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1 year ago ::
Feb 07, 2012 - 4:54PM
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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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1 year ago ::
Feb 07, 2012 - 9:21PM
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where's the hydra from rize of the eldrazi with eight green mana symbols?
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1 year ago ::
Feb 07, 2012 - 9:25PM
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Yeah. That hydra would almost always be free in this deck.
Yo Modern, I heard you like Tarmogoyf (plays free 8/8 trample, giving Primalcrux +8/+8)
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1 year ago ::
Feb 07, 2012 - 9:34PM
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Feels to me like Leatherback Baloth and/or Dungrove Elder would be better fits than the current three-drops. 4/5>3/3 w/haste, at least to me.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 07, 2012 - 9:52PM
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nice seeing the deck win in unsideboarded game 1's...why not at least the whole match? Or is subpar commentating on SCG Open's with Gerard 'I can't pronounce a card name right to save my life' Fabiano really taking up that much of your time?
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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1 year ago ::
Feb 07, 2012 - 10:42PM
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Wherever Khalni Hydra  is, there's probably a reason why it wasn't mentioned. Anyways, Primalcrux  is a cool card, and decks based around it are cool.
Known as Blitzer on most forums.
Despite the username, I am male. Both sex AND gender.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 07, 2012 - 11:01PM
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Having no Khalni Hydra is a miss I think, but nonetheless a very interesting Modern deck here. I might actually try this out to see how Modern PTQ's look like from the inside, rather than from forum coverage. Btw, I disagree with the above poster that says Leatherback Baloth  is better here than Boggart Ram-Gang  ; Suppose they are played on turn 3; it takes until turn 6 (!) before the baloth has dealt more damage than the Ram-gang! The early pressure of a 3/3 haste seems absolutely worth it to me.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 08, 2012 - 12:30AM
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Having no Khalni Hydra is a miss I think, but nonetheless a very interesting Modern deck here. I might actually try this out to see how Modern PTQ's look like from the inside, rather than from forum coverage.
Btw, I disagree with the above poster that says Leatherback Baloth is better here than Boggart Ram-Gang ; Suppose they are played on turn 3; it takes until turn 6 (!) before the baloth has dealt more damage than the Ram-gang! The early pressure of a 3/3 haste seems absolutely worth it to me.
I agree, but i think wither on the 3/3 makes it over the top
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1 year ago ::
Feb 08, 2012 - 4:34AM
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Good deck. Monogreen aggro: the most basic archetype of all, but it hasn't survived in the metagame, but recent cards may change that. Sounds like lots of fun. Speaking of removal that green lacked until recently, how Beast Within  or Bramblecrush  could go in the sideboard if someone doesn't have cards that are now in there. I agree that Khalni Hydra looks like it would be good here, but what would you take out for it? The deck needs its mana acceleration and removal. The hydra wouldn't be free on the very early turns of the game, so you wouldn't want to replace Boggart Ram-Gang or Strangleroot Geist  . And Cloudthresher  and Deus of Calamity  have utility that the Hydra doesn't. I'd put the Hydra in if I happened to have a few copies and couldn't find some of the fatties in this version of the deck, but it doesn't have much to offer this version. Also, I like that Melira-persist combo deck. Made me think about undying. The only remotely possible options are Flayer of the Hatebound  , Geralf's Mindcrusher  and Geralf's Messenger  , and anything that Mikaus the Unhallowed  gives undying to, and all of them make the combo a lot more unwieldy than the Modern version. Still though, that might appear in Standard...
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1 year ago ::
Feb 08, 2012 - 6:14AM
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Jul 26, 2011
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Am I the only one noticing the inherent weakness of this deck to DOJ/Wrath? He has no counter to it, even the hideaway has to have 10+ power on the field to work. If someone does wrath, it's game over.
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