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1 year ago ::
Nov 25, 2011 - 5:00PM
#231
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Date Joined:
Jun 22, 2011
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Took a RDW to FNM tonight: Creatures (19)4x Stromkirk Noble  4x Reckless Waif  2x Grim Lavamancer  4x Stormblood Berserker  3x Chandra's Phoenix  2x Hero of Oxid Ridge  Sorceries (4)4x Arc Trail  Instants (9)3x Incinerate  3x Brimstone Volley  3x Volt Charge  Planeswalker (2)2x Koth of the Hammer  Artifacts (4)4x Shrine of Burning Rage  Lands (22)22x Mountain  Bitterly, bitterly disappointing. Lost 3 rounds, and got a Bye. Round 1: Blue (splash of Red) Delver Illusions (1-2)Got heavily controlled and saw too many Lord of the Unreal  , copied by Phantasmal Image  to burn them down before I died. Round 2: Green Dungrove / Primeval Titan (1-2)
Pretty much every game saw a turn 2 Dungrove Elder  . Managed to burn past them in game 2, but game 3 was a turn 2 Dungrove, a turn 3 Dungrove, a turn 4 Thrun, a turn 5 Titan, a turn 6 Titan. Round 3: Blue Delver Illusions (1-2)
Just my luck - different guy, similar deck. Again, pretty balanced 1-1 followed by a game 3 where I'm sitting with 7 lands out and 3 in my hand. A lot of bad luck, and a lot of mana screw. But Grim Lavamancer has lost all favour in my eyes. He's almost never been of any use to me, so I'm definitely going to replace him with either Goblin Fireslinger  or (less likely) Spikeshot Elder  . Hopefully bad luck was the main issue tonight - typically the deck was strong between rounds and won every single friendly I played. We'll have to see...
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1 year ago ::
Nov 25, 2011 - 5:05PM
#232
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Date Joined:
Sep 25, 2011
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Keep the Grim Lavamancers.
Cut the Reckless Waifs for Goblin Fireslinger.
Also, where's the galvanic blasts and gut shots?
You don't want Waifs because you want to be playing a lot of spells and you want your deck to be fast and not dependent on flipping.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 25, 2011 - 7:37PM
#233
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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Keep the Grim Lavamancers.
Cut the Reckless Waifs for Goblin Fireslinger.
Also, where's the galvanic blasts and gut shots?
You don't want Waifs because you want to be playing a lot of spells and you want your deck to be fast and not dependent on flipping.
Grim Lavamancer is worse than Reckless Waifs.
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 6:28AM
#234
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Date Joined:
Sep 25, 2011
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How so?
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 6:36AM
#235
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Date Joined:
Dec 17, 2010
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I would assume because Grim Lavamancer has a chance to be useful late game, but early game its not likely to do much of anything. Where as Reckless Waif has a chance to be useful early game, but late game will be pretty much useless. In most cases for a deck like RDW, a chance to be useful early on is better then a chance to be useful in the late game.
"I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God."
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 12:13PM
#236
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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Getting stuff in the grave to fuel Lavamancer is much, much harder now. That makes Lavamancer pretty much only useful late game, and even there he's frail. In most games, he's a situational shock.
Waif is incredibly powerful on Turn 1 on the play, against Control, and late game (because the opponent has few spells so its easy for either of you to flip it.) Basically, the only time waif is bad is in the midgame, but grim Lavamancer is not that much better in the midgame, which is defined more by phoenix and shrine.
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 12:41PM
#237
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Date Joined:
Sep 25, 2011
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Getting stuff in the grave to fuel Lavamancer is much, much harder now. That makes Lavamancer pretty much only useful late game, and even there he's frail. In most games, he's a situational shock. Waif is incredibly powerful on Turn 1 on the play, against Control, and late game (because the opponent has few spells so its easy for either of you to flip it.) Basically, the only time waif is bad is in the midgame, but grim Lavamancer is not that much better in the midgame, which is defined more by phoenix and shrine.
"the build is all about reach, its not about attacking your creatures into theirs too many creatures in the format"
This is directly from David Caplan as I just asked him on Facebook.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 1:36PM
#238
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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That's why Fireslingers are good. Lavamancer is too hard to fuel without running burn.dec, which tends to be bad because burn is inherently less efficient than creatures at converting mana into damage.
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 1:40PM
#239
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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That said, I'd not have run waifs in his list anyway, because he was much more likely to play multiple spells in one turn.
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 10:16PM
#240
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Date Joined:
Dec 17, 2005
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I'm just starting to get back into Magic the Gathering Online, I wound up purchasing a complete set of M12 and Innistrad commons & uncommons to jumpstart my collection. Looking over the cards I have acquired, I settled on a RDW-style deck (since I don't have the lands to really support multi-colored decks). I fell in love with the Goblin Grenade art, so I used that as the starting point for my deck. Obviously this isn't a tier 1 version of the RDW deck but its my starting point. As I slowly grow my collection, I plan on swapping out the Gorehorn Minotaurs (though they have proved quite potent) and adding in a playset of Goblin Chief  . I also want to add in a playset of Shrine of Burning Rage ASAP. Right now I'd like to keep this deck Budget friendly, any help you can offer would be appreciated. Creatures 3x Goblin Tunneler  4x Goblin Arsonist  4x Goblin Piker  1x Goblin Wardriver  4x Goblin Fireslinger 3x Gorehorn Minotaurs  Sorceries 4x Goblin Grenade  1x Arc Trail Enchantments4x Goblin War Paint  2x Furor of the Bitten  Instants 4x Incinerate 4x Shock  4x Geistflame  Lands 19x Mountain
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