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Shimmerscale Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
SlyBlu7 on Draft League N00B, HELP!
6 years ago
Hey guys - just entered a draft league. They let us pick up 4 packs to start (2 ANK, 2 HOU) and build 30 card decks from there. I think I got the short end of the pulls. Especially when I look at the awesome (frustratingly so) pulls that my GF got, who is even more of a newbie to the game. Anyway, this is what I put together:
Creatures Frilled Sandwalla , Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, Naga Vitalist, Dune Beetle , Wretched Camel, Ruin Rat, Bitterblade Warrior , Sidewinder Naga , Ornery Kudu , Giant Spider , Bitterbow Sharpshooters
Spells Compelling Argument, Gift of Strength , Synchronized Strike , Splendid Agony, Cartouche of Ambition, Torment of Venom
Artifacts Traveler's Amulet, Bontu's Monument, Oketra's Monument
Land Ipnu Rivulet, Desert of the Glorified, Desert of the Indomitable, Grasping Dunes,1Island, 4Forest, 2Swamp
The idea that I had was to go BG for tossing -1/-1 with Vizier, and having some creatures and pumps. Splashed U for milling.
What else did I pull? Garbage, I think. White was especially thin, which is sad because it's one of my favorite colors.
White Mighty Leap , Oketra's Avenger , Forsake the Worldly , Dauntless Aven , Sandblast
Blue Strategic Planning, Spellweaver Eternal, Labyrinth Guardian , Ancient Crab , Eternal of Harsh Truths, Tragic Lesson, Illusory Wrappings , Shimmerscale Drake , Striped Riverwinder, Open Into Wonder
Black Liliana's Defeat, Shadow of the Grave, Doomfall, Razaketh, the Foulblooded
Red Crash Through, Pathmaker Initiate, Nef-Crop Entangler , Blur of Blades, Open Fire, Pursue Glory , Manticore Eternal , Hazoret's Undying Fury, Desert Cerodon
Aftermath Onward / Victory
Land Sunscorched Desert, Shefet Dunes
Now, my list of cards is recorded at the store, so I can change the deck but obviously cannot add any cards from elsewhere. I'm wondering if I shouldn't have featured Red in the deck, maybe just cut my losses and went RG to keep it simple. Can anyone help me out? It's fairly casual, but I don't really want to get my head caved in for the next two months of MtG.Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
InchZer0 on
6 years ago
Quick update:
- -3x Angel of the God-Pharaoh, +3 Shimmerscale Drake; they both have a 2 cycling cost, but I can actually hardcast Shimmerscale Drake if it comes down to it. Either way, it's a flying creature that can be brought back as a 4/4
- I also added a rough sideboard. Drake Haven can give us a back-up win con in grindier games, Sweltering Suns gives us a cheap boardwipe for the early game or a cycle trigger in the late game (of note, the 4/4 tokens will survive), Nimble Obstructionist handles pesky Scavenger Grounds and other energy activations, and the three defeats are more for flavor atm.
Argy on
6 years ago
Start with 24 lands and adjust up or down from there.
I would remove:
1x Angler Drake
1x Naga Oracle
2x Nephalia Moondrakes
2x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
1x Salvage Scuttler
1x Shimmerscale Drake
1x Wind Drake
1x Nimble Innovator
1x Reduce / Rubble
1x Cartouche of Knowledge
1x Trial of Knowledge
1x Edifice of Authority
1x Hazoret's Monument
1x Kefnet's Monument
1x Luxa River Shrine
1x Sequestered Stash
The Artifacts you have are great in Limited, but not so good in Standard.
See how many cards that leaves you with, do some playtests against decks in my Amonkhet folder, and tag me once you've got some results on how this plays.
clayperce on Hour of Devastation Spoilers
6 years ago
So obviously Bolas is about to open a YUGE can of whup-ass on Amonkeht. But what do y'all think comes after?
Is this all just about making a giant army of Zombies to create some interplanar chaos? If so, do you think he's headed back to the Talon Gates on Dominaria, or somewhere else? (Some early Bolas lore is here, if you're all, "What's a Talon Gate?")
Also, any ideas on what Bolas plans to do with all the lazotep? Wizards made a point about everyone getting "lazotep" spindowns and pyramid-shaped D4s as the AKH Pre-release, so I've kind of been keeping an eye on it. It's made the flavor texts and art of Stone Quarry, Shimmerscale Drake, and Sacred Excavation, but so far there's only been one passing reference in Magic Story:
Awkward figures wrapped in white linen bent and dug in the harsh sands. Mummies, they called them. The anointed. Hundreds, thousands of the mummies dug into a deep pit, pulling out a blue ore. Cartloads of the ore snaked their way in a large procession toward the city.
Finally, I'm wondering if there may actually be some hope for Amonkhet after all the devastation. The art on Ramunap Excavator (back on Post #120) just seems TOTALLY out of place with everything else that's going on. And while Nissa, Genesis Mage's name (same post) may just be a reference to her Genesis Wave-like ultimate, I'm wondering if maybe she ends up sticking around afterwards to rebuild Amonkhet.
Or maybe it's just because she likes the band ...
Thoughts?
Zaueski on Nicknames for Amonkhet Cards?
7 years ago
Pyramid of the Pantheon is Slow Lotus and mostly because I can't read properly apparently, I ended up calling Shimmerscale Drake Shimmershake, I found my screw up so funny that I kept calling it that
