning me $32 dollars store credit, a $20 card, and 2 large pretty art boxes.  Since then, it has changed very little, and still remains a powerful deck in most situations: it just does really well in a multiplayer environment.

Here’s the deck:

Lands: 23 Total
12 Forests
5 Plains
1 Eiganjo Castle (Why? Because I CAN.)
2 Elfhame Palace
3 Vhitu-Ghazi, the City Tree

Creatures: 16
4 Selesnya Guildmage
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
3 Seedborn Muse
3 Scion of the Wild
2 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa

Spells and Aritfacts: 21
4 Devouring Light
4 Glare of Subdual
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
3 Mirari’s Wake
3 Priviledged Position
2 Eladamri’s Call
2 Hour of Reckoning

Total: 60

Now there are some changes I would like to make to this deck when I look at it already, but this is the deck as it stands.

The basic strategy of the deck is to make a lot of Saproling tokens, and then kill my opponent with them.  There is, however, more to it than that.  As this deck is pretty good at getting a lot of numbers on the table, it doesn’t get them out quickly like some others do: so how do I make up for that? By buffing them.

See, when you have loads of little people, a little buff goes a long way.  2 large creatures get the same benefit from a global enchantment that 12 smaller creatures do, and for the same mana cost.  The strength of this deck lies not in numbers solely, but in making those numbers count for more when I play one of my enchantments/buffs.

Mirari’s Wake, Kamahl, and Selesnya Guildmage all buff my saprolings to heights unseen by sentient fungi.  Kamahl is an obvious game winner: After using his ability, I just gave a dozen saprolings +3/+3 and trample, which nearly always ends a game.  Also, Mirari’s Wake gives a permanent +1/+1 boost to my attack and toughness stats for all of my creatures.  With Mirari’s wake in play I can make greater use of Selesnya Guildmage’s abilities to create a ton of saprolings and/or buff them to deal damage or survive a Pyroclasm or something.

But Phil, you ask, the Guildmage’s abilities are EXPENSIVE.  Even if you get a large amount of mana from Mirari’s Wake, how can you really make a big army of these guys?  Easily answered: Seedborn Muse.  With her ability (and it’s because of her that multiplayer is such a fantastic venue for this deck), I can create hordes of living plant-men at the end of my opponent’s turns, every turn.

Obviously, this makes her a target: and that’s where I have Priviledged Position to protect my synergistic community of mass murdering mushrooms.  Having 2 of them out at once will allow my creatures to be completely safe beneath an umbrella of awesome, just so long as no one uses global abilities.  Which happens often, but you can’t prepare for everything.

Now, one has to ask how I get all that shit to work when I want it.  Well, that’s not too hard either.  Granted, I don’t have any card drawing ability, but between having the cheapest, most effective creature getting card I know in game (Eladamri’s Call) and Sensei’s Divining top (went from being an Uncommon to being a Mythic Rare!), I can control how my game will go pretty consistently.

The other card that allows me to control how my game is gowing is Glare of Subdual.  With all the freaking fungus at my disposal, you’d think I’d have found a good use for it: and I have.  Apparently, they’re all so shiny that, with Glare of Subdual out, they can permanently lock an opponent’s creatures down.  Without any blockers, I can kill an opponent very quickly and with little effort, or allow a teamate to do so in my stead.

Now, I know things go wrong.  Someone out there might be playing elves, and has a huge amount of them ready to jump down my throat, or a Darksteel Colossus bent on breaking my bones.  Well, there’s a card for that too: Hour of Reckoning wipes the field of all non-token creatures, which means my saprolings live another day, and Devouring Light gets rid of those larger, peskier creatures.

If I needed to change something at this point, I would be tempted to try replacing the Devouring Lights with Path to Exile, and I would replace the Elfhame Palace’s with Sunpetal Groves, but those cost money I don’t need to spend right now; so the deck is going to stay as is.

If you liked this, I could make another post on how my other 3 decks work, but I’m not sure if anyone cares.

-Phil

Bueno en esta entrada no habra fotos por que no tengo ninguna digna de compartir, pero quisiera compartir con mis amigos, lo que eh estado haciendo en los ultimos dias, el viernes pasado modifique por completo mis decks, queria un cambio completo un deck nuevo algo mas interesante salir de lo monotono por asi decirlo y  sin mas tengo que aceptar con la ayuda de mario me anime aunque el no me ayudo a modificar mi deck me animo  ah realizarlo.

Primero busque una combinacion padre de colores  dejandolos a todos en estandar con el fin de participar en algun torneo futuro o algo asi por el estilo sin embargo  aun asi me quede con  un deck extendido  armado y otro a medio armar, hice un deck semi control de 3 colores y el unico que permanecio sin  ningun cambio de momento es el jund, de ahi los decks que me quedaron el monoblanco quedo a medias, el pentacolor en proceso de  rearmado de nuevo aun no decido si sera extendido o estandar.

Bueno esto lo hice por que ya pan con lo mismo me habia cansado y necesita un cambio radical, aun no termino mi proyecto de hacer un deck azul-verde pero casi termino de conseguir la mayoria de las cartas esperemos que todo salga bien

Solo queria expresar mis ideas saludos

Finalmente è arrivato: dopo il pacco speciale sui draghi, elfi VS goblin, dopo il set exiled e i set sui planetswalker non poteva mancare lui, il set per eccellenza sui tramutanti:
il Magic Premium Deck Series: Slivers.
dal sito della Magic the Gathering:
“Maligni, territoriali e in grado di condividere le loro abilità, i Tramutanti sono quasi impossibili da fermare! Questo nuovo e potente mazzo COMPLETAMENTE FOIL da 60 carte contiene alcune delle più imponenti carte Tramutante di tutta la storia di Magic, comprese alcune che non sono mai state stampate in versione Foil!”
Premium Deck Series: Slivers sarà disponibile in tutto il mondo solo in lingua inglese, e sarà stampato in versione LIMITATA. Ogni carta sarà FOIL A BORDO NERO e tutte le carte saranno LEGALI PER I TORNEI. Ciò significa che queste carte potranno essere usate in ogni torneo in cui è possibile utilizzare la loro versione passata. In questo set sarà possibile trovare anche il tramutante cristallino e il signore supremo dei tramutanti, il “papà” dei tramutanti; nel mazzo giocabile purtroppo non è stata inserita la mamma, la regina.
Come tutti i mazzi speciali anche lui avra tutte le carte foil,un d20 segnapunti e non solo 15 carte come il drago ma 60 carte tutte foils.
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