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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 4:01PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2008
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Building on a Budget, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 9:16PM
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I really like this week's deck. Probably because all im missing are the elementals, companions, nd garruks...
If I can get them for reasonable then this will definitely see some play from me
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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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 9:23PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 26, 2006
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Always nice to see some bashing with monogreen decks. Some points:
Seven overrun effects is way too much, especially with Garruk in the mix. Drawing two of them is bad and topdecking one when the opponent has just swept the board is awful. Cutting them to five seems OK, but why not playing Beastmaster ascencion as a overrun that sticks?
Maybe it is better for a midrange deck or the SB, but Mitotic Slime looks good here. Sending it to attack even if they have a blocker will leave them guessing if you have a overrun effect ready to exploit. Swinging after a Day of Judgment is obviously good too.
I'll probably trying a RG deck with Bloodbraid elf as another way of filling the board.
If Limited gets in the way of printing good Constructed cards...
Screw limited
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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 9:26PM
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Manamorphose Obviously. Manamorphose+overwhelming stampede =GG, and its a decent target for burn rather than a planeswalker
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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 9:32PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2010
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Manamorphose Obviously. Manamorphose+overwhelming stampede =GG, and its a decent target for burn rather than a planeswalker
I believe you meant Manaplasm...and yes, that would be a sweet play. I've always liked Manaplasm with Tower Above or Rafiq/Finest Hour, but an Overrun-styled deck seems really interesting and fun to me.
I would truly like to see more match reports though. Seriously, as many as possible. We see the God draw in game 1, but what is it like to fight through their best hand? Also, could we see a winnable scenario against U/W Control?
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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 9:47PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 25, 2010
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This deck is great, I'm making a version, removing the Kozilek's Predator  and Garruk Wildspeaker  and probably putting in Beastmaster Ascension  and some more Wolfbriar Elemental  s. On a side note, I really have just stopped being surprised at seeing planeswalkers in the BoaB column.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 10:05PM
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Date Joined:
May 16, 2004
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This deck is basically Monument Green without the Monuments. The red matchup becomes a lot better after sideboarding. You can bring in Obstinate Baloth  and Fog  against RDW as well as Jund. If you can't get Baloths, then Brindle Boar  or Grazing Gladehart  are both reasonable alternatives. U/W is super hard to beat with a deck like this. I run extra Wolfbriars in the side as well as some Naturalizes, Great Sable Stag  s, and Brittle Effigy  s. Pithing Needle might not be bad against them either.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein My H/W List
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3 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2010 - 10:57PM
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I made a deck kind of similar actually earlier on Tuesday, so it was kind of amusing to see this piece. I say it's similar in that it uses Garruk's Overrun ability along with the real deal.
I don't have any of the new Overwelming Stampede yet.
And, well, I went more heavy with the Eldrazi Tokens and included the Hand of Emrakul  for the fun of it. There's also a sub-theme with Mitotic Slime  and Jinxed Idol  but I may have to pull that out and put more "answer" to "competitive level" decks rather than just have my silly fun.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2010 - 12:42AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 14, 2006
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river boa  will help immensely against a deck that has islands and plays day of judgment  with martial coup  . Get your games in with the deck now though. The loss of overrun  is huge in.... I want to say a month but I'm not 100% certain what day scars of mirrodin is released.
Don't be too smart to have fun
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3 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2010 - 2:40AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 15, 2007
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This is very similar to a deck I run except that I have Gaea's Revenge  in the deck for post wrath effects (although this may fail through lack of budget for this coloum). I also run BOP's rather than Arbor Elves simply because of the flying evasion.
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