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Magic The Gathering Adventures Blog Posts Volume 3
Deckbuilding Posts
January 25, 2014 to September 27, 2014 (M15)
2015

Contents
[Modern] Back to basics with Super Green (January 25, 2014).................................................................... 5
Elite Arcanist-Zhur Taa Druid-Triton Tactics Infinite Combo (February 26, 2014) ..................................... 13
WBR Aurelia in RTR to BNG Standard (March 8, 2014) .............................................................................. 14
AVR Casual Modern: Descendant's Path Take 2, now Simic Humans + Wolfir Silverheart (March 16, 2014)
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AVR Modern Casual: Zombies build-around Dread Slaver (March 17, 2014)............................................. 29
Modern Zombies Casual: Philactery Lich build-around (March 17, 2014) ................................................. 32
[Modern] Mono Black Titan (April 28, 2014) .............................................................................................. 35
[Standard] Devotion to White shell ahead of Nyx (May 9, 2014) ............................................................... 37
[Modern] Devotion to Green in Tournament Practice (May 12, 2014) ...................................................... 43
[Modern] Devotion to White with Mesa Enchantress and Mentor of the Meek (June 1, 2014) ............... 56
Wolfir Silverheart meet JTMS in Vintage (June 21, 2014) .......................................................................... 60
[Modern] Nissa Revane Selesnya Deck (June 24, 2014) ............................................................................. 65
[Vintage] Blue Black Artifacts (June 26, 2014) ............................................................................................ 74
Epic game against a Power Nine deck Part 1 (June 26, 2014) .................................................................... 82
Epic game against a Power Nine deck Part 4 (June 26, 2014) .................................................................. 107
[Modern] Optimized Grave Titan (June 28, 2014) .................................................................................... 116
[Modern] Liliana Vess + Grave Titan (June 28, 2014) ............................................................................... 119
[Standard] URG Slivers (July 9, 2014)........................................................................................................ 123
[Modern] Tibalt and Baby Jace (August 6, 2014) ...................................................................................... 129
[Legacy] Duel Deck Elves online (August 7, 2014) .................................................................................... 134
[Standard] White Black Enchantment Creatures Optimizaed (August 9, 2014) ....................................... 143
[Vintage] Mega life combo I lost to. (August 17, 2014) ............................................................................ 149
[Standard] Act on Impulse aggro tryout with Black, and then with Green mana (August 17, 2014) ....... 158
[Legacy] A White deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 22, 2014) ............................................. 164
[Legacy] A Blue deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 22, 2014) ............................................... 170
[Legacy] A Black deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 23, 2014) .............................................. 178
[Legacy] A Red deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 23, 2014) ................................................ 186
[Legacy] A Green deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 23, 2014)............................................. 194
[Standard] Blue Artifacts Post-rotation Prep (August 24, 2014) .............................................................. 201
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[Legacy] White Black deck with mostly Mirage cards (August 29, 2014) ................................................. 209
[Legacy] Pros Bloom adapted to 2014 casual (August 29, 2014).............................................................. 219
[Legacy] Baby Steps with Pros Bloom (August 29, 2014).......................................................................... 229
[Legacy] Blue Black JTMS Fun Deck (August 30, 2014) ............................................................................. 232
[Legacy] Blue Black JTMS Fun Deck vs Casual 12-Post (August 30, 2014) ................................................ 236
[Modern] Back to Elves (September 1, 2014) ........................................................................................... 252
[Modern] Elves versus White Weenies Fun Game (September 1, 2014) ................................................. 256
[Modern] Elves with Friends Version 2 (September 1, 2014) ................................................................... 267
[Modern] Elves version 2 Fun Game (Elspeth ultimate) (September 1, 2014) ......................................... 275
[Modern] Esper Gifts Basic Deck (September 2, 2014)............................................................................. 283
[Modern] A few Elves with Friends Version 2 games (September 6, 2014) ............................................. 294
[Modern] Elves Version 3 in Tournament Practice (September 7, 2014) ................................................. 301
[Modern] Elves Version 3 in Tournament Practice Super Game (September 7, 2104) ............................ 312
[Standard] Pre-rotation reanimator shell (September 11, 2014) ............................................................. 318
[Vintage] Fun with some awesome cards (September 13, 2014) ............................................................. 322
[Legacy] White Blue Legacy learning deck (September 13, 2014) ............................................................ 328
[Legacy] Learner deck for Mirage and Visions White Blue (September 14, 2014) ................................... 334
[Legacy] Future Sight JTMS Combo Mono Blue (September 16, 2014) .................................................... 342
[Legacy] Black Devotion Fun Deck (September 20, 2014) ........................................................................ 351
[Legacy] Red Devotion Goblin Deck (September 20, 2014) ...................................................................... 360
[Legacy] Another Future Sight JTMS Combo Deck (September 22, 2014) ............................................... 364
[Standard] Green Devotion (September 27, 2014) ................................................................................... 370

[Modern] Back to basics with Super Green (January 25, 2014)
I went back to the basic design I had for this deck. I put the playset of Wurmcoil Engine in the sideboard
(you will think its a waste, but anyways...)

