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I'm curious if any filthy Americans (or anyone, but we're usually worse about languages) has experience playing in a casual environment in a language they don't know. How does that work? Like when the guy sitting across from you is playing mono black devotion you're obviously going to be okay, but what did you do when you played against a brew? Hope someone can translate names? Keep magiccards.info up? How about when you sit down with a brew? On one hand it seems like a waste spending a night in a foreign country playing a card game, but on the other hand making the game work seems like it'd be sorta fun.
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:white bordered If you don't use this for your islands I don't know what the gently caress to tell you. 9th edition Island supremacy 
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Aug 1, 2014 13:18
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Huh? First, time I've been empty quoted with a Hitler emoticon. Whats the point you are attempting to establish, because I am at a loss.......if its just sarcasm than I'm sorry it's 8:20am here and my mind isn't all together yet.
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Aug 1, 2014 13:23
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Boxman posted:I'm curious if any filthy Americans (or anyone, but we're usually worse about languages) has experience playing in a casual environment in a language they don't know. How does that work? Like when the guy sitting across from you is playing mono black devotion you're obviously going to be okay, but what did you do when you played against a brew? Hope someone can translate names? Keep magiccards.info up? How about when you sit down with a brew? Ok, I'll field this one: I'm an American living in rural Japan for about two years now, and I've gone to at least one pre-release event each set since RTR while here. I do a bit of legwork before tournaments to memorize new cards by their art, CMC, and power/toughness, which isn't as hard as it sounds. Just do a couple of mock drafts online in English and before you know it, you'll know what cards do before you even read them. I'm lucky enough that the store owner is extremely nice and lets me use his iPad and pulls up the English spoiler page for new sets, in case I need to look up the odd card. As far as language is concerned, I have a passable understanding of Japanese, but it's by no means fluent. Luckily, a lot of the terminology you might use when playing are cognates, i.e. they sound the same in English as they do in Japanese. What really keeps me attending, though, is how earnestly happy the pther players are to have me join them. Even with my language being at a non-fluent level, they work to meet me halfway and never get upset if I need to look up a translation. It's the reason I get mad at people in America with their "speak Amurrcan or  " attitude. No one else does that but America.I can't really speak to your homebrew question. Most of the stuff I see is pretty established in the meta, but I'm sure it would be no problem to just look it up on a phone/iPad. Dungeon Ecology fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 13:33
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:If you don't use this for your islands I don't know what the gently caress to tell you. Theros Pen Island says your mamma dresses you funny. This is the best.
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Aug 1, 2014 13:35
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Boxman posted:I'm curious if any filthy Americans (or anyone, but we're usually worse about languages) has experience playing in a casual environment in a language they don't know. How does that work? Like when the guy sitting across from you is playing mono black devotion you're obviously going to be okay, but what did you do when you played against a brew? Hope someone can translate names? Keep magiccards.info up? How about when you sit down with a brew? Dungeon Ecology covered this really well already (and is in the exact same situation I was in until a year or so ago, I live in an urban area now), but I just want to add that, at least based on my experience, it's not a waste at all. If you're only visiting for a very short time you'll probably have other priorities, but I think visiting a foreign FNM or something can be a lot of fun, to the point that I'd strongly consider bringing a deck along on a trip just in case. Even in Japan, which admittedly earns its reputation for being reticent around foreigners, I've met a lot more enthusiasm and interest than I ever expected. (And incidentally, if anyone's visiting Osaka and has a free Thursday or Friday, come by a Legacy night! We usually get a good handful of people and a growing number of expats showing up.) As far as brews/unknown cards go, I've never had any issues at all with looking up cards (at casual levels) or just calling for a judge. Players and judges may not speak English, but most people speak Magic English pretty decently, and they'll know what you need if you ask to check a card in English. Hell, even if you ask your opponent if they know a card's English name, nine times out of ten they do. The whole talk a few pages back about card languages completely baffles me; I've never seen anyone outside of America consider it to be something worth commenting on. It's a total non-issue. kizudarake posted:One of the main things that annoy me are the anime titty sleeves and playmats. Holy poo poo, jerk off at home on your own time. This is entirely anecdotal, but from what I hear online about this poo poo back in the States, apparently far more MTG players use these abroad than over here (where they are sold by a lot of game shops). I can count on one hand the times I've sat down across from an opponent that had really egregious sleeves in years of playing here, with fingers left over. It probably helps that there are a ton of CCGs on the Japanese market, and most of the players that would use those sleeves play one of the several games with anime licenses, rather than Magic. It may also be that everyone knows their sexy anime sleeves will never be half as sexy as MY sexy anime sleeves. Johnny Landmine fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 14:41
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kizudarake posted:Theros Pen Island says your mamma dresses you funny. This is the best. I never noticed these until i asked a friend to grab me some islands during a draft and he went and found these for me. Now they're my island of choice and I want to get a bunch of foil ones for the blue tron deck I'm building.
