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3 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2010 - 6:21PM
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Date Joined:
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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 ::
Oct 05, 2010 - 9:39PM
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Decks
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Completed:
 High Tide
   Naya Slide
Sligh
Testing: Banners
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3 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2010 - 9:42PM
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Date Joined:
May 29, 2009
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I have to say I'm tempted to splash blue for trinket mage  with the number of one cost artifacts in this deck.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2010 - 9:52PM
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I will not lie, I am tempted to take a version of this deck to States this weekend....just a few Armament Master and Kor Sanctifiers in the sideboard
I really do see people running this deck in standard
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3 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2010 - 11:46PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 24, 2010
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I think at least one, but probably 2 not all too expensive equipments are missing: Strata Scythe and Sword of Vengeance. Both aren't hard to trade for. Strata Scythe is a decent addition to Argentum Armor in giving a lot of P/T boost. Sword of Vengeance... Well, it gives Haste, Trample, first strike and not to forget: Vigilance. It makes any creature draw a decent treat in the late game, as opposed to any of the other equipments, for which you'll have to wait a turn to make use of it.
If I had traded for the Stoneforge Mystics recently, I would probably play a deck like this at FNM until Koth.dec is finished.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 06, 2010 - 2:11AM
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Pretty cool. Hope it gets famous.
Then again...if Chapin's playing it...
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3 years ago ::
Oct 06, 2010 - 2:50AM
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So, having zero cost creatures is a bad thing in an aggressive deck? Memnite already has one power, making it a bit better than Ornithopter. Combined with Tempered Steel or Steel Overseer, and they can be very powerful.
I understand that in today's deck you would want to hold them back until you have a Quest for the Holy Relic. But in any other deck, they can be played the first turn along with whatever one cost card you happen to have.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 06, 2010 - 3:33AM
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Mar 27, 2008
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"Cards like Baneslayer Angel, Titans, and Jace, the Mind Sculptor are so powerful that it seems unreasonable to assume that every person will play some number of cards that you actually want to target with Disenchant effects." and "These days, you can play almost anything and have it be competitive. Constructed Magic is in a really awesome place right now." in the same paragraph?
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3 years ago ::
Oct 06, 2010 - 5:22AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 10, 2009
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Kind of meh to read the first paragraph and know the article is about a deck that's been popular for two weeks already and was featured in the Arcana last week sometime. I guess it's alright under the assumption that not everyone that plays MtG visits other sites but it was disappointing to me.
By the tagline I was hoping he was going to make a new Conscription build lol.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 06, 2010 - 6:51AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 16, 2009
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I got into magic a few years ago, a large part of it was reading fun decks from Ben Bleiweiss. This is my first post on here because sitting those decks side by side makes me a little annoyed.
For the last few months I have been betting with some friends on what the next few decks will be in this artical based on reading starcity games suggested deck lists. Just picking out the cheaper to build decks means we guess most of the decks weeks in advance; not surprisingly including this one.
I feel like this column needs a major revamp its just rehashing decks other people have writen about. There is no real insight or injection of fun added.
Remember when Ben made the Planar chaos dragons cycle of articals? Now that was a lot of fun. Just aiming to be a poor persons tournament deck artical is a waste of time
-It is not done as well as people writing about the full tournament picture.
-It reduces the area of things to write about which Ben made full use of.
-Decks are not costed so the budget impact is just missing. That deck could easily have included other options still in a budget like say sword of body and mind for people upping the cost.
Its ashame the writer cannot see the fun in decks not designed for tournament play. Decks that are terrible at tournament level just get a gauntlet of its 3 best matches and its all good.
This entire artical structure and writers approach feel like a bit of an insult to readers. This reads as a 10 minute rush job to make a quick buck with little care about the quality of artical.
Anyway thats how I feel I might be in the minority but throwing my two cents in.
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