wickeddarkman

Nice guide setup.

If you start with just one, you can track it's success on a block of paper.
Note down when you needed it to be something else, and when you ran out of steam and needed it for attacks.

You should see way the results swing within 10 games where it gets drawn.

Going through pauper lists is a nice way to learn what burn is is most usefull.

A little unrelated, have you ever thought of adding the raw manland to your borrow burn.
I know that back when burn was Rwg I could add the rg manland without harming the deck.

Most people didn't catch why I did so, but it's a nice move when you run out of steam.

Test 1 or 2 at most, no more than that. You don't want an opening hand with taplands.

Well, I think the trick is to take an ordinary build, then say, I can no longer play 4 of these cards, so what's doing the same thing for that same cost!

I fear the world purifying itself. Back when surgical extraction was at its highest it was often used to disrupt fetchlands. Then people started diversifying their fetch as a countermeasure, and it was only good against aggro 4-of creatures.

With lutri my most beloved milldeck will be useless.
I usually play a total blend of 5 extraction/extirpates in mill.

I love the concept though.

What I want to know is what happens when lutri decks meet.
Does the winner often have the most clinical design ?
(Being as close to the old design as possible in numbers of each functional type like counter, discard, beatdown)

Ahem, with 666 thraximundar, it cannot be a budget deck. It becomes the golden deck

About the eidolons.
They are usually only good for closure and against combo.
If combo is frequently met, then sure, 4 in main, if combo is less met, 3 in main, one in board. When combo is rare 2 in main, 2 in board
Keep paperlists on rules like this and it becomes easy to remember the past adaptations.

Well you should know :)

The funny thing with deckdesigns is that they evolve pretty slow sometimes, so once you put money in a stable like burn it's safe money.

But once you dedicate yourself like that, you become "that guy with the burn deck" and people will start adapting through lifegain.
To defeat that you have two options.

1: knowing the long past of the deck and how it solved beating the adaptations in the past. This takes a lot of memorisation but will make you the go to guy for other burn players, which gives you a positioning on cheap trading with those involved. If you become a good trader you will know to buy of burn from those giving it up, then sell it high when burn is popular. People will notice that you do this, but will have no other choices so you earn back your tournament losses over time.

2: having a second stable deck. Switch between the two decks. When people adapt to the first switch to the second.
If you become "the guy with the affinity deck" as well and learn its deep past you become the guy to go to on that deck as well, which over time will make you an even more solid trader.

3: you do this with as many stable decks as possible and you automatically become a pro.
Knowing all the stables well will one day make you see the moves of the meta so you will know exactly what to play, and know exactly when people wants to sell.

4: never sell any of your stable cards, not even those that others cut from their decks. Everything will return over time. This game is basically a rock, scissors and paper game with skins to make people buy that new rock or that glittering paper.

5: keep track of your finances and you will be able to buy travels to the larger tournaments where you can start buying/selling. Be aware that bigger tournaments take longer and will exhaust the mind. Drink, eat brain food, go to the bathroom frequently. Participate only in the main event then trade to your hearts desires.

Doesn't matter if it's 2 month's old if it's solid.

Is this solid?

Nom nom nom,
Er, sorry was that your hamburger?
Nom nom.

Yeah, but this time YOU, are doing the nom nom nom!

Went to bed with a companion of melira!

I like this new trend of people rhyming the page name.

Bedtime tugs for a psy duck girly...

Rhymes with the name of this deck :)

Most of the card names have a double meaning. There's the secret names of the cards and theres the sexual reference of the card.

I know there's a program on the net that can decode names like these.
The key is that names like obosh and lutri and lurrus are part of the secret names, as is the letters forming the sexual reference.

I used to be better at cracking anagrams like these.

I'm putting the companions in the sb, just so it will be easy to look at the whole picture.
Lutri the spellchaser has me stumped. It might have been an elemental beaver before it got its type changed, but what about its name? The letters involved can spell "her ass" the leftover letters are then Lutri tspellc.
Hmm, ell spit clur. Lure spit cll. Let her ass spill clur??? Am I missing a letter?
That doesn't make sense so far.

Apex predator means the top predator, so apex must mean on top, which fits the theme
But I'm pretty sure most of the names can be unscrambled to something something her ass.

Nice, haven't focussed to much on companions, so I'm blown away.
Heh, preypiercer.

Makes me wonder if they've hidden some devastating combos if the right companion get on top.

I think lurrus sounds like "lure us" lure us of the dream den.
What do you make of the others ?

I can't wait to hear wotc's official apologies for this one :)
In some way I suspect it might be on purpose.
Have you found any sex-companions ?

Ichoria as in land of ichor, sticky warm ichor!
I think that's what the designers secretly had in mind.

Ichoria, cave of the penile monsters, that's the thing ;)

I've found noxious revival to be a nice addition to my deck, and could see it work for you too.