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1 year ago ::
Mar 20, 2012 - 4:20PM
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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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1 year ago ::
Mar 20, 2012 - 9:33PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2005
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I suppose this deck is fine on a level... but it's rather a weak use for Grand Architect. The strength of the card isn't the Anthem ability, but how well it plays with artifacts, and there are just not enough artifacts to matter in this deck. You could replace Grand Architect with Silver-inlaid dagger  and i doubt it would impact it's performance. I just would rather not waste the Architect's potential by placing it in a Pike Delver Shell, that's all. Pike Delver does just fine without it.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 20, 2012 - 9:50PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 14, 2009
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I think it looks to be pretty awesome. Looks like a good way to get those swords through counter Magic or to leave counter Magic up. I'll think about sleeving something like it up in the future for FNM. Looks to be fun and a cool twist on traditional Delver lists.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 20, 2012 - 9:53PM
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Apr 23, 2006
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At least Ponder is legal in the format this time. oh snap 
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1 year ago ::
Mar 20, 2012 - 10:08PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 19, 2005
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Y U no video, JVL....
They should really start enforcing MtGO video recording of the playtests in each deckbuilding column. Pratically all the main websites do it, why can't the mothership get back on the train too?
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1 year ago ::
Mar 20, 2012 - 10:33PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 25, 2006
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Y U no video, JVL....
They should really start enforcing MtGO video recording of the playtests in each deckbuilding column. Pratically all the main websites do it, why can't the mothership get back on the train too?
Well, he was playing against people in his shop. I don't know if he should be forced to play online instead of paper magic just so we can see recordings of his games.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 21, 2012 - 12:00AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 25, 2010
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Very similar to the list I played at FNM, if I'da had Wurmcoil Engine  I'm pretty sure I'd have won it all.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 21, 2012 - 1:37AM
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i think adding Steel Hellkite is nice, its cheap and with the architect it can come down early.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 21, 2012 - 3:30AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 31, 2011
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I played this deck last FNM with Erbrus, got out Erbrus on turn 3 swinging and transformed by turn 4, with the swapouts of the Snapcasters makes it pretty fun.
Main Deck
60 cards
2 Buried Ruin
18 Island
20 lands
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Grand Architect
4 Invisible Stalker
3 Snapcaster Mage
15 creatures
1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade
1 Dismember
1 Dissipate
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Mana Leak
1 Negate
4 Ponder
4 Runechanter's Pike
3 Thought Scour
4 Vapor Snag
25 other spells
2 Divination
3 Phantasmal Image
1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade
4 Flashfreeze
2 Gitaxian Probe
2 Think Twice
1 Dismember
15 Sideboard
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1 year ago ::
Mar 21, 2012 - 4:25AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 10, 2009
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This just seems like downgraded Delver deck. Nakamura played something similar to this at GP: Orlando without the budget restriction and I think he top 32ed, but I can't see why you would jam with this if R/G aggro and reanimator decks are both bad matchups. What's its strong matchup? It's not the virtual mirror since a non-budget delver deck would beat you on card quality and I doubt UB or Planeswalker control cares much about Spined Thopter beatdowns.
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