Comments on: Standard Spike: Extended 2-mans, Opening the Flood(war)gates!

By: Nyselm

Nyselm — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:09:09 +0000

There was actually a very subtle misplay in match two, game two, that didn’t matter but is relevant a surprising amount of the time with this deck. When you used the third cryptic command to bounce his runed halo you choose to draw instead of tapping his creatures, if you resolved the command, drawing a card would have been irrelevant, BUT if you had drawn the murmuring bosk (1 in 9) you would have lost anyway due to not being able to do enough valakut damage. Just something to consider.

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:04:39 +0000

That is actually a great point that I hadn’t realized. Thanks for posting it!

By: putrid leach

putrid leach — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:08:53 +0000

It think, it’s always a good idea, if you have multiple sets of valakut activations to split the first set to hit putrid leech once, so they have to take 2 to pump, and then on the second set hit it once again. This way you won’t have to waste a whole activation, and instead you get at least 2 points of damage. If the jund player decides not to pump then you get the whole 3 you would have otherwise wasted.

By: oma

oma — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:17:19 +0000

Marin, I thought you didn’t believe in luck?

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:08:50 +0000

Meant to say that I try to keep table chat to a minimum

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:08:16 +0000

I try to keep to a minimum. I also don’t want my opponent to have good luck so I don’t bother saying it. I’ll say gg if they say it first and allow me time to respond.

As for the deck, this is the one that I have been testing for actual tournament play. I took it to a local GPT yesterday and won (8 people, so we just played out the top 8). It’s a fun and powerful deck. Here’s a link to my most recent version: http://www.mtgoacademy.com/bbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=38&sid=ae7811f314a261ce01d04676285a5b2f.

Feel free to ask any questions or make any suggestions in the forum.

By: StewardUlk

StewardUlk — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:25:06 +0000

Well, i can understand the point about not honestly wishing your opponent Good Luck, but im not that supersticious, so wishing “Hi, Good Luck” doesn’t really do anthing bad for you. Of course it’s kind of a lie, so.. yeah I can see your point.

I said it many times before, some adjustable phrases would be a really nice implement for mtgo, kinda like macros or something. I would bet the ORC’s got something like that.