I mentioned this to AJ: I am not a huge fan of vampires in Tribal. In Commander on the other hand there are some very interesting applications. (Drana with Seedborne Muse or Courser of Kruphix is fun). I am surprised you didn't include more creatures in your deck. I am used to seeing high amounts of creatures in Commander. However since you are planning to take maximum advantage of her ETB ability this is understandable. You needed more space for Instants and Sorceries to abuse.
How does the deck do in play? Do you get complaints due to the exiling? One card I expected to see in the "Steal it all!" Category is Blatant thievery. Such a heinous theft card, hitting everyone on the table.
As someone who lost a ton of money trying to force Storm over and over, thank you for silencing the voice in my head that kept telling me to just try one more time with it and maybe it'll work. 28% win rate, yeesh.
Yeah, RW Cycle is absurdly good. Astral Slide and Lightning Rift are insane. Battle Screech is the best common in the set. And having a deck based around cycling makes things very, very consistent.
Yeah, I used to go to the Daily MTG page daily and I could find all the info I needed fairly easily. Now I don't even want to try navigating all the irritating screens and menus to try and find the information I want.
This morning I went to take a look and saw LSV had written an article about a new Jace. I clicked on the article but couldn't get the link hiding the card's image to work and so gave up and went to mtgsalvation to look at their spoiler instead. I'm just going elsewhere to get my information. I used to enjoy spoiler season on the mothership but now the information is just difficult to find and the articles aren't presented in a way that I like.
Another terrible interaction between Wizards and technology.
Their website redesign is terrible. I can't find anything. My biggest complaint is that the regular list of articles at the bottom of the DailyMTG page doesn't list the column name (Making Magic, Latest Developments) or the author. It just shows the name of that week's article. That doesn't help me read the articles I keep up with every week.
I think the thing that irritates me most about the new website is that titles aren't links. For example, if I want to read the "Ode to Jace" article clicking "Ode to Jace" does nothing. You have to click "read more" to actually read it. This works not how anybody expects it to, and is frustrating at times.
I use the Feedly RSS reader (and prior to that, Google Reader) to keep track of articles on wizards.com. Seems that the RSS feed has gone dry. I can't find a replacement URL.
I no longer check WotC's website on a daily basis. So far, I'm not missing it.
Yeah, fetchlands would be a solid addition to the deck. My first thoughts were actually adding some number of Cavern of Souls and/or Mutavault to the manabase but fetchlands would certainly help alleviate some of the problems I have experienced with the deck.
Obviously the list I am using was built on a budget. I might have to try and build something a bit more competitive some time but there were some fun cards to try out here.
I think it's about the smoothest thing. I went cold turkey all in 2 months ago on the Beta only using it for everything, and the Beta seems so much better even in that short amount of time!
This deck needs about 6 fetchlands for Bloodghast triggers and to shuffle a land off the top when Nocturnus is in play. I think I would still prefer zombies like you argue, but hard to know for sure with a list facing obvious budget constraints.
If you judge geekiness by "how does this look to non-geeks", larpers are pretty geeky. That being said, at the gaming conventions I attended they were the ones most likely to have girls with them and beer in their motel room, so maybe I was just secretly jealous :-)
Kuma, unless things changed over the past year, and they may have since I've not been able to follow it like I used to, fast vampire decks had an overall bad win% in tribal wars, and were relatively weak compared to the more midrange and controlling lists. Basically, the tribal decks that look like the 2010 Standard deck did much better than the ones that look like the 2011 Standard deck. But my prior criticism in Tribal Wars articles was actually directed at Lacerator, which has (or had?) a similarly bad track record even though I at least think that's a real playable card.
I wasn't imagining the Goblin Guide blocking, obviously mono-red with Goblin Guide is the beatdown against mono-black aggro, but Lacerator could trade with him on defense which meant that he at least drew a burn spell. You wouldn't bother to burn a Pulse Tracker with anything but Searing Blaze, and only then if you had no other pressure to apply to the board that turn. My point in general was that *actual* p/t matters, and that Pulse Tracker is not as good as an actual 2/1 would be in most situations. Once your opponent cast nearly anything he turns into either a chump blocker or a future chump-attacker that will give you 1/6th the value of a Bump in the Night.
