i just finished reading Alara Unbroken. Ajani TECHNICALLY did win and he DID summon Bolas' soul. YOU MAD SON?

1.Jace 2.Gideon 3.Ajani 4.Elspeth 5.Koth 6.Venser 7.Elspeth (because her art is better) 8. Ajani

Man, I don't like jace, but i hate elves even more. 1. Jace 2. Gideon 3. Ajani 4. Elspeth 5. Garruk 6. Sarkhan 7. Elspeth 8. Ajani. Man, it seems like most these are rigged.

Part 1 of a multi part answer due to character limits.

No. 1 jace, the mind sculptor vs. No. 16 Nissa Revane As discussed previously nissa has terribad abilities that almost no one could ever or would ever want to use ... i mean yay ... life gain... or yay.. summon a piddly super weak not interesting elf creature... bleh....JTMS on the other hand beats face draws cards and wins tournaments by himself... no contest... and pretty sure more blue loving planeswalker bias Jace the mind sculptor wins this one.

No. 2 Gideon Jura vs. No. 15 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

Gideon yeah he makes people attack and some times swings for 6... but so what... tezz has awesome abilities. Gets artifacts moving to the field by putting them in your hand and then even if they are piddly 0 costed ornathopters... turns them into 5/5 's so that he can beat face with them. how can you not like this card... plus it has the advantage of being a blue card... (nudge nudge... obviously he is superior right mr. i love all things blue?) I mean heck he took the old tezz ultimate and made it a simple -1 ability. Plus who doesn't like to play with artifacts? Tezz ftw!

No. 3 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker vs. No. 14 Ajani Goldmane

I have no idea how Ajani made it past sarkan so there is no friggin way he makes it past the number 3 seed on the list. GoGO Nichol Bolas who is himself a dragon. See previous post about why dragons always win and are bad ass.

No. 4 Elspeth, Knight-Errant vs. No. 13 Jace Beleren

yeah Elspeth makes soldiers, pumps soliders, and then if you aren't already dead makes all her stuff indestructible so you can't kill it ever... baby jace doesn't stand a chance. He will have to bow out of the tourney and hope his big brother can put on a better performance ! (Zomg! whats this a legit blue loss... hmmm... i still think the tourney is rigged but we shall see)

No. 5 Garruk Wildspeaker vs. No. 12 Koth of the Hammer

I think you are hating on the red cards a bit why do they get all the hard matchups? Ok Koth clearly takes this one. I mean yeah garruk is good and has mana ramp and creature creation and even an Overrun ability but Koth fits in to RDW like a glove, and not only does he force the VERY LAND to attack you, but he burns you and yours to the ground with his lands. Koth is just gonna kill garruk, his beasts, and anything else that gets in his way. Plus who you gonna give it to some guy who talks wildly? or some guy who is one w/ hammers? Last i checked steel beats up on gibbering fools edge KOTH.

Part 2 due to character limits

No. 6 Venser, the Sojourner vs. No. 11 Sarkhan the Mad

Oh look we return to the old blue gets the easy matchups again. Venser bounces things and kills stuff every time you play a spell once his ult goes off... yes sarkhan does some neat stuff... but in his crazyness he forgot to have any abilities that give him a + so he doesn't actaully stay around that long. He is thankfully a polite crazy guy in that he exits quickly so as not to annoy you for long. Oh and lets not forget that venser actually helped Koth the legendary red planeswalker so he gets bonus points for that. Edge: Venser.

No. 7 Sorin Markov vs. No. 10 Elspeth Tirel

Sorin... comes out late game and doesn't really matter all that much...Elspeth comes out much sooner and beats face. I mean lets face it, elspeth is just gonna shine a little light on poor ole sorin and beat him to dust. Light beats dark every time. Edge: Elspeth

No. 8 Liliana Vess vs. No. 9 Ajani Vengeant

Lilianna suffers from super lack luster non ult abilities. I mean look at her a 5 drop that makes you discard cards... oooh... whoopidee do. By that time in the game chances are other person is going to have played out their hand any how. Or she can just tutor stuff up for you but then she doesn't actually ever use her ult.. so pretty meh...on the other hand This verion of ajani has been turbo charged by his trip to the mountains. With the strenght of red ajani suddenly becomes a house beater. He taps down pesky permanents, sends out regular Lightning Helix 's and destroys all an opponents lands, oh and he comes out on turn 4 people. How do you not see that the guy sporting the red clearly takes this one.

Part 3

Just the summary

Jace

tezz

Bolas

Elspeth

Koth

Venser

Elspeth

Ajani

jace tezz nico bolas elspeth koth venser sorin ajani

That Venser vs. Sarkhan matchup is classic.

