Perilous Research/Online Tech/Into the Æther/O&EI Decks

[gos]

12 decks from Perilous Research/Online Tech/Into the Æther/Online and Enjoying It are made forgeable by the new version of forge, 1.3.1:

4.10.2012: _DissonancE_'s Eight Posts
23.8.2012: HiKiKomoRinGo's Grixis Control
26.7.2012: probozzy01's White-Blue Miracles
19.7.2012: TKC55's Blue-Red-Green Ramp
5.9.2007: Frank Roelofs's Mono Black; Olaf Koster's U/W Martyr; Ziming Chen's Mono Black
27.6.2007: Red Deck Wins - Frank Karsten
17.1.2007: Red Deck Wins – Humans By caliban17
18.10.2006: Zoo – Time Spiral Standard
21.7.2005: Corrupt Zombie Polititions by TheOrangeMitten
14.9.2004: Around the Horn

[gos]

4 (of 7) of the decks from today's Perilous Research are forgeable:

29.11.2012: Beria's Raka Delver; Chagsal0t's White-Blue Angels; kred321's Robots; youhavenogame's Spirit Jund

4 out of 7 modern decks from the current metagame are forgeable. Missing from forge are:
Spellskite for Mtgmulligan's Red-Green Tron
Chord of Calling for Gainsay's Melira Pod
Aven Mindcensor for largebrandon's White Weenie

[friarsol]

4 out of 7 modern decks from the current metagame are forgeable. Missing from forge are:
Spellskite for Mtgmulligan's Red-Green Tron
Chord of Calling for Gainsay's Melira Pod
Aven Mindcensor for largebrandon's White Weenie

Gos, can your database generate a list of the most popular cards missing? Like the top 25 cards missing from every single deck you monitor and how many decks that card appears in? I'm mostly just curious, but that would be an interesting list.

[gos]

Gos, can your database generate a list of the most popular cards missing? Like the top 25 cards missing from every single deck you monitor and how many decks that card appears in? I'm mostly just curious, but that would be an interesting list.

This is the number from all decks in the database, not just the ones from the columns I post here. They are the vast majority though, so it's close enough. This also includes cards in sideboards.

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CARD                          DECKS
 1. Mindslaver                 189
 2. Duplicant                  184
 3. Spellskite                 171
 4. Fire // Ice                134
 5. Hinder                     104
 6. Boseiju, Who Shelters All  103
 7. Cunning Wish                97
 8. Vesuvan Shapeshifter        97
 9. Burning Wish                86
10. Runed Halo                  83
11. Demonfire                   82
12. Willbender                  78
13. Chord of Calling            72
14. Chain of Vapor              70
15. Living Wish                 70
16. Draining Whelk              65
17. Dead // Gone                62
18. Jötun Grunt                 57
19. Summoning Trap              57
20. Trickbind                   56
21. Vexing Shusher              53
22. Misdirection                52
23. Command Tower               51
24. Shining Shoal               47
25. Aven Mindcensor             45
26. Shadow of Doubt             45


[gos]

And here is the list when I exclude sideboards:

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CARD                         DECKS
 1. Mindslaver                135
 2. Fire // Ice               120
 3. Duplicant                 118
 4. Cunning Wish               96
 5. Hinder                     91
 6. Burning Wish               86
 7. Spellskite                 76
 8. Vesuvan Shapeshifter       75
 9. Demonfire                  73
10. Living Wish                70
11. Chord of Calling           69
12. Willbender                 56
13. Command Tower              51
14. Draining Whelk             48
15. Boseiju, Who Shelters All  42
16. Summoning Trap             42
17. Yavimaya Dryad             42
18. Gauntlet of Power          38
19. Pandemonium                38
20. Mycosynth Lattice          37
21. Eight-and-a-Half-Tails     36
22. Jötun Grunt                36
23. Burning-Tree Shaman        34
24. Disrupting Shoal           34
25. Misdirection               34
 

[moomarc]

* Notes:
Kobolds Attack! depends on the Nekrataal avatar to decrease the casting cost of its creatures, which are all black, by {b}. Without the avatar, the only way it has of playing its threats is by using Tendo Ice Bridge.
Deck #2: Greater Genju of the Good (G^3) by NosferatuStuff depends on the Birds of Paradise avatar for access to green mana. It can be made playable by substituting Forests for some of the Mountains.

The Vanguard avatars Birds of Paradise Avatar and Nekrataal, are finally available with the introduction of Vanguard in Forge 1.3.2 (the avatars have to be selected manually though, not inserted into the deck)

[gos]

The Vanguard avatars Birds of Paradise Avatar and Nekrataal, are finally available with the introduction of Vanguard in Forge 1.3.2 (the avatars have to be selected manually though, not inserted into the deck)

I'm very excited about this development

I will shortly mark all the decks that were built to be used with Vanguard, and specify their respective Avatars.

I would prefer the Avatar to be specified in the .dck file, although I can imagine the design decisions that led to the opposite conclusion. Might I humbly ask that a default Avatar could be specified in the .dck file? I'll ask in the Developer's Corner.

I know that, for Commander, the General will be included in the .dck file and I hope the same decision will be made for Planes and Schemes.

