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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 1:38PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 30, 2012
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A couple of times I've pitched decks, and people have urged against using certain good cards for fear that Bribery could target them. From what I can tell, Bribery seems to be a staple. So I have two questions: 1) How often is your deck targeted with Bribery? (Your deck, not anybody's deck) 2) What are the cards most often targeted with Bribery?
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 1:47PM
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Oddly enough, we've mostly eschewed the use of bribery. It punishes you for playing good stuff in your deck, and forces games into degenerate states more often than not. Its like playing too many tutors in a combo deck... it just stops being fun.
But the answer is the best green deck on the board gets targeted. Either for Primeval Titan or Terastodon... or the black deck for some eldrazi or Rune-Scarred Demon.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 2:36PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 26, 2010
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I'm assuming the 'we' refers to your local meta, niheloim? I commend the control you guys have...I still see a few people in my metas(two or three) that play it in one or two of their decks. It appears that there is enough control to keep that from going into degenerate states...either by having ways to get the best creatures into one's hand, or by countering any such attempts in the first place. And obviously, Prime Time is not an issue at this point. To answer purple's questions, I have had my deck targeted about 4 or 5 times...once when I had Blightsteel Colossus in the deck. Take a wild guess which one they picked. That's partly why I stringently warn anyone against running it. And while I agree with niheloim about the most targeted( Terastodon and Primeval Titan , when it was legal), I would think second most targeted is easily Blightsteel.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 3:51PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 17, 2009
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 4:01PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 10, 2011
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When I bribery people I usually look for Sheoldred, Eldrazi, PrimeTime (pre ban), Blightsteel, or Rune-Scarred Demon.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 4:44PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 10, 2006
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Duplicant was one of my favourites.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 6:53PM
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Not at all, people tend not to want to give me access to my own best creature. Homeward Path is good for a reason.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 7:38PM
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Yes, by "we" I meant my group.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 09, 2013 - 6:44AM
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I get targeted sometimes, but it really depends on what deck I play. I have a Kaalia and rarely play it (not because of bribery, but usually there is one person in the group that does nothing but complain when people do, so to avoid whining, i don't play it, but there is always whining for one reason or another). If I play that, and a person has a bribery, sure, I'll probably get targeted. Then again, it also depends on who the person playing the bribery feels like being a douche to. I don't however not put a card in becuase of bribery or control like effects. In the event that someone in my group plays a bribery (not many people have one) they will go for the usual stuff, Eldrazi, dragons, Titans, witnesses, etc. I got briberied and the guy took a Sigarda , it wasn't the best play at the time considering another player had a Ghave with beefier creatures than I did, but it did work out well for him. Thankfully I was playing krond and had a sigil of the empty throne in play and was able to play enchantments to keep a blocker out. I have a teferi deck that is my douche deck. It's not really counter oriented although I play choice ones like dissipate and hinder for example, but I do have bribery in that, as well as an acquire , and I just picked up a treachery for added douchery!...the hopeful win in that deck is knowledge pool .
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5 months ago ::
Jan 09, 2013 - 7:19PM
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Date Joined:
Feb 11, 2007
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Hinder and dissipate are 'choice' counters??
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