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goferchan posted:Sometimes, sometimes it's not. Cockatrice, the free MtG client, has a really, really bad RNG -- in my experience it shits itself if you try and roll a d2 (for a coin flip) and it's way better to roll a d20 and just call odds or evens. I know this is totally anecdotal and could be a freak occurrence but an opponent and I sat there rolling d2s back and forth for a minute and I rolled ten 1s and he rolled ten 2s. Whatever algorithm they use seems seriously hosed
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uggy posted:oh no we rolled dice and there was a tie, let's spend 2 seconds to reroll them This method is not guaranteed to terminate.
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Korak posted:Not saying cockatrice's RNG couldn't be bad, but most like you and your opponent hit streaks that make your puny human brain see a pattern where none really exists. Yeah, exactly, which is why I'm kind of embarrassed to bring it up, but it was enough o convince my puny, human brain that I should at least roll a d20 next time so it can FEEL like there's more variance. But yes there's always the possibility that Cockatrice has a really lazy RNG that relies on the system clock or something
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Dr. Stab posted:This method is not guaranteed to terminate. Somewhere out there are two 5th Edition Magic players still rolling to see who goes first. 
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Feb 12, 2014 01:30
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Two people doing 'high CMC goes first' except they're both playing Lands.dec
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vOv posted:Two people doing 'high CMC goes first' except they're both playing Lands.dec This is the only correct way to determine who goes first.
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So I have a historically bad record with boosters but I bought three today anyway. Got a phenax, followed immediately by a foil Brimaz. Not sure what to do with it since I don't care about foils. The guy working at the shop offered me two non-foil brimaz for the one, and value wise I guess thats about right. Any reason I shouldn't take him up on that offer? I pretty much never have really high dollar cards to trade.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:So I have a historically bad record with boosters but I bought three today anyway. Got a phenax, followed immediately by a foil Brimaz. Not sure what to do with it since I don't care about foils. The guy working at the shop offered me two non-foil brimaz for the one, and value wise I guess thats about right. Any reason I shouldn't take him up on that offer? I pretty much never have really high dollar cards to trade. You shouldn't take him up on the offer, you should trade/sell it to me  (on a more serious note, that's value in your favor on the offer, I'd take it)
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Fingers McLongDong posted:So I have a historically bad record with boosters but I bought three today anyway. Got a phenax, followed immediately by a foil Brimaz. Not sure what to do with it since I don't care about foils. The guy working at the shop offered me two non-foil brimaz for the one, and value wise I guess thats about right. Any reason I shouldn't take him up on that offer? I pretty much never have really high dollar cards to trade. Do this, non-foils are more liquid in trade value.
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C-Euro posted:10? I thought I was bad trying make #s 3 and 4, neither of which I will probably play- We get bonuses in store credit and for a long time, whenever I ran out of things to buy, I just started a new deck. I think I built Mimeo the day a bunch of stuff would expire just so it didn't go to waste. Like, I bought the entire deck in two hours.
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qbert posted:My favorite way of determining who goes first is pulling out Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard and shuffling them facedown and letting my opponent pick his card and mine. Nth-ing this. I start every match with: Opponent: "High Roll?" Me: "No." Opponent: ??? Me: Puts 3 cards face down. "Pick one!" "Now, pick one for me!" No weird stuff like dice on the floor, etc. Plus, who doesn't like subgames? (which, on that note, is probably one of my favorite cards, ie Goblin Game)
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Bunch of card fixes for Magic Online, New Player Event changes, and a bunch of old formats pruned. Magic Online Announcements February 11, 2014 WotC_ClaytonKroh posted:General
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Applebees posted:Bunch of card fixes for Magic Online, New Player Event changes, and a bunch of old formats pruned. quote:Fixed: Spells targetting Kaervek's Torch now correctly cost an additional 2 colorless mana. Thats been an issue for at least a year, probably closer to two years IIRC. About loving time. quote:During the February 12 downtime, the following formats will be retired:
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RIP Mojosto.
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Zorak posted:RIP Mojosto. I am incredibly tired and I read that list three times, what happened to get rid of Mojhosto?
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rabidsquid posted:I am incredibly tired and I read that list three times, what happened to get rid of Mojhosto? They got rid of Classic Vanguard for some reason.
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Acolytes reward- does it always deal damage equal to my devotion, or based on the amount of damage that was prevented? If I'm reading it right, if I have 5 devotion it should deal 5 damage, regardless of how much damage would have actually been dealt to my creature?
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Acolytes reward- does it always deal damage equal to my devotion, or based on the amount of damage that was prevented? If I'm reading it right, if I have 5 devotion it should deal 5 damage, regardless of how much damage would have actually been dealt to my creature? No it only deals damage equal to the amount of damage that's actually prevented. For example, your devotion is 5, so the next 5 damage dealt to whatever creature you targeted first would be prevented. The creature gets hit with Lightning Strike, it would only deal 3 damage to the 2nd thing you targeted.
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In that situation, could it then also prevent 2 more damage from another source later in the turn? If so, would it then do that 2 damage to the second target at that time?
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Applebees posted:Fixed: Nighthowler promo now has the correct card art. Just logged in and I still have the same old Magic "M" in place of my Nighthowler art. Anyone else still missing the art?
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Dungeon Ecology posted:Just logged in and I still have the same old Magic "M" in place of my Nighthowler art. Anyone else still missing the art? Downtime shouldn't have happened yet.
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netcat posted:They got rid of Classic Vanguard for some reason. They still have Freeform Vanguard though right? As far as I know it didn't get culled.
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Yeah its fine, false alarm!
