WhiteAndBlueTheyKillYou

since this is the comment slot that started me back building poxtraction, and the overall focus of this section seems to be extraction, I find it the perfect place to say this; I made a rough draft of poxtract, and I seem to be addicted to using ";" at six AM.

" I SLEEP NOW." - The lost skeleton of Cadavra

I wouldn't exactly call it a pox deck, it runs Curse and pox yeah, but it runs more like another one of your countertop extractions than anything.


Extraction is also called disabler, it basically goes through somebodies deck, and picks it apart. A popular method(and seemingly Sure's favourite) is putting the card Hide/Seek on Isochron Scepter, and going through every turn... It pulls somebody to bits pretty dang fast, like a mill deck on crack, at least I believe is how it was first described to me :)

The top for extended is Faeries, Jund, and Valakut. I like Faeries and all(my current casual deck is legacy fae XD), but I'm leaning towards toolboxes and Valakut for competitive play. I just find them the most enjoyable.

I think EVERY format needs more variety, in legacy you see a bunch of things, because so many decks actually work right now it's insane. I've seen Goblins beat TES, and I've seen Countertop Progenitus beat Reanimator(rarely, mind you). There are a few decks that are better suited for the current meta, but really there's just so many competitive decks in legacy it's all about who you get matched with, and skill.

I don't think you posted one, I know you have your bitterbombs deck with sacrifice, but I've not seen a pox deck from you I do believe.

I usually win games with my decks in the 10-4 range in life lol, a lot of people think that's a bad idea, but if you barely ever see burn, I see no reason not to play a playset of Bob & Friends.

It actually does pretty well, the key to those matches is how you sideboard. This deck already has a decent match against those two though, really the worst matchup for this deck has been Zoo... The Vexing Shusher is basically the only thing a Nether Braids deck should ever have to worry about other than Reanimator.

I'm that guy who has to resist the suicidal tendencies of magic(Bob, Reanimate, Putrid Leech, etc), almost all of my decks that I make to use personally, wind up doing more damage to me than my opponent usually does.

Alright, crucible pox works the way it does because of the utility lands; i.e, Cabal Pit, or the wonderfully present wasteland. It works without them yes, but it's actually more efficient to run another type of pox without them.

There are a lot of good cards present, but I feel there's some missing that just make the deck work. For example, Funeral Charm.
It's a swiss army knife for one black mana. It works as a kill spell for mana dorks, a booster for your tombstalkers, instant speed discard, and even gives your tombstalker swampwalk when needed.


I like where it's pointed, and the deck in general, but I think it could use a little more work.

Neat, I also like the colour choice =P

Will do, I again have overextended, and need sleep. But I'll check it out, and wish you luck with that... Cause I've been working on trying to get a poxtraction running, and it's some complicated crap.

Erm... I already checked it out two days before your comment...

It's also generally a good idea to give your thoughts, to get the thoughts of others.

Danke Schoen Ethan, truth be told I'm shocked it made front page. Especially over a couple of thoughts on standard... 'it's the way she goes' I guess, but now I'm afraid my house will catch fire to make up for this... Over FRIES

Basically the deck is loaded up with threats, and they just chisel the hell out of people till they die. The Rack is a great one because it's an early game threat, and it makes pox even more dangerous.

Nether Spirit is a pretty interesting threat, but I just found it more efficient to have just one. And sadly it barely ever fits in my building style, so it makes me happy to have found a use for one finally.

I'd considered bitterblossom, but it just didn't really make the cut here with me.

I've actually very rarely been forced to lose a tombstalker, and I'm fine with people killing it. I've never actually NEEDED it to to win but once, I usually win off of ye olden chisel method.

There had been at least nine broken cards back in ye olden days... Nine pretty dang broken cards, that if you still have you can sell them, and buy a custom order guitar.

I've played in every format, and I dislike standard because you'll only see the top tier decks played at a tourney. In legacy you see a lot of weird decks, and in extended the current throne is rested upon by three types of deck, but there's a very different way to play all of them.

Standard is just to heavily limited to me, the limited card pool has allowed decks to become optimized faster.

Netdecking has never been okay for me, I've tried three tcgs(yugioh, pokemon, and of course magic), and in all of them, the most powerful decks I've seen have all been something done through building the decks yourself. Yeah, we used common archetypes, but we never out right net decked. It just makes a bad player to be a lazy builder.

And I'm actually that guy who's in the middle on the artwork, I love the art on some newer cards, and hate it on others. But the same can be said of older cards as well, so it's in equilibrium.
My favourite piece of card art is on the snow-covered Swamp from Coldsnap, it's just brilliant to me.

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Front page? For my POX?

I'll try and get back to all of you soon on what you said, I'm about to try and nap you see. I'll be on this week, as this is the point my spring break starts to wind down.


I thank all of you for getting this here, and I'll try and repost to your decks tomorrow, I'm just a little tired right now. I wish all of you the best of luck, and hope you all have/had a good spring break.

Congratulations on the front page! Hope you keep enjoying the game, and that more of your stuff winds up here

Good, that right there made you one of my favourite builders.

I wish you good luck, and that you enjoy yourself playing magic.

0_o' that's a lot of creatures...


And you might be able to trade your old school dual lands for the super sexy awesome kind around grand prix events and the like, I've heard of people coming out with tabernacles even