Anything But – Into the Archives

Posted on April 25, 2013 by JustSin

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  1. Hello Justsin,
    The cogs deck looks like a lot of fun. Have you considered a combination of cloudshift, ghostly flicker, and Mnemonic wall in place of the blinks. The cloud shifts can be useful in the early game until you can get to 5 mana to get the ghostly wall combo online. I am thinking of 2 shifts, one flicker, and one wall in place of the 4 blinks.

  2. Great article and videos as always. In that first video the deck you were up against was as you said very interesting. At first you thought it might be a post deck, but it seemed it wasn’t. Did you ever find out what it was? Also, could you do an expose on that particular deck or even get a deck list for it?

  3. Great videos! I really enjoy this column! I have one piece of constructive criticism that has been on my mind for the last few videos: You use the word “opportunity” far too often – so often that it becomes distracting.

  4. @wyldcat – I did say I think working in that combo could be great, I’m not sure that’s the approach I would take with it.. the trade off is the number of uses of course because blink gives you 8 uses, combo limits you to three (as you proposed) until you get a return and only if you can keep it going, the combo is done with flickers because it blinks two, not sure I understand the use of cloudshift? if you could expand on that?

    @Joe – glad you liked it, the deck you’re talking about was a Grixis teachings control deck using familiars/electromancers to reduce spell costs, to find that deck I’d have to track down the player and see if they’d send it along so no guarantees, but I can attempt it

    @Tony – lol glad you enjoyed it, I’ll try to stay conscious of my use of opportunity from here out haha

  5. Hey JustSin great article, I just wanted to note that in the Burn vs Delver video Goblin Fireslinger can only target players.

  6. @ anon – woops you’re right I guess I slipped up there when talking about it thanks

  7. Loved the articles and the videos. Please, please, PLEASE make videos in higher than 480p it is really is straining to watch. Thanks!

  8. Hi JistSin and thank you for the quick response. If you can track down that decklist, it would be interesting for you to do a piece on it. Especially because of your liking of Mystical Teachings.

  9. Hello Justsin,
    The cloudshift flickers one creature for one white mana. In the early game your using your blink more to save life and preserve your board. The cloudshift is easier to cast from the hand over blink, but the shift lacks the flashback. When running cloudshift I also prefer to have 3-4 in the main to improve my chance of having access to it on turn 3. To get to 3 I would cut a weird, because your other 4 drop creatures are more synergistic with your deck. The ghostly wall combo can be fragile but the fissure post list I have seen only use one of each card. I think the idea is that if you can get the combo off twice then the tempo swing will win you the game.

  11. I’ve made a few changes since then to shore up the fissure matchup – which has been quite tough to win. Faultgrinder is now in the main deck as is a single nature’s claim – all star vs affinity and does something vs almost all decks in the meta. The guildgates are gone for bounce lands – one GU and one UR.

    Crop rotation and flicker are two of the most powerful spells in pauper and I’m trying to exploit them to win vs the decks that are out there. The deck is quite fun to play and has good matchups vs lots of popular decks. UR post getting less popular makes the deck worse though as I win something like 90% of my matches vs UR post.

    Thanks for the spotlight.

  13. @ wyld – I see what you’re getting at, like I said I think there is room to possibly improve over blinks, but you’d have to play around with options to get the right mix

    @ newplan – np love the deck and more than happy to spotlight it, look forward to seeing the new list, decks becoming quite the grab bag