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My favorite card is Figure of Destiny. My foil Figure is one of my favorite things that I own. Honorable mentions include Doran, the Siege Tower, (treefolk are my favorite tribe) Pillory of the Sleepless, Naya Hushblade, Seedborn Muse, and Wake Thrasher. At least those are the ones that come to mind immediately. Too many fun cards in this game, y'all.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:20
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SpruceZeus posted:My favorite card is Figure of Destiny. This ties in with the thing about pet names but we always called figure Charmander - Charizard, the 1/1 form being an egg.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:25
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Fausts Pen posted:Amoeboid Changeling, because look at dat fukken face. All I'm seeing is a Sliver that lets Sliver Overlord Steal not-Slivers. 
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Feb 7, 2014 19:39
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Count Bleck posted:All I'm seeing is a Sliver that lets Sliver Overlord Steal not-Slivers. Pretty much exactly this.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:42
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 "I cast Akroma, Angel of Wrath." "Akroma is now a monkey." I'm also having a love affair with the Shattergang bros in EDH.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:51
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Bread Set Jettison posted:On the other end of the spectrum, I really really like all of the Eldrazi. I had just restarted playing Magic at the tail end of worldwake, and the first card I saw from RoE was Ulamog and just thought whooooaaa how do I even use this? It was mind blowingly large and expensive, and just really really cool. It turns out t5 Ulamog is basically the best thing in EDH.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:56
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My first deck ever was all about landing and  Janky? Yes. Awesome? Yes.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:56
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It has to be Remand. I started with Innistrad so I haven't had a really great 2 mana counter spell in Standard (Started standard after Mana Leak was gone) and playing Modern and getting to Remand someone's Suspended Rift Bolt 4 turns in a row followed by a cryptic command is way too much fun! (Remand, Remand, Snapcaster Mage->Remand, Snapcaster Mage->Remand). And a more recent one would be splinter twin, as out loud saying "I'm dead if this isn't Twin" and then flipping top card over to reveal twin is far too much fun.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:01
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM Good ol' Psycatog! More tournament cards need to have a smile while wrecking tables. It may not seem much now, but there was a time when this card was notorious as one of the best creatures of all time and was played in a wide variety of control decks.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:02
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 One day this will be back in Standard and it will be brewed around. So I think I ask it every new thread but why doesn't WotC or SCG support Block Constructed more? I think it leads to more interesting played decks than some other formats, with the downside being the chance to brew is theoretically less.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:09
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Tamagod Sushi posted:Good ol' Psychatog! More tournament cards need to have a smile while wrecking tables. It may not seem much now, but there was a time when this card was notorious as one of the best creatures of all time and was played in a wide variety of control decks.  CHEFATOG!
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Feb 7, 2014 20:10
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Tamagod Sushi posted:
God drat he was ridiculous. Blue/Black also had Shadowmage Infiltrator (a.k.a Finkeltron) in the same set. Free Gratis fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Feb 7, 2014 |
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Feb 7, 2014 20:12
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Psychatog probably would still be pretty darn good if it weren't for that meddling R&D! The same set also gave U/B players Teferi then Damnation in PLC and then later in that block 'Goyf was printed, spelling the doom of 'Tog. Zoness fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Feb 7, 2014 |
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Feb 7, 2014 20:21
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Opened the first 9 packs of my booster box and my pulls were (in no particular order): Phenax Flame-Wreathed Phoenix Temple of Malice Gild Fated Intervention Silent Sentinal Arbiter of the Ideal Forgestoker Dragon Fated Infatuation Not bad. I am 25% of the way in to the box and will open more when I get home. The only thing I REALLY wanted in that group was the Phenax...the rest will more than likely be trade fodder.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:27
