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phillyt · « **Reply #2325 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:06:54 PM »

What was in your Orhzov deck Fin?

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2326 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:12:29 PM »

Quote from: Finlay on March 27, 2013, 03:06:01 PM

Rufus is totally pwning me at the moment.

I'm the best at magic!

Finlay · « **Reply #2327 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:16:18 PM »

can’t remember philly. Stab wound and 1000 lashes at least.

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2328 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:18:27 PM »

I thought you only did pauper Orzhov? No lashes in that one.

phillyt · « **Reply #2329 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:27:02 PM »

Quote from: Finlay on March 27, 2013, 03:16:18 PM

can’t remember philly. Stab wound and 1000 lashes at least.

So recent Orhzov, not stuff from the first Ravnica block.

Siberius · « **Reply #2330 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:35:46 PM »

Rufus is sneaky, he refuses to play against certain things until you stop using them. Then he kills you with ghost councils and rancors until you cry.

I seem to be pretty rubbish at constructed stuff. I have had way better luck with sealed. Maybe I'm more lucky at that, or maybe it just suits my style more. I dunno.

I've done alright in the pauper we have played too, but my lack of knowledge of cards from the ages hurts me sometimes.

In standard I have a pretty horrendous win/loss ratio I think. Partially it could be because I find it so hard to resist a theme and like to try out different things just for variety rather than stick to tried and trusted cards. My landkill deck was a somewhat horrifying example of that!

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2331 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:39:33 PM »

Quote from: Siberius on March 27, 2013, 03:35:46 PM

Rufus is sneaky, he refuses to play against certain things until you stop using them.

Lies!

Anyway, no one is trying to win every game. Some of my pauper decks are absurdly awful, because they are built purely for theme.

Siberius · « **Reply #2332 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:50:04 PM »

I know. That's why I like playing you guys. I don't feel like your decks are made purely to cause misery.

We all have stuff that make the others cringe and we all try some bizarre things sometimes.

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2333 on:** March 27, 2013, 04:04:42 PM »

Quote from: Siberius on March 27, 2013, 03:50:04 PM

I don't feel like your decks are made purely to cause misery.

Well, some of mine are!

Evil laughter.

Finlay · « **Reply #2334 on:** March 27, 2013, 05:01:41 PM »

Quote from: rufus sparkfire on March 27, 2013, 03:18:27 PM

I thought you only did pauper Orzhov? No lashes in that one.

Oh yes, you're right.

towishimp · « **Reply #2335 on:** March 27, 2013, 06:35:43 PM »

Quote from: rufus sparkfire on March 27, 2013, 01:22:04 AM

Quote from: towishimp on March 27, 2013, 12:47:45 AM
Maze's End looks great for EDH

But it won't be able to find many cards in EDH!

In a three color deck, that's at least three gates, which would be barely worth it, yes. But I'm counting on them printing more. Also, never underestimate the power of mana fixers, no matter how clunky...EDH decks tend to be very mana-hungry, so every little bit helps.

Siberius · « **Reply #2336 on:** March 27, 2013, 10:02:02 PM »

I am on right now. Just letting you know incase...

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2337 on:** March 27, 2013, 10:14:42 PM »

Not getting any land = worst thing ever.

Siberius · « **Reply #2338 on:** March 28, 2013, 01:47:50 PM »

I looked up common walls.... So many good options I might have to make 2 different decks!

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2339 on:** March 28, 2013, 02:18:46 PM »

Oh no! Stalled by walls!

I will try very hard not to sulk next time we play. I'll make a super-aggressive wall-smashing deck!

Finlay · « **Reply #2340 on:** March 28, 2013, 02:27:40 PM »

A flying deck to fly over the walls!
I sort of want to make side decks… so I can bring in 2 more naturalises when I’m fighting orzhov!

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2341 on:** March 28, 2013, 02:31:53 PM »

Quite a lot of walls can fly...

If we used sideboards, I'd take out the enchantments and replace them with something specifically nasty against your deck! It seems like a lot of extra hassle for not much benefit.

Siberius · « **Reply #2342 on:** March 28, 2013, 03:09:20 PM »

I bet it would make for closer game 2 and 3s though.

Tis a bit of a pain in the butt though.

Having said that it does help out those decks that don't have any answer for things. Green decks seem to suffer a lot from being one dimensional. Most of their removal is flying based and you really don't want to put them in your main deck incase you face no flying at all!

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2343 on:** March 28, 2013, 03:12:01 PM »

As always, I will give in and make sideboards if you both want to!

We could try it for one deck each and see how it goes? A 'real' standard deck?

Siberius · « **Reply #2344 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:05:35 PM »

I'm down with trying it. At worst it will be an interesting experiment. At best, maybe we won't have so many one sided games... who knows!

I'll add one to one of my decks so we can try it. But it does require a two or three game run to test because it's all about adapting to what you're facing. Won't be much use when we're doing our take it in turns to play things.

I must say though that the idea of stuff with 'land'walking being worth taking is kinda cool as usually it's so situational you can't justify it unless the creature is already pretty nifty.

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2345 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:26:38 PM »

I have no idea what to put in a sideboard. I'm just going to end up sticking random cards in there at the last minute!

Doesn't it depend on knowing the sorts of decks other people are likely to play?

phillyt · « **Reply #2346 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:35:25 PM »

Yes. Side boarding is a set of cards that respond to a potentially bad matchup you might face. It is very good in standard, but in a free for all setting ,you really just use it to respond to decks that can derail your type of deck (if you are using an agro deck and face a control deck, you put in cards to stop control and visa versa).

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2347 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:39:41 PM »

Hmm, good point. Will try to do that then!

It's going to involve a lot of cards I normally discount as being too situational.

Siberius · « **Reply #2348 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:45:01 PM »

That's the part I do like about it. Some stuff might get to see the table that normally doesn't.

There is, I was surprised to see, no plainswalk in standard!

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #2349 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:47:37 PM »

Ha ha! There are only four creatures in the history of magic that have plainswalk!

I'm not sure why. Tradition, perhaps!

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