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Babylon Astronaut posted:You're in luck. FNM is casual, not competitive. They aren't going to dock you or anything if you get the rules wrong, it's the time to learn and have fun. Constructed at FNM is free. You can usually play some limited too. Look up the store and see what they run. It can be: Standard Constructed, Modern Constructed, Sealed Deck, Booster Draft, Block Constructed, or Two-Headed Giant. I like drafting at FNM, even though you can get some bad habits like looking at your picks or talking. Bring dice and a notepad. Unfortunately it looks like their FNM is 5 dollar entry Standard which isn't a deck I have. Fortunately, though, they have a free Commander and Modern night.
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That is lovely. They better be hooking up prize support, because FNM is for the kids! You're into Commander and Modern? It sounds like the store is running a magic event on Friday, not FNM as we've had the argument of how pedantic we want to be about it. Most of the old saws draft. It's fun as hell, I think the current environment is pretty good with all three sets of Theros. It helps you build your card pool or store credit. Modern is semi-eternal, but standard is always changing. It's a little late to be getting into the current Standard imo. The card base is about to get as big as it gets in July, then it loses half the cards in October. So not only is it a little overwhelming, the M14 and RTR block cards are going to rotate and absolutely tank in price.
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May 11, 2014 05:21
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Fox of Stone posted:I hope you can show him a Theros pen island and see what he does. I have a running bet with a friend. I thought you were talking about an Island whose art was vaguely penis-shaped at one part, but nope. That's a penis, front and center. How'd that get past the art directors?
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May 11, 2014 05:31
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The same way they got a woman riding a cyclops' severed penis while he jumps in pain complete with a dick joke in the flavor text.
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May 11, 2014 05:36
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Mikujin posted:Are you also at GP Minneapolis? Yep. Lost to mirror and melira pod, beat rug twin, a br land destruction deck and three ur twin decks in a row. Playing american control.
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May 11, 2014 05:37
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Babylon Astronaut posted:The same way they got a woman riding a cyclops' severed penis while he jumps in pain complete with a dick joke in the flavor text. Jesus christ
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May 11, 2014 05:47
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Zemyla posted:I thought you were talking about an Island whose art was vaguely penis-shaped at one part, but nope. That's a penis, front and center. How'd that get past the art directors? We used to call this the "red doggy dick". But the ultimate "how did that slip by???" is how a card named "Invoke Prejudice" got away with this art.
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May 11, 2014 05:54
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Gynovore posted:We used to call this the "red doggy dick". And then you find out that artist is actually a white supremacist.
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May 11, 2014 05:56
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Zemyla posted:I thought you were talking about an Island whose art was vaguely penis-shaped at one part, but nope. That's a penis, front and center. How'd that get past the art directors? I have two of these in my deck right now: 
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May 11, 2014 05:58
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Oh, are we talking about phallic and/or suggestive Magic art? This and this are two of my favorite ones I've had pointed out to me.
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May 11, 2014 06:00
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GonSmithe posted:And then you find out that artist is actually a white supremacist. Yep. And if you want to really jump down the rabbit hole, Invoke Prejudice has a multiverse ID of 1488, which is supposedly a secret white supremacist code number. Wake up sheeple, it's a CONSPIRACY!!!!1
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May 11, 2014 06:02
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Gynovore posted:We used to call this the "red doggy dick". The Dark was a strange, strange time in Magic.
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May 11, 2014 06:03
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Elyv posted:The Dark was a strange, strange time in Magic. That's from Legends. Though the Dark did introduce Bone Flute and Spitting Slug which are the basis of roughly a hundred juvenile magic jokes.
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Kalli posted:That's from Legends. The best was Throne of Bone (heh  ) from ABU.
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May 11, 2014 06:24
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change my name posted:I have two of these in my deck right now: Printed in the same set as Corpsejack Menace 
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May 11, 2014 06:34
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So I recall someone posted a really gimmicky RUG burn deck for standard here. The deck's "thing" was that you used Riddle of Lightning/Blast of Genius + Enter the Infinite for huge amounts of damage. Sadly I forgot to copy the list then, and now I can't find it, so does anyone mind posting it again?
