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suicidesteve posted:That Return To Ravnica set didn't have any good legacy cards. Yeah man, it's not like there's been a block, a core set, and two (awful) sets in-between.  Edit: seriously though, I'm not denying RTR had some good stuff, I'm referring to the 6 sets that came after. TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 03:24 on May 26, 2014 |
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AnacondaHL posted:Ahaha I just finished T-64 with Breakfast Burrito. Like I was just handed cash for that deck's performance. Thanks goons! I tuned in to watch Bahra a few days ago and right away I saw a dude play Balustrade Spy targeting himself. The transition from "wait what is this guy doing" "I guess this is like worse Belcher?" "why does he have a cerberus" *scoops as soon as he sees Balustrade Spy in game 2* was priceless 
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rabidsquid posted:Yeah the numbers I got were WAY OFF on that one, so I was wrong there. However the creature isn't seeing play in legacy at all and I think calling something a design mistake for seeing a lot of Modern play is just a thing I can't agree with. I'm seriously not saying that-- I don't think it's a design mistake, but a development one. I know it seems like I'm splitting hairs, but I do think that's an important distinction. If a card is a design mistake, it should never have seen the light of day. If it's a development mistake, there are tweaks to the card that could have been made to make it playable. Snapcaster Mage should be red, but not for power reasons; it should be red because granting flashback to cards in your yard is red. The color pie is important. I know I sound like Maro, but seriously, it is. Modern is a huge and growing non-rotating format, and the fact that one card is dominating it so hard can't just be dismissed. Spellskite is played as a counter to one of the most commonly played infinite combos in Magic-- look at the stats, it gets played on average as a 1.5-of instead of 3.6-of. And it gets played less than half as much as Snapcaster. There's always going to be a "best" creature, but when the "best" creature is so vastly better than second best it's an issue. Snapcaster is dominant in Modern for the same reason it doesn't show up much in Legacy; Deathrite Shaman is banned in Modern and not in Legacy. It is a very efficient hate card. Just because efficient hate has been printed for a given card doesn't make that card not a mistake. And again, Delver is a bigger issue than Snapcaster. Snapcaster in Modern is annoying as hell, but mostly because it makes Blue more efficient at what it's already doing. Delver is too strong in an inappropriate way.
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May 26, 2014 03:28
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On the other hand, only 1 Delver deck made top 8 of today's SCG Open and only 3 were in the top 16. Really nice diversity this particular week among the best performing decks.
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May 26, 2014 04:39
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MiddleEastBeast posted:On the other hand, only 1 Delver deck made top 8 of today's SCG Open and only 3 were in the top 16. Really nice diversity this particular week among the best performing decks. Yeah, today's SCO is actually really exceptionally cool. I love these Shardless decks. Also, I loved that "Food Chain, exile all my dudes, Emrakul" play.
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May 26, 2014 04:45
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There's an article on the mothership about the story arc of Theros, including Elspeth's fate. Also: cool art. Looks like Elspeth is gonna punch a hole through the underworld eventually. Xenagos too, presumably.
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May 26, 2014 05:07
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Zorak posted:There's an article on the mothership about the story arc of Theros, including Elspeth's fate. Also: cool art. Elspeth goes red with Xenagos and rages against the gods? Probably not, but it would be interesting to see what would happen if existential party boy and floor mat knight became buddies, or at least partners.
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May 26, 2014 05:16
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Ramos posted:Elspeth goes red with Xenagos and rages against the gods? Magic: the Gathering: the Sitcom Also written by MaRo.
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May 26, 2014 05:20
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Ramos posted:Elspeth goes red with Xenagos and rages against the gods? It's kind of interesting because the only RW planeswalker is (a version of) Ajani. Maybe Elspeth can join him.
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May 26, 2014 05:22
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RoleModel posted:Magic: the Gathering: the Sitcom Come on, it's clearly going to be a Buddy Cop television show. Coming to the USA television network Q4 2014
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May 26, 2014 05:48
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Man that cloudpost vs BUG game 3 was awesome.
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May 26, 2014 05:56
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KidDynamite posted:Man that cloudpost vs BUG game 3 was awesome. The dream is over, but drat it was fun to watch happen. I was on edge seeing if he could top deck Emrakul for the match.
