Cursecatcher is good! Like, it's a not-cuttable card. Never cut it!
Cursecatcher is one of those cards that never *looks* good, but it has a very subtle impact. If they are playing around Cursecatcher, then it's doing it's job--every time an opponent is forced to wait an extra turn to wrath your board, it's done it's job. It turns Pyretic Ritual into 2R: add RRR, it screws up math. It means that UWR has to revelate for -1. The card is just so good.
That's not even getting into it's really cool uses: Vial on one w/ a catcher in hand catches people off guard all the time. You can Image Cursecatcher to build a Spell Pierce.
The card is really really good and I hate when people cut it :/
I've seen Exhaustion being tauted on MTGS lately, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'd like to test it, but sorcery speed seems very icky.
On a similar note, Hibernation was good in testing, but my meta has less pod and more jund so Tidebinder was better overall. If you're expecting more Pod-type decks, Hibernation is playable in those slots.
I'd love to meet up with anyone in the area, and I'm hosting a beer/pizza/testing shindig at my place on friday night.
Also, if anyone is going and still looking for accomodations I can offer a free floor to crash on.
I'm playing UW. I think we're going to see a serious overreaction to the SCG open last weekend, which will bring in many mono red decks which are a good matchup anyway, in addition to the other decks packing tons of cards meant to fight that matchup (anger of the gods, for instance) which are completely dead against UW. I think it's pretty well positioned. I kinda want to play 2 detention sphere and 4 syncopate, but that just can't be right. Still ironing out last few MD choices and some sb stuff.
If I had known how my summer would have landed, I would have planned for Chicago instead of Boston. Now it's looking like I won't get to do either. Still happy with my choice of Fish though. Went 5-0 at FNM last week (though I should have lost to the Jund match. He just played it horribly)
I'd love to meet up with anyone in the area, and I'm hosting a beer/pizza/testing shindig at my place on friday night.
Also, if anyone is going and still looking for accomodations I can offer a free floor to crash on.
I'm playing UW. I think we're going to see a serious overreaction to the SCG open last weekend, which will bring in many mono red decks which are a good matchup anyway, in addition to the other decks packing tons of cards meant to fight that matchup (anger of the gods, for instance) which are completely dead against UW. I think it's pretty well positioned. I kinda want to play 2 detention sphere and 4 syncopate, but that just can't be right. Still ironing out last few MD choices and some sb stuff.
I considered it briefly but a six hour drive by myself to play a deck I like but not love with no byes didn't seem worth it.
1v1 deck was RG big stuff. Worked pretty well, felt like the deck underperformed.
2HG I had a GW convoke deck with Spirit Bonds, 2 Triplicate Spirits, Feral Incarnation, it was just gross. Partner had red/black mono removal. Unfortunately, we had some bad draws(I mulled to 5 in one game) and our opponents had some good ones(gaining 20 life with Congregate and then making unblockable Phytotitan and Genesis Hydra was icky.)
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Definitely in the top 5-10. If you weren't first picking divination some significant amount of the time then you were probably playing the format incorrectly.
Here is the list of cards I would definitely take over divination. Everything else is at least close.
archangel
devout invocation
serra angel
air servant
claustrophobia
colossal whale
essence scatter (maybe)
Jace
opportunity
Doom Blade
Quag sickness (maybe)
Sengir Vampire
Shadowborn demon
Scourge of Valkas
Shivan Dragon
Briarpack alpha
Garruk
Kalonian Hydra
P Bounty
Trading post
Definitely in the top 5-10. If you weren't first picking divination some significant amount of the time then you were probably playing the format incorrectly.
Well I don't agree with the first at all but I don't disagree with the last half of the last sentence. Hence, "maybe I'm not the best person to answer that question."
I really hated M14 limited, except the one draft where I had double Silence, double Elite Arcanist, which was incredible amounts of fun.
The one M15 draft I've done was quite fun. It's probably not quite M14, but I'm not sure first-pick Divination will be *wrong*.
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
I did some Conspiracy with some friends earlier tonight and went super deep. It was a lot of fun: Here's the deck
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow