A Planeswalker's Guide to SPPf (Magic: the Gathering)

[palingensia]

not i, but i can pick up my box this friday. really looking forward to it.

[Mariya Shidou]

I did. It was loads of fun. Pulled a Garruk and a Past In Flames (traded both, getting a Gideon, Baneslayer, and Lotus Petal for the Garruk and some other stuff and a lot of EDH cards for the PIF). The biggest pull for me in the sealed event, though, was Devil's Play. I went WBR with no fixing and it ran pretty solidly. Devil's Play, like Fireball, is a great finisher, and it's powerful as multi-use removal.

[D-World]

Thank Bolas someone created this! I'm looking forward to Innistrad, but lately I've been playing in EDH (My Generals are Doran, Mayael and Kaalia)

[Gentleman Skeleton]

Well, thanks in part to the USPS, I managed to get my Innistrad boxes a few days early and after a few playtests with friends, I can tell you several things:

1) Werewolf decks are slower than I'm assuming Wizards intended, but they hit hard and fast once they finally get going. Make sure to run Avacyn's Pilgrims and Stoney Silence in your sideboard as Ratchet Bomb murders werewolves once they transform.
2) GW Human decks WILL be the deck of choice. Get Champion of the Parish and Mentor of the Meek while you still can! I can tell you that if you get Champion of the Parish in your opening hand, you will be set to trample through everything in your path. Thraben Sentry and Unruly Mob are also surprisingly good.
3) Garruk Relentless is crazy-go-nuts.
4) Army of the Damned is also crazy-go-nuts.

[Rey Alejandro]

I'm thinking of making a deck around Ludevic's Test Subject/Abomination using only proliferate cards (as much as possible). Mostly Red/Blue.

[D-World]

1) Werewolf decks are slower than I'm assuming Wizards intended, but they hit hard and fast once they finally get going. Make sure to run Avacyn's Pilgrims and Stoney Silence in your sideboard as Ratchet Bomb murders werewolves once they transform.

I really think Werewolf will be very fun to have, but it's pretty easy to bring out two spells to turn them back, so I think that it will really be for early game power thank god we have Moonmist. Might work well with Bloodthirst too.

2) GW Human decks WILL be the deck of choice. Get Champion of the Parish and Mentor of the Meek while you still can! I can tell you that if you get Champion of the Parish in your opening hand, you will be set to trample through everything in your path. Thraben Sentry and Unruly Mob are also surprisingly good.

I really think you got something there. I think Bonds of Faith, Butcher's Cleaver and Sharpened Pitchfork would be the best assets of a deck like that. I easily put Elspeth in it too.

3) Garruk Relentless is crazy-go-nuts.

Garruk seems a little frail to me. It'll quickly die without proper protection.

4) Army of the Damned is also crazy-go-nuts.

It's expensive, but definately worth it once you get the mana.

To me, Zombies is the most fun way to go, things like Endless Ranks of the Dead, Grimoire of the Dead, Undead Alchemist and Rooftop Storm make me drool like a zombie. Plus with those colors you can throw in a Lich Lord of Unx.

I finished my third EDH yesterday, using Animar, Soul of Elements as a commander. Throw in some Eldrazi and you got a win.

[The Chilli God]

Used to. Stopped playing when the original Kamigawa series was the most recent thing.

[Freya]

Been getting back into this game just to play for fun with a bunch of my old stuff and whatnot, Innistrad looks kind of cool. Champion of the Parish looks like something I want to pick up for my Weenie deck. W/G Human looks interesting as well overall, I almost want to come back for this set. Another card that stood out to me was Civilized Scholar. I kinda want to pick them up because they look cheap, and it just looks like a hilarious, albeit less than optimal addition to my Blue/Green Madness deck.

EDIT: Oh my word Mentor of the Meek looks so asdjkfefkefd, definitely considering coming back.

[palingensia]

i managed to snag five mythics in my box: liliana, angelic overseer, mikaeus, grimgrin and past in flames. i'm pretty happy with the set, and i'm looking forward to drafting it with some friends.

[D-World]

I haven't had the opportunity to get to a tourney, but boy I'm getting a playset of Balefire Dragons. Seriously those things will be amazing to play with (I so imagine equipping them with a Loxodon Warhammer or the Kusari-Gama).

I'm also gonna rebuild my Jund Aggro deck from three years back, should be fun.

[Gentleman Skeleton]

BTW, Teferi + Laboratory Maniac + Leveler = brix will be shat.

[D-World]

Definately, but Laboratory Maniac is too easily cleared from the table with Shock or Path to Exile.

I'm building a BU Mill deck based around Undead Alchemist, but I might splash white to run Necromancer's Convenant (it's ridiculously fun)

[Gentleman Skeleton]

As an update to what I had said earlier, new information has come out that the next block will NOT be set in Ravnica, and will in fact be a brand new setting. I'm not sure how much else of what I had said is true or not.

[D-World]

I've just finished my first Peasant Deck: RG aggro with Devour (Thunder-Thrash Elder + Brood Birthing ftw!) My next peasant project is probably gonna be Slivers (damn I miss those wormy things :'( )

[Rey Alejandro]

Pauper Magic is so much fun with this set.

[D-World]

Yeah, but GB aggro Infect still rapes most things :/

[Gentleman Skeleton]

I just pulled an Olivia Voldaren, so now I'm in the mood to build a Vampire EDH deck. Question is, should I just build a BR deck with her as a commander, or should I broaden my horizons and use Garza Zol so I can mix some blue in for some control (in other words, Grixis colors)?

[Rey Alejandro]

BR is better for continuity's sake. I use Thraximundar as my Grixis commander and I run a proliferate theme.

[D-World]

I've started a GB Token deck. Parallel Lives is amazing with Mimic Vat and Grave Titan. Endless Ranks of the Dead works epicly with Parallel Lives too.

[palingensia]

finally finished an edh deck, with my general being isamaru, hound of konda and the rest of the deck being equipment-centric. it's pretty fun to play, and mirrorworks followed by batterskull is an amazingly fun thing to pull off. i also managed a copied duplicant and exiled a 9/9 animar, soul of elements. ****'s fun. :3