Saw the video on this one, nice 5-0What is your take on "in search of greatness" ?Most of the other tubers seem to dislike it, but since you've played with it, what can you say about it ?
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Nice catch, and seems close enough to some old ponza lists to actually work.One aspect of the deck needs to be fixed though, you need some way to win the attrition war, when braids gets played.Once she's on the field you will need to generate more permanents of the important types than the opponent can do.Otherwise braids will turn on you.Elder gargoroth is a good start.There was another version of Nissa that generated plant tokens.If that nissa isn't available, maybe garruck can be of use.
No problem :)I'm "ancient ornamental" in the world of magic, so feel free to ask me at any time.I know lots of mtg theories that many have forgotten, for example last year I discovered that the entire magic community had more or less forgotten about "recursion" (for example by playing two primal command over and over you get to play every card in your deck several times) for a whole year noone posted a recursive deck, except some re prison decks that did it more or less by accident than design.I've been brewing decks with recursion since to get the community back into playing it.A couple of people in here have tried loam pox and similar stuff as a response.
It's spoiled on mtggoldfish
1UUOpponents mill until a total of 20 or more castingcost have been milled
I knew stone rain was in that odd powerset.If you try it out, you need to know that you can't run full destruction.At best you can slow control. So your deck needs to handle aggro and be able to kill fast. This is done by being a lot like aggro.
Mtgarena hasn't discovered land destruction yet, but it is a matter of time before it happens.I use my RW prison to test my mana base.Search for the decktag: wdm prisonYou can always print out proxies and test out the decks you've built before launching them.
The mirror weave strategy of turning everything into sakura tribe elder could work if you hold back one crab in hand to play before sacking it all.Commercial for [[tasha's hideous laughter]]
I'm gonna step in on this deck and tell you about manabases.Back around the ice age jay Schneider made people realise a new type of play, when his friend paul sligh won with his design.The concept evolved around casting a land each turn in order to play increasingly powerfull cards.The optimal way of play followed something like this:Turn 1: play 1 land and a 1cc creature.Turn 2: play 1 land and a 2cc creature, attack for 1. 19 life left.Turn 3: play 1 land and a 3cc creature, attack for 3, 16 life left.Turn 4: play 1 land and a 4cc creature, attack for 6, 10 life left.Turn 5: attack for 10, opponent is dead.Since it takes 4 turns to put the essential kill into play the player has a 7 card hand and three draws to get the right stuff.That's 10 cards total. Out of those cards 4 of them must be lands, so by simple math, if 10 cards must have 4 lands, then a deck with 60 cards must have something close to 24 lands to be able to deliver this.Since the player uses 8 out of the 10 cards there is room for some margin of error at the creatures. Sometimes if the player does not draw a 4cc they can play a 1cc and a 3cc instead.All of this was called mana optimization.A second part of it, was that at turn 5 you didn't need to cast anything, so you'd have 4 mana to pump into special abilities. What most people fail to realise is the math.Jay schneider wasn't good at that, so the deck concept of sligh suffered from this for many years to come, and many people still fail to get it...If you want to read it from someone more famed than me, look up the articles of frank karsten.I got two very streamlined manabases built by computer simulations that I've been using for years.First solution: (will be best for your above design)24 lands12 1cc cards12 2cc cards8 3cc cards4 4cc cardsSecond solution: (has the best win-rate)22 lands12 1cc cards12 2cc cards14 3cc cardsMost aggrodecks on mtgarena uses 26 lands because arena punishes the land equation even more than paper.The decks there using 20 lands have almost no 3 cost cards.I watched your BR berserker deck on my phone, but the music muffled your voice.You might want to test out your material by listening to it on a phone, because most people will probably Listen to you on one.I've spent at least 15 years on analysing mana.Search for the decktag: wdm corebuild To see how I've used one of the above solutions in several buildsThe theme at the time was to design one manabase for all my future decks.I've gotten more advanced since then and use far more advanced manabases.
I look forward to analyze tasha's hideous laughter:)
One direction you could move In, is the collected company direction.By adding cheap cycling creatures you could exploit how it can sometimes swarm by hitting eternal witness, making you replay company.Liliana loam can usually be coupled with ravens crime.You might also consider surgical extraction to deal with anything that hates the graveyard.
There are many ways to do it.I started out selecting the strongest ideas for a few decks and will try to equal the power level of each deck some day. The overall goal is to increase the synergy between all deck halves.Part of the original idea was to create a fun package of decks that could be sold at larger tournaments.I'd demonstrate the way it worked, and had written decklists to help out the first time user.I would also advice them to use the same color/motive of sleeves to make shuffling a lot easier.You could also remove all the lands, shuffle everything together and play it as a cube deck.
