This was the basis for my classic w/g lifegain deck. Has Nissa or two in there as well I think. Had a shitload of token cards too... throw out a bunch of wienies, gain 8 life and put 8 counters on the pridemate. It was a decent deck but had a tendency to stall out... you might have 100 life but nothing to fight with.
And if you're into green elves, this was a great card back in the day: Easy to hold back for its tap mechanic too because elves tend to be so cheap. And we always used the overrun with elves: That card meant your ass was grass about 10 years ago. Still a great card but there are others now that do similar things for cheaper.
My favorite matches were always pitting my white/blue deck against my friend's red/black deck. Two opposing personalities going head to head made for games where when the games were good, they were good. And when they weren't good, one of us got absolutely fucking wrecked. Always entertaining, though. It's a real hero & villain show down.
Ahh, how could I forget Essence Warden? Building up a good mana base and dropping her followed by three or four other low cost elves was always a good turn. Suture Priest is definitely very much my style - it'd slot into my Selesnya token deck quite nicely. Oran-rief and Overrun are in that precon and I'm pretty sure I kept both in my alterations. Honestly, you end up with so much mana I'd you're playing right that Overrun's cost in nothing. He's far from anything special on his own, but I think this guy's always gonna be my favorite. You never forget your first elf! Man, it's been well over a year since I played, but this is making me wanna get out my cards. I don't think the thread was supposed to actually be about Magic though, hahah. Sorry @Simpson17866! I guess my proclivity for green, and heavy but adaptive synergy with rather wimpy creatures who turn into terrible forces of nature when combined - if it says anything about me - would say that I'm ... a socialist? And my fondness for burn damage just means I'm an arsonist, obviously. I only ever play W as a secondary color, indicating my lack of respect for The System, Man, but simultaneous grudging willingness to utilize it when it's useful to me.
Why, Azorius is obviously the hero! Justice is the ultimate good. Rakdos is just a bunch of anarchic hedonists!
Haha, yeah, those are two opposite attitudes right there. Justice and balance vs. fire and murder. R/B is fucking sick for cheap removal. A full set of these in any deck will wipe just about any battlefield: You can pair those with any decent set of vampires, demons, goblins, etc...
In my elf tribal deck, I once got off Nissa Revane's ult and pulled every creature in my deck to the field - a good ~40 beasties because I ran really light on lands and other spells. This also gave me the ability to restore ~80 life per turn because Nissa is boss. But my friend was playing slivers, had Ward Sliver, and had prot against green. He also had lifelink on'em. So every turn I gen a shitload of life, take a big swing, then he takes a big swing and steals a ton, I regen all my elves with Ezuri but can't really touch him either. It was spectacular. Best game I ever had because it really felt like a big bloody battle was going on on the table We also had some fun Boros vs Boros matches, where I ran mostly red and he ran mostly white. It was fun to see how different the same color combo played against each other. Okay okay, I'll stop talking about Magic the game. Uhh ... what I meant was it was cool to see the different philosophical aspects of the same guild. Yeah!
First of all) Red/Blues don't get upset when fascinating discussions change directions from what they started out as. You're thinking of White Second) Even if I wasn't Red/Blue: on a scale of "1" to "The Dresden Files," I don't think this is the most serious change of direction I've ever seen Seriously: Jim Butcher made the transition from "paranormal noir about a PI" to "Epic Fantasy about Eldritch Abominations from between the universes" feel so seamless as to go unnoticed until you finish the most recent books and get whiplash looking back at the first ones.
My turn 3 Boros win deck uses these dudes: It doesn't always come up on turn 3 (you need three champs and then the thatch) but it frequently wins on turn 4 or 5. There's also a shitload of removal in it. Should we start another thread? I could talk magic all damn day... and I haven't even started drinking yet. I like the philosophical stuff too, but I'm a ninja for the mechanics. And I'm in serious withdrawal since I moved away from my Magic friends and our 30k communal card collection.
Azorius can bite me. Gruul will overwhelm! I did win a little draft league with an Az deck once, to be fair. I just never had the head for control more intricate than "Oh, you summoned something? Spark / Lightning Bolt says otherwise!" ... Yeah, fuck White! I mean, uh /pushes my Selesnya and Boros decks away I always wanted to make a good Izzet deck - and not only because our names match, swear - but I just ended up resorting to a burn heavy build. Just red at heart, I guess I would be super into that if I weren't stuck on mobile and already hating all this typing. If you start one I'll probably chip in later! I forgot how much I enjoyed this stuff - my group quit playing a while back because we had one tryhard and the rest of us were casuals who got tired of having our faces routinely stomped in.
I don't remember where, but I read somewhere that the concept of fandom was best represented by Blue/Red (passionate about following crazy information wherever it may go and forcing it to make sense when all others would decry it as nonsense)
These are the exact cards that set up my wrecking, if they're not directly wrecking me already. My counters are useless! Red just THROWS EVERYTHING AWAY with reckless abandon like goddamned neanderthals! It's so frustrating to just never have a handle on the situation. Gods help the Azorius player that gets hit first. One of the friends I used to play with really liked green smashy things, so I've been on the receiving end of that Nissa bullshit. Not super. Wanna hear something really cool though? I once hard-casted Progenitus. With basic lands.
Possibly having your opponent casting a control spell? Though it would make sense that you don't have any creature or other artifact cards in play when they do it. Or if they play a card that allows them to search your deck, and they take it that way. I am not too sure myself, just have these as theory.
I know that if you have the right cards in a pure Green deck, you can really screw the other person. My friend had one where every turn he got bring out an Elf. Pretty soon I was overrun by a horde of the little bastards,
With these: Either one would do. Puca's Mischief goes off at the upkeep (but has a mana cost restriction), whereas the Daring Thief has to hit inspired, which isn't easy. Either way you get to take an opponent's creature and give them the Blonde Bombshell, which is essentially a seven damage hand grenade that blows up as soon as they touch it. That's really cool. The damage alone is worth it, but to steal somebody's creature too? What a dick!
I just had to change my vote: I'd been thinking that I was primarily Blue (logic and self-improvement) and Red (passion and rebellion), secondarily Green (simplicity and acceptance), but now I'm thinking that I'm primarily Blue/Green, secondarily Red. And also less not-White (compliance and conformity) than not-Black (selfishness and exploitation), so my whole list would go Blue-Green-Red-White-Black instead of Blue-Red-Green-Black-White, but the important thing is that my Top 2 vote is now Blue/Green instead of Blue/Red. EDIT: I've also learned how much I love this for my current cast of characters, and I think it's interesting that of the 4 main villains in my work, only one of them is primarily Black: Alec Shorman - primarily Green (secondarily Black/Red) Charlie Petersen - primarily Blue (secondarily Black/White) Amy Carmine - primarily Black (secondarily Red/Blue) "The KT Bomber" - primarily Blue (secondarily Black/Red)
In terms of personality and identity, red/green. In terms of personal preference and play style, blue/black. Because armies of zombies and ultimate power go oh so well together >=) I used to play MTG religiously, and I still have over 100 different deck variations saved on a deckbuilding website, Tapped Out My main deck is actually Mono-black, and its star creature is Abyssal Persecutor. The name itself is justice enough to play it. I don't like following the meta though, so if I play a tournament I usually get demolished.
I've never come across this system before and I'm confused over what I am. I'm a stickler for rules (getting better at being more grey, less black-and-white, but I'm still a little conformist at heart) which suggests white, but I'm also a pretty selfish person which suggests black. I also think I'm pretty rational (blue) but not sure what you mean by progress. I like nature (who doesn't?) but again, not sure what "life" refers to.
