Comments on: Standard Spike: Haakon-Loam in Modern Daily Event

By: slowlycrashing

slowlycrashing — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:59:06 +0000

Isn’t the activation cost on Raging Ravine 2RG?

By: Will

Will — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:55:58 +0000

I really liked the decklist. Competitive or not it’s a fun idea.

By: apaulogy

apaulogy — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:04:58 +0000

I don’t know what to think about this deck. I initially dismissed the Loam/Assault shells due to the fact that lands don’t cycle in this format. Then I realized that Horizon Canopy is a card.

Aside from Faithless Looting, I think Horizon Canopy at least deserves 1-2 slots, no?

Is Burning Vengeance even worth it?

How about other Man lands, like Raging Ravine?

kkthxbai

By: Chippi

Chippi — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:06:53 +0000

You mulligan hands that were perfectly reasonable keeps, since you did not count life from the loam as a 2 drop. You then mulligan into hands without Life from the loam, which are often worse. You can cast life without targets to start the engine. It seems you wouldn’t cast it without a target even when it would be the right play; instead passing the turn. A couple times you also missed playing raven’s crime/flame jab when it’s essentially free. Perhaps you haven’t played with life from the loam enough. You should review the vids and rethink the lines of play that could have been opened to you if you played life from the loam.

By: Plejades

Plejades — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:44 +0000

I for my part am always excited to see a brew that tries something completely different. Of course you run the risk of having a bad deck but at least you have surprise on your side, often fun games, and there is always the chance that you can tweak and get something real.
Thanks for the games!

By: BERTONCINI!

BERTONCINI! — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:14:54 +0000

I laughed my ass off so hard when I saw this deck was playing 2 explores

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:10:48 +0000

Thanks for showing off the deck! It seems pretty quirky and fun, but it feels like the biggest problem is inconsistency, which hopefully Faithless Looting will help with, as you’ve said.

I’m interested to see the decklist you’re working on. Would you be willing to share or are you waiting to unleash it on Monday?