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http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=184592 back in my casual days this card was thrown in a green/white deck that ran mirari's wakes,hunting grounds, defense of the heart, tooth&nail, and then a bunch of dumb huge green/white value creatures and phytohydra i loved first turn playing a ferret and then from there proceeding to sneak out a bunch of giant idiots and having the ferret attack with them good times i miss that deck
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Feb 7, 2014 20:33
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For a long time when I was young, my favorite card was Starke of Rath, just for his flavor text. Then Apocalypse came out, and I ripped Pernicious Deed, and even better, Spiritmonger. My first loves will always be Stormbind and Zuran Orb, pulled from the first two packs I ever opened. I still have them, and despite being worth very little, they are never for trade.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:35
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My absolute favorite card was Rings of Brighthearth. I had two absolutely amazingly fun (for me) decks that ran it - a Mierieke Ri Beret deck that used it and Mangara to steal creatures while turning Mind Stones into Divinations and Urza's Factory into producing multiple bears per turn. Then, once Time Spiral rotated, I had an awesome five color planeswalker control deck that absolutely beat all the other five color control decks at my FNM. I mean, what could they do on the draw against a turn 2 Fertile Ground, turn 3 Garruk Wildspeaker, untap two lands, Jace Beleren? Man, I miss that deck.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:51
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Allow me to change my favorite card to favorite cards: Namely, anything with the creature typing "Weird" Because Weirds are great and are what got me into MtG, along with Angels.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:56
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I'm doing my favourite two card combination from when I was twelve! When I was running an 85 card r/b deck of all my cool cards. BEST COMBO! Sorceress queen: http://sales.starcitygames.com/carddisplay.php?product=14258 And dwarven thaumaturgist: http://sales.starcitygames.com/carddisplay.php?product=9898 I make your dude a 0/2, then I make him a 2/0 bye bye!
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Feb 7, 2014 21:14
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UberJew posted:I cast dark ritual a lot when I played casually as a kid
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Feb 7, 2014 21:17
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carborexic posted:Is there any particular reason why they cut back on using quotations from Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, Keats, Plato, even the New Testament and the Qu'ran, and so forth, as flavor text? It's a real shame. Most of the recent flavor text is either unattributed, or ascribed to a planeswalker or some similarly trite person from the storyline. I know I can't be the only one to still remember the flavor text on cards like Phantom Monster, Giant Strength and Winter Blast. No mixing the real world with the flavor world. They do still pull from real-world stuff in the core sets, M14 Pay No Heed is King Lear, for example. Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Feb 7, 2014 |
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Feb 7, 2014 21:20
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Nothing was less fun than playing against turn 10 Upheaval, Tog, go with a Circular Logic in hand. Dr. Teeth can eat a dick.
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Feb 7, 2014 21:25
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Tharizdun posted:No mixing the real world with the flavor world. They do still pull from real-world stuff in the core sets, M14 Pay No Heed is King Lear, for example. I just wish they'd cite these explicitly, but yeah, good point.
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Feb 7, 2014 21:27
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 Normally I'm a flavour guy but this made itself my pet anyway.
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Feb 7, 2014 21:32
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Mezzanon posted:I'm doing my favourite two card combination from when I was twelve! When I was running an 85 card r/b deck of all my cool cards. I was so happy when they brought this stupid combo back in Time Spiral with Serendib Sorcerer and Merfolk Thaumaturgist.
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Feb 7, 2014 21:32
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carborexic posted:Is there any particular reason why they cut back on using quotations from Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, Keats, Plato, even the New Testament and the Qu'ran, and so forth, as flavor text? It's a real shame. Most of the recent flavor text is either unattributed, or ascribed to a planeswalker or some similarly trite person from the storyline. I know I can't be the only one to still remember the flavor text on cards like Phantom Monster, Giant Strength and Winter Blast. I really enjoyed when they were explicitly doing this on the FNM/Judge promos. Especially when it doesn't quite work with the art. 
