What WOE cards are you guys most excited about? Personally I am really curious about the Young Hero Role cards: [[Besotted Knight]] and [[Return Triumphant]]. The Young Hero Role seems really strong with cards that can consume +1/+1 counters, such as [[Experiment One]], [[Festercreep]], [[Shinewend]] and [[Phantom Nomad]]. Also...
Hi folks, I’m wondering how you organise your wishlist/tradelists. I’m not looking for much, I just want to have a place to save two lists of cards; one with cards that I want to trade away/sell and one with cards that I want to trade for/buy....
To be clear, I’m not really interested in in-app trading which is why I’m considering just making a spreadsheet. If the lists in there are easily shared and viewed “manually” I’m happy to use it, though. Do you have a screenhot of how the wishlist and tradlist look when browsing through them?
I think it’s very unlikely to get metalcraft. Ichor wellsprings are usually sacrificed quite soon after you get them out (to [[Makeshift Munitions]], [[Annihilating glare]] or [[Deadly Dispute]]) and Myr Servitors don’t always come in multiples and are easy to kill. I suppose with more artifact lands you could get there, but that leaves you much more vulnerable to artifact hate.
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Sultai Emissary and [[Bayou Groff]] have really good synergy. The Groff is a great manifest target and it can sac the emissary if you play it normally, but I don’t quite see how I can make this work as a deck. It seems most people tend to want to abuse manifest by manifesting something huge and flickering it, but I feel that that line of play is a little bit too convoluted to be worth it, although it is nice that [[Soul Summons]] and [[Ephemerate]] are both white.
I think the trick to playing the Emissary is to have a decent volume of OK manifest targets in the deck, some sac value stuff and not overthinking it too much beyond that.
[[Scythe Tiger]] and [[Rogue Elephant]] are also good value manifest target, but their ETB effects are not so nice if you have them in hand. Perhaps in a sacrifice oriented deck they could be worthwhile if you just sac them as they ETB to trigger something like [[Mortician Beetle]]? Flipping a manifested Tiger in response to a removal spell is quite sexy, though.
I think carrion feed is a good idea, at least, but I would be careful about going too deep into pure sac outlets. The Groff and the Morkrut Behemoth are already doing double duty as good manifest targets and sac outlets (and decent topdecks). Higher creature density makes manifest better in general, though.
I worry that without sufficient card draw or filtering you can end up with some pretty dead hands. Perhaps [[Elven Farsight]] is a safe inclusion that will always be helpful and is great for setting up manifest, too.
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And, people don’t need to redraft every single session, you can keepmthe decks around for a few nights at a time if that’s what people want.
That's actually a neat idea, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the tip!
I think I want to make a cube and ideally support draft, fat stack and sealed. That way we can change it up as we see fit.
Do you think cubes work best when they replicate a realistic draft experience (e.g. just sleeve up a bunch of packs or maintain a certain card rarity ratio), or when they contain a broad mix of hand picked unique one-of cards? I find myself drawn to the notion of making a more "true to real life" card pool where you can get multiples of the same card and you mostly get commons and uncommons.
I have tried to build a one-of-each-card cube with powerful and interesting cards in the past but I think it came across as quite overwhelming. Every single card in every single pack you draft is unique and all the cards your opponent plays are unique. Kinda exhausting to read and understand to many different cards and mechanics for people who don't have a lot of card knowledge. I think those types of cubes are mostly good to keep veteran players intrigued and engaged.
I think Cube + Constructed commander is all we really need as a playgroup, maybe. Cube for fairness and variety, Commander for fun deck building and using your cards in pet decks (I suspect that some will enjoy that). I can lend out EDH decks to those that don't have their own and help them with proxies to build their own if they wish.
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What WOE cards are you guys most excited about? Personally I am really curious about the Young Hero Role cards: [[Besotted Knight]] and [[Return Triumphant]]. The Young Hero Role seems really strong with cards that can consume +1/+1 counters, such as [[Experiment One]], [[Festercreep]], [[Shinewend]] and [[Phantom Nomad]]. Also...
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Seems like a neat little deck.
Where you do keep your wishlist/tradelist?
Hi folks, I’m wondering how you organise your wishlist/tradelists. I’m not looking for much, I just want to have a place to save two lists of cards; one with cards that I want to trade away/sell and one with cards that I want to trade for/buy....
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A classic combo that I’ve personally never seen in action. There is something about combo decks in Pauper that feels unappealing to me....
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Decklist...
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What are some Pauper legal cards you think are really cool, but haven't found a use for (at least not yet)?
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Choosing the right format for my friend group – EDH, Cube, Pauper or something else?
Hi folks. I have recently introduced a couple of friends to MTG. I've played the game for quite a while on and off (started in 2013) and have also played a bit competitively at times (Modern and limited). I've been out of the game for a couple of years and recently got back into it....