Roon of the Blinky Things 📝 Deck Tech 📝

Cut a land for acidic slime, and maybe put voice back in is my opinion.

Compromise with a land cut and brought back Voice. That's it! No more. Deck is on hold until.the next set, where I'll revisit it (like I do all of my decks)

But acidic slime!

But acidic slime!

Still be there next revision. Time to put this on ice for now.

Selling Tundra, Savannah and Tropical Island for Dual lands for a future deck OR an Oloro, Ageless Ascetic -> Zurgo Helmsmasher conversion. Jury is still out. This list reflects the current changes.

That's what I did, replace the ABUR duals with temples.

That's what I did, replace the ABUR duals with temples.

I borrowed an idea from you.

The truth of the matter is, while I like this deck a lot, it's not my main squeeze. I'll borrow pieces from this from time to time to bolster my other decks. I think the Temples are super good in mid-rangey decks. Also, I was staying up late at night thinking about all of the basics I cut for them. At the end of the day, if I plan to convert my 97% foiled Oloro deck suddenly to a Zurgo Helmsmasher deck - I ought to be able to convert it to 97% or greater foils. I need some cash to do that.

Quote from: E.kann1 on November 16, 2014, 10:55:36 AM

That's what I did, replace the ABUR duals with temples.

I borrowed an idea from you.

That's a first 😜

Quote from: Dudecore on November 16, 2014, 11:01:20 AM

Quote from: E.kann1 on November 16, 2014, 10:55:36 AM

That's what I did, replace the ABUR duals with temples.

I borrowed an idea from you.

That's a first 😜

Here's one for you - add Mistveil Plains. It's got a Plains subtype, so it's fetchable, and with the amount of tutors you can just go grab things you pitch to Survival of the Fittest.

Quote from: E.kann1 on November 16, 2014, 11:23:47 AM

Quote from: Dudecore on November 16, 2014, 11:01:20 AM

Quote from: E.kann1 on November 16, 2014, 10:55:36 AM

That's what I did, replace the ABUR duals with temples.

I borrowed an idea from you.

That's a first 😜

Here's one for you - add Mistveil Plains. It's got a Plains subtype, so it's fetchable, and with the amount of tutors you can just go grab things you pitch to Survival of the Fittest.

I put it in my possible additions list already, after I checked your change log

Quote from: E.kann1 on November 16, 2014, 10:55:36 AM

That's what I did, replace the ABUR duals with temples.

I borrowed an idea from you.

The truth of the matter is, while I like this deck a lot, it's not my main squeeze. I'll borrow pieces from this from time to time to bolster my other decks. I think the Temples are super good in mid-rangey decks. Also, I was staying up late at night thinking about all of the basics I cut for them. At the end of the day, if I plan to convert my 97% foiled Oloro deck suddenly to a Zurgo Helmsmasher deck - I ought to be able to convert it to 97% or greater foils. I need some cash to do that.

Yaaaay to zurgo! The deck is awesome, but I do have some questions as I have a hard time figuring out what to tutor for most of the time

Just commenting to re-mention how awesome hokori is in this deck.

Just commenting to re-mention how awesome hokori is in this deck.

I agree theoretically, but I'm moving more toward cards that are just good, and don't need other cards to be good. Hokori, Dust Drinker needs a blink engine to produce value. Contending with so many sweepers and spot removal and everything else, I can't reliably say "when I draw this card, it does X for me." Which is why Riftsweeper has been failing miserably at Playtesting when in theory it is borderline broken.

I can build a second deck out of all the cards that fit the "doesn't do enough right away" catagory.

I'll let you know how Hokori does when I play it.

I'll let you know how Hokori does when I play it.

I can already have a pretty good vision of how it's going to play out.

I ran into this problem with Riftsweeper. I got the Hype train going full speed in my brain when I was looking at it. I was like "yeah I've got a billion tutors so I'll just get my cards back" and "it only costs 2 mana, this is my jam right here". Then I went deep like "I can tuck my opponents general back into their deck, this is going to be siiiicccckkkk". Then I played it and was like "when will I ever use this? When I'm ahead on board?" To "Riftsweeper is easily my worst out right now..."

Quote from: E.kann1 on November 25, 2014, 10:24:12 PM

I'll let you know how Hokori does when I play it.

I can already have a pretty good vision of how it's going to play out.

I ran into this problem with Riftsweeper. I got the Hype train going full speed in my brain when I was looking at it. I was like "yeah I've got a billion tutors so I'll just get my cards back" and "it only costs 2 mana, this is my jam right here". Then I went deep like "I can tuck my opponents general back into their deck, this is going to be siiiicccckkkk". Then I played it and was like "when will I ever use this? When I'm ahead on board?" To "Riftsweeper is easily my worst out right now..."

I dunno. Hokori just totally stops your opponents if you play it at the right time, and lets you just sit there and leave up two mana every turn to flicker on your opponents end step.