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Hey, y'all might not be MTG finance kinds of guys, but y'all should check out my friend Collin's new finance blog over at the Trading Post! He'll also be doing interviews of people that he meets during his travels, so those should be pretty awesome to read. Go check it out, he's a really smart guy.
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Would it be insane to make that storageland accept 'X T: Add X counters' instead of the limiting 1? Yes it would ramp rather nicely into a battery, but that seems to be the point? Especially so considering its built to play giant fuckoff dragons and little else. Potentially it could do what? T1: no storage - play a dork T2: 2 in storage (with a dork) T3: 2 more in storage and a bigger dork played... Perhaps that would get a bit out of hand. Could potentially have 4 counters on it easily by turn 4... 8 mana? Ugin time? Does he even count as a dragon?
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DarkDobe posted:Ugin time? Does he even count as a dragon? Ugin is a Planeswalker with the subtype "Ugin."
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BuckFitches posted:Just a question to everyone, whats your preferred format?. Draft 
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I play standard and modern, personally. Right now, I've got the cards for almost any standard deck going, except that I need butchers of the hordes, ashcloud phoenixes, and a couple of Sidisi, brood tyrant, but I've mostly ran variants of Abzan midrange, Aggro, or reanimator. I'm trying out UW heroic tonight at FNM, to see how I like it. In modern, I've mostly run variants of burn, mostly RW, RWU treasure cruise, or 5 color burn. I'm also trying to parse my way around a 5 color Maze's end fog deck, primarily because why the gently caress not, my store mostly has people playing piles of crap, anyway. Currently, I'm at this: 2 ea guildgate 4 ea maze's end 4x darkness 4x Holy Day 4x Fog 4x Batwing Brume 4x lingering souls 4x gatecreeper vines 4x hold the gates 4x crackling perimeter 4x Sphinx's Revelation But I'm sure it can be greatly improved.
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kizudarake posted:I play standard and modern, personally. I don't know much about 5C Maze's End, but you could probably throw out the Crackling Perimeter and possibly hold the gates for some counterspells/wrath effect/combo disruption. Would Explore or Kiora Atua be much use to let you get more gates out faster? Or Urban Evolution?
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I've seen a few people in this thread talk about the Tiny Leaders format, but it seems Starcity also has noticed the format, at least enough for one guy to write an article about it.
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As someone who loves to play sligh decks, I am disappointed with the reveals so far. Cmon wizards, where are the one drops.
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BuckFitches posted:Just a question to everyone, whats your preferred format? i'm wondering if i should give standard a chance again, seeing i just play edh these days mostly due to money limitations. The only non-limited format I'll play anymore is 25$ commander ("island commander" or something). It's just commander but the cost of the deck at the time you build it has to be <25$. Cards are counted by the cheapest version of them per ssg. Basically I'm tired of seeing 3-4 thousand dollar commander decks, and even more expensive modern/legacy decks. Standard is boring for me in general, I hate netdecks.
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More creatures should be depicted breaking through windows. 
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Are proper names of groups not capitalized in French?
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BuckFitches posted:Just a question to everyone, whats your preferred format? i'm wondering if i should give standard a chance again, seeing i just play edh these days mostly due to money limitations. In terms of quote-unquote real Magic, I play Legacy almost exclusively. It has a great deal of competitive depth and a huge variety of viable decks, and has more players who are just really excited about the deck they play than you're likely to find outside of EDH, which I find energizing. I'm lucky to live in a place where there are regular Legacy events, though. At this point I can't really recommend investing in starting Legacy unless you know you'll have plenty of chances to play it. After building up my EDH arsenal and breaking it down again, I now have one EDH deck that's my big shiny baby, and occasionally brew gimmicky and/or cheap decks to have on the side. My playgroup doesn't play EDH as much anymore now that we're all into Legacy and I built a Cube, which has become our go-to casual format. I can't recommend cubing enough. It takes a good bit of planning and time to get it together but you can get a fun, varied experience for your whole playgroup at pretty much any price point.
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BJPaskoff posted:Are proper names of groups not capitalized in French? "French Assault Captain" would be "Chef d'assaut français"
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kizudarake posted:I play standard and modern, personally. take out holy day and use ethereal haze instead. this is the build i use when i futz around on MTGO: 
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I appreciate the value, but what's with the throwaway bodies? Attacking with a 3/2 on turn 4 is terrible in this standard format, and it leaves you with a bad chump. As someone who was playing, then moved on from, mono black aggro early in the format I'm going to say this guy is less than standard playable.
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Balon posted:I appreciate the value, but what's with the throwaway bodies? Attacking with a 3/2 on turn 4 is terrible in this standard format, and it leaves you with a bad chump. As someone who was playing, then moved on from, mono black aggro early in the format I'm going to say this guy is less than standard playable. Think I'm going to agree with you. If the tokens came into play attacking or his dash cost 3 instead then he would have potential. At least giving him first strike so he doesn't die to everything would be an improvement. Neat card but he just doesn't quite seem to reach the mark.
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Quick rules question pals. Opponent has War Tax out and I drop a sudden disappearance, in response he pumps war tax, does the effect still stand even tho the war tax has been removed?
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Balon posted:I appreciate the value, but what's with the throwaway bodies? Attacking with a 3/2 on turn 4 is terrible in this standard format, and it leaves you with a bad chump. As someone who was playing, then moved on from, mono black aggro early in the format I'm going to say this guy is less than standard playable. Yeah anything like this that just bounces off Courser isn't going to be all that great.
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AceClown posted:Quick rules question pals. Yep, it's an effect until end of turn. Also, even if you play hasty dudes after your Disappearance, they can't attack for free.
