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That was an interesting Scapeshift decktech. The sideboard cards of Primal Command, Inferno Titan, Teferi, & Wormcoil were pretty cute. Also happy about the "In response to your electrolyze, I'll just Cryptic Command bounce your land and draw a card. Your electrolyze resolves."
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Matthias Hunt saying "made" instead of "cast" or "play" is driving me loving crazy.
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Mr. Peepers posted:Matthias Hunt saying "made" instead of "cast" or "play" is driving me loving crazy. That's an old-school thing from tourney reports from 1997-2004. I hate it too, and I've never been able to decouple "made" from my gam-gam asking if I had to go "make" when I was 4, so I just have an image of like, Kai Budde tapping two islands, then climbing up on the feature match table, dropping trou and squatting, gritting his teeth for a minute and damned if a loving Voidmage Prodigy didn't appear on his battlefield.
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Tharizdun posted:That's an old-school thing from tourney reports from 1997-2004. I hate it too, and I've never been able to decouple "made" from my gam-gam asking if I had to go "make" when I was 4, so I just have an image of like, Kai Budde tapping two islands, then climbing up on the feature match table, dropping trou and squatting, gritting his teeth for a minute and damned if a loving Voidmage Prodigy didn't appear on his battlefield. Well, it's certainly a poo poo card.
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Tharizdun posted:That's an old-school thing from tourney reports from 1997-2004. I hate it too, and I've never been able to decouple "made" from my gam-gam asking if I had to go "make" when I was 4, so I just have an image of like, Kai Budde tapping two islands, then climbing up on the feature match table, dropping trou and squatting, gritting his teeth for a minute and damned if a loving Voidmage Prodigy didn't appear on his battlefield. Well that explains why you keep 'making' posts.
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This GP makes me wish my LGS had a modern scene like at all. I still might build affinity and venture somewhere else for modern nights.
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Tharizdun posted:That's an old-school thing from tourney reports from 1997-2004. I hate it too, and I've never been able to decouple "made" from my gam-gam asking if I had to go "make" when I was 4, so I just have an image of like, Kai Budde tapping two islands, then climbing up on the feature match table, dropping trou and squatting, gritting his teeth for a minute and damned if a loving Voidmage Prodigy didn't appear on his battlefield. I think your personal issue is less an issue with MTG lingo and more a case of ye olde euphemismes being loving idiotic. That reminds me, I heard someone more bluntly state that their deck/card 'dropped its pants and took a poo poo all over the table' when (good-naturedly) summarizing their domination of a game of EDH. I liked it, particularly since it slots in where your typical gamer might otherwise say 'raped' and it conveys the same tonally appropriate amount of vulgarity for the context whilst not risking seriously bothering anyone.
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KidDynamite posted:This GP makes me wish my LGS had a modern scene like at all. I still might build affinity and venture somewhere else for modern nights. This was the first time I had played Modern. I always thought the format was pretty bad but it was a lot of fun. It will be interesting to see if Wizards can give it the support they want to give it.
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Mar 9, 2014 19:25
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drat, the turn 3 affinity poison kill or affinity would have died next turn.
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Mar 9, 2014 19:32
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AegisP posted:drat, the turn 3 affinity poison kill or affinity would have died next turn. Yeah, that was awesome. The first turn was so fast.
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Mar 9, 2014 19:34
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AgentSythe posted:Did anyone catch the whole list of the scapeshift deck they just did the decktech on? Josh McClain apparently forgot to pay for this Slaughter Pact in the mirror match. They're on game 2 with about 3 minutes to play so they're trying to play too fast. Really disappointed the judges, players, and commentators missed it. Korak fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Mar 9, 2014 19:40
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Korak posted:Deck techs should be on SCG or youtube right now or very shortly. He didn't forget. He paid for it in his upkeep and was fetching or something, then went to draw phase but also untapped accidentally after already paying for the pact. The commentators mentioned someone on the floor heard him say he was paying for his pact. Edit: This Nick Miller guy is such a loving goober. FREE REUBEN Johnny Five-Jaces fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Mar 9, 2014 19:48
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He also immediately realized his mistake and tapped his lands again. Come on guys, I know everyone is really eager to point out how sloppy everyone is on camera, but this is ridiculous.
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Mar 9, 2014 19:53
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Do you guys think offering a Kiora for an Elspeth is a reasonable trade? I know value wise they are within $1 of eachother, but save Maze's End I feel like Kiora never gets played so people tend to frown on her.
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Mar 9, 2014 20:22
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morning wood posted:Do you guys think offering a Kiora for an Elspeth is a reasonable trade? I know value wise they are within $1 of eachother, but save Maze's End I feel like Kiora never gets played so people tend to frown on her. Doesn't bant walkers play her?
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Mar 9, 2014 20:26
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Ended the day 10-5, a new GP personal best, with at least 2 of my match losses today attributed to fatigue. What a crazy tournament, a great experience; lots of stories were made this weekend.
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Mar 9, 2014 20:56
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Affinity player on camera at 12-2 gets a game and match loss because of missing a lifelink trigger on his own Vault Skirge. Bummer.