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Jenx posted:So I recall someone posted a really gimmicky RUG burn deck for standard here. The deck's "thing" was that you used Riddle of Lightning/Blast of Genius + Enter the Infinite for huge amounts of damage. Sadly I forgot to copy the list then, and now I can't find it, so does anyone mind posting it again? From Magic is Ruined Forever.
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Jenx posted:So I recall someone posted a really gimmicky RUG burn deck for standard here. The deck's "thing" was that you used Riddle of Lightning/Blast of Genius + Enter the Infinite for huge amounts of damage. Sadly I forgot to copy the list then, and now I can't find it, so does anyone mind posting it again? Jacob Van Lunen also had an article with a few takes on that shell
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May 11, 2014 06:56
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Thanks for the links. Hmm well this is a short post, soo how about them timewalks? 
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Jenx posted:Thanks for the links. Allowing Bant Aggro to walk all over me twice in a row in Power Cube. And I thought powering out big artifact creatures via Tolarian Academy would have done it.
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May 11, 2014 07:17
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Gynovore posted:Yep. And if you want to really jump down the rabbit hole, Invoke Prejudice has a multiverse ID of 1488, which is supposedly a secret white supremacist code number.
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May 11, 2014 08:59
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Gynovore posted:Yep. And if you want to really jump down the rabbit hole, Invoke Prejudice has a multiverse ID of 1488, which is supposedly a secret white supremacist code number. I'm not sure what the 14 is for, but 88 is a numerical reference for HH, Heil Hitler (Typing this was really weird). If you run into a person with 88 tattooed on their neck you should probably steer clear, at least in my personal experience. And this has gone to a strange place.
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Olothreutes posted:I'm not sure what the 14 is for, but 88 is a numerical reference for HH, Heil Hitler (Typing this was really weird). If you run into a person with 88 tattooed on their neck you should probably steer clear, at least in my personal experience. If you run into someone with anything tattooed on their neck, heading the other way is never a bad idea.
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May 11, 2014 09:21
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Gynovore posted:If you run into someone with anything tattooed on their neck, heading the other way is never a bad idea. This is probably true, but I do know one Maori guy with some awesome neck/facial tattoos and in that particular case you'd be missing out. He had one tattoo put on his chin by a shaman while his son was being born, it's cool poo poo. That said the bald guy with the 88 and the lightning bolts tattooed on his neck was not someone I spent much time around. I wonder if anyone has ever gotten the art from lightning bolt tattooed on them. I know someone somewhere has a bad magic related tattoo (I'm pretty sure I've seen several in this thread).
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May 11, 2014 09:28
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Olothreutes posted:This is probably true, but I do know one Maori guy with some awesome neck/facial tattoos and in that particular case you'd be missing out. He had one tattoo put on his chin by a shaman while his son was being born, it's cool poo poo. I know a dude with a Bird Maiden forearm tattoo, I'll see if he'll let me post a picture of it.
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Olothreutes posted:I'm not sure what the 14 is for, but 88 is a numerical reference for HH, Heil Hitler (Typing this was really weird). If you run into a person with 88 tattooed on their neck you should probably steer clear, at least in my personal experience. The 14 bit is David Lane (he of The Order, an american white supremacist group) paraphrasing a bit in Mein Kampf and coining "Fourteen Words" as a slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children." So yeah, 1488 is a common neo-nazi thing. As is 18 (AH for Adolf Hitler) as in Combat 18 in the UK. And while Invoke Prejudice being 1488 might seem like a joke, it looks like its just a quirk of the numbering system in gatherer. Legends start at 1398 and it goes in alphabetical order.
