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PrognosticMind 
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 Posted: September 18 2014 at 17:10 |
Constructed an experimental goblin/aggro deck. I'm excited to test it out after the gym this evening  .
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Posted: September 17 2014 at 07:16 |
Setting up last night's game; it was nearly a clean-sweep with the U/G Hornet Queen deck  .
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 16 2014 at 17:59 |
Played a bunch of games at the lady's house post-dinner last evening; always a good time.
I'm hoping to fit a few games in later this evening; my updated U/G deck is swinging pretty heavy  .
Any good games/recent pickups lately, guys/gals?
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 15 2014 at 15:44 |
As I predicted Master of Predicaments is a super fun card to play in both standard and modern.
Almost time for Khans, people...
Edited by PrognosticMind - September 15 2014 at 15:45
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 14 2014 at 10:45 |
Going to be playing some serious MTG later this afternoon.
Sunday Night Magic at my place  .
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 13 2014 at 07:57 |
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Yeah, I'm thinking about drafting Mercurial Pretender and Master of Predicaments into my main green/blue deck. I think they'll provide a nice variance to my main strategy. MoP could be an awesome late-gamer to get something into play, and Pretender could double a Terra Stomper thats got trample, lol.
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Meltdowner
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Posted: September 13 2014 at 06:36 |
Nice intro deck. You have some creatures on the other spells by the way. That Master of Predicaments seems like a fun card to play 
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 13 2014 at 06:09 |
Picked up the following intro deck this evening while out with the girlfriend. The reason being for the price, you can't beat what you're getting here. It came with two additional booster packs, and I bought a third on the side as well. I actually made out quite well with my boosters, pulling a Master of Predicaments and Avacyn, Guardian Angel.
The deck played surprisingly smooth considering it's composed of cards I almost never play (and avoid, to an extent). I never found the "bounce" cards very helpful, but they make all sorts of sense now that I've played them in combination with one another. Mercurial Pretender is an awesome card! I swept the first game with this deck right out of the box (after sleeving it, of course):
Here's what the "Hit The Ground Running" deck above contained for cards (I won the first round right out of the gate with it, playing with it just for fun to test it out ):
Lands (25) Creatures (9) | Other spells (26) |
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 12 2014 at 07:37 |
 Meltdowner wrote:
Theros brought some great green/red creatures.
I played against some green/red decks with that strategy, but they were weak against creatures with flying.
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That's a well-known fact that I took into account when building my deck. There definitely comes a point when you have to really stick to a particular strategy to maximize its effectiveness, and hopefully hit hard and fast enough to take your opponent out before they can exploit that gap. This works particularly well with aggro decks, but almost nothing else.
All of my other decks are based on a well-rounded approach to having flyers and blockers. Equipping a flyer such as hornet queen with Titanic Growth, and Overwhelm with all those tokens, then a Brawler's Plate artifact to give it Trample is pretty much my favorite win-con ever .
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Meltdowner
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Posted: September 12 2014 at 06:24 |
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Theros brought some great green/red creatures.
I played against some green/red decks with that strategy, but they were weak against creatures with flying.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 12 2014 at 05:48 |
Meltdowner wrote:
There were some very weak green/red decks from Innistrad and Return to Ravnica. What's the strategy of that one?
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Good thing it's composed mostly of M15 and Theros cards .
My strategy with this one is straight aggro-overwhelm. Flood the field with big creatures fast with mana ramping, then hit red instants like lightning strike and lava axe, all while boosting my creatures with green spells that boost everyone +1/+1 and +2/+2. Then, I play an overwhelm sorcery giving my entire field +3/+3, and that's usually game.
Debating on going to FNM early if I do go tonight. I want to try out my Hornet Queen deck against strangers so bad.
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Meltdowner
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Posted: September 11 2014 at 17:39 |
There were some very weak green/red decks from Innistrad and Return to Ravnica. What's the strategy of that one?
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 11 2014 at 09:15 |
I built a pretty solid green/red deck fairly quickly last evening, and did quite well via winning 2/3 games we had .
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Posted: September 06 2014 at 14:03 |
Luna wrote:
Draft is fun because everyone is on the same level in terms of deck construction. You generally want to build a deck that will win, but if you fond money cards early on, building around those will certainly help you win. I pulled an Elspeth in a draft :3 |
Right? Imagine opening a pack and coming across a foil Garruk or Nissa? Lol!
And awesome pic, Meltdowner! 
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Posted: September 06 2014 at 13:24 |
My one soldier army: it was the only creature I played the whole game. 
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Posted: September 06 2014 at 12:14 |
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Draft is fun because everyone is on the same level in terms of deck construction. You generally want to build a deck that will win, but if you fond money cards early on, building around those will certainly help you win. I pulled an Elspeth in a draft :3
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 06 2014 at 11:11 |
Meltdowner wrote:
I only played draft on the video game and I suck at it: there's too many cards and I can't choose a decent set of cards
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That's pretty much what I got out of it, lol. I felt like it was either pay the fee to draft and choose all the cards I wanted to collect/add to my current standard decks, or pay the fee and construct a deck I knew I could win with, composed mostly out of cards I already have/low-value cards. I'm not even sure what the prize was for the night, TBH.
I just want to play the decks that I spend time, imagination, and creativity constructing, damnit!
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Posted: September 06 2014 at 10:56 |
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I only played draft on the video game and I suck at it: there's too many cards and I can't choose a decent set of cards
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 06 2014 at 06:31 |
Got my ass handed to me at FNM tonight via the draft, lol. Was torn between choosing new cards I wanted for my M15 collection, and trying to build something I could actually play for the night...and wound up just getting more good cards that weren't really playable .
Store owner is an incredibly nice guy, and even gave me a free booster at the end of the night for being the new guy and sticking it out! I'll post the cards I pulled in a little bit. I want to show up earlier next week and play my hornet deck against people instead of just getting there in time to draft; that was rough!
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: September 05 2014 at 06:15 |
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^Very solid plan. A lot of bang-for-your-buck with those intro decks. They even come with two boosters! Those decks are only $15 here; two boosters costs $8 alone.
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