DAILY RANDOM MTG CARD: DARU STINGER

Daily random Magic: the Gathering card pick of the day is... DARU STINGER from Legions. To date, it has never been reprinted. It’s a 1/1 creature with a 3 and a plains mana cost; pretty high for a soldier card.  It has a good reason for it though, the amplify ability. When you cast this card, in addition to its casting cost, you reveal however many soldier creatures in your hand. It gets that many +1/+1 counters on the card. So if you have 4 soldiers in your hand, it gets +4/+4, making it a 5/5 creature. Nice!

Daru Stinger also has another ability that uses the +1/+1 counters on the card. You tap Daru Stinger and it deals damage equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it to target attacking or blocking creature. There’s a good chance of this card actually killing the other card attacking or blocking, or it could lower the defense of the attacking or blocking creature, making it more vulnerable to your own creatures.

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M-15 GAME DAY

     

         This weekend (8-9-14 to 8-10-2014) the m-15 game day weekend, which also marks when the new core set has been out for about a month.  LGS usually do an event to celebrate its one month, some would only do it for one day and some would do it for 2 days. The one I’m going to is on a Saturday just because there are more prizes to win (by any given chance I actually get enough wins to get anything). I’ve never really had much luck at winning anything but I’ll take it as a learning experience and also see what other people have to play with.

The hardest part about going into game day is what deck do I want to use, and what are the pros and cons of using that type of deck. For me I am torn between my sliver deck and my human heroic soldier deck. It seems like my sliver deck might be the way to go considering how nutty it can get and how quickly it can do so. My heroic human soldier deck has it’s up and down with it. The deck seems to been having problems with mana lately and it was never like that before. But I think I’ll try various decks and see which one seems to fit better for playing at game day.


I will wish everyone good luck with their game day event if they are going, in my next blog I will say what my results was as far as not losing (or not winning).

What deck will you go with for game day?

Comment with your thoughts!

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VOICES…

December 19th 2013 I turned a very young age of 33 and for my birthday gift from my dad is a booster box of the dragons maze set. Looking through the 500 something cards I have opened up from the booster box I came across some pretty cool rare and mythic rare in the set. One in particular stood out.

Granted there are some really cool cards in the booster set I got but the one really stood out to me is the voice of resurgence card. Out of the 36 booster packs in the booster box I got voice of resurgence as an only card. Go figure that would happen right?

When you have voice of resurgence out, chances are the other player is not going to want to cast a spell that ends up killing voice just because of the token it would bring out. If you already have a whole bunch of tokens out along with creatures chances are the new token will have some crazy power and toughness.

I’m always for powerful creatures but I like to get done quickly. I like the card and it’s a great card too but I don’t have much interest in doing token decks, I feel they are too slow for me. I do have a token deck but I only use it a very few times. I might just keep it for the art work. Who knows, maybe someone really wants to the card and give me a good amount of money for it or trade for a couple of god cards or something.

What’s your favorite card in magic?

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WALLS OF LIFE

Today I am going to talk about my blue and white deck which I called “walls of life” yeah…still working on that tittle. The whole idea behind the deck is to keep the other player from doing too much or slow them down. With cards like claustrophobia, master of diversion, Imposing Sovereign, Lyev Skyknight, to help with the opponent’s creatures to unable to untap in the untapping step or detaining them till it's my turn again. Here’s my deck list and some explanation of why some of the cards are in the deck.

2x Ajani’s Chosen

2x Angelic Wall

2x Avenging Arrow

1x Azorius Arrester

1x Battlewise Hoplite

2x Claustrophobia

2x Dawnstrike Paladin

1x Daxos of Meletis

2x Divine Favor

1x Domestication

2x Essence Scatter

2x Fencing Ace

1x Gridlock

1x Imposing Sovereign

12x Island

1x Judge's Familiar

1x Lyev Skyknight

2x Master of Diversion

2x Phantom Warrior

12x Plains

3x Soulmender

2x Staff of the Mind Magus

2x Suntail Hawk

1x Wall of Frost

      I know as most of you noticed that Ajani’s chosen is in the deck. I know it don’t make much sense for the card to be in there because those two Ajani’s chosen are the only cards in the deck that does tokens. I figure with all the enchantments I have in the deck it would actually be helpful and get more creatures out onto the battlefield. The mana cost to get Ajani’s chosen out is a little bit high but it is well worth it if it will get more creatures in play with the enchantments coming out.