Against a casual deck, this deck can be a beast. Here is an example.

Once I have soulbonded the Wolfir Silverheart, the highest power is EIGHT, and I have Nykthos to give
me tons of mana to play all these cards as soon as I draw them.
Second time around I have 16 mana!
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Elite Arcanist-Zhur Taa Druid-Triton Tactics Infinite Combo (February 26,
2014)
Here are two screen shots. It triggers 1 hits from Zhur Taa Druid without the need to tap any lands.
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WBR Aurelia in RTR to BNG Standard (March 8, 2014)
This deck idea started as a simple Boros deck showcasing playsets of Legion's Initiative and Aurelia. Only
Aurelia is left, and after a string of embarrassing loses against all those Dimir decks, I decided to add
black.
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Turn 6, Howl of the Nightpack drops a bunch of tokens.
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Turn 10, I play a lone Exava that takes me all the way to the win. I end up with a second Exava in my
hand that I do not need to play. Pacisfiam helped a lot. At this point I have one in the battlefield.
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More turns (here is turn 14), more creature attrition, but Exava stays through.
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Turn 17: Here is my second Pacifism, the play that turned the tide in my favor.
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Turn 20: Once Exava is enchanted with Ethereal Armor, it is a 7/7 and I can grind all of my opponent's
fatties.
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Turn 25: Dreadbore helps with removal of said green fatties.
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Turn 29, For the Win (FTW).
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AVR Casual Modern: Descendant's Path Take 2, now Simic Humans +
Wolfir Silverheart (March 16, 2014)
Title says it all. I took a hint from the artwork and exchanged the wolves for humans, but the deck
needed some punch. I added Wolfir Silverheart, which I cannot auto-cast unless I have another one on
the board, but can hard-cast later in the game For The Win (FTW). Ghostly Flicker is awesome: I can
bring back an Omenspeaker for Scry 2 and an additional land from Borderland Ranger.
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Here is the deck. I have been playing it a lot today, and it is a ton of fun.
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Here are three screenshots from fun games. First one is when I overwhelm with all the creatures I got to
free cast or to cast with Prophet of Kruphix.
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Here are double soul-bonded Wingcrafter and Wolfir Silverheart.
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And here I beat an opponent with a 28/28 critter because I can chump block turn after turn with my
free-casted humans.
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AVR Modern Casual: Zombies build-around Dread Slaver (March 17,
2014)
This deck is a lot of fun.
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Here is a board state example. I wanted to have some flying zombies in this deck.
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Modern Zombies Casual: Philactery Lich build-around (March 17, 2014)
It is a very fickle deck because if you only have one artifact on the board and it gets destroyed or exiled,
so do any Philactery Lich on the board. It is still a fun deck.
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Here is a board state example.
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[Modern] Mono Black Titan (April 28, 2014)
This deck is a lot of fun. Grave Titan is the expected finisher, but Essence Scatter has won me a game or
two. I am running a play set of Nykthos (not shown).
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Here is Essence Scatter winning me a game.
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[Standard] Devotion to White shell ahead of Nyx (May 9, 2014)
I looked at Enchantment Creatures, and white seems to have the most balanced selection.
Here is the deck, with a sample game I lost valiantly.
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My opponent's deck was very well designed. Use Cyclonic Rift to pull creatures into your opponent's
hand, then exiled them from everywhere using Reap Intellect.
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Here comes an Elixir of Immortality.
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And here I get my remaining creatures exiled... ouch!
