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1 year ago ::
Mar 28, 2012 - 4:28PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2008
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This thread is for discussion of this week's From the Lab article, which goes live Thursday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 29, 2012 - 2:29AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 25, 2005
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The first deck seems like it could be done much more easily with either Conspiracy  or Essence of the Wild  .
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1 year ago ::
Mar 29, 2012 - 3:18AM
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- Warm, wet and squishy inside
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The last deck looks like a pretty standard black/white control deck with a goofy combo shoehorned into it. The combo isn't really essential to the deck, it's just a round-about win condition once you have control.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 29, 2012 - 11:33AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 19, 2010
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The decks were a lot of fun this week. Well...okay I wasn't too entranced by the Seance deck, but that's still 3 out of 4.
Going '8' tipping is fun sometimes and Angelfish does it with an awesome angel so I'm liking that.
The Seance deck is just...I mean making oodles of tokens is cool and all, but the only thing that saves it from being a complete bore in my book are the extra little 1-ofs you threw in at the end. Otherwise it's just: Cast spell; swing. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, it just doesn't do it for me. Or it could just be that I'm tired of seeing soldiers...
The knowldedge pool deck is a real hoot to build. But I tell you what, I'll bet it won't be the mana tithe that has your opponent punching you...
The Lightshift deck is fun mostly because massive lifegain is somewhat difficult to get it to work. Dragon_Bloodthirsty is right in that it does look a lot like a B/W control deck with a wacky combo. But I'm okay with that. It's the wacky combo that you selected for this particular B/W control deck that makes the whole thing interesting. The control package is just there to make sure you survive to get to 10+ mana.
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** From Mark Rosewater's Tumblr: the0uroboros asked: How in the same set can we have a hexproof, unsacrificable(not a word) creature AND a land that makes it uncounterable. How does this lead to interactive play? I believe I’m able to play my creature and you have to deal with it is much more interactive than you counter my creature. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Post #777
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1 year ago ::
Mar 29, 2012 - 5:58PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 31, 2003
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I actually liked the idea of the Seance  deck. The Angelfish Blast deck combo seemed excessive. There are many other ways to get around the creature's type issue. The Cursecraft deck is a very entertaining way of using Knowledge Pool  . By entertaining, I mean to play, not to play against. And the LightShift deck felt political. Archangel's Light  is getting bashed, and they want to try and soften the critisism. As mentioned, this deck is the combo tossed into a rather mundane control shell. Having said that, the article was a good read and all the decks look fun to run a few matches with. And back to the Seance deck. After rereading the card, I am greatly surprised, confused, and disappointed haste wasn't given to the creature. Oh, how badly I wanted to put Hero of Bladehold  into this deck. To jump off with this idea, I decided to walk a little deeper into the forest. I axed all the singletons from my quick build. Not because they aren't good, but because they were often extras and fillers. With the deck's already high CC, anything to slim that down helped. I dropped it to 3.03 from 3.65. I was tempted to go very heavy Kithkin, but I felt the Soldier angle was better. Playtesting may proove otherwise. Here's the deck. Creatures: 312x Birds of Paradise  - Slight ramping 3x Goldmeadow Harrier  2x Rhys the Redeemed  - Do I need to explain? 3x Elvish Visionary  - Card drawing that goes great with the combo 2x Nest Invader  - Chump blocking and ramp that goes great with the combo 2x Riftsweeper  4x Sakura-Tribe Elder  3x Kor Hookmaster  2x Kinsbaile Borderguard  - Though light on Kithkins, getting two to four counters looks easy 2x Knight-Captain of Eos  3x Cloudgoat Ranger  3x Captain of the Watch  Other Spells: 74x Parallel Lives  3x Seance Land: 225x Forest  8x Plains  1x Kjeldoran Outpost  2x Selesnya Sanctuary  3x Sunpetal Grove  3x Temple Garden 
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