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i-am-nickelbolt · 4 months

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Bronze to Mythic: Khans of Tarkir, draft #5

7-2, should have been 7-0, but in any case, we back, baby! I've been on a really bad losing skid, barely above 50% win rate for my last like 15 drafts, when my lifetime average on Arena is close to 65%. This was the first draft in a long time that felt like I navigated the draft well, my deck was great, I played well, and things just generally broke in my favor. I had honestly forgotten what this felt like. And 7-2 got me to platinum!

(Now, I wish I could have capitalized on this feeling instead of everyone in my family being sick for the next two weeks.)

Pack 1, pick 1 Snowhorn Rider over Dig Through Time, Incremental Growth, Kin-Tree Invocation and Mardu Charm. It's unexciting, but with no clear direction, Rider is the most powerful card that leaves me the most open. Pick 2 a pretty easy Heir of the Wilds over Jeskai Windscout, Temur Charger, and Thornwood Falls. I think it's the best 2 drop, and goes really well with my first pick. Pick 3 Swiftwater Cliffs over Smoke Teller, Glacial Stalker, Efreet Weaponmaster and Jeskai Charm. Pick 4 Alpine Grizzly over Chief of the Scale and Abzan Guide. the pick 5 Bear's Companion gets the plan rolling. Pick 6 Hooting Mandrils, nice to have a cheap 4-power creature. Pick 7 Embodiment of Spring over like Summit Prowler, whatever, I'm not playing any of these cards. Pick 8 Smoke Teller, 2 drops are good. Pick 9 Whirlwind Adept, which is awesome in Temur. Pick 10 Canyon Lurkers, it will make the cut as a 5 power morph. I'm liking where I'm at after pack 1. Savage Punch over everything, lets pick up some Awaken the Bears to smash face, and lets just always have Ferocious.

Pack 2, Pick 1 Arc Lightning over Secret Plans, Winterflame, and Snowhorn Rider. Arc Lightning is really good, but I think it is close with Rider in Temur. It's more of a Jeskai card, I think. Pick 2 another Heir of the Wilds over Snowhorn Rider. Hate passing all these Riders but Heir is premium. Pick 3 *another* Heir of the Wilds! Love it! Pick 4 War-Name Aspirant over Glacial Stalker, just another high quality 2 drop, and it's gonna be a 3/2 most of the time as I'm pretty likely to trigger Raid. Pick 5 Ponyback Brigade over nothing. Pick 6 Thornwood Falls, perfect. Pick 6 another Hooting Mandrils, which is looking pretty good in this deck. I'm going to trade off these 2 drops a lot so having two should be pretty good. This pack petered out from here, getting a third Mandrils which would be ambitious to play, but I did pick up a Dragonscale Boon 10th. I am pretty happy where I'm at, but I'm not happy that nothing is wheeling, and I am going to need a little help in pack 3.

Pack 3, pick 1 a sad Temur Charger over Zurgo Helmsmasher and Armament Corps, two cards that have been awesome for me and that I can never cast in a million years. Pick 2 a sad Longshot Squad over Rakshasa Deathdealer and Secret Plans. Pick 3 another sad Temur Charger over Sidisi, Brood Tyrant. My 2 drop slot is really stacked though. Pick 4 slam Savage Punch. Finally! Pick 5 Awaken the Bear over Alpine Grizzly (and another Armament Corps), I'm hoping Grizzly wheels. Pick 6 Canyon Lurkers because 5 power. Pick 7 another Awaken the Bear, perfect! I get Glacial Stalker and Alpine Grizzly on the wheel.

The games were fast and brutal. Awaken the Bear was MVP, with this fast start, and with 4/2 bears screaming "Chump block me" I got some really good blowouts. Not to mention how deathtouch works with trample got me across for lethal on more than one occasion.

I was 6-0, and my first loss should have been my 7th win. I missed that Longshot Squad gives all creatures with counters Reach, and I had a Bear token with the Dragonscale Boon counters on it in the face of their Venerable Lammasu. I had Squad in hand for multiple turns thinking it was too late to cast it, outlast it, and block. I thought I was dead, I attacked just to check if they would block, and then as my Bear was being chumpblocked, I saw it.

My second loss was disappointing, my 2 drop army got stonewalled by a pair of Unyielding Krumars (first strike bricking my deathtouchers) and Chief of the Scale, then I got completely blown out by Roar of Challenge.

Should have been 7-0, but a trophy is a trophy. I love this set!

#bronze to mythic #khans of tarkir #premiere draft #mtg limited #mtg arena #magic the gathering

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askkrenko · 6 years

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I want to ride a horse

Magic: the Gathering has 25 non-Un horses, which seems a bit low for a creature that shows up in art all the time, but still, 25. But of these horses, only three have abilities that even resemble riding.