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[Modern] Devotion to Green in Tournament Practice (May 12, 2014)
I don't know how bad this deck will perform in Tournament Practice. I will be happy winning 50 percent
of the time with it. It costs considerably less to build than the established decks, even though I do not
ever see it becoming established.
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Game 1: Won, against a Pyromancer Blue-Red deck.
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Game 2: Lost, against a Cryptic Command, Snapcaster Mage, Esper Charm, White Sun's Zenith deck.
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Game 3: auto-lose against Tarmogoyf Naya Zoo, Wild Nacatl, Kird Ape, LIghtning Bolt, Lightning Helix,
Path to Exile.....a very quick death 0-2 match! And that is why the Goyf is the most expensive creature in
Modern!
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Game 4: Won 2-1 against a Sakura Tribe Elder, Valakut deck. I lost the first game badly, but I used all of
my land destruction from the side board to win the next two games.
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Game 5: Won 2-1 against a Batterskull, Liliana of the Veil, Damnation, Thoutghtseize, Inquisition of
Kozilek deck. The third game was a 20 turn marathon. I find myself switching in Bramblecrush too often;
it is time to main-deck it.
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I went 3-2 with the first configuration, which is not bad.
In the new configuration I have 3 Bramblecrush main-decked, and this was just what I needed when I
faced a Tron deck in game 6. I won a very decisive 2-0 against this deck.
In game one my opponent was able to triple his Urza lands to drop a Wurmcoil Engine, but Acidic Slime
killed it with deathtouch.
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My opponent played some counter spells, but I have many creatures in my deck. I was able early on to
soulbond a Wolfir Silverheart to activate drawing 8 cards with Garruk.
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Here a Cyclonic Rift sends all of my non-land permanents back to my hand, but Nykthos allows me to
recover only losing one land that I did not need.
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Here is the gg kamikaze with double soulbonded Wolfirs.
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Game 2 was even more decisive. My opponent may have realized that I had enough land destruction to
win against Tron, and it sure looks like I do judging by this one match. Of course, I need to play this deck
many times against Tron. I could have just gotten lucky during this match.
As of May 12
Configuration 1: 3-2
Configuration 2: 1-0
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[Modern] Devotion to White with Mesa Enchantress and Mentor of the
Meek (June 1, 2014)
This is a really fun deck. Once it gets going you can draw tons of cards. Not shown: play set of Nykthos.
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Here is a game I just played. I gained a ton of life and had oodles of mana to play the cards I drew, and
because I kept drawing enchantments and weenies, I could draw more!
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Here is a better configuration. There are too many powerful artifacts and enchantments in Modern. I am
also considering main-decking some Path to Exiles.
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Wolfir Silverheart meet JTMS in Vintage (June 21, 2014)
I ditched my first build, it was lame. I am back to my favorite combo: Wolfir Silverheart anything. I also
added Null Rod. I really need artifact hate in Vintage.
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Here is a first game (I won).
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Here is another game (I won this one too).
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[Modern] Nissa Revane Selesnya Deck (June 24, 2014)
This deck is all-right. It can take off if none of the mana dorks get bolted.
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And here is a random selection of a few won games.
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[Vintage] Blue Black Artifacts (June 26, 2014)
Here is me playing with a play set of Mishra's Workshop and other goodies.
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Here is a sample of games. In the first one Dack Fayden took my creature (ouch!).
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I lost against an Exalted deck a couple of times.
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Here I won against mono-black. Those two Mishra's Workshop enable me to drop one of my fatties.
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Here I lorded a couple of cards.
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And here I beat a mono-red deck against a somewhat rude player (that felt good, there is no room in
Just for Fun for people not to be fun!).
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Epic game against a Power Nine deck Part 1 (June 26, 2014)
I will give you the punch line: I lost, of course, but I lost to an incredible deck. There are so many classic
plays in this game that I took the time to make a gigantic load of screen shots from which I need to
learn. My opponent was gracious and willing to play the game out just to teach me a little and I am very
thankful. Tabasco is a class act. Thanks, Tabasco!
Here is the part of the game when I think I can win. When your opponent is playing Crucible of Worlds,
run for your life.
There is already a Mox on the board. Here is another Power Nine: Time Walk.
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I merrily play a couple of my creatures and hit hard.
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I guess the tutor was for Timetwister.
