I figured I’d do something a little different today and maybe run it regular-like.

It has one Summoning Trap.

1. What is this, some kind of a Q & A?

Yes. That’s exactly what it is.

2. Okay smart guy… How come you don’t make YouTube videos any more? I really liked those.

Thanks! I appreciate it. I will probably go back to actively making the fivewithflores videos on YouTube but not in the immediate future. I used to have a really nice MacBook Pro that I did the videos on and I don’t have that computer any more. Any fivewithflores fans make videos on the PC?

But let me make it up to you. Just pretend that Scarlett Jo is michaelj (or you might not want to):

3. Sounds weak… Why don’t you make PodCasts any more then?

That is a little different. I still think of myself as making PodCasts (and regularly)… Albeit a little less frequently. We are all just really busy (at least relative to when I was kicking out PodCasts every week with BDM). Longer hours and more responsibility at the day job, plus more kids! I guess I can’t blame everything on Clark, but it is still a different life than during the Charleston PTQ season, for instance. Don’t worry–we are all still active PodCast making machines!

4. What was the answer to that You Make the Play?

Look very closely at the game state:

Tim Gillam asked what I had sideboarded in. Fair question, but I don’t know how much it matters based on this game state.

We are gearing up to smash with a Blightning here. He has two cards in hand. We have no clear next play because we can’t cast anything in our hand with the mana we have access to; if we were going to play Esper Charm, we’d have to pull an Island probably.

Given that we have to topdeck, I think we should topdeck ourselves into the best possible situation.

Originally I was playing Savage Lands (you can even see Savage Lands “highlighted” as the top-left); but I thought better of it.

The right answer here is Exotic Orchard.

Exotic Orchard taps for white. Playing it puts us in a position to pull Plains, Arid Mesa, or another Exotic Orchard to go straight to the big girl next turn. Even if we don’t hit our untapped White, we can Savage Lands into Forest the following turn to hit the Enlisted Ultimatum.

5. Did you figure out how to play Rupture Spire?

The short answer is yes, but I’m not getting into it right now. Instead, check out this deck:

As-Yet-Unnamed Three-color Bombs

1 Behemoth Sledge

4 Grim Discovery
2 Mind Shatter
4 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
2 Sorin Markov

4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Maelstrom Pulse

4 Lotus Cobra
1 Thornling

4 Baneslayer Angel
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Path to Exile

1 Graypelt Refuge
4 Forest
4 Marsh Flats
4 Plains
4 Swamp
4 Sunpetal Grove
4 Verdant Catacombs

sb:
1 Behemoth Sledge
4 Doom Blade
2 Mind Shatter
2 Sorin Markov
1 Summoning Trap
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Rhox Meditant

It has been testing pretty well so far. Lotus Cobra has been absolutely explosive. The ability to actually make plays on turns two and three was like a memory before this deck. And your turn four is often a Sorin plus a Pulse (take that Pyromancer’s Ascension deck!).

Nice and fair.

LOVE
MIKE

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