Hello everybody!
I can remember earlier this year writing post #100, and now, just under a year later I have written yet another hundred! While originally this blog was made as a dump for all my ideas as they come to me as archivable evidence of when I came up with awesome ideas that came to fruition months later, I feel it has since matured and grown into a more thought out presentation of decks, interesting tech, finances, and general theory. As of the writing of this article, there is about 19,750 lifetime hits on this blog! I remember when I first crossed 1,000 how euphoric I was! But that's old news now.
So we're almost 2 years in, where do we go from here? Since this blog's inception (awesome movie I just saw for the first time 2 days ago!), I have gone from a hole in the wall player to one who is actively involved in building and testing decks always looking to gain an edge and attack the current metagame from a fresh angle. I don't typically netdeck, and by I don't typically I really mean I never do for standard and only do for legacy until I thoroughly understand the deck, at which point I throw in some spice. As such, I don't feel naming the blog "Casual MTG Creations" is applicable because I'm not a casual player anymore - I'm planning on rocking this upcoming modern PTQ season! So if you have any awesome ideas, please let me know! (The punnier, the better)
So as I previously mentioned I am currently around 19,750 hits, and I feel like I should be awesome and give something away to a lucky reader, so here is my brilliant plan: Whoever is reader #22,222 I will send 222 2 mana 2/2s with no abilites straight to your door. I am serious, I already have a list of the 12 (11 if you don't count Woodland Changeling, which I do) 2 mana 2/2s with no abilities ever printed, along with all sets they have been printed in. I don't expect to have 22,222 hits in the very near future, so I will have a reminder up (hopefully on post #222 XD). The lifetime hits should be visible in the right column in blue under the "About Me" section. Just send me a screenshot, name, and address, and I will get you your one of a kind collection!
Going forward, I am excited to keep on posting frequently. Before the summer I was able to consistently post every-other day, but now in my infinite sloth I have to slow all the way down to... every 3 days, or about 10 posts a month. Obviously it's really easy to post every day in spoiler season, so aside from those times, I will try to keep to a regular 10 a month schedule.
So enough basking, let's talk for a minute about standard. You know what card I feel is the most significant card of standard right now? Day of Judgement. The best aggro decks - Haunted Humans, Illusions, and Red Deck all have plans to beat Day of Judgement, with the UW decks grinding out with moorland haunt and with Red Deck relying upon Shrine and Koth, and that is why they are successful. Compare this to GW which does not offer that resiliency, and you will see a more poorly performing deck. Obviously control decks circumvent day, and that leaves us with Wolf Run which laughs at the sorcery-speed aspect of Day with Inkmoth - pump - gg. This is why in my new version of Burning Vengeance, I am playing white mainly for Day of Judgement:
2x Snapcaster Mage
1x Inferno Titan
1x Consecrated Sphinx
1x Devil's Play
4x Geistflame
4x Desperate Ravings
2x Timely Reinforcements
4x Mana Leak
4x Think Twice
2x Feeling of Dread
2x Forbidden Alchemy
1x Slagstorm
3x Day of Judgement
4x Burning Vengeance
4x Clifftop Retreat
4x Sulfur Falls
1x Blackcleave Cliffs
3x Glacial Fortress
3x Island
4x Mountain
2x Plains
3x Seachrome Coast
1x Shimmering Grotto
Sideboard:
2x Flashfreeze
2x Phantasmal Image
2x Dissipate
3x Oblivion Ring
2x Slagstorm
1x Wurmcoil Engine
2x Timely Reinforcements
1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Will it work? I think so... but that's what FNM is for! After this FNM I want to delve into the intricities of my opinions of Vengeance overall, and how I implemented that here... But we have to see if I'm even on the right track or not first!
That's all I have for today! Until next time, stay classy!
Ryan Lackie
Ryan.Lackie92@gmail.com
@ThingsILack
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Awesome! I found someone working on the sweetness that is Burning Vengeance other than me. About the time you wrote this, I also turned to white as my new dIrection. Day of Judgment is working well. Timely Reinforcements is a charm. Feeling of Dread is amazing sometimes, others it's dead unfortunately. The real issue is the mana base. Mine is significantly different than yours, but I have been running 3 Forbidden Alchemy and no Slagstorm. I have more blue sources, less red, about the same white. No grottoes in mine.
ReplyDeleteLet us know how you do! I'm always testing this deck on mtgo when I am online. My mtgo name is Evil Dice. Hit me up ;)