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?
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I hate to add negative feedback, but I'm also missing something regarding this turn 3 infinite mana combo in modern. I'm hoping there is a line in the article that randomly got deleted, something like : Turn 1: BoP
or Turn 1: random blue creature, Turn 2: Lightning Mauler, Turn 3: Grand Architect, Pila-Pala with soulbound, then attack with pila-pala on turn three and then tap the random blue creature for the two mana to untap pila-pala to make a blue mana to make pila-pala blue then tap it for two mana, untap it for one mana, tap, untap, tap....
I'm thinking this is what JVL meant because in the article it said "Turn 2: Lightning Mauler (no soulbound)." If Mauler was the only creature on the battlefield, he wouldn't have to mention that there was nothing to soulbound (bind?) it with.
Regardless, this is the third time in recent memory that this series of articles simply punted -- and they're just mental lapses like knowing what cards are banned in modern and which swords are in M11 and not available for standard.
I really wish the webteam as a group would own up to this because at this point its not just JVL's fault. Putting a small disclaimer on the begining of an article isn't the best way to handle this, they're just throwing them under the bus, which is not a great way to run a team or a department or a company. Work as a team Someone else should have caught this
I'm rather new to this place, where does "Nath'd" come from? Nath of the Gilt-Leaf doesn't look particularly ninja-y to me.
It's short for "Sarnath'd" A user by the name of Sarnath would often beat people to the punch on the forums of MiseTings , a magic humor site. He did this so often that the saying Sarnath'd, and later Nath'd, came to mean someone's exact post or opinion had been posted earlier in the forum, usually right before the nath's persons post
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?
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I really wish the webteam as a group would own up to this because at this point its not just JVL's fault. Putting a small disclaimer on the begining of an article isn't the best way to handle this, they're just throwing them under the bus, which is not a great way to run a team or a department or a company. Work as a team Someone else should have caught this
It's a silly error, one that doesn't affect the article. It was just a musings. I hopped on the hatewagon until right before preview week, because he actually changed his article based on our emails (and developed a deck an extra week), and got praise for it. If he continues to change, I'll be glad to let him stay. If he develops one of these preview decks after preview week constraints, I would be humbly thankful.
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?
So that you can drop Pili-Pala and Grand Architect in the same turn, without either of them being vulnerable to a sorcery. Only instants will ruin your day on turn 3 if you use Lightning Mauler. Assuming of course you dropped a 1 mana blue creature on turn 1. Tap GA to cast PP, pair PP to LM to give it haste, attack with PP, tap your first creature to untap PP and generate a blue mana, use the blue to turn PP blue, then PP can do its self-perpetuating awesomeness.
Someone else should have caught this 
