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moot4king posted:My LGS is replacing FNM Standard with Modern because it is way more popular and I am not sure how to go from Standard to Modern. Fetchlands, goyfs and that stuff I know about, but the sheer amount cards available makes it hard for me to build something. I know that my standard deck is legal in modern but it feels like I am going to have my rear end handed to me if I do that. Any help would be appreciated. Monored is a good enough deck that is fairly cheap. I think only the goblin guides are expensive. Lightning bolt Rift bolt Lava spike Goblin guide Keldon marauders
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I'm running that worst land in an EDH deck  I was actually thinking about dropping it for a different land, and you might have convinced me to do so.
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Mar 15, 2014 13:31
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Zenephant posted:Let's play a game: try to guess the highest and lowest community rated cards on Gatherer
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Mar 15, 2014 13:33
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Hey, Razor Boomerang can go infinite in a 5-7 card combo. Having even a bare capacity to go infinite is worth something, isn't it?
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Mar 15, 2014 14:07
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There are a lot of bad lands, at least that one can kinda sorta go in a commander deck. The only reason I bring it up is because, once, long ago, I accidentally brought home a french land card that got mixed in with some other cards I brought and got excited because it had a special ability. The only word I recognized was terria (or something like that) and I was all like, hey, maybe it can shut down land abilities or something like that. It turned out that what it did was remove a creature's landwalk ability for a turn. It was very disappointing and I'm still bitter about it to this day.
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Mar 15, 2014 14:40
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Not really a Magic question per say; but I'm wondering what some storage solutions are for carrying around 6 decks or so worth of cards. Back in the day I used one of those ultrapro padded cases but now I'm looking for something hard, plastic and a bit more portable. This ultra-pro box here is pretty close to what I'm looking for, just wondering if there were and other third party, possibly kick started type boxes. I used to like the fat pack boxes but I'm looking for something not made of cardboard these days.
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Mar 15, 2014 14:48
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PaybackJack posted:Not really a Magic question per say; but I'm wondering what some storage solutions are for carrying around 6 decks or so worth of cards. Back in the day I used one of those ultrapro padded cases but now I'm looking for something hard, plastic and a bit more portable. I think that Dragon Shield does a similar box like that, with the same 4 compartments.
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Mar 15, 2014 14:50
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C-Euro posted:I'm running that worst land in an EDH deck Is it bad or just too narrow of use?
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Mar 15, 2014 15:10
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Does it not count as stabilising if you kill them next turn for some reason? When you get land flooded and they have Elixir + Codex Shredder + every other dumb U/W thing which means I can't kill them, it does. It's more that somebody, somewhere in Wizards decided instant life gain and card advantage that you can play during combat is a fun interesting thing to play against, because blue totally isn't the best colour already. (Realtalk, it's actually more that he was a smug prick who tried to go to time in game 1. I was give the sage advice of 'concede so you can go to game 2 dude' which I took. Then he  ed on about how inexpensive his deck was, while running multiple Elspeths, multiple types of Jace and a playset of Sphinx's Revs. Yeah.)
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Mar 15, 2014 15:15
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bhsman posted:Is it bad or just too narrow of use? Seems like it'd be fine in a Captain Sisay deck, but ETB tapped is kinda rough for a narrow use card.
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Mar 15, 2014 15:46
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At GP Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, someone was playing a graveyard-based BG deck with Commune with the Gods, Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, Nighthowler and Nemesis of Mortals. I'm trying to throw together a similar deck on DeckStats, but I'm stuck at the above cards. Can anyone remember the list or know of a similar one?
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Mar 15, 2014 15:48
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Mondrian posted:At GP Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, someone was playing a graveyard-based BG deck with Commune with the Gods, Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, Nighthowler and Nemesis of Mortals. There's a lot of nuance to this deck in knowing what you can top deck to just outright win the game. There's a lot of decision making to do. Sometimes it's better to NOT take a creature off a commune to power up your existing creatures. Try to watch some vids on youtube to get a feel for all the little interactions you can do.
