With a Discard-heavy deck, I think you can combine it with milling for extra flavour. Options include Liliana's Caress, even better than Megrim, and Jace's Erasure for fun. Oh yeah, throw out a Leyline of the Void too, which scuppers Vengevine decks, and those decks where an opponent shuffles their graveyard into their library.
1 2010-10-25 22:51:00
Re: Budget Deck Listing ($200 or less) (12 replies, posted in General Discussion)
2 2010-10-14 22:09:36
Re: Scars of Mirrodin Pre-release (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Nighteater wrote:
Pulled a Koth from a pack i bought waiting for the round to finish, lol
Practically everyone I speak to online into MTG seems to pull Koth out of a booster pack. Common mythic rare?! 
Hah!
3 2010-10-13 19:15:08
Re: Scars of Mirrodin Pre-release (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Apparatus wrote:
I played at 3 local prereleases here. At the first, I pulled an Elspeth Tirel but it didn't mesh well with my colors. At the 2nd I pulled a Venser, the Sojourner
You jammy sod! Admittedly, I didn't attend any of the pre-release or launch parties, but did manage to pull a Molten-Tail Masticore from a lone booster pack. I want Venser, the Sojourner. Koth too.
4 2010-10-13 09:42:08
Re: New Users/Introduction Thread (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Silviu wrote:
Hey, mate! :)i like your idea. you could test it using proxies. I don't know how good contagion engine is. it is decent, to say the least, however i feel u need a really good mana ramping to pump up your levelers. Perhaps contagion clasp would be better?(this is just a theory). I always wanted a deck using lighthouse chronologist
gl with it
Thanks for your words of advice. I keep forgetting about proxies! I recall playing against someone proxying lots of allies. Mill city!
I picked Engine over Clasp because you pay 2 mana more but can proliferate twice. Or does that get too mana intensive?
5 2010-10-12 19:13:59
Re: New Users/Introduction Thread (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hello folks. I hail from good ol' Blighty: yes I come from England. I happed upon this site completely by accident, so I thought I would join and upload details of what cards I have. I've got quite a few, and I've only added White, Blue and a few Artifacts to my list.
I came to Magic: The Gathering relatively recently. I've heard of it for a long time, and once even bought two second-hand books, but only read part of one. Once I ended up liking MTG I couldn't find the books I'd bought! They've gone into exile its seems 
. I started with the end of Worldwake. I'd read about MTG previously, though, and R/B Land Destruction/Lockdown types of decks appealed to me. However, I could find nothing in those colours in the Worldwake Intro Packs, so I bought the R/W Rapid Fire deck.
I then joined the Rise of the Eldrazi pre-release, bagging myself a foil Emrakul, the Aeons Torn in the process, lost every game (first time I'd actually played against a real opponent!) and fell in love with the game. I then went on to miss the advent of M11, and the various Scars of Mirrodin launches, but bought myself a fat pack (from which I pulled a Platinum Emperion), and a random booster (from which I pulled a Molten-Tail Masticore - nice!), and still need help creating viable decks.
What do people think of using U/B to Proliferate in order to level Eldrazi levellers up more quickly? Especially with Inexorable Tide and Contagion Engine, you could have fun with boosting characters like Lighthouse Chronologist or Zulaport Enforcer. Of course, throwing in some Venerated Teachers would cause you to add two level counters with each entry of them onto the battlefield, which you could enhance by proliferating.