MagicGatheringStrat
Standard Deck Tech RB Aggro
updated
There's still a week left of December, but come watch walloficecream review most of 2019's realm of Magic: The Gathering. There are dozens of annotated cards for the hearing impaired. Or muggles. You know who you are.
2019 for Magic was a time of laughs, frustration, growth, guerilla marketing, Frontier, banned cards, unbanned cards, unveiled cards, leaked cards, Arena, memes, box openings, brewing, investing, speculation, mistakes, milestones, history, Magicfests, Mythic Championships, cheating, massive cash prizes, rewards, defeat, glory, returrning, streaming, podcasting, rules changes, mulligans, Ebay direct, Amazon direct, diversity, restructuring, selling, collecting, trading, reading, studying, loving, and, last but not least, playing.
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Yay, walloficecream is back! After taking a break, walloficecream is back for another top 10 list, and more videos. Merry Christmas.
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CreepEvee returns with a new build of the classic Presence of Gond Combo in Pauper.
Add me on MTGO! creepevee
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCOtIwmy68AuX_9Bw9V8yFNg/featured?view_as=public
Twitter: twitter.com/creepevee
Facebook: facebook.com/CreepEvee
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Regarding RMT - Real Money Transactions - the act of buying imaginary objects using real cash -
I was asked to buy Runescape gold earlier this year by my Minecraft friend, and it takes a lot of wisdom to explain why I didn't, won't, and never will. Buying virtual Runescape money leads to other people holding your credit card hostage - being able to reuse the number to resubscribe multiple robotic accounts (called Chinese gold farming) to Runescape, which leads to you cancelling your credit card, which leads your credit card company not trusting the chinese bank, which leads to the chinese bank not trusting Runescape, which leads to Runescape being physically unable to have a presence in China. The end logic is - buying Runescape gold is only for people who hate the game.
walloficecream gives a tutorial of buying digital MTGA accounts - bypassing Ebay rules, TOS (Terms of Service) with digital card providers, creating a profile where he neither walloficecream nor a Mr. Brown, and shopping in a place that hasn't had a successful chain of happy customers necessary for PayPal to persist as a presence on the website.
End note - MTGA specifically states that there are no plans to have a PIN dongle like Blizzard.net does to secure accounts, on MTGA's official website.
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Storytime Peasant Magic
youtube.com/watch?v=vZ2edhowpkY
Sept 13th, 2018
Storytime 2 Paper 2HG
youtube.com/watch?v=KznyVOrieXs
Sep 24, 2018
Storytime Intro to Prismatic
youtube.com/watch?v=dD3Fdm2jXMI
Oct 5, 2018
storytime Creature Feature
youtube.com/watch?v=nGZ_U6XlslQ
Oct 17, 2018
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walloficecream participates in a one-in-a-lifetime tournament, where, for the first time ever, 2 days only, Magic: The Gathering digital objects are... absolutely free?
Catch me on Twitch!
twitch.tv/walloficecream-
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MTGA - 5 FTP ELD STD Decks (Gruul Clans, Out for Blood, Azure Skies, Dome Destruction, Angelic Army)
Free cards for everybody! ELD Standard rotated many free-to-play decks out of Standard, but there are 5 new decks that are Standard-legal to play. Let's test them out where they belong - Bronze League. A 2-part video.
Twitch Plays, Let's Play, Magic Arena, MTGA, Magic: The Gathering, walloficecream -- Watch live at twitch.tv/walloficecream
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Catch me on Twitch!
twitch.tv/walloficecream
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Walloficecream plays quasi-Standard Momir Basics. The usual Magic Arena version is Standard with a pre-made deck consisting of 12 each of the 5 basic land types. This time, it's Standard, except there are cards that exist only in the future, cards that exist only in the past, and, the format, well, it doesn't have a name. But one thing is for sure, there still isn't any cards in the 11-mana slot. Learn some ELD cards, Bringer of the Fifth Dawn cards, and have a seat.
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To celebrate, walloficecream's YouTube avatar is now Throne of Eldraine's gingerbread man from the Magic: The Gathering's official Throne of Eldraine YouTube video!
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To celebrate, walloficecream's YouTube avatar is now Throne of Eldraine's gingerbread man from the Magic: The Gathering's official Throne of Eldraine YouTube video!
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To celebrate, walloficecream's YouTube avatar is now Throne of Eldraine's gingerbread man from the Magic: The Gathering's official Throne of Eldraine YouTube video!
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To celebrate, walloficecream's YouTube avatar is now Throne of Eldraine's gingerbread man from the Magic: The Gathering's official Throne of Eldraine YouTube video!