Recursive attrition :)Somehow it reminds me of lantern control :)
Using the tag system as a secondary option will reinforce your odds in other ways.Links are a cool way of doing it and some users in here does so in very neat looking ways, usually they add 5-6 links at the bottom of a deck description.Both systems are very similar, but I think the use of tags is somehow attracting people who wants to make a difference. People that copy/paste a link to visit it, are slightly more lazy than someone who does the effort of typing in a tag, so I believe that those attracted with tags are willing to do more than just clicking a button.I've been creating content on forums forever.I remember reading the dojo.com, but the first site I joined was bdominia.com, which was also closed, so I joined phyrexia.com and when that closed I moved here.I mainly posted about computersimulations and evolution on phyrexia.comIn here my focus is still evolution, but I write up articles about things I discover during the process, which often gives me the basis for writing a lot of stuff.It's usually pretty complicated, but I try to back it up with statistics whenever I can.I also exploit that I'm ancient and ornamental by writing about which parts of the past players should try out with some of their new stuff.I'm pretty sure that I could provide you with a couple of gem or jank episodes.One idea I like to spread is halfdecks.If you build 10 half decks (30 cards) with the intent of shuffling two random halves together, then you will be able to shuffle them together in 49 different combinations.search for the decktag: a-half I've prepared 10 absolute starter decks for arena players there.Back when I invented the concept I began to split pro decks with the intent of being able to play an extreme number of hybrid decks.Maybe you could use this concept as well.In the past a lot more users used the decktag: halfdeck
Hey there, DNinja...I'm wickeddarkman, local innovator, and currently trying to create a discussion in this place about how we should rebuild our community and embrace youtubers who tries to create content.The current situation is not the best, as our community has fallen apart over the years, and almost everyone else is letting it slip.What can you do to help with this ?You can shamelessly market yourself.If you start out with learning how to search for decktags, you can search for the decktag: wdm 2018It's a deck series I've got going with articles attached to them, and one of them is titled "how to be more visible"It will explain to you how you can invent and use brand tags to become much easier to stumble on by accident, because that's what's needed if you want to be read in here.Also search for the decktag: community talk Where I'm trying to start up a talk about how we can help out other content creators and maybe become the favourite place to visit for content creators in mtg.We already get visits by magicaidsyoutube who was frequently here when we were much more supportive, but still produces decks for us.I've seen magicbrothers in here as well, but can't remember if they are podcasts or something more.Anyways, welcome to the mtgvault, feel free to read a couple of the decks from the decktag: wdm 2018Each has a content article covering some crazy stuff.Most of it will be about how to use evolution as a deckbuilding tool, but I have an excellent memory and have been in magic since the end of unlimited, so I've got many stories :)I hope you get an increase in your fanbase, and if you already have fans, maybe send them here so they can help building up a love for content creators.Oh, almost forgot, when you use the mtgvault search engine to search for a decktag it will display the top 20 results.That makes it possible to measure how popular a tag is in here.Count the number of decks with zero likes, and the less zeros your search have, the more popular that tag is. It will help you to see exactly what the mtgvault users find most interesting...
The leviathan offers a alternative strategy of "comes into play triggers" it's not tradition, I know that, but it covers some unknown territory that might be worth investigating.As long as your deck is the fastest at recasting everything, you will be gaining an additional edge appart from the 5/5.Red isn't renowned as a "bouncy" decktype, but it won't hurt to explore it, right :)(Unless you get sidetracked easily)
I often used [[kederekt leviathan]] and had a small number of blue dual lands.I was usually having it in mainboard and actually managed to unearth it a couple of times.I used it in a goblin deck along side with phyrexian metamorph, which served as an extra lord.
Ashen rider ???Are you trying to see if we are asleep or is show and tell style decks back in force ?
[[Putrid leech]] is a strong little card that would fit in here.Also consider [[fate transfer]]
This is just funny :)This guy tries to delete this back in 2009 and it's still here :)I'm liking it for the lolz :)Who knows, if everyone else in here gets bored, it might end up as THE top deck.I found it while going through 750 decks with "how to" in the title.You wont believe the "matches" the search engine spit out for me. Most of the time it displays decks with the following words.How, howl, show, shower.I'm seeking out the "how to" manuals of the past to link to them all in the future.There is a truly amazing amazing number of "how to lose friends" decks out there.What a ride...But this blank deck that someone wanted someone to delete...It takes the prize :)Made me laugh loud enough to disturb the neighbors... There is a total of three.You can "nothing to see" them all by searching for "how delete"
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