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Mar 15, 2014 15:54
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Mondrian posted:At GP Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, someone was playing a graveyard-based BG deck with Commune with the Gods, Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, Nighthowler and Nemesis of Mortals. There's been a little discussion in the deckbuilding thread - see here for a sample decklist. It's very weak to graveyard hate (Scavenging Ooze being the big problem, but it'd also fold to Rest in Peace and probably Rakdos Charm if those start seeing play), but it completely tears up if people aren't prepared for it. I'm pretty sure I'm at zero match losses over the past few weeks at FNM, people playing RG are starting to up their Ooze count and everyone else is starting to talk about adding some graveyard hate to their sideboards. We'll see where that goes, I guess.
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Mar 15, 2014 15:56
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Starke of Rath for best EDH commander 2014.
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Mar 15, 2014 16:11
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mehall posted:Seems like it'd be fine in a Captain Sisay deck, but ETB tapped is kinda rough for a narrow use card. C-Euro runs a Sisay EDH deck, which is why I asked. 
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Mar 15, 2014 16:12
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Mondrian posted:At GP Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, someone was playing a graveyard-based BG deck with Commune with the Gods, Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, Nighthowler and Nemesis of Mortals. I've been playing it pretty religiously - if you check the brewhaus for me posts you'll find a list I've tweaked and tuned. I'd link you myself but I'm on my phone atm.
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Mar 15, 2014 16:16
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Balon posted:I've been playing it pretty religiously - if you check the brewhaus for me posts you'll find a list I've tweaked and tuned.
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Mar 15, 2014 16:19
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Korak posted:What do you think of the Jund version? Bloodrush does some really useful things and having up to 4 Flesh/Bloods is pretty sweet. The list is pretty tight as-is and I'd hate to go messing up a really small (20 land) mana base with a third color. Also the reason there are only 8 spells maindeck is because you want everything else to be land or creatures - you CAN NOT afford to have spells in the deck that aren't tutors or give you a benefit in the yard.
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Mar 15, 2014 16:30
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Is there any room in the list for Desecration Demons? Or is he just the wrong kind of big idiot? (though the thought of using Jarad to chuck a countered-up Demon at the opponent's face has me slightly amused)
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AegisP posted:Is there any room in the list for Desecration Demons? Or is he just the wrong kind of big idiot? (though the thought of using Jarad to chuck a countered-up Demon at the opponent's face has me slightly amused) The problem is that he's just not reliable as a threat - I would rather Nighthowler a Mystic than a DD 90% of the time.
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Mar 15, 2014 16:56
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Since DRS got banned in modern is he possibly going to hold any value after rotation? He went from $15 to $10 after the ban but he's holding decently at that value. Not a bad edh card either I guess.
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Mar 15, 2014 17:06
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Since DRS got banned in modern is he possibly going to hold any value after rotation? He went from $15 to $10 after the ban but he's holding decently at that value. Not a bad edh card either I guess. Put like 90% of your net worth into DRS, it's a legacy machine. Take loans out on credit if you have to.
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Mar 15, 2014 17:17
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Mulletstation posted:Put like 90% of your net worth into DRS, it's a legacy machine. This. It's a long term hold (you're probably looking at a few years to double up) since you're banking on purely Legacy value but it's a really solid one. I don't think it will see much of a post-Standard dip unless it becomes more popular in Standard since only a single tier-2 deck is running it. And if it does somehow get unbanned in Modern it will quadruple overnight.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Since DRS got banned in modern is he possibly going to hold any value after rotation? He went from $15 to $10 after the ban but he's holding decently at that value. Not a bad edh card either I guess. It's the best 1cmc man in Legacy. And likely will continue to be for a very long time. Hold onto him.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Since DRS got banned in modern is he possibly going to hold any value after rotation? He went from $15 to $10 after the ban but he's holding decently at that value. Not a bad edh card either I guess. Yeah. The fact that he stabilized at $10 even after the modern ban should tell you something. He's not going to stay banned forever. He will keep his value more so that pretty much anything else in RtR block (except maybe Abrupt Decay). On a slightly different note, anyone else notice that Elspeth, Sun's Champion is ticking back up again? She's back to being above $20. I think I heard something about her being the Elspeth of choice for certain modern decks now, since she can nuke the field immediately after dropping, but anyone else have any specific reasons?
