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Rinkles posted:Are you resuming your reviews soon? Yes.
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Chill la Chill posted:I tend not to do those other possible activities in my underpants, if I can help it. Yeah, that's all true, but losing the instant mechanic is huge in my opinion; it means outside of secrets/traps, youre simply not playing 50% of the game. HS also feels (emphasis on 'feels'; I dont pretend to be an expert on the game) way more reliant on topdecks, way less reliant on resource management/deck construction, etc. It just feels more "toy"; certainly fun, but I've never had boardstates/decision trees in hearthstone like i've had in magic. Easily the best thing about Hearthstone is the arena thing of being able to draft a deck, then pick it up whenever instead of being tied to 3 rounds in realtime. But it sounds like the inclusion of leagues in MTGO is a step to correct that.
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Jan 1, 2015 03:27
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Terrible Horse posted:But it sounds like the inclusion of leagues in MTGO is a step to correct that. And by "inclusion of" you mean "return of a feature that worked perfectly TEN YEARS AGO" 
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Jan 1, 2015 03:33
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kingcobweb posted:Speaking of Magic Online, I wrote about how I draft the Holiday Cube. Wow, this advice seems terrible. Storm is extremely viable in the holiday cube and Time Vault is the best archetype. GW is among the worst. I don't know how you've come to these conclusions but they're drastically out of line with everything I've ever seen.
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Jan 1, 2015 03:36
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kingcobweb posted:Speaking of Magic Online, I wrote about how I draft the Holiday Cube. Overall I thought this article was very interesting, but I feel like the cat is out of the bag w/r/t artifact removal and that really hurts artifacts, especially sword, which either require relatively large amounts of mana or the passage of a full turn before use.
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Jan 1, 2015 03:49
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aunt jemima posted:And by "inclusion of" you mean "return of a feature that worked perfectly TEN YEARS AGO" Leagues are never coming back.
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Jan 1, 2015 03:50
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aunt jemima posted:And by "inclusion of" you mean "return of a feature that worked perfectly TEN YEARS AGO" That's what they get for hiring Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash as programmers.
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Jan 1, 2015 03:54
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From what little I've seen of Hearthstone it does have a chunky, arcade-y feel to it that I'm glad MTGO, Hex etc. don't have. I have a hunch I would have liked a faithful port of the paper WoWTCG a lot better, although I'm sure that wouldn't have meshed with Blizzard's vision for their tcg killer app. No argument from me that Wizards could learn a shitload from Blizzard in coding the client, though, which is funny when you consider how many bugs and notorious downtime events WoW has had over the years.
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Jan 1, 2015 04:15
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kingcobweb posted:Speaking of Magic Online, I wrote about how I draft the Holiday Cube. The only thing I disagree with is your assessment of mono black. I've only drafted it a few times this cube, but it is the only archetype that I am 3-0 across the board. I think this week I have more wins on Massacre Wurm triggers than anything else. The key, though, is Recurring Nightmare. It just makes things like Geralf's Messenger bonkers, and protects things like Phyrexian Obliterator from removal. Otherwise, it's still really strong, you just have to get the right balance of creatures to kill spells and you MUST have a source of extra card draw....ideally Dark Confidant, but I'll play Necropotence if I'm absolutely NOT splashing anything else. I also think the deck is stronger with a splash of white to ensure enough removal and hand disruption (looping Sin Collector with Recurring Nightmare is way too fun against control).
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Jan 1, 2015 04:54
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Spiderdrake posted:Because there are no other comparable experiences one can have in their underpants, according to the thread, anyway. Why does everyone sit around in their underpants when you can sit around in fuzzy pants and a nice cozy blanket and drink hot coco and draft cube? Am I the only one having this problem???
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Jan 1, 2015 05:03
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Jan 1, 2015 05:11
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Flipping that up after blockers are declared seems fun. edit: Can Temur tokens be a thing? odiv fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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Jan 1, 2015 05:15
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I guess ferocious is moving from checking that you have a big creature to counting how many you have now.
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Jan 1, 2015 05:33
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I guess that's the Temur member of the Soulfire bear cycle.