Hey, Steve Newlin is hilarious!
I'm not sure he was ever homophobic, but the far-right leader of an intolerant religious movement being secretly gay is just stereotypical, and True Blood is all stereotypes, all the time. (And he was turned vampire as a punishment, by the way. And Jason is not a werepanther in the show).
On the more pertinent topic, man, you really hate Pulse Tracker. You need to deal with the truth: Tracker shows up in all the fast Vampire decks in tribal, and those won events in the past and consistently end 3-1.
And you're definitely missing its point, which is not stricly to have another 1-drop/2-damage guy. Try play against Pulse Tracker with a Wall deck, then you'll tell me if you'd rather kill the Tracker (that keeps damaging you regardless) or the Lacerator (that keeps killing your opponent). Or try using Maze of Ith on the Tracker. (And by the way, who ever blocks with Goblin Guide? If you keep your Goblin Guide behind because of my Tracker, I'm already +3 vs. you.)
GW Auras is weak only to well built Astral Slide decks in my opinion. Slide makes it very hard to keep auras on your dudes. Otherwise GW Aura is a very safe bet, I agree. Especially since most of the important cards are at common. Dreampod Druid and Armadillo Cloak are just extra gravy.
Glad you enjoyed it! I've recorded 6 matches and have the next two already lined up.
Yeah I forgot about some. I was still new to the format when I submitted this one.
Storm is really fun but I haven't had the success at it like I did with MMA or Cube. I've either went 1-3 or 1-4 with it while GW Auras, GW Astral Slide, and RW Cycles always perform well even if I feel I'm getting cut off. I'm sure some fault lies in my deckbuilding and piloting Storm too.
I mentioned this to AJ: I am not a huge fan of vampires in Tribal. In Commander on the other hand there are some very interesting applications. (Drana with Seedborne Muse or Courser of Kruphix is fun). I am surprised you didn't include more creatures in your deck. I am used to seeing high amounts of creatures in Commander. However since you are planning to take maximum advantage of her ETB ability this is understandable. You needed more space for Instants and Sorceries to abuse.
How does the deck do in play? Do you get complaints due to the exiling? One card I expected to see in the "Steal it all!" Category is Blatant thievery. Such a heinous theft card, hitting everyone on the table.
As someone who lost a ton of money trying to force Storm over and over, thank you for silencing the voice in my head that kept telling me to just try one more time with it and maybe it'll work. 28% win rate, yeesh.
Yeah, RW Cycle is absurdly good. Astral Slide and Lightning Rift are insane. Battle Screech is the best common in the set. And having a deck based around cycling makes things very, very consistent.
:D It takes a while, yes.
Must have taken forever to write and pull all this up. Superb Article. Very well written and informative.
Yeah, I used to go to the Daily MTG page daily and I could find all the info I needed fairly easily. Now I don't even want to try navigating all the irritating screens and menus to try and find the information I want.
This morning I went to take a look and saw LSV had written an article about a new Jace. I clicked on the article but couldn't get the link hiding the card's image to work and so gave up and went to mtgsalvation to look at their spoiler instead. I'm just going elsewhere to get my information. I used to enjoy spoiler season on the mothership but now the information is just difficult to find and the articles aren't presented in a way that I like.
Another terrible interaction between Wizards and technology.
Yeah. I've been going elsewhere for Spoilers. I really do feel the Website is going the way of the Forums.
Their website redesign is terrible. I can't find anything. My biggest complaint is that the regular list of articles at the bottom of the DailyMTG page doesn't list the column name (Making Magic, Latest Developments) or the author. It just shows the name of that week's article. That doesn't help me read the articles I keep up with every week.
Here it is Pete: http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/magic-2015-core-set-card-set-archive...
I think the thing that irritates me most about the new website is that titles aren't links. For example, if I want to read the "Ode to Jace" article clicking "Ode to Jace" does nothing. You have to click "read more" to actually read it. This works not how anybody expects it to, and is frustrating at times.
I use the Feedly RSS reader (and prior to that, Google Reader) to keep track of articles on wizards.com. Seems that the RSS feed has gone dry. I can't find a replacement URL.
I no longer check WotC's website on a daily basis. So far, I'm not missing it.
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Thanks for the comment.
