some random observations

BUG fish is probably best in a meta where you don't have a prevalence of random aggro
in a goyf mirror you're going to bang heads with other goyfs, who MAY have darkblast or jitte to kill your own goyfs
if any good aggro is in the meta, you can be sure people are prepared to deal with creatures
looking at your decklist, you have no maindeck solution for threats other than echoing truth, which you're going to waste one tutor for
you don't have jitte main to get rid of random creatures, welders would just play you all day, even with null rod, they're just going to recur their robots
5 artifact mana and 4 null rods seem pretty painful to me
8/12 creatures dying to darkblast, and no pump to save them
with 6 fetches, 4 wastes and 1 strip, you also run the risk of getting mana denied/colour screwed from stifles/wastes, and you run only 23 total
magus of the moon, blood moon will laugh at your mana base because you have no islands

what's the meta over at your parts? (house, etc)
good thing about this though, it probably rapes most combo/control-combo decks

have you guys not checked out the oracle text on time vault?

If Time Vault would become untapped, instead choose one - untap Time Vault and you skip your next turn; or Time Vault remains tapped.

if you try to untap it using tezzeret, you'll still have to skip the turn, or it does nothing
frankly, i think time vault is still best abused with transreliquat

but MAN, this goes into CS on day 1

what about momentary blink?

just a friendly reminder to the rest of the people in TMD

don't feed the damn troll~!

what do you expect? it's bleiweiss
i stopped reading scg because of him

that's what i thought, but i am not sure if that's 100% correct
they can be a bit finicky about the "a"

can avoid fate counter instants that target MORE than one permanent which you control?
the oracle text says A PERMANENT, and i'm not sure if that means ANY, or ONE

just, what is your freaking problem?
go see a psychiatrist to work out your issues

yup, that's what i thought
thanks for the response

this might sound like sloppy play, but here goes
if you announced a spell, and have tapped your lands for mana, AND shown the card, but you realise it will be a very bad play, can you or can you not backup to announcement without penalty and do something else with the mana?

what about the same situation, but you have not tapped your lands for mana?

what penalties would be involved under the different RELs?

thanks in advance

if you're on ebay, look for emax95 and brapsmagic
it'll cost you, but their stuff is real and graded very strictly

i'm not entirely clear about what happened, but it seems that they weren't entirely happy about how the website was being run, with empty promises and whatnot

http://www.retetched.com/optix/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=30&sid=1df439d9c238b953c2e714d674c0d545

the rumour mill is over here though, so screw s_s and gang

just to clarify a little
the oath player will give you a token at eot to try to activate oath the next turn
you can fling it at him eot, or you can fling it at him in response to the oath trigger
if you're really sneaky and have a huge creature in your deck, you can fling it AFTER he oaths in order to get your own creature out

to reinforce what ELD is saying here
if your opponent is too stubborn to scoop after u get full control of game 1, why disabuse him of the notion he might pull it out?

you are 99% wrong here
trinisphere doesn't care what the cmc is
it just looks at what you pay and if it's more than 3, trinisphere just does nothing
as buyback on pulse is 4R, trinisphere does nothing to it

why would it die upon announcement?
it hasn't even resolved yet
it works for tolarian because you can't respond to a land drop, but mindslaver, yes, because the mindslaver can be popped in response to the actual playing of another mindslaver

it's always right to respect your opponent, but there's always the temptation to get too chummy with your opponent (whom you may or may not know beforehand)
stay cool and focused on winning
don't be a rules lawyer, but don't be afraid to call a judge for valid complaints

it would make sense that eba reminds you of dump truck, because the idea for eba came right from there

gunmetals split, but not as often as KMC sleeves
the new ones are of a different size cf the older ones, but if you're hardworking you can take a razor to them and even them all out
i know that's what i did  

this kangeroo court finds in favour of jdizzle

the first guy to pick up my deck without my permission will be picking his brains off the floor

:lol:

it's true
what if your opponent is a malicious, dirty, unwashed and smelly son of a bitch? do you REALLY want someone like that touching your cards?
heck, i wouldn't even want to play someone like that
thankfully i play t1, so people like that usually stick to their t2

so..
what exactly is it that you're saying?

is it confirmed to be a super rare card?
i've seen 2 opened already, and it doesn't seem all that hard to find

oh god, this is so classic

i used to hate energy flux, rack and ruin and artifact mutation

they have all been superceded by hurkyl's recall and rebuild  :lol:

from crystalkeep
that'll make 22,800 sets of power, 20,500 libraries, and 7,750 playsets of workshops

give or take

trinisphere
because i hate it when my opponents take 15 minutes each turn

is this right? i was of the impression that the AFFECTED player decides which replacement effect replaces the event, and should have nothing to do with the active player

in a similar vein, what happens to dsc in a will turn?

matrons are recruiters and ringleaders 5 and 6
with food chain in play they fetch the missing combo link AND give you the mana you need to cast them
clamp doesn't really work well in fcg
you want your goblins alive
killing off your goblins to draw cards is like rfging your piledrivers to cast prospectors

i'm not sure how experienced you are with stax, but there are 2 cards which i hate more than rack and ruin, and 1 of them is energy flux
1 welder saves ONE artifact and all your time and energy is spent on keeping your stuff alive
i don't think you appreciate how difficult it is to keep your stuff on the table, with or without a welder in play
i can see tnt, control slaver or 7/10 killing through the flux, but stax, no

and yes, if i am playing against stax i will go lotus -> flux if i can every single time
remember, metalworker doesn't stop flux 100%
you might think he's great for paying upkeep costs, but what flux is doing is basically nullifying the worker by forcing it to tap during upkeep
if he can't go broken you have a MUCH easier game
i have not played matches when i have an active worker on turn 2 and lost
unless of course the opponent resolves flux on turn 1

i took those a while ago
100% on test 1, 78% on test 2
the 2nd one is very irritating
i particularly hated the keldon warlord, weakness and blah blah question