surewhynot

"An ember smolders.
Nurtured by laughter and happy smiles, flickers with silent tears.
And with this passion it grows.
Born of flame that is such longing it cannot be stopped.
And when the world burns...
Walk with me my dear, so we may burn together."

That's the whole thing. Wrote it for a girl. Still love her, but what're you gonna do? =/

I not only love that you're getting into EDH, but more so I love that you're getting into it in your OWN way. From what I got from a brief scan, this deck is very much "you". I'll have to look at this in more detail later. I'm just on my phone right now (out to dinner for my birfday).

A poem I wrote.

Yeah, I think we can both agree we hate Affinity =P

I might play around with having just one Bob in the 'board and swapping out the second one for Revoker.

Well I guess the way I see it is Affinity is gonna smack the crap out of you either way, so you just need to be ok with the lifeloss...

Yeah, Needle and old "robo- JarJar" are always great options, but Bob has been good to me for whatever reason.

Yeah in my frog/mutant tribal. It's one of my favorite creatures too. It makes things into FROGS. Do you know how usefu- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD!

Haha, but everyone loves Ween!

The "lings" are awesome in here for all their versatility...but my favorite play is Simic Manipulator and Omnibian. I have grabbed so many creatures with those two out its scary.

I bring them in against Affinity mostly believe it it not. Really anything that demands more speed in exchange for a bit of reckless abandon.

Alright, first thing I want to say is the land base is god damn gorgeous. It's really well thought out.

Second thing I want to say is that this somewhat inspired me to try out TNN in my current PAL frame, and it's shenanigans, so thank you for that.

Third thing is, I just don't like Fire/Ice in here. I can't explain it, but it just doesn't work in the list. I just know deep down in my core that you can put something better there. Also, as an extractor my gameplan would be to target and exacerbate the fact that you run only two Deathrites. Personally, I would drop down to three Goyfs and run a third Deathrite.

Finally, I'd like you to look at this http://www.mtgvault.com/surewhynot/decks/30th-general-ideas/ and tell me which one should be my 30th EDH general (feel free to suggest a general not listed)

It IS good, but I want to keep the permanent count to a minimum =/

Knowing you, I have little difficulty imagining you grinning from ear to ear while piloting this thing. To be honest, with how ass-backwards goofy stupid silly this deck works, I would have playing against it hahaha. It's like a Rube Goldberg machine in deck form.

Well truth be told I'm planning on having Athreos become my 30th EDH deck...so I don't want to reveal too many of my BEST secrets =P

From a glance it already looks pretty good, but I'll see if I can suggest anything else. I'm unfortunately on my phone, so it's hard for me to look at each card in the deck and how it works with the whole. I'll have more to say later when I'm at home.

Until that time, I suggest taking a look at my Heliod EDH. It's half of your deck's colors, but it is also a cleric tribal, so you might get some ideas.

I might add one or two total, but that's about it. Sometimes less is more =]

Orzhov Charm is, in my opinion, the sideboard charm. It does certain things VERY well, but those things are situational, so it's a little finicky. I run a charm/entomb package in my Iso-Seek sideboard right now and it works....Like a charm.

*YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!*

The 'best' answer I can give towards that is that there simply isn't room for any more.

Extraction decks are a rare sight because quite frankly they're really hard to pilot. The player has to know so much about how a deck works, and more importantly, how a deck could be made to NOT work. It requires both a specific mindset and a hell of a lot of experience/knowledge. It's obviously not the most appealing thing in those regards.

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him." -- Ender Wiggin.

I think this is why it is often less than enjoyable to win with Extraction.

Thanks dude =]

I still don't know how I feel about TNN. I fear it's affecting legacy too much at the moment, but I might be wrong.

Though I generally stick to the main design, every once in a while I try out different "loadouts" just for fun. I've had this deck for so long it's just fun to experiment. That all said, I haven't yet tried out Diabolic Intent. I'll have to try it out =]