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stupid
vengevine is gonna be played as a 4 of in the new naya builds like no other. that card might as well say “Blightning Target/ Ranger of Eos Tool”. at least there making it harder for noobs to pilot jund. turn three blightning could just end up getting you killed lmfao. XD
Blightning only zaps players.
You didmt get it, if jund plays blightning on you, you discard vengevine and then bring it to play from grave with two nacatls for instance and trample ur for to death.
I’ve played against decks that use vengevine and spanked them. I don’t know why the card is so high priced. It kinda sucks. Searing Blaze for the win.
I was thinking about those auras with Totem Armor. If a creature has, say, 2 auras on it with Totem Armor on them both, and would be destroyed, will both of the auras be destroyed, because after all, the totem auras say “If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.” That would mean that all Auras with Totem armor are destroyed, but what about Umbra Mystic’s ability? The wording about totem armor is different to the others in Umbra Mystic, which says “If an enchanted permanent you control would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy an aura attached to it.” So if there’s a situation like this. I control a creature with say, a Holy Strength, Eland Umbra and a Hyena Umbra attached to Umbra Mystic and an opponent casts Hideous End on it, would that cause me to destroy all auras, both umbras or just one aura attached to that creature?
Well, totem armor is a replacement effect, so only one can happen for each time the creature would be destroyed. If a creature enchanted with totem armor would be destroyed, the creature’s controller chooses which totem armor aura would be destroyed. As to Umbra Mystic, she gives all Auras totem armor so, yes, you could choose to destroy any Aura attached to the creature that would be destroyed, as a replacement effect, since all are now totem armor. Holy Strength would have totem armor, since you control the Umbra Mystic, so you could destroy it instead of the creature.
Well, if you don’t know how new ability works, I recommend you to watch Planeswalker’s Primers. Here are primers from RoE: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/428 You also can watch all primers on Wizardsmtg YouTube channel. They’re very helpful.
But because all of the “real” totem armors say “– and destroy this Aura” doesn’t that cause all of their abilities to resolve if the creature is about to be destroyed therefore causing me to destroy all the auras?
No. Watch the material flatpeter has posted.
So i just got home from my local pre-release. I went 3-2 with my bant aura deck.
2 Dawnglare Invoker
2 Aura Gnarlid
2 Guard Gomazoa
1 Wall of Omen
1 Haze Frog
1 Tajuru Preserver
1 Caravan Escort
1 Stalwar Shild-Bearers
1 Deathless Angel
1 Hand of Emrakul
1 Ulamog’s Crusher
1 Distortion Strike
1 All is Dust
2 Growth Spasm
2 Hyena Umbra
1 Eland Umbra
1 Snake Umbra
1 Drake Umbra
4 Island
6 Forest
7 Plains
How did everyone else do? Overall my decked played well. lost once to a miss play with Dawnglare Invoker. other loses were just close races.
I went 3-1 with a WUB deck full of level up creatures. I don’t have a full deck list as I have already taken it apart but highlights include:
1 Student of warfare
2 Ikiral Outrider
2 Hyena Umbra
1 Time of Heroes
1 Venerated Teacher
2 Guard Gomazoa
1 Hada Spy Patrol
1 Champians’s Drake
2 Destortion Strike
2 Nirkana Cutthroat
3 Dread Drone
3-2 with a white/blue lockdown and leveler deck.
I went 3-1 with 2 decklists, but my main one is UW leveler. I’ll list one below:
Level UP!
1 x [c]Venerated Teacher[/c]
1 x [c]Beastbreaker of Bala Ged[/c]
1 x [c]Makindi Griffin[/c]
1 x [c]Distortion Strike[/c] (this thing is a BOMB!)
2 x [c]See Beyond[/c]
1 x [c]Knight of Cliff Haven[/c]
1 x [c]Champion’s Drake[/c]
1 x [c]Halimar Wavewatch[/c]
1 x [c]Kazandu Tuskcaller[/c]
1 x [c]Joraga Treespeaker[/c]
1 x [c]Domestication/c]
1 x [c]Ondu Giant[/c]
1 x [c]Eel Umbra[/c]
1 x [c]Bear Umbra[/c]
1 x [c]Mammoth Umbra[/c]
1 x [c]Wall of Omens[/c]
1 x [c]Runed Servitor[/c]
1 x [c]Narcolepsy[/c]
1 x [c]Deprive[/c]
1 x [c]Prophetic Prism[/c]
1 x [c]Caravan Escort[/c]
1 x [c]Ikiral Outrider[/c]
use [card ] not [c ]
Thank you, it’s my first time posting here from the Wizards forums, so I’m not used to the format. Lemme try it again
Lighthouse Chronologist
weres the mana
Stars of the show:
Dawn glare invoker
drake umbra
guard gomazoa
induce despair
bear umbra + level up
any eldrazi, if you could get them out which was not that hard
I have a question. If you have an eldrazi with Annihilator 1 out and you give it Eldrazi Conscription, does it’s annihilator get replaced by the Conscription annihilator or does the eldrazi get two instances of Annihilator. One at 1 and one at 2?
