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Literally The Worst posted:Magic, a game renowned for its lack of chance and utter reliance on skill. Something Awful, a forum renowned for its abundance of people responding sincerely to trolls.
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Mono-Red Aggro wins another SCG Open. Expect to see a million of these decks at your local FNM for the next month. Edit: Adrian Sullivan plays Darksteel Ingot, Debtor's Pulpit, Essence Scatter, Cyclonic Rift, Opportunity, Render Silent, and TRADING POST in his U/W Control deck. I forgive him for playing all his permanents upside-down with lands in front. qbert fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jun 22, 2014 |
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Jun 22, 2014 21:28
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No fun decks made it in Chicago, I guess 15 rounds will beat out aggro decks better than 10 can. 5 black devotion, 2 W/U control, 1 mono blue. Guess I won't feel bad about turning this off for the soccer game in half an hour.
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Jun 22, 2014 22:27
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Guh, came ninth on tiebreakers in a cash GPT, was a point or beater breakers from getting at least £50 for being in the top 8. Trying not to be too down about it as I beat a guy that's going on the Pro Tour, but he did land flood, then land screw pretty bad. Also, my sixth round opponent, who was drawn up against me, didn't show up, I guess because he was out of contention.
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Jun 22, 2014 22:36
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qbert posted:Mono-Red Aggro wins another SCG Open. Expect to see a million of these decks at your local FNM for the next month. I never really cared for Adrian Sullivan as a commentator, but I love his deck and playstyle. I hate lands in front, but with them all upside down, I imagine it just tilts his opponents so I can approve. He's definitely been a treat to watch this weekend, and I generally can't stand to watch Sphinx's decks.
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A new M15 spoiler: Geisterbund 1W (in English that's something like Spirit Alliance) Enchantment - Rare Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay W. If you do, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield under your control. 1W, Sacrifice a spirit: Target non-spirit creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Designed by Justin Gary This card is awesome. Music For Cats fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jun 23, 2014 |
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It's pretty clever, but it seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through for flying 1/1s and the occasional indestructible. It will likely be a lot of fun in limited, though.
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Music For Cats posted:A new M15 spoiler: I bet it's Spiritbond even though that's not technically what it reads as in German. I'm just going to think of it as Ghost Buddy until I get the official English name. It's pretty cool though. It's the kind of fun card I'd want to use, and since I mostly play Limited, I might even get to!
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Jun 23, 2014 00:49
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My only complaint is that it can't trigger tallowisp, and will not bring the return of Ghost Dad decks.
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Jun 23, 2014 01:51
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So who won GP Chicago? Coverage isn't updated past the quarterfinals on Wizards' site.
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MiddleEastBeast posted:So who won GP Chicago? Coverage isn't updated past the quarterfinals on Wizards' site. Tyler Blum, playing a Mono-B Devotion mirror.
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Dungeon Ecology posted:It's pretty clever, but it seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through for flying 1/1s and the occasional indestructible. Yeah, seriously -- I've come to expect "fun" rares to be overcosted but 1W to drop it with W for the activation cost seems to me like the sweet spot. It's gonna work real nicely with evoke, too -- really hope M15 ends up being a great set to draft.
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Music For Cats posted:A new M15 spoiler: That card looks awesome, they really let these guest designers make some neat cards. e: cool art too 
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^^^^ That's good art, right there.goferchan posted:Yeah, seriously -- I've come to expect "fun" rares to be overcosted but 1W to drop it with W for the activation cost seems to me like the sweet spot. It's gonna work real nicely with evoke, too -- really hope M15 ends up being a great set to draft. Yeah, I had forgotten that convoke was going to make a comeback in M15. It's got a nice aggressive cost, that's no doubt, but I think it ends up falling somewhere between aggro and midrange, not quite finding a home in either. My concerns are that you're putting down a two-drop that doesn't do anything that turn; and in subsequent turns, the creatures you play will be 1 turn behind on the curve (so you can pay the W) thus hamstringing your attempts to outrace other aggro decks. Also, multiple copies in your deck become redundant. It's got some real fun design, though, and I'm excited to draft it. Dungeon Ecology fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jun 23, 2014 |
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Jun 23, 2014 04:17
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Does the black border at the bottom curl into the card because it's a special card, or to give M15 cards something visually distinct?
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Jun 23, 2014 04:32
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Rinkles posted:Does the black border at the bottom curl into the card because it's a special card, or to give M15 cards something visually distinct? New card frames starting with M15.
