SLIVER AND THE BEAST (WITH HELP FROM THE ELVES) deck and break down

With recent release of the 2014 core set of magic the gathering card playing game. I’ve been buying up the booster packs and fat pack from the new set. Granted there aren’t any really super awesome cards in the set, but I can make a pretty decent deck out the set or have what’s standard cards mixed in with it.

Take my recent Sliver and Beast deck I made with the mixture of M14, gate crash, and return to ravnica. The deck is still a working progress, but it does quite OK for now. Here’s my deck I’ve been working, and then I will explain why some of the cards are in there for what purpose.

Creature

2x Adaptive Snapjaw

2x Advocate of the Beast

1x Brushstrider

2x Elvish Mystic

1x Kalonian Tusker

1x Manaweft Sliver

1x Marauding Maulhorn

2x Predatory Sliver

1x flames of the firbrand

2x Rumbling Baloth

1x Sliver Construct

2x Striking Sliver

1x Thorncaster Sliver

1x Battle Sliver

1x Slaughterhorn

Instant

3x Chandra's Outrage

2x Fog

3x Shock

Sorcery

2x Lava Axe

2x Seismic Stomp

Enchantment

2x Awaken the Ancient

2x Lightning Talons

Land

12x Forest

12 X Mountains

            The whole purpose behind the beast creatures (Adaptive Snapjaw, Brushstrider, Kalonian Tusker, Marauding Maulhorn, Rumbling Baloth) is to make them powerful than before with the help of Advocate of the Beast. What the card does, is it gives the beast creatures a +1/+1 counter at the end of my turn, which is helpful for blocking creatures attacking me or have them have more attacking and defensive power for my next turn (like a 3/3 beast creature will become a 4/4 creature my next turn and so on and on). With the enchantments like lightning talons that would give my creature a +3/+0 and have first strike (which give damage to the creature before they attack me) on the already powerful creature from putting a +1/+1 counter on the creature each turn can end the game much quicker.

           

            Let’s go onto the slivers in the deck. They too can help out other creatures too, as long as they are slivers. Slivers like the Manaweft sliver helps other slivers to get the ability to have extra land mana on the battlefield to help get more creatures and or spells out quickly, which the land mana goes away at the end of the turn. Predatory Sliver will help other slivers get a +1/+1 counter on them along with the ability to create land mana. Striking sliver will help other slivers get first strike; Thorncaster sliver will also give slivers the ability to deal extra damage if that sliver makes a combat damage. So if I have 4 slivers out and they have that ability, then if they make combat damage then the player is getting dealt that much extra damage. Battle Sliver also helps with slivers power by giving them a +2/+0.

            

            Last thing we should not forget about the elves. I know there isn’t many in the deck (like I said, it’s a working progress) but Elvish Mystic also help with getting one extra land mana onto the battlefield to help with the creature and spell casting needs. Although it may seem cruel they are also good for blocking creatures attacking me as well.

            

           Thanks for reading my blog, please leave a comment on what your suggestion for the deck would be or what kind of deck you have that the cards work with each other? Here's the link from tappedout.com ofthe deck if you want to test it out, SLIVER AND BEAST DECK

M14 FAT PACK RELEASE WEEKEND

This past weekend was the official release of the new core set M14. I am very excited for this to come out mainly because I’m in hopes of getting enough slivers to make a decent or even a good deck with. But slivers aren’t really the only thing I am really looking forward to using, am looking forward to any other new cards, and planeswalkers, I never had before.

Upon opening the shrink wrap, I pulled out of the cardboard sleeve a deck holder box and a player’s guide. Out of the box holder comes with 2 60 card deck box you put together yourself, 9 booster packs, a deck of land cards, and a M14 D20. I am going to run a list of the cards I’ve gotten from the booster packs.

