Magic: the Gathering - T: Add Three Mana Of Any One Colour To Your Mana Pool

[aldeayeah]

Lyco, I think you're going to like this one.

Dominaria

Shalai, Voice of Plenty - 3W

Legendary Creature - Angel (R)

Flying

You, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof.

4GG: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

3/4

[Lycodrake]

You think I'm going to like her? aldeayeah, surely you just. Liking her is putting it lightly. Shalai is up there with Sigard and Dromoka as mechanically "lyco loves this a lot a lot".

[aldeayeah]

Yesterday in Arena I beat an UB God-Pharaoh's Gift + Scarab God deck with my no-mythics only-starting-rares UR Drake control deck.

The turning point was a counter war over a Crook of Condemnation.

My opponent conceded when I Cancelled the second of back-to-back Golden Demises with which he was trying to kill my two 12/4 (and growing) Enigma Drakes.

In a different match, I beat an Esper Embalm Tokens player (a pretty horrible matchup, and the reason I'm playing the Crooks to start with) with a sequence of Lightning Strike + Lightning Strike + Opt + Opt + Hyeroglyphic Illumination + swing with a 7/7 Bloodwater Entity for 13 damage outta nowhere, with 3 cards left in my library.

I had never really been much of a blue control player, but now I feel all warm and tingly inside.

I mean, I lose more than I win with this deck, but the wins are SO SATISFYING and the losses are so well fought.

(I'm not fully lost; I haven't grown to like control mirrors yet)

[aldeayeah]

Magic Arena musings, day 2:

I've been cured of my control malaise by the fact that No Banlist Ramunap Red is one hell of a deck.

[Cruor]

I actually bought a key for 5 bucks >_>

Played a couple hours and originally I was enjoying myself but then I stopped playing fellow noobs and playing all these r/b people as W/B vampire token aggro o_ o;;

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I shoulda just went mono red i guess....

[aldeayeah]

The good thing with mono red is games are short, so you can grind fast.

[Cruor]

I LOVE MATH.

There muist have been up to 40 creatures on the board at one point in this game.

[aldeayeah]

aaaand that's why I run a miser's Hour of Devastation

[aldeayeah]

Pretty stellar art piece, big story spoiler though:

https://i.redd.it/h2j7q75nnar01.jpg

[sneakyarrow]

Hey, y'all! Im happy to se a MtG thread here. I mainly play a Golgari deck, getting things into graveyards and rolling out things like Lord of Extinction. I need to play with it a bit more to work out the kinks, but I have fun playing it.

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Also, aldeayeah, I share your opinion on explosions.

[aldeayeah]

Welcome to the fold, sneakyarrow!

Where I got the explosion thing from.

[Saiga]

Does anyone have ideas for creating a new boon cycle (1 mana instants in each colour that involve 3 of something) that would be balanced around Lightning Bolt? I'm trying to create custom cards for a draft set and would like to include a cycle around Lughtning Bolt to have some powerful cards that aren't totally degenerate.

[aldeayeah]

That depends a lot on what the draft environment ends up looking like. Assuming a fairly high power level (since you're putting in Lightning Bolt), these could be fine:

White: Swords to Plowshares, except it always has the player gain 3 life.
Black: Dark Ritual.
Blue: Brainstorm.
Green: Blossoming Defense, except it gives +3/+3.

[Saiga]

Heh. 3 life swords was one of the first things I thought of (along with giant growth with split-secomd, since apparently that's close to how the spell used to be).

My idea was that the format would be Modern-ish? Bolt is legal in modern and all that.

I should have mentioned, the custom boon cycle is restricted to mono-colour decks to give incentive/reward to mono colour in the draft, that's why I'm using such a powerful cycle. It won't be that everyone splashes red for Bolt.

[aldeayeah]

It didn't quite have Split Second, it's just that in 4th edition rules there were no SBA checks for lethal damage until the stack (batch) was empty, so a Giant Growth could always save a creature from damage.

The idea behind Giant Growth+Hexproof was to make it able to counter not only Bolt, but the pseudo-Swords as well.

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I'm going to a new store for this prerelease! It's a bit farther away (a 10 minute drive rather than a 10 minute walk), but some old friends are regulars in this one so I hope I'll crush the lot of them with implausibly knighted frogs blend in just fine.

[Lycodrake]

I got first at my LGSs Saturday prerelease! Ran Mono-White with artifacts.
Here's my list from today:

Lyco's Mono-White DOM prerelease

14 Plains
Sparring Construct
Dauntless Bodyguard
Board the Weatherlight
2 Triuph of Gerard
Adamant Will
Voltaic Servant
Knight of New Benalia
Mesa Unicorn
Serra Disciple
Powerstone Shard
Benalish Marshal (promo rare/mythic)
Danith Capashen, Paragon (promo legendary foil)
D'Avenant Trapper
3 Pegasus Courser
Aesthir Glider
Aven Sentry
Baird, Steward of Argive
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
Karn, Scion of Urza
1 Guardian of Koilos
2 Escavation Elephant
Serra Angel

Had blast and my final match was against my best friend, who was on Jund. Best 3 out of 5 and I got him 3-0.

[aldeayeah]

My pool sucked! I built a grindy GWb deck which managed to get me killed in awesome ways, like a kicked Fight with Fire to the face, or Helm of the Host on a a 5/5 trample.

I regret nothing.

also, holy lack of removal Lyco

...Was it just my impression or is blue just super strong?

[Lycodrake]

also, holy lack of removal Lyco

Apparently it wasn't an issue given that I got 1st place. =P

[aldeayeah]

I bet those Coursers did a ton of work propelling your forces to the enemy face.

[Lycodrake]

Yeah, when I need them to the Pegasi helped me get in for at least 2-3 more damage per turn, which accumulates into lethal if the Coursers stick around.