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Aug 1, 2014 15:18
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Where do I get those sleeves? Where are they?!
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Aug 1, 2014 15:19
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I never noticed these until i asked a friend to grab me some islands during a draft and he went and found these for me. Now they're my island of choice and I want to get a bunch of foil ones for the blue tron deck I'm building. The real tragedy is that Theros didn't have full art lands.
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Aug 1, 2014 15:20
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Molybdenum posted:Where do I get those sleeves? You can try Japanese Amazon or this shop, which has them for cheaper, but I've never ordered anything from them before so I can't really vouch for them.
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Aug 1, 2014 15:26
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Count Bleck posted:The real tragedy is that every set doesn't have full art lands.
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Aug 1, 2014 15:27
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My friend uses anime boob sleeves for decks, so I got these bushiroad ones:
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Aug 1, 2014 15:30
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Count Bleck posted:The real tragedy is that Theros didn't have full art lands. Full art pen islands, so you can really appreciate the details on the main pillar and see the mossy rocks at the base?
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Aug 1, 2014 15:36
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I remember having Revised, 4th and beyond Birds of Paradise and coloring the white borders with sharpie because I used Birds in almost EVERY deck (5c-Blue w/ Tradewind Rider yesssss), and white bordered are gently caress-ugly. I got pretty good at it, and now can easily tell when people do it. I have seen it before and laugh about it.
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Aug 1, 2014 15:53
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White borders are basically the pimpest of all borders.
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Aug 1, 2014 15:59
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Hopping Ghost posted:You can try Japanese Amazon or this shop, which has them for cheaper, but I've never ordered anything from them before so I can't really vouch for them.
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Aug 1, 2014 16:19
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:If you don't use this for your islands I don't know what the gently caress to tell you. Mark Poole revised sunset island is the best island.
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Aug 1, 2014 16:27
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My white bordered Blood Moons provide a nice one two punch as they hit the field. The psychological pressure is too much for most.
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Aug 1, 2014 16:43
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neetengie posted:gently caress yes, I'm gonna get those right now! I can vouch for Amiami, they're a good shop, but don't like it when you cancel orders. So when you make a purchase, make sure that's what you really want. My usual sleeves are Hyper Mattes but I whip these out for large events. I have gotten mostly compliments and smatterings of "wait foreigners know this too?" when I use them. My favorite reaction ever was round one of the Big Magic Open legacy tournament in Yokohama last year, though. This guy dressed in all black sits down, spreads a hand-drawn Nether Void playmat, sets down a leather-bound book and a fountain pen to write life totals, and shuffles up his fancied-up Pox deck. Across the table, I start pile shuffling with closeups of the Yaranaika Guy's face. He never says anything, but his disappointment at my spectacular failure to participate in his fantasy of being a dark wizard is plainly visible. I don't mean to be like "look at this dork I played against" (though I would not have chosen a Harold McNeill piece for my playmat) - one of my favorite things about legacy is how into their decks people can get - but I definitely felt like I was already dreamcrushing before I'd even beaten him. Johnny Landmine fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 17:16
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Are there any sleeves that don't turn an EDH deck into an utter monster to transport?
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Aug 1, 2014 17:25
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Veyrall posted:Are there any sleeves that don't turn an EDH deck into an utter monster to transport? Sorry friend. You play a monster deck, you carry it like it the monster it is.
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Aug 1, 2014 17:38
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Hopping Ghost posted:I don't mean to be like "look at this dork I played against" (though I would not have chosen a Harold McNeill piece for my playmat) - one of my favorite things about legacy is how into their decks people can get - but I definitely felt like I was already dreamcrushing before I'd even beaten him. It really is too bad the dude is racist rear end in a top hat, as he did a bunch of really good card arts. Darkness, Nether Void, and his Fog are all among my favorites.
