You know, with Thrax's abilities, I'm really suprised you aren't running all the Edicts in here, too. You have some control, yeah, but is Thrax your only win condition?
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Change made. Not sure if it was the BEST choice, but there it is. XD Thanks!
Of course, the irony is that they were banned because they kicked the asses of all the amateurs, too. XD People were sick of playing against SFM and Jace TMS, so, fwoop! To the banned list they go for three months.
Cut two cards out, EDH is 100 cards, flat, counting your commander.
The Mystics are banned in Standard anyway, so you're golden there. ^_^ Cheap and easy deck, I like it!
Drop a Spine and a couple Lens, throw in a couple kill spells for those creatures that make it out early. :)
That's what the Manalith's are for, I would assume.
Damia is SICK. I saw her art before and thought she was going to be in Inistrad, but this is still crazy. I like the deck a lot, and have no good input other than that. XD It looks like a lot of fun to play.
DAYMN this is evil. @.@ I'd never be able to play it right, but it must be a thing of beauty to see it in action.
Just noticed something... is the rule on hybrid mana costs different than I thought? I was told that if the hybrid include a color not on your General than you couldn't use it. Might want to check on that because, if that's true, you need to replace Crystallization and Sangrite Backlash. Also, Overwhelming Stampede would be hilarious in this deck. XD ....Damn, every time I come here, I want to build my own Mayael deck...
Bare with me, I'm going to walk through my thought process. Leatherback Baloth is amazing, but for three green it's rare that he'd actually see turn three in this deck. Plus, with only a 4 power, he doesn't work with all the spells/abilities that require a 5 or greater target (like, well... Mayael) and, unlike Qasali Ambusher or any of the mana-producers, he's a vanilla creature with nothing to make him more than a body. Yeah, you can pump him, but if a creature can't do more than one thing right off the bat, what fun it that? Looking now, while Elvish Piper is a NICE setup piece, she's easy to kill and you might just be left hanging. Genesis Wave could be sick, but you can only use it once and, like the Baloth, requires trip-green to run. So... -Leatherback Baloth, +Green Sun's Zenith. It'll be easy to cast, you can search for everything you have, and it's reusable. :D It's worth losing a creature for something that makes it easier to bring everybody else out to play.
I would have such a hard time explaining this to people... but if I could learn how to get the timing down... this looks like a BEAST to play. :D Mwahahaha...
No Elvish Piper? No Green Sun's Zenith? No Genesis Wave?
I have to ask... Why aren't you running ANY mana excel at all? I say, drop a couple Avengers and all the Squirrel Nests or the Tusrkcaller (since you seem to have lots of Wolf tokens coming out) and throw in at LEAST 4-6 mana ramp spells: Nature's Call, Untamed Wilds, Rampant Growth, Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Harrow, Explore or Search for Tomorrow. Llanowar Elves are always a good standard for ramp, Joraga Treespeaker as well.
Why did you choose to take the Brow Beats out? It seemed to me that would be one of the more consistent cards in the deck and one of the best ways to keep your hand full of threats. Was it too slow for this?
Wow.... I never realized just how abusable Melira is. @.@ Looking at this build and the comments... Damn, that is SICK and AWESOME. I think my brain may explode... Kind of want to see if a Standard deck can be built to abuse her and still win consistantly. Definitely amazing for non-Standard possibilities, though.
Almost forgot you still had 8 slots to fill, too. Throw in Ravenous Rats, any of the Specters, Sangromancer, maybe Jace's Archivist to make him draw more cards that you can force him to discard. :) Going creature-less isn't necessary when there are so many creatures that can fit here.
You have no discard spells in the deck. The kind of negates the claim that this is a discard deck. :P You actually look more like you wanted to go control/mill but hit a bump and changed your mind midway. While I do agree that Archive Trap would be hilarious in response to Tinker, more mill than that and you're no longer running discard. So! Here are my suggestions. -4 Traumatize, +4 Liliana's Caress -4 Cancel, +4 Horrifying Revelation -4 Melancholy, +4 Distress/ Duress/ Mind Rot/ Psychic Miasma/ Small Pox/ Perplex / Recoil/ discard of choice -2 Island & 1-2 Megrim, + 3-4 Whatever you didn't choose from the above for that choice -2 Diabolic Tutor, +2Liliana Vess Plus, there are soooo many U/B lands, you definitely want to be running those. And Melancholy got removed because the first time you forget to pay the cost, it blows up. Paying that upkeep cost will only slow you down in the end, you're better off just making it so that he can never cast the Blightsteel. Another way to do this would be to run Leyline of the Void or something similar so that when he discards the Blightsteel, it gets exiled immediately. :) This isn't the best list, my experience playing/building discard is minimal, but it's a start. Since this is casual/T1, I assume, there's lots of ways to exploit the large pool you have to choose from for cards that use both colors (both Perplex and Recoil are U/B). Just search the databases here. :)
O.o Geez, sure, an I thought I was young when I started playing, right as 4th was being released! I'm older than you, though-- what, were you taught to read with MTG? o.O
For the moment, it's a tie for favorite card between Venser the Sojourner and Beacon of Creation. The former because of his versatility (and the fact that he just fun to play) and the latter because it symbolizes (and is part of) my favorite type of deck. :D A runner up might be Jace Beleren (dubbed "Baby Jace" or "Little Jace" in our store) because he was our $8 kill to your $80 bomb. >:3 1. Has or will mill ever make it to the top? 2. Is there a tribe that you want to make a deck for but haven't or can't? 3. Thoughts on EDH being made an "official" (read: WotC fueled) format?
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