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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
Just thought I'd point out that the Misthollow Griffin deck can theoretically pop off on turn 2, with a perfect hand and turn 2 draw.
T1 - Forest, BoP / Hierarch.*
T2 - Land, Food Chain Sac mana critter, 2 mana, Wall of Blossoms*. Sac Wall, 3 mana, Drift of Phantasms*. Sac Drift, 4 mana, Misthollow + infinite creature mana shenanigans.
* it can work with any combination of T1 accelerant, any one- or two-drop, and any other one- to three-drop. All that really matters is the number of critters for Food Chain to eat.
It is possible (but very unlikely) to have this happen without additional draw, as 2x land, BoP, Food Chain, 2-drop, 3-drop, Griffin, and Maga (or Soul of the Harvest, for full deck draw) are 8 cards total.
Wouldn't the primal surge deck mill itself out, because you can't choose not to exile the top card, so you would be forced to exile a card from your library that is't there?
"Exiling the top card of an empty library" is not a condition that causes you to lose the game; it's just an impossible instruction that has no effect when executed. Only effects that specifically draw a card from a library with no cards are sufficient to trip the state-based action for losing the game, and Laboratory Maniac conveniently acts on anything and everything that would do that.
(Though it would probably help to have Alchemist's Apprentice or something in the deck, so you can stop "Response to the draw triggers, Disperse the Asceticism and Dismember the Maniac" by just drawing more cards on top of all that.)
Aside from the really really rare turn 2 win that is disabled by the 2-coloredness of the coiling oracle I really found the deck to run smoother with the possible acceleration from the oracle and the tutoring of Momir Vig. (And i just love the halimar depths, no matter if they enter play tapped or not).
Misthollow Griffin also works with City of Shadows, Soul Exchange, Cadaverous Bloom, Commandeer, Descent into Madness, Force of Will, Forsaken City, Gemstone Caverns, Holistic Wisdom, Misdirection, Snapback, and Wormfang Behemoth. If you include Painter's Servant, there are a few other alternate-cost cards that work, but this is unlikely to be worth the effort.
Rules question though, what if Misthollow Griffin is exiled face down? Everything suggests that you can still cast it.
(Though it would probably help to have Alchemist's Apprentice or something in the deck, so you can stop "Response to the draw triggers, Disperse the Asceticism and Dismember the Maniac" by just drawing more cards on top of all that.)
Still figuring out how things like this work in MtG so I hope you don't mind a couple questions. How does the timing work in regards to cards put into play with Primal Surge? Once Surge goes off (isn't countered somehow), can your opponent respond to each card as Surge repeats or do they have to wait until Surge mills the whole deck to repsond? Assuming she is played via Surge, would Avacyn's "all permanants you control are indestructible" save the Maniac from that Dismember?
(Though it would probably help to have Alchemist's Apprentice or something in the deck, so you can stop "Response to the draw triggers, Disperse the Asceticism and Dismember the Maniac" by just drawing more cards on top of all that.)
Still figuring out how things like this work in MtG so I hope you don't mind a couple questions. How does the timing work in regards to cards put into play with Primal Surge? Once Surge goes off (isn't countered somehow), can your opponent respond to each card as Surge repeats or do they have to wait until Surge mills the whole deck to repsond? Assuming she is played via Surge, would Avacyn's "all permanants you control are indestructible" save the Maniac from that Dismember?
I'm not usre if anyone can respond between triggers, my gut feeling says no, but dont quote me on that. Also, the even if a permant is indestructible, if its toughness is reduced to 0 it will still be destroyed as a state based effect.
Still figuring out how things like this work in MtG so I hope you don't mind a couple questions. How does the timing work in regards to cards put into play with Primal Surge? Once Surge goes off (isn't countered somehow), can your opponent respond to each card as Surge repeats or do they have to wait until Surge mills the whole deck to repsond? Assuming she is played via Surge, would Avacyn's "all permanants you control are indestructible" save the Maniac from that Dismember?
No spells or triggers happen until the spell is completely finished resolving. The spell is not completely finished resolving until the "if you do" clause is finished and unfulfilled, then the spell goes to the graveyard and triggers and spells can start happening.
