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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 5:21PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2008
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Limited Information, which goes live Tuesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 9:27PM
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I played a relatively slow U/W deck. I'm sorry that I don't know what the cards are called because I played with Japanese product, but the 2/2 soulbond mill 2 creature is just absolutely insane. If you bond it with the 2/3 soulbond hexproof creature, that's a pretty fast clock that the opponent cannot do anything about. The mill guy also bonds extremely effectively with the 1/4 2U:untap guy. When you can mill for 8, the game ends in a couple of turns.
EDIT: I went 3-1-1 at my prerelease (yeah it was small). The draw was not intentional, but I would have won with a couple of extra turns.
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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 9:44PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 26, 2012
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I don't have my decklist but I loved my deck so much I brought it up to 60 cards already. I played what I like to call blue black loner control. I pulled some nice removal and the fettergeist and lone revenant are amazing when you play mist raven, peel from reality to clear the other side of the board without a problem. Killing wave also came in handy when i needed to sac most of my creatures anyway to get value out of my loners and my opponent had too many creatures as well, it actually won me many games. Apparently my removal was actually so scary my deck became famous throughout our 32 person pre-release :P. I finished 4-1 and only lost because in the third game i was sitting for about 7 turns on 4 mana with lone revenant, dead slaver, two maalfed twins and a vanishment in my hand. Here is my current decklist:
Creature Spells:
Lone Revenant x 2
Relentless Skaab x1
Fettergeist x3
Mist Raven x4
Snapcaster Mage x2
Non-Creature Spells:
Predator's Gambit x3
Homicdal Seclusion X1
Think Twice x4
Demonic Rising x1
Killing Wave x1
Doom Blade x3
Death Wind x1
Necrobite x2
Into the Void x2
Peel from Reality x4
Vanishment x 2
Mana Leak x4
Lands:
Drowned Catacomb x4
Island x9
Swamp x7
I'm going to test it out at fnm this week to see how it does
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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 9:54PM
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My sealed pool was awesome. Opened a Tamiyo and Tyrant of Discord and lots of hasty guys. Tamiyo did lots of work, as did Mist Raven and Gryff Vanguard, definitely all-stars. Borderland Ranger kept me consistently to UU or RRR when I needed it. Peel from Reality + Mist Raven or Fervent Cathar was also awesome. Went 4-0 losing only one game. Spells: 1 Abundant Growth
2 Borderland Ranger
1 Joint Assault
1 Wolfir Avenger
1 Pathbreaker Wurm
1 Thunderous Wrath
1 Thunderbolt
1 Tyrant of Discord
1 Lightning Mauler
2 Fervent Cathar
1 Havengul Vampire
1 Gryff Vanguard
1 Mist Raven
1 Peel from Reality
1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
1 Geist Snatch
1 Alchemist's Apprentice
1 Wingcrafter
1 Elgaud Shieldmate
1 Fettergeist
1 Yew Spirit
Land:
4 Mountain
6 Island
7 Forest
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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 10:09PM
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I was going into it hoping to play UR, but didn't get nearly the pool I wanted and was forced to play WR Humans, which ended up getting me into the top 8 which changed my mind about Humans on Innistrad. Moonsilver Spear became my most common win condition, with them saving me from a Gisella on one occasion. Went 4-1 with Gallows at Willow Hill being a major issue.
