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Fingers McLongDong posted:Why isn't this the official name of the delver/pyro/swift deck yet? I've seen the UR list called Viking Funeral, which I think is pretty clever.
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AlternateNu posted:and Bolt of Keranos which no one is running for some reason despite the lack of good removal now). Why would I pay three mana for three damage at sorcery speed when I can get the same thing at instant speed for 2? Scrying is good, but not that good.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:23
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forbidden lesbian posted:You can have force of will, but only if I can get Fireblast This would make Modern approximately 1 million times more fun, so yes please do.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:24
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That's kind of cute. The artist who did the VM Lion's Eye Diamond also got commissioned to do art for the rest of the Mirage Diamonds in C14.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:25
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Sleep of Bronze posted:That's kind of cute. The artist who did the VM Lion's Eye Diamond also got commissioned to do art for the rest of the Mirage Diamonds in C14. She does very good "Hand holding gemstone" art. Now if only we knew what else she could do. 'Cause that's all she's done for Magic art so far.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:42
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I'm really liking a couple of mainboard Ashcloud Phoenix in Jeskai right now, they seem like they should be really good against all three of the main decks running around right now (Jeskai, Abzan, G/x). What are people running for their flex spots in Jeskai?
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Oct 31, 2014 01:45
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Cernunnos posted:She does very good "Hand holding gemstone" art. I don't think there's a problem with that composition per se, it's more a problem with Magic art in general in that the more often they go to a particular well, the more obvious and tiresome it becomes.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:46
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Sleep of Bronze posted:VM Lion's Eye Diamond Could you link it?
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Oct 31, 2014 01:48
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Rinkles posted:Could you link it? 
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Oct 31, 2014 01:52
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That sure is a literal Lion and Diamond. Quality Wizard Poker Art in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:53
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Sleep of Bronze posted:That's kind of cute. The artist who did the VM Lion's Eye Diamond also got commissioned to do art for the rest of the Mirage Diamonds in C14. Its probably me being a mtg old fart, but I think the mirage versions are better. At least they look better than the 7th edition versions.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:53
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odiv posted:I dunno man. In his most recent draft video his opponent cast Ride Down on the creature blocking Zurgo Helmsmasher, Duke regenerated the creature, but then didn't take the trample damage. suicidesteve posted:I love how he spent the whole game keeping track of his actual life and his MTGO life. I wonder if he would have conceded if he got to 7? I know this was a joke and all, but I'm pretty sure MTGO got it right. Usually when the creature is destroyed the game uses the last known information about which creature(s) it was blocking, but because it regenerates it removes it from combat thus is no longer blocking anything and giving no creature trample.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:54
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Oct 31, 2014 01:55
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Jabor posted:Why would I pay three mana for three damage at sorcery speed when I can get the same thing at instant speed for 2? Scrying is good, but not that good. The idea is to play both since 3 is a pretty big threshold right now for creature destruction.
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Oct 31, 2014 02:00
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Toshimo posted:That sure is a literal Lion and Diamond. While I agree with what I assume to be your point, that the original is more appealing, there's a literal lion and diamond in it too 
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Oct 31, 2014 02:00
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Rinkles posted:Could you link it?  Toshimo posted:That sure is a literal Lion and Diamond. Bugsy posted:Its probably me being a mtg old fart, but I think the mirage versions are better. At least they look better than the 7th edition versions.
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Oct 31, 2014 02:01
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Yeah, the 7E ones are pretty poo poo I hated pretty much all the original art for 7th. I even prefer today's modern aesthetic to it's style. (white borders probably didn't help).
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Oct 31, 2014 02:06
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Sleep of Bronze posted:you ever tried not being a grumpy poo poo? Hate to jump on the bandwagon and don't usually post much, but I agree. Every time you post it's complaining about something. In other news, I have seen a worrying amount of my meta getting out of standard due to suddenly realizing it is actually a terrible format and with the value of their sarkhans, green cards and fetchlands they can get actual modern decks so I need to start seriously thinking about my own. I have made a good shell for a UR delver list (visions, snaps, cliques, but no commands) but have gotten bored of it and my meta consists of a lot of cheap bogles decks and soul sisters. Can someone recommend me a different deck that uses a similar base that's interesting? I am looking at blue moon and it looks pretty cool.
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Oct 31, 2014 02:12
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Samael posted:Hate to jump on the bandwagon and don't usually post much, but I agree. Every time you post it's complaining about something. If everyone is playing boggles and soul sisters play infect.
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Oct 31, 2014 02:24
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Shout out to a topdecked Minotaur Skullcleaver for saving me from losing to a dude playing some weird Grixis brew with Ornithopter and Revoker but also Master of the Feast?
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Oct 31, 2014 02:28
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Do we get the full spoiler drop tomorrow or at the end of the weekend? I should probably know this myself but the wotc site crashed so many times on my laptop I'm scared to visit. I'm pretty excited to see what we get reprinted.
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Oct 31, 2014 02:31
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Samael posted:Hate to jump on the bandwagon and don't usually post much, but I agree. Every time you post it's complaining about something. Sounds like you're most of the way to playing my RUG Control deck. It plays along the same lines as Blue Moon. Buying the Cryptics will kinda suck though. https://deckbox.org/sets/743204
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suicidesteve posted:Sounds like you're most of the way to playing my RUG Control deck. It plays along the same lines as Blue Moon. Buying the Cryptics will kinda suck though. I have most of that deck! Then I saw Tarmogoyfs and it made me sad. Samael fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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Oct 31, 2014 02:34
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Samael posted:I have the most of that deck! Haha, yeah they'll do that. Honestly, 2 Scoozes and a ??? instead of the Goyfs would probably be ok. Not great, but not bad. Especially with Treasure Cruise being a thing that exists, Oozes are pretty good. I was trying to make room for one somewhere in my 75.
