Correct me if i'm mistaken, but I don't believe the Booby Trap + Master Transmuter works. One of the rules for Booby Trap says:
The "if you do" part is only done if you successfully sacrifice this card. In other words, it has to be on the battlefield when the trigger resolves or it does not deal damage.
^found that in Gatherer
If I am wrong could someone please explain how it works?
Correct me if i'm mistaken, but I don't believe the Booby Trap + Master Transmuter works. One of the rules for Booby Trap says:
The "if you do" part is only done if you successfully sacrifice this card. In other words, it has to be on the battlefield when the trigger resolves or it does not deal damage.
^found that in Gatherer
If I am wrong could someone please explain how it works?
The goal is just to get the trap in play during the upkeep so as to minimize your oppoents chance to respond I guess. You, say, use Mishra's Bauble to peek at the top card, then, on your opponent's upkeep you use your transmuter's ability to get your trap in play before their draw step, naming the card you know is on top. You are right, however, that if the intended goal was to bounce it back with the damage trigger on the stack, then it would not work, but I do not think that was the intention.
/sigh From the article: "As the duo wrote, 'The deck works around discovering the top card of your opponent's library as efficiently as possible, using Master Transmuter to bounce in the Booby Trap during your opponent's upkeep before they draw a card, and then blasting them for 10 damage!'" (emphasis added).
The Booby Trap is intended to go off. The Master Transmuter just gets it in efficiently and at the opportune time. The pertinence of that to the article was the following modification(s) to the decklist for milling w/ the Jester's Scepter .
Nice article. The Circu deck was really nice. But you could have given us one more deck. And I'm building my version of the Transmuter + Scepter right now. Focusing on a full Mill build.
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
what about alter of dimentia? single greatest mill card ever! especially with reigns of power, or life line or any big green deck... yeah, a green mill deck. one of may favs is to snakebasket for liek a billion cuz of my elves, then overrun so they are all 4/4s then sac them all to deck my opponents. in a multi player you can attack w. them too.
