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First Bass posted:Nobody stands like that. Yeah, it's pretty much exactly the same impossible "rear end and tits visible at the same time" pose that gets used all the time in comic books.
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Played modern tonight for the first time, did surprisingly well with a red burn deck. Took third overall and won my first couple packs since I've started attending. Managed to open up a thoughtseize, overall a very nice night! Now to take that and turn it into some goblin guides or blood moons.
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Downtown Abey posted:Goon Revo, aka Cory Lack, is 6-2 today after starting off 1-2 in the draft. His constructed list is the nuts. Apparently there is no day 1 coverage anywhere, what kind of deck is he running?
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Just watched the Chapin/Mengucci match on Youtube. It was hilarious how visibly upset Mengucci was after miscalculating Game 1 and subsequently completely misplaying, then scooping, a game he totally still had a chance of coming back from.
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May 17, 2014 07:11
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qbert posted:Just watched the Chapin/Mengucci match on Youtube. It was hilarious how visibly upset Mengucci was after miscalculating Game 1 and subsequently completely misplaying, then scooping, a game he totally still had a chance of coming back from. While he was certainly tilting, Chapin was pretty ahead. He had two Silence the Believers in hand at that point.
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Zorak posted:While he was certainly tilting, Chapin was pretty ahead. He had two Silence the Believers in hand at that point. Well Chapin only had 1 after the attack, as he used one to kill a Courser and a token. I believe it was 3 Caryatids on Mengucci's side vs 2 Caryatids, Courser, and Brimaz. Mengucci was like at 17 life, so if he topdecks Elspeth he's back in the game and probably ahead. If he gets Stormbreath, Stormbreath, he probably wins. Even a Banishing Light stalls the game long enough, probably. Really no reason to scoop there. qbert fucked around with this message at 07:49 on May 17, 2014 |
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Jenx posted:Well I guess it depends on how you want to play it? Our playgroup has decided on these rules: I'd make a Goblin Recruiter deck.
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kingcobweb posted:I'd make a Goblin Recruiter deck. Dragonsoul Knight would be an interesting commander.
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May 17, 2014 08:15
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Ramos posted:Dragonsoul Knight would be an interesting commander. Does it work by the same rules as normal Commander? God, I hope not. What a stupid loving set of rules.
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May 17, 2014 08:16
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kingcobweb posted:Does it work by the same rules as normal Commander? God, I hope not. What a stupid loving set of rules. Five color pauper EDH deck sounds pretty cool to me. But yes, under regular Commander rules, Dragonsoul Knight would allow you to have a five color deck since he has every color identity.
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Ramos posted:Five color pauper EDH deck sounds pretty cool to me. But yes, under regular Commander rules, Dragonsoul Knight would allow you to have a five color deck since he has every color identity. Oh, that's slightly less stupid than I assumed. Carry on.
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I have a rules question: My opponent has a Satyr Hoplite enchanted with a Mogis's Warhound and an Oppressive Rays, does my opponent have to attack and pay 3 if able?
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Music For Cats posted:I have a rules question: My opponent has a Satyr Hoplite enchanted with a Mogis's Warhound and an Oppressive Rays, does my opponent have to attack and pay 3 if able? Unless he or she already has 3 in his mana pool, nope! Your opponent doesn't have mana to pay for his creature to attack, which means it isn't able to attack. He or she isn't required to generate mana.
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May 17, 2014 13:42
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He's allowed to not pay, then the guy can't attack. So he's a beefy blocker (5/5?)
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May 17, 2014 13:43
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Thanks, I have never had that come up before.
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May 17, 2014 13:45
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qbert posted:Even a Banishing Light stalls the game long enough, probably. Really no reason to scoop there. After the courser came down and revealed the land. he should have responded to the life gain trigger by magma jetting Elspeth. I don't know why he sat there hating himself for Chapin's whole turn instead of reacting to what was going on. I know I'll never be on the pro tour, and it's easier to back-seat drive when there's nothing on the line for me, but you gotta switch gears pretty quick when your burn is no longer lethal.
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But if the opponent did have the mana in their pool from, say, some big Nykthos activation, they'd have to do it right?
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goferchan posted:But if the opponent did have the mana in their pool from, say, some big Nykthos activation, they'd have to do it right? Your mana pool empties at the ends of all steps and phases, so when the "declare attackers" phase of combat begins, any mana previously generated is gone, and the warhound/enchanted creature isn't required to attack.