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Shavnir posted:Yep. Lost to mirror and melira pod, beat rug twin, a br land destruction deck and three ur twin decks in a row. I lost to Tarmo-Twin and Melira Pod; the former beats me if he draws all his counters (this guy drew all of them), and the latter is usually a deck I beat, but games 2 and 3 I mulled to five and he managed to open hands with triple Thoughtseize both games which really makes mulligans hurt. Last round I played against BR burn and the dude was livid to see I have Glimmerposts and Thragtusk in the side since he dropped me to like 4 life, then in one turn I handily played some dudes and shot back up to 19. He was so upset that he refused to shake hands (I took him out of day 2) or sign the match result slip.  E: For those that were wondering the sequence, I had Azusa and did the following: cast Primeval Titan, fetch double-Glimmerpost (+4), give it haste, swing, fetch bounce land + Vesuva [ETB as Glimmpost] (+3), trigger bounce Vesuva. Main 2 play Vesuva (+3), play bounce land, returning Vesuva, play Vesuva again (+3). Pact, cast Thragtusk (+5), for a total of a +15 life swing. Mikujin fucked around with this message at 12:49 on May 11, 2014 |
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Awesome! Good luck today guys
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Mikujin posted:I lost to Tarmo-Twin and Melira Pod; the former beats me if he draws all his counters (this guy drew all of them), and the latter is usually a deck I beat, but games 2 and 3 I mulled to five and he managed to open hands with triple Thoughtseize both games which really makes mulligans hurt. Nice. My sickest play was getting someone to discard their own lilianna. If you see this say hi to the guy in the kilt.
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Is there a consensus best list for Scapeshift? It's really the only modern deck I have any interest in, partially because I should be able to get the few expensive cards I don't already have fairly easily.
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MrBling posted:Is there a consensus best list for Scapeshift? It's really the only modern deck I have any interest in, partially because I should be able to get the few expensive cards I don't already have fairly easily.
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May 11, 2014 15:47
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Round 1 vs Paulo Vitor. Sadly lost.  He's playing junk pod w/ spike feeder combo. Game 1 I mull to 5, he goes thoughtseize, Bird+Thoughtseize, then EWit thoughtseize and tore my good mull apart. Game 2 I once again have to mull to 5, get a hand that is playable but won't go off t2, at least I have a Seal for pod. Grinds out for awhile, I resolve some titans which die to shriekmaw and resto (since my amulet got decayed). My draws have been solid, he's on top deck mode after I firespout his board (save his angel). I'm set up for a kill in two turns (since I've no amulet), and he nut draws pod into spike feeder and turns on angel into another. Welp. E: At least I get a button?
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gently caress 8rack
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Babylon Astronaut posted:That's creepy as poo poo. 1488 isn't an urban legend. It's short for a nazi slogan. Isn't it because 14 and 88 kind of look like the letter H, and it's supposed to be "Hail Hitler"?
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Korak posted:I don't know about consensus but it feels like Titanshift gives that extra 1-3% edge in some match ups that over a long tournament you'll do that much better than playing the other types. I think Scapeshift isn't the greatest 2 tier deck any more since Jund has took a backseat to blue/x decks. scapeshift is a blue deck. is a UR control deck with green splash to mana ramp and a single card finisher. It has a prime sweeper for aggro in the form of anger of the gods, it has all the good blue draw and control spells, bolt, and then it goes scapeshift with floating remand mana, win.
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Count Bleck posted:Isn't it because 14 and 88 kind of look like the letter H, and it's supposed to be "Hail Hitler"? 14 is the number of words in some crazy White Power incantation or something and H is the eight letter of the alphabet so 88 is HH its not hard to guess what that stands for.
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Pony sleeves on the GP stream, and they're playing Draft. I did miss most Modern stuff last night, but at least there'll be Legacy today on SCG.
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Who would've thought Wild Guess would've been a card that people played in this day and age, huh?  Edit: Would Wild Guessing a Chandra's Phoenix be considered a value play for RW Burn? Count Bleck fucked around with this message at 16:10 on May 11, 2014 |
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May 11, 2014 16:08
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Shavnir posted:gently caress 8rack gently caress tron too
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Ahaha Threads of Disloyalty off the top to steal a Snapcaster with Splinter Twin on it. That game was such a grindy value-fight.
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