Here is the new deck I drew thanks to Timetwister.
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Tinker gets my opponent to cast a fatty.
And I am lucky to use Cruel Edict against it.
At this point I think I am really slick....
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Now it gets ugly.
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I get a new hand thanks to Time Spiral.
Here is another Mox.
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Here is a second play of Timetwister.
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And here is Hurky's Recall, the most valuable card from Tenth Edition.
I now have 11 cards in my hand!
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Here comes Windfall.
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My opponent is down to 1 life, but Tabasco can sacrifice a land to get 2 life using one of his artifacts, and
then he can play that land from the graveyard using Crucible of Worlds.
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Here is my brand new hand.
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I am almost milled out and my opponent is filling the battlefield with all of those sweet cards available in
Vintage. Now follow extra turns and building up mana.
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Here is a much needed life gain using Tendrils of Agony.
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More storm shenanigans.
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This could be a fatty being tutored.
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More hand disruption.....ouch.
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Voltaic Cell is used to activate Mana Vault.
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And here is the grand finale! Here I lose all but one of my permanents to Emrakul the Eons Torn.
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I get another hand (again!)
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Another extra turn.
More card draw.
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And here Tabasco is just showing off his sweet new cards, which I sure did not mind. Here is Gifts
Ungiven.
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I picked Lich's Mirror and Black Lotus for the graveyard.
Here begins a sequence to tutor a card from the graveyard.
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And here is that card being played.
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[Modern] Optimized Grave Titan (June 28, 2014)
Grave Titan is every Johnny's dream.
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Here is the Titan doing his thing.
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[Modern] Liliana Vess + Grave Titan (June 28, 2014)
This deck needs some more optimization. Right now it is just a pre-M15 preparation deck.
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Here is a game that I lost. I need to optimize the deck a little more.
This is not the best deck to build around Liliana Vess. The tutor ability needs to be used for
something big, really big.
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[Standard] URG Slivers (July 9, 2014)
Blue-Red-Green Slivers are a lot of fun. I started with Simic Slivers but the deck just wasn't fast
enough. I needed the one-drop red Sliver and it does not hurt to also have some red removal.
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Here are four games, all wins.
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Mirror match against a deck very similar to how I started this deck.
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[Modern] Tibalt and Baby Jace (August 6, 2014)
This deck is a ton of fun. In earlier versions I came close or milled myself, and now I have added
Elixir of Immortality.
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Here are a couple of games. I have lost either very close or gallantly or both.
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[Legacy] Duel Deck Elves online (August 7, 2014)
Obviously this is a very well-designed deck. Thanks, Wizards! I first played against a white-red
competitive deck in Just for Fun, and that was no fun (opponent blocked for life!). But then I
played two casual players and I had a blast.
Here is the deck ($7 from the bots for everything!!!)
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And here is my third game, in which this deck just went wild. Slate of Ancestry gives me a new
hand.
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Wellwisher lets me gain one life for each elf I control.
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Elvish Promenade gives me an elf token for each elf on the battlefield (sweet!).
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25 tokens.
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It was gg already, and I only attacked with the tokens. That was enough.
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[Standard] White Black Enchantment Creatures Optimizaed (August 9,
2014)
Now with Ajani's Pridemate and Bale Blight.
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And here is a game. This deck is so awesome!
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I had enough pairs of white-black mana to activate Underworld Coinsmith FTW (For The Win).
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[Vintage] Mega life combo I lost to. (August 17, 2014)
Here is the final screen shot. Those avatars are crazy big!
Here is how this combo works:
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Serra Avatar's power and toughness are equal to your life's total. With Oath of Druids, you fill
your graveyards with cards that give you life to Trostani, and then with Gaea's Blessing you
reshuffle your graveyard into your deck. Rinse, repeat, for some gigantic life gain possibilities.
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[Standard] Act on Impulse aggro tryout with Black, and then with Green
mana (August 17, 2014)
This first try is a fail, maybe I need to add white to have access to exiling cards, or blue for more
draw.... I needed only one-drops or two-drops to use it at a reasonable time. Maybe with blue and
wait out to have lots of land..... Anyways, the aggro approach did not work.
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The green mana version works a lot better. It is still one color away from being good.
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Actually, I just won a couple of games... this deck is officially working.
