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1 year ago ::
Apr 18, 2012 - 4:29AM
#11
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Date Joined:
Aug 15, 2006
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About the combo, I don't know if im missing something but if you cast the Grand Architect on turn 3, use it to cast a Pili-Pala with haste (due to Lightning Mauler's soulbond), don't you need another blue mana to make him a blue creature and actually get the combo going?, so the combo becomes actually a 4 card one on turn 3 because of the need of Birds of Paradise or Wild Cantor?
I don't get what the Lightning Mauler is supposed to be adding. Instead of paying 2 for Mauler on turn 2, why not just cast the darn Pili-Pala. Then it will already be unsick by turn 3. In fact then the combo works better that way (read: at all) because you can attack with Pili-Pala, use architect's mana to untap him to get blue mana to make him blue and untapped, and then go off. Lightning Mauler has nothing to do with it.
I mean, is it just me or does this whole concept make no sense? Late April Fools?
The Problem is that Pili-Pala is 1) an obvious Combo Piece, b) an Artifact and c) a Creature with Toughness 1 and d) Power equal to it's toughness. Ergo, there are about a bazillion Solutions for your Opponent to apply in the time between you playing it and your next turn. The Goal is to cast innocent Creatures like Lightning Mauler and Grand Architect and to go off instantly without giving your Opponent a chance to respond.
But yeah, another blue mana is needed to go off on turn three. But, as Invaderkrag points out (Welcome to the forums, btw), any blue Creature (or a Creature  that can produce  itself) can do this.
Oh, and Kudos on the Webteam for making the Card Images for not-yet-released Cards work in the decklist (but sadly not in the sample hand Generator).
[c]Forest[/c] gives you Forest 
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1 year ago ::
Apr 18, 2012 - 4:50AM
#12
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Date Joined:
Mar 16, 2004
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Yeah, nice-looking deck, and a card with more subtlety to it than might be expected. Oh, and Kudos on the Webteam for making the Card Images for not-yet-released Cards work in the decklist (but sadly not in the sample hand Generator).
Also sadly not cards with apostrophes in. In this case it's Avacyn's Pilgrim  , but the issue has been a problem for ages - at least a couple of weeks now. Urza's Rage  is building, Alexi's Cloak  is swishing threateningly... Okay, that's weird, those two work but Avacyn's Pilgrim doesn't?
Gatherer has been having problems with apostrophes too, in what I suspect is not an unrelated event: Searching for "Urza's Armor" doesn't work where it used to.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 18, 2012 - 5:40AM
#13
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2006
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So you guys are saying that JvL recommends adding an extra color and turning 3-card combos into 5-card combos so that your deck will be slightly more suprising to Modern opponents who don't play instants. Sheesh!  Sorry Jacob, I was just going to say you over-shilled a mediocre card. But with supporters like these, who needs detractors!
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1 year ago ::
Apr 18, 2012 - 7:20AM
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I agree with Amar that this is not a good application of this card (Pili-Pala/Grand Architect/Lightning Mauler). In Modern on T2, I'd much rather play Lightning Greaves than Mauler. If your opponent has instant removal, then mauler is gone while Pili-Pala is on the stack being cast. If they don't then Greaves will equip the fragile little critter and protect it in future turns as well as being able to shift to another creature. So all around Greaves beats out Mauler hands down in Modern (doesn't extend mana base to include another color, not one shot like soulbond is, continued targeted protection).
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1 year ago ::
Apr 18, 2012 - 8:32AM
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Also he says that a 2/1 haste for R1 isnt constructed playable. I would like to disagree. For one, we havent had a 2 mana haste mono red guy with no drawbacks. If goblin warbuggy was playable why wouldnt it be playable without the echo. I actually think a 2/2 haste for R1 or even a 2/1 haste would be in alot of red deck wins.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 18, 2012 - 9:43AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 19, 2005
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In limited, I think a lack of patience will often be useful and interesting. Imagine this, you have a single 3/3 on the board and your opponent has a 4/4. You play Lightning Mauler, pair it with the 3/3 and attack with both. How does your opponent block? Killing the 3/3 would be the normal play if Lightning Mauler were a standard 2/1 haste creature, but it isn't. Depending upon the score and cards, this might be exactly what you want your opponent to do, as blocking the 3/3 will leave Lightning Mauler unpaired, meaning any biggy you play next turn will have haste.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 18, 2012 - 7:55PM
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Also he says that a 2/1 haste for R1 isnt constructed playable. I would like to disagree. For one, we havent had a 2 mana haste mono red guy with no drawbacks. If goblin warbuggy was playable why wouldnt it be playable without the echo. I actually think a 2/2 haste for R1 or even a 2/1 haste would be in alot of red deck wins.
The drawback is that it requires you to control another creature if you want it to have haste when you play it (otherwise there's nothing to...soulbind?).
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