Dies to Removal

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I've been taking a sabbatical.

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Same. I play rarely enough that due to cost and learning, I try to stick to one deck. For example, I know Z is moving away from burn due to the meta but I'm going to stick it out because it's what I know.

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Raise the alarm?

Green eats you up but it's a neat surprise against the red, blue, or black decks.

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Wish I could play more than once a week right now x[

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Here's my videos from last night. I finally got my wish and played 3 mono U and looks like I was rusty from some of the sequencing I did. I'm sticking traditional because, well, it's me. I went ahead and dropped one mortar for a stoke, mostly for BW and MBC and dropped the two hushwing for 2 glare f...

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I have a couple friends who play it and I had a special purpose in mind at the time with a commander I got as a gift.

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Got my wish, 3 mono blue and one mono black after I cut hushwing. I did manage to lose a game with flamespeaker because I chained too often instead of using other removal because I got greedy for card draw. Oops. Also, a really, really, really massive misplay on the last turn where I thought I neede...

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He was pretty proud of it.

As he should be. If teen movies have taught me anything, it's that super-fros have power.

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We had a kid in high school with the brightest, blondest fro in the world. We appropriately called him "BlondieFro."

Was he proud of it?

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And by beating, I mean I win every game he doesn't die that turn if I don't punt like a moron*. Which so far has been every BW game I've drawn it. I hear all these complaints about the card but I feel like I should evaluate it based on the number of wins/losses it gives me. Is that madness? :shrug: ...

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It's a beating vs BW. Always has been.

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I know you all keep asking why I'm on flamespeaker still. Looking at the most recent meta update, the ones I don't want to use it against are MBC and Jund monsters or walkers. So that leaves... BW, U Dev, Rx, GW, UWx. 75% of the meta seems pretty good for a sideboard card (for my playstyle). Or, it ...

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How come you get to have all the fun and I'm all mono black and GBx all damn day? :rofl: while I admit I got many many byes - I'll much rather face B Devo and BG over BW (I'll rather play UW then BW T_T). Heh, and I'd rather face BW. The flamespeaker vs blood baron epic battle after we'd both gasse...

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How come you get to have all the fun and I'm all mono black and GBx all damn day?

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How are you playing the control role? I've got 3 matches recorded where I'm doing it.

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Hushwing still shits all over mono blue and green devotion since it turns off around 12 cards after they sideboard with little hope of removing it. Against mono blue, I'm ok just considering it a global enchantment while I faceroll through the rest of the match. The problem is that neither are a ser...

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Based on that, looks like it's time to pull out hushwing. It's still great against blue but probably not necessary (and I never play against it), medicore and really too slow against any of the BTE/denizen or BTE/Fanatic decks where I don't need help, and meh vs BW with a downside of possibly being ...

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Yeah, ooze in the board is fine. In the main, it's got a high potential of being a bear.

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Neither does packrat, especially without card draw to back it up. Game 1 with walkers you're really trying to slam a bunch of card advantage engines on the board that a lot of decks have a problem answering effectively even if they're killing each walker as they come. I'm not sure 3 Chandra is reall...

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Yeah SB is sweet against them. @Elricity After seeing the game where you decided to ignore Chandra, I agree you can ignore Chandra when you're plan is to send everything at the face, while you can't ignore Xenagos because he kills you too fast. But if my plan is to keep him off anything relevant wh...

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Searing blood is actually really pretty good against walkers. About the only deck where you want to both stall and race at the same time. Or it removes two permanents at the same time which is really really good.

I don't think you need it though with a traditional sideboard.

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I don't like cutting shock in this matchup any more than I do vs UW. [mana]R[/mana]: Counter target phoenix removal is way too powerful when you already know all your other burn is going upstairs.

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My exact board plan was -4 chain/yp for 3 mortar, 2 chandra, 2 banish, and 1 pillar. Should have been a second pillar and 2 mortar in hindsight because he was on reaper and I'm sure Ichikawa's brings in some number of Mistcutter. If you run Trouble, you should put it in here. You can use that to cut...

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That sounds about right although I think I prefer mortars over chain if you're trying to deal with courser because it has a better upside with overload and can't be counterspelled with charm/decay/Vraska. I like to be in a position where I can ignore any planeswalker other than Xenagos and yes, this...

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Purp, I'm honestly confused why you're trying to pick a fight with me. Anyway, about rabblemaster, how is that win more? On an empty board, it's got a better clock than Xenagos. LP, I've had some test games where Flamespeaker has been decent but the card is terribly swingy. It does require a playsty...

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Flamespeaker is no where near being the answer to Flochs UW list.

What exactly is the cause of your obsession with giving non sequiturs? You're arguing with me on a point I didn't make.

Although I believe I disagree with you anyway since his deck is so low on win conditions.

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My answer to fiendslayer vs control is still flamespeaker. The downside is it's also answered by last breath or celestial flare but it's also not potentially a dead card that also doesn't turn planar cleansing into a blowout. Although I can see doing both if they are on paladins and you're trying to...

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I'm aware this is coming from the guy playing Flamespeaker against creature decks but circle of flame only improves the matches you already have on a lock.

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I paid for their premium for 3 months and then dropped it.

Thanks Z, answers my question.

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That much is obvious, I'm just curious if they're forced to or they drunkly fire off a post just because. For example, and I respect if you don't want to answer this, it appears CFB's writers write more about what they're comfortable about or they're straight up that they're doing stream of concious...

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I'm just convinced people are required by their editor to write about decks they don't like and/or understand so you get the equivalent of writing someone's phone number on a bar's bathroom wall.

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if you're referring to the Donald Smith poster, yea that's me. You're doing God's work. :teach: I'm still confused why "I have a ton of removal and 8-10 win conditions" is hard to see as a control deck as opposed to "I have a ton of (more expensive) removal and a few win conditions&q...

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Gerry Thompson just wrote an article on "Burning Control." At first he said "The issue with Burn is that its clock is relatively slow. When paired against an opponent playing a fast creature deck, Burn will probably find that it's much slower." and I was getting a little excited...

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If you're smart and don't mono lava spikes, the aggro matchup are super favorable. You can still lose, but youre basically playing the best control deck possible vs then. Nah man, haven't you heard, if you use all your spells killing their creatures, like, you're guaranteed to lose that game becaus...

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You want to save YP until it can make a token if at all possible. Phoenix is a late game finisher versus these decks. You should only play it early if you must or if their board is of no serious threat at the moment. You have 16+ terminates and swords to plowshares for the first 2-3 turns and then i...

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And finally, I channeled MrMDU on my last game of the night. Kept a one land hand with temple of malice, 3 lightning strikes, magma jet, chained to the rocks and boros charm. Found myself thinking in an Australian accent "land! land! land! got there..." as I drew a mounting for my first d...

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So now that I have the resolution right, I'm cutting my files back to 1200 kbs. They should still look decent but let me know. At least they are back to under half a gig.

I still can't upload in chrome but I can with IE.

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On a related tangent, has anyone had any success with Hushwing? If green already got hated out, then that just leaves blue or BW for my playstyle I want to use it which probably isn't worth the space since I never play either deck online. That said, if someone's used it as extra skullcracks against ...

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Eh I finally got a chance to play flamespeaker against GW agro last night and it was a house. First strike puts every single one of our spells in kill range, the only thing that gets out of hand is unflinching courage, but they don't run the hexproof stuff so its not too hard to find an answer. But...

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Ok, I should calm down. This argument came up from DTR a lot when I first brought up the card so it's a pet peeve. I can appreciate not wanting to use the creature because of play style, being bad against monsters, and difficult to use against control. Each person has to sideboard for their style of...

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