The Gaming Den

Shadoverse Burn in general isn't that awe inspiring but Bloodcraft get's Razory Claw which is 2 mana for 3 to any target. Imp lancer and Blood Wolf can also be seen a psudo burn spells in that they come down and then can immediately go face. Along with generic cards like Demonic Strike and Dance wit...

Likewise I'm 628600098, I think I'll brew us some budget decks for the people with less tuned lists to practice against.

You play Aggro Blood like Sligh/Red Deck Wins. Play a bunch of folowers and go face and then finish theme of with burn. The list I run is 3x Ambling Wraith 3x Crusebrand Vampire 3x Blood Wolf 3x Vania Vampire Princess 3x Yurius, Levin Duke 3x Goblin Mage 3x Veight, Vampire Noble 1x Wind God 3x Imp L...

So I got all the cards to the competitive build of D-Shift a couple days ago and it's been great. I think it might be the thing to fill the hole in my life left by the lack of viability of storm in modern. There's something wonderful about playing a deck that's 40% cantrips by weight. They way your ...

hogarth wrote: Every time I look at the 10 minute casting time, it boggles my mind that someone thought that was a good idea.

I think the 3.0 version had no range limit and it was another casualty of the 3.5 pointlessly fucking with shit.

Mark another one down for the elven tights train. I signed up around Friday and it's been pretty cool. It might even replace Magic online as what I do with my life. As the Shrike said Forestcraft feels very good to play especially coming into it as a long time storm player. But unlike a MtG storm de...

Seriously? Shouldn't "somehow find up and cast five specific cards" be enough of a hurdle on it's own. Like fuck Yu-gi-oh let's you pop off if you have the five Exodia pieces in your hand with no fuss.

I'm not the person who coined those terms , but they seem to draw a distinction between old-style control decks that played 2-4 cards like Rainbow Efreet, Hammer of Bogardon, or Firemane Angel as a concession to them having to win somehow as opposed to decks like Jushi Blue or Solar Flare that ran 5...

I don't think Midrange-Control is a thing. Like, at all. I don't trust any chart that puts Mid-range control as a co-equal spot on the meta, because it's not a separate entity. ... Aggro-Control is of course a thing, but people usually call it "Tempo" these days. "Hybrid Control"...

I'm not sold on ever color needing a dedicated aggro deck and especially not sold on milling or fucking poison as said aggro decks. Colors need to occupy more than one space on the meta wheel but by no means must the occupy all spaces. http://s3.gatheringmagic.com/uploads/2012/04/09/CC_1.jpg For ins...

Ultimately it is a problem when one of the factions is "Time and Space" (which is "everything that actually exists") and another faction is "Mind" (which is a thing that doesn't actually exist). You get the Mage: the Ascension problem where it's trivial to justify new ...

The problem with many such color-wheel systems is that they end up with a team that is Blue/Sorcery - team game mechanics! - which is conceptually overpowered, even if you manage to hammer them down to the point that team "is a big guy" is comparable to team "is able to manipulate ti...

The reason I brought this up was I was kicking around a sort of alternate color wheel. Something like. Void (Red) the color of decay and destruction. Void gets the highest density of straight up destruction effects, under-costed creatures with drawbacks, discard and effects that trade one resource f...

There are a vast number of MtG knockoff games out in the just rip off MtGs WUBRG color wheel verbatim. This boggles my mind because WUBRG isn't nearly that good. White is strategically schizophrenic. Blue does way to damn much and monopolizes on aspects of the game that should public domain. Black a...

And U/R Modern decks just got another card banned, fucking seriously wizards. If the format is too fast hit something like Become immense or Temur Battle Rage and not randomly kick a bunch of tier 2 decks in the dick.

If I had any doubts that combo is going to happen they have been dispelled.

Well if nothing else I salute wizards for bring the best archatype back to standard. Frank did miss an important one though. https://mythicspoiler.com/kld/cards/saheelirai2.jpg http://mythicspoiler.com/aer/cards/felidarguardian.jpg Saheeli makes a copy of the cat and then the cat's etb ability reset...

Whelp let's keep this show rolling Black https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/10/80/c1/1080c1040c570c915597542ea72f6921.jpg Ravnica has some problems with Urban Decay Black is probably second to White in terms of pieces that don't necessarily come together. Black kills things, discards thi...

Glare is nearly Opposition, which is in turn insanely broken. Obviously you can rush the field before it happens, you can burn them out, and you can sweep the field. But a pile of mid range creatures just can't do anything at all against something like that. Opposition is an entirely different sort...

I've been playing a lot of magic lately so you know what let's actually go card by card the way Frank and AH did for Ice age. White (and Selesnya) http://static4.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/6342/1570400-ravnica_plains_2604044.jpg While often beautiful ranvic's basic land art often took some the...

Is there a good sideboard card to shut down energy-dependent decks? I dunno lol Ceremonious Rejection maybe? Most of the big payoff for energy runs through artifacts. But yeah this standard has that dumb "threats are better than answers" paradigm I talked about in my TCG design principals...

Yeah Lago is a deluded idiot. The white working class is never going to "awaken to it's economic interest" That is not a thing that's ever going to happen. The "white working class" is a basket of fucking deplorables who care more about having their boot on someones face then bei...

FrankTrollman wrote:You know what Lovecraft Mythos story is all about the Mythos connections of Eastern Africa? Medusa's Coil. Wonder why they don't mention that one

That's the one where the big horror reveal is that some woman is part African isn't it?

erik wrote:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/15/486177667 ... -something

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