Dies to Removal

You should fit in some aggro and tempo cards in your pristaxcontrombmodruu deck

I can't afford to make the name of the deck any longer.

Knight errant?

LD: Needs Militia's Pride.

Mobilization is crap. Try Sacred Mesa.

@ [card]Mind's Eye[/card]: It's a great mana sink, and a card that can go in any deck, but I have other sources of card advantage and would prefer synergy.

@ Sublime Archangel: I think this is a trap card. You attack with one big, stupid dummie instead of swarming, then it gets removed.

@ Elspeth, Knight-Errant: Only one token a turn, but Emblem is pretty relevant. I don't know. What do other people think?

@ [card]Militia's Pride[/card]: No sure I have enough non-token creatures to make this not a dead card.

@ Mobilization: I have lots of Soldiers and it's cheaper than Heliod. Maybe it should just be Heliod.

@ Sacred Mesa: What am I not getting about this card? You can't play it before T5, if you do play it on 5, there's a very good change of blow out. It ties up two mana a turn to keep it around, but by T7 + is it really that out of hand?

@ Sacred Mesa: What am I not getting about this card? You can't play it before T5, if you do play it on 5, there's a very good change of blow out. It ties up two mana a turn to keep it around, but by T7 + is it really that out of hand?

You can play it on turn 3. It costs two mana during your next upkeep, yeah. But look at it and Mobilization. In the end, you get 50% more tokens for your mana.

Also, the tokens fly. That's not insubstantial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVsPd66c04
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@ Sacred Mesa: What am I not getting about this card? You can't play it before T5, if you do play it on 5, there's a very good change of blow out. It ties up two mana a turn to keep it around, but by T7 + is it really that out of hand?

You can play it on turn 3. It costs two mana during your next upkeep, yeah. But look at it and Mobilization. In the end, you get 50% more tokens for your mana.

Also, the tokens fly. That's not insubstantial.

Sorry, I momentarily Derped and forgot how magic works. Untap THEN upkeep. Fml.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVsPd66c04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVsPd66c04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVsPd66c04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVsPd66c04

REGULATORS... MOUNT UP!

Luminarch Ascension should probably be in there somewhere too.

Luminarch Ascension is a bad card in EDH.

Sure, it's usually active once around the table. It's also a huge fucking target on your face.

I agree with Dechs. That card is too powerful, but not quite powerful enough.

Generals in my playgroup (Granted it consist of about 4-6 people): Oona, 5 Color Walkers (doubling season, usually wins with tutor into omniscience/enter the infinite), Prosph, Narset, Captain Sissay, Derevi, Khalia, Erebos, Zirilen, Hanna, Nin, Animar, Azusa, Krenko, Oloro, Slivers, Skithryx, Ravenous Rats deck.

Pretty diverse group, but pretty clear which decks are the tier 1s of the group.

Luminarch Ascension is a bad card in EDH.

Sure, it's usually active once around the table. It's also a huge fucking target on your face.

Hard for me to not be targeted anyway, but I get you.

Niv-Mizzet too boring for a general?

I played Teferi as a general once upon a time.

I play Griselbrand as a general because France is weird.

I love that picture

Le baguette

I want the red commander deck badly. My LGS sold out of all the commander decks before I could ask for a reservation, so it looks like I'll be taking a trip to the local Wal-Mart Friday morning.

I was already building Kurkesh as my second commander, so the fact that they printed this new red deck is awesome. I think I'd rather play Derevi though.

People don't realize Barnes and Noble sells Magic cards. If you have them in your area, go check them out. Last year, I made several trips to five and picked up seven of the Esper ones, a month AFTER they've been out.

Niv-Mizzet too boring for a general?

Depends which one.

If you're going to go UR, I suggest Tibor and Lumia

Firemind is fun. He can play a lot of wheel effects, and because your deck is really just wheel effects, combo pieces, draw spells and a few value cards, you can just wheel away most hands after playing combo pieces because that's mostly what you care about finding.

Nekusar is the wheel guy now.

Why is it that no one takes me seriously when I suggest shipping something via Zeppelin?

Nivmizzet is ok. UR is just not that powerful in a competitive playgroup.

Val, don't play Derevi...don't be that guy! Well it depends on how you build him, but the guy in my playgroup used to play T3 Winter Orb lock combo, until we basically told him to stop being gay.

Trying to decide what deck to start grinding with in Standard for the PTQ season... It's between jeskai, RW burn, RW Tokens/burn and heroic. There are 8 PPTQs in Georgia, I am hoping to hit every one of them and spike that bitch.

Unless the meta truly hates it out, I will be on Jeskai for the entirety of this season. The deck just calls to me.

Nivmizzet is ok. UR is just not that powerful in a competitive playgroup.

Val, don't play Derevi...don't be that guy! Well it depends on how you build him, but the guy in my playgroup used to play T3 Winter Orb lock combo, until we basically told him to stop being gay.

I'd be a valuetown build. I don't like turn 3-4 combo decks in what's supposed to be a casual format. That's what Modern and Legacy is for.

teysa, orzhov scion for me.

Nivmizzet is ok. UR is just not that powerful in a competitive playgroup.

Val, don't play Derevi...don't be that guy! Well it depends on how you build him, but the guy in my playgroup used to play T3 Winter Orb lock combo, until we basically told him to stop being gay.

I'd be a valuetown build. I don't like turn 3-4 combo decks in what's supposed to be a casual format. That's what Modern and Legacy is for.

I understand this line of thinking, and unless your playgroup is ALL of the same mindset....you will be losing a lot. Doing broken things in commander is more fun than watching someone else do them.

Playgroup has similar mindset. There's a gentleman's agreement on what floats and what doesn't.

But hey, you said "don't be that guy." All of our decks can do broken things. They can also win in the first few turns of the game, but not consistently. I've played Grave Titan on turn two before, but things like that happen irregularly.

Does anyone here have access to SCG premium? I wanted to see Tom Ross' new U/W Heroic list

[deck]
Creatures (20)

4 Battlewise Hoplite
4 Favored Hoplite
3 Heliod's Pilgrim
4 Hero Of Iroas
3 Seeker of the Way
2 Eidolon of Countless Battles
Lands (22)

2 Island
9 Plains
4 Flooded Strand
1 Mana Confluence
4 Temple of Enlightenment
2 Tranquil Cove
Spells (18)

1 Aqueous Form
1 Ordeal of Heliod
4 Ordeal of Thassa
1 Singing Bell Strike
1 Stratus Walk
4 Defiant Strike
2 Feat of Resistance
4 Gods Willing
Sideboard

1 Heliod's Pilgrim
2 Lagonna-Band Trailblazer
1 Seeker of the Way
1 Aqueous Form
1 Ordeal of Heliod
1 Singing Bell Strike
2 Ajani's Presence
1 Erase
3 Stubborn Denial
2 Treasure Cruise
[/deck]

I'm fond of the Ascendancy Heroic deck. Might even start playing it.

Purp you are a god

Also, Heliod's Pilgrim is such a great addition to that list

Tom, you cheeky bastard

So the foil Young Pyromancer I bought a couple of months ago jumped from $12 to $45...

People don't realize Barnes and Noble sells Magic cards. If you have them in your area, go check them out. Last year, I made several trips to five and picked up seven of the Esper ones, a month AFTER they've been out.

Wasn't Grixis the expensive one?