A friend of mine just gave me an Izzet vs Golgari duel deck. {Eternal witness}, {life from the loam}, and {isochron scepter} alone are worth the price of admission. Now ill have a couple easy-to-play decks that I can play with my wife with.
can i borrow your wife to play with? need one of those asap.
I ended up buying a second copy of that duel deck because of those cards, and some of the other Golgari deck cards like {Doomgape} and {Gleancrawler}. Made a multiplayer-tailored dredge deck using many of the cards.
And, well, the alternate art {brainstorm}s were a nice bonus ;)
Quote from: Gorzo on February 24, 2013, 01:08:54 AM
I ended up buying a second copy of that duel deck because of those cards, and some of the other Golgari deck cards like {Doomgape} and {Gleancrawler}. Made a multiplayer-tailored dredge deck using many of the cards.
And, well, the alternate art {brainstorm}s were a nice bonus ;)
How much is the duel deck? I'm now realizing I can use most of the cards for EDH XD
They retail for $20 at Walmart/Target. They're definitely worth it. A few of the cards I can use in my {astral slide} deck and when I *eventually* build a dredge deck, ill have some cards to help out with that too.
So I've been playin these decks for a few days now, and holy cannoli is the Golgari waaaayyyy unbalanced compared to the Izzet deck. It's insanity that they put a bunch of dredge cards in it and the best the Izzet got was replicate. If you have a {life from the loam} and {barren moor}/{tranquil thicket} in the GY, that's it. Game over.
Hah, yeah, if you play the decks out of the box, izzet gets destroyed. Sure, the deck has some good individual cards like {Isocron Scepter} and {Prophetic Bolt}, but nothing that works too well together. I think {Wee Dragonauts} are probably the most useful creature in there.
But Golgari... The whole deck synergizes. And dredge. Lots of dredge. So good.
Quote from: Gorzo on February 27, 2013, 08:26:20 AM
But Golgari... The whole deck synergizes. And dredge. Lots of dredge. So good.
Oh no no no Gorzo. Dredge. So BAD. 😝
Dredge is so broken. I was disappointed when they said the guilds would have new mechanics in RtR. That meant no dredge :(
Quote from: Mikefrompluto on March 02, 2013, 03:38:33 AM
Dredge is so broken. I was disappointed when they said the guilds would have new mechanics in RtR. That meant no dredge :(
There are just so many ways to shut it down now.
Quote from: Falcon182 on March 02, 2013, 10:39:19 AM
Quote from: Mikefrompluto on March 02, 2013, 03:38:33 AM
Dredge is so broken. I was disappointed when they said the guilds would have new mechanics in RtR. That meant no dredge :(
There are just so many ways to shut it down now.
but it still does decently in legacy and modern
Quote from: Greg54js on March 03, 2013, 11:19:37 AM
Quote from: Falcon182 on March 02, 2013, 10:39:19 AM
Quote from: Mikefrompluto on March 02, 2013, 03:38:33 AM
Dredge is so broken. I was disappointed when they said the guilds would have new mechanics in RtR. That meant no dredge :(
There are just so many ways to shut it down now.
but it still does decently in legacy and modern
Depends greatly on whether the meta expects to see it coming.
There are a lot of ways to shut it down but there's nothing like seeing half your library in the GY on T1. Tons o fun.