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Cactrot posted:It probably works very well, since otherwise your gigantor creature is likely to get chumped.
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Jorath posted:I'm posting this here as my posting was deleted from MTGS. See if you can guess why. My guess for removal is that it's written up in the same format as the DCI Judge/practice tests which are technically confidential. They probably removed it due to an abundance of caution after getting legal threats for past leaks. Actually, you would need to maintain card order. They are still technically the top 7 cards of your library and, as rule 101.4a states "If an effect has each player choose a card in a hidden zone, such as his or her hand or library, those cards may remain face down as they’'re chosen. However, each player must clearly indicate which face-down card he or she is choosing." In addition, when you are searching your library (Dig Through Time doesn't search, but same principal) you must maintain card order. The only card it's relevant for is Panglacial Wurm, since you could pay for it with Chromatic Star or Deranged Assistant, which cares about the top card of your library at the time of casting.
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mango sentinel posted:Well the issue is the card doesn't cantrip and also locks up one of your mana dorks bouncing stuff when you still have to go off X number of reps. Stratus Walk seems like the better answer to chump blockers, given that the only flying creature that would generally be staying back to block your guys is Mantis Rider (and you probably have more than one mana dork to attack with if you're actually going off). Emerson Cod posted:In addition, when you are searching your library (Dig Through Time doesn't search, but same principal) you must maintain card order. The only card it's relevant for is Panglacial Wurm, since you could pay for it with Chromatic Star or Deranged Assistant, which cares about the top card of your library at the time of casting. Chromatic Sphere. Also a whole bunch of older eggs. Chromatic Star is the fixed one that doesn't have you drawing a card as part of a mana ability.
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The modern Ascendancy deck is 100% going to get banned though. It's actually surprisingly resilient to hate due to the wishboard, and goes off surprisingly consistently. Basically, if you're taking the time to disrupt it you aren't killing them, which gives them time to tutor up their answers. They can even get fiery justice to kill multiple canonists.
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When's the next B&R update? For some reason I'm thinking December, but I think they're closer to set releases now. It'd have to be crazy dominant to be emergency banned.
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The next one is in January just after Fate Reforged releases I think. I guess they could do one after Commander 14 in November if they felt the need.
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sarmhan posted:The modern Ascendancy deck is 100% going to get banned though. It's actually surprisingly resilient to hate due to the wishboard, and goes off surprisingly consistently. Basically, if you're taking the time to disrupt it you aren't killing them, which gives them time to tutor up their answers. They can even get fiery justice to kill multiple canonists. It's free to The Rock Plus against a combo deck, disrupting them enough is essentially the same as killing them.
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Jabor posted:Stratus Walk seems like the better answer to chump blockers, given that the only flying creature that would generally be staying back to block your guys is Mantis Rider (and you probably have more than one mana dork to attack with if you're actually going off).
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Oct 3, 2014 17:15
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:It's free to The Rock
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So my friend Ranjan invented the deck and finally did a writeup on it in case you want to hear about sideboard options and such: http://legendstech.tumblr.com/post/99043068011/building-jeskai-ascendancy Also that is our teams hilariously lovely new tumblr
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Also that is our teams hilariously lovely new tumblr Loads fast, easy to read, no SJW. Seems fine to me.
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Yeah please subscribe actually we hope it'll fill with pretty good content.
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Jabor posted:Stratus Walk seems like the better answer to chump blockers, given that the only flying creature that would generally be staying back to block your guys is Mantis Rider (and you probably have more than one mana dork to attack with if you're actually going off). ??? Ok do you guys not get that you get infinite mana, and infinite untaps, with two dorks and 4 Ascendancies in play? So you go off, draw your deck, play all your Ascendencies, bounce an ascendancy an arbitrary amount of times, retraction helix all their guys with your extra untaps. then you play all the mana dorks in your deck and twinflame them all. they're dead. chump blockers do not exist for this deck
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Sam Pardee talking about being 16-0 with the deck including winning with two 4-0s makes me think there's a lot more game to it.
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Korak posted:Sam Pardee talking about being 16-0 with the deck including winning with two 4-0s makes me think there's a lot more game to it. That's the Modern version, not Standard. When's the next big Modern event, like a GP or PT? I figure we'll see a lot of Jeskai Ascendancy in the top 8.
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You still die to Flesh/Blood. Edit: People seem to be mixing up two different decks in this thread. To clarify: Modern Jeskai Ascendancy is a Tier 1 combo deck, will quite possibly get banned. Standard Jeskai Ascendancy is a lovely gimmick deck, have fun at your local FNMs! qbert fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 18:31
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qbert posted:You still die to Flesh/Blood. Seht's tiger
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:That's the Modern version, not Standard. When's the next big Modern event, like a GP or PT? I figure we'll see a lot of Jeskai Ascendancy in the top 8. still, the standard version did finish 11th at indiannapolis, which aint nothing. It's probably worth playing in a devotion/slow midrange heavy meta
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Molybdenum posted:Seht's tiger The deck also plays Cerulean and Crimson Wisps. Sorry. 
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Oct 3, 2014 18:36
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Man, I got a Sealed pool that is almost funny in how bad it is. Trail of Mystery 
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Oct 3, 2014 18:40
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If my opponent casts a Hammerhand on a Monastery Swiftspear, can I Magma Jet it in response or is it a 2/3 as soon as my opponent casts his spell?
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Oct 3, 2014 18:43
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mcmagic posted:If my opponent casts a Hammerhand on a Monastery Swiftspear, can I Magma Jet it in response or is it a 2/3 as soon as my opponent casts his spell? You can kill it in response. Like Heroic, Prowess is a trigger that goes on the stack, and can be responded to before resolution.
