For the #magicthegathering pauper players out there, can anyone help me find a deck to play?
I like engine-focused combo decks like storm or grinding station, and aggressive tempo-centric decks like arclight phoenix or prowess decks, and especially decks that combine the two somewhat. What decks would interest me?
Moxfield allows you to search for decks which contain a specific card, and allows you to filter by format. If you have a pet card or a specific group of cards which fit your gameplay style, you can set the format and search for decks containing it/them.
For instance, here are the results for Empty the Warrens for the main budget formats:
It's interesting that #Modern seems to be the single-biggest driver of the MTG secondary market. Changes in meta and legality in Legacy/Standard almost never have any effect on card prices, but changes in Modern are very often met with HUGE swings.
It's making more sense why LOTR was direct-to-Modern, and also why it will likely become the best-selling set ever (usurping Modern Horizons II; a fact which caught me completely off-guard).
My favorite scene in The Lord of the Rings was when the 2-4 bands of travelers who were each carrying copies of The One Ring met on a battlefield and started summoning orcs and horrors to fight beside them to try and kill the other group(s). Then, when all but one group was destroyed, everything blinked out of existence until 2-4 new bands of travelers suddenly appeared out of the ether and began engaging in the same behavior.
I think one of the best ways that the Magic: The Gathering Lord of the Rings set is paying homage to to the original stories is that by the time I get halfway through reading most of the cards, I've lost interest and moved on to something else.
Feedback on Black Gardens Deck?
What if anything would you change about this deck?...