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1  Eternal Formats / Northeast U.S. / Re: Richmond Comix Oct 29 Vintage Time Walk Mana Drain Foil Grim Monolith on: October 28, 2011, 11:51:12 am
Great, Thanks!

I'm in Arlington, I would love to attend this event - how's the parking in at this place? 
We are in a shopping center. There is a TON of parking.
2  Eternal Formats / Northeast U.S. / Re: Richmond Comix Oct 29 Vintage Time Walk Mana Drain Foil Grim Monolith on: October 28, 2011, 09:10:37 am
I'm in Arlington, I would love to attend this event - how's the parking in at this place? 
3  Eternal Formats / Creative / Re: Snakes on a Plane - gush/bob/cobra on: September 20, 2011, 09:48:44 am
There's a lot of colorless mana in your casting costs, so i don't see why a sol ring would be bad.  I like the lorescales, but am hard pressed to see why the tinker/blightsteel plan isn't just better.  It is WAY less slots and a 1 card combo.  Plus it has that "oops, I win" factor of turn 1 tinker with force backup.  If you cut the lorescales, libraries, and cobras, you add about 8 slots for 4 disruption (mana drains!!!) and tinker, BSC, sol ring, mana crypt.  I know that makes it more like smemenemenemen's deck, but BSC is just the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and NOT using him in a heavy counter/draw shell is just silly.

I like people playing "fun" decks, but if you are asking on ways to make the deck more competitive, I'd start there.

I admit the BSC/tink is a great idea but I'm trying to build a deck without it - there are already a number of finely tuned options out there using that plan. If possible Id like to move this deck towards competitive rather than fun - I'll see what I can do about the Sol Ring.

With only 21 mana sources, lots of drawing and quite high CC cards like Gush, confidants could be less effective. What about adding +1 tinker, +1 bsc, +1 sol ring instead 3 confidants?

I don't think I'll ever be casting Gush with mana - The plan is to abuse the gush/cobra synergy as much as possible.  I agree that confidants may not be the best fit for this deck simply because the deck wants island, swamp and forest on the first turn as is.  Confidant needs to be played early to be effective.
4  Eternal Formats / Creative / Snakes on a Plane - gush/bob/cobra on: September 16, 2011, 04:16:22 pm
After "quitting" Magic for over 8 years I recently re-caught the "bug."  I absolutely loved GAT back in the day and feel aggro-control is definitely the type of deck I want to play. With brainstorm restricted, Sylvan Library seems really good to me and combos very well with a number of cards.

For your consideration:

// Snakes on a Plane

20 Utility
4 Gush
4 Preordain
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Sylvan Library
1 Fastbond

8 Counters
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Leak
2 Mental Misstep

11 Creatures
3 Dark Confidant
3 Lotus Cobra
3 Lorescale Coatl
2 Trygon Predator

21 Mana
6 Black Lotus/Moxen
4 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
1 Island

Card Choices:

Sylvan Library - This card has have crazy synergy with the rest of the deck. Tutors, fetch lands, gush, ancestral, preordain, and ponder will allow you to peak at 3 new cards. It fixes the draw for Dark Confidant. It gives Lorescale Coatl an additional +3/+3 for free or +5/+5 if you have both in play.

Lorescale Coatl - This card just seems better than Dryad since it's not as situational since it still gets +1/+1 for drawing a land; It therefore has synergy with every card in the deck. Has synergy well with sylvan library, Jace, gush, ancestral, brainstorm, and preordain.

Lotus Cobra - Turns every fetch land into a lotus and helps fix the mana to cast Lorescale Coatl and Trygon Predator. Loves gush.

Trygon Predator - Disruption and control the board as much as possible.

Dark Confidant - I'm not sure id Night's Whisper would be a more solid choice.  

Fetch lands - Combos well with Sylvan Library and Cobras.

Sideboard:

Still in the works
5  Eternal Formats / General Strategy Discussion / Re: Laboratory Maniac on: September 08, 2011, 03:36:42 pm
Am I missing something?

Wouldn't this be more suited for Doomsday? Doomsday for: frantic searchx4 and ancestral. 

Doomsday immediately wins the game already for 3-4 total mana. Why would you want to play this junk in a streamlined Tinker/Doomsday deck?

If you're going to run tinker you're better off playing gush/bob.  Frantic search at least helps sculpt your hand or dig for the cards you need to go off for "free."  Ancestral is never a junk card.
6  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: NetherPox on: September 08, 2011, 03:25:14 pm
I used to love playing pox - it would be great if it was playable again.  It can't make a come back until it can deal with Jace.
7  Eternal Formats / General Strategy Discussion / Re: Laboratory Maniac on: September 08, 2011, 03:05:53 pm
Am I missing something?

Wouldn't this be more suited for Doomsday? Doomsday for: frantic searchx4 and ancestral. 
8  Eternal Formats / Creative / Re: [Single Card Discussion] Ghost Quarter on: April 19, 2006, 09:08:20 am
Can't you have this target itself and fetch a basic land from your own library?
9  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / [Deck discussion] 3c Tog on: July 30, 2004, 01:55:51 pm
Not sure if tempting wurm is the answer but if fish is a major concern i don't see a problem with devoting 4 boards slots to win this match up.
10  Eternal Formats / Creative / affinity and finding answers to null rod? on: July 28, 2004, 08:29:32 am
Have been reading the thread in the type 1 forum regarding affinity.  Nameless' version seems to be quite a good build.  However, even he admits it will roll over to null rod.  His decklist is:

19 Mana Sources
1 Black Lotus
3 City of Brass
3 Glimmervoid
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Seat of the Synod
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy

24 Artifacts
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Frogmite
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Ornithopter
4 Skullclamp

6 Black
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Disciple of the Vault
1 Yawgmoth's Will

6 Blue
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Thoughtcast
1 Time Walk

5 Red
1 Burning Wish
4 Shrapnel Blast

SB
4 Artifact Mutation
4 Duress
1 Regrowth
1 Tendril's of Agony
4 Tormod's Crypt
1 Vindicate

Would 4 seal of cleansing in the board fix this battle?

Another option, since there's the wish, could be primitive justice.
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