Dwarven Pony taps to grant a dwarf “Mountainwalk.” While this does sufficiently convey the flavor of riding a pony, it’s a bit meh.

Temur Charger ... gives another creature trample until end of turn? But honestly, you’re just as likely to have it give itself trample, in which case nobody’s riding it at all, you’re just throwing a horse at someone.

Phantasmal Mount is a much better example. It is a 1/1 flier, and it can grant another creature +1/+1 and flying (provided toughness 2 or less, and if you lose either you lose both.) This is actually a pretty decent Mount mechanic, though it’s definitely got a lot more words than we want it to, and it’s probably too good in limited or at least too complicated. But let’s take a look on how we might get a proper Horse-riding mechanic below the break...

Flamestick Courier is NOT a horse, but what if it was? That mechanic, but on Creature -Wolf with a different name, keeping everything else the same. Even the goblin-only restriction. Or make it a horse and make it not goblin only. For limited play, I’d probably suggest Sorcery speed. An updated version of something like this would say...

“Fast Horse

Creature- Horse Mount

Haste

You may choose not to untap Fast Horse during your untap step.

2R, T: As long as Fast Horse remains tapped, target creature gets +2/+2 and has haste. Activate this ability only any time you could play a sorcery.

2/2″

There, we now have a horse you can actually ride using pre-existing mechanics.

But this lets us do crazy things like have one dude riding five horses, or horses riding horses, which, you know, the game doesn’t stop any more than it stops Lotus Cobra from dual-wielding Greatswords, but how let’s look at another potential mechanic...

Druid’s Familiar and other Soulbond Creatures grant themselves and their partner abilities when paired. But what if they didn’t do both? What if we had a one-sided Soulbond creature that worked mechanically like Aegis Angel but used Soulbond to stay ‘attached.’

Something like...

“Fast Horse

Creature- Horse Mount

Soulbond

Haste

As long as Fast Horse is paired with another creature, that creature gets +2/+2 and has Haste.

2/2.”

Still lets you swap around the horse, but only when someone’s done riding it, and you’re still only doing it at sorcery speed to keep down complexity (unless you flash in a creature, but that’s that creature’s complexity.)

You’ll notice I also added a Mount creature type to these cards. That’s just there so other cards in the set can care, and would be added retroactively to Phantasmal Mount and Sun-Blessed Mount (which your creatures can’t ride, but instead Huatli rides to get to the battle.) A mount tutor, a card that gave your mounts flash, a Knight that makes your Mount spells cost less, etc, etc, any of that stuff.

I mean, ultimately the point here is: I want creature cards that my other creatures can ride, and there’s just not enough of them out there.

There’s some horses, there’s Cavalry Pegasus (which... all your humans can ride?) and I’m sure there’s others. If you can think of any others offhand, please share! I’d love to see the ones I’m not remembering!

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budapestalloveragain · 7 years

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helloooo i’ve had 3 tags sitting in my drafts for ages so i figured i’d do them now so i don’t completely forget about them xD sorry sorry sorry to bea pixie & marlon bc you tagged me so long ago but look !! here i am doing them now :) i hope you’re all doing well and thank you for tagging me in the first place !!

p.s. it formatted super weirdly whoops idk how to fix it though and i’m too lazy to try and figure it out lol

rules: answer twenty questions and tag twenty followers you want to get to know better

tagged by @lovelybenny love u unnie, i hope you’re okay

name: april nickname(s): none really zodiac sign: libra height: 5 ft 2 in orientation: :/ nationality: chinese american favourite fruit: banana favourite season: not sure anymore lol maybe summer though favourite book: nineteen minutes by jodi picoult favourite flower: no preference really, maybe sunflower favourite scent: spring favourite colour: (bright) red favourite animal: panda but also my cats coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: neither (coffee ice cream though) average hours of sleep: there is no average rip cats or dogs: cats bc dogs scare me favourite fictional character: claire temple (my one and only) number of blankets you sleep with: one dream trip: many many places, including but not limited to the bicol region of the philipipnes, wrocław (poland), and veghel (netherlands) blog created: december 2014 number of followers: i’m too lazy to check lol but last time it was like 619 and i’m p sure it hasn’t changed since then

rules: you’ll have to tag 15 people at the end of this challenge

i was tagged by @omfgbts thanks mom ilysm

five things you’ll find in my bag:

phone

wallet

charger

pads

water bottle

five things you’ll find in my bedroom:

pillows

cup of water

usually a cat or two

posters n shit on the walls

me, usually

five things i’ve always wanted to do:

travel asia yes yes yes (literally everywhere)

also travel everywhere yes yes (mom we’re going together right)

learn another language fluently (i’m not bothered about which one lol at this point it looks like it’s gonna be mandarin but who really knows)

go to san diego comic con (i’m going to the boston one on saturday sooo not bad!)

