Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[bv310]

I'm also up to test my Bant Control list, and my Infinite Reflection combo list. Also OmniDoor.

[Fate]

Hmmm think this is a good chance to set-up this post:

Standard Training Grounds

If you're interested in testing a brew, practicing a match-up, trying out SB options, this is the post for you!
Please post the build(s) you are willing to play against people who want to practice.

Player- Decks - AIM

Fate- Gruul Aggro, Rakdos Aggro -FatedFreedom13
Bv310- WUR, Omnidoor, Combo, Bant Control
Chamber- Any netdeck you ask him -blargerer
Kdowns- Any Naya Deck

[kdowns]

Any Naya deck,

[Shanba]

Any Naya deck,

Goddammit

[Fate]

Updated.


Also found an alternate cockatrice server so I'll be playing on that mostly whooo

[Thestatusquo]

I have very little interest in standard currently, but for anyone who is willing to reciprocate by jamming matches of Modern net decks against mine, I will be willing to do the same for yours.

Currently running the UWR list that was posted earlier.

[petroleumjelly]

I thought I had gotten a handle on drafting Gatecrash, up until I tried drafting Dimir last Saturday night. I think it's the first time I've 0-3'd! I thought my deck was relatively aggressive (fair two-drops with 3 Sprites, 2 Guildmages, and 1 Basilica Screecher + nice suite of removal with a couple Devour Fleshes, 3 Grisly Spectacles, a Dimir Charm), but the decks I faced were as I feared: speedy and lethal! [Lost to an

excellent

Boros deck that won the draft, a mediocre Orzhov build where we only finished one game as opponent played agonizingly slowly, and then to a deck that pumped out a fast Assemble the Legion two games in a row.] I think my deck could have done better if I had managed to draft any Hands of Binding, but I think there were only two at the table and they were apparently drafted by the other players in blue.

On that note, I do think Gatecrash drafting has gotten a bit predictable. Seems like players largely try to draft Boros and/or Orzhov (my favorite being Orzhov), but that makes the combination so overdrafted that it seems like you should be rewarded for going into other colors. So far it has not seemed to be the case, but maybe I just haven't figured out the other guilds as much.

[hasdgfas]

I think the problem is that Boros bleeds the Gruul cards and Orzhov bleeds the Dimir cards. Simic probably should be open consistently. I drafted a solid Simic deck at work a couple weeks ago and only lost to a Boros deck, and only because I couldn't find a third land after mulling to 5 + being

just

a turn behind. Was able to win my other matchups against Orzhov and 5-color.

[NabakovNabakov]

Gatecrash drafting is nice because you can get some very strong signals from other players early on. If you see a gold card (that isn't total crap) go all the way around, it's a fair bet nobody's in that guild, and you can start grabbing mono-colored cards in your guild with a reasonable expectation that your gold cards will come back. My last draft, this happened to an Orzhov Charm, and that immediately swung me into pure Orzhov from a potential black/white/blue build. I came in second to the Dimir player, and everyone else made a mess of things in the Boros/Gruul/Simic continuum. (Note, the best Dimir decks I've seen in limited are actually quite aggro. This guy came at me fast with Deathcult Rouge, Call of the Nightwing, and Hands of Binding, and he finished me off with Shadow Slice. It broke my stall/extort deck wide open in a way a couple of mediocre Boros and Gruul decks could not.)

[hasdgfas]

I think Dimir will actually be quite good once people figure out how to draft it. I haven't quite done that yet.

[Thestatusquo]

I don't think those losses have anything to do with not knowing the format. Sometimes, variance. You lost to the nuts boros deck (the best deck in the format) and an insane bomb rare. This does not mean you drafted poorly.

[AGar]

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/A ... ily/rc/237

Fate, that deck looks like it might be something you'd be interested in.

[Fate]

oooo shinies

I don't like Ogre though, 5cmc blood rush is ew.

Hounds of Griselbrand+Pump is much sexier. Also cut down on the Loyalist multiples.... for MOAR BOARS ALWAYS BOARS

Oh the article is about fixing up the deck nevermind.

Thanks for the link

[xRECKONERx]

I'm super excited for this cube that I'm building

[chamber]

I'm super excited for this cube that I'm building

Cubes are sweet. I hope you get as much use out of yours as I got out of mine.

[Fate]

I'm super excited for this cube that I'm building

Cubes are sweet. I hope you get as much use out of yours as I got out of mine.

what is this past tense

[dramonic]

cubes?

[Sudo_Nym]

A cube draft tourney could be a neat follow-up to RYOS.

[chamber]

I'm super excited for this cube that I'm building

Cubes are sweet. I hope you get as much use out of yours as I got out of mine.

what is this past tense

Too many magic friends moved out of town. Hard to get 6+ magic playing friends together these days. It still gets pulled out on some holidays, but not being used multiple times a week.

[Thestatusquo]

You could just give it to me. Seems fine.

[bv310]

Or me, seeing as I'm Canadian, rather than some smelly American getting their greasy mitts all over it.

[Fate]

I heard rumors that they might, in the future (no time frame), include pack codes with paper cards you receive to allow you to upload them online.

I wouldn't have an excuse then XD

[AGar]

I don't see why they would do that personally. They'd lose money I would think.

[Thestatusquo]

Your rumors appear to have gotten truncated in the telling. Perhaps you are referring to this?

http://www.examiner.com/article/wizards ... gic-online

[xRECKONERx]

I think it would break the randomization of the packs if they had to include a code with each one that accurately marked each pack for what cards were inside. I suppose there's a way to do it via computer, but I feel like that'd be easily game-able.

And yeah, financially, they'd lose a ton of money if they did that.