Older thread and banned list, but the rules and the spreadsheet are the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombiesquisher
http://community.wizards.com/content...-topic/3108751
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Older thread and banned list, but the rules and the spreadsheet are the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombiesquisher
http://community.wizards.com/content...-topic/3108751
There aren't official rules as far as I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombiesquisher
http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/3-Card_Blind
The only other place I've seen 3CB mentioned was The Mana Drain, and one of the longstanding rules there was that whatever cards won the last tournament, were banned in the following X tournaments. In this way no one dominates with a single "best list" and so new 'decks' are constantly emerging. I don't know if that is a common practice or not.
Just looked at the rules
I guess my deck is banned...
It's funny what cards are busted in 3CB... Coercion OP.
Still looking for a a non-awkward way to use Root Maze.
Forgot about this non-gem from Odyssey: Pedantic Learning
At the time it was printed, it was balls-tastic. In fact the guy who was teaching me to play Magic at the time insisted it was one of the worst cards he'd ever seen. It might still be? It does nothing, absolutely nothing by itself though. Which is usually the mark of unplayable crap.
However we have things like Dredge, self-milling creatures like those weird Blue Zombies from Innistrad, Sidisi, Commune with the Gods, and other random junk specifically designed to toss your library in the trash while maybe even putting a card or two you care about into your hand.
Some type of Stax Control or finding a way to revive Stasis is probably the best bet. Both of those are iffy in competitive Magic due to time constraints so maybe Root Maze just doesn't have a home on that basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hopo
A list that made really good use of 4 Elvish Spirit Guides somehow is another option. Don't think I've seen one of those in a long time.
If you could find a green list with a little blue splash Root Maze and Back to Basics would make half the format cry at this point.
It's explosive in combination with Life from the Loam and Mind over Matter, but that's not really saying much, is it? It's cute in combination with stuff like Wood Sage,Taigam's Scheming,Commune with the Gods and Grisly Salvage but I'd expect it to be much too slow to be of any practical use. Maybe in some sort of UG or UGB EDH deck.Quote:
Originally Posted by TsumiBand
Does that work with reveal cards? I guess the actual reveal isn't a zone change, right - just not sure if that counts as still "in the library" until they go to the graveyard (or don't).Quote:
Originally Posted by rufus
Revealed things are still in the library. Look at things like Courser of Kruphix for example to see why it makes sense. Reveal just means to show all players. It has nothing to do with zone changes.
Yeah, that follows. I guess for whatever reason the idea of revealing a group of cards and splaying them out made me ponder whether the game recognized it as going directly from library to graveyard, but that's silly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valtrix
The more cards that are added to the list to gain value from Pedantic Learning the worst it gets. If there is a green/blue Loam deck, this makes a lot of sense as a slight bump in card advantage. Relying on Courser seems fantasy land'ish. Better off with Mirri's Guile or SDT, as they come down way faster and give more insight than just the top card on when to "mill".Quote:
Originally Posted by TsumiBand
Some effects like Altar of Dementia, or Codex Shredder, seem necessary to have a reliable means of putting cards in the yard. Gaea's Blessing also seems to warrant a spot in order to recycle the deck, unless it's dredge.
40 cards in stock at $.49 a pop @ SCG. If you break it, could be profitable./sarcasm
I was about to post some ill-advised jank appeal for Hermit Druid, before remembering that Hermit Druid goes broken without shitty cards. Oh wells.Quote:
Originally Posted by ahg113
Don't get too down on Pedantic Learning. It's actually pretty boss with Dredge in EDH decks like the Mimeoplasm.
Sorry this might be a wrong thread, but I didn't feel like creating a new for this question.
I played against Illusions of Grandeur / Donate combo deck in mtgo. Is that some sort of old combo deck? I didn't get to see him go off but I saw both of the cards in his hand with gitprobe. I would be very grateful if someone could point me into a decklist or a thread that discusses that idea.
This was an old kill condition in a deck called Trix (or at least, Trix was the deck that I saw it played in the most). It would play Necropotence, Illusions of Grandeur, Donate, and most of the variants I saw had ways of dealing with their own Illusions if the other player was somehow able to stall around it - Capsize for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by yugular
IIRC the deck also played Masticore as an alt-win in the rare event that someone rolled up on you with creatures - decks like Sligh and Fish had some very small dudes back in those days so they were easily shot down by a Masticore.
So yeah, unless someone has a better recollection than me and Illusions/Donate was in other decks more prominently, my advice is to look up old Trix decklists.
It's a very old concept that was used circa 2000 very successfully.Quote:
Originally Posted by yugular
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/e...nd_Stasis.html
Trix in all it's glory with an SCG article describing the fun.
edit: you'd have to do some more research on "Trix" to get the first lists, which were faster. Dark Ritual was in the list for sure and I think it had both Mystical and Vampiric Tutors.
Thanks for the replies! I might be interested just to do this kind of a deck just for laughs and make an article or video about it. Any additional resources would be helpful. Thanks so far!
Ah, Trix. Along with Prosperous Bloom, those were some of the first combo decks in the true sense of the word. While it's too expensive for play today, the nice thing about Trix is that the key piece is an enchantment. That makes them very resilient to most forms of removal, which focus on creatures and artifacts. Sadly, it also involves a pretty worthless pair of cards, so there's that.
I already built a "modern" version of the deck and played it in mtgo. It was fun. Next thing Im gonna try wishboard for it... :cool: