Comments on: Price of Progress: PTQ Badies/GW Goodies http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/ Magic: the Gathering current trends, play tips, gossip Fri, 18 May 2012 00:20:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Matt Wang http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-817 Matt Wang Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:35:41 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-817 Jimbo and Fans, Two podcasts are going up today related to Alara Reborn. The archives are slowly going up in different places including here, but look for Top8Magic on YouTube for some of the older podcasts. Best, Matt Jimbo and Fans,

Two podcasts are going up today related to Alara Reborn.

The archives are slowly going up in different places including here, but look for Top8Magic on YouTube for some of the older podcasts.

Best,

Matt

]]> By: WillPoP http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-816 WillPoP Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:47:37 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-816 I am a huge fan of anything with troll shroud. Playing Troll and Uril together is a good way to blank a lot of the removal in the format. That, or running Hinder Light x4 in the main! I am a huge fan of anything with troll shroud. Playing Troll and Uril together is a good way to blank a lot of the removal in the format. That, or running Hinder Light x4 in the main!

]]> By: Jimbo http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-815 Jimbo Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:03:01 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-815 MORE PODCASTS! And I do mean this in the most homo-erotic way possible, but I could listen to all of you guys talk about magic all day long.......Keep 'em coming....... p.s. I'd like to download archives of the podcasts anywhere I can do that? MORE PODCASTS!

And I do mean this in the most homo-erotic way possible, but I could listen to all of you guys talk about magic all day long…….Keep ‘em coming…….

p.s. I’d like to download archives of the podcasts anywhere I can do that?

]]> By: Matt F http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-814 Matt F Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:12:36 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-814 I'm not saying that this card isn't bad its just that all the decks that you just named can function off from four to five lands. and is some grey ogre that only does 3 or 4 damage really that good against these decks. You need sufficient tempo to try and beat these decks and he doesn't do it. Do you really want to be stuck with some that you didn't get any value out of other than at best killing a Planeswalker. The three drop slot in decks like these are already to busy being filled up with cards like blightning and volcanic fallout which you can get more value out of in these matchups. If you were to put this guy in your deck it would just make it too clunky and make you unable to keep up with those decks. I’m not saying that this card isn’t bad its just that all the decks that you just named can function off from four to five lands. and is some grey ogre that only does 3 or 4 damage really that good against these decks. You need sufficient tempo to try and beat these decks and he doesn’t do it. Do you really want to be stuck with some that you didn’t get any value out of other than at best killing a Planeswalker. The three drop slot in decks like these are already to busy being filled up with cards like blightning and volcanic fallout which you can get more value out of in these matchups. If you were to put this guy in your deck it would just make it too clunky and make you unable to keep up with those decks.

]]> By: ReAnimator http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-813 ReAnimator Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:00:55 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-813 I think Anathemancer can make it maindeck, like how many basics does Fae run? GW? RW? etc. etc. all of those decks are under 8 basics, some way lower. Even if mancer does "just" 3 or 4, when is that not good enough with a chump blocker who might possibly come back for even more damage ? The only decks this guy seems bad against are little kid FNM basic.dec, and Mono U mill (which will change to UB), and WW which still has a minimum of 7 non basics, and most people run the Wr version anyway. I think if you sideboard him at regionals you will be boarding him in all day long, i would much rather take him out when he is not effective, which seems like it will be far rarer. I think Anathemancer can make it maindeck, like how many basics does Fae run? GW? RW? etc. etc. all of those decks are under 8 basics, some way lower. Even if mancer does “just” 3 or 4, when is that not good enough with a chump blocker who might possibly come back for even more damage ?

The only decks this guy seems bad against are little kid FNM basic.dec, and Mono U mill (which will change to UB), and WW which still has a minimum of 7 non basics, and most people run the Wr version anyway.

I think if you sideboard him at regionals you will be boarding him in all day long, i would much rather take him out when he is not effective, which seems like it will be far rarer.

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-810 Jonathan Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:16:38 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-810 Uril, the Miststalker and Troll Ascetic. You will face these guys. With sledges and hammers. And many decks can't deal. =P Uril, the Miststalker and Troll Ascetic. You will face these guys. With sledges and hammers. And many decks can’t deal. =P

]]> By: WillPoP http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-809 WillPoP Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:33:13 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-809 Anathemance really excites me, especially considering it is a pseudo Price of Progress reprint. Definitely agree that this card should be insane against 5c... but whether or not it sees play will depend on if PoPmancer is valuable in other matchups. Semi-popular intern Matt F says that it is sideboard at best. Anathemance really excites me, especially considering it is a pseudo Price of Progress reprint. Definitely agree that this card should be insane against 5c… but whether or not it sees play will depend on if PoPmancer is valuable in other matchups.

Semi-popular intern Matt F says that it is sideboard at best.

]]> By: Steven Cole http://www.top8magic.com/2009/04/price-of-progress-ptq-badiesgw-goodies/#comment-808 Steven Cole Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:02:44 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=1524#comment-808 It seems to me that one of the best cards in the set is Anathemancer. A one-sided 1/2 price of progress, granted it isn't an instant, but it is uncounterable in the late game coming back. Seems like it will be a terrific sideboard card, also obviously maindeckable, that will wreck 5C in the late game and wouldn't actually be bad against any current deck in the field, sans mono-blue sanity grinding, which is fringe at best. I also really like the potential of Soul Manipulation. Great sideboard card. I can only imagine blowouts like, shriekmaw your figure, counter your finks/fanatic/forge-tender/figure, return shriekmaw. Or even better with Mulldrifter. It seems to me that one of the best cards in the set is Anathemancer. A one-sided 1/2 price of progress, granted it isn’t an instant, but it is uncounterable in the late game coming back. Seems like it will be a terrific sideboard card, also obviously maindeckable, that will wreck 5C in the late game and wouldn’t actually be bad against any current deck in the field, sans mono-blue sanity grinding, which is fringe at best.

I also really like the potential of Soul Manipulation. Great sideboard card. I can only imagine blowouts like, shriekmaw your figure, counter your finks/fanatic/forge-tender/figure, return shriekmaw. Or even better with Mulldrifter.

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