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Molten Opals...
#1
I typically don’t play established archetypes outside Reanimator (or Reanimator adjacent), so I’m afraid I wouldn’t have any thoughtful insights to offer.
As a general statement though, it’s been my experience that if you’re having that hard a time making any additional cuts to try and work something else in then what you have is probably as well optimized as it can be for the moment. Unless you’re running into repeated issues I’d stick for now until you find ‘strictly betters’ for what you already have.
December 20, 2024 5:52 p.m.
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Molten Opals...
#2
Great build. Was that bit about Ponza being named after a calzone real, or did you make that up? I just watched the Seinfeld where George had calzone problems, so that made me laugh aloud ^_^
December 20, 2024 5:38 p.m.
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Thomas’ Tank Engines...
#3
Thanks capwner. I like those new cards, I haven’t seen them and I think they could be potent here. I haven’t been keeping up with the game much as of late, too burned out by practically daily expansions/pop culture collaboration sets. There might be a bunch of strictly betters floating around out there, I should probably reexamine this build at some point. Thanks for the pointers!
December 20, 2024 5:37 p.m.
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Built Like a …...
#4
‘Kif! I’ll be in the escape pod. If that commander deck I like survives the slaughter, have it sent to my P.O. Box.’
December 19, 2024 9:27 a.m.
legendofa Nice, I’ll keep at it until the card art begins to curdle my stomach lol. I went through the Tarkir block and found a bunch of great ones, some of which you already had.
Definites:
Maybe’s:
•Monastery Mentor (the one from the Tarkir block, idk the abbreviation) could be we’re looking through the eyes of one of the monks at the bottom of the screen, but maybe not.
•Briber's Purse might qualify as FPP.
•Display of Dominance person’s arm might be a bit too far offscreen for this to qualify as first person.
•Tread Upon I’m for this one. I think it’s from the viewpoint of the Minotaur type thing doing the stomping, as if it’s looking down at its hooves.
December 18, 2024 10:47 a.m. Edited.
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Golgari Depths...
#8
I’ve seen a few DD variations over the years and this looks fairly solid, all the main pieces are accounted for. Bayou would definitely help, but oh boy that price tag. Maybe a card with a Regrowth type effect would be a sideboard consideration, but then again if your opponent knows what he’s doing it would probably be surgically extracted anyway.
December 12, 2024 9:39 a.m.
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Gargadon Salvage [Updated …...
#9
Neat idea, and great breakdown in the description! +1
December 11, 2024 12:02 p.m.
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The Great Bouncing …...
#11
I got all teary-eyed reading the intro. It had me longing for the days of good card borders and exceptional artwork. +1, I like what’s going on with this build. There are so many ways to use/abuse “Whenever…” cards like Furious Assault and Impact Tremors, someone should make the ultimate deck and call it “Whenever Subordinating Conjunctions Attack…” ^_^
December 5, 2024 7:55 p.m.
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I AM the …...
#12
Wow that’s a lot of great ideas slvstrChung. I’m going to maybeboard them here, although I don’t intend on changing this one just yet. I like the straight split, and even though this is certainly on the slower side, it’s surprisingly consistent. What I’d actually like to do is see if I can get either a deck up and running, focusing more on speed like you said. That would be…interesting…
December 5, 2024 6:27 p.m.
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High Moon (Boros …...
#13
I’ve struggled trying to get a werewolf deck up and running myself, but this is an interesting take on it. Looks fun!
December 4, 2024 8:36 p.m.
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Balaam__ says... #1
legendofa Nice, I’ll keep at it until the card art begins to curdle my stomach lol. I went through the Tarkir block and found a bunch of great ones, some of which you already had.
Definites:
•Ghostfire Blade
•Lens of Clarity
•Enhanced Awareness
•Coat with Venom
•Scale Blessing
•Vial of Dragonfire
Maybe’s:
•Monastery Mentor (the one from the Tarkir block, idk the abbreviation) could be we’re looking through the eyes of one of the monks at the bottom of the screen, but maybe not.
•Briber's Purse might qualify as FPP.
•Display of Dominance person’s arm might be a bit too far offscreen for this to qualify as first person.
•Tread Upon I’m for this one. I think it’s from the viewpoint of the Minotaur type thing doing the stomping, as if it’s looking down at its hooves.
December 18, 2024 10:47 a.m. Edited.