wickeddarkman

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Ah, I see the unblockables now ;)
Paranoid delusions is the only creature mill card that have ever made me want to design a mill-creature deck.
With many new mill creatures these days I'm rethinking that card. The beauty is in how the card spreads from creature to creature. I wonder how a cipher/token deck might look. Isn't there a red card that produces tokens everytime a spell is cast?

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Posted 07 June 2020 at 14:58 in reply to #633053 on Cryptic mill

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So you went and discovered cipher :)
The obvious strategy will be to protect the creatures and the ciphers,
Less obvious you could focus on creatures that Grant's a bonus when copies get cast. So any creatures that responds to spells being cast are obvious.

Third, your creatures need to be or become evasive.

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Posted 07 June 2020 at 14:45 as a comment on Cryptic mill

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Whatever it was, chances are it will resurface once the hatred is gone.
Could be as simple as a faster competing combo.

I'm revisiting my old methods to update my whole work structure.

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Posted 07 June 2020 at 05:16 in reply to #633042 on Voltron storm

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What took it out of the format so fast ?
For me, thassa's oracle is a threat to mill, not one that can't be fixed with surgical/extraction, but one I could need to keep in mind if it resurfaces.

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Posted 07 June 2020 at 03:25 in reply to #633042 on Voltron storm

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Do you know anything about inverted adnauseam ? Or inverted storm.
It should be a 2029 thing or close to it.
Uses thassa's something as kill.

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Posted 06 June 2020 at 21:09 as a comment on Voltron storm

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I observe more than I ask :)
(Another asperger trait)

I find patterns, then I want to know about them.

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Posted 06 June 2020 at 21:04 in reply to #632989 on Izzet angels?

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No problem

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 23:39 in reply to #632995 on Ilaristen; Mill; 0Rare

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Thank you super supermegapanda!

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 23:38 in reply to #632991 on Modern Jund Prowess Fusion

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I'm also curious about the revert back to stoneforge. D&T used to win through having a tremendous cardadvantage by bouncing thraben inspector. Stoneforge mystic is an okay combo, but the loss of momentum must be really big. Do you have any insight on this?

I'm also missing the thalia karakas combo, but guess it's not there because you haven't gotten it yet.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 15:43 in reply to #633010 on Death and Taxes [MODERN]

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At the moment there are 4 leading decks.
Rakdos
Landdestruction
Scapeshift
Colorless eldrazi

Rakdos can be beaten with auriok champion.
Landdestruction will have a rather useless bloodmoon
Scapeshift can be dealt with, with aven mind something
This leaves eldrazi as your main thing to adapt against.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 14:38 as a comment on Death and Taxes [MODERN]

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This actually looks nasty...
Modern or legacy ?

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 14:27 as a comment on Artifact Prison

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You jest, tease!

About 2 weeks ago I was asked how I would improve a boros burn.
I suggested the person moved kor firewalker to the main board to fight the buildup in red decks, then as a sidenote I argued that he should get auriok champion because of the rise in rakdos is evident.

This week white weenie surfaces with 3 auriok champion in the sideboard.
If only they'd put it main, because rakdos Is most played in modern now.

Once white weenie starts putting auriok champion in main, burn will turn back to boros to be able to take out auriok.
This means boros players can get an edge by still packing auriok champion themselves if they also keep kor firewalker nearby.

Let's see what happens the next 14 days.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 14:11 in reply to #632974 on Aggressive aggro

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Then grizzly gets to stay, but ditch the flood thingy, it's worthless.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 14:10 in reply to #632995 on Ilaristen; Mill; 0Rare

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Fallen empires is only restricted in some of the 93/94 formats, depending more or less on nationality.
Nicely writ, and I especially loved your phrase "next in our wicked rooster"
Made me feel rooty again.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 12:55 as a comment on Foul was the seed I'd sown...

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Yeah, I might always be right (at least once each day, as the astrologer said)
But I might be hard to interpret;)

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 12:24 in reply to #632974 on Aggressive aggro

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No, bogles is an active deck that my mill fights with cards like devour flesh and engineered explosives.
I test against it. Back 2 years ago bogles had 4 leyline of sanctity which totally stops my mill tech. It's one of the reasons for playing chancellor of the Spires.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 12:16 in reply to #632974 on Aggressive aggro

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Better!
You should find cards that interacts with hand size as lurrus now increases it.
Martyr or sand is an example.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 12:12 in reply to #632990 on Lurrus Sac

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Talent of the telepath is usually more flexible than grizzly spectacle.
Chronic flooding is basically worthless as your opponent can just stop using that land. It will only work if you have something that can tap the land frequently. A better choice would be mesmeric orb.

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 12:07 as a comment on Ilaristen; Mill; 0Rare

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With your knowledge on the modern arena, what might I be missing as testdecks?

Ad nauseam
Bant
Bg shadow
Bogles
Eldrazi colorless
Gwx vizier
Humans
Jund
Land destruction
Mizzet 5c
Pif
Rakdos
Rdw
Scapeshift (various)
Tron
Uw

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 05:11 as a comment on Modern Jund Prowess Fusion

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Was this deck based on the new companion errata?

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Posted 05 June 2020 at 05:03 as a comment on Lurrus Sac

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