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Yeah, I just misread the card.

Also, part of the fun of this deck is that it's incredibly cheap, money wise. None of the cards except the dreadbores are over 2.50, TCG mid price. If you run the deck using cards that are beat to shit, TCG low, you're only paying out the cost of a starter deck, tax, and a spin down counter. Keeping that in mind, the deck regularly causes game 2 to go over time, due to the occasional difficulty with drawing a crackling perimeter.

That being said, I can't justify running vivid lands in the deck. Against green-strong players, I need every single +0/+1 I can get. I'm really looking for replacement cards for things that are rotating. For example, I can replace my pillars in the sideboard with Mizzium mortars, as it is like a double pillar with overload that can wipe most planeswalkers with one strike. I can replace Avacyn's pilgrim with elvish mystics and replace two forests with plains. What I really need is a functional replacement for Lingering Souls- something that will give me some cheap flyers.

Here's the full decklist, as it stands so far.

2 Boros Guildgate
4 Forest
4 Golgari Guildgate
3 Gruul Guildgate
4 Orzhov Guildgate
4 Rakdos Guildgate
3 Selesnya Guildgate

2 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
3 Crackling Perimeter
2 Dreadbore
4 Gatecreeper Vine
2 Selesnya Charm
2 Ultimate Price
2 Zhur-Taa Druid
3 Centaur Healer
4 Gateway Shade
4 Hold the Gates
4 Lingering Souls

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Sideboard:

3 Pillar of Flame
1 Tragic Slip
1 Blind Obedience
2 Boros Charm
2 Dreadbore
2 Selesnya Charm
1 Centaur Healer
3 Oblivion Ring

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Greenside watcher looks really good, and it is cheap enough(CMC) to fit in the deck. It would help me, also, to fire off crackling perimeter for extra damage in later turns.

I prefer Hold The Gates to sphere of Safety, as the deck runs primarily gates, and Hold The Gates ramps my creatures' toughness up potentially two turns sooner. It also stacks, so that if I get two or three out by turn 8, which usually happens, all my creatures turn into attacking walls. If I run Sphere, I have to throw in more cancellable enchantments, which I might not draw. Also, with HTG, I don't have to worry about my dudes being sideways during my opponents' turn. I also like that I don't have to worry about enchantments getting blocked as much, as it's a lot harder to keep me from playing lands or to destroy them in standard.

My win conditions are a combination of factors. Crackling Perimeters to chip away at my opponents' health, using guild gates, my opponents being unlikely to have enough dudes to stop a flock of spirit tokens from chipping away at them, Zhur-taa Druid zapping them lower, each turn, and, if they don't have flyers, pumping Gateway Shade as a blocker to knock out giant creatures.

I might can fit a maze's end in somewhere, but what would I eliminate?

I'd trade with G_G_B all day long, based on what I've seen. He's cool, calm, and collected, and when the trade didn't work out, he left a positive feedback. That's the kind of guy I like.

Moved from Wally_h's bad trade report.

It looks like he was willing to trade, until you started making unreasonable(to him, not you) demands--you were pushing him to send out the cards on your schedule, not his. If you needed the cards immediately, then you should have specified that prior to confirming the trade. It's reasonable to assume that it might take someone a few days to dig out a few cards and get to a post office; the guy might have to ride a bus or two to get to a post office that he can ship his cards out of, or might need to get shipping materials.
You are not out anything at all on this trade, and neither is he. There was no realized loss. You have your cards, he has his cards, nothing was actually transferred, other than you receiving an unwarranted positive feedback on the trade. Even if the price of the cards had dropped 30 bucks, you did not truly lose anything, as you still have your cards. Instead of wasting your and his time trying to ruin a guy who has just started out trading's reputation, go off and make another trade. You have your blurb in your box and can leave neutral feedback, and that's enough. Don't continue to be unreasonable over this.
Edit: Relevant and important: G_G_B did leave positive feedback, offered to send a few black cats to Wally_H. He was willing to 'compensate' Wally_h for his time, as per Wally_h's request.
Last edited by Kizudarake (Today 09:43:56)