the latter, so it has annihilator 3
Actually, it has the EFFECT of annihilator 3, but it does not actually have annihilator 3, it has annihilator 2 and annihilator 1. This is important for cards like Stifle.
went 5-0 and got 1st at first pre-realese with this UW deck
9x island
8x plains
white
1x soul’s attendant, 1x student of warfar
1x emerge Unscrathed, 1x Lone missionary
1x Caravan escort, 1x Ikiral Outrider
1x hyena umbra, 1x repel the darkness
1x kinght of cliffhaven
blue
1x halimar wavewatch, 1x skywatcher adept
1x narcolepsy, 1x hada spy patrol
1x see beyond, 1x unified will
2x champion’s drake, 3x deprive
artifact
2x prophetic prism
2nd pre-release got 2nd with GW
3x aura gnalid, 2x pelakka wurm alot of auras and gideon = win
I went 3-0 at the prerelease with a similar deck.
I went 3-1 with a this leveler deck
1x Student of Warfare
2x Knight of Cliffhaven
2x Coralhelm Commander
1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
3x Skywatcher Adept
3x Unified will
3x Caravan Escort
2x Eel umbra
3x Oust
1x Echo Mage
1x Dormant Gomazoa
2x Champion’s Drake
1x Venerated Teacher
9x Islands
6x Plains
It worked great until I got placed against a guy with 3 consume the meeks, and then when i still placed in the top 16 of 90, I got paired against the same guy.
I gotta say, leveler’s look kind of uninteresting but they really are fun. It almost feels like playing a chess game, having all your pieces on the table and thinking over what to do.
Somebody pulled 3 Consume The Meek in a sealed pool???
Ya sadly, with 90 people all doing sealed there’s always one. The guy next to me pulled a foil, and non foil Gideon.
a guy next to me pulled a foil Sarkan and a normal Gideon
I went 3-1-1 with a WU leveler aura deck. I’ll have to eat my words about Level Up. In this environment (slooow), even common levelers become serious threats when enchanted with umbras.
But best strategy I can find is this: EVASION. Flying, that blue unblockable leveler, and more flying =D
Evasion indeed, agreed! Even the blue Invoker, a 3/3 for five mana, is still quite good, just because it flies. Drake Umbra, which I at first thought was ridiculously expensive when it was spoiled, since I was comparing to the other umbras, turned out to be incredibly useful. The flying was well worth the extra cost.
And what about the white invoker? It clears the way for a lethal strike! And…IT CAN FLY! I found myself wasting a removal (and I had very few of removal in my deck – two or three) on that litle dude because my opponent was about to obtain it’s eight mana source.
My draft table kept feeding me blue, and I am here to tell you that if you get enclave cryptologists, more than 4 deprives, 3 or 4 lay bare, multiple sea gate oracles, renegade doppelganger, sphinx of margosi and 2 eldrazi conscriptions, 2 things will happen. 1: games will take an average of 14 turns. 2: you will realize that blue is truly viable once again, even in draft. It is entirely possible to build an excellent draw-go deck in draft (especially if you get walls and guard dutys)
I got a mediocre pool, and the shittiest luck ever, and went 2-2. My luck was statistic defying bad. XD
), out of the seven or eight that I was playing. Also, that opponent got his Guul Draz Assassin in his opening hand both games as well. It was not pretty.
Against one guy I mulled down to five both games (lost 0-2), and still only ended up with a single land, out of eighteen that I was playing. Against my other opponent that I lost to (also 0-2), both games I only saw at most one of my levelers (I was playing UW level up as well
One game I Regressed his Assassin twice, I think, as well as Ousting it, but I still wasn’t drawing anything, and still lost. The other two games I went 2-0 in each, though, since my deck was actually doing what it was supposed to.
I still had fun but, seriously, I’ve never seen anything like that run of bad luck. My pool was barely workable, but I managed to pull together a decent deck (no rares in it, though XD)…but then often never drew anything relevant, even though the deck was solid. Disappointing, but still glad I went. I’ll try and make it to the Launch event as well.
wath do you think of this?
Training Grounds 4
Halimar Wavewatch 3
enclave criptologist 2
wal of omens 3
Transcendent Master 3
sphinx of magosi 2
Time of Heroes 2
Knight of Cliffhaven 3
path to exile 4
Hedron-Field Purists 2
Caravan Escort 3
survival cache 2
jace 1
treasure hunt 3
oblivion ring 3
wheres your student of warfares??? best one drop in the set?
