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One of my friends in our Commander playgroup has this evil creature as his commander. It took a while for me to find a suitable non-mtg character to fit her reputation; but i think i have found her at last by the name Dolores Umbridge.
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What deck to play now?
With pro tour origins over and a bunch of awesome decks to choose from I find myself asking what deck should I play? The pro tour gave us a bunch of good decks from abzan rally , mono red, esper control , abzan megamorph, red blue artifacts , and even a strange new brew a demonic pact deck. As we seen on the pro tour coverage the most played deck was a toss up between red blue artifacts casting ensoul artifact on darksteel citadel and banging in for five indestructible each turn and mono red burning faces while giving prowess triggers for added damage. Both came out in numbers but in the end only one was left standing mono red. Is that a sign that we should be on one of those two brews? I personally like the abzan rally deck but I'm a combo kinda guy which is why I played a lot of jeskai throughout khans block. Red blue artifacts is an comboish deck or it can seam like it when your staring down an opponent and her/she drops out his opening hand of Orinthomptor ,ghostfire blade, and darksteel citadel on turn one followed by an ensoul artifact on two and making a hasty 5/5 flyer or 5/5 indestructible beater . Is this the deck I should be in since I like a more comboesk deck? If not what changes can I make to abzan rally to fight this kind of deck? Abzan rally is a lot slower than both mono red and red blue artifacts as it usually doesn't drop out anything substantial until turn three and by then we could be dead. So let's look at what abzan rally is doing and see where we can improve. The main goal of abzan rally is to use our creatures early to block and get creatures in the graveyard via satyr wayfinder and all our three drops that come in and make both U.S. and our opponent sacrifice a creature then bring all of them back via rally the ancestors once we reach five mana . So what could we change up to beat those decks. Well for one we need a way to get a darksteel citadel off the battlefield once or a way to remove the ensoul artifact enchantment while still being able to keep on curve for the big rally and bring back the win. We could start by adding some more enchantment removal like dromoka's command and running it main deck vs sideboard. We could even run a couple nyxfleece ram to help combat the fast pace of mono red. We could also try running fewer creatures that sac themselves or another creature on entry to give us a wider board but what do we gain by that? Well vs these two decks we gain blockers and can maybe save a few points of damage allow us to reach a point where we can bust out a rally and go off. Another thing we could add is hornet nest allowing us to still get creatures in the yard and have an insane blocker that leaves behind some 1/1 deathtouch flyers making it very hard for a non flying ensoul to attack. I feel with theses additions to abzan rally this is definitely the deck to be on for the future.
Stepping up your game
It's 3am and what am I doing? I'll tell you. I am watching TV and going over deck lists from the top 8 of Pro Tour Origins. Like most magic fans I spent this weekend glued to twitch watching the Pro Tour coverage and being astonished by all the innovative new decks. like most I also found myself wondering how I get to the Pro Tour Circuit. Throughout coverage we heard a lot of different things but the thing that stuck out to me was that most of the top pros were on teams like that of Channelfireball and Team Ultrapro . Now for most of us we have a small or medium group of friends that we hang with or play with every Friday night at our local FNM but, most of us don't have a group that has the time or patience to sit down four to five days a week and play test. So where does that leave us? Most the pros work for online stores that produce magic content such as articles and deck techs so their able to play pretty much any time they want but, even they had to start somewhere. So how do we as average players find the time or a group for that matter? We could turn to Magic online ( MTGO) but that's expensive especially if your also playing paper magic also. So what options do we have? Cockatrice is a good cheap way to go but it has it's downfalls too. Most players on there build home brews to test and even though that is still practice it's not going to improve your skills enough. So what can we do to remedy this? First thing we can do is find at least one person of you group of buddies that is on the same schedule as you and wants to test on a regular basis. Second build a gauntlet of all the top decks in the format then systematically go through each deck playing each other deck in the gauntlet and be sure to test the mirror. If you don't have Cockatrice or a computer you can proxy up some decks and play test the same way. This will allow you to practice facing the decks that you will most likely go up against at your local FNM or any other tournament. If you do this you will soon find that you can pick out each and every decks week points and learn to exploit them . Once you have done this then you can shore up your sideboard to face the meta . How does this get us to the pros though? Well it doesn't directly but, it allows us to win more games and if we win more games we get more points. What do points do? Well points to the average play does nothing because we don't accumulate enough to matter but, if we go to bigger events or get to IQs or PTIQs then they start to matter. Once we get a lot of points we can get buys to events and buys equal wins lol. So now that we are winning more and playing more what do we do next? First we need to get out to more events and rack up tons of points but that can be very difficult as many events might be hours away or even across the country or world . So how do we get to the bigger events to get the points we need if we can't leave our state? Well we can go to local events and wait for opens to come to our state but, that doesn't seem like it would get us the points to get to where we are trying to go . Well it will eventually. You play a few big tournaments when you can and hopefully the practice pays off and you win and get invited to bigger tournaments ones that will fly you out to them or put you up in a hotel while you play. Once that happens you will get your name out there and people will start to wonder about you and what you have to say one the subject of magic and that's when you become a pro . Next you will have people coming to you for your insight and to write articles or even books or maybe if your good enough to help design magic itself. Well that's about all I have time for today. Hope you enjoyed this and FYI I'm not a pro but some day soon I hope . Thanks and have fun playing.
