Who’s Your Daddy?: Muddy Waters

Just reading these. This isn’t the best deck I have, no. It is hard to come up with something new and awesome that has some semblance of creativity week after week. I try not to tread over the obvious, stay inspired, and come from designs at my own angle, but it gets daunting, esp. when you compound this with working a 50 plus hour a week, energy-swallowing job (dare-I-say: career?), as well as living in a crazed metropolis. Maybe these are factors; maybe they are excuses. But I try, though sometimes fail.

The purpose of this series is to explore all facets of the format. Many a time people have requested to see me build a deck on the fly. showing the process from start to finish. This deck was an itch I wanted to scratch. And, unfortunately, with the amount of time games take, the revenge factor from weirdos, and the general variance of the format, I can’t always capture the deck’s at their finest. It’s good to show the hiccups, it’s humbling to have an idea not hit the ground running. I would rather do so than show a total lop-sided turbo win. I still haven’t been able to make a Zedruu deck worth its salt.

In any case, I am taking a hiatus from vids for right now, until I cobble together some new decks, some fresh inspiration, and potentially reformat how I do these vids. Expect something from me a month or so after Dark Ascension, though there doesn’t seem to be much in the set I would use. If anyone has any suggestions, real or mean-spirited, fire away.

Thanks for watching. Glad you had a change of heart, matt. And, start commenting you weirdos! The few times I log in to Modo anymore, people will randomly say encouraging things. It would validate my presence here more if people chimed in, if even to just be a hater.

Thanks for the comment. I have an aversion to 5-c because it has zero in the way of stipulations, limitations, etc. Obviously one could exploit all the grotequeries of the format to make a masterful combo deck, but, really, why bother? I don’t find this challenging at all. I had a mega-mana 5-c control deck with Child as general: I would get out Wake and Mana Reflection and just Legacy Weapon the shizz outta everything. It was fun, but it never felt challenging or compelling. Maybe I will delve into one day soon–my original plan was to do so at the end of my Five Colors of Friendship vids, but, alas, I got bored with the idea.

I like the idea of the new Mikaeus-very cool idea. Truly, this guy is gonna make for some gross decks, and really push the whole Melira loop combo idea. I don’t think Ascension adds too much to the format beyond kitsch (tribal this, tribal that). I really wanna use Quiet Speculation with some of the Flashback goods in some capacity. We shall see.

Until then, I must recoup, meditate, and plot my eventual reemergence.