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Title: Most powerful colour in standard?
Date Posted: Mon Jan/17/11 at 1:41pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

I thought... its very controversial. but whats the most powerful colour in standard right now?

in my opinion, definitely white. white has gotten really crazy, especially with ROE and SOM.
and white is getting ALOT of craziness with the Besieged set coming out.

post your opinion on whats the most powerful colour in standard
Date Posted: Mon Jan/17/11 at 2:44pm

Eldraziking187
Posts: 670
Joined: 12-Apr-10

Well, I feel that every color has it's own powerful statagies. If I had to pick one it would be Blue. You can add any color(s) with it to make a devastating control deck. You just have to use the right theings in the 2nd color. I rock out FNM with U/W, U/B, BUG and Bant all being very sucessful control decks. Green and White are pretty close behind in there power rating and well red seems to play well by itself rather than with others. I can say that if I were to make a mono color deck, I would choose white so I'm with you there. Interesting post though.
Date Posted: Mon Jan/17/11 at 2:54pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

yeah,
blue/white is crazy in standard.

and so is red/green valakut.

but yeah, if i were to run a mono colour standard deck it would either be red or white
Date Posted: Mon Jan/17/11 at 7:44pm

shakii23
Posts: 5711
Joined: 08-Sep-09

Red Green for me...

The Mana-ramp that it gets is awesome...
Date Posted: Mon Jan/17/11 at 8:27pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

I agree that White is the strongest color right now, it has been getting alot of love the last few sets
Date Posted: Mon Jan/17/11 at 10:06pm

Eldraziking187
Posts: 670
Joined: 12-Apr-10

Well, Eldrazi green is kinda retarded powerful. I had a terrastomper destroying my day on turn 4 skype match. I lost game one. game two he played a rampaging baloth and managed to get 3 token 4/4's all on turn 4. I was playing jund and topdecked a maelstrom pulse dealing with the beast tokens. shriekmawed the origanal baloth. low and behold, he hard cast summoning trap into a Aeon Torn on turn 5. His extra turn was my biggest nightmare. Ever since RoE, Green has been gay. Overgrown Battlement, Growth Spasm and Jororga Treespeaker. Thanks RoE. I hate Green tonight!
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 10:36am

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

yeah, green can be annoying, but its my fave colour.
for the most part though, each colour is not so great against its enemy colour.

green, against black, has to face up to creature kill, -1/-1 counters, etc...
and against blue, green has to face up to countering and stuff that bounces your creatures back to your hand.

white is really good in standard cause it has stuff to prevent damage, gain life, or stop you from casting spells.. while ALSO being probably the strongest in the early game.
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 5:31pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

White has always been given a lot of love throughout the entire game. Especially when we only consider mono-decks.

It has creature control, enchantment/artifact control, permanent control, damage prevention, lifegain .... and now infect too!

Black has always been the most nerfed colour - it has creature control, land control, hand control, limited lifegain, costly mana-acceleration, and infect.  - No enchantment control whatsoever, only 2 cards in the entire game that deal with artifacts (both by sacrificing creatures), no permanent control, and the weakest damage prevention possible (with a few key exceptions that require you to nuke your own creatures like simulacrum).

Vampires are basically the only good thing that has come out for black (and infect was a nice touch too), but oldschool black is the hardest colour to play with. You have to know what you're doing to play with black well.

Black should have artifact and enchantment control (even if it is costly)
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 5:35pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

What are RoE and SoM?
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 5:35pm

Eldraziking187
Posts: 670
Joined: 12-Apr-10

Black has great power but at great cost. its tricky to master. Most def the hardest to understand the power level for newb's. The best players like black.
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 6:05pm

shakii23
Posts: 5711
Joined: 08-Sep-09

Best players like black? Hmmmm, i wonder... maybe for vintage decks, yes but now there are varieties of powerful decks that doesn't use black...
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 6:17pm

krowbar28
Posts: 434
Joined: 18-Oct-10

Ephemerance RoE rise of the elderazi SoM scars of mirrodin come on man get with the program "JK"   
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 9:10pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

@krowbar

:p
Date Posted: Tue Jan/18/11 at 9:56pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Are you serious???