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Let's Read Journey Into Nyx: Chapter Four Sam Burley, Temple of Malice, BNG We meet Rhordon the Rageblood, a shaman in the Temple of Malice. Who seems like he might be an interesting character and relevant to themes of the book. If this wasn't a licenced Magic novel by a mediocre writer, I would look forward to future scenes with him, the growth of his personality and how he continued to reflect ideas from the narrative. As it is ... yeah, not so much. Still, kudos to Helland for making at least a good step.  Mike Bierek, Rageblood Shaman, THS Okay, yeah, why's he interesting or relevant? He's a minotaur oracle, who's stopped in the middle of beating up a leonin prisoner in some sort of ritual gladiatorial fight, to contemplate its atheism and probable (lack of) an afterlife. I like. He also returns to the Daxos idea of oracles lacking their gods and rediscovering their rather ragged own selves without constant divine commands. Rhordon in particular is neat because he was an oracle of the Twin Gods: Mogis starts yelling in his skull about carnage and slaughter; Iroas would pop up to commend discipline, restraint and only honourable warfare. Where my interpretation of Daxos as struggling with/upset by his freedom is a reading into the subtext, here it's explicit: "Now his brain was asserting his independence. And he didn’t like it."  Pete Mohrbacher, Brimaz, King of Oreskos, BNG This leonin may in fact be Brimaz because he has a fancy sword. Rhordon passes off his hesitation as wanting to execute the prisoner with his own blade, because otherwise his own tribe are likely to rip him to bits. Rhordon gets the shiny sword and promptly beheads him. Farewell, possibly Brimaz.  Chase Stone, Dictate of the Twin Gods promo, JOU Xenagos comes in while the minotaurs are eating the leonin corpse, bringing two of his own Nyxborn minotaur bodyguards. Rhordon's oracle powers say there's something a little off with them. Xenagos spins a story about Iroas cheating the Silence to help Akros and Mogis sending an army of Nyxborn minotaurs to help his own people. Xenagos 'captured' them, but will return them to the minotaurs if they go sack Akros. Rhordon is given some pause by the fact that only Mogis should be able to create Nyxborn minotaurs, but is still intelligent enough to see Xenagos is lying. He sets his warriors on the satyr.  Matt Stewart, Fanatic of Mogis, THS One of the bodyguards takes an attacking minotaur apart, and Xenagos uses magic to put Rhordon down. Rhordon can respect that, at least. He listens to Xenagos. Helland's awkward use of conjunctions comes to the fore again: “And I will tell you how to destroy Akros, and you will be Rhordon, Conqueror of Akros.”  Pete Mohrbacher, Mogis, God of Slaughter, BNG In any case, Xenagos comes up with possibly the most obvious plan to stop the problem of conquering Akros - don't be dumb fucks and get yourself caught between the wandering armies and the home forces. Why this is revelatory to any Theros warrior is beyond me, and if this is why Akros still stands, it's just stupid. Anyway, Mogis seems to rumble his approval, and a young minotaur rushes in at exactly the right time with a report of minotaur heads on the walls of Akros: 'proof' that Iroas is setting his city against the minotaurs. I have an issue with the timing - if it happened by itself, I'd chalk it up to manipulation from Xenagos, but the manipulation here is the minotaur heads, which are created Nyxborn heads that he planted. The messenger just gets to be extremely convenient all by himself. And so now the minotaurs will march to war. This chapter took 3% of the book. The last one took 13%. Stop it Helland, this is messing my posts up.
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End of Life Guy posted:After the courser came down and revealed the land. he should have responded to the life gain trigger by magma jetting Elspeth. I don't know why he sat there hating himself for Chapin's whole turn instead of reacting to what was going on. I know I'll never be on the pro tour, and it's easier to back-seat drive when there's nothing on the line for me, but you gotta switch gears pretty quick when your burn is no longer lethal. Pretty sure he was tapped out on Chapin's turn.
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I've been messing around with my Esper Control deck since JOU came out. After playing FNM last night I've determined that Archangel of Thune + Nyx-Fleece Ram on the board pretty much means my opponent should forfeit 
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morning wood posted:I've been messing around with my Esper Control deck since JOU came out. After playing FNM last night I've determined that Archangel of Thune + Nyx-Fleece Ram on the board pretty much means my opponent should forfeit Did you beat someone down with a pumped up nyx-fleece ram?
