BrackmeisterOct 6, 2024
Hier nun die #MtgArenaStats für #MTGBLB
An sich hat mir das Set vom Flavor her besser gefallen als OTJ, aber trotzdem habe ich weniger gezockt. Durch die Rotation waren meine "Pet Decks" recht chancenlos und ich empfinde Mono Red inzwischen nur noch als Plage, auch wenn ich es selbst auf der Ladder spiele, um voranzukommen.
Deutlich mehr geöffnete Booster liegen daran, dass ich mehr als sonst gekauft habe, um nach der Rotation genug Wildcards zu haben, weil ja kein Deck unverändert überlebt hat.
TriskaidekaSep 20, 2024

With a few days left before the next #MagicTheGathering set comes out, I've finished my promised post featuring four more #MTGBLB decks with Roaming Throne in the captain's chair: Raccoons, Lizards, Otters, & Birds. (The birds deck is my favorite.)

https://mtgzone.com/post/942869

Budget Roaming Throne decks for Bloomburrow Standard: Raccoons, Lizards, Otters, & Birds - MTGZone

## The project This is the latest in a series [https://mtgzone.com/post/893890] of posts exploring the potential of Roaming Throne [https://scryfall.com/card/lci/258/roaming-throne] as a build-around card for budget Standard decks. Today we look at four more Bloomburrow creature types. Roaming Throne itself is an expensive rare, but we start by assuming you already have a playset of it, then fill out the remainder of each deck using only commons and uncommons. These decks are not intended to be competitive in tournaments, but they should be fine for casual play. (I’ve tested them all in Standard Play on Arena.) Here’s a Scryfall [https://scryfall.com/] search to help find likely candidates. Just add a creature type like t:frog or t:rabbit. > f:standard r<=u (o:when or o:"at " or keyword:backup or keyword:offspring or keyword:prowess or keyword:ward) # Raccoons https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643520 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643520] 9 Forest 7 Mountain 4 Bristling Backwoods 4 Escape Tunnel 4 Brazen Collector 4 Wandertale Mentor 2 Coati Scavenger 4 Brambleguard Veteran 2 Teapot Slinger 4 Roaming Throne 2 Junkblade Bruiser 4 Shock 2 Dreadmaw’s Ire 3 Hunter’s Talent 2 Trash the Town 3 Torch the Witness The best raccoon to combo with Roaming Throne has got to be Wandertale Mentor. With an ideal draw you can be casting Throne on turn 3 and putting two more counters on the Mentor every turn thereafter. That fits nicely with the general plan of this deck, which might be summarized as “make creatures that are big enough that you can afford to attack with them every turn.” Don’t overthink it, just swing away. Torch the Witness and Trash the Town are in here to help you fine-tune how much mana you’re spending, so you can expend 4 as often as possible. Shock and Dreadmaw’s Ire help you use the mana you get from Brazen Collector. Also note that Trash and Ire grant temporary triggered abilities that can be doubled by Roaming Throne. # Lizards https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643543 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643543] 6 Swamp 6 Mountain 4 Jagged Barrens 2 Bloodfell Caves 4 Rockface Village 2 Mudflat Village 4 Agate-Blade Assassin 4 Flamecache Gecko 4 Steampath Charger 4 Fireglass Mentor 4 Thought-Stalker Warlock 4 Gila Courser 4 Roaming Throne 2 Reptilian Recruiter 2 Bitter Triumph 2 Go for the Throat 2 Patchwork Banner The thing about Lizards is that it’s already a perfectly good aggro deck that doesn’t need to be slowed down by adding any four-drops. To make our deck something other than a bad version of its competitive counterpart, we’ll have to emphasize some aspect of Bloomburrow’s lizards besides their highly efficient combat stats. Fortunately, lizards are also good at generating card advantage. If you manage to get two triggers off of Fireglass Mentor or Gila Courser more than once, it can really tilt the game in your favor. (Note that one of those says “Until end of turn” and the other says “Until the next of your next turn”.) If you can’t afford to cast all of those extra cards, maybe making a profit on Flamecache Gecko will help. With no non-creature red spells we can get away with four copies of Rockface Village here. # Otters https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643539 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643539] 10 Island 8 Mountain 4 Eroded Canyon 2 Swiftwater Cliffs 4 Coruscation Mage 4 Stormcatch Mentor 4 Frolicking Familiar 4 Roaming Throne 2 Daring