The Battle of Wits video and Some NPH thoughts

We are on a count down to New Phyrexia hitting the streets. May 13th is when we are flooded with new goodies for all kinds of decks. I mean, we are at the dawn of a new age. We are standing on the sidewalk and we can see the street being built, we just can't cross it yet...it's a pretty looking street though, but a bit windy. I wish I could help you navigate through this treacherous journey, I can only really show you the pot holes to avoid.

This is the giant, $50.00, planeswalker elephant in the corner of the room. Just ignore it and it might go away on it's own. The one cool thing I've heard about Karn is that he is currently the only way to get rid of poison counters. However, once you play him, get him up to the ultimate ability and use it, you will be more poisoned than after eating a grande meal from Taco Bell. He looks so shiny and colorless and can be played in any deck, but he really just isn't that appealing to me. I might change my tune after I have my face beat in by him, but until then, just say no to Karn. Pull him in a pack and ship him for some other card around the $50.00 range.

I've been hearing a pretty big stink about this card and I'm not all that super thrilled about it. The problem with it is that those interweb people keep saying you can play it, pull creatures out of their deck, then reanimate them....what creatures are we talking about buddy? I mean, let's go through a couple decks and see what we have:

Caw-Blade
I'm seeing a Sun Titan main deck aaaannnnnddd.....yeah. Awkward. This wouldn't exactly be the prime deck to try and reanimate against. Plus, I'm pretty sure you are just locked out and done by turn 6. They have their own Day of Judgements to keep the board clean too.

RUG
A bit more on the crunchy side. Avenger of Zendikar is something I'd like to see dropped on my side...but oh wait, they'll kill you way before you can even start to think of a turn 6. Sure, you can play it....and get Mana Leaked.  "No, I'm not crying, it's just Mana Leaking on my eyes...."

R/B Vampires
You are playing black already so there are for sure some guys in here they would work for your team. Kalastria Highborn being one of them that would be pretty sick...just....just for the love of god don't put their Bloodghasts in there. I mean, you could be this guy. But, just don't. This is one deck I will yield and say this card would be good against it.

Valakut
Ka-ching! This is the deck that, IF you can pull this off, you are in great shape. Strip your deck of Primeval Titans? Yes please. But again, this Wraith + Buried Alive costs 6 and...well....just good luck.

Goblins/Kuldotha/things that are red

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Infect
Grabbing Skithiryx is pretty sweet and ripping Crusaders out of their deck can be pretty great too. You can't infect without infect cards.

Overall. I'm not too impressed with Life's Finale.

Lastly:

I see this card hurting more than helping. Let's run through this scenario: You look at your opening hand and you see two of this little bastard. Doesn't that just suck? Having more than one of them in your hand is just clogging things, however, there is the problem that you WANT to run more than one of these to get it out faster. Let's play through another scenario: You are on the draw, your opponent is able to play their Hawk or Stoneforge before you can play this. Yeah. Awkward.

So, in my second to last blog post I mentioned the greatest Magic win ever...remember that? What's that? You want video proof that this happened?! Ugh! Fine. Here:

Proof

But I'm going to make you sit through an ad first.

Well, there you have it. I have to get ready for that "work" thing so until next time.