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Lottery of Babylon posted:The post I was replying to was about the version that gives you five times as much mana. I agree that the actual card is just too slow. Ah well that card could have a use in some strange RUG commander deck with Veldalken Orrery and Alchemist's refuge. Its still a bad card, but thats the only place I can see it working. But yeah, if its cumulative upkeep is gain 5 mana, that makes it playable in weird EDH builds.
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Madmarker posted:If someone was playing a cube of horrible cards and I had to choose between drafting a braid of fire or a chimney imp, I take the chimney imp every time. Braid of Fire + Comet Storm does outrace storm crow if you draw more than 2 lands though.
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Dec 4, 2014 22:42
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Entropic posted:Braid of Fire + Comet Storm does outrace storm crow if you draw more than 2 lands though. I now really want to build a Cube of horrible cards to play people with. It would be wonderful. Hmm, Do I first pick the Squire or the Wit's End....hmmm
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Dec 4, 2014 22:44
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Madmarker posted:I now really want to build a Cube of horrible cards to play people with. It would be wonderful. Hmm, Do I first pick the Squire or the Wit's End....hmmm Sounds like a Reject Rare Draft
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Dec 4, 2014 22:46
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Madmarker posted:I now really want to build a Cube of horrible cards to play people with. It would be wonderful. Hmm, Do I first pick the Squire or the Wit's End....hmmm
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Dec 4, 2014 22:50
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Kids these days. Wouldn't know a bad card if it bit them in the rear end. I remember when a red bear with downside was the most fearsome creature available. I remember when Phrexian War Beast and Lodestone Bauble won the World Championship. You kids don't know poo poo. Squire and Wit's End? They'd be top picks in a draft with Fasting and Wood Elemental.
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Dec 4, 2014 22:54
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Reject Rare Draft is more fun to talk about than to actually draft, and more fun to draft than to actually play out.
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Dec 4, 2014 22:56
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Entropic posted:Reject Rare Draft is more fun to talk about than to actually draft, and more fun to draft than to actually play out.
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Dec 4, 2014 22:59
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Haha did you know SCG has a naughty and nice player database? Several of my friends are qualified to the invi and got markedly different invite emails:  You can come if you want, but follow the rules remember all the other poo poo you could be doing that weekend instead! vs   Congrats please play in the side events too 
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Dec 5, 2014 00:45
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Haha did you know SCG has a naughty and nice player database? Several of my friends are qualified to the invi and got markedly different invite emails: Haha what did the first guy do to get on SCG's shitlist?
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Dec 5, 2014 00:48
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That certainly makes me feel better about playing in SCG events.
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First Bass posted:Haha what did the first guy do to get on SCG's shitlist? I have no idea. All my friends but one got that version, and easily half of us are pretty reasonable. I can imagine Bertoncini get that form email every 3 months like clockwork in between the bannings and rolling his eyes.
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Dec 5, 2014 00:53
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Anyone like dumb Magic-related videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuoJ2Dy5ew
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Look at this sweet deck I just drafted  Edit: And I got promptly crushed by a Mono Black Control deck that drew literally exactly perfectly. Oh well, no sense in complaining. shades of blue fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Dec 5, 2014 |
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Dec 5, 2014 01:06
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Toshimo posted:It could have Cumulative Upkeep: Add RRRRR to your mana pool and it still wouldn't be good. Says a guy who has never played with Sphinx's Revelation.
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Dec 5, 2014 01:21
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Pussy Snorkel posted:Anyone like dumb Magic-related videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SET5gGC128M
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Dec 5, 2014 01:50
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Thanks for the advice on avoiding the intro packs. Check out what I got out of one of the boosters I picked up. I guess it's time to head over to the trading thread! Edit: I really like the inclusion of token cards. I wish it were every pack, but better than nothing.
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Dec 5, 2014 02:03
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:I have no idea. All my friends but one got that version, and easily half of us are pretty reasonable. You're one of the orange shirt crew, right? I have a suspicion that we've met before.
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Dec 5, 2014 02:29
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NumotTheNummy is currently on a Cube deck where he got a Hallowed Spiritkeeper, Recurring Nightmare, Wurmcoil Engine machine running. Gross.
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Boco_T posted:NumotTheNummy is currently on a Cube deck where he got a Hallowed Spiritkeeper, Recurring Nightmare, Wurmcoil Engine machine running. Gross. I played someone who got the Recurring Nightmare, Solemn Simulacrum, Avalanche Riders loop going. In other good news, I used my New Player points to play a free draft and got a Sorin in those 5 card packs they give out. Thank you for paying me to play Wizards.
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Cactrot posted:You're one of the orange shirt crew, right? I have a suspicion that we've met before. Yes! Team legends tech. Here's our new tumblr project that I am inordinately proud of. We are boisterous and irreverent but very chill. We vary form a few beep boop autismal types to PT level players mostly normal in the middle though. Msg me if you ever want to cube some time and come say hi at the invi. I'm probably gonna be there on Sunday. We're generally at Monday legacy at CK and limited FNM at Green Lake Games. I couldn't imagine playing the game without them. You have to be ok with bright orange though that's a rule.
