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1 year ago ::
Mar 17, 2012 - 8:30PM
#61
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2010
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How much mana do you need to wildfire one turn and then cast Frost Giant the next? The implication from that bit of the article is wildfire only hits opponents land so either you've protected your land or you have a ton of mana available, or it's badly written.
To be honest I sort of suspect I don't know how the deck works.
Playing it right after is possible, but unlikely. Playing it two turns after however, isn't out of the question. You figure that on turns 1-3 you can drop a single accelerator artifact. That will put you at 5 mana on turn 4, so you can annex or dream lash a land. Now this steals your opponents land, and gives it to youm giving you 6 mana at the start of turn 5. From here you can drop a land, and play either an Wildfire, killing 4 of your opponents, land, and leaving you with 3 mana producers. Against anything that's not zoo or burn, the game is pretty much over at this point. So many decks run heavy on the fetchlands that they will have a hard time drawing back into 4-5 lands before you can land a titan or another wildfire.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 18, 2012 - 8:44AM
#62
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Date Joined:
Nov 23, 2011
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At the beginning , i loved JVL's articles. It offered some fresh decks like that Mass Polymorph deck with Massacre Wurm and Terastodon and the Bloom Tender infinite combos. Then started the Transmuter articles ( too many of them in my opinion ). Then things like articles without a decklist like Fiend Hunting. I'm kind of tired right now. JVL we want to see weird combos (budget ones), stupid fast decks and really mindbreaking control decks. Not the same deck over and over again ( Transmuter this one is for you) or bad decks that go 1-2 or 1-3 at the local FNM's. Not all is bad though and i admit I thought that Ponder was modern legal. Modern is possibly the worst format right now, because of the bannings. Why ban Wild Nacatl and not ban Tarmogoyf?! Why ban Ponder and Preordain and not ban Gifts?! I will give an example of a great deck for Boab:
Just replace the mana base and the Swords and you have a relatively cheap deck ( not inside the Boab budget ) but fun to play with. Well, I wish JVL the best of luck and really hope to see a better deck than this one next week.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 18, 2012 - 11:18AM
#63
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Date Joined:
Aug 27, 2009
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In similar spirit of the above poster, I offer both a Modern legal and BoaB-spirited deck: Modern WarpCreatures (26)
4x Farhaven Elf4x Joraga Treespeaker4x Overgrown Battlement2x Sakura-Tribe Elder4x Wood Elves
2x Anarchist
1x Avenger of Zendikar
1x Bogardan Hellkite
2x Rampaging Baloths
1x Terastodon
1x Urabrask the Hidden
Enchantments (4)
4x Khalni Heart Expedition
Sorceries (4)
4x Warp World
Lands (26)
4x Evolving Wilds
4x Terramorphic Expanse
10x Forest
8x Mountain
As of this posting, it fits around a $30 budget and easily has room to improve for those willing to go beyond that.
Pretty sure I could churn out a whole old-school BoaB article on it if I weren't restraining myself, too.
Deck blog: http://alurenrecycle.blogspot.com/ http://gureiseion.tumblr.com/
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1 year ago ::
Mar 19, 2012 - 7:21AM
#64
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Date Joined:
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Why ban Wild Nacatl and not ban Tarmogoyf?! Why ban Ponder and Preordain and not ban Gifts?!
Because Tarmogoyf and Gifts weren't leading to decks winning consistantly on turn 3. Preventing decks from consistantly winning on turn 3 is their stated goal of the bannings for Modern.
Just replace the mana base and the Swords
With what? It's much harder to have a 3-color token deck without the best color fixers and creature-enhancers and remain anything like competitive.
srs rls mgr is srs
"If you're having defense problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 soldiers but they're just 1/1."
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1 year ago ::
Mar 19, 2012 - 10:27AM
#65
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To me, BoaB is not a column for the spikes. It has to carter to Timmy-Jhonny audiences. The deck HAS to be cool someway. It's not that it can be just winwinwin. Jacob seems restrained. All the past authors seemed happy and having fun building the deck, or showcasing some odd bulk rare. He appear struggling each week to come up with something. I like his as an author, I really do. I don't know if it's the theme, or just the methods, but could be better.
I agree with this.
However, I think the focus of BoaB has shifted to FNM-viability. It's hard to say whether that shift was initiated by JVL or suggested by WotC themselves.
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