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Jonked posted:Snakes don't have names, therefore Naga. If you are an actual snake, or an anthropomorphic snake with arms and legs, your creature type is snake, unless you don't have legs in which case you're a naga? This makes no drat sense. Either make all of the anthropomorphic snakes belong to a single race or start making more distinctions over minor morphological differences with all of the races, e.g. make the vedalken with 4 arms a different race then the ones with 2 arms.
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And the underwhelming followup to the sweet art of November's Brain Maggot and December's Stoke the Flames FNM Promos is this bad boy: Looks like they're going for a more Ankle Shanker look for it. I'm still holding out for an Ensoul Artifact promo but they'll probably start in on KtK cards in February.
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mcmagic posted:Brimaz should be boarded and replaced with Rabblemaster. The only matchups he's good against are the mirror and Sligh. Also 3 digs are too many. It can just sit in your hand a lot of times. I've been playing 1 and it's fine. I think 3 Digs are too few, play the full 4. I also like running the more creature light version with just 4 Rabbles, 4 Mantis Rider, maybe 1 Seeker, and more noncreature spells. That way you have 4x Magma Jet and 4x Lightning Strike as your turn 2 plays followed by a host of turn 3 stuff you can choose from.
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Oct 23, 2014 16:46
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Madmarker posted:Well, unless something gives, I find that likely. I mean, even friggin burn decks are splashing blue for the thing, it helps power the Modern Jeskai Ascendancy deck, I will be watching Madrid closely. It's me, I'm the guy who just put 4 cruises in his modern r/w burn deck yesterday. It's really good. I think I mentioned the other day that I played against a junk deck online that had islands in it just for cruises and it seemed to work. Card might be kinda dumb. I am really disappointed with how little modern coverage there has been lately. With it being more accessible than legacy you'd think it would get pushed more by cfb and scg.
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Madmarker posted:No there hasn't been a big modern event since August. The next one is GP Madrid on November 14. There is a huge legacy tourney this weekend in Philly. I'm sure there will be a TON of Cruises being taken.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:It's me, I'm the guy who just put 4 cruises in his modern r/w burn deck yesterday. It's really good. I think I mentioned the other day that I played against a junk deck online that had islands in it just for cruises and it seemed to work. Card might be kinda dumb. CFB doesn't have a weekly tournament circuit to push it on, though they do do plenty of Modern videos and articles. SCG recently added a Modern event to each of their Opens but they haven't put down resources to cover them. I wouldn't be surprised to see that change within a year or so. mcmagic posted:There is a huge legacy tourney this weekend in Philly. I'm sure there will be a TON of Cruises being taken. Oh man that's right, Eternal Weekend is in a couple days. I'm really excited to watch Chris Pikula and Randy Buehler squint at altered Unlimited power and try to figure out what it is.
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Attorney at Funk posted:CFB doesn't have a weekly tournament circuit to push it on, though they do do plenty of Modern videos and articles. SCG recently added a Modern event to each of their Opens but they haven't put down resources to cover them. I wouldn't be surprised to see that change within a year or so. Yeah most of my comment was regarding scg coverage. Seems like they could at least alternate what they cover on sundays or have a secondary channel to cover modern while legacy is going on. I kinda assumed that people getting fetches for standard right after shocks might increase interest in modern now that manabases aren't so completely unreasonable in price.
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Attorney at Funk posted:I hope to see 4 Treasure Cruises in the winning decks from both tournaments. I have not gotten out to a modern tournament since Khans hit but I want to Remand a Treasure Cruise so much.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Yeah most of my comment was regarding scg coverage. Seems like they could at least alternate what they cover on sundays or have a secondary channel to cover modern while legacy is going on. I kinda assumed that people getting fetches for standard right after shocks might increase interest in modern now that manabases aren't so completely unreasonable in price. I'd be surprised if they don't eventually, but their current model's working well enough that it's easy to see why they'd favor gradual change.
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I think the main speed bump for scg not having a secondary modern channel is that it doesn't look like they have anybody for commentary? I'm not very up to date on people who play modern who work for SCG, unfortunately.
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Elyv posted:
I did not know before this moment how much I wanted a Mesozoic-themed set. Give me my fantasy Dinosaurs already, Wizards.
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:If you are an actual snake, or an anthropomorphic snake with arms and legs, your creature type is snake, unless you don't have legs in which case you're a naga? This makes no drat sense. Either make all of the anthropomorphic snakes belong to a single race or start making more distinctions over minor morphological differences with all of the races, e.g. make the vedalken with 4 arms a different race then the ones with 2 arms. Don't try to reconcile all the creative stuff in Magic, that way madness lies.
