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4300 players in attendence. If you figure each one of them is carrying a $500 modern deck that is over $2,000,000 in cardboard rectangles. 
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Mr. Peepers posted:$500 modern deck That's so cute that you underestimate the value like that.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:29
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Round 1: FLGS guy vs JVL. KILL JVL, LOCAL GUY!!!
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Mar 8, 2014 17:30
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Pinwiz11 posted:Round 1: FLGS guy vs JVL. KILL JVL, LOCAL GUY!!! He just tried to bloodrush ghor clan rampager with a stomping ground and hallowed fountain on the field...
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Mar 8, 2014 17:41
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Cohen's keep seems really loose. Lands, Hierarch, and Spellskite?
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Mar 8, 2014 17:43
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Are there really 33 million people watching this? That's...like actual important television numbers... Also, calling that Domain Zoo is already out of this match. Veyrall fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Mar 8, 2014 |
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Mar 8, 2014 17:46
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My favourite thing about Starcity Games organising this GP is that they have dice and tokens on hand for feature matches, unlike all the other GPs.Veyrall posted:Are there really 33 million people watching this? That's...like actual important television numbers... ~8400 current viewers. Will probably hit 10k later on when they show more famous players.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:47
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Veyrall posted:Are there really 33 million people watching this? That's...like actual important television numbers... That's how many people watched the channel since it started. Right now 8500 viewers are watching.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:48
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Matthias Hunt needs to stop speaking. Melira != muh-LY-ruh Gavony != guh-VOE-nee Cedric is very impressionable, I've noticed him morphing his own pronunciation to match...which is disappointing, two weeks ago he finally started saying Polukranos correctly.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:51
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Well I was totally wrong, Zoo is doing just fine and now Melira Pod is dead. I need to follow these events more often.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:56
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MrBling posted:My favourite thing about Starcity Games organising this GP is that they have dice and tokens on hand for feature matches, unlike all the other GPs. Ben Cohen(playing melira pod) threw that 2nd game hard. There was no reason not to take 6-10 damage when he's able to keep powering up his guys with gavony. If you're gonna block there go all out to kill the geist no just throw two creatures under it.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:59
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Matthias Hunt needs to stop speaking. He is my least favorite of the Starcity commentators. He talks out his rear end like the rest of them, but at least the other ones tend to be right more often and are funnier.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:03
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L0cke17 posted:He is my least favorite of the Starcity commentators. He talks out his rear end like the rest of them, but at least the other ones tend to be right more often and are funnier. He also wears a stupid hat all the time.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:05
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Veyrall posted:Well I was totally wrong, Zoo is doing just fine and now Melira Pod is dead. I need to follow these events more often.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:12
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Entropic posted:I think Van Lunen's worst matchup right now is going to be judge penalties from never remembering which duals his fetches can get or what mana his spells cost.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:15
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Korak posted:What disturbs me is that his opponent didn't catch the bloodrush mess up. If the judge hadn't of said anything they would have kept playing. I think the judge also pointed out the fetchland thing? Yep. To be fair, the judge was pretty quick on it, he didn't really give the opponent a chance to miss it. That kind of thing gets you a warning, right? I think Jacob must got like 3 in those last two games.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:18
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At least two people playing Battle of Wits deck at the GP.  I want them to do well just to see how ridiculously packed a Modern BoW deck can be.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:22
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Wish I was was home watching Richmond because a bunch of my friends are there. Come on Spencer! 
