MindAblaze The Grixis Dentist
I'm Justin and I'm a Grixis Player...
Welcome to the Vorthos cave.
There are two main things I love about magic. The strategy and the Lore. I also love the color pie but that's a different story.
The first part is because I learned to play from a very serious Spike. He made me very conscious of slow mana, below the curve creatures and janky, convoluted interactions. Play to win...we hit a few PTQs but mostly Game Days and FNMs. It was good times.
I play primarily casually now. As a result I mostly find myself building multiplayer decks that have some kind of combo built into them that generates oppressively incremental advantage. I love infinite combo decks but usually end up not putting them together for very long because they often win once or twice then I lose every time after that.
My favorite one so far has been
Life From The Stinkweed Scholar's Birthing Ooze
Modern
SCORE: 28 | 68 COMMENTS | 4550 VIEWS | IN 3 FOLDERS
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This is where the Vorthos comes in.
It's the story of an easily angered, yet Civilized Scholar Flip. He's overwhelmed by the triviality of life and becomes a Death Cultist. He immerses himself in his Stinkweed and becomes fascinated with fantastical Devoted Druids, Morselhoarders and Quillspikes. Finally, his Necrotic Ooze gets involved with a Birthing Pod and new life emerges.
One day I would like to begin a series of articles with short stories based around people's decks. When Im not planning a wedding and still trying to get settled in my new house with my four kids, fiancée and army of pets.
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Animar Crackers...
#1
The bulk of it is done as sealed. Players only draft commanders, lands and mana rocks. It is time consuming for sure.
June 14, 2018 10:03 a.m.
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Animar Crackers...
#2
I’m pushing 800 at the moment including lands, rocks and the 60 commanders. It’s meant for a four person pod, so there should be a lot options for each person to play around with.
The commanders are meant to overlap too, luckily I received a surprise Firesong and Sunspeaker today to fill a hole in the Narset build. I’m considering some form of tempo spell-slinger deck.
June 13, 2018 2:51 a.m.
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Animar Crackers...
#3
Yeah. It’s an insane project but it’s been really convenient for building decks for Tuesday night edh. I’m struggling with a few of the archetypes and keeping the numbers under control. So far I have roughly 60 multicoloured commanders to draft, so that’s about another year of building one deck a week unless I start carrying it around with me.
June 12, 2018 9:58 p.m.
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Core set 2019: ......
#4
Ajani could be mono white and Tezzeret could be mono blue too. Its possible and it wouldn’t be precedent setting for he characters.
June 11, 2018 3:19 p.m.
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The Mad King ......
#5
I ran puzzle box for awhile, I just found it to be too chaotic for my purposes. Wheel and Deal seems good. I could probably use one more wheel in here. I do kind of like that Friend or Foe one from Battlebond, but five mana might be more than I want to spend.
June 11, 2018 12:59 p.m.
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theemptyquiver says... #1
Hey dude. Thanks.
I really haven't quit playing--just slowed way down.
I needed to pop on and update all my decks. I like my decks to be an archive of my actual decks so if I change them through iterations I can go back and revert them to what they were originally.
Plus I'm all casual EDH now.
A sure sign of advanced age.
Glad to see some of the old diehards are still lurking around!
May 30, 2018 5:09 p.m.