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9 months ago ::
Sep 20, 2012 - 8:57AM
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Is mill viable?
The answer to this question is never "yes" and people need to stop asking.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 20, 2012 - 2:54PM
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Is mill viable?
The answer to this question is never "yes" and people need to stop asking.
Unless you are talking about self-mill. In which case, I say "definintely maybe."
Delver will be a deck. I think UW delver will continue to see play, UR might develop with the release of the next set, but for now I think UW is better.
Control decks will probably be bant decks with lots of wrath and thragtusks, or lots of dudes that gain you life.
Populate decks seem like they would be fun, but I'm not sure they will be good enough, as a lot of the cards are overcosted. Do like Armada Wurm.
Zombies are a no-brainer, but will be easily hated out because they can be. If you are going to play zombies, start packing 4 Apetite for Hunger in your sideboard. Trust me on this, I've been brewing and it has been MAGNIFICENT.
Personally, I just want to play Lingering Souls and Wrath of Taco Bell.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 20, 2012 - 4:12PM
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You mean appetite for brains  ? What are we looking for besides wrath?
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9 months ago ::
Sep 20, 2012 - 7:10PM
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I think any1 doing a meta-game prediction has to involve Zombies (b/g, b/r, jund) in all ways.
As well as (U/W, U/R, UWR, U/B, Esper, Grixis) control
G/W seems to be popular suddenly due to the spoiling of a certain card that has 10 power for 6.
Then there's U/W and U/R delver......... Which I will be playing the latter (prerelease and after).
So we do have a healthy amount of colors going in, I suppose.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 21, 2012 - 3:03AM
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You mean appetite for brains ? What are we looking for besides wrath?
There is a long list of cards that cost more than 4 mana which brick your gameplay. Resto Angel, Trostani, Thragtusk, and more.
Wrath wasn't even at the top of my list. Or really all that close.
(at)MrEnglish22
"still a better Commander card than Emmara Tandris"
-On the topic of Squire
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9 months ago ::
Sep 21, 2012 - 3:54AM
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I predict g/x/x midrange goodstuff, b/x zombies, and MAYBE u/r delver. I'm not sure though, it lacks geist of st traft, the signature hyperefficient beatstick. It's possible that frites will make a showing at a big tournament, but after that, people will start packing enough sideboard hate to put it down and make it stay down.
I expect that the meta will largely be whichever wins out, zombies or goodstuff, playing a constant balancing act, between focusing lists on the mirror and keeping their overall quality high enough that they keep the losing deck from peeking its head back into viability.
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EDIT: I just remembered. The Skirges might have been 2x Whipflare and 1x something else, probably War and Peace.
EDIT2: Currently 4-0 in my first four games with this. My opponents have been very angry. I fought off a Wurmcoil from Grixis for six turns before I found my second Dispatch. Jeez, I can do a lot of damage.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 21, 2012 - 5:15AM
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I think any1 doing a meta-game prediction has to involve Zombies (b/g, b/r, jund) in all ways.
As well as (U/W, U/R, UWR, U/B, Esper, Grixis) control
G/W seems to be popular suddenly due to the spoiling of a certain card that has 10 power for 6.
Then there's U/W and U/R delver......... Which I will be playing the latter (prerelease and after).
So we do have a healthy amount of colors going in, I suppose.
UB control will be unplayable.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 21, 2012 - 5:30AM
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Wow, B_F is saying that u/b control is dead?
That's like Gisela admitting that Avacyn's really gone.
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It was revealed to me in a dream. All the cards were in my dream except for three slots which I plugged in as Vault Skirge.
FULL DISCLOSURE: The dream was post AVR so there was a copy of Slayer's Stronghold. I decided to keep it pre AVR in my post here.
EDIT: I just remembered. The Skirges might have been 2x Whipflare and 1x something else, probably War and Peace.
EDIT2: Currently 4-0 in my first four games with this. My opponents have been very angry. I fought off a Wurmcoil from Grixis for six turns before I found my second Dispatch. Jeez, I can do a lot of damage.
EDIT3: Streak broken. Lost to an unexpected Overrun. Cracking a Shrine for 10 wasn't enough.
How Kedi tests his decks: Spoiler:
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also, I've been playtesting this deck in my sleep today
that kinda freaked me out
Sleeping on Halloween: Spoiler:
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Halloween is a conspiracy by crossdressers and furries.
Thanks to Kipz for the sig. Make a contract with me to become a magical girl!
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9 months ago ::
Sep 21, 2012 - 7:03AM
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Wow, B_F is saying that u/b control is dead?
That's like Gisela admitting that Avacyn's really gone.
know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. me and UB had a good run.
and avacyn never really was there to begin with (BAM)
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8 months ago ::
Sep 24, 2012 - 10:19PM
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I think bant is going to be the the new deck to beat out there, with Sigarda, Host of Herons  being their new titan, that much evasion on a 5/5 with flying and evasion from sac effects is going to be nuts in a meta game that just lost phyrexian metamorph  and phantasmal image  ; now all we have to rely on for the legendary rule to kill beasts like this are clone  and evil twin  , or perhaps if the person you are playing against is dumb enough to cackling counterpart  their own Sigarda, Host of Herons . <--- haha lots of decks are going to have to run/sideboard mutilate  and other doj like cards to deal with guys like this because blocking her isn't all to reliable either, she is in a green deck after all it isn't hard for them to throw in giant growth  , titanic growth  , or rancor  on her and make that 5/5 body into something even more crazy. end of story, as a black player mostly, I am scared s**tless of GW because they are going to be very very hard to beat if BR/zombie/(insertAggrodeckhere) turn out to be duds. my $0.02, (might be overhyped, I didn't pay too much attention to Sigarda, Host of Herons in AVR and now I finally realized how rediculously powerful a 5/5 for 5cmc with hexproof and flying and sac evasion are.)
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