Magic: The Gathering

[Chowlett]

Lemme check... Of your original list at top of page, I have:

5 Basking Rootwallas
3 Disenchants (but multiple other cards with similar effects, such as Wax/Wane)
3 Patrol Hound
3 Standard Bearers and 1 Coalition Flag enchantment
4 Wild Mongrel
0 Nimble Mongooses
5 Mystic Penitents
3 Longbow Archers
2 Fleetfoot Panthers
2 Confessors
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Arrogant wurms
6 Coalition Honor Guard

[Shadowstrike]

Could someone enlighten me - was the 4 card max dropped in 7th?

[Chowlett]

No, I'm just listing my holding. Can't be bothered to round down.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Chowlett
I'll scare up a lit of my cheap (say, 2 or less?) G/W cards, and my single R cards sometime. I also have (which I forgot) more than 4 Quirion Elves - 1G - 1/1 Elf - choose a colour when it's brought into play. Tap: add G or one of that colour. Could be useful.

for multicolor quirion elves are good

I would still suggest 2 color white green though

do you have any of the mentioned cards?

Jon Miller

[Chowlett]

Woah - a 2 hour DP!

[Jon Miller]

I can let you in on the secret if yoou are ready

Jon Miller

[Chowlett]

tell, tell, tell!

[Jon Miller]

the secret is of the back button (and waking up confused)

Jon Miller

[Urban Ranger]

Damn, I feel like an old fart now. I don't recognise most of the cards here.

What blue cards you have?

[Mr. President]

I stopped buying around Weatherlight, because of rising prices and increasing gimmicky-ness, so all my cards are impossibly ancient. I think I've got a Northern Paladin (4th Edition) batting around somewhere, and a Chronicles Erhnam Djinn and a Mirage Crimson Hellkite that I'm very fond of.

Actually, characters like that put me off the game for a period, because my friends were all too busy worrying about how much their cards were worth on the retail market to just play normally.

[Chowlett]

Ok, a rundown of what those cards above do for the oldies. Madness cost is an ability whereby you can cast a card for the madness cost as you discard it. Threshold comes into play when you have 7 or more cards in your graveyard.

Basking Rootwalla - G - 1/1 Lizard - 1G: +2/+2 until eot. Once per turn only. Madness 0
Patrol Hound - 1W - 2/2 Hound - Discard a card, First Strike until eot
Wild Mongrel - green equivalent. Discard rule is "Discard, +1/+1 & colour of your choice until eot"
Standard Bearers - 1W - 1/1 Flagbearer - If an opponent plays a spell or ability that could target a Flagbearer in play, he must target at least one flagbearer.
Coalition Flag - W - Ench own creature - becomes a flagbearer
Coalition Honor Guard - 3W - 2/4 Flagbearer
Mystic Penitent - W - 1/1 Nomad Mystic - Attacking doesn't tap. Threshold - +1/+1, flying.
Longbow Archer - WW - 2/2 Soldier - First Strike, may block as though had flying
Fleetfoot Panther - 1GW - 3/4 Cat - May be played as an instant. When brought into play, return a G or W creature under your control to owner's hand.
Confessor - W - 1/1 Cleric - When any player discards, you may gain 1 life.
Arrogant Wurm - 3GG - 4/4 Wurm - Trample. Madness 2G.

My personal favourite atm is Life Burst - 1W - Instant - Target player +4 life, then +4 for each Life Burst in all Graveyards. A cool 4, then 8, then 12, then 16 life isn't to be sneezed at.

[Urban Ranger]

What is madness and threshold?

Some of these cards are very powerful, some can even be game breakers.

The Confessor and the Patrol Hound sure makes a vicious combo. BTW, if you have 4 Confessors, do you get 4 lives with one discard?

Just imagine some weenie decks you can make with these cards. Ouch!

[FrustratedPoet]

madness and threshold are new card mechanics that were introduced with the Odyssey Block.

madness provides an alternate casting cost for the card, which can only be used when the card is being discarded. For example, the Arrogant Wurm can be played for 3GG, but if your opponent forces you to discard it (or you could do it yourself) then it can be played for 2G ... nasty...

threshold gives the card additional abilities (such as +1/+1, or Trample) when you have 7 or more cards in your graveyard.

[Chowlett]

As I mentioned, Madness is a cost you can pay to cast the card as you discard it. Threshold effects activate when you have 7 or more cards in your graveyard.

[Jaakko]

Shelter (1W, instant, tgt critter gets prot colour of your choice, draw a card) is a nice cantrip for any G/W creature deck.

This thread has inspired me to revive my own G/W beatdown deck, here's the revised decklist (still untested) for those interested:

4 Brushland
2 City of Brass
8 Forest
8 Plains

4 Llanowar Elves
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Wild Mongrel
3 Noble Panther
3 Voice of All

4 Still Life
2 Bearscape
3 Wrath of God

3 Armadillo Cloak
4 Shelter
4 Wax/Wane


It's a bit of a tricky build, but ideally suited for the metagame 'round these parts. Now I just have to make the creature base more consistent...