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Big Anime Fan Here posted:Personally I think it's dumb not to try and have the most fun rather than thinking about whether or not you can score a sick nasty 8 dollars. I guess it's cool if you like the colors. They are my favorite wedge but I already did one last night. I guess I was asking if its gonna crater after the weekend. I might try Sultai tonight.
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:Personally I think it's dumb not to try and have the most fun rather than thinking about whether or not you can score a sick nasty 8 dollars. I guess it's cool if you like the colors. Abzan is kind of the best wedge in limited anyways.
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Oct 5, 2014 01:24
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:Personally I think it's dumb not to try and have the most fun rather than thinking about whether or not you can score a sick nasty 8 dollars. I guess it's cool if you like the colors. Abzan gives (by far) the best set of Sealed promos, and even if the rest of your pool doesn't support it, you can splash your (probably awesome) promo into a Mardu or Sultai deck. Basically Abzan is sweet and unlikely to leave you unhappy is what i'm saying.
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Oct 5, 2014 01:44
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Angry Grimace posted:Abzan is kind of the best wedge in limited anyways. I think it's sultai tbh though they share a bunch of the same cards and can splash for certain bombs of each others'
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Oct 5, 2014 01:56
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I Love You! posted:I think it's sultai tbh though they share a bunch of the same cards and can splash for certain bombs of each others' I thought Sultai should be pretty good because access to black seems a prerequisite for the removal, but most rundowns I've seen put Sultai at the bottom. Oh well I'm going Abzan again tonight anyway
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Oct 5, 2014 02:01
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What is the best lucky charm cycle, staff of the *type* magus, creature bits (angel feather, dragon claw, etc.), something else?
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Molybdenum posted:What is the best lucky charm cycle, staff of the *type* magus, creature bits (angel feather, dragon claw, etc.), something else? I like the creature bits better than the staves just because spending 2 mana to do nothing hurts a lot less than 3 mana to do nothing.
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Oct 5, 2014 02:16
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JerryLee posted:What about Ob Nixilis? Do I have it wrong that he was a demon planeswalker who lost his spark? Supposedly he was a human planeswalker who lost his spark and became a demon. The Lithomancer is involved somehow. His spark lost, he plots revenge upon the plane whose corrupting mana fractured his soul. Molybdenum posted:What is the best lucky charm cycle, staff of the *type* magus, creature bits (angel feather, dragon claw, etc.), something else? Five Paradise Plumes
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Oct 5, 2014 02:21
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Apparently, "I didn't pull any bombs so I'm drafting a 4 color deck with whatever common wedge-cards aren't being drafted in pack three" is a real archetype in Khans limited.
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Oct 5, 2014 02:25
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I like the creature bits better than the staves just because spending 2 mana to do nothing hurts a lot less than 3 mana to do nothing. Wasn't the black staff a 4-of sideboard card in standard at some point?
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Oct 5, 2014 02:27
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So is it normal to sign up to daily events and just not get assigned matches? Christ almighty they are doing everything in their power to make me not play. e: welp turns out I didn't join that tournament. I still have my entry fee. Not sure why I showed up on the standings alongside 3 other people that joined to play one of the three Pauper dailies of the week! I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation. Hellsau fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Oct 5, 2014 02:27
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Molybdenum posted:What is the best lucky charm cycle, staff of the *type* magus, creature bits (angel feather, dragon claw, etc.), something else? Iron Star et al. Accept no imitations.  Real answer: Dragon Claw and whatnot. It's actually a fine sideboard card against modern burn in a slower deck. My U Tron strategy is Dragon Claw then Chalice on 2 to stop Smash to Smithereens.
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Oct 5, 2014 02:43
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superstepa posted:How much would a promo Jeskai Ascendancy go for now? I know promos aren't usually worth that much but Khans promos were semi-randomized so that might bump their prices up a bit right? check ebay completed sales for a ballpark price. TCGplayer has so few sellers that its basically worthless beyond "this card is worth more than two dollars." Alternatively, you should hold onto that ascendancy until the modern combo deck crushes a major event and then laugh your way to the bank (before it gets banned)
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Oct 5, 2014 02:45
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I pulled the ultimate gambler move today. I was buying some singles at the LGS and they only had one Surrak, but I wanted two. The guy at the counter is like, I have some I can trade and I'm like, okay sell me one pack and it doesn't have a Surrak, then I will go back to my car and get my trade binder. You're drat straight it was a Surrak in that pack.
