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Recently I started playing with my lands (and usually other mana sources) in front of my other permanents. I like it.  Also I attended a PTQ (didn't play, just saw some people and met the L2 judge I've been talking to), but didn't get to help out at the WMCQ because I was very tired and skipped out on it in favour of more sleep. VV: I tried that as well, but I think I'll keep it for later. Lands in front is not bad though. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Serperoth posted:Recently I started playing with my lands (and usually other mana sources) in front of my other permanents. I like it. Now just start playing with all your permanents facing your opponent and you'll be history's greatest monster.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:22
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End of Life Guy posted:What do you put in the sideboard of Breakfast Burrito to turn it into Belcher? If there are no LEDs involved, I'm interested. 4 Goblin Charbelchers, 4 Land Grants, and 1 Taiga, if I had to make a plebeian guess.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:34
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Very frustrating PTQ for me today. I was on Blue-Red Twin and started out with a grindfest against UWR Control which I was lucky enough to win in turns of game 3 by having the extra counter. Game 2 I'm paired against a guy some guy with a team shirt on playing burn who was just the biggest rear end in a top hat. Wouldn't even shake my hand when we sat down and kept asking me if I wanted to redirect his SkullCracks with my resolved Spellskite, presumably to "get me" to activate Skite and target an illegal target. I let it get the best of me and lost in 2 games which I played horribly. chalk it up to a learning experience. Then I'm paired against an affinity player and I just lose to two god hands and my drawing no bolts which I can't feel too bad about. So I tell myself I'll play until I'm X-3 and then drop out. After losing to the affinity player, I'm able to rattle off 4 wins in a row vs Hexproof, Pod, Scapeshift and Jund (my second worst matchup in the room with 2 unanswered Blood Moon's in games 2 and 3. I'll get to this later.) So at this point I'm 5-2 and it's 8 rounds total and going off my breakers if I won round 8 I had a decent chance to get into the top 16 and a lock to get top 32 and go home with a box, which for it being only my second Modern PTQ i would've felt great about. So for round 8, I sit down and start my match against a Pod player. We're about 4 turns into the game and I'm pretty much a lock to take game one. I have a resolved Exarch in play, Twin in hand, and I've just Peeked at his hand seeing Land, Land, Redcap. Figure I'm about a 95% favorite to win the game at that point. Adding to that, Pod is BY FAR my best matchup. I have about 11 SB hate cards to bring in against them and had won easily vs the pod player earlier in the day so I would've been favored in both post-board games. All of a sudden a judge comes over to us and tell us to stop playing. Why? Well apparently they had paired another player incorrectly so they told us to stop playing, that the game up till then was void and that we would have to be playing new people. I complained but of course no one really gave a poo poo. My new opponent then comes over and proceeds to smash my face in with Junk which is by far my worst matchup in the room. Just very very frustrating... I did get to meet and bullshit with Jacob Van Lunin who was a super nice dude. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 00:40
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mcmagic posted:Wouldn't even shake my hand when we sat down and kept asking me if I wanted to redirect his SkullCracks with my resolved Spellskite, presumably to "get me" to activate Skite and target an illegal target. The target is legal, it just doesn't do anything on resolution. Source: every player ever that has Mindslaver locked their opponent and used Spellskite for lethal from an even amount of life remaining.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:46
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AnacondaHL posted:The target is legal, it just doesn't do anything on resolution. Fine, I phrased it wrong. He was still trying to "get me" which is assholeish.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:48
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mcmagic posted:Very frustrating PTQ for me today. I was on Blue-Red Twin and started out with a grindfest against UWR Control which I was lucky enough to win in turns of game 3 by having the extra counter. Game 2 I'm paired against a guy some guy with a team shirt on playing burn who was just the biggest rear end in a top hat. Wouldn't even shake my hand when we sat down and kept asking me if I wanted to redirect his SkullCracks with my resolved Spellskite, presumably to "get me" to activate Skite and target an illegal target. I let it get the best of me and lost in 2 games which I played horribly. chalk it up to a learning experience. Whenever someone tries to feed me bad/illegal plays, I usually act like they're extremely generous to be giving me such good advice, but now that they said it, I can't in good conscience take advantage of their good will, so I can't make that play. That usually gets them to cut it out. I don't think it's actually illegal to target Skullcrack with Spellskite, it just does nothing. You have to wonder if feeding people bad plays actually works even at the PTQ level, or if this guy was just desperate. The thing about your good matchup getting canceled blows, but what are you going to do? At least your event didn't suddenly implode like something out of Magic Online. They have to obey their own rules which presumably includes the matchmaking system, and if they screw up they can't just roll with it.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:53
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mcmagic posted:Fine, I phrased it wrong. He was still trying to "get me" which is assholeish. Someone was pulling dumb poo poo like this on an opponent that was playing magic for the first time at my last FNM. He put the store manager in such a rage he decided to rant on the entire 170 player crowd about FNM being about fun and to stop being dicks.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:58
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Sickening posted:Someone was pulling dumb poo poo like this on an opponent that was playing magic for the first time at my last FNM. He put the store manager in such a rage he decided to rant on the entire 170 player crowd about FNM being about fun and to stop being dicks. It's a tad off topic, but I did this at a Netrunner event I was running. That poo poo is loving ridiculous, it's a goddamn game.
