gauntlet

[magicmike1102]

Does anyone else play block, i do. i want to come up with a possible gauntlet. Right now my buddy is playing a Gruul deck splashing white for lightning helix loxodon hierarch and selensya guildmage. I am playing green white red control. It beats aggro decks but I haven't played a true control deck yet. I am also thinking of a red white green black deck that stalls with solid utilty creatures like carvan caryited and civic wayfinder and stinkweed imp until it can play gleancrawler and then razias purification for the win.

[Risky]

I think there will be a lot of Gxx(x?) decks that run off of a BoP/Farseek engine and utilize most of the best cards in the format.

[animazn]

I think there will be a lot of Gxx(x?) decks that run off of a BoP/Farseek engine and utilize most of the best cards in the format.

You would think so, but i rarely see birds making the cut in decks...with all the different shocklands...birds seem like a wasted space. I do think youre right about the green base decks tho...


It beats aggro decks but I haven't played a true control deck yet. I am also thinking of a red white green black deck that stalls with solid utilty creatures like carvan caryited and civic wayfinder and stinkweed imp until it can play gleancrawler and then razias purification for the win.

Having trouble seeing how razias purification wins games with a gleancrawler in play. true all your creatures are in hand...but what do you keep gleancrawler, land, land...if thats the case id put my money on the 2 or even 3 firemanes on the other side (possibly). i just think if youre going to play razias purification there are better things to keep in play than a gleancrawler-x-x.

thats what these forums are for tho ppl come one - post the most! commence

[Risky]

Mostly I would say it is a matter of how big the green portion is, and what you want to do with it. If it is a Glare based deck, BoPs fit the bill in so many ways. If you are more black and run Rolling Spoils, obviously a bad idea to have Birds.

[magicmike1102]

yeah, casting razia's purification with a gleancrawler in play is not as spectacular as i thought it would be. Maybe a Vulturous Zombie would be better. It sucks that they then have two turns to draw and cast char before you can drop a hierarch to get out of burn range. here is the deck i was playing with.

2 gleancrawler
4 carvan caryatid
4 stinkweed imp
4 civic wayfinder
3 hierarch

4 farseek
3 putrify
2 razia's purifaction
3 restock
3 darkblast
2 mortify
2 lightning helix

4 overgrown tomb
1 sacred foundry
1 stomping groound
1 temple garden
1 godless shrine
8 forest
6 swamp
1 mountain
1 plains

[GoblinChampion]

I'm leaning towards RGW myself, but I can see some potential for non-green decks. I agree though, that birds, farseek engine will power most of the better decks in the format. especially with molderwine cloaks, birds become more useful than you'd think.

[Mishra-]

I think debtors' knell and glare of subdual will be power houses.enchantment removal will be main decked because of this.privilaged position might also be a powerhouse sideboard option.recollect could see some play too, as it seems like keeping these enchantments in play just wins games.skeletal vampire will show up a lot as will angel of despair as finishers.civic wayfarer and farsek will probably be in almost every green deck and that faster ones or glare versions might run birds and elves of the deep shadow too.Helldozer seems like a powerhouse in a heavy black deck combined with rolling spoils.White, black, and green seem like the most powerful colors with blue and red lagging behind.Who knows tho as char, electrolyze,cerebral vortex and paralectric feedback can do some serious damage quickly.I also expect aggro decks taking advantage of dark confidant or the new red green cards will show up.Aggro will have a tough time tho with lightning helix,hierarc,faith's feathers,mortify,glare,city tree and putrefy being everywhere.

[wildecat]

I play an enhanced "BDW". Razia's Purifications work wonders a turn after you play your Hunted Dragon :D With all your helix, char, and creatures such as legionaire, swiftblades, sunhome enforcer, and not forgetting sunforgers doing early damage to opponent while you gaining life, your opponent will probably scoop when you purify him.

[fooligan]

i can see decks comming from glare's beginnings and some kind of b/w slowroll control.
i agree that the existance of 1cc manafixers/accelerators and a rampant growth effect (allong with a fistfull of signets) will likely prove to be a larger aspect of the format (alot like whats going on in standard)

im not sure if white has enough efficient one/ 2 drops (in one colour) to make a good wennie splash deck.. but zoo deffinately seems doable, and it seems green will likely replace white at as aggro's base.

mass removal is weak in block right now so im seeing control and dump decks really pushing it for card quality... though savage twister is tempting...
toughnesses arent as uniformed as other blocks. but there are many trends in terms of creatures to be exploited and tokens seem to have a strong presence...
curves are also looking kind of weird...
another question would relate to how decks will generate card advantage... tokens and effect men seem to be the real leader there, with few exceptions...

creatures will dominate.

[magicmike1102]

to me it seems that black white control has the tools to beat other control decks as well as aggro. ghost council of orzhova is hard to kill if you play enough creatures for both aggro and control. It chumps and then comes back. Another card that i think might catch people by suprise as being constructed worthy is pillory of the sleepless. It is like sorcery speed removal only better cause it drains them every turn. the only time it seems like it might be bad is if they are playing absolver thrull, as the other main option, mortify, to remove it seems like it is a worthy trade. Culling sun out of the sideboard kills most creatures that i would imagine Gruul decks will play. strands of undeath is good against control. The only thing that worrys me is mana denial. Also i guess that it would be a little harder to splash due to the mana requirements of the ghost council. Please give me more ideas.

[VSU The_Hangedman]

I play Rav block on MTGO, well Guildpact isnt out Online yet, but i play B/U Mill deck and it's good and constant.

There's some cards hard to manage (M.Cloak and Svogthos) but Leyline of the void is gonna help a lot.

Anyway Rav Block wont be totally defined until all the guilds are out.

[Mishra-]

rav block will be one of the most expensive blocks in the history of magic.there will be no cheap decks and you're ganna be looking at about 300+ bucks to build a deck, even online.makes me sad

[One-of-chaos]

They honestly should have made shocklands common as all the decks use them, and we could have more money to spend on the rest of the deck and not just the mana base..

[magicmike1102]

yeah, i miss u/g madness. tog was pretty cheap too. as was broodstar affinity. I wish there were better land destruction spells in this block. to punish players for there expensive mana bases. i hope black red gets one for 3 mana with some kind of bonus.