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Oct 23, 2014 17:26
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Cedric Philips plays modern, but I'd hate to see him stop commentating legacy (with Patrick Sullivan), since it's the format that's the most fun to watch.
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Count Bleck posted:I think the main speed bump for scg not having a secondary modern channel is that it doesn't look like they have anybody for commentary? Around a year ago they fired all their commentators besides Cedric Phillips and Patrick Sullivan (and sometimes Patrick Chapin and that guy with the hat that pronounces all the card names wrong). They've also standardized their Open formats, losing the couple Team Limited Opens there were the year before in exchange for a consistent Saturday Standard/Sunday Legacy format. They only recently stopped streamlining their circuit and coverage offerings and are just beginning to expand from the base they built up over the last year (the one that sees their coverage numbers surpass even same-format simultaneous GPs). SCG is also *the* premier source of Legacy coverage, so cutting back on that is giving up one of their greatest advantages. They could obviously put down the money to add people and cameras to cover the Modern events, and I expect they will, but their priorities don't seem to quite be there yet.
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Bonus posted:Cedric Philips plays modern, but I'd hate to see him stop commentating legacy (with Patrick Sullivan), since it's the format that's the most fun to watch. I can go for whichever makes him do more cartwheel stunts in the future.
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Entropic posted:Don't try to reconcile all the creative stuff in Magic, that way madness lies. It would be fun to have a pedantic block with taxonomy-changing spells. Mycosynth lattice would be a sweet limited bomb.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:It's me, I'm the guy who just put 4 cruises in his modern r/w burn deck yesterday. It's really good. I think I mentioned the other day that I played against a junk deck online that had islands in it just for cruises and it seemed to work. Card might be kinda dumb. Do you mind posting your list? I'm building affinity but need poo poo in the mean time.
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BXCX posted:And the underwhelming followup to the sweet art of November's Brain Maggot and December's Stoke the Flames FNM Promos is this bad boy: I imagine it is for cube, as it's considered by many to be a decent one-drop in that environment. Intimidator Initiate isn't bad either: falter effects are decent in a creature-based limited format, even a relatively high powered one.
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Ebethron posted:I imagine it is for cube, as it's considered by many to be a decent one-drop in that environment. Intimidator Initiate isn't bad either: falter effects are decent in a creature-based limited format, even a relatively high powered one. I don't play red aggro much, but I've found it to be really good even in this standard. In a world of Coursers and Rhinos, being able to remove a big fatty as a potential blocker every turn is huge. That said, hate the art.
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MiddleEastBeast posted:I think 3 Digs are too few, play the full 4. How does the deck not just roll over and die to Carytid/Siege Rhino then?
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Watching last week's SCG Open and it's starting to bug me how many people sacrifice fetchlands on their opponent's end-step just because they think that's what you always have to do. I won't even get into non-existent deck thinning, that's a given, but people aren't thinking through their mana. I've seen so many cases of color screw online (especially in draft) because they drew the basic they just fetched for on the next turn and are still missing a color. I see it in Legacy too for some reason.... It only makes sense if you need the shuffle effect before you draw (Courser revealing poop, Top showed you bad things, etc.) or in Modern where you're avoiding taking two damage off a Shockland. THAT'S IT!
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KidDynamite posted:Do you mind posting your list? I'm building affinity but need poo poo in the mean time. https://deckbox.org/sets/784622 That's what I'm using now and I'm pretty happy with it. Need to make some sideboard adjustments but thats what I have for now.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Watching last week's SCG Open and it's starting to bug me how many people sacrifice fetchlands on their opponent's end-step just because they think that's what you always have to do. I won't even get into non-existent deck thinning, that's a given, but people aren't thinking through their mana. I've seen so many cases of color screw online (especially in draft) because they drew the basic they just fetched for on the next turn and are still missing a color. I see it in Legacy too for some reason.... Yeah it's really weird. I've played miracles for a solid year now and it teaches you when and how to fetch. I can't fathom how people fetch carelessly in legacy unless stifle's been receding. It's still popular where I play so I still play around it like always.
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Ebethron posted:I imagine it is for cube, as it's considered by many to be a decent one-drop in that environment. Intimidator Initiate isn't bad either: falter effects are decent in a creature-based limited format, even a relatively high powered one. BaronVonVaderham posted:That said, hate the art. 
