Looking forward to R5. It starts next week, yes?

Still got 10-11 packs of AKH to earn, but w/e. I'll just stub until I have them all if I need to.

I will probably post it next weekend. Still no idea about the theme, it should be something competitive but that doesn't have a 95% obvious build and that wasn't already covered a lot in the subforum.

Orzhov Zombies, Gruul beatdown/midrange, Esper control were already covered a lot, but lot of discussion means different ideas, so i could see them possible.
Rakdos Hellbent, Izzet Burn/Prowess, Boros something could be good and maybe a little more obvious.

What do you all think?

Tokens.

If we have an idea about which new quest is hardest, I'd love to see something that tackles that

I just got a question for 10 creatures leaving the graveyard so I put together a rakdos suicide deck with the 2/1 zombie and Scrounger and the question was a breezed.

Yeah, Scrounger/Amalgam/Wanderer would be my first idea, too. The janky Johnny solution would be a Selesnya crats build with Evoleap/Eldritch Evolution, Grapple, Rallier, lots of 2 drops, and Dusk/Dawn.

First round of the new season, it is the spike week leading to the tournaments. The theme of the week is Rakdos Aggro

Not sure what is on the top right now, but i feel rakdos is still well positioned. Gruul midrange could be better but it was already discussed a lot in the subforum. I already have 4 ideas for next rounds, not spike but with the spirit of the previous rounds.

Let's talk a bit about the rules. The theme is rakdos aggro since i didn't know how to call it without excluding some possible decks. So you can build rakdos artifacts, vampires, hellbent or whatever you want but it should be aggro.
Decklists are public but remember to send it by PM, so i can find them to make the poll.
There are color constraints this time since i'm alternating rounds, but i think there is enough freedom for the deckbuilders.
The deadline to submit your decklist is the end of 13 May, in whichever timezone you are.

Time for spikes has arrived, let's see who will build the best deck and if this will affect the tournaments meta

Since I already have a nicely tuned deck that has performed extremely well for me, this is easy:

Black as Night, Faster than a Shadow

Creature
2x Bomat Courier
2x Dread Wanderer
3x Flameblade Adept
2x Inventor's Apprentice
2x Scrapheap Scrounger
2x Olivia's Dragoon
3x Bloodrage Brawler
1x Pia Nalaar
2x Lathnu Hellion
1x Olivia, Mobilized for War
2x Bloodhall Priest
1x Hazoret the Fervent

Instant
2x Lightning Axe
4x Fiery Temper
3x Unlicensed Disintegration

Split
1x Insult // Injury

Artifact
2x Smuggler's Copter
1x Heart of Kiran
2x Key to the City

Land
2x Smoldering Marsh
7x Swamp
8x Mountain
2x Dragonskull Summit
3x Aether Hub

Awesome! I'll prolly do terrible this round, but at least I'll get some insight into the Spike building mindset. And aggro means the decks should be quick to test on the ladder.

I predict hellbent will be the most common type, tho.

If DJ and Banenon don't submit their great lists, can I submit them?

I'm all over rakdos aggro

viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18694#p559250

Yeah, i suppose you can ask them.

When's the deadline?

Totally fine by me... BB can send it over, or I will. If I have time I may make some slight changes, but I doubt I'll have the time. There are some new cards that probably belong that I missed on my first pass.

Ok DJ, you can submit yours if you want and I'll submit Gabrosins Radkos if he doesn't. I just want to make sure both are submitted cuz I'm advocates for those decks and want an excuse to playtest them again

Joker, let me know what the deadline is and maybe you can let me know close to it if DJ or Gabrosin have submitted their lists... actually maybe I'll submit both and if either submits one, just use theirs instead of mine


edit: ok i submitted both DJ's Radkos Vehicles list and Gabrosin's Radkos Aggro builds. This will be a fun contest.

DJ, you have to submit your list (please). I'll submit Gaborsin's list.

Sure thing... when's the deadline?

i've asked that freak 3-4 times already and no answer

he really is an agent of chaos

Lmao ewe guise. May 13th is date in his post announcing the theme

I honestly don't know how some of you function in real life

everyone is stealing my line!!! that i said in private to vert