wickeddarkman

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Here's a nasty trick for you.
If you can somehow make room for some ghostquarters, your deck can suddenly act as a mana lock deck on par with the level that death and taxes operates at. You use spreading seas and ghostquarters to take out their duals, then you use marrow reejerey and æther vial to tap the opponents last and most important mana during their upkeep to halt their progress. If you find this trick works out better than expected, then you can start packing some green landdestruction in the sideboard. I'd start out with "the beast within" which might replace natural state.

Best of luck with the concept.

Don't forget that if you encounter mono white heliod combo, a smart player can kill your phantasmal image by giving them lifelink.

I'm copying your deck to make a try at refining the landdestruction aspect.
Hope you don't mind :)

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 10:33 as a comment on [Modern] Merfolk

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You've seen tremors ?
Then you are in for an assblast of fun, as there are a lot more movies with these worms.
Pretty much all 4-5 are wonderfull classics for the older horror fans.

I'll look forward to your other tremor-decks :)

You should also make some human decks to battle the "graboids". Make sure they have vehicles that can be destroyed and you might nail down the theme in a way that your friends are gonna love.

Movie decks... why not :)

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 10:09 as a comment on Tremors Mono G Ramp

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Not a bad idea.
Writing up corona decks will allow scientists to one day research how the "modern man"
Lived through epidemics. I think it was copernicus who did the same thing through the black plague. Sure, their disease was much harsher, but we live in a much more ordered society bringing stress on a different level.

One day you might put the decktag: nostalgia on this page and start searching for other mtgCorona posts :)

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 10:04 as a comment on 2020 Lockdown.

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Interesting...
I have a collection of 64 decks that I collected during 2018.
Search for the decktag: wdm 2018

Seeing that you played the phoenix during October allows me to put things in perspective as I know I had to stop playing tournament magic at that time.

You seem to have been away from mtgvault for a while, or you've been hidding a lot of decks :)

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 09:55 as a comment on BRIMSTONERS V2

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I also really like this deck and the story behind it.
I suggest you mark it with the decktag: nostalgia
I've marked some of my own stuff with the same decktag whenever I was in a mood to think about my own past in magic.

If more people used the tag to describe part of their past with magic, we will sort of end up with a "tome of life".

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 09:41 in reply to #640372 on My first deck (1999) (Mono W)

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Added the 5th white halfdeck.
Chose a color and I'll go to work on it tomorrow when I wake up.
Going to bed now, so the night belongs to you now.

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 03:41 in reply to #640300 on Storm of bards

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If looting is still out there, why isn't hollow wine + ruin crab a thing ?
I also remember discussing loam designs some months ago in relation to pox designs, and it was mentioned that loam wouldn't be as good without looting. Did it get unbanned recently ?
(I'm assuming we are talking about modern)

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 03:05 in reply to #640300 on Storm of bards

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If the opal was unbanned, affinity would go nuts. There's a recent build of "landless" affinity that would be insane with that. It was featured in mtggoldfish some weeks ago.

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 02:58 in reply to #640300 on Storm of bards

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The birds cover most of it, but I could see noble hierarch casting a lategame Seagate:)

I've built 4 white arena halfdecks and have a 5th stored to post with another color.
I'd like your input on the 4 I've built. The 5th is based on knights.

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 02:54 in reply to #636725 on Charbelcher’s oracle

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Alright b1g_f1sh,
I've designed two halfdecks for arena beginners.
Search for the decktag: wdm a-half
Theres two 30 card decks designed to be put together with any future halfdeck I design.

The two halves combined make up a deck that fantastically gains life while putting two separate plans at work in defeating the opponent.

You should be able to build it with your own cards, and I'll expand on the concept within this week.

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Posted 18 February 2021 at 00:26 in reply to #640298 on Standard Clerics

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Never heard of that.
But I do have a lot of 2018 decks that ran looting.
2 different hollow one decks, loam and neo dredge.

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Posted 17 February 2021 at 21:21 in reply to #640300 on Storm of bards

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Again, modal lands, though the deck will be slower.

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Posted 17 February 2021 at 21:19 in reply to #636725 on Charbelcher’s oracle

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Some more rituals and red modal lands is my best offer :(
Isn't ancient stirrings also banned a long time ago ?

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Posted 17 February 2021 at 21:15 in reply to #632880 on 3 Land belcher

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No problem:)

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Posted 17 February 2021 at 21:08 in reply to #639470 on Relentless Dead (M)

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The favoured theory is that there's been a drop in online attendance lately, so they are shaking up the meta.
Seems like the majority of disliked games comes from combo and over popular cards, so they strike at those to bring players back online.

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Posted 17 February 2021 at 08:04 in reply to #640300 on Storm of bards

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Somehow I think a lurrus cycle deck would be better with 4 lurrus maindeck.
That way you can include any permanent cost.
Having lurrus bring back what's cycled would bring a lot of card advantage.

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Posted 17 February 2021 at 00:39 as a comment on Cycling

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Also, how many of your storm decks are "taken out" by the simian ban ?
What the hell are they doing ???

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Posted 17 February 2021 at 00:33 in reply to #640300 on Storm of bards

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Yeah helios is more of a combo piece. Until you have the cards involved with him you can use other stuff.

You have plenty clerics to use the vial, but you need a way to create a small army of creature tokens before it's really usefull, though it's good on creatures about to die.

Some of the beginners deck stuff is really interesting, but I think a lot will skip past most of it not knowing what they are missing. I've seen several cards only available to starters that I think pros would use but pros are most likely to quit tutorials, and will only see these cards for a small while. All of the draw cards in the beginners sets seem powerfull, even in white.

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Posted 16 February 2021 at 14:00 in reply to #640298 on Standard Clerics

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In a recent discussion about cheerios I posted another 2018 deck list.
It contains a spell like hurkyl's recall, that costs only U.

You may also find mox amber usefull as a replacement for some of the 0-cost artifacts.

Another idea might be to include stuff like chromatic sphere to be able to draw birgi faster.

I'm also researching the free cards of arena to design some halfdecks for future players there.
When I'm done with those I'll give you a "call" to get your oppinion on them :)

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Posted 16 February 2021 at 04:01 as a comment on Storm of bards

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No problem :)
I have had some focus on rogues in 2020 so it was all there in my mind.

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Posted 16 February 2021 at 03:45 in reply to #640296 on Gwendlyn Di Corci Rogues

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