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[Legacy] A White deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 22,
2014)
A permanent loser, as all decks of this type tend to be, yet a great way to play test cards I have
not played before and it is a lot cheaper than a limited event! Here is the deck.
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Here are two board states.
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[Legacy] A Blue deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 22, 2014)
This deck is living proof that any deck with two 2 copies of Jace the Mind Sculptor (JTMS), only
really need to be able to play JTMS with proper cover, no matter what those cards are. I like
Boomerang!
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Here is a game. Notice my left card has Phased. I still need to understand what the point of
Phasing is, I know I at least got a card out of it with this one card I played. At some point JTMS
took over.
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[Legacy] A Black deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 23, 2014)
This deck has a lot of cards that are easy and fun to play.
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The Urza lands just aren't fair... Here is a beating.
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[Legacy] A Red deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 23, 2014)
This deck is really fun to play, and unlike the other mono-colored decks, it has won me games.
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Here are two board states.
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If Dwarven Miner is not immediately answered, you are cleaning out your opponent's dual lands
once a turn... ouch!
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[Legacy] A Green deck only with cards from Mirage set (August 23,
2014)
Another fun deck. Maybe not as well tooled as the red one, but still loads of fun.
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Here is a board state. Legacy is a lot of fun!
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[Standard] Blue Artifacts Post-rotation Prep (August 24, 2014)
This deck only has cards from the four non-rotating sets (THS+M15). It is a permanent loser, of
course, because even in "Just for fun" people play their 77 planeswalkers tournament deck, or
they play with all of the current sets in Standard (I do that, too, of course!).
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Here is an awesome combo: a 5/5 flyer by turn 2.
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Here are some board states.
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Here is one of those 77 planeswalker tournament decks. I was able to place one of the Vraskas in
the graveyard, but there were a few dozen more in that deck (just kidding, I am sure there were
only four).
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[Legacy] White Black deck with mostly Mirage cards (August 29, 2014)
This deck is somewhat weak, but the point is for me to experience as many of these cards as possible.
Here is the first iteration.
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Here is a game.
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I took out the Armageddons and added Murder and planeswalkers.
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Here is a game.
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[Legacy] Pros Bloom adapted to 2014 casual (August 29, 2014)
I came across this deck while researching Mirage block in the MTG Salvation Wiki. Here is the
information from a page kept by Wizards on it, the cards laid out, and the planned substitutions.
Vampiric Tutor is the major miss because it is banned in Legacy. Also, I had to use a cheap tutor
because I only wanted to spend $5 in additional cards (and I did!).
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Here are my bot buys.
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And here is my very first take on this deck. This is originally a creature-less deck in the Standard
format of its day. I felt I needed a few walls. Wish me luck!!!
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[Legacy] Baby Steps with Pros Bloom (August 29, 2014)
A lot has changed since this deck was a dominant Standard deck.... there are so many ways to
lose with it in the current adaptation, and I just don't know how to pull the combo off correctly.
In the first step to master the deck I was at least able to boost Drain Life by exiling my hand
except for it to Cadaverous Bloom.
My opponent has three Armadillo Cloak on a Crypt Rat.
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I was able to exile enough cards for an X=7 activation of Drain Life.
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Now I need to figure out how to maximize Prosperity and I still don't know what I am supposed
to do with Squandered Resources... time to do some more research.
August 30 update: I annoyed the living daylights out of players in Just for Fun trying to learn to
how to use this deck, and I got stuck with Natural Balance.... I simply do not understand what I
am supposed to do. I will pause on this experiment until I find enough people willing to play
against me with this deck. Upside: I finally know how to insert comments online.
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[Legacy] Blue Black JTMS Fun Deck (August 30, 2014)
It still has Boomerang, but Counterspell will be better.
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This deck can have some really fun states, but is a near permanent loser at this point. Legacy is
not a forgiving format to a beautiful card like Underworld Dreams.... I love the card, but a 3-drop
in Legacy needs to be a lot better.
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[Legacy] Blue Black JTMS Fun Deck vs Casual 12-Post (August 30, 2014)
I don't stand a chance against the money a.k.a. tournament version of this deck. Casual and
tournament versions use Glimmerpost and Cloudpost as lands of type Locus, hence the name. In
the casual version the other four posts to make twelve come from Thespian's Stage becoming a
post.