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To celebrate, walloficecream's YouTube avatar is now Throne of Eldraine's gingerbread man from the Magic: The Gathering's official Throne of Eldraine YouTube video!
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But what do the colors do? Magic: The Gathering used to have cards such as Storm Seeker (direct damage to players for green.) Or, Bee Sting (direct damage for green.) Building a direct damage green deck is possible, it's just not what green does. It's up to players to learn past Wizards of the Coast's mistakes and learn what the colors do, before brewers attempt to make a deck that's very difficult to build and even more difficult to make work.
The solution?
I will now define the color pie, starting with the color white, for 20 minutes.
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Magic: The Gathering's NPness is NPhard, versus other games like Magi-Nation and Redakai that relate power level of the cards based on ease of collectability, Magic's strategy
on good decks relies on finding synergies, not individual power levels. Shopko declares bankruptcy in 2019,
and walloficecream shows off his Redakai box of 1000 rare silver holofoils and loose ultra-rare
gold holofoils in his 90% off purchase. Explaining why difficulty of collectability should not equal power level. Bonus deck tech at the end.
Note: Do not attempt to build any of my 7 Redakai decks. It was insanely hard to collect.
I want to make this point that each action figure and each preconstructed deck, tournament box, starter box only has one of each of the promo cards, and they cannot be collected any other way. Silver holofoils are rares, and Gold holofoils are ultra-rares.
Storytime episodes:
#1: Storytime Peasant Magic youtube.com/watch?v=vZ2edhowpkY
#2: Storytime Paper 2-Headed Giant youtube.com/watch?v=KznyVOrieXs
#3: Storytime Intro to Prismatic youtube.com/watch?v=dD3Fdm2jXMI
#4: Storytime Creature Feature youtube.com/watch?v=nGZ_U6XlslQ
Journalism episodes:
#1: Making MTG cards for a contest youtube.com/watch?v=R9fuTrE0afk
#2 Serra Planeswalker youtube.com/watch?v=-G-kKGGb1RQ
#3 London Mulligan thoughts youtube.com/watch?v=wdqf9xnCOvU
#4 Reddit has evidence MTGA shuffles poorly youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dqA9uHnlY
#5 Standard Magic is back to normal youtube.com/watch?v=mSuD57Ov_ok
#6 London Mulligan thoughts youtube.com/watch?v=wdqf9xnCOvU
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Deck list by Parallax: mtggoldfish.com/deck/1998444#paper
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I am playing Rainbow Tron by Parallax: mtggoldfish.com/deck/1998444#paper
This is the 2nd week of the Rainbow Tron series
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Episode 1: Banding
Episode 2: Ice Cauldron
Episode 3: Humility
Episode 4: Clone
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Q: What's the lore?
A: Shandalar is a plane of Magic that will never get a proper storyline, but basically, five wizards follow the words of Arzakon, promising them power, but it's all a trick. The 5 wizards attack towns in order to cast the spell of Dominion (3 conquered towns of one color, or 5 if you have a magic ring) in order to gain power.
Arzakon will betray them to use that power to destroy the world. You must destroy all five castles that the wizards live in to defeat them, which will summon Arzakon prematurely, so you are able to defeat him.
Q: I thought I knew every card. What are these weird Magic cards?
A : They're Astral cards. You can read about them here: mtg.gamepedia.com/Magic:_The_Gathering_(MicroProse)
They're cards that don't work in real life because they change the game state randomly, which is something that only a computer can do. So don't worry if you don't know all the cards.
Q: What are damage cards?
A: Damage used to use "the stack" back in the 90s. It allowed for, say a Sakura-Tribe Elder to both block/kill a Savannah Lion and sac to search for a Forest. It was unbalanced so Wizards of the Coast removed it in later editions.
Q: What is banding?
A: Shandalar has a lot of banding creatures, and it's a keyword mechanic that takes a really long time to explain, scaring even magic judges from talking about it. Check out my "Magic in 10: Banding" video on magicgatheringstrat.
youtube.com/watch?v=qEpRXjBaTuU
Q: What's the difference between a step and a phase?
A: This is an outdated system in Magic: The Gathering. A phase is a long unit of time in Magic: The Gathering, made up of several steps. Mana empties from the mana pool at the end of each phase, but not each step. At the end of each step, the opponent has a chance to respond, except for the untap step and cleanup step. The response must be at instant speed, meaning using creature ability, or casting an instant, or sacrificing a permanent to pay costs. For example, there is choosing attackers, fast effects: choosing attackers, choosing blockers, fast effects: choosing blockers, first strike damage, fast effects: first strike damage, normal damage, fast effects: normal damage.