Yeah, fetchlands would be a solid addition to the deck. My first thoughts were actually adding some number of Cavern of Souls and/or Mutavault to the manabase but fetchlands would certainly help alleviate some of the problems I have experienced with the deck.
Obviously the list I am using was built on a budget. I might have to try and build something a bit more competitive some time but there were some fun cards to try out here.
I think it's about the smoothest thing. I went cold turkey all in 2 months ago on the Beta only using it for everything, and the Beta seems so much better even in that short amount of time!
This deck needs about 6 fetchlands for Bloodghast triggers and to shuffle a land off the top when Nocturnus is in play. I think I would still prefer zombies like you argue, but hard to know for sure with a list facing obvious budget constraints.
If you judge geekiness by "how does this look to non-geeks", larpers are pretty geeky. That being said, at the gaming conventions I attended they were the ones most likely to have girls with them and beer in their motel room, so maybe I was just secretly jealous :-)
Kuma, unless things changed over the past year, and they may have since I've not been able to follow it like I used to, fast vampire decks had an overall bad win% in tribal wars, and were relatively weak compared to the more midrange and controlling lists. Basically, the tribal decks that look like the 2010 Standard deck did much better than the ones that look like the 2011 Standard deck. But my prior criticism in Tribal Wars articles was actually directed at Lacerator, which has (or had?) a similarly bad track record even though I at least think that's a real playable card.
I wasn't imagining the Goblin Guide blocking, obviously mono-red with Goblin Guide is the beatdown against mono-black aggro, but Lacerator could trade with him on defense which meant that he at least drew a burn spell. You wouldn't bother to burn a Pulse Tracker with anything but Searing Blaze, and only then if you had no other pressure to apply to the board that turn. My point in general was that *actual* p/t matters, and that Pulse Tracker is not as good as an actual 2/1 would be in most situations. Once your opponent cast nearly anything he turns into either a chump blocker or a future chump-attacker that will give you 1/6th the value of a Bump in the Night.
Hey, Steve Newlin is hilarious!
I'm not sure he was ever homophobic, but the far-right leader of an intolerant religious movement being secretly gay is just stereotypical, and True Blood is all stereotypes, all the time. (And he was turned vampire as a punishment, by the way. And Jason is not a werepanther in the show).
On the more pertinent topic, man, you really hate Pulse Tracker. You need to deal with the truth: Tracker shows up in all the fast Vampire decks in tribal, and those won events in the past and consistently end 3-1.
And you're definitely missing its point, which is not stricly to have another 1-drop/2-damage guy. Try play against Pulse Tracker with a Wall deck, then you'll tell me if you'd rather kill the Tracker (that keeps damaging you regardless) or the Lacerator (that keeps killing your opponent). Or try using Maze of Ith on the Tracker. (And by the way, who ever blocks with Goblin Guide? If you keep your Goblin Guide behind because of my Tracker, I'm already +3 vs. you.)
*Gasp!!* take that back about Larpers!! grrrrr...
I hadn't thought of that Deluxe, might be something fun to try out.
GW Auras is weak only to well built Astral Slide decks in my opinion. Slide makes it very hard to keep auras on your dudes. Otherwise GW Aura is a very safe bet, I agree. Especially since most of the important cards are at common. Dreampod Druid and Armadillo Cloak are just extra gravy.
Glad you enjoyed it! I've recorded 6 matches and have the next two already lined up.
The update time is temporary, they have already said that it will go back to the old time soon.
It reminds me of changes to the forums, which is why I quit using them. I'm also not a big fan of pushing the update time back for three hours.
New website looks pretty, but more difficult to navigate in my opinion (then again it was difficult to navigate to begin with).
GW Auras seems rather bullet-proof to me. The GW Astral Slide and RW Cycles sound cool, I just have a hard time building them.
I hope the "draft #1" in the title indicates that there will be a number 2, 3, etc. I hope to see more.
People should care because its an awesome tournament and loads of fun:D.
Yeah I forgot about some. I was still new to the format when I submitted this one.
Storm is really fun but I haven't had the success at it like I did with MMA or Cube. I've either went 1-3 or 1-4 with it while GW Auras, GW Astral Slide, and RW Cycles always perform well even if I feel I'm getting cut off. I'm sure some fault lies in my deckbuilding and piloting Storm too.