The tournament version has Primeval Titan, Emrakul the Aeons Torn, Ulamog the Infinite Gyre,
Kozilek Butcher of Truth. The version in this game transcript uses Colossus of Akros from
Theros, a much more budget-friendly (read, cheaper) option.
The tournament version has a bunch of other cards that would break my budget: Sensei's
Divining Top, Candelabra of Tawnos, Show and Tell Misty Rainforest, Tropical Island, Vesuva,
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Force of Will (in the sideboard as a playset, which is like
having your other car be a Rolls Royce), Leyline of Sanctity.
Starting off my opponent is not limited by hand size with Reliquary Tower.
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Here I Boomerang one of his artifact lands.
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Here Day of Judgement (casual version of Wrath of God) wipes out my creatures.
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I get to play my first Grave Titan (I love this card!).
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First Colossus comes in.
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I Boomerang it.
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I get to attack for one hit with Grave Titan.
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I get hit with another Day of Judgement.
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Here comes another Colossus.
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I ultimate my baby Jace (Jace Beleren) to mill for 20 cards.
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I drop Jace the Mind Sculptor (JTMS) for his -1 to Boomerang the Colossus. JTMS is
AWESOME!!! Such a broken card!
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I drop my second Grave Titan after a Day of Judgement cleans out my first one.
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One hit from my second Grave Titan.
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Here comes yet another Day of Judgement followed by the heavy tutor from Dark Ascension
(Infinite Ambition). Tutors are very expensive and this is definitely a budget version as a 5 drop
(love the art, by-the-way).
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And here I drop a Consume Spirit for-the-win (FTW).
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[Modern] Back to Elves (September 1, 2014)
I consider doing a Naya Elves build, but mono-green Elves is so much better. I learned a lot from
playing the Elves Duel Deck: 1-of's and 2-of's can be really good in a deck, don't over-do lords. I
already knew that having more than one win condition is a good thing, and this deck has them: a
bunch of little creatures lorded, or drop a gigantic game-ending fatty, or combo with a Wolfir, or
draw a ton of cards with Garruk, Primal Hunter.
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Here is Ezuri doing his thing.
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[Modern] Elves versus White Weenies Fun Game (September 1, 2014)
I lost valiantly! Day of Judgement is the Most Valuable Card (MVC) of casual Magic. I generate
8 mana with my elves.
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I use my 8 mana to destroy two lands with two Bramblecrush.
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Day of Judgement (need I say more?).
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Wurmcoil Engine fuels my comeback.
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With Ezuri I am gaining life and whiping out Weenies.
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I lose Wurmcoil but the tokens allow me to continue to be in the lead.
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Day of Judgement.
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Emeria, the Sky Ruin allows my opponent to, turn after turn, transfer all of his creatures from the
graveyard to the battlefield.
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Garruk, Primal Hunter comes in two or three turns too late for me to recover.
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Souldbonded Wolfir Silverheart is awesome but here it is too late.
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[Modern] Elves with Friends Version 2 (September 1, 2014)
I took out Worlspine Wurm and Quicksilver Amulet to have more Wurmcoil Engines and more
Wolfir Silverhearts. Now this deck can really rock. In the game I show below I took Nissa to its
ultimate.
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Here is a super fun game with this AWESOME deck.First comes a Massacre Wurm, and I lose a
few of my elves.
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Black Sun's Zenith reduces the power of my soul-bonded Wurmcoil Engine.
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A second Massacre Wurm after my opponent played an Elixir of Immortality.
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Rune-Scarred Demon.
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Nissa ultimate.
This deck needs Joraga Warcaller... lost badly against an Elves deck with this card.
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[Modern] Elves version 2 Fun Game (Elspeth ultimate) (September 1,
2014)
What I learned from all those Day of Judgement board wipes was to send my critters in waves. I
now always leave a couple in my hand for the next wave. Here is my first wave. Notice Elspeth
is already at 9.
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I draw a ton with Slate of Ancestry.
Damnation board wipe.
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Elspeth ultimate (notice emblem making all of my opponent's permanents indestructible).
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Oblivion Ring to my Garruk, Primal Hunter.
Pacifism to my Wurmcoil Engine.
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Here I continue to build my army.
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And here is the winning avalanche. I had 15 cards in my deck and did not active my card draw to
make sure I did not mill myself.