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Dec 5, 2014 04:48
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Yes! Team legends tech. Here's our new tumblr project that I am inordinately proud of. I'm usually at card kingdom on Fridays with the occasional Monday at Greenlake, if you've seen a guy with a (depending on who you ask) super dumb/dope mustache, that's me scrubbing out and drinking. I'll be doing standard in Portland this weekend and next in Tacoma, but I can't afford legacy so unless I make day two in Tacoma we'll probably miss each other.
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Dec 5, 2014 05:09
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Entropic posted:Braid of Fire was a weird parasitic gimmick card that was basically just designed to be a way to pay for the cumulative upkeeps on other cards. I'm wondering what a braid of fire that activated during a useful part of the turn would be like. One that popped in the first or second main phases would definitely be abusable.
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Dec 5, 2014 05:17
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Veyrall posted:As a newbie, I thought it was over-powered because I thought mana emptied only at the end of the turn. If worked on your main phase, it would have been busted in any standard with fireball, but it'd still be too slow for legacy and modern I think.
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Dec 5, 2014 05:24
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Cactrot posted:I'm usually at card kingdom on Fridays with the occasional Monday at Greenlake, if you've seen a guy with a (depending on who you ask) super dumb/dope mustache, that's me scrubbing out and drinking. There's a standard at Card Exchange on Saturday, that's a PPTQ ... I am hitting that, since everyone's going to Portland. :P
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Cactrot posted:If worked on your main phase, it would have been busted in any standard with fireball, but it'd still be too slow for legacy and modern I think. It changes the dynamic, suddenly it becomes a ramp spell that makes sure you're always hitting a land drop no matter what, but only if you're playing things at sorcery speed. Tapout control would love that Braid of Fire, especially with an X2U draw spell or XR multiple-target fireball.
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Cactrot posted:If worked on your main phase, it would have been busted in any standard with fireball, but it'd still be too slow for legacy and modern I think. You could, however, make a version that doesn't trigger automatically, but instead triggers from sacrificing a land or a creature. Something like this: CARDNAME (Cost) Enchantment Sacrifice a land: Put a cool counter on ~, then add an amount of red mana to your mana pool equal to the number of cool counters on ~. Activate this ability only once each turn and only during your first or second main phase. Or, make it black, have it sac creatures and make black mana instead.
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En Fuego posted:There's a standard at Card Exchange on Saturday, that's a PPTQ ... I am hitting that, since everyone's going to Portland. :P I'd be at card exchange more often if they had a bar...
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Dr. Poz posted:Thanks for the advice on avoiding the intro packs. Check out what I got out of one of the boosters I picked up. I guess it's time to head over to the trading thread! What do you want for that?
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Some BTS poo poo brewing among the World Championship players. From Paulo's article on CF about his Worlds experience: quote:We went to two dealers and bought some cards from each, and were ready to leave when Tom Martell spots one of the dealers we had just bought cards from talking to Jeremy Dezani. Apparently, said person was reading to Dezani from a list that included every card we had bought, as well as cards that previous Worlds competitors (e.g. Sam Black) had bought earlier in the day. So I know a bunch of players get really annoyed with Dezani's slow play, but is he just an overall scummy dude?
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qbert posted:Some BTS poo poo brewing among the World Championship players. I really liked Paulo's article; I would recommend reading it for anyone interested as the insiders look-in was really interesting.
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Cactrot posted:If worked on your main phase, it would have been busted in any standard with fireball, but it'd still be too slow for legacy and modern I think. Let me tell you about a card named Black Market
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Frogs always tryin' to get one over on a classy, upstanding American like PVDDR.
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Dr. Stab posted:Let me tell you about a card named Black Market And its good friend Altar of Shadows.
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World Cup has just started. Russian player looks literally 9 years old. Edit: ah, it's actually a girl.
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 rnoxen posted this on tumblr just now. I like it. 
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qbert posted:So I know a bunch of players get really annoyed with Dezani's slow play, but is he just an overall scummy dude? Pardee claims that after he beat Dezani at Valencia, he responded by throwing his deck against the wall and swearing at Pardee in French. Sore loser-ism aside, isn't this kind of the same argument as people complaining that intentional draws shouldn't be allowed at the Player's Championship? That there's some kind of gentleman's agreement to not game the system by drawing into top 4, scouting decks, etc.? I have to agree with Ari Lax's mentality, if Wizards wants to discourage this behaviour they should make actual rules about it.
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:Pardee claims that after he beat Dezani at Valencia, he responded by throwing his deck against the wall and swearing at Pardee in French. 671a. Players will be orderly, respectful, and treat others as they would like to be treated. 671b. And stop bitching about the reserved list, for gently caress sake.
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Count Bleck posted:671a. Players will be orderly, respectful, and treat others as they would like to be treated. In regards to rule 671a, what if a player has a submissive fetish and like to be treated like poo poo.
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Count Bleck posted:671a. Players will be orderly, respectful, and treat others as they would like to be treated. Re: 671.1 What if my opponent is playing [insert deck/archetype/color combination/format I don't like]? Re: 671.2 But if they abolish the Reserved List, how will I pay for my kids' college? Look at all the value these Farmsteads have!
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