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I highly doubt anyone's getting as lucky as I did today. A 33% mythic pull rate should be impossible. I also just placed an order for every card I still need from DM which wasn't much. Sometime next week I'll be done tweaking all ten of my decks (hopefully for good this time). As much as I've absolutely adored this block, enough already wizards, you have enough of my money for now. Seriously no more awesome blocks for awhile, I don't have room.

I CANT EVEN BELIEVE THIS!!! I just bought a fat pack of dragons maze. Here's what I pulled... 2 blood scriveners Aetherling Renegade Krasis Melek Izzet Paragon Flesh and Blood Reap intellect (MYTHIC HOLY SHIT) Ral Zerek (2 MYTHICS!? FIHFIWUFIUWF) Blood Baron of Vizpoka 9 (THREE MYTHICS HOW DID THIS HAPPEN I CANT EVEN BELIEVE IT!!!!!)

Try hitting up local department stores, (Walmart, target, etc) when I'm on the road that's generally where I drop in to find cards. On rare occasions you'll even find packs cheaper than you would in a gaming store. A few months ago when I was coming home from Tennessee I stopped in at a middle of nowhere Walmart and found ravnica boosters half price because no one in backwoods Georgia buys them.

I'm so sad they're sold out of grep shirts right now.

Last time I bought cards online I ended up ordering 8 of these when I only needed 3.

HAH! No it isn't. Looks like I'm not the only who's had a 20/20 boneyard wurm on the field before.

Hmmm... I do believe my girlfriend and I are lacking in cheesy "couple outfits". Maybe I should get these...

I tried a demo of this and pretty much instantly hated it. Seems like the kind of game that gets repetitive very quickly.

From what I've seen that serpent rarely does any good. With the increased mana speed you've got now he generally comes out much earlier and then sits on the field until conditions are right. Even counting the spreading seas you only have 14 islands which may seem like a lot but it is highly unreliable especially if you plan to go ahead and drop some islands for more forests to better utilize arbor elves. I just think that for 6 mana you can easily find something much better and more reliable to replace those serpents with. Also you might want to go ahead and drop all 4 briarberry cohorts and replace 2 with this. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=26757&type=card Pretty much the exact same mana cost without any conditional buffs. I also came across 2 other cards you might want to consider working in somewhere. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=151118&type=cardhttp://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=157401&type=card

Alex, a few more notes on the Noble deck. I did a little playtesting with it and noticed some small issues. 1. Harbor serpent is almost never going to be able to attack in a dual color deck this small. 5 Islands is a big condition to meet with the current setup. 2. Land isn't balanced as well as it should be. I would drop one or two islands for an extra forest or two, maybe even swap out the guild gates for more basic lands. 3. The majority of the deck is on the low end of mana demand so it may be worth dropping two of the briarberry cohorts for another somewhat beefy 3 or 4 CMC creatures.

I've had this opened in one of my tabs for 3 hours now. Every now and then I pass back by that tab and break into hysterical laughter. This image has broken me...

Wasteland viper can't be used as a "surprise defense" though and deathtouch isn't exactly that beneficial to tack onto a 7/7 creature that's already double striking. I prefer the ambush viper just for the flash so I can have a bit of extra removal with better control. And I know there are much better big green creatures I could toss in but when it comes between keeping the gruul theme and making the deck more powerful I actually prefer to keep the theme for a casual deck like this.

Flying is going to be much easier to build around. Islandwalk isn't exactly a common creature ability. I use stormtide leviathan in my azorius deck so my solution to him locking down my own creatures is to keep a few new prahv guildmages in to grant flying when it's needed but with the leviathan it's usually a win condition in itself once it's out so maybe try to focus instead on enchanting and buffing the leviathan?

I assume you're referring to Ruric Thar, but the potential for his ability to backfire is just too much to risk using him. I would essentially have to build the entire deck around the possibility of him being on the field and even with a load of bloodrush creatures I'd lose a lot more than I'd gain. After some playtesting though I almost feel like I need more higher cost creatures rather than removing any. Even the "rough draft" I have of this deck now can cover 8 CMC by turn four in most cases. What I could really use is some more reliable mana dumps like savageborn hydra and some draw acceleration.

Just made a prototype for a new gruul deck that actually focuses on gruul cards from gatecrash/dragon's maze. I take back everything bad I said about this guild. 8 mana dorks plus some savageborn hydras can be brutal. Toss in the gruul warchant + alpha authority unblockable combo for late game win swings and it has definite potential. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/gruul-prototype-2/

At his absolute most he becomes what? A 5/6? Granted for 2 mana that's ridiculous but what I'm saying is with a deck centered around filling graveyards (like modern golgari for example) there are cards with much better potential at the same cost. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=220050&type=card

Eh we already have parallel lives for token doubling. I'd rather see this make a return. Tarmoghejogsdghgeofee doesn't excite me that much either, even for golgari decks there are cards that does what it does better already.

I'm actually kind of in favor of the legends rule. Gives better utility and a good reason to stack a deck up with more legendaries. Also not sure if anyone's noticed but the MTG official site just updated with spoilers for the 2014 core set and modern masters.

A better way to start is focusing on dimir zombies. These guys make such a beastly combo. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=247237&type=card If you load up on "zombies get +1/+1" styled creatures which are very easy to come by heartless summoning can ramp things up. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=244678&type=card Also, I finally bought a few boosters of Dragon's Maze while I was out getting a new phone and clothes yesterday. My very first booster and what do I pull from it? GOD DAMN RAL ZAREK! YES! The only stupidly expensive card I needed from the new set and I got it for $3 which means rounding out all 10 of my decks is only going to cost ~$50. Well that is unless I decide to make a "proper" gruul guild deck but even with savageborn hydras, it's still gruul...

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HAHAHAHA!!!! Just idling half life 2 for my last available card drops. First drop - gordon freeman. second - gordon & alex third - gordon & alex... fuck fourth - gordon & alex FOIL! Time to get more cash! Woo!

If anyone has any interest in the metal slug (robotic brain slug for pyro) message me. I uncrated one and have no interest in keeping it.

oh jesus... I can't wait until someone comes into a server with 50 of those and floods everyone's inventory. I demand a screenshot of the new effect in game.

Definitely get rid of the spawn of rix maadi for one more rakdos lord of riots. He's generally really easy to get out onto the field but you have to draw him to do that. Granted you can't have two out at once but with what a big removal target he is I've found a backup is always great.

4 master of the pearl trident... And no trait doctoring...