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1 year ago ::
Feb 15, 2012 - 4:57PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 20, 2011
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Pawn of Ulamog 4 Perilous Myr 4 Myr Retriever 4 Infectious Host 4 Pierce Strider 2 Bubbling Muck 2 Kaervek's Spite 4 Sign in Blood 4 Heartless Summoning 2 Pox 3 Smallpox 3 Dark Ritual 4 Hymn to Tourach 2 City of Traitors 4 Ebon Stronghold 4 Crystal Vein 4 Swamp 6 Well the idea is make everything worth sacrificing, accelerate with heartless summoning, sol lands, bubbling muck, and dark rit. Keep the hands low and whatnot. I think pawn of ulamog could get more use, a quick and lazy gatherer search brought me pierce strider to be returned by the retriever and then cast with spawn tokens. I'm sure there are better choices for some of the cards but I think this could work with a little testing and tweeking.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 16, 2012 - 1:10AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 20, 2011
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Actually Perilous Myr 4 Myr Retriever 3 Infectious Host 4 Pawn of Ulamog 4 Pierce Strider 2 Sun Titan 3 Kaervek's Spite 3 Pox 3 Smallpox 4 Heartless Summoning 3 Dread Return 2 Sign in Blood 4 Cabal Therapy 1 Dark Ritual 4 Ebon Stronghold 4 Ancient Tomb 4 City of Traitors 4 Swamp 4 Alright, so basically I use the pox cards and spite to discard dread return, maybe cabal therapy, sun titan, pierce strider if no heartless summoning is around, or land if I have a Sun Titan on the battlefield. If I already have creatures out chances are heartless summoning will be a bomb due to a bunch of free redundancy with the 1/1 myrs, without creatures out it makes some of them free and some of them super cheap. Sol lands and dark rit accelerate me into making big plays and i threw in the 4 sign in blood to provide at least a little card advantage. I still think it's going to need help speeding up with getting creatures out though. Anways, suggestions are certainly welcome.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 16, 2012 - 7:23PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2009
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You're trying to do two very different things, and doing neither well. You either want a prison deck, or a burn deck. You need a deck that works cohesively to one gameplan, and everything in it should furthur that gameplan. Heartless Summoning + Perilous Myr is bad. You're basically throwing Shocks at sorcery speed. Infectious Host is even worse.
With the Pox gameplan, you'll not want to bother with creatures unless they recur themselves or generate card advantage.
Ancient Tomb/City of Traitors are terrible with Pox, and generally you can't use the extra colorless mana; you need strong black sources in a deck like this. They are for a different style of deck entirely.
With a heartless Summoning out, you're likely never to have 3 creatures for Dread Return, since only 9 of your dudes in the entire deck survive it (3 of which you can't cast) Even if you did have them, there are FAR better targets than Sun Titan.
Almost everything in your deck is counterproductive to the rest of the deck. You really need to start with a better gameplan, and work it out from there.
It looks like a harsh analysis, but really, there was so much wrong with this deck, I hardly knew where to begin.
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the Dish ran away with the Spoon. He ran from conviction, and fed his addiction as the Dish heated the Spoon... The Spoon begged to go, but the Dish shouted : "NO!!" "The heroin will be ready soon!" "Any time doing the right thing is funny as hell, it's probably Chaotic Good."
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1 year ago ::
Feb 17, 2012 - 4:10PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 20, 2011
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Yeah, I understand. I just have a bad habbit of trying to make things non-linear when they should be linear and vice versa, which leads to unreliable goofy stuff. But I am very interested in a pox plan including Kaervek's Spite. Also I've been wanting to make Platinum Angel + Minion of the Wastes / Souldrinker work. There might be something better to fill the slot than platinum angel, but I really want to be able to dump all my life points away for some crazy ****. Death's Shadow could also work with the combo.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 18, 2012 - 9:13PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2009
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I've just gotta say. You're very gracious with your learning, and you're really determined to make things work. Good qualities. You've got potential to make some really good decks; you've just gotta fine tune your eye for what works, and what doesn't.
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the Dish ran away with the Spoon. He ran from conviction, and fed his addiction as the Dish heated the Spoon... The Spoon begged to go, but the Dish shouted : "NO!!" "The heroin will be ready soon!" "Any time doing the right thing is funny as hell, it's probably Chaotic Good."
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 12:08AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 20, 2011
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Thank you. I spend a lot of time on magic, but I just started playing in the summer. I sort of go through ideas a little too fast but I'm working on it. Do you have any home-brewed or highly tweeked and/or fine-tuned decks you compete with? I love the subtelty in different playstyles.
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