Sarkhan: I hurt myself to find a creature. Venser: blink. Sarkhan: I hurt myself to make him a dragon! venser: so you have 3 life left and my team is unblockable? how about that.

end.

Also: while Tezzballs shouldn't be ranked 15th, and Gideon is pretty broken, this is actually Tezzy's matchup. Gideon has to choose between taking out tezzy's 5/5s, or forcing them to attack him. Assuming tezz starts with one artifact on the board, it's hard for him to not win this matchup.

In Vorthos land: we know that Gideon is good against mindless eternal evils, but how about two of the cleverest eternal evils ever? Tezzeret and Bolas together can outstrategize Gideon any day of the week. (Except on Gideonsday, which used to be wedged in between Tuesday and Wednesday, before Tezzeret used a time sieve to travel back in time, and erase an entire day of the week just to gain an edge in this fight. point: Tezz.)

Gideon has a swordwhipthing. Sounds like an equipment . . . so Tezz animates it, strangles him with it, replaces his brain with zombie-etherium, and now you've got Gideon, Agent of Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas.

Round 1: Jace. Because money talks and Nissa is a punk.

Round 2: Tezz. Gideon is great at dealing with a single fatty. Tezz is packing a horde.

Round 3: Nicol Bolas. It's way too hard to cast Nocol Bolas in a timely manner. However, Ajani is just complete and utter weaksauce for so long, Nicol is likely to hit the table, anyway.

Round 4: Elspeth. Jace can't defend himself. Elspeth can. Plus she makes her minion fly. That's when Baby Jace starts to feel like Tippi Hedren.

Round 5: Garruk. Okay, K-Hammer may be the shizz in standard, but Garruk is a green machine. (So much better than the original big wheel!) Sure, Koth can make a nasty 4/4 attacking land, but the turn after Garruk hits the table he is sending over several trampling fatties to make meatsauce of the red planeswalker.

Round 6: Venser. Tough one. Sarkhan hurts himself to make dragons. Venser ignores them and swings for the kill.

Round 7: Elspeth. She's not as good as her former self, but Elspeth still works in a weenie deck. When it comes to weenies, size matters. Elspeth totes the bigger sword.

Round 8: Ajani. It would help if Lilliana's first ability was "discard a card at random", but it's not. Maybe if her second ability was Demonic Tutor , instead of Worldly Tutor . She allows opponents to stick around for too long. Ajani takes advantage and beats face.

Jace, the Mind Sculptor vs. Nissa Revane

well, yeah. jace.

Gideon Jura vs. Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

much as I like my gidjinz, tezz has to win this one because of the combination of card advantage and big dudes.

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker vs. Ajani Goldmane

nicky makes ajani go pouf.

Elspeth, Knight-Errant vs. Jace Beleren

elspeth. makes jace go splat on a wall. flying 4/4s are pretty good i hear.

Garruk Wildspeaker vs. Koth of the Hammer

hammertime is pretty good, but garruk lets me toss out a turn 4 Grave Titan , and that pretty much ends the party. garruk also overruns, yes.

Venser, the Sojourner vs. Sarkhan the Mad

venser wins because sarkhan's ultimate sucks and venser's, well, doesn't suck.

Sorin Markov vs. Elspeth Tirel

soarin', anti-lifegain and token kill right there...i mean, come on.

Liliana Vess vs. Ajani Vengeant

a villainess is my favourite planeswalker, but to be fair, jhonny v would pulp her in a head to head matchup.

1) JTMS

2) Gideon - probably the best walker ever printed. beats the jace test.

3) Bolas - winner of most ridiculous pw ever.

4) Elspeth

5) The only difficult decision... i'd like to hear more arguments here.

6) I dislike both. Sarkhan's ultimate is much more playable than vensers though.

7) Sorin

8) Ajani in constructed, Lily in draft... but Ajani. Sorry, babe.

1) JTMS (nuff said)

2) Tezzeret (hords of fatties fast)

3) Nicol Bolas

4) Jace Beleren (love the card advantage)

5) Koth

6) Venser

7) Sorin Markov

8) Ajani Vengent

jtms, tezz, nicol, elspeth, garruk, venser, elspeth, ajani

And BTW, how can Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker not be the overwhelming favorite?! He eats PWs to GAIN 3 loyalty counters... He's a turn 1 win!

1. Nissa Revane

Jace is just going to Unsummon those elves until his loyalty gets to zero. He can't do anything if a card:Nissa's Chosen is threatening to kill him.

1. Gideon Jura

First turn: Gideon becomes 6/6 and destroys Tezzeret. I like Tez, but Jura is just going to beat him down.

1. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

+3 destroys Goldmane and gives the dragon 1 more turn before 777. Loved the Test of Metal reference there. Loved the novel, but that was so confusing.

1. Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Elspeth makes a Soldier token. Then she gives her Soldier token +3/+3 and flying. That Soldier slays Jace, who was too busy drawing cards.

1. Koth of the Hammer

I initially had a hard time deciding who would win, but Wildspeaker is just going to spawn 3/3 Beast tokens, reducing his loyalty, while Koth is just going to attack with the Mountain, which Garruk's Beast token blocks. Repeat.

1. Venser, the Sojourner

These guys can't kill a planeswalker. Coin toss time!

heads

Venser wins!

1. Sorin Markov

Sorin spams his +2, while Elspeth is unable to kill Sorin because she has to make 3 Soldier tokens to do anything against him which have summoning sickness, which reduces her loyalty by two, while Sorin finishes her off.

1. Ajani Vengeant

This is difficult. If Liliana went first...

1. Discard. 6 loyalty.
2. Ajani helixes her. 3 loyalty. Ajani has 1 loyalty.
3. Discard. 4 loyalty.
4. Ajani activates his +1. 2 loyalty.
5. Discard. 5 loyalty.
6. Ajani +1. 3 loyalty.
7. Discard. 6 loyalty.
8. Ajani helix. 3 loyalty.

1. Ajani helix. 1 loyalty. Liliana down to 2.

2. Discard. 3.

3. +1. 2.

4. Discard. 4.

5. Ajani +1. 3.

6. Liliana uses her +1. 5 loyalty.

7. Helix. down to 2.

8. Discard. 3.

tails

Ajani wins!

but prophylaxis, wouldnt gideon then have summoning sickness if he turns in a creature right away?

YES.

Gideon indeed does have summoning sickness.

So...the line should have read: "First turn: Gideon becomes 6/6 and feels terrible and vomits while Tezzeret searches for trinnkets. Then on second turn: he destroys Tezzeret. I like Tez, but Jura is just going to beat him down."

No. 1 jace, the mind sculptor vs. No. 16 Nissa Revane

Nissa acts first summoning her chosen sidekick to battle for her and protect her. Jace sees the threat thinks about it for a second...erases nissa, card:Nissa's Chosen and all the elves involved minds then conjures a beach chair and ball glass filled with bombay Mox Sapphire and tonic.

No. 2 Gideon Jura vs. No. 15 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

Tezzeret planeswalks to a moon lit plain bringing with him three Ornithopter s, in front of him gideon Jura stands ready for action. tezzeret first summons a Tumble Magnet from the recesess of his mind and brings it onto the battlefield Gideon then commands all of tezzerets creatures to attack him next turn. Tezzeret uses his ultimate move to destory gideon and drain him of all of his life. HE then searches his mind for a Throne of Geth summons it sits on it, and enjoys a nice Shot of goldshlagger.

No. 3 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker vs. No. 14 Ajani Goldmane

Nicol Bolas Sits on his bloody throne of elder dragon lore, As ajani enters the building with a pack of lionen all Screaming for vengeance. Ajani Bellows giving his bretheren the power needed to fight. Nicol bolas kills ajani...and then takes a nap.

No. 4 Elspeth, Knight-Errant vs. No. 13 Jace Beleren

Elspeth makes a night token. Jace makes both himself and Elspeth smarter. With her new found intelligence Elspeth makes the night token a 4/4 flier...and the soldier kills jace..

No. 5 Garruk Wildspeaker vs. No. 12 Koth of the Hammer

The crowd screams as Garruk and Koth enter the field. Garruk petting his card:Garruk's Companion good bye and Koth Kissing card:Koth's Courier farewell. Garruk begins by creating a large beast to fight for him. Koth turns the red ground he stands on into a creature and has it attack garruck. His beast protects him. Garruk taps five mana untaps two of them taps them again and plays an Thorn Elemental . Koth makes one mana for all five mountain he controls and then taps then for ten summoning Dragon Tyrant . Garruck has thorn elemental attack. Koth dies with his courier crying over his body. As garruk Sets on a tree stump and drinks a large mug of Ale.

I'll do the last three later.

Ugh....seriously? Goldschlager? Sick.

Tezz seems more like a Night Train, fortified wine sorta dude.

it was the only alcohol i could think of with metal in it....

I have to give it to Garruk. Koth is good in standard and all, but Garruk is a staple in almost every green deck out there short of legacy and vintage. Koth might be goos in standard, but he just can't compare to the versatility of Garruk.

I have to give it to Garruk. Koth is good in standard and all, but Garruk is a staple in almost every green deck out there short of legacy and vintage. Koth might be good in standard, but he just can't compare to the versatility of Garruk.

Yeah...the metal aspect of it seems right, but damn it is sick.

I agree it is probably the worst alcohol i have ever tasted.