Unlocking the Vault #19: Oath Primer

Posted on February 28, 2012 by enderfall

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  2. Hi Youri, thanks for your note. I’m looking to get some videos over the next couple articles, in between writing the next primer which is up for vote. Stay tuned!

  4. Shoath was one of the best decks pre cage, now post cage why not shoath eh?
    Running shoath could u possibly even want cage on board? for dredge and non S&T mirror…?
    itll be interesting to c how it shakes up. Do u c MM becoming like leg in EVERY deck, even non blue? thats one of the things im worried about.
    I can rem when woodripper was a board card and akroma/darksteel fatty where your mains in oath back around champ block in vintage, how times have changed.
    As always luv ur articles. Lets c some landstill ;)

  5. standstill the enchantment for 2 that says draw 3 cards.
    oath of druids the enchantment for 2 that says “i win”.

  6. You’ll notice Mental Misstep being a 4 of in each of the decks I listed above. I believe Oath decks should never have less than 3 in the main deck now. Cage can be dealt with, Misstep and Claim helps. In a way, I see Misstep becoming even more important as we go forward. Decks that will fear Cage will need to pack 3-4 Missteps and many of those decks that want Cage will find their best answer to a Misstep on their Cage is casting a Misstep of their own. I don’t think it will be as bad as Legacy, since Workshop and Affinity want no part of Misstep, but every disruptive creature deck, and all Blue decks, that weren’t already packing 3-4 Missteps will probably want to now. Dredge is probably better off with Misstep now! Just look at Mark Hornung’s recent decklist for an example (http://www.morphling.de/top8decks.php?id=1551). The real test will be to see if hate bears wants to start playing Misstep. If that happens, then we’re in trouble.

  7. I could c bears runnin MM. why not, the only deck its dead against is stax and thats not a great deck right now besides the point its one of bears strongest opponents. But vs Delver u got delver and counters b storm etc, affinity shut down the clamps or pest, blue all the counters, dredge counter the mm or stop claim on ur cage/wheel. stax was the only deck that MM was Meh against and that was only if there was no welder im afraid its gonna look like leg pre MM banning. The question is do u think MM be restricted????

  8. So, the people have spoken, and Landstill it is! I was hoping to get in a DE this past weekend, but none of the events fired. I might have to postpone some videos for a couple weeks as a result.

  9. I just played against an Oath deck, and I am confused. My opponent had Oath out and it triggered because I had three creatures. He revealed cards and put a creature into play, then did it twice more to have the same number of creatures as me, all on one turn. Is this how Oath is supposed to work? He keeps revealing cards until he has the same number of creatures as me?

  10. @Pamela, No that’s not how it’s supposed to work, unless he has multiple Oaths on the board. This could be a bug if you were playing on MTGO, or it could be due to other extraneous circumstances. Was there anything else fishy about the board state?

  11. No, we were playing in person, and since I had three creatures, he said the Oath kept triggering since it says”at the beginning of upkeep’ land it was still the beginning of his upkeep.

  12. @Pamela. He’s wrong. The Oath only triggers once and then checks the board-state to see if it actually does anything. It would only trigger more than once if there were multiple upkeeps (a rare circumstance) or multiple Oaths on the board.