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please don't clutter the board with pointer decks

Heartfire Hobgoblin and Scourge of the Nobilis are a must for this deck

a few Balefire Lieges wouldnt hurt either

i'd replace the two explorer's scope with 2 more disfigure and the 4 lacerators with 2 guul draz and 2 tendrils of corruption

even with 2 Mana Reflection you dont have enough mana acceleration to pay for all these expensive cards...it's gonna play very very slowly. odds are you'll be dead before you can bring out those huge critters

Balefire Liege!

ibanez: this does not create auto-draw infinite loop ...as the damage keeps resolving at some point the opponents will die off, once the last one dies you win the game.

you really don't have that much life gain...in fact, it's all based on facing a creature deck. any other deck type will destroy you without any opposition.

if your posting the combo by itself you might as well explain it.

the mirror removes the cheese before the cheese's effect would trigger so there's not much point to this

throw in some Sporesower Thallid..maybe cut down the sporoloth ancient and psychotrope down to 3 each to make room.

Mycoloth is also an awesome sapproling multiplier

you need 6 mana so that you can pay for the first copy while the original spell is still on the stack

once the first copy resolves but before the original does, you use the 3 mana from the first copy to pay for a second copy and so on.

if you had an extra Desperate Ritual in your hand you could cast it with the other one spliced allowing you to initiate the loop when you only have 4 mana.

also, if you had an extra 2 mana you can deal with up to one counterspell by playing the Desperate Ritual and getting the 3 mana for yet another copy, which lets you restart the loop.

gah, sorry for doublepost

someone was kind enough to post the pertinent ruling in the discussion thread for the article:

"603.6a Enters-the-battlefield abilities trigger when a permanent enters the battlefield. These are written, “When [this object] enters the battlefield, . . . “ or “Whenever a [type] enters the battlefield, . . .” Each time an event puts one or more permanents onto the battlefield, all permanents on the battlefield (including the newcomers) are checked for any enters-the-battlefield triggers that match the event."

still doesnt seem logical to me but if that's how the rules are applied then that's all there is to it :)

someone was kind enough to post the pertinent ruling in the discussion thread for the article:

"603.6a Enters-the-battlefield abilities trigger when a permanent enters the battlefield. These are written, “When [this object] enters the battlefield, . . . “ or “Whenever a [type] enters the battlefield, . . .” Each time an event puts one or more permanents onto the battlefield, all permanents on the battlefield (including the newcomers) are checked for any enters-the-battlefield triggers that match the event."

still doesnt seem logical to me but if that's how the rules are applied then that's all there is to it :)

YELLING PROVES YOUR POINT!!!

well they can enter play simultaneously

what they can't do is both be 'in play' and 'entering play' simultaneously

I don't think this is a valid combo, imho the Daily MTG budget guy is wrong on this one.

valakut checks that you control 5+ mountains when a mountain is played...when scapeshift resolves and you drop all of them you don't control 5 mountains until AFTER they're all in play.

from the Gatherer Card Rulings:

"Leylines that start the game on the battlefield aren't cast as spells. They can't be countered."

I was explaining the term since you didn't seem to get what he meant.

not sure why you're so defensive/sensitive about this.

"james could you clarify on 'consistency' for me please? "

in magic terms, 'consistency' refers to the odds of drawing any given card...a deck with many single cards will be less consistent than a deck where there's less different cards but more copies of each.

a deck with many singles is usually a symptom that the deck doesn't have a real focus, that it tries to do too much and ends up doing not much at all.