wickeddarkman

In my oppinion, a troll invented that phrase to be able to leisurely take out people at his own pace.
Think about cultural invasions. Has any civilisation won by letting the aggressor do what they wanted ?

Nah, I believe in exposure and over working the troll.
He can't both downvote my statements and hide my posts without an effort.

He's probably used to not being opposed, and the rate of opposition I can tolerate is pretty much above his level.

He's done some moves, but I've countered everyone of them, and the more he intensifies his efforts I simply push back. You may have noticed the post "downvote troll can't get it up-" ?

To begin with he covered by upvoting lots of other decks.
These days people know enough about this war that it is kept up at the top, which must be like a slap in the face of the troll everytime he upvotes at random to bury it.

Alfred says he might have an idea who the troll is, so it might be time to contact gary who can probably double check and slam one door in front of the troll.

Just wanted to give the full info :)

Pia and kiran could use the treasure tokens to burn with, so there is some synergy present.
Finding some servo generating dwarves would add to that aspect.

Last entry was 2017.
Was it updated when you saw it ?

[[Reckless fireweaver]]
[[Blisterspit gremlin]]
[[Firebrand archer]]
[[Thermo-alchemist]]

My first search damage target playet got nothing, then I changed it to damage all and found these.
There were some more but they were suboptimal.

Both firebrand and thermo will be nice with flame jab and lava dart.

So, you warming up to play that "free" burn snow spell ?

What do you think of the dual snow lands ?
They may come tapped into play, but I think buying them up early may be a nice investment. One day there will be enough snow based material to make them valuable.

Will you exchange stormbreath dragon with the treasure dragon and add the legendary dwarf ?
(Turn 3 4/4 dragon seems nice)

One solution could be to have other ways of non combat damage to gain the +1/+1 effect.
Something as simple as a fire whip might do it.
Keep the searing blaze though, it's perfect.

I also think you need some sort of longterm creature generator.
I think each color were given a common that made duplicate tokens of a creature. Might have been at the lorwyn cycle.

I think one thing that's in the trolls favor in here, is that downvoted are unonamous. If downvotes had s name behind them, people won't downvote unless it's serious.

Phyrexians sort of knew who was who by a stricter admission.

And less aria of flame.

Whymeh12356:
Have you tested it ?

Something similar.
The best lie is the one with the most truth in it.

Hey there mdstrawhat,
I see that you copied your own deck 6 days after you made it :)

At the moment there's a troll that keeps liking old decks to cover the top decks over and over.
You probably copied your deck because you saw it getting buried by his "moves"

But by copying makes you help him bury things, and once other newcomers see you copy, they think it's a smart move, and it starts an avalanche of reposts that bury us all in deep mud.

There are two other ways of being seen, one is to engage within the community and start talking about things, and you can ask someone to take a look at the deck you want an oppinion on, people will give it their best shot if you ask :)

The second way is to use what are called tags.
When you make a deck public, the auto comment tells you to give the deck some tags so that it can be found more easily.
When people search for specific decks they search for tags.

You could use the tags: elves and discard.

One day someone will be desperate to build a really really nasty halfdeck or discard deck and they will search through at least 50 decklists if they are as thorough as me, and they will find your deck and like it.

The people in here with many likes on their decks have found just the right tags to make them found in the long run, and it might take some time before someone discovers them.

Enough teaching, here's my burning question...

Could you find some rogue elves that still perform the job of your original elves, but that are also rogues so they would trigger oona's blackboard.


I'm wickeddarkman, insane genious and always in a dark mood.

I'm currently fighting the troll, but strike up a chat with me at any time.

If you want to see how I use tags, here are some decktags to search for.
(Rembember it has to be DECKtags)

Wdm mill guide
Wdm 2018
Wdm prison

I use some personal tags because I'm building up a sort of brand, and I usually tag a deck with one brand and three simple tags (like discard, elves and competitive)

There are a lot of friendly people around this place, but you will have to read a bit on other peoples decks to track them down.
A few people prefer to be alone, so if they don't answer it might be because they don't bother.

Couldn't agree more.
It's fun how the downvote troll has chosen to continue to continue fighting in this page, where the only topic I've brought to the table is how tezzeret's gambit could become a 0-cost draw.
Have you thought about what could be cut to run it ?

Ironically I am an extremely skilled liar from being a game master at roleplaying for 35 years. I'm very skilled at building up a game session within short time. I practically only lie in emergencies.

