Couch312

Well, I like to be creative, but I also like to win. Not at any cost of course, but I do like winning, and I do like playing at tournaments, so I'm not put off by the high cost of good cards.
That being said, I can't stand the incessant torrent of budget decks.
Yes, budget decks are nice for new players to start with. Yes, you can make some interesting combos with them. However the reason they are budget is that they are not good. You might sneak a win every 40 games against a tournament deck in the format your deck is for, but you won't top 8. I've built a few budget decks and won a few games with them. It was fun, it was hilarious, but I lost almost every round.
I think MTGvault should have a casual tab for players to but all of the budget decks into.
I am fond of decks that are creative, fun, easy for new players to understand, but also have enough power to be playable in a competitive setting. Which is why I have been building and playing Sneak Attack. Easy to play, easy to win, still rewards competent play and generally takes a giant dump on combo decks.

I am definitely a Johnny Player, and I have a combo deck list as well.

http://www.mtgvault.com/couch312/decks/the-walking-dead/

Only decks that play blue play brainstorm/ponder etc. Which is about 60% of legacy.
Power nine is banned in every format except Vintage, and they're restricted in vintage.
There are about 5-6 deck archetypes in legacy that will consistently top 8 at a large scale event with a competent pilot. Then there are the tier 1.5 decks that a lot of people don't respect enough to sideboard against, there are about a dozen of those. After that you have tier 2 fringe decks that do not top 8 with any amount of consistency. You might top 8 at a local event of about 25 people.

However, I do agree that there will be cards that completely redefine the meta. After all, look at Delver of Secrets. It is a common card out of the Innistrad block that completely changed the meta in both modern and legacy.
We had fun with treasure cruise, but that quickly got banned and restricted.
So yes. The game does change, it just takes game changing cards.

I typically don't play standard constructed, but here is my deck.

http://www.mtgvault.com/couch312/decks/monoish-green-jank/

Suggestions are welcome, just keep in mind that I typically don't buy into standard unless I believe a card will maintain value.

He meant Mirrodin next year.

I just want to have Disciple of the Vault, Arcbound Ravager and Skullclamp standard again mkay. To be fair, easier to deal with than standard legal emrakul.


Edit: And myr servitor.

I just want another standard skullclamp arcbound deck.

^ What do you mean we'll never visit Mirrodin again?

Standard doesn't have an officially recognized banned list. Am I to assume by your logic that it is not a recognized format then? Commander is started to be a recognized FNM format in Europe. If you have some personal hatred of EDH that's fine, your opinion is all yours. That does not mean it is not a real format that is gaining popularity every month and is officially recognized by Wizards of the Coast. The fact they printed planeswalker commanders should be evidence enough that they recognize it.

Actually it does. Wizards has a ban list for commander as a format.
http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Resources.aspx?x=magic/rules/100cardsingleton-commander

I'm just going to go ahead and direct you to everything you said about commander. So you are right, nobody here knows what's going on, it's just some of us are better at pretending than others.

I do try every now and then.

Fact; Splinter Twin is not viable in legacy. If you want to play primetime and hardcast emrakul you play mud or 12post. Modern delver is somewhat okay but legacy delver is strictly better.
Also, if EDH ever does become competitive a lot of the players will lose interest. I mean the whole point of edh is to be a casual format. EDH might be as popular as standard, but never more than it. You can't draft commander.

I might be an ass, but I don't think English is MrCannabis' first language.

Have you thought about goblin bombardment and things like bloodghast or kitchen finks or murderous redcap? All of the morbid triggers all of the time. it may or may not be a deck I'm currently brewing.

Anyone have time to do some criticizing or some other such shenanihacks?

http://www.mtgvault.com/couch312/decks/modern-rdw/

I do, with incinerator and pyrokinesis, but the Karakasing Thalia back to your hand and Aether Vialing it back in is real, and it hurts.

In the sideboard. Just put it in over whatever card sucks for your current matchup.

After all, that is how you sideboard, you take out the bad stuff and put in the good stuff.

True enough. It just sucks when Rabblemaster forces my other goblins to attack into Thalia or Deathrite.

Since it's casual you could run 4 Grindstone and 4 Painter's Servant just to have the option to infinite mill them if you need to.