Comments on: Conflux – Maelstrom Angel

By: kingpete

kingpete — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:00:24 +0000

GIVE ME BACK MY IDEA

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:02:00 +0000

@Anth0919
Keep reading the site and I don’t know that you would be able to avoid this

By: Anth0919

Anth0919 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:17:01 +0000

Wow, I’m flattered that Mr. Flores himself would steal an idea of mine. Now, I know it wasn’t some crazy tech idea, and Mike, you may have been thinking the same exact thing before reading my post… but it’s at least good to know I think along the same lines as one of the great minds in Magic history. Yep, that’s called brown nosing and I do it with the best of them. I’d be real interested in hearing how your testing with this goes.

By: Rerepete

Rerepete — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:11:45 +0000

You, draw 2 cards from manamorphose….hope for Clout and Nicol Bolas….LOL

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:00:44 +0000

@ReeceP
What you talkin’ ’bout Willis?

@Anth0919
Already stole your idea

@kingpete
See the “already stole your idea” RE: Anth0919, above.

@Rerepete
Good idea! … But the problem is, what have you got left to Angel them with?

By: Rerepete

Rerepete — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:06:14 +0000

How about dream opening hand of Mountain, Simian Spirit Guide, Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, Manamorphose x2, and Maelstrom Archangel..LOL

Turn One : Mountain, ditch SSG, cast ritual, cast song, cast manamorphose for BU, cast manamorphose for GW, cast Maelstom Archangel…..

By: kingpete

kingpete — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:32:44 +0000

Good review! I also was glad to see you got to preview the best rare in the set today on magicthegathering.com! Im thinking this would be fun in 5cc as not only a finisher a la Oona, but as a cheaty way to get Cruel Ultimatum or something of similar casting cost into play, while leaving open mana to cryptic if they have a response. Turn 4 wrath, turn 5 this thing, turn 6 Cruel Ultimatum for free seems like an awesome sequence of turns… Dont know many decks that can recover from that. Itd be the nuts godhand draw, but still, with all the card draw that 5cc has right now it could happen? Keep the reviews coming! And do an extended primer on mono blue faeries for me.

By: Anth0919

Anth0919 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:20:10 +0000

I think there is a lot of potential with this card in 5CC. I am going to test it in place of the 2 Broodmates I am currently running. Playing Mulldrifters, Esper Charms, Cruel Ultimatums, and Cloudthreshers for free seems good to me. This gives you the ability to play cards that draw you cards for card advantage for free. You can play Mulldrifter without tapping out. That’s kind of good. You can play Cruel Ultimatum without tapping out, which allows you to have mana open to counter their counters. That seems REALLY good to me.

By: ReeceP

ReeceP — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:25:28 +0000

I don’t know whether you took the accusation of not thinking personally or not, but you didn’t have to be mean about it

By: admin

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:46:32 +0000

@Gifts Ungiven
It doesn’t necessarily have to be bad. A 5/5 flying for five in Black is a fundamentally solid starting point for evaluating a card.

What if it had the ability of Thieving Magpie, Looter il-Kor, or Okiba-Gang Shinobi? What if it just does some stuff out of your hand for free? Isn’t that a powerful ability?

Yes, loading your deck with Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker and Conflux might be a bit “out there” and result in some sub-optimal decks, but then again we can see some good coming out of it as well. I think it is exciting.

@KZipple
You sir are a poet. Not quite a madmanpoet, but a poet nevertheless.