Magic: The Gathering

[Taskmage]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

It's possible I have built the douchiest UW control deck ever. It contains Isochron Scepter and Silence.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

That's not a UW control deck, that's just a deck with Silence on a stick and it makes you an asshole.

[Taskmage]

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I can not dispute this.

[Yygdrasil]

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B& from Cocatrice.

[Taskmage]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

B& from Cocatrice.

lol. Admit it. You would play this.

[Yygdrasil]

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I would. I'm just upset you found it first. I'm already adjusting my sideboards to include Instants with Artifact Destruction.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to build a new deck around (you guessed it) a really circumstantial combination of cards. Estimated win chance: 30% (seems on par)

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

I would. I'm just upset you found it first. I'm already adjusting my sideboards to include Instants with Artifact Destruction.

What, you're only just now doing that?

Also, only 30%? Not 33.3, repeating of course?

[Taskmage]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

32.33 repeating, of course, percentage of survival

[Taskmage]

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As predicted, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 went on sale today on Steam for $5. At that price I may pick it up myself for the hell of it.

[Yygdrasil]

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Someone log on. I have some testing to do with 2 Standard Decks I built today.

[Mezlo]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

blue decks are a bitch to battle against... i had a white deck, i was at 31 health, they were at 9 health, and it took me an hour to beat them...

[Yygdrasil]

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<--- Blue Decks

Welcome to the world of annoying blue mages like myself. Cid, TM and YM should be saving you a seat somewhere over at that table *points*. Fire and I say hi.

[Firewind]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

Dumb question time but it's something I would like to double check. If I cast something with cascade like Bloodbraid Elf, would I be able to Cloudshift her to get the Cascade effect again, or would I have to say, actually cast her again in some way (Bounce, play out of GY/Exile, Copy/Clone her etc)

[Taskmage]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

Cascade says "when you cast this spell," so that. A clone or copy wouldn't work (unless it was an instant or sorcery with cascade), because it wouldn't have cascade until it came into play, which would be too late. The ability triggers the moment you put the spell on the stack. As a side effect that means you still get to cascade even if the elf gets countered.

[Firewind]

Re: Magic: The Gathering

I know the counter thing, which is why Bloodbraif Elf is so broken (and great ways to paint a big target on your head in Multiplayer) since once you cast the spell, it's going off and the Elf is going to be one of the more expendable cards i nthe deck anyway (compared to what you will be using the Elf to cheat out)

- - - Updated - - -

Posting this for Yyg so he will stop moaning about me copying his mill deck on Cockatrice over the weekend:

2 Mindshrieker
3 Jace's Phantasm
4 Invisible Stalker
21 Island
4 Snapcaster Mage
2 Jace, Memory Adept
2 Negate
4 Thought Scour
4 Unsummon
2 Devastation Tide
4 Mind Sculpt
2 Sands of Delirium
2 Trepanation Blade
4 Faerie Impostor
SB: 2 Trepanation Blade
SB: 4 Increasing Confusion
SB: 2 Nephalia Smuggler
SB: 2 Geralf's Mindcrusher
SB: 1 Invisible Stalker
SB: 1 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 1 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 Fog Bank