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Gross. I'll just take temple. Everything else sucks. Gorgon is an okay wall though.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:06 pm 
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Damn, Chu...two duals in a row, nice box!

IRL, the dualie, again.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:12 pm 
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Form is strong, but I would choose Time to Feed. I think form is a little better, and its weakness to removal is offset by all the heroic running around, but time also hits any heroic that you have, and it is easier to splash. Plus form is better the earlier you draw it, whereas time is good any time. Imo.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:15 pm 
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I opened another box today but I neglected to save the packs. I don't think that's too much of a problem as I have 36 days worth out of the first one...

As for the pack, I'm kinda feeling the Keepsake Gorgon. I've been impressed with black so far in this set and if I see a strong black card I might try to move in.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:32 pm 
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Friend of mine opened half his box, got 1 of each PW, some random sweet foil rare and like 3 lands. Sold the other half of the box back, traded a few of the cards in, and got another box. Pretty much got a free Ashiok and Elspeth.
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Also, the lands are the most disappointing rares to pull in this set.

Oh, and this pack. Obvious pick is Gorgon. Maybe Time to Feed if you wanna push the guy to your left into black for some crazy reason.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:32 am 
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Time to feed, at least it is removal although a rather situational removal.


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Gorgon is a two for one. Slam it and don't look back.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:05 am 
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Yeah, I think the gorgon is the pick here, but not by a large margin. Time to feed is decent enough, but it suffers from the same problem as all the other fight based removal in that you need to have the biggest creature on the board for it to work, making it useless in many of the situations where you actually need removal. The fact that it triggers your own heroic is certainly a plus, but still not enough for me for this pack.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:37 am 
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Oh right, forgot the gorgon. Hmm, guess I will pick the gorgon instead.


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Not having drafted this set, I'm favoring the Gorgon as well. If it turns out that the fast heroic decks are really THAT fast, I might take Time to Feed instead. Not sure what to think of the Wheel. I'd likely play it in most decks, but definitely don't value it.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:54 pm 
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I have drafted this set once, played U/G and faced up against a white weenie deck. He did a two-drop -> White Ordeal -> White Lifelink bestow and I didn't have an early answer. It was pretty much one-sided.


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Looks like I'm in the minority on this one.

The Gorgon in this case is fine, but I feel the Form is more flexible and it quickly stacks up benefits. For what it's worth, I've most commonly seen Form used on Benthic Giant, making a rather unfortunately sized Invisible Stalker that scrys for the rest of game for you (even if that "rest of the game" is pretty short by that point). However in general, Form has more options, works in every deck archtype, and is splashable.

Wheel is pretty bad, btw, if only for the fact that you're tempoing yourself by using it.

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Gorgon looks ridicolous, a 2/5 deadtouch should easily stall the game until you get 7 mana.

Blue has nimbus naiad, not trilled to pick a non creature that does the same, doesn't bost toughness and requires a body, The black nymph is probably better if you want something to be flat out unblockable IMHO, other than flamespeaker adept and benthic giant what works well with form?

I'm not sure about what deck wants wheel.


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SKULLCLEAVER because of the cleaving of skulls. Gorgon is probably OK too for a 12 mana murder and a wall.

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Keepsake gorgon is easily the pick here, no contest.


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Gorgon. You can attack into a lot with her big butt and you should be able to get through twice before your opponent blocks. By that time you should have the mana for a 2-1.


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Gorgon's nice. I like her.

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Yeah, take the gorgon

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