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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Sharuum Oath
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on: December 10, 2008, 05:01:44 am
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you can be one turn faster, but if you hit sharuum before portal you waste a turn (with respect to angel/dragon oath). Playing intuition in response to the oath trigger would solve this, but that makes it a 3 card combo. The chance to hit sharuum before portal is 50%, so you only gain half a turn One of the major problems with Oath is drawing your fatties and needing to put them back in the library. With bstorm being restricted, this was a real kick in the balls and made us rely on a slower scroll rack. to me it seems you have the same problem here, but with portal instead of fatties. Having a sharuum in hand is not really bad, but with a portal in hand the chance of hitting portal before sharuum is only 1/3. With a sharuum in hand the bridge kill will become impossible unless you also run krosan, blessing is terrible with loam, bridge and sharuum. That will leave you with a lot of dead cards (2 sharuum, 2 portal, loam,bridge, krosan reclamation) over angel oath.
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: New wording for Time Vault announced
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on: October 01, 2008, 03:00:35 am
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The text "if mana vault remains tapped during upkeep" to me implies that it can be untapped during upkeep, otherwise it would have said "if mana vault is tapped during upkeep"
besides that, I really like the flavour of immediatly storing your turn in the vault, but that is another matter
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Preview Card: Relic of Progenitus
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on: September 09, 2008, 09:43:35 am
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This card is better than crypt for only one reason in vintage : - Ichorid plays chalice for 0 to protect from crypt.
This card will shine the most in a format defined by tarmogoyf, read legacy....
Also, I'd like to point out that, oftentimes, Ichorid only drops a single Dredger into the yard off their first Bazaar. Taking that with the tap ability is a huge tempo swing in and of itself, and then keeping the 'Crypt' on the board is a major advantage. the problem with this is that the opponent can choose which card is removed, so he wont remove the dredger. It may still be some good, but this doesnt work
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Eternal Formats / Creative / Re: Stasis
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on: June 02, 2008, 06:20:16 am
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reset is a nice way to keep paying for stasis, it might get difficult with only 22 blue sources (not counting lotus). It also make morphling a better kill. A single frozen aether wont do much. I dont know if chronatog will be good enough, vintage decks can do a lot with very little mana, so without a frozen aether on the board I dont think you will be able to keep them down.
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Vintage Community Discussion / Casual Forum / Re: Slivercycle deck
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on: November 02, 2007, 06:40:07 am
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I forgot you will never run into non cycling cards, so you dont need the lands. In that case I dont think you need that much slivers. Of course it is more fun, so it might be better suited for casual, but some search, card drawing or defense might be better. a sliver base like: 4 homing 4 virulent 1 reflex 1 shadow/shifting
or if you want to have some backup in case you play against multiple players: 4 homing 4 might 1 fury 1 reflex 1 shifting 1 legion 1 synchronous
The lots of slivers version is more fun though, so go for that if fun is more important
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Vintage Community Discussion / Casual Forum / Re: Slivercycle deck
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on: November 01, 2007, 07:35:13 am
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I guess you mean fluctuator instead of memory crystal? I really think you will want cycling lands, otherwise you will end up with a lot of land in your hand, stopping you from comboing out, at the least add poluted mire and blasted landscape.
the combo is easier with random cycling creatures + living death. The creatures you get will be worse, but you wipe the board as well, and you only need one fluctuator, getting two fluctuators without any search will be hard
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: MWS/Appr Horror Stories
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on: October 16, 2007, 05:22:34 am
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and a classic: damn, I cant win, lets make up something: in casual Lorwyn draft, 55 mins on the clock in game three:
Skadrian plays Ajani Goldmane from Hand Ajani Goldmane now has 4 (+4) counters. <Johnnnie_Me> noob <Johnnnie_Me> is draw <Johnnnie_Me> time is out <Skadrian> what time? <Johnnnie_Me> round time <Skadrian> ah, you noticed you couldnt win, so you called it a draw? <Skadrian> we never talked about round time <Skadrian> there are no rounds <Johnnnie_Me> lolll <Johnnnie_Me> 40 minutes per round <Johnnnie_Me> have you played any time in real life? <Skadrian> why didnt you noticed that before <Skadrian> your round is over for 15 mins now <Skadrian> When I play in real life rounds are always 50 mins <Johnnnie_Me> no, 40 <Skadrian> so, are you happy now? <Johnnnie_Me> only in prerelease events are 50 <Johnnnie_Me> bb, time is out
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