Phyrexia.com may be lost, but there is an infinitely small chance that wotc has bought it.
If they have, it will probably be restored to it's old glory in a way that isn't very dignified.

I'm currently fighting a troll in here and has suffered a -1200 reputation as a result.
It's only a number, but I do think about how often phyrexia.com dealt with trolls like a real community.
Somehow identifying as phyrexians made us all behave as a group rather than individuals.

While I fight the troll I'm also still creating great articles, though a very few see them because the troll destroys the visibility of almost all decks.

As a result I've started to weave almost everything together, and the current part I work at now is a series of 64 decks from 2018, and each deck will host an article, so I will be trying to make new discoveries to write about. The latest discovery I have had has been observing that planeswalkers seem to define the line between aggro and control.

I'm well aware that emrakul manages to reshuffle everything, but that's not enough.
I've frankly forgotten how the lorwyn critters only reshuffle themselves because I've recently been trying to build with them as if they did.

I've tested many mill variants against a prison deck with two eldrazi reshufflers, because I know 1 isn't enough.
I've created several variants of that deck to improve it against mill decks because it's my testdeck to train my mill.
Search for the decktag: wdm prison
To see all of the various designs of it.

1 emrakul and 1 ulamog should do it, but I hardly think jund needs to fight mill at this stage. It will take a breakthrough by some random miller to make it widespread enough that the meta has to adapt. So far odds are that if you meet one of those 1.7% millplayers hes likely to be one of the inexperienced ones.

When you have achieved mastery in this, I'd like to hear about what you've made.
The creativity generator is good at one thing.
The next level will be how to pour all that creativeness into "smart" random encounter tables.
The secret of random tables is that they buy you time to build up more world while the players are trying to figure out how the world around them works. Random tables can be used to make the world seem truly alive if it's done thoroughly.

A lot of game designers have sworn that the random encounter table is the one thing that kills a good roleplaying session. I say the opposite is true.

Random tables can be used to make an rpg much more alive than otherwise.
Your world can be run by random tables from events like avalanches earthquakes, meteors, mudslides and other natural disasters, to the lives of your npcs and their destiny, down to actually building new rpg areas.

A note on the random treasure deck. My players are given mtg collectors albums for the items they find or buy,
Even down to their gold coins, so that whenever something happens to their equipment, instead of asking them to cross it from their sheets of paper, they hand things over physically. I've had a lot of sheet heaters in my games, so I dealt with it.

This increased the number of unique items I could create and let the players find. Sometimes finding a very old item with a new character could make some interesting things happen. My players even went so far as starting to personalize items, enchanting them or writing things on them or trying to build up legends around them.

Sorry :)
I was thinking about courser of kruphix with mindshrieker and saw your commander was kruphix, so I posted about that, before I realised it was the wrong card.

And then vaan104 came with his greetings :)

Exactly, which is why I always show aggression towards you when you question my words.
I'm basically showing everyone else that I'm willing to fight for my statements. It is also a display meant to get you to back down so my words will not be doubted any further.
It's all classic status behaviour.
Most people discover the rules during childhood, while autism related children needs to be explained why humans use the entire status system or they fail to understand it.

I can basically "play the game"
But I believe it's really crippling for humanity, because just like in magic, whenever there is a winner, there has to be a loser. But it doesn't have to be that way. We could design other systems.

Compliments are best served exaggerated :)
Calling it neat is not so cool as calling it totally awesome sweatproducing.
Sure people knows that it usually isn't true, but they prefer the lie.

That said, I find this deck so cool that if I ever tried to shuffle it, my fingers would break into tiny fragments of splintered icy flesh and bone, and I would likely still try to shuffle it with my arm stumps ;)

Why are we geared to prefer lies ?
Because evolution favors deception. Most lifeforms on earth are camouflaged against several types of vision, creatures imitate the colorpatterns of toxic animals, some drop their tail, some puff themselves up to look larger.
For humans, having a good liar on their side is a very usefull thing. Women largely prefers men that can say they will bring them the stars, because a skilled liar is simply usefull.

I just have a different set of values.
I value clarity, you value obscuration.
So our point of views sort of causes a clash.

Pride is yet another mental construct meant to enslave others.
By holding on to your pride, you smack me down the human ladder of morals, except I don't abide to that kind of evaluation. It's related to honor, respect, and other superiority constructs. Whichever human has the most of this is seen as "good" by others upholding the same value system.

To me, all of that is really useless, just like fashion and status.

It's a way to degrade and enslave...