Friday, 8 December 2017

Unhinged First Tw Drafts



Won match one against a generic br deck.

Lost match two against a very good blue-black agents of sneak deck splashing R. With the unblockable one drop looter, flying draw from opponents deck, and the two legendarys lost both games. (second game awemsone. Got six contraptions off steamfloggery including the token maker getting me a giant turn. I also had split screen and opponent milled deck then tried to draw with card stealer so go them to draw empty deck and they lost.)





Lands (16):
Forest (x9)
Mountain (x7)

Creatures (17):
Masterful Ninja
Ground Pounder
Steamflogger Temp
Wild Crocodile
Eager Beaver (x2)
Voracious Vacuum
Border Guardian
Bumbling Pangolin
Hydradoodle
Joyride Rigger
Feisty Stegosaurus
Labro Bot
Mother Kangaroo
The Big Idea
Slaying Mantis
Angelic Rocket

Other (7):
Half-Orc, Half-
Selfie Preserve
Handy Dandy Cloning Machine
Split Screen
Super-Duper Death Ray
Multi-Headed
Steamfloggery


Contraptions (10)

Boomflinger
Dictation Quillograph
Faerie Aerie
Genetic Recombination
Jamming Device
Mandatory Friendship Shackles
Quick-Stick Lick Trick
Rapid Prototyper
Sap Sucker
Twiddlestick Charger




Second Draft

Changed to BR second booster and previously was BW (since got Baron Von Count). Built deck didn't have quite enough creatures. Game one was close against WU Widget deck (lost 2-1). Game two against apparently worse BG deck and won 2-1. Animate Library is a bomb. I gave extremely slow zombie triple strike via Turbo-Thwacking Auto-Hammer. At one point I would have won with Baron Von Count before he was bounced as a 2-spell resolved (while I had the Rats in had as a 1).


Land (17)
9 Mountains
9 Swamps

Creatures (16+1)
1x Wrench Rigger
1x Extremely Slow Zombie
1x Dirty Rat
1x Target Minotaur
3x Paniac
1x Baron Von Count
1x Bumbling Pangolin
1x Hammer JAmmer
1x Stringing Scorpion
1x Party Crasher
1x Garbage Elmental
1x old-Fashion Vampire
1x It that Gets Left Hanging
1x Box of Free-Range Goblins

1x Zombified

Noncreature (6)
1x Proper Labority Attire
2x Worka Double
1x Clock of DOOOOOOOOOOM!
2x Finders Keepers

Contraptions (8):
Buzz Buggy
Turbo-Thawcking Auto-Hammer
Guest List
Division Table
Jamming Device
Auto-Key
Top-Secret Tunnel
Neural Network

Sideboard:
1x Box of Free Range Goblins
1x Over My Dead Bodies
1x Spike Tournament Grinder


Sunday, 16 April 2017

Amonkhet Initial Set Review (Casual card design/flavour perspective)

White

## Binding Mummy ##

Great flavour.


## Compulsory Rest ##

Also flavourful. But was pacifism really to good? Instead of answering embalming creatures its useless against them.



## Devoted Crop-Mate ##

Similarly awesome flavour. Art goes great with.


## Forsake the Worldly ##

Well designed card. And a good name.


## Rhet-Crop Spearmaster ##

Decently designed and good name to justify effect.


## Seraph of the Suns ##

A generic indestructible uncommon. Wahoo! And it's a Seraph to boot.


## Those who Serve ##

I'm actually really excited over this. It's a white 2M 2/4 vanilla, a stat combination white hasn't had before.


## Time to Reflect ##

Being involuntarily mummified. Very resonant as a shout out to "The Mummy"




Blue


## Ancient Crab & Cancel ##

Great art.


## Censor & Compelling Deterrence ##

The art is a wonderful "the mummy". Also great mechanically.


## Floodwaters ##

Well designed card, great art with a flavour that works on several levels (actually ancient egyptian flooding, red sea.)


## Hieroglyphic Illumination ##

Good card design. Great art.


## Lay Claim ##

Simple wonderful design. Its great to see a mind control in limited again.


## Open into Wonder ##

A blue card both feels blue while reward aggro and creatures. Yes please.


## Seeker of Insight ##

A yugioh/millenium puzzle reference, even if not intended as one.



Black


## Baleful Ammit ##

Resonance. Yes.


## Baleful Bat ##

Well designed. But it does make you wonder why bats aren't extinct/ever evolved in an environment where thay have to resort to such a dangerous way of feeding.


## Dune Beetle ##

Great vanilla stat combination for black. Well design. The giant beetle/scarab art is both resonant and makes sense with those stats/


## Final Reward ##

Took me awhile to work out if the title was mocking or sincere. Great job at showing cultural dissonance


## Painful Lessons ##

I'm surprised it took them this long to print this variation.


## Ruthless Sniper ##

Really feels black.


## Splendid Agony ##

Good simple yet powerful limited card with a good name.


## Supernatural Stamina ##

Are they just going to spell out regeneration now? Worst of bo


## Trespasser Curse ##

Perfect flavour/ressonce. Great art.


## Wander in Death ##

Power creep?


## Wasteland Scorpion ##

Why isn't this wither.



Red

## Electrify ##

* Surprised it isn't a reprint.


## Limits of Solidarity & Path to Glory ##

* Great cards, you can cycle them when behind/losing.


## Magma Spray ##

* The flavour text isn't the least bit subtle and is a bit to direct.


## Minotaur Sureshot ##

Great design. Evergreen name so easy to reprint.


## Nef-crop entangler ##

The art looks and feels so egyptian.


## Pathmake Initiate ##

A powercrept Goblin Tunneller.



Green


## Greater Sandwurm ##

Great cycling design, throw away early, use it late and has Daunt.

(remove two attackers from combat, make the fight each other.)


## Shed Weakness ##

Vey innovative well designed card.



Artifact


## Embalmers Tools ##

Well integrated mechanics-flavour. Well designed. Flavourful.