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Jun 23, 2014 04:34
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Dungeon Ecology posted:^^^^ That's good art, right there. Redundant how? You can pay W as many times as you have Geisterbunds. I would see it as a 1-3 of in a white weenie aggro deck. You absolutely don't want to cast it on-curve but it's going to make the midgame, when you have open mana and underwhelming creatures, that much better. It goes REALLY well with Athreos - returned-to-hand 1-drops are a lot better when they come with free ghosts and the threat of indestructibility.
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Chorocojo posted:New card frames starting with M15. Is there a good reason for this? A milestone visual tweek to quickly tell approximately how old a card is?
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Rinkles posted:Is there a good reason for this? A milestone visual tweek to quickly tell approximately how old a card is? The new card frame is machine-readable and all the rares and mythics have a little holofoil stamp. As to whether that's a "good reason" or not, I couldn't say
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Attorney at Funk posted:The new card frame is machine-readable and all the rares and mythics have a little holofoil stamp. That's potentially pretty cool. Do they have any concrete plans announced for making use of it?
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LordSaturn posted:Redundant how? You can pay W as many times as you have Geisterbunds. Ah, you're right. I was thinking you could pay W any number of times, but I see now I misread it. I can see how the card could help carry over the last bit of damage for weenie decks that would have otherwise run out of steam. Rinkles posted:Is there a good reason for this? A milestone visual tweek to quickly tell approximately how old a card is? My understanding is that they are introducing holographic stamps to the bottom of the rare and mythic cards to reduce counterfeiting. My guess is, since they were already going to rework the card frame to include that, why not freshen it up a bit as well.
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Rinkles posted:That's potentially pretty cool. Do they have any concrete plans announced for making use of it? The machine readability is more for their internal use with printing. Basically, by making their cards machine readable they can more precisely map or pair cards in packs, avoid printing errors, that sort of thing.
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Dungeon Ecology posted:
It's also so that it's machine-readable, which allows them some leeway in the printing process and booster organization shenanigans.
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Music For Cats posted:A new M15 spoiler: Seems fringe constructed to me. Giving all of your creatures a cheap kicker ability is a pretty nifty bonus.
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Jun 23, 2014 05:06
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Are they really not updating till 12am PST?
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Jun 23, 2014 05:09
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That card is better than Bitterblossom. There, I said it.
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Back when vintage masters was first being talked about in this thread I remember someone bringing up UG Madness. It looked fun so I built it in paper magic and love it. How would something like that do in actual vintage games on MTGO? Is there any way to make it competitive?
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Bugsy posted:Are they really not updating till 12am PST? Trick Jarret, the webmaster, indicated that they were still sticking with the 12am EST stuff last week but were delaying it to 12am PST last week due to them messing with the site still. I am willing to bet they forgot to switch it back.
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e: Stupid latency  e:e: oh, mothership update: https://twitter.com/TrickMTG/status/480925927472263168 they're sticking with the 3 AM EST date in the short term in order to try to make poo poo not be broken. Zorak fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jun 23, 2014 |
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Bugsy posted:Are they really not updating till 12am PST?  Look at the date this was posted. The site hasn't been updated at midnight EST again since the change. One more reason to hate the new site. Edit: Looks like this will be fixed later in the week. Sucks that they haven't fixed it when most people will be looking at the site, but whatever.
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 from http://www.gatheringmagic.com/mtgpotpourri-062314-mtg-potpourri-12-repo-draft-and-the-aanr
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Symphonie posted:
Seems dope. Who was lamenting that this wasn't going to be printed, since Soul of Innistrad is probably in Black's spot?
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Symphonie posted:
These at mythic are so underwhelming. This is the one that makes some sorta sense, as when you untap, you can swing freely (at a high cost) but its still pretty miserable.
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Symphonie posted:
That's awesome. Them referencing New Phyrexia in a printed card gives me hope that we'll start seeing Phyrexians as villains again soon, since it takes them a while to develop new sets.
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I'm so happy they printed one for New Phyrexia and I'm even more happy it's incredible.
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I love that it looks like Elesh Norn.
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Symphonie posted:
That might might be playable in modern tron, 5(11) is a lot to protect your lands but it might seen play.
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I still can't get over the color frame on the left side of the card being shorter than the color frame on the right side of the card. Why. Why did they do that.
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Attorney at Funk posted:I still can't get over the color frame on the left side of the card being shorter than the color frame on the right side of the card. Why. Why did they do that. It would be really funny if it were actually solely to piss people off. Questionable from a business perspective, but hilarious nonetheless.
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