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King Macar seems like a pretty good card and it's only about 40 cents, worth picking up? (Speaking of obsolete mechanics)
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kirtar posted:Did you beat someone down with a pumped up nyx-fleece ram? *Two pumped up rams. I got two counters on each ram every upkeep from my rams triggering archangel plus another counter from attacking with archangel. It was a beautiful thing.
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change my name posted:King Macar seems like a pretty good card and it's only about 40 cents, worth picking up? (Speaking of obsolete mechanics) His main deal is that if he can attack just once without dying, he's gone a long way to putting the game under your control. The problem is that is rather hard to do in competitive Magic. Otherwise, hell yes. Macar kicks loads of rear end, use him. Free mana and dead dudes left and right.
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I really hope they print a good card with "tap a creature" in it's activation cost in the upcoming Core Set. That or bring back Convoke, really.
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Ramos posted:His main deal is that if he can attack just once without dying, he's gone a long way to putting the game under your control. The problem is that is rather hard to do in competitive Magic. Otherwise, hell yes. Macar kicks loads of rear end, use him. Free mana and dead dudes left and right. Ah I wasn't even thinking of having him attack to get him tapped, but by using other cards.
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TheKingofSprings posted:I really hope they print a good card with "tap a creature" in it's activation cost in the upcoming Core Set. Opposition M15 make this happen Wizards.
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change my name posted:Ah I wasn't even thinking of having him attack to get him tapped, but by using other cards. Ah, fair enough, there is a lot of stuff to do that with, I just tend to be aggro minded as of late. Turns out Prophetic Flamespeaker is a really awesome card for burn, on that note. It makes me rather sad that everyone immediately removes him upon appearance on the board though.
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TheKingofSprings posted:I really hope they print a good card with "tap a creature" in it's activation cost in the upcoming Core Set. Isn't that the entire point of Springleaf Drum?
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GoutPatrol posted:Isn't that the entire point of Springleaf Drum? A good card.
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Ramos posted:His main deal is that if he can attack just once without dying, he's gone a long way to putting the game under your control. The problem is that is rather hard to do in competitive Magic. Otherwise, hell yes. Macar kicks loads of rear end, use him. Free mana and dead dudes left and right. Macar is a complete house in Limited. Probably one of the biggest ones in the block. If you're facing him down without good removal or a very good board state, you're probably going to lose.
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Angry Grimace posted:Macar is a complete house in Limited. Probably one of the biggest ones in the block. If you're facing him down without good removal or a very good board state, you're probably going to lose. Yes. I won a sealed prerelease with this guy. If your opponents dont have an answer to him it's GG.
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The PT coverage gets even more embarrassing than I thought watching a wizard poker tournament on my living room TV could be when they start awkwardly trying to be coy about Conspiracy. "We're going to go back to the desk to get some answers about something a lot of people have been asking about." "I have no idea what that man is talking about. We're going to go to lunch, then...maybe we'll talk about that. I don't know." I mean, it's either bad teasing for Conspiracy or it's just their coverage being poorly scripted.
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Boxman posted:The PT coverage gets even more embarrassing than I thought watching a wizard poker tournament on my living room TV could be when they start awkwardly trying to be coy about Conspiracy. There have been SEVERAL instances of "Okay we're going to take a quick break and will be back after these messages. *cuts to live look-in of another match* or I guess we're just gonna look at this other match!" so far this weekend.
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Boxman posted:The PT coverage gets even more embarrassing than I thought watching a wizard poker tournament on my living room TV could be when they start awkwardly trying to be coy about Conspiracy. It's Conspiracy teasing. They're trying to buy for time because they're not set up for Conspiracy yet. Supposedly it'll be ready in ~ ten minutes, apparently there's technical issues of some kind (no idea).
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PT coverage is always kind of a mess. Wizards just can't get its poo poo together around streaming and coverage of events.
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mcnealys baby posted:PT coverage is always kind of a mess. Wizards just can't get its poo poo together around streaming and coverage of events. I think they're just waaay too understaffed. http://www.twitch.tv/magic Conspiracy spoilers imminent SUPPOSEDLY.
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