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Sampatrick posted:Somehow it manages to be worse than Revelation mirrors. This is the worst standard I've ever seen. This UW control deck isn't really played a lot. I'll agree with you if it is though. It's awful.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:21
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I can't be the only one who's really enjoying this am I? Jim Davis is playing REALLY tight and it's interesting to watch.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:37
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mcmagic posted:This UW control deck isn't really played a lot. I'll agree with you if it is though. It's awful. This deck plays almost the same as the UB control deck, which is played a decent amount. Between the two of them and the Whip mirror matches, ridiculously long matches are becoming quite common in this standard. I blame WotC for not printing cards to make decks actually powerful.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:43
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This is one of those matches I'm tuning into every fifteen to twenty minutes, really.
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Mods please change my name to this image:
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Chapin is so good at doing these casts. Wish his contract would have been extended
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Has that control match ended yet?
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Joopjan posted:Chapin is so good at doing these casts. Wish his contract would have been extended He brings a certain sense of humor and fun that the others don't really have. No one else asks questions like "what would it be like if everyone just had to shuffle their standard and legacy decks together and play?" a propos of nothing.
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Joopjan posted:Chapin is so good at doing these casts. Wish his contract would have been extended Yeah, his quips are the best. When Davis mulligan-ed to 4 and then actually managed to stabilize for a turn or two, Chapin's deadpan "Do you see that Cedric? He moves like they do!" got a good laugh out of both Cedric and myself.
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Got this in the mail in a toploader today. Whoops... Signed up a while ago and was trying to see if I could get a bunch of Temur islands from KTK in foil. Unfortunately no foil with a free account so I lost interest. Accidentally left a trade up, I guess.
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:He brings a certain sense of humor and fun that the others don't really have. No one else asks questions like "what would it be like if everyone just had to shuffle their standard and legacy decks together and play?" a propos of nothing. He'd fit in byob or the funny magic/nerd GBS threads that's for sure. If only we had more humor like that here.
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Joopjan posted:Chapin is so good at doing these casts. Wish his contract would have been extended So much this. He manages to fill the gaps in the game with funny/interesting bits, but it doesn't overshadow the game, and I don't think I've ever heard him talk over anything important. And, as one of the world's best players period, he's able to see more lines of play than the rest of the team. Maybe I just find him very likeable overall as a person, I dunno, but I think he really is the best at coverage, and his combo (:v) with Cedric Phillips is just great, I love their banter. 
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Just ventured into Modern today. I made a Mono-U Ninja/Fairy deck and it's the most fun I've had with MTG in a long time
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Serperoth posted:So much this. He manages to fill the gaps in the game with funny/interesting bits, but it doesn't overshadow the game, and I don't think I've ever heard him talk over anything important. And, as one of the world's best players period, he's able to see more lines of play than the rest of the team. Maybe I just find him very likeable overall as a person, I dunno, but I think he really is the best at coverage, and his combo (:v) with Cedric Phillips is just great, I love their banter. Don't forget Sullivan. He's extremely good too. Gotta root for Dan Jessup here. 1. Dylan is already in the Players champ and Jessup isn't and 2. He would knock Stephen Mann out. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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odiv posted:Got this in the mail in a toploader today. Joke's on them: they probably spent more on the toploader and postage than the card is worth in points.
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SierraNovember posted:Oh I completely agree, it was incredibly harsh but as far as I was aware, that's how the rules worked. I wouldn't have thought people would rage quit over it though. A good rule of thumb if you've only been playing for 2 months is to assume everything you think about Magic rules is probably wrong.
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:Just ventured into Modern today. I made a Mono-U Ninja/Fairy deck and it's the most fun I've had with MTG in a long time Swing with Spellstutter Sprite, Ninjujitsu in Ninja of the Deep Hours, flash back Spellstutter Sprite to counter the incoming Path to Exile? Sounds pretty rad, actually.