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Aug 18, 2014 01:01
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Rules chat! I read a tournament report and someone posted thisquote:He cascaded into living end, I sac'd everything but ravager, then put ravager's counters on a champion coming back from exile. He called a judge who confirmed it worked Living end says quote:Each player exiles all creature cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield. Living end is weird, it has 3 seperate steps in order, but in terms of the stack and resolving a spell they all happen "at once" meaning the Modular trigger of Ravager never goes onto the stack until living end is resolved, which makes a creature back from the GY a legal target? I'm not bad with rules but do this then do this then do this makes my head hurt a little.
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Aug 18, 2014 01:05
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jassi007 posted:Rules chat! I read a tournament report and someone posted this Yeah, any abilities that trigger during the resolution of a spell wait until the spell is done resolving to be put on the stack (in turn order starting with the active player, if multiple players have triggers). When Living End is done resolving, Etched Champion is on the battlefield and can be targeted by the modular ability.
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Aug 18, 2014 01:07
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Today I learned its totally worth spending 4 more dollars for a playset of Ravnica Remands over the duel deck one if not only for the flavor text, than for the better art. I'm planning on building Mono U From in the future, and it absolutely astounds me that Wurmcoil Engine is still so expensive. Is there any particular reason for that?
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Aug 18, 2014 01:59
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Count Bleck posted:Today I learned its totally worth spending 4 more dollars for a playset of Ravnica Remands over the duel deck one if not only for the flavor text, than for the better art. Just reading it, it seems factually good. I'm not sure how else to phrase that, so I'll borrow a quote from its Gatherer discussion page: quote:This goes great in that deck... which one was it... oh yeah, the one with creatures and mana. quote:this cards bigest proplem is its colorless................so you can't decide what deck to put it in.
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Aug 18, 2014 02:02
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Count Bleck posted:Today I learned its totally worth spending 4 more dollars for a playset of Ravnica Remands over the duel deck one if not only for the flavor text, than for the better art. It is so good at ending games. If path to exile didn't exist it would have no real answer in modern. When you resolve it you basically always 2 for 1 your opponent. If they play some deck that can't deal with life gain in any reasonable way one swing generally puts the game in your favor. It is the 6th titan, and in almost all circumstances the best one.
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Aug 18, 2014 02:13
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Count Bleck posted:Today I learned its totally worth spending 4 more dollars for a playset of Ravnica Remands over the duel deck one if not only for the flavor text, than for the better art. In addition to what other people have been saying, it sees play in modern Tron decks and legacy MUD, both of which are probably popular enough to drive up the price. I'm pretty sure it also shows up in Commander, since it's a big body that's Wrath-resistant and does ridiculous poo poo all on its own.
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Aug 18, 2014 02:36
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Count Bleck posted:Today I learned its totally worth spending 4 more dollars for a playset of Ravnica Remands over the duel deck one if not only for the flavor text, than for the better art. There just really isn't a substitute for it. Sure, it's not always the exact card you want to tron out there, but there isn't a situation where it's bad, and it stabilizes the board in a way that nothing else really can. One swing with it can just put you completely out of reach.
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Aug 18, 2014 03:23
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Wurmcoil is just too good to not play in Tron. Dropping a 6/6 turn 3 is already great and all the bonus it has just pushes it over the top.
