The-Nameless Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Any competitive standard players here This game has been taking up a fair bit of my time recently. Curious to toss deck/combo ideas around with other tourny players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filth Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 No tourneys close to home, but it still takes up a lot of my time. I'm always down to talk magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demiterracotta Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 One of my favorite games of all time. Had to stop playing standard though. I spent way too much money on cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Nameless Posted February 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 RE: Demi I understand fully lol. Can get costly. RE: Filth You up to date on newest sets? Im currently tweaking a U/B heartless summoning build using rune scarred demon, phyrexian metamorph, evil twin, and phantasmal image to copy the rune scarred ( turn 5 I usually have 2-4 5/5 flyers out) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filth Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 That sounds pretty buff. I really dig the new spirits da gave us. Really supplemented what inistrad gave us. Lately though I've been messing around with ru flashback. Snapcasters are freaking expensive though! I've been playing with the idea of a UB control/curse. Thought about splashing some red but the couple extra curses would not be worth the stretch imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Nameless Posted February 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 If your running flashback try B/U control. Havengul lich and snapcasters means your graveyard becomes your hand for 3 mana. VERY valuable when your playing wolf run/RDW since they are constantly dropping fatties/tapping out for burn. Having snapcasters in your graveyard + lich means you can pop lichs ability for 1 colorless, pull a snapcaster for 2, then cast anything in graveyard at instant speed for its original cost. Add in heartless summoning and your caster goes right back into the graveyard so you can repeat it, and it costs 1 colorless mana less since snappy is (1)B. This is also massively effective when they are running inkmoth nexus since you can drop snappy, and cast doomblade from your graveyard elimintaing that ANNOYING land. I really like heartless summoning lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filth Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Although if you splash in red with heartless summoning, priest of urabask, and a lich you can have unlimited red mana by third turn. Put in burnig vengeance and a certain myr for the kill and you're good to go. Oh, and the best part about this infinate mana combo is it's standard legal ^.^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enethier Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 i play semi-frequently. Getting more into it now. Dark Ascension is just so incomplete. Once Scars of Mirroden phases out it should be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Nameless Posted February 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 The problem is the current block is offering so much power to white. The next set is going to be more centralized on white as well. Meaning white blue is going to get some heavy play. That is enjoy i am working on summoning. I took first of 26 on the game day event And second in normal fnm. I'm working on heartless control. I'm usually cracking for lethal on turn five or six via running scared demon and using his come into play ability to pull meta morphs and evil twins. Seeing five 5/5 flyers out on turn fine is scary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filth Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 I can't wait till 2012 cycles out. I'm kinda tired of titans taking all the tournaments. Pro tour in Honolulu just recently came down to two channelfireball.com dudes (which is awesome) both playing pretty much the same deck. rg acceleration with titans. They're getting old. Innistrad and ascension gave us so many neat new tricks giving all colors a fighting chance if everyone would stop relying on damn titans >. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 It's been years since I played. What's happening with green and white? That's what my decks were always comprised of those two colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filth Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Armadillo clocks and elves eh? . There's lots of new neat things. White gets humans and spirits Which is neat with black and or blue. Black likes to feed the humans to vampires and demons (nothing new there) and blue adds lots of ghosts and kick *** ghost **** with white. Green is about werewolves and hungry wolves. And deranged human outcasts that like to feed humans to their dogs. lots of feeding humans. Basiclly we have a zombie vampire werewolf devil apocolyps with ghosts flying around and a white/black planeswalker wondering where the **** his big bad archangel he created a billion years ago is that was supposed to make this **** not happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enethier Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 meh. white has long lacked playability. Ever since infect. It's actually nice to see it get a buff. I maintain though, that this block is incomplete. Once some of the power cards phase out, it will be much more balanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Nameless Posted March 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Actually some of the TOP performing pro decks are heavy white. Solar flare (white/blue control) Tokens (white aggro) Zombies (white/black aggro-trol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enethier Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 What I mean is monowhite. It's not self-sufficient, like other colors. Tokens is effective to a point, but without a splash, easily countered. It makes it to top because control has become less popular than it was in the phyrexia block Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filth Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 You can accept the fact that this block will not be complete until the next expansion + core 2013 comes out. Until then we must suffer through 2012 and scars of mirrodin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Nameless Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Scars has some staple cards I use in my deck that make a massive difference. Perilous Myr Wurmcoil Engine are the two that stick out. Mox Opal is also a very useful card for Tezz decks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enethier Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 tezz + precurser golem + golem foundry + proliferate blue with a few veldraken infusers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Nameless Posted March 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 I like the idea, but overall its ALOT Of cards to pull combos. Im currently trying to work on a deck that involves a combo that literally prevents you from ever casting a spell, usually around turn 5 when the cards are pulled. Curse of Exhaustion - Curse "Enchanted player cannot cast more than one spell a turn" Knowledge Pool - Artifact "Whenever a player successfully casts a spell, knowledge pool exiles that spell. That player may then cast any spell exiled by knowledge pool without paying it's mana cost" Basically I drop those two, and you cannot cast any spells . Tell me that would not piss you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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