Magic: The Gathering (Spoiler-free)

I caved and bought a huge pile of cards. I've been having a lot of fun since with an RG ramp deck, although BG Elves seem to be the thing to beat. I just tried it out myself and wow, they're pretty damn effective. Chandra's Ignition and Languish are the only board clear in the Duels meta, which makes weenies in general pretty hard to beat.

My deck is WB Auras btw, because that's the best deck you can build with the cards you start with. Auras + Child of the Night, then eventually the Boonweaver Giant gets flying (Nimbus Wing) too.

I just had a horrible experience at the Game Day, and I'd like to vent a bit.

I think only about half of the matches were even played, it was 'hey, let's intentionally draw so we can both get top 8!' all the damn time, and the matches that were played were almost all between such netdeckers that it's over in 15 minutes, and then they stand around your game commenting on how unprofessional your deck is and how you should just turn it into generic Pro Tour top 8 clone #394587.

And there's no positivity or creativity left there anymore, I think most of the people that actually want to try out something are driven away by aforementioned and a lot more other toxic behaviour, and I am honestly considering I may be joining that group soon.

If anyone would be so kind, tell me a positive story about Magic please. I think I could really use it.

Mi Va Th.

Whew. I just managed to win a match using a creatureless mono-Blue mill deck. Well, almost creatureless; I ran Jace, Vryn's Prodigy 'cause I'd be mad not to. Still, one creature and a lot of control. I was down to 3 life by the end of it.

Consider me impressed. How'd you make it work?

With difficulty. I had two Sphinx's Tutelage out and the deck has a lot of card draw. The lack of creatures makes room for more card draw, with things like Disperse and Claustrophobia to keep the enemy under control.

I posted the decklist to the Duels subreddit here. It needs some adjustments; Talent of the Telepath somehow completely slipped my mind, and there's something to be said for Hydolash. And I might find room for another creature, Disciple of the Ring, once I nab her from whichever of the last few boosters I haven't opened that she's hiding in.

edited 9th Aug '15 4:02:52 PM by Anura

Funny story - apparently a mono-blue Mill deck with that very card just won big.

Lucky enough to have two Archetype Paragon quests that share the same pairing LOL. One quest is either RG or WG, the other is WG or WU. So just one WG deck will do for both.

...heh.

After playing Duels Origins for a while I attended my first FNM. Damn this is all too expensive to get into. I'm not playing €15 a week to play this. :(

I bought a pack of sleeves just in case Erebos's Titan becomes the next Black Lotus.

edited 11th Aug '15 8:18:29 PM by occono

Is it Standard format for your FNM? Red Deck Wins is the cheapest competitive deck in the current Standard meta.

Isn't RDW the cheapest competetive deck in every meta?

Uncharted Realms: For Zendikar

And there's also a new Spellslingers, vs. Jon Heder.

edited 12th Aug '15 4:09:58 PM by Lightblade

I liked Ashaya (i already want one for my mono-green edh regardless of his abilities^^) in this weeks story but i´m fairly neutral about everything else. Didn´t really dislike anything but somehow the story didn´t have a good feeling to me (i found the vampire weird...).

I felt sheepish for trying to figure out what Ashaya was trying to tell Nissa to do when it turns out she was just gesturing a magic ritual Nissa had to mimic to make magic things happen.

Now Nissa should feel sheepish for not figuring this out sooner, because all it required her to do was stand there and imitate Ashaya.

edited 12th Aug '15 5:30:05 PM by TobiasDrake

Ashaya is already in the game. It's the token created by the new Nissa's -2 ability.

I didn't catch on to what the hand motion meant either, but then again I wasn't reading the story all that closely.

I did think the elemental was actually trying to communicate something, though.

I kept thinking of the part in Aliens Vs Predator where the predator tries to communicate 'boom' with his hand.

New Anowon card teased, perhaps?

Ok but i want her/him/it as a legendaryalso 4/4 seems awfully small for Ashaya. It´s said that she/he/it can lift mid sized eldrazi with one arm that screams to me at least 6/6 or even 8/8

Technically it's already legendary, albeit a token.

Does it mean you can use it as a commander? It has no mana cost... a free commander!

edited 13th Aug '15 5:43:05 AM by googlebot

Tokens cannot exist outside the battlefield. That includes the command zone.

Ok but i want her/him/it as a legendaryalso 4/4 seems awfully small for Ashaya. It´s said that she/he/it can lift mid sized eldrazi with one arm that screams to me at least 6/6 or even 8/8

6/6 is phenomenally powerful. That would put Ashaya in league with this colossal asshole, the Worldsoul itself, and the Gods of Theros.

An 8/8 is so powerful that its movement through Zendikar could reasonably be mistaken for the world-shaping effects of the Roil.

edited 13th Aug '15 8:56:40 AM by TobiasDrake

Equal to the Soul of Zendikar sounds about right to me, since Ashaya is supposed to be one of the strongest elementals there are. And we have to see it in relation if she/he/it were 6/6 half a dozen squirrels would be enough to kill her/him/it

edited 13th Aug '15 10:17:57 AM by Samaldin

My assumption was that she was casting Groundswell or Titanic Growth on Ashaya each time it fought, because yeah a 4/4 normally would get pasted by even the smaller Eldrazi. The boring explanation is that power and toughness is set by development and creative gives only rough guidelines.

edited 13th Aug '15 2:02:03 PM by MrShine