Training grounds wouldn’t help out the student, but I guess he could throw one in (replacing a master or something)
appreciated this blog!
lol
“Lust for War” and “Narcolepsy” … Ouch.
Or repel the darkness
Or kor line-slinger
student costs white mana only eant the rest are almost all collerless.
I droped it because it was to white intensive. and a 6/6 islandwalker will still kill the student. i find that a better option.
went 5-0-1 at my prelease. Blue / Red is going to be the nuts.
Out of the 6 packs, I got 3 Rage Nimbus and 2 Warmonger Chariot. Almost no one had a decent answer for Rage Nimbus + Warmonger Chariot protected by Eel Umbra. The match I tied, the guy had GW with Gideon and Leaf Arrow and picked off the Nimbus before I could get him beefy.
Prerelease horror story:
I had an eldrazi spawn token enchanted with Eldrazi Conscription, a 10/11 trampler. Opponent on the play, thinking, thinkin, thinking, and I’m sure I’ve got this in the bag. Next turn he’s dead. He then says “ooooh!!”, manages to Traitorous Instinct my creature and swing with it, and to add insult to injurythen proceeded to sac it for mana. That essentially ended the game. You know what I should’a done? SAC’D the damn thing myself when it was targeted!! AAAAaaarrrrrrgh! Never have I felt like such a fool. >:(
I also went up against a guy who managed to get out his Linvala, Keeper of Silence ALL 3 GAMES. Talk about dumb luck.
Went 3-3. So I guess I’m a perfectly average player.
i hear ya dude.. stuff like those happens to me as well, dont make you a worse player but it sure confirms that we werent concentrating into the game enough.
could be worse, I lost a game, because I did not sac. the goblin that kills walls. If I did I kill a overgrown battlement, and my opponent does not get the eldrazi that lets him draw 4. but all in all, it was the only game I lost, with a jund color deck. it worked, with six packs no eldrazi, but had two of the legendary goblins, he is fun. may not be a great constructed card, he is fun to have your opponent attack, and you hit him for one and put a spawn into play, and block with a 5/5. or sac him for annihilator. 30 people, only one anon pulled, no gidon’s, it was not a good card pool all in all.
5-0-1 in my pre-release. Strong green pull with many umbras and Khalni Hydra, and I found that Deprive and level-up guys are quite lethal. I’ll post my deck later.
i was so lucky in my pre release i went 2-2 but in my packs i got 1 normal sarkhan 1 foil sarkhan 1 emrakul 1 dormant gomazoa 1 student of warfare and 1 transcendent master
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so no more vamps well not as many gunaa come out
Very interesting post thanks for writing it I just added your website to my favorites and will be back.
man, it was super fun but also super frustrating. out of 4 rounds, the last three did not see a third game. three games total were draws and my first draw was because my opponent and i both had fully leveled transcendent masters. the last game i broke 100 life with t-master but couldn’t get through his wall of spawn tokens. another draw.
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Emrakul, the Kiwi Torn
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Dear Brimstone Mage,
I take back any nasty things I may have said about you. I truly and deeply apologize.
Thanks for all those wins tonight,
~Kienan.
Is it really that good ? I’m curious about how you could do so well with such a costly creature.
It’s great if an opponent has no answer to it by the time you level it up once or twice. Leveling it a third time gives you an answer to (i.e. free removal for) nearly all of your opponent’s creatures. I managed to ping a 5CC Dread Drone for one and kill it when my dumbass opponent forgot I had my mage leveled.
i agree he is good
Yeah, I was surprised as well. At first glance he looked awful, but I decided I’d give him a try, since I thought he’d be great in limited. Once or twice he was dead weight, sure, but mostly he kicked surprising amounts of ass. He’s one of those cards that forces your opponent off balance; forces them to change how they play if they don’t have a direct answer. If you get him out early, you can stop your opponent from playing some of their creatures entirely. He’s basically a mini-assassin (Guul Draz Assassin, that is) that is only uncommon, and can hit your opponent. If you’ve ever played against an Assassin (OWCH), you’ll know how potent that is.
Very good in a stalemate, too. In one game, after I removed all the creatures I could, but couldn’t attack in due to some large defender, or some such, one Brimstone Mage did six damage to my opponent’s face before he finally got removed. He’d already killed three or four creatures, too, and had simply ran out of targets. He often controlled the game. So, you tell me if that’s worth the fifteen (incremental) mana cost.
I can see now, thanks for the detailed answer.
It seems to benefit a lot from the pretty slow pace of the set, but I don’t believe it will make it anywhere outside limited.
And I’m not saying it will either. It’s not even really a good card, in itself (cool effect, but too expensive), but it rocks in ROE limited.
umm… if emurkal cost less like maybe like 9 mana or something
…
Fail?
Yep or 5 mana or something, u nuts lol
no cost like 10 colors less ermakrul better want if cost like 9 dunno lol
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