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Full Fathoms Five posted:Does anyone have that link to the article explaining why Vexing Devil is a bad card? I understand why most people dislike punisher cards in general (you always get the worst option and the good option makes people overestimate the card's effectiveness) but in the case of Devil it seems kind of like a moot point since any deck that would run him would probably be happy to have either option. I mean it's either a better lightning bolt or a 4/3 body for 1 mana, and both of those seem really, really good in any sort of aggressive red deck. Its the variance between the two modes that makes it bad. In the early game it will almost always be 4 damage, which seems nice but you basically just handed them a free removal spell for doing so. In the late game, it'll always be a 4/3, which your opponent can then remove. It has no ability to stick around early and apply pressure, and no ability to come down late and finish off an opponent. Contrast it with Goblin Guide, who does 2 damage on turn 1, and usually gets to swing on turn 2 for a total of 4 damage (and thus comparable to a Vexing Devil that got to swing once) and in the late game always comes down swinging, which can help push through a stalled board state by adding an extra attacker.
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Oldsrocket_27 posted:Even funnier is that Mattias hunt was playtesting with that guy a while earlier, and Hunt did it too to topdeck a D-SPhere. Let me see if I can find the footage. What's great about this one is at the exact same time that Hunt is cheating D-sphere to the top, his opponent puts the revealed cards from Wayfinder on the bottom of his library. Everyone's cheating!
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Feb 11, 2014 18:06
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Dr. Clockwork posted:What plane and how do you know? I'm going to assume its from here quote:Sarkhan Vol comes from a plane where territorial warlords vie against each other in unending, brutal war. On this plane, dragons have long since been hunted to extinction for sport and glory.
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Feb 26, 2014 20:50
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I'm struggling with an answer to Stormbreath in my Boros deck. Is celestial flare my best bet? Depends on how heavy the red in your deck is, but I would probably run Mizzium Mortars unless you really can't afford to take that first hit. If you can't afford that first hit, Blind Obedience or Imposing Sovereign will give you that extra time to untap and use Mortars. Stormbreath decks will almost always play around the Celestial Flare on the attack, but you can usually get them on the block if you must run it.
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Mar 3, 2014 19:37
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Procrastinator posted:Apparently the new hotness to beat the creatures in the Monsters deck is Fated Conflagration. As much as I really hate Conflagration's mana cost, it kills both Polukranos and Reaper of the Wilds for the same mana it takes to cast them, as well as killing every single walker in standard besides Vraska when Boros charm wouldn't. If it didn't fall just short of killing Desecration Demon it would probably see more play.
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Mar 3, 2014 21:04
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The real problem here isn't Orzhov Charm hitting the graveyard. Its the Goyf hitting the graveyard, as he would be the first creature and increase its own toughness in the graveyard. The game will check Goyf's PT before the charm hits the yard regardless, because Orzhov charm isn't put into the graveyard until every (relevant) line of text on Orzhov charm finishes resolving. I want to say that this is last known information, and you would take 3.
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Mar 4, 2014 04:41
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Honestly, I like Ajani in a Bant Walkers shell. Dropping him the turn after the board wipe and digging for Elspeth, Jace, Kiora etc. seems like a fairly solid game plan. Not to mention that if that kind of deck does run utility creatures, he turns them into respectable beaters really quickly. I don't know if such a deck will exist, or if anyone will play it, but if any card would create the archetype its him.
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Apr 9, 2014 18:27
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Kabanaw posted:In other news, Vintage Masters will have Arrogant Wurm and Circular Logic at common. I thought that UG Madness was one card short of being a real pauper deck, and I have a good feeling that Circular Logic is the card. The Wurm is just gravy.
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