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Mar 8, 2014 18:32
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Entropic posted:Yep. To be fair, the judge was pretty quick on it, he didn't really give the opponent a chance to miss it. Yeah, each of those is a Game Rule Violation which should be a warning. If he keeps doing it throughout the day, he'll get game and then match losses.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:32
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Haha. Some guy won a GP Trial with his Standard UW Control deck. Esper Mill won another of the Trials. Pretty sweet GW Aggro deck won yet another. http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gprich14/welcome#1
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Mar 8, 2014 18:34
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There are a bumblefuck ton of people here. Sleep in special checkins for 2 and 3 byes were pushed back to 1:00pm and 2:00pm respectively.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:44
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Korak posted:At least two people playing Battle of Wits deck at the GP.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:50
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Korak posted:Haha. Some guy won a GP Trial with his Standard UW Control deck. Esper Mill won another of the Trials. Pretty sweet GW Aggro deck won yet another. The schedule indicates that there were standard trials.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:01
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I was excited about watching the coverage, until I realized it was modern. Not hating on it but I'm still trying to learn standard and they don't even play modern at my LGS. "Here's an awesome card that you can never use because most card shops don't host modern tournaments." No thanks.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:07
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morning wood posted:I was excited about watching the coverage, until I realized it was modern. Not hating on it but I'm still trying to learn standard and they don't even play modern at my LGS. "Here's an awesome card that you can never use because most card shops don't host modern tournaments." No thanks. That is changing (shops not hosting Modern) and Modern is an awesome format.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:11
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I'm enjoying the commentary on Yu being a complete lunatic for playing 3 hawks. "You don't know what he's going to do! He may play choke, he may reach across the table and choke you!"Boco_T posted:Haha yeah the tweet from MTG Pro Tour says there's an ALL FOIL Battle of Wits deck out there. If this doesn't show up on stream I'll consider the GP a failure.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:13
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The clusterfuck continues, MTGO has crashed for the second time today. This time there's a big sealed event and the 3-0s aren't pleased. I'm pretty pissed, it happened right as I finished soundly spanking mono black 2-0 in the first round of the Standard Premier.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:14
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ScarletBrother posted:That is changing (shops not hosting Modern) and Modern is an awesome format. I'm sure it's entertaining but the combination of the daunting prices for cards and no opportunity to play locally make it slightly less than appealing.
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morning wood posted:I was excited about watching the coverage, until I realized it was modern. Not hating on it but I'm still trying to learn standard and they don't even play modern at my LGS. "Here's an awesome card that you can never use because most card shops don't host modern tournaments." No thanks. Watch it anyways to learn more card interactions, and more shops are going to host Modern, and Modern is pretty fun (except when it comes to Legacy and Vintage  )
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Boxman posted:I'm enjoying the commentary on Yu being a complete lunatic for playing 3 hawks. "You don't know what he's going to do! He may play choke, he may reach across the table and choke you!" So like $100 of foil basic lands for a start then.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:16
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BizarroAzrael posted:So like $100 of foil basic lands for a start then. I hope he's playing all Guru basics. Then it would be like $5,000 for his basic lands.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:18
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Boco_T posted:Haha yeah the tweet from MTG Pro Tour says there's an ALL FOIL Battle of Wits deck out there. He just wanted his rogue deck to cost as much as a regular Modern deck.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:19
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toadee posted:He just wanted his rogue deck to cost as much as a regular Modern deck. You know it's going to go off a couple of times, and of it putting a serious player on tilt.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:27
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I just want to see a deck list for Modern Battle of Wits. How good are the tutors or ways of getting it into play for cheap?morning wood posted:I was excited about watching the coverage, until I realized it was modern. Not hating on it but I'm still trying to learn standard and they don't even play modern at my LGS. "Here's an awesome card that you can never use because most card shops don't host modern tournaments." No thanks. quote:Hopefully GPRichmond doesn't crash. Imagine how pissed 4,000 players would be. 
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morning wood posted:I'm sure it's entertaining but the combination of the daunting prices for cards and no opportunity to play locally make it slightly less than appealing. Maybe some prices will go back down once this Modern season is over? That's what I'm hoping for at least, I really don't want to spend $55/card on a playset of Mox Opals 
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Wizards really need to make a really good aggro card with Sun in the name so I can run Sun Zoo.
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So the MOCS event just crashed, and took down several other events with it. I wasn't playing in the MOCS since I cut way back on MTGO in the last couple of months due to their constant problems, but I felt like playing some Magic and was 1-0 in a Daily. Gotta love MTGO.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Wizards really need to make a really good aggro card with Sun in the name so I can run Sun Zoo. gently caress it man, there's big Zoo, run Sun Titan, why not?
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2000 matches to choose from and they show a Melira Pod mirror.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Matthias Hunt needs to stop speaking. I like you Baron but this is a terrible post  . Are you privvy to some internal pronunciation guide or something? Does this really bother you enough to bring it up?I wonder if they had to give extra compensation to the commentators to tempt them out of playing in the main event. Or maybe, it's the other direction. Once an event gets to large as this the equity per player is actually pretty drat small and they're all about the EV.
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