Blue is the most powerful color in Standard. Damn Jaces and Frost Titans!
Date Posted: Wed Jan/19/11 at 5:19pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

blue is over-rated. and to be completely honest... blue is just a piss off to play against.
Date Posted: Wed Jan/19/11 at 6:39pm

shakii23
Posts: 5711
Joined: 08-Sep-09

But still the mana ramp of green is my bet.... but i've seen a mixture of those colors and it's just overpowered...
Date Posted: Wed Jan/19/11 at 9:47pm

Eldraziking187
Posts: 670
Joined: 12-Apr-10

Lets talk about Red. This new goblin has much potental. Battle Cry reminds me of of that Bant mechanic from Shards what is it...Exalted? They are similar. White doesn't need any more power but it got it with battle cry. Red could use the help with this artifact cycle.

On a side note: I attemped to draft Red Scars last friday and failed. A guy across the pod was stealing all the shatters and Galvanic blast and then did not even play red. hater. I tried to run with a sac artifact stratagy and it was an epic disaster along with the two Kuldotha Rebirth's that I pooled. why so week? well, no spot removal probly had something to do with it. The color just seems week in limited and needs another color to help it in standard.

I have also been testing a new Merfolk build in standard, Mono Blue, thats a little different. Plated Seastrider's, Scroll Thief's and Guard Gomazoa's tend to throw my opponant off a bit. Twisted Image flips thier P&T and cantrips. I run 4 Spreading sea's and 4 Harbor Serpent's as a win condition but the coolest thing about the deck is seeing my opponants face when I put Halimar Wavewatch into play, level it once to an 0/6, put Distortion Strike on the stack. If it resolves she's a 1/6 unblockable followed up with a Twisted Image making her a 6/1 unblockable. After that I can continue to pump her to a 6/6 islandwalk with spreading sea's to back her up. I have some Lullmage Mentor's and some counter magic to back that up along with Sea Gate Loremaster's and Merfolk Sovereign's for her effects.

Halimar Depths, Preordain and Augury Owl to stack my book.

Any suggestions?

 
Date Posted: Thu Jan/20/11 at 11:55am

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

Battle cry and exalted are like, opposites pretty much.

exalted gives creatures +1/+1 when you attack alone, while battle cry gives +1/+0 for attacking with multiple creatures.

neither are better. exalted is more defensive, battle cry is very offensive
Date Posted: Thu Jan/20/11 at 12:25pm

Eldraziking187
Posts: 670
Joined: 12-Apr-10

They both have something to do with pumping creature(s) until EOT and they both trigger by attacking Creature(s). Thats why they are so similar to me. They have there differences. I barely played with Exalted. I have a feeling I will be playing with Battle Cry more so. I am already pictuing decks I will build in a month. I wanna build Boros with this ability.
Date Posted: Thu Jan/20/11 at 12:55pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Red hasn't gotten much good cards recently. I hope they will make some new way to use Red.
Date Posted: Thu Jan/20/11 at 10:50pm

Icuonuez
Posts: 241
Joined: 02-Mar-10

Battle Cry will be amazing for knights. My friend ran an exalted deck at a Standard tournament back before scars came out, and he made third place. It was white weenie based, without any mythics. Lol. White really is overpowered in color, but I LOVE red. Goblins are ridiculous right now. After RDW went out of standard, all they had was Ascensions, until Opal Goblins came out. It's truly rough.
Date Posted: Sat Jan/22/11 at 11:51pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

White is still king in standard right now, but even with it gaining infect i feel its not getting the same level of cards in this block as the other cards, in fact I feel it is one of weakest colors in the block, with most of its support coming from the zen and m11.

Red is becoming stronger, but not in the traditional red sense (ie it's not burn), its getting more strength in creatures especially with battle cry, wouldn't be suprised if red weenies becomes a prominate deck, it has the speed to deal with most color combos including UW, some burn for control  (and jace/venser) but manly cards like Hero of oxid ridge, goblin guide, war driver, bushwacker leading the way .  

Battlecry is great ability RG or GW are viable options as well, the ease of putting out eldrazi tokens combined with battlecry will be nice.  though personally I'm thinking going boros right now.
Date Posted: Sun Jan/23/11 at 8:54pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

Boros has been a good colour combo for a while in standard im pretty sure.
ive seen alot of boros landfall decks,
and i know im gonna start seeing boros battlecry decks
Date Posted: Sun Jan/23/11 at 11:14pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Like I said red is getting a boost especially in a creature base