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Oct 5, 2014 03:06
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I just got to villainous wealth for 11 and still lost in three turns. This game is strange sometimes.
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tirinal posted:I just got to villainous wealth for 11 and still lost in three turns. This game is strange sometimes. unbelievable whiff? or were you being beat down with flyers?
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Oct 5, 2014 03:17
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tirinal posted:I just got to villainous wealth for 11 and still lost in three turns. This game is strange sometimes. I love Villainous Wealth but I think it follows the same principle as the "give your opponents choices" cards; don't rely on your opponents deck
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Oct 5, 2014 03:18
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I pulled 5 fetchlands out of a box; better than I was expecting, that was about the best I hoped for. I think that puts me at 9 for 50 with a handful of mythics along the way. Still no Sorin, though -- I lost to Sorin's ultimate my last match at FNM this week.
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Oct 5, 2014 04:12
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Tim Raines IRL posted:I pulled 5 fetchlands out of a box; better than I was expecting, that was about the best I hoped for. I think that puts me at 9 for 50 with a handful of mythics along the way. Still no Sorin, though -- I lost to Sorin's ultimate my last match at FNM this week. I managed to ult Sorin, but it was too little too late the time I did it.
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Oct 5, 2014 04:13
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Carrasco posted:Wasn't the black staff a 4-of sideboard card in standard at some point? Yeah. Mono-Black was paying lots of life and cutting back on its lifegain, while control had decided to be more three colour and durdly, so Burn became the meta choice for a tourney or two; the meta-meta choice for people who'd seen this coming was to throw 4x Staff of the Death Magus in their sideboards. It was one of the Far East GPs (Beijing?) and reading the tournament reports of Yuuya Watanabe wrecking the Top 8 with loving Staves was hilarious. 
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Oh god im 2-0 in the PTQ finals with this stupid 4color deck lord have mercy edit: 7 rounds to go until top 8 jesus christ, I'm going to be here all day and then some. I Love You! fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Oct 5, 2014 16:51
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Terrible Horse posted:I thought Sultai should be pretty good because access to black seems a prerequisite for the removal, but most rundowns I've seen put Sultai at the bottom. Oh well I'm going Abzan again tonight anyway That's only even close to valid for sealed though, I think. A big problem with Sultai in those seeded sealeds is the rares in the promo pack have a decent chance of burning you with something too build-around for limited. Everyone who was making GBS threads on Sultai for Delve working against itself -- I criticized that before prerelease and after playing the set I'm willing to call them stone loving wrong. Yes, too much Delve and you start to cannibalize the benefits of having it. But everybody was evaluating it like 1) you're going to run every Delve card, 2) you're only going to play it when you can delve out the entire colorless cost, and 3) the tempo swing from dropping another card that your mana otherwise wouldn't allow this turn isn't a huge deal. Those are dumb assumptions. If delving out one card lets me play an extra Mandrills this turn, that is a HUGE drat DEAL.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:That's only even close to valid for sealed though, I think. A big problem with Sultai in those seeded sealeds is the rares in the promo pack have a decent chance of burning you with something too build-around for limited. Everyone who was making GBS threads on Sultai for Delve working against itself -- I criticized that before prerelease and after playing the set I'm willing to call them stone loving wrong. Yes, too much Delve and you start to cannibalize the benefits of having it. But everybody was evaluating it like 1) you're going to run every Delve card, 2) you're only going to play it when you can delve out the entire colorless cost, and 3) the tempo swing from dropping another card that your mana otherwise wouldn't allow this turn isn't a huge deal. Also, half the delve cards shove a card back into your yard, or at the very least if you are needing to trade you can turn the creature you just cast into a card in yard. Casting a mandrills after casting a treasure cruise will never cost less than 5, assuming you do nothing in between.
