Comments on: Dime a Dozen #96: Presence

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 04:42:04 +0000

pejota – You’re very welcome! It’s great to hear that you’re enjoying the deck so much. Thanks for sharing.

By: pejota

pejota — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:08:29 +0000

Built the deck the other day for about 3 tix and absolutely love it. Most fun I’ve had outside my old school stompy deck.

I took out the Aura Gnarlids and Rancors for 4x Naturalize. I rarely find that card useless.

I’ve been testing some main deck Drake Familiars and Coiling Oracles in place of the Mulldrifters only because I don’t like throwing away a creature for two cards, especially a flyer, when I Evoke it.

If Naturalize does end up being useless then I just side in Journey to Nowhere.

Thanks again for the deck idea and videos!

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:18:39 +0000

VanillaVillain – Thank you sir! Glad you could check it out.

By: VanillaVillain

VanillaVillain — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:36:14 +0000

Hey Jason, just wanted to say that I think you found something truly great in your mardu control list…the fact that you out valued that dimir teachings deck is incredible…keep working at the list and I’m sure you will get even better results!

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:10:57 +0000

Jack – Thank you very much for supporting me!
A) I’m skeptical about Kird Ape fitting into this exact framework – Perhaps there is a more aggressive, strictly “Zoo” variant that can work?
B) Because it would be a slightly different take, we would likely top the curve off at 3 (Rioters) and lose the top end (Aura Gnarlid/Mulldrifter) otherwise.

deluxeicoff – Solid suggestions, man. Much appreciated!

VanillaVillain – That might end up being the way to go, thanks!

By: VanillaVillain

VanillaVillain — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 01:06:34 +0000

I have been looking for good Aura’s to go with the Heliod’s Pilgrim I mentioned above, really haven’t found anything exciting though…and def. nothing as remotely playable as Rancor at 1cmc. A new suggestion would be to still cut the Gnarlid’s for Pilgrim’s straight up, keep a singleton Rancor, and replace one Rancor with Armadillo Cloak. Cloaking up a fully powered Nacatl or Rioters seems really good against aggro matchups like Goblins, Stompy and Affinity. Not so good against the control decks since most have edicts these days, but I guess that’s where Rancor is somewhat better as it turns small threats large.

By: deluxeicoff

deluxeicoff — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:29:40 +0000

Good stuff – rancor looks good to me at 2, personally I think the helo-pilgrim tech mentioned above is a strong suggestion. I’d also run Journeys main (probably 2) but that’s just me…