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4 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2009 - 12:18PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Building on a Budget Article, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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4 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2009 - 2:38PM
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It must be a very small article.
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4 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2009 - 6:36PM
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It must be a very small article.
At the very least it's a meek one, eh?
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4 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2009 - 9:34PM
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This match-up should be a extremely easy.
May all our match-ups be extremely easies.
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4 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2009 - 9:46PM
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nice article, now if only the path to exile's did not account for over half of the decks price. those things are obscene even online running roughly 9 dollars for a whole playset.
I like fun, but competitive decks. So I might not play what is optimal but they have normally been tested to have a 2/3 winrate.
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4 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2009 - 10:26PM
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I thought all it would take to make this article a 10/10 was the match-ups, but actualy reporting from a tourney will be even better! I really appreciated that he's going through what his logic on the meta is, and what he would sideboard in/out and why. Thanks JVL! p.s. and I fully agree, wish I could get some path's on the cheap for my archive trap deck! I think I only own 1 path, and 3 archive traps, having opened similar numbers of conflux and zendikar.
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4 years ago ::
Nov 11, 2009 - 1:27AM
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If I know the deck, overall the norm is to not play proclamation mainboard. It's a dead card early on, and Emeria the Sky Ruin can take its place pretty easily. Although Emeria may require those expensive ravnica lands to run more smoothly; however since there are only two colors here, I'm sure the deck can function by replacing the 2 Proclamations for 2 Emerias and switchin the Adarkar Wastes for some Terramorphic Expanses. It's notable that in 3/4 matchups listed, the 2 proclamations are being boarded out anyawy.
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4 years ago ::
Nov 11, 2009 - 1:55AM
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this deck should run artifact lands if it's not using emeria. even if it is then islands should be blue artifact lands.
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4 years ago ::
Nov 11, 2009 - 2:56AM
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nice article, now if only the path to exile's did not account for over half of the decks price. those things are obscene even online running roughly 9 dollars for a whole playset.
I only picked up 2 out of Conflux because I was really expecting them to be reprinted in M10. That'll learn me!
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4 years ago ::
Nov 11, 2009 - 3:05AM
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If I know the deck, overall the norm is to not play proclamation mainboard. It's a dead card early on, and Emeria the Sky Ruin can take its place pretty easily. Although Emeria may require those expensive ravnica lands to run more smoothly; however since there are only two colors here, I'm sure the deck can function by replacing the 2 Proclamations for 2 Emerias and switchin the Adarkar Wastes for some Terramorphic Expanses. It's notable that in 3/4 matchups listed, the 2 proclamations are being boarded out anyawy.
it's not really a dead card if you're popping your Martyrs. every white card in hand helps, especially since in his build he is running quite a bit of blue.
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