Comments on: Standard Spike: UWb Team Titans

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:17:28 +0000

@BT, Haunted Fengraf has been very good for me partially because it’s free to play. Buried Ruin isn’t terrible in that slot but it basically requires you to put a singleton card from your library into your graveyard to be relevant.

@Van Phanel, Derp. Good point.

@Eluvial, I believe F4 passes priority until your opponent plays a spell or ability. I actually never use that though. I just F8, F6 on occasion, and F2 a lot. I also have these buttons linked to my mouse buttons. It’s pretty sweet.

@Ca-Caw, I haven’t really considered Swords because they generally require pretty specific game states to be good in. I also don’t know what matchups I’d really want them in.

@Disco, I use Fengraf very often and am often wondering if I can afford to play 2 (generally when I’m getting flooded and haven’t drawn it).

@Anonymous, Think Twice costs significantly more mana to use than Thought Scour does. Thought Scour also has synergy with numerous cards in the deck.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:44:13 +0000

What’s your reasoning of playing thought scour over think twice? Think twice is guaranteed to get you an additional card while thought scour has a chance of getting another card via flashback. For a control deck, the incremental card advantage seems more important.

By: Disco

Disco — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:51:38 +0000

I wonder if it’s just better to replace haunted fengraf with a colored mana producer. Toying around with this deck, I rarely use the fengraf, and in most of those games I’m already winning, due to it being a late-game play. The mana is pretty good but it could be better in the early game when this deck is most vulnerable.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:32:13 +0000

I’ve been playing this but I added more Isolated Chapels and another Swamp, and I added 2 Liliana over the Ratchet Bomb and an O-Ring. It’s been well well worth it.

By: Ca-Caw

Ca-Caw — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:55:03 +0000

Hey _ShipIt! I’m loving the standard daily’s you’ve been doing. Keep up the deck building.

This deck is actually a deck I’ve been running since the Image was printed. Lately, given the meta, there are a lot of G/W, Mono B, and G/R decks floating around pretty heavily. I converted the deck into a more “Caw-Blade” style of a deck and it’s been WAY more consistent. I used to run 3 Sun Titan and 3 Image vs. your 4 Sun Titan and 2 Image due to my fear of Geist and Thrun, but my meta is much more aggro so there are always valid targets for him by turn 4. Elspeth, Sorin, Snapcaster, and Lingering Souls give this deck the ability to run as Caw-Blade while keeping the Sun Titan/Image combo going.

Have you considered running Swords to finish out games more consistently? I found that if I didn’t resolve a Titan in earlier versions, I lost.

By: BuddhaBob74

BuddhaBob74 — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:47:40 +0000

I’ve seen in 2 videos now that you expand your graveyard (or something similar) in the lower right. This is covered by the MTGOAcademy badge, so we can’t see what you’re doing.

Please consider changing you behavior or the badge location to fix this.

By: Eluvial

Eluvial — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:44:41 +0000

Is it f4 you use to skip to opponents end step to play instants if they do nothing on their turn?