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Attorney at Funk posted:My reason was known all along: it was the Pokemon hat. He just wanted to be the very best, like no one ever was.
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Oct 31, 2014 03:32
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Rinkles posted:I hated pretty much all the original art for 7th. I even prefer today's modern aesthetic to it's style. (white borders probably didn't help). The set was generally catastrophic for art, but I love everything about 7th edition Flying Carpet (especially that flavor text).  I want it in foil. 
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Oct 31, 2014 03:42
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Boxman posted:The set was generally catastrophic for art, but I love everything about 7th edition Flying Carpet (especially that flavor text). It's only ~$2 on TCGplayer. Go get one. Stick it in a Cube. Or just stick it in your trade binder and let everyone get a laugh out of it.
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Oct 31, 2014 03:57
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Rules question: There is a round of priority between First Strike damage and normal damage, right? Like if any effects trigger upon damage being dealt (or gaining life off a lifelinked first striker), you can react to it, right?
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AlternateNu posted:Rules question: There is a round of priority between First Strike damage and normal damage, right? Like if any effects trigger upon damage being dealt (or gaining life off a lifelinked first striker), you can react to it, right? Yes. In fact, you can react to the end of the 'first-strike damage' step so long as a creature has first strike, even if no other effects occurred.
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Oct 31, 2014 04:23
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That guy's face has got "Rockin'!" all over it. There's got to be a stock image of those two pretending to surf or something like that out there.
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Oct 31, 2014 04:26
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Gensuki posted:Yes. In fact, you can react to the end of the 'first-strike damage' step so long as a creature has first strike, even if no other effects occurred.
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Zemyla posted:You can't remove first strike from a creature or give them double strike to allow them to hit again at this point, however. But you can ninjutsu a creature with first strike and give the ninja a whack at them too. Yeah. I was asking primarily about Altac Bloodseeker. If a first striker takes out an opponent's guy, she still gets the +2/+0, but it will be dealt as normal damage. Interesting with the above quote, you can give a creature double strike, they will just have missed their chance to get first strike damage in. If they were originally a first striker, they will have been considered having already completed their attack for that battle phase and thus won't trigger normal damage.
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AnacondaHL posted:I know this was a joke and all, but I'm pretty sure MTGO got it right. Usually when the creature is destroyed the game uses the last known information about which creature(s) it was blocking, but because it regenerates it removes it from combat thus is no longer blocking anything and giving no creature trample. Because it gives a time frame, "this combat," it's looking for something that happened in the past not current information. The ruling on Gatherer also implies that it is looking for the creature being declared as a blocker. As long as the creature was declared as a blocker, the trample is applied even if the creature isn't currently in combat. quote:In some rare cases, the blocking creature wasn’t declared as a blocking creature that combat (for example, if it entered the battlefield blocking). In that case, the attacking creatures it was blocking won’t gain trample even though the blocking creature is destroyed.
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Mae posted:I'm developing a new legacy archetype known only as Tinker Treasure Delver Sligh Tinker is banned in Legacy, but it is honestly so good that Vintage delver decks sometimes play their 1 Tinker alongside 1 Blightsteel Colossus.
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Chamale posted:Tinker is banned in Legacy, but it is honestly so good that Vintage delver decks sometimes play their 1 Tinker alongside 1 Blightsteel Colossus. Some people like Vault Key, but Tinker does it one better; it's just about the only example of a one card instant kill combo (along with Bazaar of Baghdad, I suppose). People even run it in their Dark Confidant decks, which makes for amusing gameplay.
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Myriad Truths posted:Some people like Vault Key, but Tinker does it one better; it's just about the only example of a one card instant kill combo (along with Bazaar of Baghdad, I suppose). People even run it in their Dark Confidant decks, which makes for amusing gameplay. Vault Key is fine in control because you run so many tutors and dig spells that eventually you find both halves. Tinker, though, is a disruptable 2U: You win the game next turn. Tezzeret the Seeker, thanks to Time Vault, is a disruptable 3UU: You win the game next turn. In my experience, the cards most likely to win a game of Vintage are Tinker, Time Vault, Tendrils of Agony, Young Pyromancer, and Lodestone Golem.
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Zemyla posted:You can't remove first strike from a creature or give them double strike to allow them to hit again at this point, however. Actually, you can give a creature double-strike after the first combat damage step and have it matter. The creatures that assign and deal combat damage in the second combat damage step are: - attackers/blockers that didn't have first strike or double strike at the start of the first combat damage step - attackers/blockers that currently have double strike So if a creature had first strike at the start of the first combat damage step, you can give it double strike during that step in order to have it also hit during the second combat damage step.
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AlternateNu posted:Interesting with the above quote, you can give a creature double strike, they will just have missed their chance to get first strike damage in. If they were originally a first striker, they will have been considered having already completed their attack for that battle phase and thus won't trigger normal damage. Here's the rule. quote:702.4d. Giving double strike to a creature with first strike after it has already dealt combat damage in the first combat damage step will allow the creature to assign combat damage in the second combat damage step.
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Chamale posted:Tinker is banned in Legacy, but it is honestly so good that Vintage delver decks sometimes play their 1 Tinker alongside 1 Blightsteel Colossus. Tinker is basically a one-card combo in the only format its legal in since every single deck runs tons of completely free or close to free artifacts.
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