see one direction (ot5) live rip

five things & people that make me happy:

pixie, loren & marlon

kids, most of the time

game of thrones lol despite the gross shit

music (specifically bts but u know)

thinking about things i’m looking forward to

five things i’m currently into:

bts

seventeen

wjsn - secret

tfboys lol i went to chinese camp last week okay

slide - calvin harris (also fy faen - hkeem & temur bc damn that song)

five things on my to do list:

travel (to asia and beyond)

do well on tests and get into a good college lmao rip

not lose contact with friends/meet up with friends

see a lot of people live (including but not limited to got7, kard & stromae)

chillllll

rules: answer 11 questions, then ask 11 questions & tag 11 people

i was tagged by @ravenclawcs, i miss u bea, come yell with me about GoT s7!!

1. moon or stars? that’s too hard… i love them both, the sky would feel empty without either one 2. day or night? night bc i stay up late but day bc more fun things usually happen (for me) 3. dream location? i mean i wanna go to korea lol 4. how did you meet your best friend? like the second day of first grade i think, we went to after school together and we raced each other down a hill and then she lost her hair tie 5. who was your first celebrity crush? no clue lol the first i can really remember is like kendall from big time rush and jensen ackles but those were both in 8th grade lol 6. 3 favorite characters? claire temple, dickon tarly (lol) & isak valtersen 7. 3 characters you hate? lowkey danny rand lol, walder frey & william’s brother from skam (i forget his name it’s like nico or something) [can u see a theme between question 6 and 7 lol i’m terrible at choosing characters otherwise sooo] 8. favorite harry potter book? prisoner of azkaban (#3) 9. least favorite harry potter book? i like them all ?? 10. earthbending/waterbending/firebending/airbending? probably waterbending but tbh i’ve never seen the show (don’t hate me pls) 11. tag some of your fav blogs to make them happy ^-^ i mean u already know i love u but @omfgbts @lovelybenny @bandlost u make me happy everyday

ummmmmm this was kinda long since it was 3 tags in one lol so i’m not gonna tag anyone butttttt if u feel like it then pls feel free to do one of or two of or all of these tags !!!

#my tags #thanks bea pixie & marlon :)#i really appreciate it even though i took forever to do them sorry sorry sorry #sorry i blatantly ignored all the rules lol #oH WELL it's fine it's fine lol #i'm gonna go snag a cookie from the kitchen #and then spam some stuff bc i'm in the mood to go through my dash xD

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bausofbosses-blog · 6 years

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Ramos, Dragon Engine

This is the 5 Colour Multicolour Tribal Dragon Deck I have been toying with for the last couple weeks.

Commander: Ramos, Dragon Engine

Dragonlord’s Servant

Dragonspeaker Shaman

Savage Knuckleblade

Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder

Taigam, Ojutai Master

Broodmate Dragon

Dromoka, the Eternal

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Kolaghan, the Storm’s Fury

Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Scourge of Valkas

Spellbound Dragon

Wasitora, Nekoru Queen

Crosis, the Purger

Hellkite Charger

Hellkite Tyrant

Intet, the Dreamer

Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius

O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami

Savage Ventmaw

Silumgar, the Drifting Death

Steel Hellkite

Teneb, the Harvester

Atarka, World Render

Bladewing the Risen

Ojutai, Soul of Winter

The Ur-Dragon

Utvara Hellkite

Enchantment:

Curse of Opulence

Curse of Bounty

Temur Ascendancy

Curse of Verbosity

Elemental Bond

Frontier Siege

Mirari’s Wake

Kindered Discovery

Palace Siege

Havoc Festival

Artifact:

Sol RIng

Fellwar Stone

Fist of Suns

Commander’s Sphere

Herald’s Horn

Hedron Archive

Cauldron of Souls

Instant:

Mortify

Pulse of Murasa

Putrefy

Terminate

Sorcery:

Farseek

Cultivate

Kodama’s Reach

Read the Bones

Painful Truths

Harmonize

Crux of Fate

Beacon of Unrest

Merciless Eviction

Duneblast

Conflux

Treasure Cruise

Lands:

Arcane Sanctum

Ash Barrens

Blighted Woodland

Cascading Cataract

Command Tower

Crucible of the Spirit Dragon

Crumbling Necropolis

Darkwater Catacombs

Exotic Orchard

Frontier Bivouac

Haven of the Spirit Dragon

Jungle Shrine

Kosan Verge

Mosswort Bridge

Mystic Monastery

Opulent Palace

Path to Ancestry

Nomad Outpost

Seaside Citadel

Savage Lands

Sandsteppe Citadel

Sungrass Prairie

Temple of the False God

Vivid Crag

Vivid Creek

Vivid Grove

Vivid Marsh

Vivid Meadow

Basic Lands:

2 Forest

2 Island

2 Mountain

2 Plains

2 Swamp

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