this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
11 points (100.0% liked)

MTG

2261 readers
10 users here now

Magic: the Gathering discussion

General discussion, questions, and media related to Magic: the Gathering that doesn't fit within a more specific community. Our equivalent of /r/magicTCG!

Type [[Card name]] in your posts and comments and CardBot will reply with a link to the card! More info here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
andrew@mtgzone.com
mike@mtgzone.com
11
Black seems strong so far in LTR limited. Thoughts? (mtgzone.com)
submitted 2 years ago by mike@mtgzone.com to c/mtg@mtgzone.com
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Still very early, but black is really performing pretty well for me. There are some really strong and synergistic commons in black. Most notably, [[Mirkwood Bats]] and [[Mordor Trebuchet]] paired with any goblin or amass/orc enablers is just absolutely devastating.

Black has the cleanest and strongest removal, and a lot if is also at common. [[Bitter Downfall]] (Uncommon) and [[Claim the Precious]] are both great, [[Lash of the Balrog]] is not difficult to run.

Other commons like [[Dunland Crebain]] are performing well. [[Gollum's Bite]] hits a lot of targets. And there are a few really efficient combat tricks that effectively double as removal in [[Orcish Medicine]] and the slightly worse [[Shelob's Ambush]].

I think it can be beneficial to take some of these commons early imo but I'm curious what anyone else's thoughts are.

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] cardbot@mtgzone.com 2 points 2 years ago

[[card name]] to call

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just played sealed the other day, I played a Grixis spellslinger deck, but it had trouble getting rolling, but if i could get [[Bilbo, Retired Burglar]] out I could ramp pretty well into my late game with [[Gandalf the Grey]] and [[Lorien revealed]]. My buddy pulled a lot of really strong black cards, [[Call of the Ring]] felt especially brutal. Simic elves made an appearance and were especially brutal, the scry payoff between [[Galadriel of lothlorien]], [[Elrond lord of Rivendell]], and [[Elrond, master of healing]] is insane. Other pieces of the pie definitely have some pretty brutal synergies. I think black feels especially strong because some pretty strong synergies, like Mirkwood Bats and Mordor trebuchet, are in common, and claim the precious is a very strong removal spell in this set.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It kinda baffles me that there's not a LoTR set constructed format on Arena.

And yeah, Crebain is a remarkable card.