wickeddarkman

If you happen to be playing legacy
Try out mind swords with the exiles.

Dearest User kold,
If you want to ensure yourself a 100% win
Play 60 chancellor of the dross...

I play a lot of testdecks to boost my own mill skills, and that includes pox/8-rack, so I know the deck well.
Suggesting dread (yes, the reshuflable bee) comes from having played recently with eldrazi reshufflers in my prison designs. (Search for the decktag: wdm prison)

Playing with decks that frequently discarded an emrakul in order to draw it or to avoid mill death, meant that I also had an opportunity to track how often I drew into a valuable reshuffled card, and the conclusion is, quite frequent.
Since you use removal, and among that, uses pox, you would get to play pox a lot more. You would get lands back to either play or use with ravens crime. You would get liliana back and basically everything you needed.

I usually base my output on experiences.
The suggestion of dread was actually based on you having relic of progenitus in your maindeck. If you play pox, you will have to face the fact that a hell of a lot of decks are using cards with the escape mechanic.
Having relic mainboard would allow you to create quality control by removing cards you don't use which would strengthen the reshuffle theme.

Having played pox, I have experienced many games where the opponent loses all lands while you amass a lot of them.
Since dread gets reshuffled over and over you will eventually be able to play it. While your opponent has a limited number of lands, you have a virtually unlimited amount of them because you can keep on reshuffling them.
Essentially you could cut out your racks as a kill and just go with dread if it wasn't for the time limit during play.

There will certainly be jobs within automation and robotics. The world is likely to change directions in a lot of unpredictable ways.

I consider w r g to be artifact hating.
They are all good at that ;)

Everything is a threat ;)
Some more than others.
I guess that from my stoneforge prisons point of view it would fear removal, but since we got path, bolt and kick, it has to be narrowed down by what the scores were for w r and b.

My advice to you is to keep this deck, but also keep all of your common cards.
You get practically zero money from selling commons, so you actually lose the money you invested in gaming them.
Having your commons will also allow you to build a variety of decks.

Sure, sell of the expensive stuff to raise money, but keep the commons or you actually lose all the money you've spent on magic.

There's an infinite life combo with boros reckoner, listed in one of my deckdesigns.
You should also consider building a core design that might be able to have parts of it exchanged which will change its nature dramatically.

Search for the decktag: wdm prison
Click on the prison life deck to see the reckoner combo
Look around the other versions to get the overall idea on how to design a core.
You will have better games in the future if you can adapt your deck in many ways.

I expected to get a very precise answer of which combination of two swords would be the most powerfull.
Instead I got three different but equally measured sets.
I'm wondering if I could somehow refine the answer.

I guess it will win one and lose 4.
2-3 at best.

I've come across something odd at my sword calculations by the way.
Must have done it wrong the first time.

I certainly hope you will have some fixes to it.
Living end decks are reinforced by cycling, as they can cycle towards combo pieces.
You got to few cards to discard living end to focus on finale of promised, and fires of invention is a 4 cost which means aggro will kill you outright, and combo will be faster than your combo.

I'd run the original living end shell with violent outburst and demonic dread, with cycle. It's a deck that can be taken in many directions and I think they never focussed on the full scale of cycle cards when they built them.

Adding simian spiritguide and other rituals might speed things up, but you need discarders. Red has plenty of those.

Then you need a backup plan of how to play the deck if anyone focusses on your weak parts.

Living end is capeable of cycling towards 5 mana and hardcastle stuff if anyone somehow remove living end from their deck (cough, surgical extraction, cough)

You have ashnods altar and solemnity, so I believe you can abuse murderous redcap, which is an old kill from back when melira project was the deck to play. You get both infinite mana as well as infinite ping.
There's several cards that can exploit infinite mana.

There's a nice article about variance in the vintage environment in mtggoldfish

No problem ;)

Well, user alfred, below, does not applaud me too much.
It's a standard letter that you got, no need for the worries.
I can see now that I put you on the chatlist for people to chat with.

Yeah, and you'd had to learn which tags were most in use, so if you are low on activity it would hardly pay of.
There are decks that get posted and get a good number of likes though.
It's a longterm bet, like stocks.

Hmm, not sure I will persue the reason, although it would be pretty good to put an exact reason on the decline.
Since reshuffle has been such a huge past of magic it would be nice to know how to deal with it if it ever catches on again. I believe some versions of turbofog would be decks that could suddenly spontaneously rise again.

Thank you for your response.
I'm currently not looking at much stuff because it's weekend, so I haven't gotten my notebook
With me, but you've been "targeted" by me more out of routine than actual accusations ;)

It's great to hear that you'll improve on these points, as I've always been much of a selfimprover on some areas ;)

I'm tracking at least 60 different people, so odds that you ARE the troll is a 1 in 60, which is pretty low, and I'm very much into being thorough, so I won't accuse you or anyone else without a solid basis.

Anyways this whole message thing is more to cause awareness of the troll more than anything else.

I have a list of flagged accounts, but I don't remember you as being on it ;)

I even wrote how I liked your build before I copypasted my message below it, and liked the deck, so I don't think I've flagged you :)

The deck sure had it's fun in Columbus :)
With only 46 versions registered I had troubles identifying if any decktypes were a threat to it.
I believe Phoenix decks were popular enough to have been a contender, but the opal mox ban could also be a cause.

I remember it's first rise during 2018, and at that time I had my shrieker grixis and didn't count the deck as a a big threat.

Later when I was out of the game loop I was surprised to hear that it had led to the ban of the mox, because I didn't see it as a threat.

Then Phoenix decks were everywhere, and they were graveyard based too.

It could have been these two decks that lead to a reshufflerless meta, but the only way to know is to look carefully at what decks were able to hate these decks.
I couldn't find enough kci decks with a 2nd place to look at what defeated it.

Do you recall what the popular name of phoenix decks were in 2019 ?

It depends on the form of hatred that got used at the time. I'll go take a look at it.
Be back soon.

Yeah it does seem to be really rare.
I can't got over it. It's been around forever in this game. And then one year it just goes poof.
Decks like dredge, goryu animate and living may have had some influence on graveyard hatred, but I don't believe that would have pushed the concept away.
Could be a shift in the player base, with lots of players probably settling into a life where they don't have time for the game, like having kids or a demanding career or other stuff.