Yo Barney maybe your new boss or the tech repair guy is a NGA member... I mean who else would block this site over youtube...?
Intriging... who could it be?

Probably Stasis

I've got a crazy idea I'll try out, I call it turbo-briar. Its an all-in briar combo deck. .
I'm thinking fullsets of Implements, and self-sacrificing cards, with briars (Eldritch Evolution for tutoring) and Lunarch Mantle to give briar evasion and sac every permanent you have, with maybe a Fling or Insult. The rest is briar protection with Blossoming Defense, Selfless Spirit and Maybe make a stand.
I wonder if it'll work...

This is where I'm at, atm (totally untested build):

TURBO-BRIAR

Creature(14)
2 x Bomat Courier
2 x Selfless Spirit
2 x Bottle Gnomes
4 x Bloodbriar
2 x Tireless Tracker
2 x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Instant(5)
3 x Blossoming Defense
1 x Fling
1 x Survive the Night

Sorcery(2)
2 x Eldritch Evolution

Split(1)
1 x Onward

Enchantment(8)
3 x Lunarch Mantle
2 x Vessel of Volatility
1 x Evolutionary Leap
2 x Pia's Revolution

Artifact(12)
3 x Implement of Combustion
2 x Implement of Improvement
2 x Implement of Ferocity
3 x Renegade Map
2 x Alchemist's Vial

Land(18)
5 x Plains
4 x Mountain
5 x Forest
4 x Evolving Wilds


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So many BAD cards, I just love it!

The idea is to get out a briar, pump it up, keep it alive and win with a massive flying plant. Should be fun vs the AI...

update....
couple of games vs the ia made me reconsider my mana... it was to demanding of the 3 colors so I remove a couple of B and add a little more power to the mix.. the briars works very meh with Yaheni.. I think that the best build around it is some sort of discard where you put them inmediatly on the GY that way you use all of its true power... being a card... I think I will try that next.
This one is very heavy on the PWs, I think I can cut a couple of them later... but if we are aiming to win... they should probably stay.
this build at least won 2 games to the ia... but it is still to soft for the ladder.

Bloodbriar 2.0
Creature(25)
3 x Longtusk Cub
2 x Sage of Shaila's Claim
3 x Voltaic Brawler
2 x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
2 x Lathnu Hellion
4 x Bloodbriar
2 x Tireless Tracker
2 x Heart-Piercer Manticore
2 x Bristling Hydra
1 x Verdurous Gearhulk
2 x Glorybringer

Instant(6)
3 x Fatal Push
3 x Harnessed Lightning

Enchantment(2)
2 x Evolutionary Leap

Planeswalker(4)
1 x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
1 x Arlinn Kord
1 x Nissa, Vital Force
1 x Chandra, Flamecaller

Land(23)
1 x Swamp
2 x Cinder Glade
3 x Mountain
4 x Forest
2 x Woodland Cemetery
2 x Rootbound Crag
2 x Dragonskull Summit
4 x Evolving Wilds
3 x Aether Hub

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No Scrapheap Scrounger? Seems like a creature I can keep bringing back and sacrificing over and again might make sense. Or maybe a Dread Wanderer.

"Sac 'em and bring back 'em" is what I always say.

Scrapy... might be good but if I add him... I will start adding vehicles coz he´s the true inmortan Joe... hey that doesen´t soud bad... wait... I gotta use those filthy Briars...
I will seriously build a reanimator deck with no posible way to cast those abominations... I bet that´s gonna work better.

Is it possible for me to achieve a negative ranking? I suspect that's what you guys are trying to find out.

Didn’t DCG already settle that question last round?

He certainly gave it the old college try. Listen, I don't need any help sabotaging my rank, as this is a task I already have adequately in hand.

Started with a promising 3-0 in Versus before promptly dropping four straight. Got some consistency bugs to work out, but so far this deck is looking less dreadful than "Look ma', no win cons!"

Well... Turbo-briar works... Sort of... Ok, it beats the AI...

Its kind of clunky and doesn't really win with a huge alpha-atrike, more of wears down opponent with a big fat briar he has to chump-a-lot.
Anyway, I did get to see what was working and make some changes. This version looks more stream-lined and I'll test it when I get an opportunity:

TURBO-BRIAR

Creature(13)
2 x Bomat Courier
2 x Selfless Spirit
3 x Ravenous Intruder
4 x Bloodbriar
2 x Tireless Tracker

Instant(5)
3 x Blossoming Defense
2 x Incendiary Sabotage

Sorcery(2)
2 x Eldritch Evolution

Split(1)
1 x Onward

Enchantment(7)
4 x Unbridled Growth
3 x Lunarch Mantle

Artifact(12)
3 x Implement of Improvement
3 x Implement of Ferocity
3 x Implement of Combustion
3 x Alchemist's Vial

Land(20)
4 x Plains
5 x Mountain
7 x Forest
4 x Evolving Wilds

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The trick on the ladder will be to evade removal, because there's so much of it. Its easy to put the briar out of burn or languish Reach, but exile or destroy spells can only be avoid with Blossoming Defense, so you'll have to use those wisely. I may try adding Fireweavers as removal-bait and to wear down opponent's life for an easier strike.

Needs moar Sly Requisitioner.

That might actually work LOL

No! Bad Cucho! Bad!

I've got a Selesnya build going now, abusing clues and tragic arrogance, with a surprise decimator of the provinces that seems to be involved in a good amount of the wins. Doing okay on the ladder, but it really takes a few turns to get rolling. T1-3 are almost all setup; currently trying Prepare to help stabilize, but the amount of sac fodder makes space pretty tight.
4 x Blisterpod
3 x Primal Druid
2 x Selfless Spirit
2 x Evolutionary Leap
2 x Prepare
4 x Bloodbriar
2 x Tireless Tracker
2 x Bygone Bishop
2 x Ulvenwald Mysteries
2 x Eldritch Evolution
2 x Angelic Purge
1 x Gideon
1 x Gisela
1 x From Beyond
2 x Tragic Arrogance
1 x Cataclysmic Gearhulk
1 x Archangel Avacyn
1 x Ajani Unyielding
1 x Decimator of the Provinces
6 x Plains
9 x Forest
2 x Canopy Vista
1 x Westvale Abbey
2 x Sunpetal Grove
4 x Evolving Wilds

Yeah, I think clues are a good fit for Bloodbriar. But so far everything I tried seems so slow and clunky.

Speaking of clunky I played Woodlands The Old Brutal Radkos aggro deck against Radkos Control with the trial enchantments and cartouches. Against such a combo intensive deck I should have raced and applied pressure but because he got four trials down I held back with fiery tempers and unlicensed distenigrations waiting for him to play a cartouche. Then he plays Hazoret with cartouche and I get totally blown out.

I need to remember the second I face a clunky deck to win as fast as possible. I had held up Copter and stuff in favour of playing removal, grrrr

Hey, cardboard: any Gideon in particular, or just any Gideon that just happens to be hanging around?

The good one.






I'll give you three guesses.

Ooooh, I know! I know!