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So it looks like while my back was turned the online Theros block meta was solved: http://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/block 87% of the metagame is RGW and it's the only deck to 4-0 dailies for the past two weeks  Hopefully Born of the Gods can make some of the cheaper decks more viable again.
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Kabanaw posted:So it looks like while my back was turned the online Theros block meta was solved: I'm doubtful on that front, I mean if you take a look at the block deck, it looks almost identical to standard rg monsters, I think they had to swap out like 9 total cards in the 75 between standard and block. While everyone else is playing a block deck, RG is a standard competitive deck. So its possible, I just have very strong doubts. Heck especially with the Xenabros both being legal in the deck, I can't imagine that RGW, or heck even just straight RG won't just dominate. Further its really hard for a good aggro deck to take off in this format with the only fixing being a scrying tapland. Theros is a midrange heaven, and GRW has all the best stuff.
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How much does WotC use block constructed metagames to decide how to balance the next block?
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whydirt posted:How much does WotC use block constructed metagames to decide how to balance the next block? How could it? I thought the lead times were such that each set is close to finalized before the previous bock is out. They probably rely much more on Future Future league testing.
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GoutPatrol posted:How could it? I thought the lead times were such that each set is close to finalized before the previous bock is out. They probably rely much more on Future Future league testing. Pretty much this. Zac Hill left the company in Fall 2012 and we still haven't seen all the sets he worked on yet.
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GoutPatrol posted:How could it? I thought the lead times were such that each set is close to finalized before the previous bock is out. They probably rely much more on Future Future league testing. They still attempt to fix mistakes far too late, just check out Skylasher. This card rotated in by the time the card it targeted fell out the meta.
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FearlessRedBeard posted:They still attempt to fix mistakes far too late, just check out Skylasher. This card rotated in by the time the card it targeted fell out the meta. Edit: I wrote something dumb here and then removed it.
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FearlessRedBeard posted:They still attempt to fix mistakes far too late, just check out Skylasher. This card rotated in by the time the card it targeted fell out the meta. I like Kataki, War's Wage, who was shoved into the first set they could as a stopgap to Affinity, but by then Affinity's power players had already been banned out of the format (Mirrodin-Kamigawa standard).
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Zoness posted:I like Kataki, War's Wage, who was shoved into the first set they could as a stopgap to Affinity, but by then Affinity's power players had already been banned out of the format (Mirrodin-Kamigawa standard). June Standard: Skullclamp is banned. Mirrodin block constructed: Skullclamp is banned.[25] September Extended: Metalworker and Skullclamp are banned. Vintage: Braingeyser, Doomsday, Earthcraft, and Fork are unrestricted. Type 1.5: Format becomes independent of Vintage. For full list of bans and unbans see reference.[26] December Vintage: Stroke of Genius is unrestricted.[27] 2005 March Standard: Arcbound Ravager, Disciple of the Vault, Ancient Den, Great Furnace, Seat of the Synod, Tree of Tales, and Vault of Whispers are banned. Vintage: Trinisphere is restricted. Starter Level sets Starter 1999, Starter 2000, Portal, Portal Second Age, and Portal Three Kingdoms become legal in Legacy and Vintage in October.[28] In less than a year Wizards had to ban 8 cards, in standard. People talk about how unfun caw-blade standard was.....and then I point them to mirrodin block and laugh my fat rear end off.
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FearlessRedBeard posted:They still attempt to fix mistakes far too late, just check out Skylasher. This card rotated in by the time the card it targeted fell out the meta. Not only had the deck ceased to exist months prior, it'd ceased to be this omnipresent Standard-defining powerhouse for like a year. A year before Skylasher was out, standard had settled into a kind of healthy rock paper scissors equilibrium of Delver, Zombie aggro and Naya variants.
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Plus, I doubt Wizards even thought about block formats other than the full THS-BNG-JIN format when designing the sets. I'm not sure why they even have it as a format for Daily events on MTGO, it's really not that fun to play with such a restricted card pool, especially for an extended period of time.
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Some friends and I recently got into magic a little late after playing the planeswalkers games on iOS. We're all in our 30's and just attended the born of the gods pre-release tournament last weekend. I ended up doing not terribly for it being one of my first times playing the game and built a red/green tribute-y deck with some nessian wilds ravager, a nessian asp. I ended up going 2-2-1 and coming in 80th out of 200. After realizing I have enough cards now from Theros and BoTG to start thinking about a constructed deck or two I started looking up what could be some fun green/red decks or whatever else looked interesting from primarily the current block. I'd love to build something around Xenagos, Polukranos, or some Hydras but having priced out some of the decks in this article http://www.starcitygames.com/article/27764_Playtime-With-Xenagos.html I realized this guy isn't f'ing around. So where do I begin if I want to build a budget-minded ~$50 deck from mostly Theros & BoTG that is still competitive? 4 of us are picking up a box of BoTG this weekend to play sealed, maybe I should just stick to that for the time being until I have more legendaries to trade with. 
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I'd mix at least a few Theros packs in with those BotG ones. A 50/50 mix would be best, but even a pack per pool would be better than nothing.
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whydirt posted:I'd mix at least a few Theros packs in with those BotG ones. A 50/50 mix would be best, but even a pack per pool would be better than nothing. I just did a full BNG draft and second this. There just isn't enough in BNG to do ANYTHING unique. You will end up with some of the jankiest crap you've ever seen.
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Triple small set draft is a bad idea, why do people insist on doing it? There's a reason the draft format is BTT.
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Because people are tired of drafting Theros and want to play with the new cards. I really liked the Large-Large-Large Large2-Large2-Large2 Small-Large2-Large1 formats of RTR block, it seems like a good way to give people what they want.
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