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[Modern] Esper Gifts Basic Deck (September 2, 2014)
This is no longer a shell, and it works! I would love to add the new fetchlands to it and see it go
off turns 4 and 5 every time.
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Here is a game in which I show how Gifts Ungiven works. I started with a God hand, and this is
very rarely the case.
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I place two fatties in my graveyard.
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I place one on the battlefield by hard-casting Unburial Rites as a 5-drop.
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Here is my fattie on the battlefield.
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Notice that the Flashback cost for Unburial Rites is 4 mana. Cards with Flashback cost more to
Flashback than to hard cast, and this one card has the opposite set-up.
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And here is my second fattie on the battlefield. At this point my opponent gave up.
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And here is a game against RDW. If I can land the whale, its gg because my opponent cannot
attack with creatures. A single Gifts Ungiven is so effective that even Snapcaster Mage becomes
a supporting card!
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[Modern] A few Elves with Friends Version 2 games (September 6,
2014)
Here are three losses. First one is against the mirror that uses Genesis Wave, the Urza lands, and
Emrakul.
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Loss against black deathtouch.
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Loss against RDW. I got mana screwed and pulled all my fatties early.
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Here are four wins (for this run I lost 5 or so and won maybe 8, but some wins are against the
same deck). Here is a rats win I lost against once and won against twice.
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Won against a slow mill deck.
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Won against a very casual BUG deck.
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This is the best win because my opponent was playing some tournament-quality cards
(Snapcaster Mage, Path to Exile, fetchlands).
Out of 28 games I won 19 and lost 9. In 2 or 3 of the loses my opponent stalled and I conceded,
and in 2 or 3 of my wins the opposite happened. Therefore, a more accurate count is 17 wins and
7 losses. I am playing in Just for Fun, of course, and in no way is this deck a competitive deck. If
I went into tournament practice I would most likely lose every game!
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[Modern] Elves Version 3 in Tournament Practice (September 7, 2014)
I played four matches, won 2, lost 2.
Here is the deck.
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Here is a match I won against an Academy Ruins/Mindslaver combo. The first game against it sucked
because I was not maindecking enough Bramblecrushes to take out the Academy Ruins. But that
changed during the other games.
Here is a hard-casted Mindslaver.
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Here is my opponent digging a Mindslaver from his/her graveyard using Academy Ruins.
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My opponent names Nissa Revane with a Pithing Needle. I did not play this card in the following games.
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Here is the Pithing Needle naming a Nissa Revane I now have in my sideboard (psych!). I was able to
start off aggro and easily won this game.
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Here is a game from a match I lost against a Pack Rat deck.
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Here is a game from a match I lost against beefed-up Skulkers.
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Here is a game from a match I won. I lost this game against the super-beefed-up Skulker.
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Here my opponent sacrifices Skulker to get an army of tokens. Nice play!
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[Modern] Elves Version 3 in Tournament Practice Super Game
(September 7, 2104)
Here is a game where my opponent could not remove enough of my elves and I was able to have
a permanent cycle.
My opponent was able to gain a ton of life with Sangromancer.
"Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life."
He/she had two of these and they are flyers. This was my opponent's only way to exact damage
against my legion of elves.
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I was low in life and near milling myself when Elixir of Immortality put me back to a full deck
and with a little more life.
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Both of my Slate of Ancestry are on the board.
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Once I play Nissa I can start gaining life for every elf I control.
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At some point my opponent gave up. I was about to gain a ton of life, and about to hit with a
legion of elves, two soul-bonded Wolfir Silverhearts, and two Wurmcoil Engines.
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[Standard] Pre-rotation reanimator shell (September 11, 2014)
It is missing pieces I am sure will come out in Khans of Tarkir. No sideboard since this is just a
shell.
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Surprisingly, I am able to drop the leviathan in one out of two games!
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And I even got to ultimate Liliana!
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[Vintage] Fun with some awesome cards (September 13, 2014)
Vintage rocks! Now that I have several awesome cards, I can make an Esper (White, Blue,
Black) deck with them. Believe or not, this is still a casual deck, even though it has some
superstars. A true tournament deck in Vintage has Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall, and a play set
of Force of Will, and I am not going that way, period. Also, reanimator is not a winning strategy
in Vintage for as long as Gifts Ungiven is a restricted card.
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Here is Gifts Ungiven doing its thing.
