Magic: The Gathering

[DrRuler]

Looks like Trap might get cut for Oracle and SGC.

What does your post M11 build look like if it doesn't have 2 cards that are almost statically in every post-M11 "Pure-Ramp-No-Rightning-Borts" build? Well oracles are usually only sideboarded, but I chose to main them as a test for next Friday.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Primeval Titan
2 Inferno Titan
2 Avenger of Zendikar

4 Khalni Heart Expedition
4 Rampant Growth
4 Cultivate
4 Summoning Trap
2 All Is Dust
4 Lightning Bolt

4 Evolving Wilds
2 Terramorphic Expanse
5 Forest
11 Mountain
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

SB

3 Pithing Needle
3 Back to Nature
3 Ricochet Trap
2 Obstinate Baloth
2 Combust
1 All Is Dust
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

Hardcasting Trap gets a Titan or Avenger a good 75% of the time. The downside is BBE not doing anything and paying 6 for a 3/2 Haste is crap. I'm testing on cutting either BBE or Trap for SGC/Oracle. I still feel bolts are needed in the deck. since there have been way too many times a Bolt in hand has saved my ass, either on early removal or for squeezing out the last 3 for a win.

Until U/W/x players smarten up the only hard matchups are RDW and Destructive Force.

[DrRuler]

Hardcasting Trap gets a Titan or Avenger a good 75% of the time. The downside is BBE not doing anything and paying 6 for a 3/2 Haste is crap. I'm testing on cutting either BBE or Trap for SGC/Oracle. I still feel bolts are needed in the deck. since there have been way too many times a Bolt in hand has saved my ass, either on early removal or for squeezing out the last 3 for a win.

Until U/W/x players smarten up the only hard matchups are RDW and Destructive Force.

My version currently:

3 Primeval Titan
3 Siege-Gang Commander
3 Avenger of Zendikar
2 Oracle of Mul Daya

4 Khalni Heart Expedition
4 Rampant Growth
4 Cultivate
4 Forked Bolt *Kills utility creatures or 2 damage to a player.
4 Explore
4 Harrow

3 Terramorphic Expanse
6 Forest
12 Mountain
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

SB
4 Chain Reaction *anti-aggro/weenie I personally like it more than All is Dust as I can do it before laying down my Titan or Avenger.
4 Grazing Gladehart *I've never really liked these, but I include them because they sorta help against RDW...
2 Goblin Ruinblaster
2 Lavaball Trap *can never decide which of the 2 I like better.
3 Acidic Slime *Natrulize on a stick, a decent stick.

I find with the big guns, you never need more than 3 due to the huge deck thinning this version of the deck has. I will ALWAYS see a Titan in this setup unless I have terrible shuffle luck.

EDIT: Am I the only one that finds it cool a Pyromancer's Ascension deck got second at the French Nationals? Fuck Jace, Gideon, Titans, Vengevine, or any other chase mythic, grab a $125 deck and go kick some ass.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

I would drop an Avenger for another Titan. Both rarely survive to the next turn but fetching either Valakuts or 6+ dmg beats a handful of 0/1-1/2s which either get Pulsed or DoJ

AIDs is best suited for clearing walkers and Sanctity. And I've had to cut Harrow because of Mana Leak. Gladehart/Baloth/Wurm are about the only good answers for RDW. And as much as I like Slime, paying 5 for a naturalizer 2/2 DT isn't fast enough. Back to Nature is 1G for everything at instant speed. Anything a 2/2 DT can do, an online Valakut can do better. Plus the deck already has enough dependence on GG that adding more kills on speed.

I dunno. I have to contend with 3-5 out of the top 10 for Oregon at events so I deal with a lot of T1 decks paired with T1 players

[gaimear]

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...0592690759.jpg

Grabbed off 4chan.... so probably fake.. right?

[Deftscythe]

Yes, it's fake. I mean, putting aside how dumb an idea adding another color would be, we know what the Scars expansion symbol looks like and that ain't it. Also, if they wanted to add a color to represent Eldrazi, why wouldn't they do it in the set named for them?

[oldoldman]

Disregarding entirely how broken that card is.

[oldoldman]

Sword of Body and Mind fills me with nostalgia though. I still have playsets of fire and ice and light and shadow.

[Arew]

Scrubbed out at Grand Prix: Columbus yesterday, ended up going 0-3 with Ichorid Dredge. Went 1-2 to the mirror first round, 1-2 to Zoo second, and 0-2 to CounterTop Thopter third. It was my first event that size, as I had just been going to random FNM's and prereleases, but I had a lot of fun and met some cool people, so all in all I think it was worth it.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

I ended in the last 4 of every FNM I went except 1 where I finished 4th, but I still go even though my deck barely changes.

Having a blast with ppl is where it's all at.

Quote from a dude last FNM:
"I tap 4, cast day of judgement. Uncle Tom and all his cousins just abandonned you"

I was like Bahhahahahah xDDDDD

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Before or after both of you had a Jace Beleren in play at the same time?

[SubzeroDiabolos]

That wasn't yesterday and my above post wasn't during one of my games it was someone else's.

[oldoldman]

Scrubbed out at Grand Prix: Columbus yesterday, ended up going 0-3 with Ichorid Dredge. Went 1-2 to the mirror first round, 1-2 to Zoo second, and 0-2 to CounterTop Thopter third. It was my first event that size, as I had just been going to random FNM's and prereleases, but I had a lot of fun and met some cool people, so all in all I think it was worth it.

Zoo is supposed to be a bye for Ichorid I thought?

[oldoldman]

Before or after both of you had a Jace Beleren in play at the same time?

You ladies need to settle this on the playmats.

[Weltall]

4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Primeval Titan
2 Inferno Titan
2 Avenger of Zendikar

4 Khalni Heart Expedition
4 Rampant Growth
4 Cultivate
4 Summoning Trap
2 All Is Dust
4 Lightning Bolt

4 Evolving Wilds
2 Terramorphic Expanse
5 Forest
11 Mountain
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

SB

3 Pithing Needle
3 Back to Nature
3 Ricochet Trap
2 Obstinate Baloth
2 Combust
1 All Is Dust
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

Hardcasting Trap gets a Titan or Avenger a good 75% of the time. The downside is BBE not doing anything and paying 6 for a 3/2 Haste is crap. I'm testing on cutting either BBE or Trap for SGC/Oracle. I still feel bolts are needed in the deck. since there have been way too many times a Bolt in hand has saved my ass, either on early removal or for squeezing out the last 3 for a win.

Until U/W/x players smarten up the only hard matchups are RDW and Destructive Force.

This list blows. You don't need:

All is Dust (Maindeck)
Sum Trap
Inferno Titan (Maindeck)

[Ghost_Wheel22]

I deal with enough aggro that MDing 2 is fine.
Summoning Trap serves for auto topdecking and winmores.
Inferno was more of a testing as a SGC replacement when a rotates out. Decent, but SGC is back in.

[Weltall]

Don't even know if I like Bloodbraid Elf. Mana Leak better?

[Tricen]

Bloodbraid is way too good to pass up. The only bad thing it hits is bolt, which isn't that bad.

[Weltall]

So you like the Elf version better than Destructive Force+Mana Leak version which just ends games?

We have playtested both, and the DF version is much better and has a better sideboard.

Edit -

This deck is much better, but the Frost Titan needs to be replaced (moron...)

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=644391

[Tricen]

That is a pretty interesting build, kind of tempted to play it if it weren't for the fact that primevil titans are expensive as fuck.