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Abzan has probably the best rares, but I'd argue that Sultai has some of the best commons. Abomination of Gudul is incredible, especially in multiples. Went 3-1 with a Temur sealed pool last night. Splashed black for a Murderous Cut and an Abomination of Gudul because of course. Zorak fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Oct 5, 2014 18:08
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Zorak posted:Abzan has probably the best rares, but I'd argue that Sultai has some of the best commons. Abomination of Gudul is incredible, especially in multiples. if my deck was just removal, random morphs and 2plays, and Aboms/Mandrills/Sultai Scavengers I would be a happy man. Actually I've built this deck several times now that I think about it, and it owns, so yeah. Sultai is fine in sealed but feels very good in draft.
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Bug, or is MODO just getting much more encouraging? This popped up about 30 mins after the match was over, too.
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Zorak posted:Abzan has probably the best rares, but I'd argue that Sultai has some of the best commons. Abomination of Gudul is incredible, especially in multiples.
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neetengie posted:But you can play the best Sultai commons in Abzan man! Treaaaasure Cruise and Singing Bell strikkeeeeeee (and Abom of Guduul) I Love You! fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Oct 5, 2014 18:47
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Has there been any word about reprints of the Zendikar fetches in the 2nd KTK block set? It seems like it might be weird having all 10 in standard at the same time, but maybe that's an unfounded fear.
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The March Hare posted:Has there been any word about reprints of the Zendikar fetches in the 2nd KTK block set? It seems like it might be weird having all 10 in standard at the same time, but maybe that's an unfounded fear. I think it's more likely that they'll save those reprinted for another set; why pass on the chance to make another set a big sell? Not that I'll complain if they do
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bhsman posted:I think it's more likely that they'll save those reprinted for another set; why pass on the chance to make another set a big sell? Not that I'll complain if they do In that sense, it's probably more likely for the third KTK set, both to reflect the changed future (Flooded Strand -> Steam Vents, Wooded Foothills -> Misty Rainforest, Polluted Delta -> Marsh Flats, Windswept Heath -> Arid Mesa) and to get people to stop opening KTK and open the third set instead. Niton fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Niton posted:In that sense, it's probably more likely for the third KTK set, both to reflect the changed future (Flooded Strand -> Steam Vents, Wooded Foothills -> Misty Rainforest, etc) and to get people to stop opening KTK and open the third set instead. Also possible, but I still think they won't do it within this set, and if they don't it likely won't be for another few.
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bhsman posted:Also possible, but I still think they won't do it within this set, and if they don't it likely won't be for another few. They've said a whole lot of times that if they were to reprint the fetches they'd reprint them all in the same block.
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Is it normal for someone to feel uncomfortable at an IQ? because everyone here seems really angry
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Serperoth posted:They've said a whole lot of times that if they were to reprint the fetches they'd reprint them all in the same block. My thought was that maybe they would do something similar to what they did w/ the RTR cycle where you have half in the first set, half in the second, and then all of them in the 3rd at reduced chances or whatever it was.
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The March Hare posted:My thought was that maybe they would do something similar to what they did w/ the RTR cycle where you have half in the first set, half in the second, and then all of them in the 3rd at reduced chances or whatever it was. Well, in this block's case it would be all of them in the 2nd, which actually would fit perfectly well IMO (dunno if they'd want to do it, though).
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Oct 5, 2014 19:18
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If they put the Zendikar fetches in Fate Reforged (kinda unlikely) or Louie (more likely) will Courser's price start climbing again?
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Oct 5, 2014 19:19
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Serperoth posted:They've said a whole lot of times that if they were to reprint the fetches they'd reprint them all in the same block. Do you have a link? That's the first I've heard of it, but it would be awesome if they did.
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bhsman posted:Do you have a link? That's the first I've heard of it, but it would be awesome if they did. It's been on MaRo's tumblr whenever people would ask about the fetches, they don't/didn't like not having them all in Modern, and also that they all need a reprint, so the plan is to do them all.
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Cernunnos posted:If they put the Zendikar fetches in Fate Reforged (kinda unlikely) or Louie (more likely) will Courser's price start climbing again? I don't think Courser's price will go up with a reprint in Dragons of Tarkir given that it will be close to rotating out by then.
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