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May 26, 2014 05:56
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Oraculum Animi posted:It's kind of interesting because the only RW planeswalker is (a version of) Ajani. Maybe Elspeth can join him. I could dig that. Then she'd make 1/1 soldiers with haste as her + ability! 
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May 26, 2014 05:59
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If I had to guess, probably a B/W Elspeth, no? All the people who leave the Theros underworld so far as listed as a type of undead.
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Angry Grimace posted:If I had to guess, probably a B/W Elspeth, no? All the people who leave the Theros underworld so far as listed as a type of undead. Is there an actual undead planeswalker? The closest I can think of is a BW vampire and a mono-black necromancer. They could do something stupid and make a WBR Elspeth, revenge keeping her from fully dying. I'm just talking out of my rear end right now, there probably isn't precedent for that.
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May 26, 2014 06:13
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I want Grandma Sengir as the first one mana plainswalker.
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May 26, 2014 06:15
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Haven't touched mono-black in two months. Picked it up today (with the green splash) for Game Day, walked out with the playmat, didn't drop a game. Yep, still the best deck in the format.
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May 26, 2014 06:18
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Babylon Astronaut posted:I want Grandma Sengir as the first one mana plainswalker.  Also yes I was rooting for Post so bad  that deck is incredibly fun to play.
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May 26, 2014 06:21
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Elspeth should give her spark to Xenagos so he can escape, but more for our benefit because not seeing her ever again would be super rad.
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Oraculum Animi posted:Is there an actual undead planeswalker? The closest I can think of is a BW vampire and a mono-black necromancer. They could do something stupid and make a WBR Elspeth, revenge keeping her from fully dying. I'm just talking out of my rear end right now, there probably isn't precedent for that. I just don't think 3-color walkers are going to be a thing too often because they're so limited in what decks can use them. The best option would be mono-black undead Elspeth ("Elspeth, the Returned") who makes zombie tokens instead of soldier tokens.
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Angry Grimace posted:I just don't think 3-color walkers are going to be a thing too often because they're so limited in what decks can use them. The best option would be mono-black undead Elspeth ("Elspeth, the Returned") who makes zombie tokens instead of soldier tokens. That might intrude on Liliana or Sorin's schtick. There isn't a BR planeswalker (except Nicol and Sarkhan) so that could happen. I guess I'm just stuck in the anger and death-crazed idea.
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I was rooting for Rynkiewicz I know he was playing very cautiously and conservatively, but I still think that the turn he Thoughtseized he should have taken out the Delver, dropped Liliana and -2 to take out the other Delver, and held back the Decay. He'd leave Craig with the Ponder in hand, but he'd have had Liliana on the board with nothing that could stop it from +1ing at least once (and unless Craig Pondered into TNN nothing could stop it from then being able to -2). Even if Craig hit the TNN Rynkiewicz could Decay the sword and then beat him in a race with Tar Pit and Shardless Agent.
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RoleModel posted:Magic: the Gathering: the Sitcom OneDeadman posted:Come on, it's clearly going to be a Buddy Cop television show. Either one would be better than what we have now edit: there's some new art in that article. cuntman.net fucked around with this message at 07:41 on May 26, 2014 |
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I'd take it as a functional reprint of DRS.
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Babylon Astronaut posted:I'd take it as a functional reprint of DRS. Just get some alters done. Your Grandma Sengir Deathrite will be the talk of the table!
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What kind of decks have good matches against Jund monsters? I'm already planning for next game day.
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kizudarake posted:What kind of decks have good matches against Jund monsters? I'm already planning for next game day. My Golgari midrange deck tends to wreck it as long as the removal shows up in half decent amounts. Reaper is an awesome blocker and Herald of Torment can quickly win the game bestowed on one. I imagine Junk would be even better with Deicide and Not O-Ring to get rid of those pesky gods.
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Went 4-1 at Gameday, then split with Top 4 for the play mat. Was running a Selesnya Constellation, splashed red for 1 main board Assemble the Legion and two sideboard Boros Charms. I love the friggin' thing. Only game and round losses were to Esper Control.
