Here's mine (well in my humble opinion)
(well for the sake of this thread let say extended or bust)
1- Dark ritual (i know not valid in extended but it is the best !!!)
2-Chromatic sphere
2-Pentad prism (for two color or more)
3-Cloudpost
4-Temple of the fasle god
5-The urza set
6-Wayferer Bubble
What are yours, cause they certainly is some more, and surely better !!!
P.
You forgot: black lotus, all moxen, gilded lotus, lotus petal...
Solemn Simulacrum :)
Birds of Paradise followed by Llanowar elves are pretty great.
Affinity (even the non-banned kind)
Aether Vial (not mana accel per se, but it acts like it)
Sakura-tribe elder & kodama's reach are also current favs.
K
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>The three most common in standard are Sakura Tribe-Elder, Kodoma's
>Reach, Chrome Mox and Seething Song.
Hm...I think 1+1+1+1 is 4 ...
Well, there are a lot of good mana acceleration cards in standard
right now, like chrome mox, sakura, solemn, rampant growth, the
bauble, seething song & desperate ritual, reap & sow, birds, ...
I think the most common ones are birds, chrome mox, sakura &
wayfarer's bauble and/or solemn. :)
> The three most common in standard are Sakura Tribe-Elder, Kodoma's
> Reach, Chrome Mox and Seething Song.
"Four! The four most common, er, among the most common in standard are...
I'll go out and come in again."
> Others are Reap and Sow, Sylvan
> Scrying, Pentad Prism, Rampant Growth and Wayfarer's Bauble.
--
Christopher Mattern
"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"
Some of those aren't common as in rarity.
Or common as in availability.
I don't see lots of moxes, birds, or solemns at lower levels of play.
But common as in desirability?
Yup.
Has anyone else noticed a decline in Talismans?
(And Myr never seemed to catch on...)
Myr I get, they're easily removed, but I like the talismans. I was thinking
of a blue-black deck in the near future, and they were about the only thing I
could think of. If there are a lot of artifacts, i guess the Vedalken
Engineer is decent. Solemns, as well, but that still seems pretty slow, as
mana accel. is mostly important in those first few rounds.
1 - Medallion cycle
2 - BoP
3 - Chrome Mox
5 - STE
6 - Chromatic sphere
7 - Yavimaya Elder
8 - Mox Diamond
Chromatic Sphere is hardly acceleration, barring some combo like Helm of
Awakening + Heartstone + March of the Machines + Chromatic Sphere. Now
*that's* a combo! :)
Chromatic Sphere probably belongs in the "mana fixing" category, as opposed
to the "mana acceleration" category. You could even put it in the "card
drawing" category as well. Because it costs you 2 mana (1 to cast, 1 to
activate) to get 1. That's a net *loss* of 1 mana, not a gain.
Just nitpicking a little bit....
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Seriously though, I went back and added Seething Song since its played a
helluva lot more than Chrome Mox. And whoever thinks Desperate Ritual is
good mana acceleration is a dumb ass.
Red isn't as great in Extended, and Extended has the Wishes, and much better
drawing power so chrome mox isn't as much of a tempo affect as in standard.
Do I hear Five? :)
> Seriously though, I went back and added Seething Song since its played a
> helluva lot more than Chrome Mox. And whoever thinks Desperate Ritual is
> good mana acceleration is a dumb ass.
Well, for a deck I was pondering, it's not too shabby.. considering Type 2,
Trinisphere by turn 2 quite often and occasionally turn 1, then dropping
landkill on the opponent.. always makes for fun times :) I'll see if I can
hunt down a rough decklist I'd done up at some point and toss it in here..
but it ran 4x Chrome Mox and 4x Desperate Ritual.
Erich
Sneak Attack begs to differ.
And as far as Seething Song/Chrome Mox, I think the new Standard, with less
artifact hate, will see more Chrome Moxen than before.
Hmm...while it doesn't provide mana, Aether Vial was *heavily* played in
this year's Extended format, perhaps just as much as Chrome Mox. One could
argue that it's "non-mana mana acceleration".
And don't forget Mox Diamond. Not as widely used as Chrome Mox, but still
pretty efficient.
Y'all are all about the chrome mox. I agree with this guy. Mox Diamond
is where its at. No cards removed from game, and it makes any color
mana. If you have a Crucible, it's win-win, baby.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:15:05 -0500, "P." <patrick...@sympatico.ca>
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