Waverider 4 Otterball Antics 2 Shock 4 Lightning Strike 4 Moment of Truth 4 Pearl of Wisdom Otters are generally in agreement about what they want Roaming Throne to duplicate: their prowess triggers. I like prowess decks in theory, but it always seems difficult to balance having the right number of prowess creatures vs. the right number of noncreature spells. As a sorcery that makes up to two creatures with prowess, Otterball Antics does a lot to help address that problem. Frolicking Familiar also earns its spot for its ability to play both roles. The rest of our noncreatures have been chosen for their cheapness. All of them can be cast for one mana with a Stormcatch Mentor out, which helps to enable the one overwhelming turn that will win you the game. One of the deck’s most impressive lines is to make two Coruscation Mage offspring, then cast a cheap spell and get six bonus damage. If you’re looking to add some rares to this deck, there are a few directions you could go. Valley Floodcaller [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/79/valley-floodcaller] or Bria, Riptide Rogue [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/379/bria-riptide-rogue] can give the rest of your creatures double prowess. Thundertrap Trainer [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/78/thundertrap-trainer] plays a role similar to Daring Waverider, with the alternative option to serve as an early chump-blocker. But maybe the funniest choice would be Stormsplitter [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/154/stormsplitter]. Starting with one Throne and one Stormsplitter, your first instant or sorcery spell will make two more Stormsplitters. The next will make six more, and the third will make another 18. # Birds https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643530 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6643530] 8 Plains 3 Island 4 Lonely Arroyo 4 Tranquil Cove 4 Lilypad Village 1 Lupinflower Village 2 Enduring Bondwarden 4 Miner’s Guidewing 4 Saiba Cryptomancer 4 Thrummingbird 4 Preening Champion 4 Plumecreed Mentor 4 Roaming Throne 3 Knightfisher 4 Parting Gust 3 Requisition Raid When I started looking at the birds available to me, the most interesting synergy seemed to be between Plumecreed Mentor and Thrummingbird. So I set out to build something focused on +1/+1 counters. The problem with Plumecreed Mentor is that it wants non-flying creatures upon which to bestow its benefits. So Roaming Throne wants a lot of birds, birds want a lot of non-birds, and you’d probably still like to have some removal or other utility spells. How do you find room for it all? As is often the case in Magic, you use cards that can play multiple roles. Preening Champion and Knightfisher make non-flying tokens – maybe two at a time? – that can get counters from the Mentor. Saiba Cryptomancer functions as protection while also giving out counters that Thrummingbird can proliferate. Parting Gust is removal, except when it’s letting you repeat one of your ETB triggers. It’s safe to say that this deck, with its elegant synergies, is my favorite of the bunch. I like it so much that I had trouble playtesting the others because I just wanted to keep playing this one. And really, I don’t know if there’s much I would change here if I weren’t on a budget. A copy or two of Kastral, the Windcrested [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/221/kastral-the-windcrested] in place of Knightfisher might be nice, but you don’t want to give up too much of your token production. # Any plans for Mice and Rabbits? Like Lizards, these types work best as aggro decks that don’t need a four-drop, but unlike Lizards, my efforts to find workable alternative versions of them have not met with success. If I do crack those nuts, I’ll let you know.

Justin D-ZSep 14, 2024
Did my third and final #mtgblb draft last night. Went 3-0 with squirrels. Definitely built an engine deck. Hardest match was playing against Vren, the Relentless and Maha, its Feathers Night. Vren was the harder of the two.
WoFSep 14, 2024

Otters are good, actually. Finally got to draft the color pair I most wanted to play in Bloomburrow at the last FNM of Bloomburrow.

Went 2-1, lost in the finals to a pretty ridiculous Rabbit deck.

#MagicTheGathering #MTG #MTGBLB

SinbadEV🎲Sep 11, 2024

Hey neat... I hit Mythic playing Standard Best of One in MTGArena this season.

Go Go Rabbits!

Deck List in Alt-Text for deck screenshot.

#MTGBLB #MagicTheGathering

Justin D-ZSep 7, 2024
2-1 with Bats last night at #mtgblb draft at FNM. It felt like an unnecessary uphill struggle to not play green, but I wanted to do something different before it rotates.
WoFSep 7, 2024

I swear I hate this color pair but I keep getting pushed into it in draft.

Although finally someone broke my Store Championship winning streak, which is legitimately great.

Boros Mice... Again. This time with slightly more Expend.

2-1 record, lost in finals to Rabbits.

#MagicTheGathering #MTGBLB

TriskaidekaAug 31, 2024

I have resumed my yammering about the #MagicTheGathering card Roaming Throne over at @mtgzone . Today's post features four #MTGBLB creature types: Frogs, Rats, Squirrels, and Bats. I'm going to try to finish one more post like it before the next set arrives.

https://mtgzone.com/post/893890

Budget Roaming Throne decks for Bloomburrow Standard: Frogs, Rats, Squirrels, & Bats - MTGZone

## The project Last year [https://mtgzone.com/post/331310] I made a series of posts exploring the potential of Roaming Throne [https://scryfall.com/card/lci/258/roaming-throne] as a build-around card for budget Standard decks. Since then, Bloomburrow has been released, with a whole bunch of mechanically consistent creature types to build around. So here’s the continuation of that series. Roaming Throne itself is an expensive rare, but we start by assuming you already have a playset of it, then fill out the remainder of each deck using only commons and uncommons. These decks are not intended to be competitive in tournaments, but they should be fine for casual play. (I’ve tested them all in Standard Play on Arena.) Here’s a Scryfall [https://scryfall.com/] search to help find likely candidates. Just add a creature type like t:frog or t:rabbit. > f:standard r<=u (o:when or o:"at " or keyword:backup or keyword:offspring or keyword:prowess or keyword:ward) Since rotation, we’ve sadly lost Secluded Courtyard [https://scryfall.com/card/neo/275/secluded-courtyard], which used to be an auto-include in these decks. On the plus side, Bloomburrow added a cycle of uncommon lands that care about our creature types, as well as Patchwork Banner [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/247/patchwork-banner]. # Frogs https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593033 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593033] 11 Forest 9 Island 4 Lush Oasis 4 Sunshower Druid 4 Pond Prophet 4 Three Tree Scribe 2 Stickytongue Sentinel 4 Long River Lurker 2 Lilysplash Mentor 4 Roaming Throne 4 Splash Portal 4 Trash the Town 4 This Town Ain’t Big Enough One thing I like about this deck is the cross-set synergy. Bloomburrow’s Frogs have obvious synergy with each other and with Roaming Throne. But while Run Away Together [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/67/run-away-together] was reprinted in Bloomburrow as the frog-bouncing spell for draft, Outlaws of Thunder Junction’s This Town Ain’t Big Enough is just better in about three different ways. And Trash the Town’s last mode gives its target a trigger that’s great for doubling. Opponents sometimes just concede when the plan comes together. I’ve got a couple of copies of Lilysplash Mentor in here even though it doesn’t have a triggered ability, just because I wanted some more reliable options for frog-flickering. To make room for them, I shaved two Stickytongue Sentinels – it’s definitely possible to set yourself too far back on tempo by misusing them. If you like this deck and want to start spending more money on it, Valley Mightcaller [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/202/valley-mightcaller] is the obvious first stop. # Rats https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593036 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593036] 9 Swamp 4 Island 3 Mudflat Village 2 Lilypad Village 4 Escape Tunnel 1 Terramorphic Expanse 1 Evolving Wilds 4 Gnawing Vermin 4 Nezumi Informant 4 Shoreline Looter 2 Tidecaller Mentor 4 Roaming Throne 2 Thornplate Intimidator 3 Wick’s Patrol 4 Cut Down 4 Bitter Triumph 3 Patchwork Banner 2 Self-Reflection Shoreline Looter + Roaming Throne turns out to be a pretty nice combo. It helps you get Threshold faster, and once you have it, you can start drawing two extra cards every turn. I ended up with only two copies of signpost uncommon Tidecaller Mentor, since I felt it underperformed a bit. Before you have Threshold, its text box is nearly blank, and by the time you have it, it’s usually a bit