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Aug 18, 2014 03:32
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So today was a fun day of magic for myself a few palls. We got our LGS to get some packs from original Mirrodin block, and we did a draft of one of each set from it. Did pretty good, would have had first but my opponent in the finals managed to top deck a critical land he needed to drop the Platinum Angel and I wasnt able to draw any of the answers I had in the 3 turns before he killed me. Ran a black/green anti artifacts deck with a lot of protection from artifacts or punishment if artifacts are destroyed. Sadly with no prize support and in order to keep anyone from just drafting money and leaving, we put in all rares and aethervials at the end and got to take turns picking from them based on placing. I drafted a Sword of Fire and Ice, but that Platinum Angel cost me it, managed to get an Aethervial though, which paid for my draft. It was tons of fun though and the store owner said he has enough leftover packs to do another sometime, and also has enough packs for a Time Spiral block draft a Ravnica block draft in the near future. It's awesome to know that there are store owners that actually will do cool stuff like this for their players.Cernunnos posted:Now just start playing with all your permanents facing your opponent and you'll be history's greatest monster. Molybdenum posted:I bet the time spiral draft will be pricy. Fureil fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 04:52
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Fureil posted:So today was a fun day of magic for myself a few palls. We got our LGS to get some packs from original Mirrodin block, and we did a draft of one of each set from it. Did pretty good, would have had first but my opponent in the finals managed to top deck a critical land he needed to drop the Platinum Angel and I wasnt able to draw any of the answers I had in the 3 turns before he killed me. Ran a black/green anti artifacts deck with a lot of protection from artifacts or punishment if artifacts are destroyed. Sadly with no prize support and in order to keep anyone from just drafting money and leaving, we put in all rares and aethervials at the end and got to take turns picking from them based on placing. I drafted a Sword of Fire and Ice, but that Platinum Angel cost me it, managed to get an Aethervial though, which paid for my draft. It was tons of fun though and the store owner said he has enough leftover packs to do another sometime, and also has enough packs for a Time Spiral block draft a Ravnica block draft in the near future. It's awesome to know that there are store owners that actually will do cool stuff like this for their players. I bet the time spiral draft will be pricy.
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Aug 18, 2014 05:01
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Cernunnos posted:Wurmcoil is just too good to not play in Tron. Dropping a 6/6 turn 3 is already great and all the bonus it has just pushes it over the top. I miss my Grand Architect deck that could do this in Standard. It also used Kraken Hatchling as Sol Rings that could equip Sword of Feast and Famine 
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Aug 18, 2014 05:11
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Play of the day: my opponent hitting me with rakdos's return for 3 while im stuck on 2 land and holding 2 loxodon smiters. I've never gotten to take advantage of that part of smiter until today. Feels good man.
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Aug 18, 2014 06:35
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Another week, another review: I talk poo poo about Masques block
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rabidsquid posted:I miss my Grand Architect deck that could do this in Standard. It also used Kraken Hatchling as Sol Rings that could equip Sword of Feast and Famine EDIT: kingcobweb posted:Another week, another review: I talk poo poo about Masques block Zemyla fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 09:18
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Zemyla posted:When you talk about the Rhystic cards, you forget to mention Rhystic Study. That's so off-the-scale of the other Rhystic cards it's hilarious. It's like someone dropping lead blocks on your head, and then one of them flies up to the moon instead. Annoying Your EDH Group: The Card Seriously, it's the most expensive card in the set and it's a goddamn common. I think the only other time that's happened is Fallen Empires. Well, Avatar of Woe is more expensive some places, but that card's been reprinted like five times so who cares. e: Also, this reminded me that Commander's Arsenal existed, so gently caress this card for that, too.
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Fureil posted:So today was a fun day of magic for myself a few palls. We got our LGS to get some packs from original Mirrodin block, and we did a draft of one of each set from it. Did pretty good, would have had first but my opponent in the finals managed to top deck a critical land he needed to drop the Platinum Angel and I wasnt able to draw any of the answers I had in the 3 turns before he killed me. Ran a black/green anti artifacts deck with a lot of protection from artifacts or punishment if artifacts are destroyed. Sadly with no prize support and in order to keep anyone from just drafting money and leaving, we put in all rares and aethervials at the end and got to take turns picking from them based on placing. I drafted a Sword of Fire and Ice, but that Platinum Angel cost me it, managed to get an Aethervial though, which paid for my draft. It was tons of fun though and the store owner said he has enough leftover packs to do another sometime, and also has enough packs for a Time Spiral block draft a Ravnica block draft in the near future. It's awesome to know that there are store owners that actually will do cool stuff like this for their players. As a "drafting spectator", MD5 is probably my favorite format so far. So many powerful/useful commons and uncommons: Trinket Mage, Thought Courier, Spikeshot Goblin, Auriok Salvagers, Chittering Rats, the mana Myr, the Spellbombs, Cranial Plating, Leonin Battlemage, Bonesplitter, Leonin Bola, Viridian Longbow etc., and a bunch of fun goofy stuff like Avarice Totem, and synergies everywhere. Oh, and you know, Skullclamp. I've been watching this guy's twitch old videos because I like his laidback attitude and archives are about to be purged. He drafted a truly degenerate deck made of some of the above: http://www.twitch.tv/solebush1/b/499737306 (In the final game, his opponent almost justifies running Eater of Days. Mirrodin had the best bad crazy Rares.)
