I got to play with some Izzet cards on the weekend as well as some of the newer ones from Dragon’s Maze. I’m not usually an Izzet fan, but the synergy between some of the new cards made them seem like a viable and aggressive guild to build around.
It’ll have some decent burn and some decent control, all while pumping and swinging with some large creatures. I’m hoping for a good balance with it all. My only concern will be card draw if I’m spending my spells too fast.
So I’ve been exploring the Kamigawa block because a lot of older Magic players really don’t like the set. I was talking to a few and I understand now that it came out during a time when the previous block was greatly overpowered in comparison. So standard was essentially ruled by the previous block until the new one after Kamigawa came out.
That aside tho, in 2012,Wizards put out a Night of the Ninja Planechase set that brought back some of the Blue / Black Ninja cards, so I decided to build a U/B ninja deck!
Its been a lot of fun so far, Ninjitsu is an interesting keyword. People can’t block some creatures and then POOF ninja takes its place and does more damage plus a cool effect usually.
Casual Magic can be a lot of fun and building obscure decks under $50 is even better.
I got a bunch of Magic for my birthday! Some of my pulls / cards I was given include Tolarian Academy, Blind Obedience, Emrakul, the Aeons torn, Lilliana of the Dark Realms, Giant Adaphage and Promo Gravecrawlers.
There will be more birthday posts as this 28th birthday continues!
I got to play Magic with some new people over the weekend and my legacy Dimir deck did pretty well for a while. My Nightveil Specters had snagged a few good cards and some land for me while Lazav on turned into Aurelia the Warleader. Not too bad. I got overwhelmed though with 3 other players. It was still loads of fun though.
Last night I ended up winning a 9 player free for all, with my Blue/Black zombie mill deck. When it was down to just myself and one other player, I had 15 2/2 zombie tokens (made earlier by Undead Alchemist) and a 20/20 Wight of Precinct Six. Plus the Nightveil Spectre. It was a serious amount of fun.
I ended up staying alive, as most people started targeting each other with extreme prejudice. So people were being picked off pretty quickly and early on.
I was talking to a friend the other day about how I hated Elesh Norn. She is such a game breaker when she comes out. Then I was thinking, I should build an Elesh Norn themed deck. So I did. Its not terribly original, but it keeps in the flavor of her and all the cards are from New Phyrexia. Hopefully I’ll have it all together by tonight. I love building aggressive White Magic decks. They’re not usually expected.
Just the start of our multiplayer game tonight. I won a couple over the course of the night. Milling (I love it) and once in multiplayer with my artifact deck. Simic didn’t fair great but I used some fun combos like Rapid Hybridization on the Strangleroot Geist to evolve my dudes and get an extra creature on the board. Good times.
Tossing around some Magic cards last night. Testing out some new decks and helping some friends tune theirs.