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Turned Delvers are great against red aggro.
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[Legacy] White Blue Legacy learning deck (September 13, 2014)
Now that I am using a few Invasion cards, all of a sudden my decks are more fun. I get it why
Invasion is so popular, especially Kicker (this ability had me at 'hello'). This shell is great for
casual cards: 2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor, and playsets of Swords to Plowshares and Counterspell.
Ardent Soldier from Invasion is a ton of fun, and so is Ophidian (I just pulled a paper version
yesterday).
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Here is a Sliver deck that didn't have a fighting chance against JTMS: every time my opponent
placed a selected Sliver on the top of his or her library, I had Jace to sweep it up.
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Before there was Aetherling in Dragon's Maze, there was Morphling.
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My opponent had a deck built around Haakon, Stromgald Scourge (lets you play Knights from
the graveyard). I almost won, but the Haakon deck was the better deck for sure.
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[Legacy] Learner deck for Mirage and Visions White Blue (September
14, 2014)
I am keeping the Future Sight-JTMS combo in a light version. It comes up rarely with only two
of each of these cards and that means I get to play the learner cards often. There are some uses
for phasing... especially on tokens. Who knew? This version has two Future Sight, but I have
gone to three... otherwise, it does not come up often enough.
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Here is the combo gone wild.
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And here is why Just for Fun Legacy sometimes is all about someone with a tournament deck
play testing against a weak deck and using that deck as a punching bag.
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And here is a board state of the optimized deck. It is bonkers!
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[Legacy] Future Sight JTMS Combo Mono Blue (September 16, 2014)
Can you imagine if Wizards released a Legacy product with this deck?
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And here is a casual game in which I got to place most of this deck on the battlefield. Elixir of
Immortality kept me from milling myself several times.
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I continue to drop critters.
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This game is pretty much locked. I have been able to use and recycle many counterspells. My
opponent was unable to drop any of a long list of killer black spells (Black Sun's Zenith and
others).
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Finally I can flip three of my Delvers.
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Here I am about to ultimate my first JTMS.
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Here I use my second JTMS to put back the locking critter to my opponent's hand.
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Final barrage.
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[Legacy] Black Devotion Fun Deck (September 20, 2014)
This deck is a ton of fun. The games are close, and sometimes I even win against decks with Legacy
staples, and I am basically playing none of the Legacy staples in this deck.
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Here Grave Titan is doing his thing.
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My opponent had an unblockable critter and I lost a close game.
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Here I lose against a well-built reanimator deck.
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Underworld Dreams can win a game.
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Here is Grave Titan again doing his thing.
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[Legacy] Red Devotion Goblin Deck (September 20, 2014)
Very fast decks, and mono-red, or RDW (Red Deck Wins), annoy many players. I played this
deck just enough to optimize it, but no more, since I am not a fan of playing very quick RDW
games, either by playing RDW, or by playing against RDW. I could optimize this deck a lot
more, but I don't want to alienate the three people who play Legacy Just for Fun. (Just kidding,
but not really kidding, after 50 or so games, you begin to recognize usernames with such a small
pool of players.) The deck is too fast for a four drop artifact....
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Here is a game against an Ensnaring Bridge-Isochron Scepter deck. If you can't destroy both of
these artifacts, you can't win, especially when the card that Isochron Scepter is playing is
Lightning Bolt, and the critter on the board is the Izzet guildmage from Ravnica: City of Guilds,
and the guildmage copies Lightning Bolt: a sick combo.
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And then there are the matchups where by turn 5 I am ready to deploy an invincible army of
Goblins. Those games are not that much fun, and I shy away from playing RDW for that reason.
Also, RDW tends to be a linear strategy and gets boring really quickly.
[Legacy] Another Future Sight JTMS Combo Deck (September 22, 2014)
I am sure my opponents in the small community that is Legacy Just for Fun (all four of
them...just kidding!) are sick and tired of my Future Sight JTMS combos, but I am definitely not.
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My opponent gave up at some point in the game shown below.
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[Standard] Green Devotion (September 27, 2014)
I take a few weeks after a set comes out to make significant buys of the new cards. In order to
play Standard, I need a deck that does well with all the old cards, and against the new cards. I
think this deck has a chance. Nykthos is in the deck as a play set, of course.
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Here are some games.
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