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Feb 7, 2014 21:35
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Tonde Mo Nai posted:I really enjoyed when they were explicitly doing this on the FNM/Judge promos. Especially when it doesn't quite work with the art. Man way to not link the best one (although Jackal Pup's is really good to be sure) 
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Feb 7, 2014 21:37
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Unironically this  
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Feb 7, 2014 22:00
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OssiansFolly posted:Opened the first 9 packs of my booster box and my pulls were (in no particular order): Sweet. I stopped by shop to check out what they were pricing some of the Born of the Gods cards at. Grabbed 4 packs for kicks and pulled Arbiter of the Ideal, Champion of Stray Souls, Eidolon of Countless Battles, and Mogis God of the Slaughter. Also had 2 Bile Blights which I asked the shop owner how much they were selling for and he replied $1 a pop. Sheesh... A guy had bought a box and he was straight up cracking all the packs in the store. He had Brimaz, foil Xenagos, Mogis, Karametra, all three temples out in front of him and had about a third of the box to go
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Feb 7, 2014 22:25
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Dehtraen posted:Sweet. I stopped by shop to check out what they were pricing some of the Born of the Gods cards at. Grabbed 4 packs for kicks and pulled Arbiter of the Ideal, Champion of Stray Souls, Eidolon of Countless Battles, and Mogis God of the Slaughter. Also had 2 Bile Blights which I asked the shop owner how much they were selling for and he replied $1 a pop. Sheesh... I'm gonna end up breaking the rest of em open here within the hour. I will post the rest of the rares/mythics I get after. Hopefully I get a few more mythics to make this box worth it. I know I have 1 or 2 Bile Blights sitting at home in the packs I've opened. I opened 4 archtypes so far...2 green, a red and a black. I am hoping that I open 1 or 2 of the blue archtype to use.
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Feb 7, 2014 22:30
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carborexic posted:Is there any particular reason why they cut back on using quotations from Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, Keats, Plato, even the New Testament and the Qu'ran, and so forth, as flavor text? Maybe after the Zach Snyder adaptation of Hamlet drops the geek community will rediscover Shakespeare.
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Feb 7, 2014 22:32
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Korak posted:So I think I ask it every new thread but why doesn't WotC or SCG support Block Constructed more? I think it leads to more interesting played decks than some other formats, with the downside being the chance to brew is theoretically less.
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Feb 7, 2014 22:34
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scribe jones posted:Take a look at the THS Block Constructed metagame and tell me how many rounds of coverage you would watch http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Digital/MagicOnlineTourn.aspx?x=mtg/digital/magiconline/tourn/6710562 That's... That's a lot of Naya 
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Feb 7, 2014 22:46
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Zoness posted:Man way to not link the best one (although Jackal Pup's is really good to be sure) Man, why does the only version with the Waste Land quote have to be multi-hundreds of dollars?  Also, was there a run on Wasteland lately? I know I didn't pay $75 each for my regular ones a month or two back.
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Feb 7, 2014 22:57
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Count Bleck posted:That's... I seem to remember one of the big pros saying once, "The way to decide what deck to play in a vacuum is just play the deck with the best mana." And unless I'm looking at the lands wrong, the only two shards represented in THS were Naya and Esper.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:00
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Count Bleck posted:That's... Naya's got all the best fixing (Temples, Caryatid) as well as most or all of the set's quality mythics (Xenagos, Polukranos, Elspeth, Stormbreath) Block Constructed with one large set's worth of cards is pretty funny.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:07
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LordSaturn posted:Man, why does the only version with the Waste Land quote have to be multi-hundreds of dollars? Probably due to the success of Jund Depths and Lands.dec recently. Only scrubs win with spells now.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:29
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My favorite card is Rebecca Guay, followed by Phyrexian Arena. MM Dark Ritual into Phyrexian Arena feels amazing. Is devotion catching on in any of the eternal formats? Should I buy them now or wait until Theros block rotates, is what I'm saying.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:33
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Ragnar34 posted:My favorite card is Rebecca Guay, followed by Phyrexian Arena. MM Dark Ritual into Phyrexian Arena feels amazing. In Legacy, Thassa often sees mainboard play as a one of in merfolk. Beyond that? Not that I've seen.
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Ragnar34 posted:My favorite card is Rebecca Guay, followed by Phyrexian Arena. MM Dark Ritual into Phyrexian Arena feels amazing. I've seen people futzing with MBC using Gray Merchant as a finisher in Modern, though not to any great success. It's probably dead in the water without DRS, too, since every build I saw was super high-curve. e: and Thassa as part of an Enlightened Tutor package in Legacy once or twice.
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