BOOSTER PACK 1

Plummet

Suntail Hawk

Zephyr charge

Undead Minotaur

Show of valor

Siege mastodon

Lava Axe

Archaeomancer

Minotaur abomination

Sensory deprivation

Wall of frost

Doom blade

Sengir vampire

Garruk’s horde

Mountain

BOOSTER PACK 2

Suntail hawk

Zephyr charge

Lightning talons

Brindle boar

Coral merfolk

Striking sliver

Seacoast drake

Solemn offering

Quag sickness

Divine favor

Voracious wurm

Blightcaster

Dragoness

Ratchet bomb

Swamp

BOOSTER PACK 3

Undead Minotaur

Pitchburn devil

Show of valor

Chandra’s outrage

Scroll thief

Quag sickness

Academy raider

Solemn offering

Predatory sliver

Merfolk spy

Opportunity

Windstorm

Blessing

Domestication

Island

BOOSTER PACK 4

Ranger’s guile

Pitchburn devil

Essence scatter

Lay of the land

Lava axe

Wring flesh

Brindle boar

Regathan firecat

Nightwing shade

Charging griffin

Briarpack alpha

Molten birth

Staff of the magus

Ratchet bomb

Swamp

BOOSTER PACK 5

Shadowborn apostle

Marauding maulhorn

Pay no heed

Armored cancix

Seacoast drake

Goblin shortcutter

Divine favor

Liturgy of blood

Mind rot

Woodburn behemoth

Diabolic Tutor

Stonehorn chanter

Into the wilds

Master of diversion

Island

BOOSTER PACK 6

Negate

Child of night

Lay of land

Capashen knight

Brindle boar

Vile rebirth

Wild guess

Pillarfield ox

Groundshaker sliver

Nightwing shade

Flames of the firebrand

Vial of poison

Trading post

Swamp

BOOSTER PACK 7

Frost breath

Plummet

Master of diversion

Shock

Chandra’s outrage

Regathan firecat

Rumbling Baloth

Archaeomancer

Auramancer

Spore mound

Encroaching wastes

Rod of ruin

Flesh pulper giant

Imposing sovereign

Plains

BOOSTER PACK 8

Capashen Knight

Essence scatter

Seismic stomp

Undead Minotaur

Vile rebirth

Dawn strike paladin

Nephalia Seakite

Dark favor

Griffin sentinel

Sensory deprivation

Bubbling cauldron

Vampire warlord

Barrage of expendables

Galerider sliver

Forest

BOOSTER PACK 9

Child of night

Lay of the land

Duress

Goblin shortcutter

Divine favor

Liturgy of blood

Mind rot

Deadly recluse

Striking sliver

Accorder’s shield

Manaweft sliver

Stonehorn chanter

Xathrid necromancer

Diabolic tutor

Island

   Eventually I am going to make decks out of these cards, not sure what color decks I am going to make as of yet, but I was thinking along the line of maybe a bant or jund deck, Or I might just make two colors decks. Although it may seem like the cards I opened aren’t as good as they look, but I am sure a decent deck can be made with them, even if I add them to the existing decks I have laying around. I didn’t get as many slivers as I hoped to get but I have no problem with buying them individualy to make myself a maybe sort of decent sliver deck. We will see when that time comes around, until then thanks for reading my blog and leave comments of what you would do with these cards to make a deck with? And if you yourself have gotten the core set of any kind (booster, fat pack, etc.) what cool cards did you get from them?

SLIVERS.....YEA OR NAY?

               Word has it that the slivers are being revived for the new M14 core set. Word also hasit that mostpeople are kinda upset about the fact that the slivers are coming back. Me on the one hand is pretty happy about the slivers making a comeback. The abilities they have are pretty good for what they are, not to mention having other slivers in the deck will become more powerful than they already are before they even reach your hand.
               

               I've some of the spoilers MTG has on their Facebook, website, and other spoiler pages. Some of them are pretty expensive mana cost to be bringing out, but is their abilities worth the extra mana cost to have in the deck? for some I do think it's worth it, but only for the ones that would make the other slivers more powerful. Ones with the ability to give other sliver vigilance doesnt seem all that worthy of the extra mana cost to bring it out, unless the mana cost is what the power and toughness eqals to, then it's ok (I guess). The ones that would give other slivers hatse or +2/+2 or something like that would be well worth the effort to give mana to get out.

              I've seen in the comments for the slivers on various pages all pretty much stating how much they hate the way the new slivers look. For me I like the way they look, I think they are pretty cool looking. It was the fact that people are hung up on how the slivers have 2 legs instead of one, this doesnt seem to bother me much as the next person. I really worry more about the abilities and power and toughness than the actual artwork. maybe when I have a bit much to drink or something I'll praise the artwork but even then not that much.

              It seems like from what I've seen from the spoilers there could be a good amount of red and white slivers to be able to pull off a nice red/white deck. It also looks like a all green sliver deck might show up as well. but I haven't seen any for black or blue yet, or if they are going to make one for those colors at all. If they do make them for those colors then they might want to surprise us or something (but highly doubt it would be of any kind of surprise at all).

               Before I sign off of here I just want to ask you readers if you like the whole sliver idea coming back or would you rather it stay away? and if you were ever into slivers in the past what color did you use for the deck and how fast can you get a win by?

           

Mediocre Chandra? Yea most of us thought so too.

So I've seen the new spoiler for the m14 Chandra. I'm not quite sure where they were heading with her or they got her confused with another planeswalker, but I'm saying I'm not to happy with the new Chandra. She's usually a burn kind of planeswalker, but this time around it seems to be the opposite of what she can normally do. 

As most of you seen before how happy I was to finally get Chandra the firebrand and she's one of my favorite planeswalker around. But this new one, I'm not looking forward to it too much, I mean if I happen to get her in a booster draft or something sure I might just keep her because she won't (or probably) be worth much to try and sell to a store or online. And maybe the fact that its Chandra. Who knows. 

