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Author Topic: Serum Powder Ichorid and Vintage  (Read 13649 times)
someone_unimportan
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« Reply #60 on: January 08, 2007, 07:12:12 pm »

No, because of the break after the test for bazaar the code will not proceed to the serum powder mulliganing or normal mulliganing.
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« Reply #61 on: January 09, 2007, 10:26:01 am »

So I have been messing around with this deck seeing as I had the Meandeck version built I only needed to pick up $12 of cards from my local shop to finish it out.  First impressions of this deck are ridiculous.  My first test game I went off turn 4 with a 26/10 trampler after mulliganing three times, twice with Serum Powder.  It is a very easy deck to run as it is all math like the previous people have noted.  The only difference that I would like to add is that while it runs on autopilot once you get started, there are still many many decisions that need to me adressed. 

The more obvious decisions are what to name when flashing back Cabal Therapy and casting Unmask.  Those are all experience issues that will almost always be done a lot better by a player who has a few years of experience under his/her belt.  Sideboard cards are a very important part of this deck.  Since we run on very little mana / no mana we have to choose cards that will impact the game in such a way that their mere presence will affect the game state.  Chalice, Needle, and other "Hosers" fall into this category.  How many times has anyone not played a spell cause of the "fear" of Force. 

This brings us to the "fear".  Like I noted in an earlier post, this deck is very reminiscient to the numerous Affinity archetypes that are floating around the different formats.  Affinity is a deck that allows people a competetive entry to a format that could have a severe financial limitation, but allows the player the ability to win if they play smart and deleberiate. 

Personally I love this deck because it allows me to play in vintage and potentially compete without the need for many proxies and other types of power.  A set of Bazaar's will be hard to come by if GenCon comes calling next year and I want to playin in the world champs but you know what, for now let Ichorid fuel a fire that will slowly purge the weaker "Playskill" decks and make them refine their stance on playskill.

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« Reply #62 on: January 09, 2007, 12:38:11 pm »

No, because of the break after the test for bazaar the code will not proceed to the serum powder mulliganing or normal mulliganing.

I should have been more specific.  Consider this case.  Your oppening hand contains Serum Powder but no Bazaar.

You enter the while loop and you Serum Powder mulligan.  Your new hand contains Serum Powder and Bazaar.  Now you increment your Bazaar count since you have a Bazaar.  Now you Serum Powder mulligan AGAIN.  There should be a check to make sure that you cannot enter the while loop once you have found a bazaar.

While(found == false and hand.contains("Serum Powder") {

This is probably what the while statement should look like.

Either way, what results are you seeing?

Regarding the post above:
  I am glad you like the deck.  It is easy to learn to play Manaless Ichorid, however playing Cabal Therapies optimally requires extensive knowledge of your meta and each matchup so that will be difficult to pick up and probably impossible to do optimally. 

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