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Minority Deport posted:Annoying Your EDH Group: The Card I got my Rhystic Study for cheap. At my LGS it's cheaper than Avatar of Woe.
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Aug 18, 2014 10:21
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So I am bored at work and decided it was a good idea to watch people play amulet combo on youtuve and holy poo poo I was not prepared to see so many play mistakes in so few turns go unpunished
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Aug 18, 2014 12:03
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kingcobweb posted:Another week, another review: I talk poo poo about Masques block I know people like to poo poo on Avacyn Restored as a bad draft format, but calling it a worse designed set than Fallen Empires? (which somehow doesn't make your top 5 of worst sets) Really?
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Worse than Coldsnap? e: Your insight that the block's power level is mostly concentrated in disruptive and massively linear cards is interesting. I hadn't considered it that way before, but it's totally true. Masques block is the ugliest, awkwardest apology for Urza block that you could imagine. Attorney at Funk fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 13:31
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Has anyone tried Spirit Bonds in constructed yet? I like how it gives a little extra later on and keeps key creatures alive, just a shsme it does nothing on it's own. I just found it might interact well with Bloodghast, and might mess with it in Modern.
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Aug 18, 2014 15:28
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BizarroAzrael posted:Has anyone tried Spirit Bonds in constructed yet? I like how it gives a little extra later on and keeps key creatures alive, just a shsme it does nothing on it's own. I just found it might interact well with Bloodghast, and might mess with it in Modern. I'm trying one out in Norin Soul Sisters. If I ever actually play that deck, I'll see how good it is.
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Aug 18, 2014 15:51
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Sickening posted:Someone was pulling dumb poo poo like this on an opponent that was playing magic for the first time at my last FNM. He put the store manager in such a rage he decided to rant on the entire 170 player crowd about FNM being about fun and to stop being dicks. Oh hey, I think you were at the store I was judging at, because the Standard HJ did that Friday. I was running the sealed event in the back of the store when I suddenly heard the Standard event go quiet and the HJ started talking a bunch, but I couldn't really hear him. I heard a bit about it later from one of the Standard floor judges, but I didn't know all the details because I left after sealed was done. mailorder bees fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 16:03
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Sickening posted:Someone was pulling dumb poo poo like this on an opponent that was playing magic for the first time at my last FNM. He put the store manager in such a rage he decided to rant on the entire 170 player crowd about FNM being about fun and to stop being dicks. Apparently the dude who was trying to pull this on me played in a pro tour... This guy vvvv. You would think a good player wouldn't need to pull that crap to beat a relatively new player. http://sales.starcitygames.com/deckdatabase/deckshow.php?p_first=Joe&p_last=Demestrio
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Aug 18, 2014 16:07
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Some more Khans spoiled cards are out, from that decklist earlier. Pics coming in a second. Two lands:   Really no surprise here, wedge taplands, confirmed I suppose. A mechanic and also a looter  I like Prowess I'd say. And Monks are cool. EDIT: Let me know if you'd like me to change the images to links. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 16:10
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Ugh wedge tap lands at uncommon make drafting a real pain in the rear end.
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mcmagic posted:Ugh wedge tap lands at uncommon make drafting a real pain in the rear end.
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Aug 18, 2014 16:22
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Prowess is pretty cool though how it plays is going to depend on what cards are in the set. It definitely promotes building your deck with a lot of instants and making an interesting curve though.
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Aug 18, 2014 16:23
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Prowess turns every instant into a combat trick, which seems really really good. It's the UWR mechanic, right?
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Aug 18, 2014 16:23
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The art on this card is funny, why is that old lady prancing around with a crazy whip thing?
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