Thrun + Jarad for a clifftop?

TyWooOneTime wrote:

I guess perhaps they could make use on the sideboard.  The dragons offer the only real defense the deck would have - outside of things at the four drop.  My thoughts on Havoc Festival are just that when it hits the board if I have Rix Maadi Guildmage, they're dead in two turns.

Yes but you'll probably win before the festival comes out and if not you'll probably have lost all steam and get smashed

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So I've been talking about modern a bit in other deck discussions and here's my first real attempt at a deck, it's based off of the Legacy Maverick Deck that was everywhere a little while ago. It's Green and White primarily, I've got a splash of black in there so if I can ever afford some Bobs I can throw them right in, it also opens the door to Abrupt Decays, which I've come into a playset of.

Here's the deck: http://deckbox.org/sets/243848

It's basically a delay game until I can get out a sword or a Knight of the Reliquary or beat them to death with weenies.

In my testing on Cockatrice it's been going very well, I've had success against Zoo, Jund, RDW, and Dredge. I havn't had excessive testing but as of now I'm convinced this deck has alot of potential. The regular maverick runs on Green Sun's Zenith, that card's banned in modern and while some people like Chord of Calling, I prefer Fauna Shamans, they fit in the deck better and can be used with repetition, more like GSZ.

I know most of the usual commenters are big into standard right now but any thoughts would be appreciated

P.S. there are 17 cards in my sideboard because I don't see myself getting Bobs anytime soon, they're just there to let you know ideally I'd have them

I'm also thinking about Aether Vials, almost all of my deck is 2-cost or a human (Cavern) or uncounterable, so if my Kitchen Finks have to get countered at the gain of the entire rest of my deck, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make, but finding slots for a couple vials will be tough

Personally I'd drop the slumbering dragons, they don't fit, you should be moving faster than your opponent so if they attack you, great! Less blockers for you to deal with, I think it will not be helping you.

Havoc festival is ok, but over costed and going to cause you to lose way more life than your opponents

Just my thoughts

Interested in Dreadbore, Thrun, Pithing Needle, and maybe Vraska, I have a couple clifftop retreats from your list

reignofkindo wrote:

That reminds me, why do some people (Like you, for instance) have Moderator by their name? At first I thought you guys were mods, but then it became clear that you aren't. Is it just a title you get that's determined by post count?

EDIT: Also, I think the thread should stay up, because it shows that GalacticFisher is a good trader. That way, anyone who saw this thread last night knows that they should trade with him, as that may not have been the impression they walked away with last night.

Each mod has priveliges in different forums, Im not a reddit mod but I am elsewhere.

Its a valid point, i thought about that as well, still not sure which side I agree with lol

reignofkindo wrote:
imsully2 wrote:
Peripheryy wrote:

Good man.

This is why I don't love the putting out of screen names unless the person has been given the opportunity to right the wrong before posting about it, this trader's reputation seems to have been given a black mark (Even if its small now) based on a misunderstanding of the rules. I applaud GalacticFisher as he seems to have more than righted the wrong and I think perhaps we should give a bit more time before we distribute out names. I'd also like to recommend that this thread be deleted, if this other user needs his own thread then so be it

Two things:

1. I'm not the one who said his name. I omitted it for a reason.

2. You can't delete threads. I've done everything I can by changing the title, the OP, and making that last post. (:


I know, I didnt mean to imply it was you, technically no one actually said the name, just gave a link to it, sorry if that sounded like an accusation sad

This forums mods probably can if you ask them to, not sure who that is tho

Peripheryy wrote:
reignofkindo wrote:

GalacticFisher has sent me a message offering me the Aristocrat we agreed to, free of charge. Pretty sure that makes him a God among Men. He made everything right and then some, he just wasn't aware of the rules since some people never bothered following them with him. I'd ask that no one avoid trading with him, as he couldn't possibly have made this more right. I do think that JAKElolz does need some sort of Mod intervention though, as he has done this to at least two people now. But anyway, cheers to GalacticFisher!

Good man.

This is why I don't love the putting out of screen names unless the person has been given the opportunity to right the wrong before posting about it, this trader's reputation seems to have been given a black mark (Even if its small now) based on a misunderstanding of the rules. I applaud GalacticFisher as he seems to have more than righted the wrong and I think perhaps we should give a bit more time before we distribute out names. I'd also like to recommend that this thread be deleted, if this other user needs his own thread then so be it

GalacticFisher wrote:
scurveymobile wrote:
GalacticFisher wrote:

If it makes you feel better I'm the one Op was trading with and I had a canceled trade from the same guy you did. Except I'm trying to make it right, and still being harassed. Justice.


To me it should just be common sense that once you agree you do it.  I have been offered better trades for a card that I had already traded and decline them because I have an obligation to continue the previous trade.

I commend you for trying to make whats wrong right and am sorry that others have dicked you over on this site.  Hopefully now that you know the rules a bit better you can join the angry mob and be a 'rules stickler' like the rest of us with over 50 trades on this site.

It should be common sense but not when it's been done to me several times already. Thank you for being rational.