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AlternateNu posted:Yeah. The fact that he stabilized at $10 even after the modern ban should tell you something. He's not going to stay banned forever. He will keep his value more so that pretty much anything else in RtR block (except maybe Abrupt Decay). She's just a really good control finisher in general. Three power per turn or nuke to deal with any of those ugly threats you don't want around. She is constantly adding to board advantage and her nuke doesn't mess with dudes you have that you may want around anyway. She's just really solid all around.
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Anyone else make it out to SCG seattle? I'm prepared to lose horribly and blame it on my hangover rather than my awful play.
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Mar 15, 2014 17:52
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The US patent for Magic: The Gathering posted:DETAILED DESCRIPTION If you don't play Magic with the express purpose of bewildering your opponent to death, you're going against the spirit of the game.
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HMS Boromir posted:If you don't play Magic with the express purpose of bewildering your opponent to death, you're going against the spirit of the game. What do you think Perplexing Chimera is for?
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The US patent for Magic: The Gathering posted:Creatures with first stake have the ability to hit their blockers or the creatures they are attacking before being damaged themselves. Now I really wish they'd just quietly changed First Strike to First Stake for Elite Inquisitor.
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Cactrot posted:Anyone else make it out to SCG seattle? I'm prepared to lose horribly and blame it on my hangover rather than my awful play. I'll be there tomorrow. Good luck! e: I wish it was still in Lynnwood rather than loving Tacoma though. Jeez.
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So I tried my first commander game last night with a borrowed deck and actually enjoyed it. I was hesitant to get into commander because I tend to be a competitive personality who likes winning, and I've heard the bad stories about people that get mad if youre too aggressive or dont draw the game out, but the other two guys I played with were the same way so it was fun. Are there any good mono-green lists out there maybe using Omnath as a commander? I thought about making a "big mana big creature" type deck. When Omnath says mana doesnt empty at the end of phases and steps, does that include end steps so you keep your mana across turns?
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Yes, green mana will stay floating forever, or until Omnath leaves the battlefield in which case you have until the end of the step/phase in which he left to spend the mana in your pool or lose it.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:So I tried my first commander game last night with a borrowed deck and actually enjoyed it. I was hesitant to get into commander because I tend to be a competitive personality who likes winning, and I've heard the bad stories about people that get mad if youre too aggressive or dont draw the game out, but the other two guys I played with were the same way so it was fun. quote:You should play Omnath if:
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Yes to that entire list. I love bully decks for casual fun stuff. I'll have to look up some omnath decks and maybe start a commander deck to participate in games with.
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 AI, I don't think you need all those Sneak Attacks.
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PrinnySquadron posted:
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Korak posted:Seems like a fun deck. Also, if I'm not wrong, and they don't remove him outside of your main phase, you can bring him back from your command zone with the floating mana.
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Mortimer posted:Then give an alternative...? Ha ha ha. Maelstrom Wanderer? Did I get the SA Forums and MTGS mixed up? Unless something's changed, your ace for winning prizes in multiplayer edh is Scion of the Ur-Dragon with Hermit Druid Combo, Worldgorger Dragon Combo, and, if you are feeling super skittish about not having enough combos, Niv-Mizzet + Curiosity/Keen Sense. I think most of that stuff is banned in French 1v1, though, since they don't have ~Sheldon~ making GBS threads up the format.
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moot4king posted:My LGS is replacing FNM Standard with Modern because it is way more popular and I am not sure how to go from Standard to Modern. Fetchlands, goyfs and that stuff I know about, but the sheer amount cards available makes it hard for me to build something. I know that my standard deck is legal in modern but it feels like I am going to have my rear end handed to me if I do that. Any help would be appreciated. drat I wish a store around here would do modern fnm. As it is there is 1 store within like 30 miles of me that even has a weekly modern night and not enough people even show up for it usually. 
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