Magic:The Gathering

[MegaSilver]

Originally Posted by nate the dawg

Any thoughts?

You should get him to play Heroscape.

[nate the dawg]

Originally Posted by MegaSilver

You should get him to play Heroscape.

Oh, believe me, I've pitched the game to lots of kids I work around...but to really get 'Scape, you've got to play 'Scape.

Unfortunately (?), my collection is actually that of mine and six friends that have bought-in together since 2004. So, given that my work involves modeling for youth of disparate levels of functioning (and a wide range of appropriate and inappropriate behaviors), I couldn't in good conscience take that group's investment with me to work, where it could be harmed.

I have, however, donated my extra copy of LotR Risk:Trilogy Edition; they love it!

[NecroBlade]

To answer your question nate, yes, you can control Nichol the Legend and Nichol the Planeswalker at the same time. Different rules apply to the different types of permanent.

[nate the dawg]

Originally Posted by NecroBlade

To answer your question nate, yes, you can control Nichol the Legend and Nichol the Planeswalker at the same time. Different rules apply to the different types of permanent.

Thanks! I had thought this was the case, given that planeswalkers aren't creatures, but having been away from the game for so long, I wasn't sure.

[Chilling Touch]

AVR. Thoughts?

[Kaemon Awa 123]

Originally Posted by Chilling Touch

AVR. Thoughts?

I think I'll hold off any thoughts until I get my hands on some of the cards to actually play them. I missed the prerelease because I had a soccer tournament to go to...

[stubobj]

Soulbond is an awesome mechanic. Miracle was fun but not spectacular. Some of the miracle cards are much better when you can time them just right but also end up being too expensive to hard cast. I had a pretty sick human deck that was cable of pumping out 18+ points of damage in 1 turn but would also loose horribly if I didnt kill them by turn 6 or so. Remvoval seemed pretty hard to come by and very conditional. Id say its more of a Timmy set than anything else.

[Scapemage]

As far as AVR is concerned, I love the set. Soulbond works fabulously, and miracle is really a unique mechanic. I think standard will completely transform next week, and I am very excited after profiting a total of $106 in cards this past weekend.

[Chilling Touch]

I agree with all of you, I think that soulbond is awesome, miracle is cool but pricey, and that there are some really powerful but expensive hard-casting cards.

I think this might be a better set for commander, and other things. I bought a lot of Innistrad, but besides a few commons, the only things I really want out of this are a few caverns of souls for my goblin deck and a moon sage for commander.

[Kaemon Awa 123]

Pretty happy how this set turned out. Mostly, the Pillar of Flames and Dual Casting for my red deck, and cavern of souls for my Goblins, as well as some nice tools, and again, cavern of souls for R/W humans, if I ever get around to making it.

Anyway, on an unrelated note, my MTG group has decided to do a mini-event where we all have to build a deck that costs under $10, and it might end up being a recurring thing. I think I'm on the right track with a mono-black infect deck.

Here's the tentative decklist:

Creatures:
2x Hand of the Praetors
4x Ichor Rats
4x Plague Stinger
4x Flesh-Eater Imp
4x Septic Rats
3x Flensermite
3x Reaper of Sheoldred

Enchantments:
2x Crumbling Ashes
4x Fear

Spells:
4x Vampire's Bite
4x Virulent Wound

Land:
18x Swamp
4x Barren Moor


Any comments/suggestions? I almost got a few dark rituals into the cost limit, but I figured that in the end it was better to keep the Hand of the Praetors in.

As far as competition goes, I'm sure that one player's building a deck around Quest for Ula's Temple, and someone else is doing something involving wild pair and a bunch of big green 7/7 worms.

[Chilling Touch]

Ive done this, except with R/W myr. Myrsmith, Embersmith, and raid bombardment were the keys to the deck.

[Carnival Man]

Avacyn has some great stand-alone cards & the variety of soulbonding creatures make your old guys interesting again. Some pretty good payouts so far on the maybe 12 packs I've bought so far: 1 Cavern of Souls, 4 Vexing Devils & 1 Avacyn are the highlights so far. We put Avacyn in CarnivalBoy's all-white deck, but how often are you going to even be able to use her at 8 mana?