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Mar 9, 2014 20:59
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We're just ignoring the whole fact that lifelink isn't actually a trigger, right?
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Hahahaha... Chapin is amazing this weekend.Mr. Peepers posted:Affinity player on camera at 12-2 gets a game and match loss because of missing a lifelink trigger on his own Vault Skirge. Bummer. I think the Affinity player was full on tilt for that game 3. He seemed to be falling apart there during the shuffling between G2 / G3. Sounds like he had a lot of judges called on him this weekend.
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In a bit of non-GP discussion.Mark Rosewater's tumblr posted:
Emphasis mine.
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Friedman is the one who paid for his pact, at which point McClain Slaughter Pacts his Noble Hierarch, he accidentally untaps during his upkeep, draws, and then retaps his lands because he shouldn't have untapped them. But then on Josh McClain's turn he just draws and plays Ranger of Eos, never paying for his own pact. ~6:25 in http://www.twitch.tv/scglive/b/509548409
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GP Richmond Modern Archetype Day 2 Total Melira Pod 6 Scapeshift 7 Merfolk 21 Jund 23 Kiki Pod 10 Tarmo-Twin 17 Storm 25 GB Rock 18
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Mar 9, 2014 21:57
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Korak posted:GP Richmond Modern This does not come close to the ~450 people that qualified. Was this just the result of one (of the three) Day 1 tournaments?
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AnacondaHL posted:This does not come close to the ~450 people that qualified. Was this just the result of one (of the three) Day 1 tournaments? This looks like the thing talking about undefeated decks with a 4 missing from Melira Pod. Here's the full metagame breakdown for day 2 quote:Archetype % of Field kirtar fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Mar 9, 2014 22:06
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AnacondaHL posted:This does not come close to the ~450 people that qualified. Was this just the result of one (of the three) Day 1 tournaments? I called part of the Top 8: 2 Affinity, 1 Twin, 5 Pod(1 Kiki, rest are Melira.)
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Turns out it's a Memnite and I'm an idiot. I thought he was using normal Memnites which confused me. VV: I know, I just can't resist the hype for Ducks Block. MaRo's tumblr is pretty good, or at least interesting, in general actually. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Mar 9, 2014 22:07
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Serperoth posted:In a bit of non-GP discussion. He's said before that Huey block is a bottom-up design. He also said that there is something special with the block structure that caused problems.
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Mr. Peepers posted:Affinity player on camera at 12-2 gets a game and match loss because of missing a lifelink trigger on his own Vault Skirge. Bummer. Slightly confused, why would the penalty for that be so severe for something that harms the person with the Vault Skirge? Or is this the result of missing the trigger repeatedly over the course of a day?
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Serperoth posted:What is that full-art card that Michael Sigrist is playing? Between Etched Champion and Signal Pest. It looks pretty sweet. If he's playing affinity, I bet it's a Memnite.
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Applebees posted:He's said before that Huey block is a bottom-up design. He also said that there is something special with the block structure that caused problems. AegisP posted:Slightly confused, why would the penalty for that be so severe for something that harms the person with the Vault Skirge? Or is this the result of missing the trigger repeatedly over the course of a day?
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I pronounce Xenagos "Throatwobbler Mangrove"
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Pinwiz11 posted:Merfolk is the remaining undefeated deck... I should've starting purchasing my merfolk staples with my store cred then 
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Pros on twitter are talking about how messed up the software was for the tiebreakers on Day 2. Apparently since they split the event into three "different" events, when they reset everything on Day 2 this made people that were undefeated drop to say 60th place. Kibler is saying the match slips started with round 2. The more I'm reading the more this sounded like a clusterfuck much like Las Vegas had with people going I think 12-1-1 and not getting Top 8. Maybe they need to figure out a new formula for larger events. Would moving it to a Top 16 work better?
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Korak posted:The more I'm reading the more this sounded like a clusterfuck much like Las Vegas had with people going I think 12-1-1 and not getting Top 8. Maybe they need to figure out a new formula for larger events. Would moving it to a Top 16 work better? Their solution is that those people that are 13-2 or better but don't make top 8 still get Pro Tour invitations. A Grand Prix is really long, and they don't want to add another round. Applebees fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Oh cool, Runed Halo went up over the weekend. So when I bought the Mono White Enchantments prior to the PT, I paid 50 cents each for Porphyry Nodes, those are $5 each now, and now I got my 4 Runed Halos for $1.50 each and they're $8. Thanks Wizard Poker
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Boco_T posted:Oh cool, Runed Halo went up over the weekend. Well gently caress me, now getting those pieces will be a pain in the rear end. neetengie fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 10, 2014 |
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Boxn posted:Well gently caress me, now getting those pieces will be a pain in the rear end. I couldn't watch Day 2, what caused the Halos to go up? Patrick Chapin talked about how he thought it was underplayed and was really good in this format. It wasn't played in the tournament as far as I could tell.
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So I went 2-3 with my affinity build, but Affinity in the finals assures me that it is still relevant and I just need to be a better player hehe.
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I've been playing my mono-red Elementals Firebreathing combo on MTGO. Lots of fun 
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Applebees posted:It wasn't played in the tournament as far as I could tell. I played it 
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