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Chill la Chill posted:Yeah it's really weird. I've played miracles for a solid year now and it teaches you when and how to fetch. I can't fathom how people fetch carelessly in legacy unless stifle's been receding. It's still popular where I play so I still play around it like always. As someone who just started playing Legacy a few months ago, Stifle and Wasteland are scary as poo poo.
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mcmagic posted:As someone who just started playing Legacy a few months ago, Stifle and Wasteland are scary as poo poo.
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Chill la Chill posted:It would be fun to have a pedantic block with taxonomy-changing spells. Mycosynth lattice would be a sweet limited bomb. If MTG is currently lacking anything it's pedants.
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Vital Signs posted:As someone who plays stifle and wasteland... I love when opponents play around them and I don't even have it in my hand. Small things like playing a basic and limiting your turn 1 play by not playing a fetch/dual can have a large impact on the end result. This is the absolute truth. Google "Troll RUG Delver." It's probably the greatest MtG video ever produced, but one match (I think it's match 3 game 2?) will teach you why fetching basics against a Wasteland deck is a bad idea. The opponent is playing Deathblade and spends his first 3 fetches on his Esper colored basics. He ends up with 3 lands and the inability to cast none of his threats which all cost CC (Jace, Lili, etc.) Treasure Cruise talk: It needs to be banned. I'm 16/19 in modern matches with my new deck playing against Treasure Cruise decks (13 UR Delver, 1 UR Solitaire, and the same UWR Delver guy twice, the others being Zoo, GR Tron and Scapeshift playing Dig.) I used to play against other decks. Now I just beat down on Delver. It's nice because free packs, but it's so boring. I was at the point last night where if I played 1 more Delver deck I was quitting modern until Cruise was banned. Which segues nicely into.. An interesting dilemma I ran into last night. My last match of the night was against Scapeshift. Game 3, he has enough Valakut triggers to kill me. But he only had 10 seconds left with half a dozen yet to be added to the stack plus 7 Courser triggers. He's so low on time because MTGO had apparently crashed twice in the first game. Given MTGO's blazing speed, obviously if I F6, I win. What do you do? Probably the best thing in terms of value is to F6, let him lose and tell him to file for reimbursement because of the crash. I ended up conceding with 5 seconds left once I counted 11 Valakut triggers, which was enough to kill me after the Lightning Helix in my hand.
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I'm streaming 8-4 drafts at the moment, come see if my incredible run of bad luck continues! Getting mana flooded g3 of every set is the current goal. https://www.twitch.tv/tedsternator Looks like numot is in this draft too so watch him instead if that's your thing. I Love You! fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Bread Set Jettison posted:I kind of want an alter of Treasure Cruise with the Duck Faygo Im-on-a-boat art Ironically, they used that art on the IDW version of High Tide, so you'd almost certainly never be able to play with it. I can't imagine altering the artwork of a card to be the artwork of another card would be tournament legal.
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I am still not convinced Treasure Cruise needs to be banned, basing anything off MTGO is going to skew results towards cheap decks, and U/R decks running it tend to be very cheap for Modern decks.
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suicidesteve posted:Treasure Cruise talk: It needs to be banned. I'm 16/19 in modern matches with my new deck playing against Treasure Cruise decks (13 UR Delver, 1 UR Solitaire, and the same UWR Delver guy twice, the others being Zoo, GR Tron and Scapeshift playing Dig.) I used to play against other decks. Now I just beat down on Delver. It's nice because free packs, but it's so boring. I was at the point last night where if I played 1 more Delver deck I was quitting modern until Cruise was banned. Which segues nicely into.. Unless Modern Cruise is actually overly strong--which your experiences seem to suggest is not the case, though on the other hand LSV just basically clowns on everyone with it in his videos--I'd rather not see the card banned in Modern soon, or at all. It seems like it might just be everyone jumping on a bandwagon, which is a problem that can solve itself.
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Madmarker posted:Decks. Wow that was very thorough! Thanks, I'll definitely check those out. Out of curiosity, have they ever printed a vampire card that lets you turn an enemy's creature into a vampire (in addition to its current creature types) and then gives you control of it? It seems like a thing that is bound to see print at some point.
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xeose4 posted:Wow that was very thorough! Thanks, I'll definitely check those out. Olivia Voldaren
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xeose4 posted:Wow that was very thorough! Thanks, I'll definitely check those out. Olivia Voldaren http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247235
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Maybe parallectric feedback/ignite memories storm will see a comeback vs. Cruise decks I thought there was an essence backlash type counter spell for non creature spells but I couldn't find one
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