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Strossus_sl said:

is mono green infect still the 1 trick pony of hoping for a star's align 10 point infect swing on turn 2?

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It isn't quite that reductive, but those hands do happen. Roughly 1 in 8-10 games you just get to win for free at almost Legacy speed. If you can't get there by turn 3, it gets harder and harder to make the math work from there. Infect is a glass cannon that only has one real shot. The skill (such as it is) boils down to when you decide to fire.

So basically Charbelcher all over again with 2 more turns to set up and no fear of FoW.

Wuyley_sl said:

So basically Charbelcher all over again with 2 more turns to set up and no fear of FoW.

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Eh, a little bit. Charbelcher is a much more traditional (and stronger) combo deck. Infect is like running a deck full evasive Fencing Aces and pump spells. It is more like a burn deck that uses the combat step than Charbelcher.

only thing i have for Modern is fish, and i feel its just a bad deck overall. my edh and lack of ability to go around trading makes for a lack of another deck for me to play.
and standard I just play BUG control, which is fun

Just started my first sealed - MOX SAPPHIRE BABY - also Channel and Demonic Tutor.

Cursed Scroll is all the power you'll need.

Nuff said?

Man I wish I knew people that played this still.

Man I'm loving VMA - averaging, thanks to P9 opens and decent play of almost 50 tix of profit per sealed event. (Of course some of that is skewed by that 285 tix opening above, but still)

Run 8 events as of last night, and ended the night with 387 tix between tix and packs. And that includes scrubbing out on a few and only 4-0'ing once or twice. Mostly 3-1's with a few 2-2's though.

Sure, almost $200 a day (about ~6 hrs each day with overlapping events and such - with enough breaks in between rounds when I'm not doubling to work on Batman: AA for the first time) of "work" ain't much, but when your entertainment for the day is paying you that much, that's pretty damn sweat.

PS - Never been to Vegas, getting the feeling I should avoid it after how this is hitting me - or at the very least stick to a strict budget.

Yea, the more I think about it - these are exceptionally easy because of how few players understand all the formats it mixes up I think. Can't count the number of "How the hell does madness work?" questions I've answered in these so far.

On track to 3-1 my one that's almost over (1-0 in the final match ATM and lethal set up for next turn if he doesn't do anything special while he's taking this LOOOOONG turn) and 2-0 with my alternate I just started. Neither of which has any right to do that well...

Dry on luck today - ended up with a slight loss (350ish down from 380 - packs inflated slightly though, lost about 40 but old pack figure was selling at 6.5, and selling at 7.15 ATM) - think I'm calling it on VMA and sitting on a 340 tix profit.

Was helping a friend clean out the house he had been renting to some other folks for the last five years or so. They left it absolutely filthy, but we found a deck box full of Zendikar era cards in Chandra Ablaze sleeves. Basically a whole red/green block deck... and a random Jace, the Mind Sculptor flipped the other way.

Not the most exciting find ever, but it was a pleasant surprise given all the useless shit left behind.