late in the game for a tempo play like bouncing creatures. Still, this deck has the highest average mana cost of the four I’m presenting today, and sometimes a three-mana 3/3 is what you need to survive long enough to cast your Thornplate Intimidators and Wick’s Patrols. I didn’t even remember that Self-Reflection existed before I started building this deck. A couple of copies fit really nicely. It’s great to mill with Gnawing Vermin or discard to Shoreline Looter or Bitter Triumph, and once you’ve done that, it’s pretty handy to be able to make a copy of your most valuable creature (and its triggers). Fetchlands help you get to Threshold, but I’m only running half as many as I could be because I felt the deck was too clunky with more. When it’s time to upgrade, you have a few legends to choose from: Lord Skitter [https://scryfall.com/card/woe/97/lord-skitter-sewer-king], Karumonix [https://scryfall.com/card/one/98/karumonix-the-rat-king], and Vren [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/239/vren-the-relentless] all look appealing. # Squirrels https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593040 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593040] 11 Forest 5 Swamp 4 Escape Tunnel 2 Terramorphic Expanse 2 Evolving Wilds 1 Bonecache Overseer 3 Tough Cookie 4 Bushy Bodyguard 4 Vinereap Mentor 4 Curious Forager 4 Honored Dreyleader 4 Roaming Throne 4 Cache Grab 3 Savor 3 The Witch’s Vanity 2 Welcome to Sweettooth Honored Dreyleader does some silly things in BLB draft, so when it came up in my search, I knew this deck was going to be good. We’re all in on food tokens, to the point that all of our non-creature spells can make one, and some of our creatures can make two. I have seen this deck rack up double-digit numbers, but don’t eat all that food before you need it, because if you can kick a Bushy Bodyguard with Roaming Throne out, you’ll make three creatures and they’ll each get to forage twice. I went with eight fetchlands instead of any duals in this deck to help the foraging plan. Don’t exile your graveyard too aggressively, though, because you’ll want some permanents in there to bring back with Curious Forager. Looking to upgrade? A copy or two of Camellia [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/207/camellia-the-seedmiser] seems like a good start. ## Bats https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593031 [https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6593031] 11 Swamp 4 Plains 4 Scoured Barrens 4 Lupinflower Village 1 Mudflat Village 4 Ruin-Lurker Bat 4 Lifecreed Duo 4 Deep-Cavern Bat 4 Starscape Cleric 4 Moonrise Cleric 4 Roaming Throne 2 Star Charter 2 Starseer Mentor 3 Cut Down 3 Bitter Triumph 2 Patchwork Banner The highlight here is the interaction between Roaming Throne and Starscape Cleric. Throne duplicates both the offspring trigger and the life-draining trigger. If you can follow a turn 4 Throne with a turn 5 Starscape, you’ll get two little Starscapes, and if you can follow that by attacking with a Moonrise Cleric, your opponent will lose 12 life even before the combat damage connects. This deck doesn’t need white mana for anything other than creatures, so we can safely run the full four copies of Lupinflower Village. But we need black mana for our removal spells, so I’m being cautious and only including one Mudflat Village. Scoured Barrens is another easy inclusion as a dual land that contributes to our lifegain plan. This is probably the deck that would benefit most from lifting the budget restriction. Essence Channeler [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/12/essence-channeler], Zoraline [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/242/zoraline-cosmos-caller], Darkstar Augur [https://scryfall.com/card/blb/90/darkstar-augur], and Aclazotz [https://scryfall.com/card/lci/88/aclazotz-deepest-betrayal-temple-of-the-dead] are all high-powered rare bats that synergize with Roaming Throne.

WoFAug 31, 2024

Alright, _this_ RW mouse deck managed to go 3-0 tonight at FNM.

Much better this time around, with multiple Valiant creatures and enablers, as well as several Expend raccoons to refill my hand and do some direct damage.

T1 Hired Claw is as disgusting as you think it is, although it managed to get removed immediately every time.

#MagicTheGathering #MTGBLB #MTGDraft

WoFAug 24, 2024

Finally drafted Mice with... two... Valiant creatures.

Still managed to go 2-1 off the strength of 3 Hammerhands. And a couple rare lords.

#MagicTheGathering #MTGBLB