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Aug 1, 2014 17:55
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SDCC panel's up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S3_oYCnBak
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Hopping Ghost posted:My usual sleeves are Hyper Mattes but I whip these out for large events. I have gotten mostly compliments and smatterings of "wait foreigners know this too?" when I use them. My favorite reaction ever was round one of the Big Magic Open legacy tournament in Yokohama last year, though. This guy dressed in all black sits down, spreads a hand-drawn Nether Void playmat, sets down a leather-bound book and a fountain pen to write life totals, and shuffles up his fancied-up Pox deck. Across the table, I start pile shuffling with closeups of the Yaranaika Guy's face. He never says anything, but his disappointment at my spectacular failure to participate in his fantasy of being a dark wizard is plainly visible. I'll probably use these sleeves for Standard, since I don't want to waste my glorious Hyper Mattes on those things.
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Aug 1, 2014 18:06
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Pro Tour 2015 is starting for anyone interested. http://twitch.tv/magic
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Aug 1, 2014 18:10
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I usually watch on YouTube instead of Twitch for the Pro Tours, and then the draft cuts out for the first two packs of Ben Stark's draft... Meanwhile when we get a chance to watch Sam Black's draft I had to stop when the camera decided to spend the entire time focusing on Buehler instead of THE ACTUAL DRAFT 
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Aug 1, 2014 18:28
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Goddamn, stark, stop flicking your loving cards. That's now my third annoying thing.
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Aug 1, 2014 18:47
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Ben Stark bluffing the Peel from Reality so hard 
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Aug 1, 2014 18:52
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Get a load of this guy, everyone. Let's pile on! But seriously you are being dumb Moritmer and there exist tournament organizers for exactly this purpose. Is this the story about Gerry Thompson having a Japanese Inkwell Leviathan? That's not what happened, his opponent never asked what it does, he just assumed he knew. In the article about what happened, the judge writing it posits the scenario, "What if he had asked what the card does?" and verifies that a partial answer about public information is legal. http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/the-riki-rules-alls-well-that-inkwells/
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Aug 1, 2014 18:58
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So in case you guys weren't aware BenS is pretty good at the game Magic: the Gathering
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Aug 1, 2014 19:03
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Speaking of SDCC, when are those Planeswalkers going online at Hasbro? I need to buy like 30 of those sets.
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Elyv posted:So in case you guys weren't aware BenS is pretty good at the game Magic: the Gathering His deck SUCKS. It's really unbelievable that he's going to win this match. Edit: NM he's gonna lose. The Gas gets there mcmagic fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 19:07
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I still find Inkwell Leviathan to be the weirdest Big Blue creature just because it basically has unblockable, hexproof, and trample because reasons. 
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Aug 1, 2014 19:08
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mcmagic posted:His deck SUCKS. It's really unbelievable that he's going to win this match. That game 2 was incredible and sideboarding in back to nature for g3 was sick. Sadly, it doesn't look like it's actually going to be enough.
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Aug 1, 2014 19:10
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Elyv posted:So in case you guys weren't aware BenS is pretty good at the game Magic: the Gathering Cuneo's not so shabby himself apparently.
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Aug 1, 2014 19:11
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Elyv posted:So in case you guys weren't aware BenS is pretty good at the game Magic: the Gathering Until he loses 
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Count Bleck posted:I still find Inkwell Leviathan to be the weirdest Big Blue creature just because it basically has unblockable, hexproof, and trample because reasons. A 9 mana creature ought to do a pretty good job of winning the game on it's own, though. And all those effects have appeared on other Big Blue Beefcakes in various combinations before.
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Aug 1, 2014 19:12
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Elyv posted:That game 2 was incredible and sideboarding in back to nature for g3 was sick. How is that sick? and not just the thing you do when you see a spectra ward. Like that's the obvious answer.
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Aug 1, 2014 19:14
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Elyv posted:That game 2 was incredible and sideboarding in back to nature for g3 was sick. It's not like it takes a pro to SB Back to Nature if you see a Spectra Ward though haha.
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mcmagic posted:It's not like it takes a pro to SB Back to Nature if you see a Spectra Ward though haha. yeah I exaggerated, but I probably wouldn't've taken it in the first place(I am bad at Magic)
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