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kizudarake posted:What kind of decks have good matches against Jund monsters? I'm already planning for next game day. Boros Burn wrecks it as long as you are able to pull off at least 1 Warleader's Helix to their face. I played a Junk Midrange deck yesterday as my win-and-in match at a SCG IQ. He barely won game one, ending at 2 life. I murdered him game two. And I lost game three after topdecking the only Helix I saw the entire match sitting at 1 life and my white source being mana confluence. (My opponent was tapped out at 4 life.) And I only saw a single Chain to the Rocks as well. Boros gets access to Satyr Firedancer, Chain to the Rocks, and best-of-all, Reprisal. My first match was against Mono-B/g. Game three, my opponent has 2 Desecration Demons out and is sitting on 4 life. After hitting me down to 2, he Devour Fleshes himself, which I Skullcrack. I then Reprisal his second Demon at the end of the turn while he was holding onto a Golgari Charm. (This emptied my hand.) But clearing his field gave me the extra turn I needed to topdeck a Magma Jet for the win.
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Mikujin posted:Elspeth should give her spark to Xenagos so he can escape, but more for our benefit because not seeing her ever again would be super rad. What's it like having terrible opinions?
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Rogue 7 posted:What's it like having terrible opinions? As someone whose not a fan of Elspeth I wouldn't know. 
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Rogue 7 posted:What's it like having terrible opinions? The only thing more amazing than people trolling the Magic thread on SA, is watching the people who keep feeding them.
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Just gimme my goblin planeswalker. It's bullshit that the elves and merfolk get one yet goblins don't. It doesn't have to be THAT good, like maybe it costs two mana and has "+1: Put a goblin into play with haste".  jscolon2.0 posted:Nissa hardly counts. Nissa is dumb but at least she got to be a planeswalker somehow. Make Squee a planeswalker WotC thanks in advance Mercury Crusader fucked around with this message at 17:36 on May 26, 2014 |
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Mercury Crusader posted:Just gimme my goblin planeswalker. It's bullshit that the elves and merfolk get one yet goblins don't. It doesn't have to be THAT good, like maybe it costs two mana and has "+1: Put a goblin into play with haste". Nissa hardly counts.
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Mercury Crusader posted:Just gimme my goblin planeswalker. It's bullshit that the elves and merfolk get one yet goblins don't. It doesn't have to be THAT good, like maybe it costs two mana and has "+1: Put a goblin into play with haste". The merfolk planeswalker has nothing to do with merfolk, tho.
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forbidden lesbian posted:The merfolk planeswalker has nothing to do with merfolk, tho. I prefer Timmy McKrakenlover over whatever a "real" merfolk walker would be, anyway.
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Xenagos and Elspeth meet up in the Underworld, agree that the gods of Theros are all (except maybe Ephara I guess) bullshit assholes, and it turns out that his budding divinity was what was making Xenagos act so badly out of character for RG in the first place. They then team up, bust out of the underworld, and kick Heliod in his stupid backstabbing face. This is what's going to happen and I reject every other possible reality Mercury Crusader posted:Just gimme my goblin planeswalker. It's bullshit that the elves and merfolk get one yet goblins don't. It doesn't have to be THAT good, like maybe it costs two mana and has "+1: Put a goblin into play with haste". That would actually be stupidly good. For a two mana investment you get a free raging goblin every turn? Even if that was literally the only ability on the card, it'd be amazing. I mean, Tibalt was terrible, but a two-mana walker is something you do *not* want to be overpowered. The Lord of Hats fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 26, 2014 |
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Elspeth & Xenagos team up as the Junk planeswalker.
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Mikujin posted:Elspeth should give her spark to Xenagos so he can escape, but more for our benefit because not seeing her ever again would be super rad. Seriously though, Elspeth is the most boring character ever forever. I'm a sword lady who doesn't like war, follow me around while I fight wars trying to avoid wars because I am the embodiment of painfully obvious objective morality, conflicted with my desire to avoid conflict. Eugh, Sorin is a way better good guy.
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The Lord of Hats posted:That would actually be stupidly good. For a two mana investment you get a free raging goblin every turn? Even if that was literally the only ability on the card, it'd be amazing. I mean, Tibalt was terrible, but a two-mana walker is something you do *not* want to be overpowered. Look I just want to make my EDH deck even more degenerate, and also to make Goblins a Good Deck in Modern at the cost of several other decks that may not be able to handle it. 
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