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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 5:59AM
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Yep, to echo other sentiments (or be pathetic fanboy, depending on your point of view), stormer, I was loving it well before the meme, and it just maintained that level of relevance and entertainment that have been two of the growing strengths of your writing ever since I've had the pleasure of reading it. Well played sir, well played indeed.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 6:06AM
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Nice Article! I'm really eager for a more in depth article about how to build a good sideboard.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 8:28AM
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I enjoyed the article and I'm looking forward to reading the column in the future.
Helvault? Meh.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 8:40AM
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Aug 10, 2011
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 9:01AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2012
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UR Creature StealLands 6 Island  4 Evolving Wilds  1 Hinterland Harbor  2 Rootbound Crag  6 Mountain  4 Sulfur Falls  Creatures 4 Delver of Secrets  4 Grim Lavamancer  4 Snapcaster Mage  Spells 2 Traitorous Blood  3 Helvault  4 Act of Treason  4 Gut Shot  4 Ponder  2 Fling  4 Mana Leak  2 Faithless Looting  Sideboard 3 Phantasmal Image  3 Ratchet Bomb  1 Forest  3 Ancient Grudge  3 Flashfreeze  2 Arc Trail  Performed well against creature based strategies, zombies, creature ramp, etc. Performed badly against tokens (Sideboard Ratchet Bombs) and beefy planeswalkers (Gideon Jura) when unaccompanied by creatures. Sometimes lacks a way to finish the game after gaining control. Quite good against Wolf-Run and zombies, the currently trending top decks. Unfortunately performs poorly against the third top deck, humans/tokens. Snapcaster is the only difficult to acquire card. I really like the 2 Faithless Lootings for when you get a second Helvault or too many lands in hand. Desparate Ravings might fit the slot, but I don't like the randomness of the discard that much. 4 Gut Shots might not be necessary and I wasn't too sure about the land base in that the amount of green sources might be too much for the Ancient Grudge sideboard splash. Possibility of going three colours?
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 9:37AM
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You had me at Allons-y!
Seriously, I think this is a great article and starts with the basics. Not all of us have been playing for years, and I for one need to hear this stuff. Looking forward to more columns.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 9:41AM
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Date Joined:
Feb 28, 2012
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I have always liked reading the different columns on Daily MTG, because although I've gotten the grasp of the mechanics on how to play MTG (ex: tap mana, cast spell), it's been a long road getting the nuance of if/when to cast spells, how to focus in a deck, and mana:spell distribution. If I paid attention, I would get some interesting ideas that I would never have thought of on my own from column to column.
This column is exactly what someone like me needs. I have come a long way from opening and using my deckbuilder toolbox and showing up confidently (and Oh so naively) to FNM, to where I am today. I no longer put together colors and spells I like for the sake of liking them. Although I've been playing for about 1.5 years, It's been strictly on my own, getting beating after beating at FNM, as that's only place I have to play and learn. I'm glad Wizards has decided to help out us poor wandering planeswalkers who could use more focus. Oh look, shiney foiled card!
I lookf forward to providing a decklist and hopefully getting help.
Awesome intro column, love the sense of humor, and appreciated the archeypte and X card number break-down!
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 10:43AM
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MY copy deck undying evil to copy thing but give me and edge. counter magic. use evil twin to destroy enemy copies i put helvault in because i can use it to take my opponent scripture away after copying them. i would like the deck a bit more budget friendly and hope that you can change for the better. also a bit new to mtg tourneys so hoping to take this deck to an fnm tourney thanks!
Instant (12)
3x Mana Leak
1x Redirect
1x Cackling Counterpart
2x Lost in the Mist
2x Bone to Ash
3x Undying Evil
Land (26)
19x Island
5x Swamp
2x Nephalia Drownyard
Sorcery (2)
2x Diabolic Tutor
Artifact (2)
1x Mimic Vat
1x Helvault
Creature (20)
1x Frost Titan
3x Quicksilver Gargantuan
2x Consecrated Sphinx
4x Cryptoplasm
4x Phyrexian Metamorph
4x Phantasmal Image
2x Evil Twin
Sideboard
4x Forest
2x Deathmark
2x Flashfreeze
2x Distress
2x Naturalize
2x Surgical Extraction
4x Dismember
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 10:55AM
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Date Joined:
May 26, 2010
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Welcome :-)
So you want a deck around a card i've never seen/played? Challenge accepted :-)
I like the Golem-Tribe and by including Helvault there should be the possibility of overwhelming the opponent.
The deck is not for winning big tournaments, but it should win one or another FNM-Match, or at least a kitchen-table-round :-)
I haven't played it cause i'm still in from work, read your article and let my brain do the work ^^ However, some sort of funny tribal-deck.
UW Midrange-Golem
Lands (24)
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Seachrome Coast
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Evolving Wilds
8 Plains
3 Island
Creatures (16)
4 Blade Splicer
4 Master Splicer
4 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Precursor Golem
Spells (16)
4 Mana Leak
4 Ponder
4 Day of Judgment
2 Helvault
2 Timely Reinforcements
Planeswalker (4)
2 Elspeth Tirel
2 Gideon Jura
Sideboard
2 Dissipate
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Celestial Purge
2 Dismember
2 Divine Offering
2 Negate
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2 Timely Reinforcements
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1 year ago ::
Mar 27, 2012 - 10:57AM
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Aug 20, 2007
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I eff-ing love Helvault. So much. Here is the deck I built around it after it came out: Blue Helvault Standard Lands Islands x16 Phyrexia’s Core x3 Buried Ruin x3 Creatures Invisible Stalker x3 Grand Architect x4 Kuldotha Forgemaster x2 Perilous Myr x4 Wurmcoil Engine x1 Spells Manna Leaks x4 Stoic Rebuttal x4 Ponder x4 Artifacts World Slayer x1 Piston Sledge x2 Spine of Ish Sah x1 Helvault x4 Ichor Wellspring x4 Sideboard Shape Anew x2 Phyrexian Metamorph x3 Steel Sabotage x2 Dungeon Geists x2 Ghost Quarter x2 Grafdigger’s Cage x2 Caged Sun x1 Surgical Extraction x1
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