TheSwarmer

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Planar nexus is only non-basic land types tho

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Posted 24 September 2024 at 00:06 in reply to #651085 on Walk, Forest! Walk!

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I think Nylea's Presence is supposed to take care of the domain issue but it is just not enough at all. Lush Growth also helps but is just bad, bad, bad fucking card. Like [[Lay of the land]] kind of bad.

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Posted 21 September 2024 at 23:26 in reply to #651085 on Walk, Forest! Walk!

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Nah man, Preordain got unbanned a while ago.

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Posted 20 September 2024 at 22:31 in reply to #651074 on Budget Build: Izzet's Instants

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Yeah, I could not think of anything better tbh, in a deck with 8 Ball Lightnings it just hurts to see a card that is so incredibly low tempo while essentially also being card disadvantage.

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Posted 19 September 2024 at 11:27 in reply to #651066 on Awakener • Modern

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There has gotta be something better than [[Flamekin Harbinger]], it's such a low tempo card disadvantage play in such an aggressive deck. But with [[Faithless Looting]] banned I really don't know what could replace it.

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Posted 18 September 2024 at 18:23 as a comment on Awakener • Modern

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It's kinda sad, [[Razor Golem]] and [[Spire Golem]] used to be really good in pauper but the black one never saw any success even in a format with only commons. Cannot really see it ever working anywhere else either.

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Posted 18 September 2024 at 18:17 in reply to #651060 on Modern Beginner Black Budget

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It really really feels like [[Dross Golem]] should just be [[Vampire Nighthawk]], with how much removal there is, the utility of Fear as a keyword is likely to be minimal.

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Posted 18 September 2024 at 15:31 as a comment on Modern Beginner Black Budget

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Thankfully it's also a land. I honestly could not figure out what creature to add to the deck and went with Trawler cause it is essentially free graveyard hate in a format where about half of the top 15 decks care about the graveyard to varying extents. The non-bo with Tarmogoyf does bother me tho.

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Posted 17 September 2024 at 23:25 in reply to #651056 on Modern Rock Goyf Tribal

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Yeah, a 1 mana star-like food like that cantrips wold be great here. Heaped harvest gets kind of redeemed by gaining enough life to offset a Lightning Bolt and filling the vacant 3 drop slot (as you almost never play out [[Crypt Rats]] on curve).

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Posted 15 September 2024 at 18:25 in reply to #651045 on Pauper Golgari Cat Food Pox

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Murktide and The One Ring are things you need to be able to deal with, hence the mite and trophy/verdict. Golgari Loam Pox decks are probably my favorite thing to exist in Magic, and something like this cannot really be competitive without saga unfortunately. There may also be some utility lands I am failing to think of right now.

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Posted 13 September 2024 at 14:47 in reply to #651030 on Modern Mulch (Competitive)

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I mean, there are at least 200 different dual/triple/tribal lands to improve the manabase depending on the budget and desired speed of the deck.
[[ancient ziggurat]] if you are willing to go full creature
[[unclaimed territory]] and [[unknown shores]] otherwise. And also lands like [[dismal backwater]] etc.

Lay of the Land has to be top 50 worst cards ever printed in the entire game of magic, don't run it, not even when held at gunpoint, have principles!

Generally speaking, the best way to build slivers is to go all in on +1/+1 lord slivers, sinew, predatory, and muscle. Then to add cards like [[Winding way]] and [[lead the stampede]] as your only non-creature spells.

If you must play other non-sliver spells, then [[Negate]] is not an awful one. And other cards that allow you to search for specific slivers for specific situations are also probably a good idea. [[Fauna Shaman]] and [[Evolutionary leap]] should be cheap hopefully. They allow you to get the slivers you need when you need them, though at a cost.

[[Groundshaker Sliver]] is just bad almost all of the time you would rather have almost any other sliver. [[Battering Sliver]] is almost as bad.

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Posted 12 September 2024 at 23:10 in reply to #651023 on Buff Bod Slivers - 75

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Hmmm, it's really strange seeing a loam deck without Saga especially with The Underworld Cookbook being a 1 CMC artifact. Could just cut some number of Finale of Devastation for spellbomb and a haywire mite and maybe something else and give the deck another angle. Also I would imagine it is an issue that only Lili kills big Murktides, an Assassin's Trophy or Sheoldred's Edict seems warranted.

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Posted 12 September 2024 at 21:38 as a comment on Modern Mulch (Competitive)

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16-18 lands is kind of the standard for decks like this in Pauper. Lórien Revealed means 18 = 22 to start, and then 8 cantrips make it so that 22 is enough to hit 4 drops on curve most of the time.

The way to think about the format is that you can't Show and Tell an Emrakul or shit out a Primeval Titan or The One Ring so games last longer and are more grindy because the power ceiling of any one individual play/card is lower. As a result you want to minimize flooding as much as possible.

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Posted 12 September 2024 at 21:33 in reply to #651027 on Pauper Grixis Control V3

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Hahahaha, yeah it's my go to deck as of now as well.

I do miss modern 8 rack tho. Break the Ice -> Surgical against tron will forever be in my heart.

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Posted 05 September 2024 at 22:52 in reply to #651002 on My Dimir Murktide (Modern)

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No frogs no forces, might as well play pauper.
JK, but not really. I would say that more [[Spell Snare]]s are a good idea, the card just catches so much in the current metagame you cannot really justify fewer than 3 in the 75 I don't think. But then again, I also don't think anyone should be playing modern nowadays so...

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Posted 05 September 2024 at 19:29 as a comment on My Dimir Murktide (Modern)

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Oh to be 13 again, trying to make fungi work xD ([[Mycoloth]] was my favorite card for a few years, but it is only really good when already winning and only when the opponent has no removal).

[[Sporesower Thallid]] really has to be a 4x in these decks, same may be true for [[Sporoloth Ancient]].
[[Parallel Lives]] on the other hand is quite win-more. A tempo-negative card that requires a board presence, it does however stack with extra copies of itself unlike [[Fungal Plots]] which you really never want more than 1 of.

Lastly, 20 lands is too few.

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Posted 03 September 2024 at 14:53 as a comment on FUNGUS

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night of souls betrayal

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Posted 01 September 2024 at 21:35 as a comment on It Feathers Blight

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More cantrips fewer lands? There is no way that a mana curve like that with 4 opt 4 consider needs 24 lands.

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Posted 30 August 2024 at 19:41 as a comment on Modern Beginner RU Burn Budget

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Snap gets a lot stronger with Familiar and Azorius Chancery, so at least in a vacuum it makes sense to move towards other cards whose strengths you can leverage more fully.

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Posted 24 August 2024 at 20:04 in reply to #650931 on Azorius Ephemerate (Pauper)

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Why no [[Force of Will]]?

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Posted 15 August 2024 at 21:32 as a comment on A Handy

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