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Count Bleck posted:Swing with Spellstutter Sprite, Ninjujitsu in Ninja of the Deep Hours, flash back Spellstutter Sprite to counter the incoming Path to Exile? this....or flash in quickling and remove whatever target damage/removal spell is cast.
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What are the chances the Jeskai Tokens player's 3 cards in hand are Negate, Stroke, Stroke? Awesome.
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Triple Jeskai Ascendancy on stream. Incredible.
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Jeskai Ascendancy is doing a great job of ruining every format.
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Jessup topdecked like poo poo. He was 1 card away from winning for like 5 turns and drew nothing but lands and manadorks.
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Ramos posted:Triple Jeskai Ascendancy on stream. Incredible. drat that was a lot of damage on the last turn.
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I love you, Jeskai Ascendancy
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Angry Grimace posted:Jeskai Ascendancy is doing a great job of ruining every format. I play Abzan Midrange and I honestly can't hate on the Ascendancy deck. It's slick as hell, and it's really consistent without being a Jund-esque level of "pile of good stuff."
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mcmagic posted:Jessup topdecked like poo poo. He was 1 card away from winning for like 5 turns and drew nothing but lands and manadorks. Makes up for all of those double and triple mulligan's his white blue control opponent got in the quarter finals.
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Boxman posted:I play Abzan Midrange and I honestly can't hate on the Ascendancy deck. It's slick as hell, and it's really consistent without being a Jund-esque level of "pile of good stuff." Now it's the Abzan decks that are piles of good stuff. 
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Wonder how that Invitational trophy feels in person. It looks kind of cheap as poo poo - unsure what I'm basing that off of. It's sweet that Watanabe's deck seems to have solved Standard.
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MiddleEastBeast posted:Wonder how that Invitational trophy feels in person. It looks kind of cheap as poo poo - unsure what I'm basing that off of. What trophies aren't made of lovely plastic nowadays? You practically have to win the Olympics to get a medallion made of some sort of cheap metal.
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You could spend the extra ten bucks on casting it out of decent plastic, though? There are plastics that feel nice to the touch. I bet SCG trophies feel like dollar store knock off toys. All sharp and crusty.
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cheetah7071 posted:To everyone complaining about layers, the way layers work is that 99% of the time everything does exactly what you expect. The remaining 1% of the time, it's impossible to deviate from expectations because the complications are so complex you don't know what to expect. Yeah, honestly the way gaining and losing evasion mid-combat works is FAR worse than layers. I lost a game to flipping up that guy with morph and unblockable thinking it'd let him through and it didn't... grr.
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Keiya posted:Yeah, honestly the way gaining and losing evasion mid-combat works is FAR worse than layers. I lost a game to flipping up that guy with morph and unblockable thinking it'd let him through and it didn't... grr. That's actually a really simple rule. If they've already blocked him, then that's it, he's blocked. You can unmorph him before they block so they can't block it, but once he's blocked, that's it.
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Dr. Stab posted:That's actually a really simple rule. If they've already blocked him, then that's it, he's blocked. You can unmorph him before they block so they can't block it, but once he's blocked, that's it. To be fair, it's simple because it's an easy to understand rule once it's been explained to you the first time it comes up after you messed up an attack due to it. Intuitively, to a new player, it's perfectly reasonable to expect giving a guy flying after he's been blocked would allow him to "jump" over the blocker and still deal damage.
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Jeskai Ascendancy is just an ugly mess of triggers. Regardless of power level, I'm not sure how that thing got printed.
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Equilibrium posted:Jeskai Ascendancy is just an ugly mess of triggers. Regardless of power level, I'm not sure how that thing got printed. It's the coolest card printed in the last 5-6 years is how.
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I Love You! posted:It's the coolest card printed in the last 5-6 years is how. This, that card loving rules and we need 20 more like it. E: playable engine cards own own own
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Its too bad ive yet to see somebody loot into a stoke before untapping trigger goes off, then use the stoke in response to the untap trigger.
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TheKingofSprings posted:This, that card loving rules and we need 20 more like it. I wish Jeskai Ascendancy could be my Commander.
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