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WotC_Monty

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This thread is for discussion of this week's From the Lab, which goes live Thursday on magicthegathering.com.

SuperSpeedy

Date Joined: Mar 10, 2004

Posts: 1,329

I still perfered House of Cards as a name...

DragonsWrath

Date Joined: Mar 19, 2007

Posts: 3,757

excessive use of screenshots and other large images:

Other than that: Ha, lots of rats. Needs more mar-gnar, if I do say so myself...

I prefer my life total to be of reasonable numbers, thank you very much.

My token count, however, is a totally different matter! :D

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Sir_Read-a-Lot

Date Joined: Apr 27, 2008

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chris millar]. It isn't a game of Magic if he doesn't need a calculator to track his life total.

So true.

My elf deck, with a playset of wellwisher s could be crazy, but my favorite lifegain match included a 100+/100+ hamletback goliath with spirt loop , a ajani goldmane token, almost 1000 life, and soon to get other token. My 1 mistake was saving my hamletback from a kill spell. I should have let it die and replayed spirit loop on my token. Expenental lifega wrote:

. It isn't a game of Magic if he doesn't need a calculator to track his life total.[/quote]
So true.

My elf deck, with a playset of wellwisher s could be crazy, but my favorite lifegain match included a 100+/100+ hamletback goliath with spirt loop , a ajani goldmane token, almost 1000 life, and soon to get other token. My 1 mistake was saving my hamletback from a kill spell. I should have let it die and replayed spirit loop on my token. Expenental lifegain ftw!

Amarsir

Date Joined: Oct 28, 2006

Posts: 2,732

SuperSpeedy wrote:
I still perfered House of Cards as a name...

I didn't notice at first, until I saw the abbreviation on this thread.

Now we get to say "Name changes FTL".

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Mountains

Date Joined: Jul 17, 2008

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Killing someone with Plague of Vermin makes me smile.

sporkmaster5000

Date Joined: Jan 28, 2004

Posts: 202

i'm kinda sad you're running a lifegain deck with green and white, hoping to win with plague of vermin, and still didn't see fit to go that extra unnecessary mile and run some

kind

of warden

This is the happy swamp. Love it.

I am red/blue, I think logically and act impulsively.

DragonsWrath

Date Joined: Mar 19, 2007

Posts: 3,757

Amarsir wrote:
I didn't notice at first, until I saw the abbreviation on this thread.

Now we get to say "Name changes FTL".

Needs changed to FzL; From ze Lab!

sporkmaster5000 wrote:
i'm kinda sad you're running a lifegain deck with green and white, hoping to win with plague of vermin, and still didn't see fit to go that extra unnecessary mile and run some kind of warden

Wait, they didn't!?! I must have just assumed it was there and looked at the other stuff.

What could possibly be better than getting 800 rat tokens, and gaining 24000 life BECAUSE of that!?! My Inner Timmy is weeping.

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Balerion

Date Joined: Nov 25, 2003

Posts: 145

I was going to say, for this final column, that I hope the next author actually builds and plays the decks he tosses out.

Then Chris goes and actually plays and wins with his last two decks. Crazy coincidence.

Thank you, Chris. I really doubted anyone could follow Gotlieb or JMS. You didn't, but at least you were fun to read. ;-)

awesomerandomdude

Date Joined: Apr 17, 2008

Posts: 52

I wanted a soul warden in the first deck. Yeah, awesome. FTL is definately not FTW.

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