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qbert posted:You can kill it in response. Like Heroic, Prowess is a trigger that goes on the stack, and can be responded to before resolution. Ok so in a related question, casting a spell with just a Bloodfire Expert out DOES NOT trigger Ferocious... Or does it...
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mcmagic posted:Ok so in a related question, casting a spell with just a Bloodfire Expert out DOES NOT trigger Ferocious... Or does it... It does. The trigger for prowess goes before Ferocious spell checks that you have 4 power dude.
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Angry Grimace posted:Man, I got a Sealed pool that is almost funny in how bad it is. Trail of Mystery Couldn't have been worse than my prerelease. Trail of Mystery, Altar of the Brood, Abzan Ascendency, 2 Sultai Ascendencies, and Dragon Throne.
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OneDeadman posted:It does. As soon as the full visual spoiler went up I went in there saying "Alright, where's the aggressively-costed 3-power Prowess dude in Blue or Red." And lo, there he was.
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Fish Of Doom posted:Couldn't have been worse than my prerelease. Trail of Mystery, Altar of the Brood, Abzan Ascendency, 2 Sultai Ascendencies, and Dragon Throne.
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Fish Of Doom posted:Couldn't have been worse than my prerelease. Trail of Mystery, Altar of the Brood, Abzan Ascendency, 2 Sultai Ascendencies, and Dragon Throne. Every single rare in my release sealed deck was a three-color rare. I had nine non-basics including two trilands, so gently caress it, we're playing them all!  I went 3-1, only losing to a sweet Mardu aggro deck. I couldn't beat Sorin.
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Fish Of Doom posted:Couldn't have been worse than my prerelease. Trail of Mystery, Altar of the Brood, Abzan Ascendency, 2 Sultai Ascendencies, and Dragon Throne. Trail of Mystery, Grim Haruspex, Crater's Claws, Mardu Ascendancy, Icy Blast. The problem wasn't that these are inherently bad cards, its that all of the cards around them were even worse and I somehow had no fixing in any colors of note. I guess its my own fault for forgetting that Sealed is a bullshit packwars format. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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So anyone running a pool about who the commander/planeswalkers will be in Commander 14? I know we know Teferi already, and I have my money on Jaya Ballard, Gerrard Capashen, Lim-Dûl, and Eladamri for the others. I mean, unless I've fallen behind the times and we know them already.
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I basically only do sealed at pre-releases so I have months to forget how stupidly swingy a format it is. You really need both luck and skill for sealed. It's super fun when you open a good pool, but then you get the crappy pools where you can maybe grind out wins at first but you will just never beat a skilled player with an actually good pool.theironjef posted:So anyone running a pool about who the commander/planeswalkers will be in Commander 14? I know we know Teferi already, and I have my money on Jaya Ballard, Gerrard Capashen, Lim-Dûl, and Eladamri for the others. I mean, unless I've fallen behind the times and we know them already. It'd be cool if they had a whole cycle of planeswalker characters from stories before there were planeswalker cards to put them on. I'd love a Jaya walker.  Gerrard wasn't a walker though, right? I have only the vaguest knowledge of storylines from that era, but I didn't think he was.
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theironjef posted:So anyone running a pool about who the commander/planeswalkers will be in Commander 14? I know we know Teferi already, and I have my money on Jaya Ballard, Gerrard Capashen, Lim-Dûl, and Eladamri for the others. I mean, unless I've fallen behind the times and we know them already. Lim Dul's probably more likely, but I really want a mono-black Yawgmoth. He really deserves a proper card.
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They made sure to point out that Teferi was his old bad-rear end self, and that the reason he didn't have just "+1: Win the game" was that his card only represented how much he wanted to help you, not how powerful he is. That opens the door for basically anyone.
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Fish Of Doom posted:I really want a mono-black Yawgmoth. He really deserves a proper card.
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Fish Of Doom posted:Lim Dul's probably more likely, but I really want a mono-black Yawgmoth. He really deserves a proper card. I thought they would never portray him because they couldn't do him justice?
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theironjef posted:So anyone running a pool about who the commander/planeswalkers will be in Commander 14? I know we know Teferi already, and I have my money on Jaya Ballard, Gerrard Capashen, Lim-Dûl, and Eladamri for the others. I mean, unless I've fallen behind the times and we know them already. Gerrard, Lim-Dul and Eladamri already have legend cards and weren't planeswalkers. A Jaya planeswalker is possible. Freyalise is basically a sure-thing for the Green 'walker and the black one is probably going to be either Leshrac or Tevesh Szat. My money's on Leshrac.
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Entropic posted:I basically only do sealed at pre-releases so I have months to forget how stupidly swingy a format it is. You really need both luck and skill for sealed. It's super fun when you open a good pool, but then you get the crappy pools where you can maybe grind out wins at first but you will just never beat a skilled player with an actually good pool. I thought the whole thing was that the 5 new guys are "previous legends that were not planeswalkers before but are being represented as such now." Then again, Teferi totally was, so what do I know? Gerrard wasn't a walker, I think his type is just human warrior or something, but he is the end result of Urza's "build a better human" breeding experiments. theironjef fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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I still can't figure out what would possess someone to pass me Sorin, Solemn Visitor. I guess maybe his pack had Foil Sorin or Foil Sarkhan or something.theironjef posted:I thought the whole thing was that the 5 new guys are "previous legends that were not planeswalkers before but are being represented as such now." The new Commander sets have special "normal" legendaries in them too, like the Geralf card. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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I think Gerrard was technically a Planeswalker for a quarter of a second while the Legacy Weapon was exploding.
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