Anyone play MTG?

[Barathorn]

Jace was Madness. Brainstorm every turn, what were they thinking?

So I played at a GPT this weekend and missed out on the top 4 because I got mana screwed vs G/W Tokens and lost a really close match against Jund [opponent on 1 life, I have 3 draw steps to draw 1 of 2 Hellriders, 1 of 2 Brimstone Volleys, 1of 3 Pillar of Flame.

I draw Land, Land, Traitorous Blood [Opponent has no creatures in play].

GAHH.

So over 2 events 10-5 in matches. Not good enough. New Deck for me I think. Aristocrats Act 2 seems very well placed. And it plays with one of my favourite ever cards, Falkenrath Aristocrat.

Came 2nd at the SCG Open last weekend.

[Gab]

I'm going to go ahead and blame this thread for me downloading MTGO over the weekend.

Hadn't played since Onslaught block. Got into a couple of GTC swiss drafts. Went 1-2, and 3-0 but have absolutely no clue what I'm doing...

In one of the games had my opponent at 8 health he had no creatures and I had Foundry Street Denizen and Woejeck Halbrediers both enchanted with Death's Approach. I go FTW by bloodrushing a Scorchwalker... Derp... board cleared. I felt sooooo stupid. I still went on to win with a Skynight Legionnaire and Aurelia's Fury but it ended up being really close. Guy to my right was drafting U/B/W and I opened some insane cards so I think it's save to attribute that 3-0 to pure luck.

I should just quit while I'm ahead....

[Fivelives]

I remember my goblin bomb deck. Do those still work?

4 Fireballs
4 Lightning Bolts
4 Goblin Grenade
4 (buffs that give +4/-4 to a creature, don't remember the name)
4 other red DDs (I think, it's been awhile)
20 various goblins, no higher cost than 2
20 mountains

[Skye1013]

4 (buffs that give +4/-4 to a creature, don't remember the name)

Bloodlust.

It still "works" but you have to be in the correct format (Vintage I believe.)

[Barathorn]

This is what I won our little local tournement last night with,

4 Diregraf Ghoul
4 Gravecrawler
2 Rakdos Cackler
2 Blood Artist
4 Knight of Infamy
4 Geralfs Messenger
4 Falkenrath Aristocrat
3 Hellrider
2 Thundermaw Hellkite

2 Tragic Slip
3 Pillar of Flame
1 Brimstone Volley
2 Searing Spear

2 Cavern of Souls
4 Blood Crypt
4 Dragonskull Summit
2 Rakdos Guildgate
11 Swamps

Sideboard

2 Bonfire of the Damned
2 Lilliana of the Veil
2 Tormods Crypt
2 Vampire Nighthawk
1 Pillar of Flame
1 Zealous Conscripts
2 Skullcrack
1 Duress
2 Slaughter Games

No-one expected B/R Zombies and although I lost a match to G/R Blitz I felt very comfortable against all of the combo/control decks I played.

Seriously considering this for the WMCQ this weekend as I am expecting lots of Bant Control and this has a FANTASTIC game against it. Knight of Infamy is so good currently it is almost a must play.

[Thalia]

Those Liliana's are up to $50 now!

Can't ever keep her in stock.

[Passionario]

I wonder how over/underpowered this card would be in the current metagame:

Wrath of Gaea - 2GW
Sorcery
Each creature becomes a basic Forest land. (It is no longer a creature. This effect doesn't end at end of turn)

[Aubade]

Not sure if any of you guys are Redditors.

One of the MTG Designers is doing an AMA right now on Reddit. Thought you guys might find it interesting

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1 ... igner_for/

[Barathorn]

So what does everyone like from Dragons Maze?

I really like the Rare 2/2 Green Flash Spider.

[Kai]

voice of resurgence is ridiculous. gonna be here to stay for quite a while in STD and probably good enough for modern.

[Thalia]

Picking up a case and a half today (that's 9 booster boxes)....so excited to see what we pull out.

[Sabindeus]

man I am way behind, haven't looked at the new set at all. Been real busy lately with work. What's good??

Also when does the Innistrad block fall out of Standard? Now that they've wrapped up Return to Ravnica that should be coming up right?

[Kai]

STD includes the last two blocks. so currently Innistrad and RtR. Once the first set of the next block becomes legal, IST rotates out. but as dragon's maze was just released and there's a core set release in the summer, I would guess around october or so.

[Sabindeus]

oh a new core set? crap. :|

I'm beginning to remember why I stopped playing Magic in the first place, keeping up is really hard when you're doing tons of other stuff with your life.

[Zonzede]

Keep in mind there's about a month or so where the Core sets (M13-M14) are both standard legal. Rotation happens around September or October and is traditionally kind of a weird period.
But yeah. Come then M13, Innistrad, Dark Ascension, and Avacyn drop, keeping on Ravica, Gatecrash, Maze, M14, and adding the newly released Theros.