TAMA — Decklord

Haha, no problem. You're right though. I was out all day. It took me over half an hour to read all of the comments that were left today...

mistergreen527 on TAMA 1 day, 15 hours ago

Yeah got put in my place a bit before apparently a lot of us need to stop and read before we sink our teeth in.

TAMA on TAMA 1 day, 20 hours ago

Iona still hoses colors when she's cheated in; her ability triggers when she enters the battlefield by any means. She doesn't have to be cast. Makes Summoning Trap a little better. But only a little.

Zanven on TAMA 1 day, 22 hours ago

its coming.

Darkness1835 on TAMA 2 days, 8 hours ago

as for the challenge for us, I will issue it in about a week or two. I have stopped building decks because I have to defend my thesis in 1.5 weeks and still have my presentation to prepare along with last minute rewrites. After that I have some ideas.

squire1 on TAMA 6 days, 22 hours ago

I certainly respect you point. I did mulligan quite a bit to get the hands that people intended. If lock got a scepter and silence in the first hand it tended to be game over, if mortal cycle mulliganed to a fluctuator, it won by upkeep turn 3 almost every time. Though round robin would have been best, each deck played against several other before kicking out. And trust me there were decks like your that I was hoping did better because you are a talented deck builder and your coalition deck had full point in other categories.

squire1 on TAMA 6 days, 22 hours ago

I know that there were some issues with the comp but I think that the other way that it can be done by judging what decks can do without playing them has disadvantages as well.

Your decks all did very well in other catagories, but they had trouble performing. trust me I am not the best player in the world, but I can play in most situations fairly well. I do hope that this exchange of ours does not tarnish our tapped out relationship.

I am as all players still learning and gleaned quite a bit from discussions on tapped out.

squire1 on TAMA 1 week ago

have to admit that part of your critisism is true. I took on more than I could handle at the time. That said, all players involved looed through the decks very carefully and got the point of the cards and structure of the decks. Bad draws are one thing, but 3 or four bad draws in a row after mulligans, I start to blame the deck. As for matchups, I did not consider it at all, and am not apologetic for that. No tournament decides to move things around because of bad matchups. I think that the way I tested them was fair.

The rulings part I agree, I am primarily a casual player and rules were very different in my hayday.

While I accept the criticism, each deck was put through a lot of matchups and I stand by those being the top decks.

squire1 on TAMA 1 week ago

You have my respect for doing your homework, and some of your decks are quite solid. your friend however another story. But please keep up the solid work with this site and your research it is valuable to all of us.

hopsonia on TAMA 1 week ago

It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d... 'dude, terminated, really?' (does not count as a Yu-gi-oh joke as I have an online stutter and holding that against me would not only set me back weeks in therapy but it would be majorly uncool and biased).

TAMA on KrazyCaley's Deckbuilders' Challenge- ... 0 minutes ago

Did I lose on the lack of colour balance?

TAMA on KrazyCaley 5 minutes ago

Just to make the point Evan Erwin then designed and built a deck to take to Worlds called Magic Christmas Land. The original term was used when someone pointed out to him that you could use Lotus Cobra to get a third turn Ultimatum and his response came 'yeah in a magical f-cking christmas land'. When he built the deck for worlds he was eating humble pie.

TAMA on mill till you ... 6 minutes ago

Just curious but since the 2nd place deck and my Grixis Hurt Challenge Edition were roughly the same (in fact hers was based of mine) how did mine fail so abyssmally? Also my Bant Fog I have seen come first at full blown standard tournaments and I am curious as to how it failed as well?

TAMA on KrazyCaley 10 minutes ago

Lim-Dul with man lands... Think about it.

TAMA on Lim-Dul EDH 15 minutes ago

I think that was sarcasm. Killing of the birds would be a waste of time if they had some way to stop a swarm but if you need a big beat stick it has excellent synergy.

TAMA on Balboa (Standard) 15 minutes ago

But one dude and one ardent plea is almost guaranteed to mean two dudes. If you already have four land it helps you cycle past the extra that you won't need.

TAMA on BlueWhiteWeenie (Standard) 15 minutes ago

@ Sem48 Yes to the Hells yes will I throw in Kozilek. The combination of cards in this deck means I don't need to side against Jund I seriously win before and after side no trouble.

@ SirNips Quicksand is good but it doesn't stop Valakut.

TAMA on Childhood Dreams V2 ... 17 minutes ago

You are forgiven because you have demonstrated sufficient knowledge of scrubs quotes (and I see white and think low cost to effectiveness ratio, which is the over-genre of white weenie).

TAMA on None 1 day, 11 hours ago