Mana now empties at the end of each step and each phase. This was really useful in the old days to sacrifice all your other permanents to Atog in order for him to survive a block and save up the mana to cast Fling during fast effects: deal damage. I still see players do this today, and it doesn't work anymore.
Q: I have more questions?
A: Send me a comment on YouTube. I'm also available on Steam! My name is Balzack and I have a profile picture of a rainbow-haired Iro. I'm also on Facebook as walloficecream and twitter as golducks. Or e-mail me at walloficecream@gmail.com if it's private, such as a job offer for YouTube or to write.
Q: I want to ask in person?
A: Catch me sundays, live on twitch.tv/walloficecream
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Rainbow Tron deck by Parallax: mtggoldfish.com/deck/1998444#paper
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Rainbow Tron deck list by Parallax: mtggoldfish.com/deck/1998444#paper
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Best creature: Impervious Greatwurm (10-mana, 100% drop rate)
Biggest creature: Ghalta (12-mana)
Fewest number of creatures: 11-mana (0 creatures)
Worst creatures: Hydroid Krasis (2-mana 0/0), Chamber Sentry (0-mana 0/0), Ugin's Conjurant (0-mana 0/0).
Previous best creatures: Zacama (9-mana, 33.3% drop rate), Demonlord Belzenlok (6-mana, 1.66% drop rate)
Outs: The 7-mana slot (Meteor Golem for removal, Darigaaz Reignited for damage, Pelakka Wurm for life, 4% drop rate each)
Best color: Green
Worst color: White
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walloficecream introduces Lightning Skelemental (translated from Russian) in the upcoming Modern Horizons set, alongside a new Whirling Dervish from War of the Spark; I'm daring players to play Rakdos hate in a Sligh shell, an Experimental Frenzy shell, a creatureless control shell, a Midrange shell, anything, as long as it encompasses all of Modern. Free your mind.
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New Arena content weekly on MTGA!
magic.wizards.com/en/mtgarena/war-chronicles
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Apologies for drinking too many caffeinated drinks.
mtgesports.com/news/statement-regarding-yuuya-watanabe
kotaku.com/here-are-the-magic-the-gathering-cards-that-caused-che-1834436801
twitter.com/Team_Cygames/status/1122804193431965702/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1122804193431965702&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkotaku.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1122804193431965702%26autosize%3D1
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Phase 0: WOTC comes out with Magic: The Gathering, the first of a series of Deckmaster games, 1993-1994
Phase 1: M:TG has blocks of 3 sets, starting with Ice Age, and a base set every 2 years, 1994-2007
Phase 2: M:TG has blocks of 3 sets, and a base set every year starting with M10, 2009-2015
Phase 3: M:TG has blocks of 2 sets, 2015-2018
Phase 4: M:TG has blocks of 3 sets, and a base set every year starting with M19, returning to phase 2, 2018 - present
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(Correction: White Knight with Holy Strength is a 3/4, not a 3/5. Duh.)
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1. Plastic Cactus (plasticactus) youtube.com/user/PlasticactusVids
2. magicgatheringstrat3, magicgatheringstrat2 youtube.com/channel/UCMoQprqSu674hYv9URpuzxA
3. Nathaniel Prawdzik youtube.com/user/NatePrawdzik
4. damionblackgear youtube.com/user/damionblackgear
5. Yehspuhr youtube.com/user/yehspuhr
6. peilla youtube.com/user/Peilla
7. marcagel youtube.com/user/marcagel
8. Oliver Law youtube.com/channel/UC6XGN6Hw3o-mxhLBK95yrkg
9.budget magic (pauper metagame) youtube.com/channel/UClU9HCNKWtb6iUF3nTHswUQ
10. mtgvideo youtube.com/user/mtgvideo
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Deck list: mtggoldfish.com/archetype/pauper-burn-50950#online
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Episode 1: Banding
Episode 2: Ice Cauldron
Episode 3: Humility
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reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/b21u3n/i_analyzed_shuffling_in_a_million_games
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Deck list: mtggoldfish.com/archetype/pauper-burn-50950#online
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Deck list: mtggoldfish.com/archetype/pauper-burn-50950#online
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Deck list: mtggoldfish.com/archetype/pauper-burn-50950#online
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Dan takes a look at one winning Burn list.
mtggoldfish.com/archetype/pauper-burn-50950#online
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jphsnake's Pauper Gauntlet deck list: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/the-pauper-gauntlet
All the decks of the Pauper Gauntlet S03: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet-s03.html
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NewHJs infect deck list: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/09-11-15-Rcx-monogreen-infect
Pauper Gauntlet S03 decks: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet-s03.html
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carvs deck: mtggoldfish.com/deck/1437638#online
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carvs UR Affinity list: mtggoldfish.com/deck/1437638#online
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