Cleric Deck

[train]

Sink was meant to prevent the opponent from being able to play anything else - and forced them to draw mana to attempt to pay for the sink - now it can't do that... because they can play instants in response that will resolve as normal.

 

[Spiderman]

Hmmm... I wonder how many people actually got caught up in the interaction of interrupts vs instants in the old days...

 

[train]

I did - even learned about the "tree"... and all it's "branches"

 

[Spiderman]

I remember the Duelist having an article to explain it...

Heck, I even remember the uproar the Duelist had when it printed that if you had a Tim out, you couldn't kill a Samite Healer as it was being cast because it wasn't in play yet. However, if you wanted to enchant the Healer with some Holy Armor afterwards to protect it, THEN you could kill it. People had problem seeing how it worked on both levels, both the casting of the Healer and casting of the Armor was too late...

 

[train]

funny how some things seem so basic now...

 

[mythosx]

nah i think we knew...but deep down inside we just liked to push the rules.

 

[train]

kind of like tapping for mana during the untap step...

 

[mythosx]

yeah...they had to slap our hands and say no no...

 

[Spiderman]

I was thinking about this yesterday: did people of old actually have instants they wanted to cast when Power Sink was cast?

 

[train]

I know I would have...

(typically a fork...)

 

[Spiderman]

But Fork was an interrupt itself. What about regular instants from back then? I personally didn't see a lot of cases of where one could or wanted to reply with instants when faced with a Power Sink...

 

[train]

Well - in the original print issue - the only others I can think are berserk and simulacrum...

 

[mythosx]

Yes, yes we had. Anyone with burn spells were really pissed at sink. Say a guy is at 2 life. Your holding a fire ball and two lightning bolts and you have alot of mana. You try to bolt him. He sinks you for everything and then some. You can't bolt him again. And that fireball is totally worthless to begin with.

That's when a normal magic player turns into train.

 

[Homestar]

LOL, n e way, what do you guys think about the card Grip Of Chaos? i have 3 of them in my LD deck.

 

[mythosx]

good card for casual. I wouldnt put them with LD though.. IF your gonna play with grips of chaos all your spells have to hurt everyone, no single target spells. Spells like flamewave, inferno, Kaboom and blatant theivery are perfect.

 

[train]

That's when a normal magic player turns into train.

You want to see what else is in my closet?!!!!...

Not only was I sunk when I had the kill - but the dang psychic venoms on my land beat the tar out of me while I was being sunk...

 

[mythosx]

Originally posted by train
You want to see what else is in my closet?!!!!...

Not only was I sunk when I had the kill - but the dang psychic venoms on my land beat the tar out of me while I was being sunk...

Thats happened to me too...sigh. Blue its a love hate thing with me. Ive done it to others also. Kept tapping my friends City of Brass. It was funny.

 

[train]

yeah - brass needs to be errataed to be only when tapped for mana...

 

[Spiderman]

Psychic Venoms are great! If a blue deck won with those, you gotta give it props...

 

[Reverend Love]

That's one card I'd absolutely love to see a variant of. Just so I could put together some kind of deck based around it.