Her new abilities seems kind of mediocre compared to what she use to do. Her second ability seems like the only abilities that's worth using just because it don't cost you anything on the dice to do it. If it were me I would just work it up to the ultimate ability and then just kill her (I know seems harsh don't it?) but at the same time I probably wouldn't even put her into a deck at all. I will probably put her in one of those hard sleeve and just store her away in one of my boxes or something. 

So here's the pic of the new m14 Chandra. Let me know in the comments of what your thoughts are about the new Chandra and which Chandra would you rather be using. While you are at it you can leave me a comment of who is your favorite planeswalker and why. 

Thanks for reading my blog and see you next time. 

A binder for my cards...

         I've been wanting to get a binder to put my cards in since, well I've seen other people doing it. So I figure I'd be one of the cool kids and do it too. No seriously, I just wanted to be accepted. I'm just joking.

         I wanted to have one just be cause it'll be easier for me to look at the cards instead of guessing what the cards are from the top, and more organized too. Took me quite a while to do but I have to have it a certain way for me to to at least feel comforatable with it. I guess I have a slight OCD kind of thing going on with it because I put it in mana cost number order (usually I put them in ABC order like my 500+ CD's). I like the binder alot more because if anyone wants to trade with me or something of that nature they can just look through the pages and easily pick out what they're interested in.

          It'll also be easier to carry my cards around for when I go on vacation so I don't have to lug around my giant white card box that is ever so slightly beat up, just a little. It'll also save on room so that way when I have my carry on bag I can just slip it right in there (that's what she said).

          Thanks for reading my blog, let me know in the comments what kind of things you keep your cards in?

Father's Day

I just wanted to wish all the daddies a happy Father's Day. It is so blessed for me to have a 6 (who looks like she's 10) year old daughter in my life to spend it with. Have a blessed day everyone!

Where have you been in my life Chandra?

               So now I got Chandra the firebrand the planeswalker card in the mail. It's pretty exciting forme to have the card because i've been wanting the cards since....well pretty much when i first heard of her. I love the whole story line behind jace and chandra, which is what made me interested in them in the first place.They also have bad ass powers and awesome costumes (or clothes i should say) that fits into their personality very well.

               Back to my chandra card. I have plans on using her for my red and white deck that is like super fast with the haste, Detain, And the battalion of my four Firemane Avenger which is very helpful. I also have a spot for her in the Mono red deck I have recently made (which looks like by turn 5 or 6 i have a win). So i will basicly be whoring her back and forth, at least until i get another chandra and then i wont have to do that anymore.

               One of the few things I hate doing in MTG is deciding what cards stay and what cards go. Almost as if I feel like I'm hurting the cards feelings (weird right?). But it's just how I am, Weird. But I'm sure what ever decision i make for her placement in the deck will be fine, unless i lose like crazy and then i have to rethink the whole deck.....again.

               I have my favorites planeswalker other than chandra, like gurrak and ajani and such.  Let me know in the comments below of who your favorite planeswalker and why, it doesnt have to be just one planeswalker. Also if you have chandra yourself, what kind of deck do you have her in?

Thanks for reading.

Planning Goblin/Devil Deck.....

Hi welcome to my blog!
                 I just got in the mail today arms dealer cards. now i have put together a idea deck on tappedout.net. and i play tested it quite a few times and i seem to like it so far. here's the deck list.

Creature (21)
4x Arms Dealer
4x Hellrider
1x Krenko, Mob Boss
4x pyrewild shaman
4x Scalding Devil
4x Vexing Devil
Instant (6)
2x Reverberate
2x Searing Spear
2x Thunderous Wrath
Sorcery (3)
3x Devil's Play
Enchantment (3)
3x Madcap Skills
Planeswalker (1)
1x Chandra, the Firebrand
Land (26)
26x Mountain

I'm sure there are some changs that could be of use in the deck, but i like it so far. Iam open to any comments, advice, suggestions of what would be  better for the deck. Just leave me a comment about it. Majority of the cards listed in the deck I still have to purchase, but i do have some of the cards already. thanks for reading my blog and until next time, I will see you there.
Richy :)

The things I play with

I play magic the gathering whenever I can. My wife don't like playing I don't have money to be playing at the store where they sell them. And no one around here knows how to play. So I play with my self, I mean with the cards...gutter mind.
The game actually makes me forget about everything that's going on currently and keep me focus on the game. It's a lot of fun and u use ur brain a lot to strategize what urs and the opponent next move might be. It's pretty easy to learn and once u learn it its not so bad. It's much more fun than it looks to actually play the game than for someone explain to u what it does and how it works. Thank for reading this.