This is almost a Gedankexperiment, but the only way to have a definitive answer would be to look at the winning % of a given player with the deck vs the overall number of matches played. Then you...
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This is almost a Gedankexperiment, but the only way to have a definitive answer would be to look at the winning % of a given player with the deck vs the overall number of matches played. Then you...
Plagues are fine vs tribal, but, if you want to go that route, play at least a third copy. I prefer a different and more varied choice of answers, though. My usual anti-aggro weapons are:
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This is weird. Standstill.deck are usually good matchups for pox. If you have the usual waste+factory package, alongside bloodghast or nether spirit, a resolved standstill is at least 50/50 if not...
Would you mind posting a reference list? If I had it right you play no scroll, no lock and no stalker, what's in in their place? Thanks!
@ Roguebuild
It's clear that we are missing at least one piece to play the control role properly. The Bg version (with SDT, yes) plays it better, but it's way too convoluted. Comparing to UW...
I don't really se how gravecrawler can be better than bloodghast. Neither blocks, and the 'crawler doesn't ever have haste and has arguably a worse recursion constraint. In any case, it's probably a...
The critics are spot on, despite being, unfortunately, not new. I will try to address your points (and partially respond to what has been said thereafter).
You say this is the smallest of the...
This deserves a long answer, a premise, and an excursus on the general position of the deck in the metagame.
Premise: I plan on going to GP Strasbourg and would have loved to bring Bg pox with me...
I think this deserves a big quote. It's a really important point: you are not abusing Loam, you are using it. The deck works perfectly fine without.
I perfectly agree, it's definitely not worth it. You could consider it as a sideboard option against control and graveyard-based combo decks, where you are usually boarding out most of the symmetric...
Thank you for the enormous amount of work!
I know it's a a bit outdated ad not a big tournament, but I did post a report some time ago here. Anyways, you already did a very good job, the only possible card of interest that I see missing is...
Let's try an overly simplificated approach, just because.
From a very basic standpoint you can model the overall player+deck strength as S=maximum_deck_strength*personal_proficiency (the latter...
It's interesting to compare this poll with the previous one by Smmenen: http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?17232-Poll-How-Old-Are-You&highlight=
We are definitely getting older,...
29 now, started in late 1994 at age 11 (I managed to buy one of the last Italian black border revised deck... I still have an Unsummon from it). I stopped playing some time after Urza's Saga and came...
Fixed that for you.
Even if this result is not quite comparable to a GP top8, I decided to write a report of my performance to give this deck some visibility. I know there's a thread about it in the New and...
Very good work. I will have to look carefully through it to see if there's some considerations I want to make.
I'm not particularly annoyed by the stickies, but I can see thread 3 to 7 being consolidated into something named like "Legacy Resources".
I second the proposal of having a new B&R thread every 3...
Since Gravecrawler was recently spoiled, I began to think about a similar deck. Zombies are my pet tribe, and with the new printing they have at their disposal an impressive quantity of aggressive...
If this is directed to my comment, I possibly wasn't clear enough. I didn't mean that I want to drop Dark Ritual, on the contrary, I wanted to note how playing Dark Ritual makes Obliterator a more...
Thank you for the feedback, there are many interesting points to discuss. A necessary premise is that in building the deck I was not aiming to a particular archetype, what I ended up with looked like...
So, I went to a 44 men tourney yesterday with a totally untuned and untested build. I put the deck together last Monday, played a couple of games, and decided I was going to
have fun playing it....
The card shines, for example, against Maverick. Smallpoxing away a land + Noble can steal away a lot of tempo. It's also very good against decks like threshold that play few threats and have a hard...
I'm well aware of the existence of Trisomy 21! :tongue: The main difference between the decks is that Trisomy is more all in in the mana denial and abusing the Loam engine, while Loam Pox is more of...