Quasimofo

It was quite the crazy and wonderful wedding. Although upon waking up this morning I have found various suspect bruises and other injuries. What exactly happened last night?

May I also add, it now occurs to me your honeymoon will begin on December 21st…Smart man.

The way that I have things set up, the only two cards I /really/ need ET for are Ghostly Prison and Blind Obedience. Truth be told I use the tutor for other things too, but having only those two truly needing its help alleviates a good deal of the pressure to have four. An additional thing to do with ET or any tutor for that matter is to not think of it as a separate card, but as additional copies of the cards it tutors for. As far as probability is concerned, this is essentially true. There are typically few situations that call for a full playset of ET, and I tend to design my decks so that I stray away from that anyway.

Always read the cards, especially in EDH. That card is in there for a reason, so make sure you understand what that reason is.

Shame I missed it. I hope to get back to playing at the shop more regularly, but that is rather uncertain until winter break starts for Jen. We still have yet to unpack a vast majority of our things since she has been so burdened with teaching and I so busy with Christmas financing.

Ashiok looks like a good bit of fun, especially if you can pull off his (her?) ultimate with well-stocked hands and graveyards.

While I share a love of that card, I think it would be unwise to add it to this particular deck.

How so? If you are confused about the layout, it is for a specific gametype known as EDH or Commander.

I clicked upon this deck with the full intention of posting the rest of the speech, yet when I scroll down to do so, my hopes are dashed by the ever-apparent deck description which houses the speech. Well then I suppose a haiku about this deck will have to suffice.

Counter my whole deck
May I please play this card? No?
My mood is befowled

Well I can no longer look at Emrakul the same way ever again, so thank you for that gents.

I must say, Vendillion Clique in conjunction with Show and Tell is exquisite, well done.

Explain to me, if you even can, just how in the hell StifleNought is the one known as "Realist". Otherwise a well designed deck. I typically see counter suites of 9 or 10 at the most. I must say using 11 is quite the Coúp dè Grâce, but I think it works.

I must say I have never seen the use of Demonic Taskmaster in a Pox sideboard. If it is used for what I think it is, then you have discovered a rather ingenious inclusion for your sideboard. I personally never use more than 2 Pithing Needles, but I believe that to be a result of preference and the constraints of one's metagame as well. I am going to have to play with a proxy of this deck you have. To be quite honest it seems very good, but for some reason the full playset of Bitterblossom is nagging at me. I need to figure out why.

In addition, I have just uploaded the deck's mighty sideboard, something I am rather proud of. I believe it contains answers to your concerns. And yes, thank you most dearly for the suggestion of Entomb. It has been quite the boon to my deck.

I appreciate your input, especially because it was mainly the landbase I was hoping to get a second opinion about. I also like the idea of Entomb...though I'm unsure if I want two or one, or just to keep it as an interesting idea. Hmmm, I have some finagling to do.

///edit: There we are. If you wouldn't mind, tell me what you think of the changes.

It's a means to wipe the board that stops everything Meekstone can't handle...though as always the ever prominent Tarmogoyf has a few windows between the two where it is free to riddle you with much consternation (a good time to use Orim's Chant). In addition, with thopter tokens (via the ever-so-amusing Sword and Foundry trick) serving as a much relied upon win condition, it allows for a sweep of the battlefield that keeps your army alive. Other such sweeping spells would otherwise ruin your efforts entirely.

It's bloody good to have you back my friend, for many reasons. However, as it stands I do wish to bother you to look at my most recent Pox list, 'A method of madness'. You see, it is a hybrid of traditional Pox and Stax frameworks and I know you have experience with both. Your opinion and insight would be most welcome.

I had a feeling you were going to add him in, there are so many benefits to Erebos for this deck.

I keep thinking this deck of yours would do quite well to have Erebos included.

I have not considered splashing, but if I were to splash, the two colors I would lean towards are White and Blue. Both colors offer their own tricks to further invoke that lockdown that is desired, but more in the scope of Prison than mana denial. The way Pox and Stax decks work, and by extension hybrids of the two, is that they make it impossible for the opponent to play the game. The opponent will have next to nothing in his hand, and what he does have will be unplayable, or if it can be played, will have no impact on the game whatsoever. They are crushing decks to play against. By introducing a new color to the mix, you remove an element of that mana denial, and instead introduce lockdown and preventative or REactive aspects. This is fine for building a Prison deck, like I mentioned earlier, but not so for a Pox or Stax design. All that aside, the real use of Undiscovered Paradise is that it can be looped with Crucible of Worlds and Raven's Crime.

Excuse the wall of text but I am indeed passionate about the subject and I would appoint myself to be somewhat of an expert on it as well. SWN pointed you in the right direction.

Now, on the subject of reducing the budget. If you take a look at my list here, a simple way to cut out roughly half the deck's cost is to remove the two copies of The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. It's a lovely and powerful land, but its price is staggering, and that's nothing to say of its inherent difficulty to track down (It took me five years to get my second one). That is about all I can offer in the way of budget cuts, sorry. I will take a peek at your deck in due time.

Bloody shit this accursed laggy internet of mine. Dismiss this double-post.

In addition, Thrull Parasite is in this deck mainly for its Extort ability. You see, this deck is known as a "chisel" deck. One that controls, and then slowly but surely kills an opponent by, as the name implies, chiseling away at their life.

I have to disagree with you on a number of fronts to be honest. I can explain them all if you so wish, but at the moment I'm not very motivated to do so (Scotch will do that). I will say that I quite enjoy the suggestions of Augur of Skulls and Big Game Hunter however, so thank you for those.

A land should not cost 400 odd dollars, I don't care how good it is. It's a bleeding land!