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I really hope the Mardu protoKhan makes for a good commander, I'd like to build something in the colours besides Kaalia. Edit: though I might make one entirely about casting, buffing and protecting Zurgo. BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:I really hope the Mardu protoKhan makes for a good commander, I'd like to build something in the colours besides Kaalia.  
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See my edit, and there are Oros and that angel from the Kaalia deck too, but they don't inform the deck building as much as Kaalia, nor are they so powerful.
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I just want to throw it out there that the worst part of this set is that over the course of 1280 years,, Tarkir had apparently no appreciable evolution in technology or societal structure even after the extinction of one of its most powerful species.
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mcmagic posted:Yeah anything like this that just bounces off Courser isn't going to be all that great. Isn't there a warrior "Lord" you can drop on turn 2 or 3 that could make his turn 4 dash a little better?
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Balon posted:I appreciate the value, but what's with the throwaway bodies? Attacking with a 3/2 on turn 4 is terrible in this standard format, and it leaves you with a bad chump. As someone who was playing, then moved on from, mono black aggro early in the format I'm going to say this guy is less than standard playable. Is there any sadder card than a 14th pick rare?
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End of Life Guy posted:Isn't there a warrior "Lord" you can drop on turn 2 or 3 that could make his turn 4 dash a little better? One that saves your guy, another that kills the courser. I'm keeping an eye on warrior tribal.
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AlternateNu posted:I just want to throw it out there that the worst part of this set is that over the course of 1280 years,, Tarkir had apparently no appreciable evolution in technology or societal structure even after the extinction of one of its most powerful species. You really wanna go down that rabbit hole? Practical magic exists and it hasn't triggered an
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BizarroAzrael posted:See my edit, and there are Oros and that angel from the Kaalia deck too, but they don't inform the deck building as much as Kaalia, nor are they so powerful. Zurgo is like ten times the commander those are because you can drop Wrath effects indiscriminately and in fact should because Zurgo breaks a person in three swings.
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Entropic posted:At least the rares in this set that are garbage for standard are looking awesome for draft. The only thing sadder than a 14th pick rare is a 15th pick rare. I'd take basic Swamps over stupid Hardened Scales every time.
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There are definitely certain cards where, if you're drafting without taking basics out, it's correct to take the basic over them because there's a small chance you get paired against the person who takes it and they play it.
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AlternateNu posted:I just want to throw it out there that the worst part of this set is that over the course of 1280 years,, Tarkir had apparently no appreciable evolution in technology or societal structure even after the extinction of one of its most powerful species. People get really mad when you mix their wizards with guns and industry. As in, people can't fathom it even though individual cards like snap caster Mage have them. It's really odd and modern d20 systems were never popular.
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BuckFitches posted:Just a question to everyone, whats your preferred format? i'm wondering if i should give standard a chance again, seeing i just play edh these days mostly due to money limitations. Archenteron posted:I've seen a few people in this thread talk about the Tiny Leaders format, but it seems Starcity also has noticed the format, at least enough for one guy to write an article about it.
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BuckFitches posted:Just a question to everyone, whats your preferred format? i'm wondering if i should give standard a chance again, seeing i just play edh these days mostly due to money limitations. When I got back into the game a few years ago I was really interested in EDH but eventually realized that I hate Magic formats that aren't 2-player. Politics just isn't my thing.
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BuckFitches posted:Just a question to everyone, whats your preferred format? Edit: I'd love to draft but the only places that have it don't start until at least 8pm, some as late as 10pm. Can't really be up until 12-2am drafting when I have to wake up for work at 5:45am. 
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Chill la Chill posted:People get really mad when you mix their wizards with guns and industry. As in, people can't fathom it even though individual cards like snap caster Mage have them. It's really odd and modern d20 systems were never popular. Ravnica at least had, like, people doing jobs. I always liked that the Golgari were basically an entire plane's waste management system. AlternateNu posted:I just want to throw it out there that the worst part of this set is that over the course of 1280 years,, Tarkir had apparently no appreciable evolution in technology or societal structure even after the extinction of one of its most powerful species. For how much the lore is trying to build up Dragon-less Tarkir as being some fundamentally broken place, it doesn't seem much worse off than any number of planes we've visited. If Dragon ruled Tarkir shows a plane that's war torn but has experienced significant evolution, implying that Khan ruled Tarkir was completely stagnant, I'd appreciate it a lot. I'm picturing the 40K fluff, where the near-death of the Emperor of All Mankind doomed humanity to 10,000 years of circling the drain. Sure, it's silly to assert that no change would occur, but it's a nice way to underscore "yeah, poo poo's hosed." And card games probably aren't the best medium for nuanced storytelling anyway.
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Vital Signs posted:I just started working on a list yesterday. Seems like fun. I've heard a lot of people describe it as "singleton legacy," but I don't think I agree. Is there a following anywhere with decent deck discussion? I've posted my Xira Arien and Doran lists before. They're not perfect but considering I'm the only person who doesn't play control, they're quite good at my store. The Doran deck is fairly weak if Doran dies, which is why I threw in a few combos for insurance. The format is a ton of fun. We've gone from 2 people playing to 4 with another 3 or 4 making decks in the last 2 weeks. I'd say deck discussion would fit in the eternal thread rather than commander. I don't know of any outside places though. It's definitely not quite legacy commander because of the lack of consistency, but it's pretty close. The best part for me is it lets me play a bunch of sweet cards I would love to play in legacy if there weren't cards that are just better. Stuff like Phyrexian Arena and Bonfire (which I don't think I've ever not drawn on turn 3.  )
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Boxman posted:"yeah, poo poo's hosed." - Gerrard, to Greven Il-Vec
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