[gos]

13 decks from Perilous Research/Online Tech/Into the Æther/Online and Enjoying It are made forgeable by the new version of forge, 1.3.2:

19.9.2007: Dakkon Blackblade {Dakkon Blackblade Avatar}
5.9.2007: Roel van Heeswijk's Angelfire
22.8.2007: Red-Green Snow
28.3.2007: UBR Urzatron - kairan
17.1.2007: R/W/B Angels Control By prolepsis9 (updated)
22.11.2006: URW Angel (Post-Time Spiral)
4.10.2006: KarstenBot BabyKiller
13.9.2006: Satanic Sligh by Katayama Hidenori
16.6.2005: Seshiro Infestation by Tim Butler (tbutler55)
8.2.2005: Prismatastic!
11.1.2005: Odious Portal
26.10.2004: Simple
5.10.2004: Synod Surprise

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Forge 1.3.2 included the avatars for the following Vanguard decks:

10.8.2006: Hurts Snow Good, by Bennie Smith {Diamond Faerie Avatar}
29.6.2006: Deck#10: Chronatog Possession by Crusader {Chronatog Avatar}
13.4.2006: Kobolds Attack! {Nekrataal Avatar}
6.4.2006: Kobolds and Jackal Pups by Bennie Smith {Nekrataal Avatar}
6.10.2005: Lord fAtbOy {Fallen Angel Avatar}
25.8.2005: Elvish Hell by Bennie Smith {Hell's Caretaker Avatar}; Mad Maro by Bennie Smith {Hell's Caretaker Avatar}
18.8.2005: Deck #2: Greater Genju of the Good (G^3) by NosferatuStuff {Birds of Paradise Avatar*}
28.4.2005: Gather 'Round the Goodstuff {Birds of Paradise Avatar}
21.4.2005: Mirrodin Block's Non-Affinity Goodness {Arcbound Overseer Avatar}
14.4.2005: Oracle of the Gods {Etched Oracle Avatar}; Smells Like Angelic Spirit {Fallen Angel Avatar}
7.4.2005: He Ain't Short, He's My Warchief {Goblin Warchief Avatar}; Lavamusement {Grinning Demon Avatar}; Sappy Elves {Ernham Djinn Avatar}

[gos]

All 4 of the decks from today's Perilous Research are forgeable:

6.12.2012: DaDawson's Five-Color Control; Saitology's Jund Midrange; Sylenced1's Mono-Red; ihugiu's Nightshade Staticasters

There was 1 more deck posted in the article, but it was identical to Tyler Lytle's BR Aggro from last week's Top Decks.

[Xitax]

I think you accidentally uploaded the Top Decks update here.

[gos]

I think you accidentally uploaded the Top Decks update here.

Thank you. Fixed.

[Xitax]

Was there supposed to be a Perilous Research update here?

[gos]

Was there supposed to be a Perilous Research update here?

There certainly was. I don't know how I screwed it up the first time, but I can certainly see an attachment now!

[moomarc]

The Vanguard avatars Birds of Paradise Avatar and Nekrataal, are finally available with the introduction of Vanguard in Forge 1.3.2 (the avatars have to be selected manually though, not inserted into the deck)

I'm very excited about this development

I will shortly mark all the decks that were built to be used with Vanguard, and specify their respective Avatars.

I would prefer the Avatar to be specified in the .dck file, although I can imagine the design decisions that led to the opposite conclusion. Might I humbly ask that a default Avatar could be specified in the .dck file? I'll ask in the Developer's Corner.

I know that, for Commander, the General will be included in the .dck file and I hope the same decision will be made for Planes and Schemes.

Hey gos, just a heads-up; the following deck sections can be used in your files for the next version:

Deck sections | Open

[metadata]
Name=TestSchemes
[main]
2 Austere Command|COM
4 Bottle Gnomes|TMP
1 Brainspoil|RAV
2 Demonic Tutor|3ED
4 Exquisite Blood|AVR
...etc
[sideboard]
3 Leechridden Swamp|SHM
4 Marsh Flats|ZEN
4 Doom Blade
4 Lightning Bolt
[commander]
1 Mayael the Anima
[avatar]
1 Gix
[planes]
3 Academy at Tolaria West|HOP
...etc
[schemes]
4 I Call on the Ancient Magics|ARC
4 Every Hope Shall Vanish|ARC
4 Embrace My Diabolical Vision|ARC

Sideboard, Commander and Planechase aren't implemented yet, but will just be ignored for now so, if you want, you can insert that data already. In fact, all deck sections can be populated regardless of the format, so the above deck would use just the main deck in standard constructed matches, while in Archenemy (schemes will be available in the next beta) and Vanguard, there is an option at the game setup to use the default scheme deck/avatar if available, so would just use the relevant section of the deck (scheme decks can also be created separately by leaving the other sections blank and would be put into a folder named 'scheme' in your decks folder). This all means that you don't have to generate separate decks for each format if the main and sideboard are the same.

Edit: Secretly I'm also hoping that we'll allow multi-variant games at some point so you could play Archenemy with Vanguard avatars making life more interesting while you battle across multiple planes from Planechase

[gos]

Hey gos, just a heads-up; the following deck sections can be used in your files for the next version:

Thanks for the heads-up.

Edit: Secretly I'm also hoping that we'll allow multi-variant games at some point so you could play Archenemy with Vanguard avatars making life more interesting while you battle across multiple planes from Planechase

You are clearly a man after my own heart