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Blue 1 Rough Draft 75 cards, 15 sideboard 1 {Stomping Ground} 1 {Evolving Wilds} 18 {Island} 20 lands 4 {Murmuring Phantasm} 4 {Glacial Crasher} 4 {Fugitive Wizard} 4 {Nimbus of the Isles} 4 {Warden of Evos Isle} 20 creatures 4 {Mind Sculpt} 4 {Countermand} 4 {Annul} 4 {Claustrophobia} 4 {Jace's Ingenuity} 20 other spells Sideboard 2 {Battlefield Thaumaturge} 3 {Dismiss into Dream} 4 {Gridlock} 4 {Opportunity} 2 {Traumatize} 15 sideboard cards

Why the {stomping Ground?

{glacial crasher} needs a mountain in order to attack. I suppose I could have just used a mountain, lol.

Then again, my opponent won't really know what's going on if I drop the stomping ground early. Deception is key.

Quote from: Ryggrad82 on July 31, 2014, 01:12:47 AM
{glacial crasher} needs a mountain in order to attack. I suppose I could have just used a mountain, lol.

Then again, my opponent won't really know what's going on if I drop the stomping ground early. Deception is key.

Or you know {Steam Bents} lol

Quote from: Mattao19 on July 31, 2014, 02:17:02 AM

Quote from: Ryggrad82 on July 31, 2014, 01:12:47 AM
{glacial crasher} needs a mountain in order to attack. I suppose I could have just used a mountain, lol.

Then again, my opponent won't really know what's going on if I drop the stomping ground early. Deception is key.

Or you know {Steam Bents} lol

Not standard...dang.

Quote from: Ryggrad82 on July 31, 2014, 02:28:43 AM

Quote from: Mattao19 on July 31, 2014, 02:17:02 AM

Quote from: Ryggrad82 on July 31, 2014, 01:12:47 AM
{glacial crasher} needs a mountain in order to attack. I suppose I could have just used a mountain, lol.

Then again, my opponent won't really know what's going on if I drop the stomping ground early. Deception is key.

Or you know {Steam Bents} lol

Not standard...dang.

Lol ya it is

Quote from: Mattao19 on July 31, 2014, 02:41:13 AM

Quote from: Ryggrad82 on July 31, 2014, 02:28:43 AM

Quote from: Mattao19 on July 31, 2014, 02:17:02 AM

Quote from: Ryggrad82 on July 31, 2014, 01:12:47 AM
{glacial crasher} needs a mountain in order to attack. I suppose I could have just used a mountain, lol.

Then again, my opponent won't really know what's going on if I drop the stomping ground early. Deception is key.

Or you know {Steam Bents} lol

Not standard...dang.

Lol ya it is

The one in this quote is from guildpact. I forgot about the RtR one. Thanks mate!

Almost any other one drop is better than a vanilla one drop...

{judge's familiar}

Quote from: bravado883 on July 31, 2014, 09:33:54 AM
Yeah, {Fugitive Wizard} is really bad, you have a lot of other options that do better things: {Judge's Familiar}, {Cloudfin Raptor} and {Triton Shorestalker} come to mind.  Also, I like where you're going with it, but 4 {Glacial Crasher}s means you're going to have lots of games where you have lots of them sitting around doing nothing the whole game.

and even if you are able to draw your {stomping ground} (not sure why its not just a regular mountain) or fetch it with {evolving wilds}, {glacial crusher} will still only be a 5/5 with trample on turn 6 at the earliest. that seems less than optimal considering things like {polukranos, world eater} comes down on turn 3, {descration demon} on 4 and {obzedat, ghost council} or {blood baron of vizkopa} on turn 5. blue does have some finishers, and i believe there are better options than {glacial crusher} for standard. consider (pre-rotation) {aetherling} or (post) {prognostic sphinx} or {thassa, god of the sea} are all viable win cons. note that you most likely dont need 4 of your win con in your deck, as you dont want to be drawig multiple aetherlings when 1 should win the game by itself.

Quote from: bravado883 on July 31, 2014, 09:33:54 AM
Yeah, {Fugitive Wizard} is really bad, you have a lot of other options that do better things: {Judge's Familiar}, {Cloudfin Raptor} and {Triton Shorestalker} come to mind.  Also, I like where you're going with it, but 4 {Glacial Crasher} means you're going to have lots of games where you have lots of them sitting around doing nothing the whole game.

I replaced {godhunter octopus} with {Glacial Crasher}.

What would you suggest?