Creatures:
1 Thraben Valiant
2 Moorland Inquisitor
1 Kruin Striker
1 Fervent Cathar
1 Hanweir Lancer
1 Moonlight Geist
1 Riders of Gavony
1 Midvast Protector
1 Holy Justicar
Instants/Sorceries/Enchantments:
1 Guise of Fire
1 Righteous Blow
2 Banners Raised
1 Cloudshift
1 Zealous Strike
1 Dangerous Wager
1 Thatcher Revolt
1 Vigilante Justice
1 Angel's Mercy
1 Commander's Authority
1 Thunderous Wrath
Artifacts:
2 Moonsilver Spear
1 Bladed Bracers
Land:
8 Plains
7 Mountains
2 Seraph Sanctuary
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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 10:27PM
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I had an amazing card pool. Almost went three colors so I could fit in Avacyn, Restoration Angel, and my 2 Archangels. Couldn't do it though, and kept it G/U:
7 Forest
10 Islands
Creatures:
Wingcrafter
Nightshade Peddler x2
Timberland Guide
Galvanic Alchemist
Tandem Lookout
Mist Raven
Gryff Vanguard
Wildwood Geist
Geist Trappers
Soul of the Harvest
Howlgeist
Spells:
Joint Assault
Fleeting Distraction
Peel from Reality
Crippling Chill x2
Geist Snatch x2
Amass the Components
Other:
Bladed Bracers
Vessel of Endless Rest
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
There were two games that Nightshade Peddler and Tandem lookout combo just straight up won for me. In fact my first game started out T2 Peddler, T3 Tandem and soulbond, T4 replace dead Peddler with the other one. With all my cantrips and extra card drawing from Lookout and Soul of the Harvest, I usually ended games with a full mitt or pretty close. Went 2-0 my first three matches, and won the last match 2-1. Only lost the one game because I was stuck on three land until turn 7, and at that point it was too late. Both Chills, Peddlers, and Peel almost had me lasting long enough to stabilize, but not quite. It was also fun in the few long games I had to Mist Raven some soulbond guy, then geist snatch when they tried to replay it. Caught 2 Pathbreaker Wurms and a Champion of Lambholt that way
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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 10:56PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 12, 2004
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I don't have the full list, but my pool had three copies of Abundant Growth so I used them all and played four colors. Never missed a spell due to lack of color, with 10 forests, 5 plains, 1 mountain, 1 swamp, and at least two spells in each of the off colors. In one game I attacked with Yew Spirit for 32 (it had a +1/+1 counter and I had 12 mana). Final record was 3-1. The cards I'd highlight are these:
Nettle Swine (It's bigger than most other midrange creatures and really stops an early rush from an opponent)
Nightshade Peddler
Searchlight Geist
Yew Spirit
Thunderbolt
Nearheath Pilgrim
Wolfir Silverheart
Entreat the Angels
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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 11:13PM
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I had almost exactly the pool I wanted - a top-heavy but immensely powerful UW skies deck. The highlight was Deadeye Navigator, who I knew was going to be solid but who turned out to be an absolute bomb; I had enough CIP effects that I was even happy running multiple Cloudshifts in my deck. These are the 23 I played (including one mana rock that left me happy enough to play just 17 lands even with a stack of 6-drops):
Nephalia Smuggler
Angelic Wall
Moorland Inquisitor
Thraben Valiant
Haunted Guardian
Scrapskin Drake
Tandem Lookout
Emancipation Angel
Moonlight Geist
Mist Raven
Deadeye Navigator
2x Goldnight Redeemer
Voice of the Provinces
2x Cloudshift
Bladed Bracers
Peel from Reality
Defang
Vessel of Endless Rest
Vanishment
Cathar's Crusade
Divine Reflection
Relevant sideboard cards included a third(!) Cloudshift and Elgaud Shieldmate that I brought in for a mirror-ish match and Spectral Prison, which did fine work keeping a 6/5 Wandering Wolf at bay after it got in one hit on me. Overall, the deck was a ton of fun to play (though maybe less so for opponents who had to watch me gain 8 life a turn or bounce three of their guys at EOT) and all my opponents were fine folks.
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1 year ago ::
May 02, 2012 - 1:17AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 22, 2004
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I was hoping for another great rare or two to have fun with, but my deck came out better than I was expecting, though I only won two out of four games. I think all of the other decks I played against all included white, and when I was just about to cast Defang, I heard somebody else announcing they were casting Defang. And then the person I was playing against used two on me, so there were a lot of Defangs going around.
9x Mountain
8x Plains
Creatures:
Archangel
Moorland Inquisitor
Seraph of Dawn
Holy Justiciar
Thraben Valiant
Lightning Mauler
Riot Ringleader
Mad Prophet
Heirs of Stormkirk
Hanweir Lancer
2x Falkenrath Inquisitor
2x Fervent Cathar
Spells:
Cloudshift
Call to Serve
Defang
Burn at the Steak
Pillar of Flame
Lightning Prowess
Dangerous Wager
2x Thunderbolt
It all worked together rather well, what with the bonded humans and Riot Ringleader giving, at least most of my creatures, +1/+0. And, of course, having two of Falkenrath Inquisitor and Thunderbolt was extremely useful. The only sad thing was not getting many uses out of Lightning Prowess, usually, before the creature it was enchanting died. I also had a lot of good fortune drawing my burn spells early and often. I came to love the deck quite a bit, over time.
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1 year ago ::
May 02, 2012 - 3:35AM
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Suggestions: Nightshade Peddler  is bonkers! I had 2 in my pool, and combined them with: 2 Hanweir Lancer  1 Lightning Prowess  1 Falkenrath Exterminator  1 Ulvenwald Tracker  1 Pathbreaker Wurm  I felt no regret leaving Entreat the Angels  and Angel of Jubilation  in the board. In my first draft I had 3 Seraph of Dawn  + 2 Bladed Bracers  . That's quite the nuts combo too.
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