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Just now got your standard P3P6 Umezawa's Jitte. Perfect follow up to that P2P4 Skullclamp, P1P5 Dark Confidant, and P1P7 Hero of Bladehold. Everyone in my draft is forcing a strategy they thought of ahead of time, that's the only explanation.
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Dec 19, 2014 16:26
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Had a pretty good G/W ramp deck that I went 2-1 in through Swiss. Favorite sequence of the night was when I got Mind Twisted for 4 with 5 cards in hand, then on my turn flashbacked Unburial Rites on a Terrastodon, destroyed my opponent's Worn Powerstone, Island, and Drowned Catacomb (leaving their tapped Grim Monolith and an Island). Then, I Green Sun Zenithing for a 5/6 Tarmogoyf. The next turn I swung in and traded the Goyf, leaving them with one Elephant, hardcasting Garruk, Apex Predator post-combat and they scooped.
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Dec 19, 2014 16:36
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Froghammer posted:This is the most frustrating spell to have slapped on a Scepter. You're a monster. Scepter is also "fun" with Diabolic edict.
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Dec 19, 2014 16:38
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Turn 2 Mind Twist you for 6, say go. Don't pass Mind Twist ya'll.
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Dec 19, 2014 16:56
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BaronVonVaderham posted:
Here I made this more accurate.
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Dec 19, 2014 16:58
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I Love You! posted:Here I made this more accurate. I mean, like, it's holiday cube, it's all about living the dream. Whatever dream that might be.
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Dec 19, 2014 17:09
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Strip Mine/Crucible/no actual win condition in my dream.
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Dec 19, 2014 17:21
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My dream is to reanimate iona naming blue against islands and elesh norn against mountains.
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Dec 19, 2014 17:32
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Froghammer posted:This is the most frustrating spell to have slapped on a Scepter. You're a monster. DId you ever play with Isochron Scepter in Standard? The old Magnivore deck would get an Isochron Scepter out on turn 1 with Boomerang Imprinted with frightening regularity.
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Dec 19, 2014 17:43
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I'm living the dream right now with Skullclamp and Gravecrawler, with Recurring Nightmare, Geralf's Messenger, and Bone Shredder/Skinrender for good measure. There has never been a creature on the other side of the table during my combat phase in any turn of all 4 games (with Necromancy, Reanimate, and Animate Dead to steal the poo poo I kill).
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Dec 19, 2014 17:45
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Gyshall posted:Turn 2 Mind Twist you for 6, say go. That, or don't pass all the good artifact ramp that allows you to have 7 mana on turn 2 at which point the specific 7 mana spell you cast doesn't really matter.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:01
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:That, or don't pass all the good artifact ramp that allows you to have 7 mana on turn 2 at which point the specific 7 mana spell you cast doesn't really matter. I think just to make sure, you shouldn't pass anything in cube ever.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:02
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I'm living the dream right now with Skullclamp and Gravecrawler, with Recurring Nightmare, Geralf's Messenger, and Bone Shredder/Skinrender for good measure. There has never been a creature on the other side of the table during my combat phase in any turn of all 4 games (with Necromancy, Reanimate, and Animate Dead to steal the poo poo I kill). everyone talking about holiday cube makes me want to reconsider trying MODO again, especially this.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:33
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Snacksmaniac posted:Strip Mine/Crucible/no actual win condition in my dream. I had a really sweet Knight of the Reliquary/Crucible/Life from the Loam engine deck in a cube draft once. I got exactly zero nonbasic lands that weren't duals.
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Dec 19, 2014 19:20
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Cactrot posted:everyone talking about holiday cube makes me want to reconsider trying MODO again, especially this. I thought that too. It seems I enjoy watching people do degenerate things than fail at them, myself.
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Dec 19, 2014 19:23
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En Fuego posted:I thought that too. It seems I enjoy watching people do degenerate things than fail at them, myself. They gave away 16 Phantom Points if you logged in in the last month or so. I put up a warning the day before it ended. If you did in fact log in then you can play one for free.
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Dec 19, 2014 19:29
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Angry Grimace posted:They gave away 16 Phantom Points if you logged in in the last month or so. I put up a warning the day before it ended. If you did in fact log in then you can play one for free. Oh I did. Like I said, it's fun when you get passed all the cool cards and manage to throw something together that works. I did not. 
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Dec 19, 2014 19:40
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En Fuego posted:Oh I did. Like I said, it's fun when you get passed all the cool cards and manage to throw something together that works. I had a pretty neat Bant Hatebear control thing going - won Match 1 easily, lost Match 2 resoundingly and just barely lost Match 3. But it was still a lot of fun.
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Dec 19, 2014 20:17
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My 8 year old nephew really wants to play magic. Apparently he crawled under a table and cried saying "life's not fair, life's not fair" because some other kid got a magic set for his birthday and he doesn't have any cards. What's the best thing for me to buy to get him started?
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Dec 19, 2014 20:24
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Athanos posted:My 8 year old nephew really wants to play magic. Apparently he crawled under a table and cried saying "life's not fair, life's not fair" because some other kid got a magic set for his birthday and he doesn't have any cards. What's the best thing for me to buy to get him started? Go buy a few Core Set packs and make a deck with the least confusing cards you can find.