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Jan 1, 2015 05:39
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qbert posted:I remember Chapin saying in one of the Open streams that there were 3 non Power 9 cards that actually had a better win percentage than any of the Power 9 in MODO cubes. One was Skullclamp, I think another was Library of Alexandria, and I can't recall the third. Maybe Sol Ring? Was it jitte? i would take jitte over any power.
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Jan 1, 2015 05:42
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Elyv posted:I guess that's the Temur member of the Soulfire bear cycle. I'm surprised because Temur already had an entry in the 'mono-colored creature with hybrid activation cost of the two other colors in the wedge' race... I guess it's not just one per clan then?
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Jan 1, 2015 05:48
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JerryLee posted:I'm surprised because Temur already had an entry in the 'mono-colored creature with hybrid activation cost of the two other colors in the wedge' race... I guess it's not just one per clan then?
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Jan 1, 2015 06:00
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JerryLee posted:I'm surprised because Temur already had an entry in the 'mono-colored creature with hybrid activation cost of the two other colors in the wedge' race... I guess it's not just one per clan then? Yasova is a rare, this is a mythic. Looks like there are two cycles.
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Procrastinator posted:Yasova is a rare, this is a mythic. Looks like there are two cycles. Okay, guess I misremembered her rarity (I thought 'legendary khan = mythic'). Two cycles of the same theme will be interesting, assuming there's an actual khan cycle as well and not just her. Also, to get pedantic on myself, she's templated slightly different (triggered ability) so it will, again, be interesting to see if there's a cycle that follows that. JerryLee fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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Jan 1, 2015 06:08
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Happy New Year celebrate by forcing mono red in cube to symbolize fireworks.
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Jan 1, 2015 06:22
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Whenever you resolve a spell, tell people it's your New Year's resolution. 
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Jan 1, 2015 06:25
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 Happy new year thread, here's an SCG spoiler
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Jan 1, 2015 06:25
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Apparently the official term for when you and your opponent disagree about life totals is "failure to agree on reality".Skillface posted:
Oh jesus, the tokens have prowess? That's going to get nasty real fast. vOv fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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Jan 1, 2015 06:26
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Skillface posted:
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Jan 1, 2015 06:29
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Skillface posted:
drat. that seems like a really good card for jeskai tokens. A slightly more expensive young pyromancer with a huge upside. I wonder if it will be played in any eternal formats. Obscil fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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Jan 1, 2015 06:30
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Skillface posted:
This is insane. It's the white Rabblemaster.
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Jan 1, 2015 06:30
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"So Theros was boring? Get ready for ALL OF THIS." -Wizards
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Jan 1, 2015 06:34
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Theros would've been better if it actually was the Enchantments Matter block
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Obscil posted:drat. that seems like a really good card for jeskai tokens. A slightly more expensive young pyromancer with a huge upside. I wonder if it will be played in any eternal formats. Yes it will, because Young Pyromancer is so good, and this thing is worse but still good.
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Jan 1, 2015 06:38
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Chamale posted:Yes it will, because Young Pyromancer is so good, and this thing is worse but still good. Your trade off for 1 more mana is working with more ways to trigger it as well as making overall stronger tokens. But then again, it is one more mana..
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At first I was like "nice, but not mythic." Then I saw the tokens had prowess. This thing is absurd. That's two super duper standard playable white mythics so far.
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Skillface posted:
Holy poo poo its real. That has been floating around mtgs for over a week I think and everyone thought it was fake.
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Count Bleck posted:Your trade off for 1 more mana is working with more ways to trigger it as well as making overall stronger tokens. Also white is a worse color for this type of thing than red. Card is still really powerful, though.
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Elyv posted:Also white is a worse color for this type of thing than red. Card is still really powerful, though. Let's look at it this way; in Jeskai Tokens you now gave eight rabblemasters.
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Count Bleck posted:Theros would've been better if it actually was the Enchantments Matter block edit: this sounds like a mental hospital block
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Count Bleck posted:Let's look at it this way; in Jeskai Tokens you now gave eight rabblemasters. Oh, I thought we were talking about Legacy playability.
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homerlaw posted:"So Theros was boring? Get ready for ALL OF THIS." I forgive Wizard already for the shittiness that was BNG.
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Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest 2U Legendary Creature - Human Monk Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay [R/W][R/W]. If you do, target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Edit: beaten Dr. Strange M.D. fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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