                As far as life gain goes I got cards like dawnstrike paladin, divine favor, Soulmender, staff of the mind magus to help with that. Dawnstrike paladin is a high cost creature to put out, no doubt. But with vigilance and life link on the ability part is a good addition. Not only I don’t have to tap to attack with it I can’t use it to block the other players creature when they’re attacking on their turn. If dawnstrike paladin causes damage to the other creature it’s blocking and the other creature dies, I gain life from that with the life link. If I do damage on my turn to the opponent’s life total I gain from that with the life link. Artifacts like staff of the mind magus are great to leave out on the battlefield, only because whenever I cast a blue spell, I gain one life from the artifact each time. Divine favor helps you get 3 life gain just for coming out plus it gives the creature a +1/+3. I know it don’t seem much, but for a 2 drop in mana cost, I say it’s a pretty darn good card to have. For a 1 drop creature you can gain 1 life by tapping Soulmender. I know you lose the chance to tackle the life total of the other player but gaining one life isn’t so bad when the creature is only a 1/1 power and toughness.

          How can I forget to mention Daxos of Meletis? Because I really did forget, until I was editing this blog the next day (its common). The great thing about this card is that he can’t be blocked by creatures with power of 3 or greater. Hopefully the smaller creatures would be dead when using Daxos to attack and they only have bigger creatures to block with. When Daxos deals damage I then exile the top card of that player’s library I can gain life from the cards mana cost, and then (or I may) cast that card for its mana cost as though it has any color of mana to cast it. Most people say Daxos is only good in EDH. But I feel he’s also a big deal to use in standard and or non-standard decks. You can do a lot for just a 3 drop mana cost card. Maybe more than most people realize.

          What is your favorite 2 color combination deck? And what does it do to help you stay alive? Leave me comments with your thoughts.

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HUMAN SOLDIER (DECK BREAK DOWN)

          As the theros set has been released and set in stone, it was time to make some fun new standard decks. The greatest thing about theros is that it’s based around the Greek mythology. So being both my favorite things in one, who could blame me or anyone else to be excited about it? I will give you my first new deck list and I will do a little breakdown as to why the card was put in there.

12x Plains

12x mountain

2x soldier of pantheon

2x Titan’s strength

2x spark jolt

3x Akroan crusader

1x Truefire Paladin

1x Akroan hoplite

2x Battle wise valor

2x Ill-tempered Cyclops

2x Setessen Battle Priest

1x lightning strike

2x magma jet

3x phalanx leader

2x solemn offering

1x dauntless onslaught

4x two-headed Cerberus

1x Anax and Cymede

2x Observant Alseid

1x Spear of Heliod

2x decorated griffin

2x Fortress Cyclops

          The whole idea behind the deck is to try and make it as close to a human soldier deck as possible. The human soldiers part of the deck all help out in some way or another, granted all the creatures in this deck aren’t human soldier but I can only make the deck with what I got. If I could, I would buy the cards I would really need for the deck, but I kind of like having the Cerberus and the Cyclops in the deck. It makes it seem like they’re the sidekick for the humans. Until then this is what I have to deal with.

          One of the things I love about theros is the ability triggers they have. Like for the human soldiers in the deck have heroic which is where the creature gets targeted by a spell, it will do its ability. Some of those abilities will help other creatures by giving them a +1/+1, or put out a token creature or two, and ETC.

Phalanx leader heroic ability is triggered by a spell you cast that targets phalanx leader, when that happens, other creatures you control gets a +1/+1. The great thing about this ability trigger is, you can use instants, enchantments, and sorcery’s on the creature and it will do the ability. The +1/+1 counter doesn’t go away until the game’s over, not till end of turn like most abilities. Instants like titan’s strength that gives target creature a +3/+1 counter till end of turn would trigger Phalanx Leader heroic ability and give other creatures a +1/+1.

Another creature with heroic ability is Akroan Crusader. This creature heroic ability is whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan crusader put a 1/1 red soldier creature token with haste onto the battle field. It does the same thing as phalanx leader only with tokens when you target Akroan crusader.

Cards like Setessen battle priest heroic ability lets you gain two lives when you target it with spells. It’s a great card to have if your life is in trouble and looking for a way to stay alive a little bit longer, or you just want to be ahead of the game and gain life early and give the other player that much more trouble trying to bring your life down to zero.

Remember this deck is still being tweaked out and I built this deck for fun, not competitive. What new triggers are your favorite from the new theros set?

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