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Dec 19, 2014 20:26
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Tell him he's dumb and Magic will ruin everything in life and leave him with no money for soccer balls or shoes or anything. Save him from becoming a jaded misanthrope like the rest of us, getting mad at a toy company for printing cardboard rectangles with ink patterns different from the patterns we want.
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Dec 19, 2014 20:31
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Athanos posted:My 8 year old nephew really wants to play magic. Apparently he crawled under a table and cried saying "life's not fair, life's not fair" because some other kid got a magic set for his birthday and he doesn't have any cards. What's the best thing for me to buy to get him started? For an 8 year old? A fat pack and a theme deck would last him a good while. It would give him a deck to play with and modify (that is already somewhat decent) a good bit of cards to alter that deck with, lands and a cardbox. That would run a total of about 60 for everything. However just the fat pack is probably the best thing for a kid, as it has a card box, 9 packs of cards and a die, and that will run about 33-40 depending on the shop. Other than that, the deckbuilder's toolkit is also great though not as good as the fat pack. The toolkit is anywhere from 20-26 dollars depending on the store. Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Tell him he's dumb and Magic will ruin everything in life and leave him with no money for soccer balls or shoes or anything. Save him from becoming a jaded misanthrope like the rest of us, getting mad at a toy company for printing cardboard rectangles with ink patterns different from the patterns we want. This is also true.
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Dec 19, 2014 20:31
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Because he's 8 my personal recommendation is a core set Deckbuilder box which you can pickup from Target or Walmart for about $20. If you really wanna be the cool uncle though, get a Khans of Tarkir fat pack for him. A bit more expensive but includes more goodies which make it easier to play with a friend who doesn't have any cards, though either could get him started just fine. Edit: Beat on the opinion by Madmarker who seems like a very smart person.
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Dec 19, 2014 20:32
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If you really want to blow his mind collect all the draft leavings from a few tourneys and give him a big rear end bag of commons and junk rares. Kids just love having cards, quantity trumps quality every time.
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Dec 19, 2014 20:44
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Thanks for the advice everyone! I'm going to head out to the local magic shop and see what they have in stock and go from there; I'll use your suggestions to guide my decision. I would love to use amazon, but I'm not sure I can trust shipping around Christmas, because an empty tree is a sad tree. Anecdotally I know someone who played magic in high school and he has a really hot girlfriend. It can be done!
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Dec 19, 2014 20:52
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Related to the green ramp cube discussion, I kind of want to share a recent blog post I wrote about that exact archetype in the most recent holiday cube. I started writing and I had a surprisingly large amount to say. Like, eight pages worth. Hmmmmm. I really hope elves continue to stay open. http://awakeningzone.blogspot.in/2014/12/drafting-holiday-cube-if-you-cant-open.html
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Dec 19, 2014 21:03
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Froghammer posted:This is the most frustrating spell to have slapped on a Scepter. You're a monster.
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Dec 19, 2014 22:20
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3-0'd a holiday cube draft with 1st pick Library of Alexandria, and 2nd pack 1st pick Black Lotus. Had a tap out UW control deck with sword of Fire and Ice, Batterskull, Stoneforge Mystic, ALL the control magic effects and Bribery. I had Library in my opening hand on the draw in 4 games... Tremendous fun was had. Edit: oh yeah had Shackles too. I think I used up all my luck for the next year's drafts Boy of Joy fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Dec 19, 2014 22:25
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 Quality customer service, yo.
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Dec 19, 2014 22:54
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I missed the name of the player and I thought the employee was just saying "bro" a lot.
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Dec 19, 2014 22:58
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That's a good response. Players who complain about getting bad draws and how the shuffler is out to get them are the freakin worst.
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Dec 19, 2014 23:04
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Ramos posted:
If that's your screenshot you have some kind of adware infection or browser plugin that's highlighting words to make ad links.
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Dec 19, 2014 23:10
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Cactrot posted:everyone talking about holiday cube makes me want to reconsider trying MODO again, especially this. My wallet is telling me no, but my body... is telling me yes.
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Dec 19, 2014 23:11
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Ramos posted:
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Dec 19, 2014 23:28
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Entropic posted:If that's your screenshot you have some kind of adware infection or browser plugin that's highlighting words to make ad links. Nah, not my screenshot, I just found the whole thing genuinely amusing.
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Dec 19, 2014 23:29
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Chill la Chill posted:Didn't we just finish laughing at the horrendous coding of the leaked shuffler? link pls. 
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Dec 19, 2014 23:30
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It was the sample hand randomiser, not the deck shuffler.
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Dec 19, 2014 23:31
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Entropic posted:link pls. http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/2o73b4/incontrovertible_fact_of_the_unfairness_of_the/ The offline hand sampler, though I don't see much reason why not to believe it isn't similar to the online shuffler.
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Ramos posted:http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/2o73b4/incontrovertible_fact_of_the_unfairness_of_the/ Because they told us that it wasn't and then told everyone what algorithm they were using instead?
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