For the record, Selkie Hedge-Mage is unreal good. As is Sun Droplet.

ty, i'll buy some of these cards but my deck is of red and black goblins, and all that cards are reds, and i don't want 21 mountains because I add swamps too so I can't add all the cards you said

absolutely mindboggling play in the 5k semis

jund vs eldrazi green

jund has thrinax, leech and bloodbraid
green has beast token, nissa's chosen, llanowar, noble hierarch, archdruid and ant queen with no cards in hand

jund 11, green 14

the eldrazi player attacks with ant queen ... lolz which gets double blocked by bloodbraid and thrinax and dies horribly lol even forgets to make an ant

lol in the other semi, the jund player untaps the wrong 2lands with garruk and couldn't cast blightning(he was basically ****ed anyway but that didn't help any)
these 5ks are good for lols

My favorite part is that when I argue that the decks from these tournaments aren't necessarily optimal, people respond by telling me that they won a 5k.

kyleb,

That Scapeshift list is a mess IMO.

Yeah it's not very good given the metagame. It's essentially 3 cards off of Kowal's MD from the DE on MODO and a few SB changes, but I made a few changes and it performed well yesterday. Just lost to turn 1 Deus of Calamity in 3 games and turn 1 Blood Moon in another. Didn't know people still played AIR.

its cheap

a sliver deck top8'd the modo ptq? might be a joke but lol if true

Why must you play BR Goblins? Mono Red would be much better.

ww + blue just ran out a fathom seer on the legacy coverage on ggslive

awesome

yeah lol it was pretty awesome

the ggslive chat is great. like 20 awesome people and 13 idiots. i baited some of them out by saying fathom seer is colorless while clique is 2 blue

chat has hit a new level

ah, closed it. what did i miss?

too much work to explain, but ced started a bolt _____ meme

lol fish gets raped so hard by grim lavamancer

ancestral twice, die to shock brilliant

So uh I'm looking to start playing. I only played little, probably don't even know all the rules anymore. I always enjoyed building whacky decks and played Standard only.
What's the Standard metagame these days, any must read sites, is there a difference between standard online/offline?

Basically I'll look at the current standard decks, browse the cards in standard a bit and buy what I concider a fun deck and just start playing.

Would also like a budget beatdown deck recommendation because I might want to start with that to see if I like the software etc.

standard right now is

Jund 35% of the field, half the top decks basically
UWR control
Mono-Red
are the big 3

Grixis control
assorted mid-range decks that are just bad Jund
fill out most of the rest


Mono-red is good and should be pretty cheap online

Thx, am I correct in assuming standard for MTG Online is:
Shards of Alara - first block
Conflux - first block
Alara Reborn - first block
Magic 2010 - core set i guess
Zendikar - first set; second block

With Worldwake and Rise of the Eldrazi being rotated in next month/April, are they released at the same time online/offline?

Yes, that is "Standard." However, sets on MTGO are released weeks (even months) after the paper cards are released.

All right cool, off to deckbuilding mode I go

Any thoughts on White Weenie in extended?

Heres a list from magic league:

WWb
top4 - Wichtelman
Main Deck Sideboard
4 Arid Mesa
4 Marsh Flats
4 Godless Shrine
12 Plains
4 Steppe Lynx
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Samurai of the Pale Curtain
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Soltari Priest
4 Aven Mindcensor
4 Honor of the Pure
4 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Spectral Procession

SB:
3 Extirpate
4 Paladin en-Vec
4 Angel's Grace
4 Bitter Ordeal


Im not sold on the black splash, blue for meddling + counters or green for tarmo or teeg could be good.

Angel's grace seems great vs scapeshift. Not sure on paladin in the board as the deck should already have a good red matchup...i think BFT might be better.

Jotun grunt/baneslayer/finks might be good out of the board...i could see finks coming in for the mindcensors vs monored.

Samurai and Pale curtain and aven mindcensor seem particularly good right now being good vs tezz/thopter etc.

Im either playing this or some bant midrange in the ptq this weekend.

-JP

Hi, used to play Magic quite alot with brother and friends, but never got into it too seriously. It seems like fun, and I was wondering if there is anyway to play it online for free?

Thanks

looks underpowered to me. doing fair things like dropping 2/2 guys on t2 suxx in extended

Correct me if I'm wrong, but itsn't Angel's Grace only an uncounterable Lapse of Certainty against Scapeshift? Can't the scapeshift player put the other guy to 1 then just play a mountain next turn?

Yes, but they have to have a mountain (the deck only runs ~10). And Scapeshift often goes off the turn before they die.

That said, Bitter Ordeal is terrible and this deck probably is, too.