Magic Origins has five double-faced Planeswalker cards that enter the battlefield as Legendary creatures! Jace gets a rundown on how that works. Of course… he knew the whole time.
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Why Pyromancer's Goggles is a cross format card.
So here we are in Magical wonderland again, that's right it's spoiler season again . We all love this season and the new cards . We all love to speculate on just how these cards will change and effect each format. I for one feel Origins has quite a lot of format changing cards one of which I would like to discuss in this post Pyromancer's Goggles. For those of you who don't know Pyromancer's Goggles is an artifact that cost five colorless mana and reads " Tap: Add R mana to your mana pool. When that mana is spent on and instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy. " this card is a game changer by far. First let's look at what it does. One it adds one red mana to your mana pool so playing it on turn 5 you will still be able to play a one mana spell even if you are tapped out. Two if you play an instant or sorcery card with said mana then you can copy it . The second ability of this card is why I feel this card is awesome. There are literally thousands of cards that can be played with this and copied but only a few come to mind . One of my favorite cards of all time gets a huge boost from this card and that is Lightning bolt. We all know how quick a lightning bolt can end a game and being able to get double the value out of every one you cast with Pyromancer's Goggles. Couple this card with Snapcaster Mage and that gives you 12 potential lightning bolts in any one deck . If that's not amazing I don't know what is. Now let's talk standard for a bit. Wild slash is still a card and now that gets extremely better. One wild slash off of Pyromancer's Goggles becomes a way to kill off a Stormbreath dragon or a courser of kruphix . Some other cards that get infinity better are stoke the flames, lightning strike, and even the new card exquisite firecraft. Stoke becomes 8 to the face , lightning strike 6, and exquisite firecraft becomes an uncounterable 8 damage as long as two or more instants or sorcerys are in your graveyard . Not only do the burn spells get a boost but any instant or sorcery. Take hordeling outburst for instance . Instead of three goblins off a three mana spell you get six that's instant creature advantage. I hope you will enjoy this card as much as I know I will and hope that your games of magic are fun and your die rolls always land on 20.
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Introductions
Hello readers! I would like to take this moment to introduce myself and why I started this blog. First a little about myself, I am a husband and father of three boys and a mediocre magic player with some of the same hopes and dreams as most of the magic players out there have. To one day make playing magic a full time job and go pro. I have been playing off and on since the very beginning when Alpha was released and it has always been my favorite game. That being said though , I have not always played competitive magic . In fact I didn't even know they had tournaments till I was introduced to them by a friend I made when I was in the Marine Corps. He took me to my first FNM back when lorawyn fist came out. Its actually quite a funny story since I had taught him to play magic in the first place . We were both on deployment and wound up stuck in the same shop back in 06 when we deployed with the USS Iwo Jima which is a navy ship. We were both sent to a Navy shop to work with them on deployment and wound up having a lot of down time . I would up teaching him how to play magic and he like the game so much that when we got home he started buying cards left and right and reading everything he could about it . That was when he found out about FNMs and decided we should go to one. Our first FNM consisted of us both having to buy two event decks each and build a deck from the cards in both. It was fun even though we both only won one match each and I wound up losing to him in the second round of the tournament lol. Ahh the good old days, but enough about the past . Lets talk about the future and why I started this blog. I wanted to start this blog to chat about magic and what i feel is good about it and share my opinions with anyone who is interested in hearing them. I love this game and find that having an open forum to speak about it and all its facets helps me and hopefully helps you too to become better magic players. That being said I hope you enjoy any and all of the content I post.