You should either report or send messages to the people that did that to you, for their own good, if they don't have alot of trades not reading the rules could easilly get them banned

reignofkindo wrote:

Well, it says in the rules that anyone who does this can be banned. I'm just asking whether people think that's the course of action I should follow? On MOTL, he would be forced to go through with the trade or would be banned. MOTL don't mess around.

I'd go by the book, tell Sebi, link the convo and let administration decide, I don't really think this is a decision that we should be making

H-Vigor, interested in CotP, I'm not really interested in a 7$ trade, see if you can find anything else?, I have other stuff in inventory I might trade

Ok, so I've made a couple changes, I added the creatures we talked about, and I added safe passage to the board, I also cut one rancor to add another Fiend Hunter, I figure I should have a little more removal than I had, here's the updated deck, any other thoughts? I also added orbs to the board, I figure if I ramp t1 and have it out t3 that should be good

http://deckbox.org/sets/241804

I'm working on assembling it and hopefully I'll have some actual news about it soon

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I could do 44, shoot me an offer if they're still out there

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You could make decks and sort them into folders, ie; deck name: red box 1 in folder red rares

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It seems like cards that were printed as common in Antiquities are not considered Pauper legal despite not being banned in pauper https://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/resou … les/pauper I'm not sure if I'm missing something or not but it seems like they should be legal for pauper, thanks!

dyzzy wrote:

Completed eBay listings seem to average out around $55.

But they also list the English one at 40$ish so TCG Player Prices would probably be higher

srrogers1985 wrote:

Well I've cut out a few things and I think I'm going to focus on thragtusk as my main token producer maybe try garruk at some point. I need some ideas on what to cut and I'm looking for a card that would let me search for Thragtusk, any ideas?

Um ... Flipped Garruk? Otherwise Jarad's Orders? All of the good creature tutoring just rotated out sad

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Are you willing to part with anything from your inventory?

They're just putting thragtusk in every event deck with green aren't they, jeez, it also seems unfair how much better the golgari one is compared to the rakdos one

Interested in lots of small stuff you've got + your Zealot and Troll, shoot me an offer if you're interested, I have some stuff in inventory I'd part with as well

ricelee97 wrote:

Hey, new to the forums, so would appreciate any tips.

I don't mean to make it sound hopeless, however people on this forum generally dislike trading down (More expensive cards for a couple of your less expensive cards) so if your highest value card is about 15$ and you're looking for x3 of an about 25$ card it's going to be tough going, it's not impossible though, you might have to be willing to lose some value on the cards, (Give them 30-35$ of cards for their one geist sad it's not fun but it's kinda how things go, if you trade locally you should also try to get a hold of shocklands, almost everyone is looking for them so that's more likely to get you a geist than other stuff you've got, I wish you the best of luck though!

If you need other stuff it might be worth mentioning those wants as well but make sure you aren't trading down or it will be impossible to get geists

srrogers1985 wrote:

OK, I made a few adjustments and now I need help slimming things down a little bit. One of the combos I'm interested in trying with this is to use the Cloudshift on Thragtusk to build life and tokens. Let me know if this would work because I'm still not too familiar with the rules. Any feedback would be great.

One thing to note, if you've only got 1 thrag it's probably not going to come up very often, cloudshift works well with other token producers, (Armada Wurm) but you'd be better off with a 2 cmc populate spell.

srrogers1985 wrote:

Awesome, I figure that is why Thragtusk's value has jumped up $7 with the release of RTR.

People are also using them in Zombie decks sometimes just because it's one of those cards that you can put in almost any deck and make it better, it's a 5/3, 5 life, and a 3/3 for 1 green and 4 colorless, it's unfairly good, especially for a rare so it's going in pretty much any deck that has green in it, it reminds me of the titans in some ways. I support the use of thrags in Populate / normal tokens / flicker, however when they're used in everything then they become like SoWaP which gets annoying pretty quick. (Sorry for my little rant)

Bump, will also trade for non-foil versions, just prefer the foils, I know someone's got some of this stuff and want to trade way up

I'd like to hear how it works out, I see how you put everything together but I know that with my luck at FNMs I'd get all of my goblin creatures and Talrand, then get all of my Mizzum Motars and the like with Krenko, ;P but I have terrible luck (I lowered my opponent to 1 life, he topdecked a Day of Judgment and I proceeded to topdeck lands, rancors, and other enchantments/artifacts that didn't deal damage in a deck running 4 Bonfires and like 26 creatures sad )

In summary I feel like it's too unfocused but that can be powerful in and of itself because other people's decks aren't designed to handle that so they can fail against non-archetypal decks.

Overall I'd say your amazing Golgari pulls make that deck more competitive for a FNM but this might be more fun since I doubt you're going to drop another 200$ to buy singles to make "The" zombie deck (At least I wouldn't) I would say this seems like it would be more fun to play and improve upon, I'd recommend adding Electrickery somewhere, either main deck or sideboard just because it can really mess up people's tempo, especially ramp decks or Champion of the Parish decks, good luck either way though!

I have a Kitchen Finks for trade along with some stuff on your wishlist that I assume is less high priority, I could really use a troll, shoot me an offer if interested (I have a second finks I might part with too for the right offer)