That makes me sad. Bogles was the second modern deck I ever saw piloted, first being Scapeshift, but the bogles guy wasn’t proxying. I looked at it and thought “it’s so simple…yet so beautiful”. Always funny seeing a Jesus imbued bogle with its silly stupid face blowing up fools.
I was checking out bloom-titan, although I’m not sure what it’s called anymore, and a lot of the pieces tanked in price. I feel like there is something possible in the deck that’s still fair but most of the thread on mtgsalvation are narrowing themselves on finding another t2 kill setup. I tried a proxy wacky deck using loam, gitrog, and borb but I ended up decking myself because of gitrog’s forced draw.
What do you think of emrakul (old one) ? Is it worth one slot ? I see most people cut it, but I still wonder if 1 copy might bw good, esp with Sanctum of Ugin
I kind of want the FNM promo version of spellstutter sprite because it is the version I had been using on untap every single time I practiced. On the other hand, I feel like spending $15 on something that doesn’t upgrade my deck at all is a waste of money. Anyone ever feel these desires to buy stuff like that? Or wanting to change my thoughtseizes from Theros to Lorwyn so I can make a unifying faeries-looking deck?
OG Thoughtseizes are sweet. I’d pick those up off trading the Theros ones. If that is your pet deck and the one you love then why not pimp out your favorite deck.
I played Modern at FNM last Friday. Went 2-1. I beat Burn and DnT. Lost to Jeskai control at the last round. And by “Jeskai Control” I mean “the card, Keranos”. Almost his entire deck was not very good against me, but two out of three games he played Keranos and the card just single-handedly wrecked me.
I am wondering if there is anything I can do to handle this card, without hurting my other match-ups. My initial idea is to run Dromoka’s Command. I can bring it in against Burn (damage prevention), Bogles (enchantment removal) and Affinity (creature removal) but it can also do work against U/R/x control (kills Keranos and counters Anger of the Gods). Any other ideas?
Celestial Purge exiles Nahiri and Keranos if that’s the deck he was playing. Always good in sideboard. Idk what would be sweet in mainboard against those cards.
I already run this card, to kill Enchantments and counter Supreme Verdict / Anger of the Gods (they never expect it). I also use it to kill x/1 creatures. It’s in the slot normally occupied by Zealous Persecution. That said, it can’t kill Keranos because he is indestructible. Good call on the Celestial Purge though.
Merciless Resolve works if you have Black and White. Graffdiggers Cage blocks Nahiri’s Ultimate as well and has plenty of other applications like CoCo and Chord
Is it me or did they really ramp up the power level for standard? Some of these things getting spoiled make me REALLY hope reanimating and ramping is not a thing.
Ugh. Meld is going to be an annoying mechanic to deal with if I ever get around to playing with physical cards again.
That said, I do like most of the cards released today, especially the one that references The Colour Out of Space of all things:
It also happens to be the first nontoken creature that has Reflection as subtype; in before “dies to Spirit Mirror” and “dies to [url=http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=23319]Pure Reflection”.
Cant wait till wizards make a card that needs 4 counters then flip it, then it turns into a instant that does 3 damage to a creature, if that creature dies, then take a card from your side board, if its a artifact, search your deck for a other artifact and merge them together if both of their casting cost is equal to 4, and make it a 10/10 creature with trample, when that creature dies shuffle all of your cards in your graveyard back into your library
(Quite a few people are already joking about the Yu-Gi-Oh similarities of Meld if the Mythic Spoiler comments on those cards are to be believed.)
Anyway, it looks there were “only” 13.5 cards revealed today, though for some reason the number was 19 for a while and the last one of them didn’t show up until now even though it’s basically pseudo-Remand stapled to Unsummon, which is clearly quite good in a lot of circumstances:
(Nah. Liliana would probably just sacrifice their kid to kill another one of her demons or something if she isn’t already on that Emma “I have no eggs!” Frost pregnancy protection plan.)
Well, I’m still somewhat mixed about the cards as a whole given how the majority of them have been Eldrazi [Something] so far, the point where Stoneforge Masterwork seems like it got a lot better for Eldrazi, and given how overpowered a few of them like It That Rides As One seem, especially in the context of Human aggro decks already being top tier in present Standard. That said, today the strictly cutest card of the set was finally revealed, and I say this as someone who isn’t a cat person–I do like snakes though:
Even as a “strictly worse” Donate (in Red instead of Blue), it still has potential use in Standard, at least with both Demonic Pact and Goldnight Castigator around. It’s a bit of a shame that Demonic Pact rotates out at the same time that Dromoka’s Command does though.
Still, looking at the comments on that card on Mythic Spoiler made realize perhaps the most fun to be had with the card is in non-Blue Red EDH decks that might have wanted the type of effect before given someone mentioned the cruel hilarity of using Harmless Offering to “donate” Conspiracy–picking “Dragon” obviously–when their EDH General was Karrthus:
Not necessarily instant death since the creatures become non-Dragons if they weren’t actually Dragons once you grab them, but you still retain control despite that, which is amusing.
