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Temur Midrange could've served me well at the PPTQ today if I didn't actually bomb out due to mana issues for all 3 games. Clearly 10 minutes of shuffling a deck after having to take it apart to write down the decklist isn't enough for round 1. Yes I'm salty.
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I guess it's not fair to directly compare because one is about to show the finals and one is in garbage time of a Abzan Whip vs. Sidisi Whip match, but the SCG Open stream has almost twice as many viewers as the Magic GP stream (9500 vs. 5400) when they're the same format tournament.
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Boco_T posted:I guess it's not fair to directly compare because one is about to show the finals and one is in garbage time of a Abzan Whip vs. Sidisi Whip match, but the SCG Open stream has almost twice as many viewers as the Magic GP stream (9500 vs. 5400) when they're the same format tournament. The SCG stream also has inertia on its side. The GP isn't even on one of the main channels, I had to create a new shortcut/favorite for it.
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Boco_T posted:I guess it's not fair to directly compare because one is about to show the finals and one is in garbage time of a Abzan Whip vs. Sidisi Whip match, but the SCG Open stream has almost twice as many viewers as the Magic GP stream (9500 vs. 5400) when they're the same format tournament. SCG somehow even gets thousands of viewers during Saturday nighttime replays (I realize Europe is a thing)
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It doesn't help that Wizard's streams are horridly low in effort. Because for some reason they cannot properly utilize technology.
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Rinkles posted:SCG somehow even gets thousands of viewers during Saturday nighttime replays (I realize Europe is a thing) At this kind of hour, I personally often wait for Legacy to start up. EDIT: I mean at the hour of this post. 1am or so for me, usually Legacy is around the later rounds, but it depends on timezones and the like. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Haha drat this GP T8 is utterly, ridiculously stacked.Count Bleck posted:It doesn't help that Wizard's streams are horridly low in effort. Well, Channel Fireball has actually had really great coverage this weekend.
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Jan 5, 2015 00:01
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Alaan posted:Haha drat this GP T8 is utterly, ridiculously stacked. Where are the matches reported? SCGs site is so cleanly laid out as far as who is playing who, what decks they use and from The GP I can only seem to find the stream with no results or deck lists.
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Jan 5, 2015 00:03
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Alaan posted:Well, Channel Fireball has actually had really great coverage this weekend. I'm genuinely curious why Wizards isn't using the Twitch hosting functionality to have twitch.tv/magic pointing at twitch.tv/channelfireball. Surely people are subscribed to the former but not the latter?
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Kyrosiris posted:Wizards isn't using [online] functionality to [do something obvious] Wizards and the internet don't go along well. Alternate answer: They feel bad for literally everyone else having better coverage than their official one.
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Terrible, non-sensical misplay by Cheon there.
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Instantly rooting against Pardee because he refused to ultimate Chandra, even at 8 loyalty.
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Whoever says it's expensive to play standard should see this WU Heroic deck that is destroying everyone despite it being terrible. The whole thing is like 50 bucks.
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mcmagic posted:Whoever says it's expensive to play standard should see this WU Heroic deck that is destroying everyone despite it being terrible. The whole thing is like 50 bucks. Its a bit more than that but it is cheap enough that I decided to make the jump up from the twenty buck sligh deck.
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mcmagic posted:Whoever says it's expensive to play standard should see this WU Heroic deck that is destroying everyone despite it being terrible. The whole thing is like 50 bucks. More like $100 due to 4 fetches, but yeah still relatively cheap.
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That's one thing I noticed as the prices for KTK have settled based on the Standard meta and the pack volume, Flooded Strand is actually the most expensive card in Khans of Tarkir. Price-wise, it goes Strand, Sorin, Delta, Sarkhan, Heath.
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mcmagic posted:Whoever says it's expensive to play standard should see this WU Heroic deck that is destroying everyone despite it being terrible. The whole thing is like 50 bucks. How is a deck that wins consistently terrible? Because it's not full of money staples and relies on synergy rather than jamming as many individual value cards together as possible?
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mr. mephistopheles posted:How is a deck that wins consistently terrible? Because it's not full of money staples and relies on synergy rather than jamming as many individual value cards together as possible? Magic: The Gathering Megathread: Tier 1 is Pay To Win. Period.
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Your daily reminder not to use MTGO: I had a Metamorphed copy of Progenitus against an empty board (Lili minus) in the first round when the game crashed. Somehow it took down my internet connection with it. Crashed AGAIN forcing a hard reboot, then wouldn't load because "MainNavigation has stopped working" until I reinstalled. Oh, but uninstalling it through the official uninstaller didn't actually remove the corrupted files that kept it from starting, so I had to remove those and reinstall again. All of this took a bit longer than ten minutes, so I got dropped. I already got the points reimbursed, but... poo poo, guys, fix your poo poo. 
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mr. mephistopheles posted:How is a deck that wins consistently terrible? Because it's not full of money staples and relies on synergy rather than jamming as many individual value cards together as possible? Nah nothing to do with that. The Deck just plays a lot of bad cards and while it can be very powerful it's not consistent and you can end up with very bad mixes of cards. It's good in the meta game because everyone is doing these slow Grundy midrange things though. It's nothing like, for example, last standard's rabble red deck in terms of consistency and power level.
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Boco_T posted:I guess it's not fair to directly compare because one is about to show the finals and one is in garbage time of a Abzan Whip vs. Sidisi Whip match, but the SCG Open stream has almost twice as many viewers as the Magic GP stream (9500 vs. 5400) when they're the same format tournament. SCG commentators are amazing and better than any other commentators besides maybe Jim Ross and The King back in their prime. I would happily watch SCG cover a tournament of elementary school kids having their first magic games running duel decks over any wizards production.
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Failboattootoot posted:SCG commentators are amazing and better than any other commentators besides maybe Jim Ross and The King back in their prime. I would happily watch SCG cover a tournament of elementary school kids having their first magic games running duel decks over any wizards production. I came back from a 12 year hiatus but I think I recently saw a video that was almost identical to this except it was new players rather than elementary school kids.
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I know there are some videos floating around there of Dota 2 commentators commenting on some random new-player matches and it's the funniest thing, though I can't remember what it's called.
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In that same vein, bronze-league heroes is a pretty good series of vids from huskystarcraft, a youtuber.
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Failboattootoot posted:SCG commentators are amazing and better than any other commentators besides maybe Jim Ross and The King back in their prime. I would happily watch SCG cover a tournament of elementary school kids having their first magic games running duel decks over any wizards production.
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"So little Timmy is getting very excited right now." "Why's that Cedric?" "Because he's about to drop down his 6th mountain, so here comes his Shivan Dragon!" [Group 'Yaaaaay!']
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Scrubbed out of some very close draft games today because I forgot the essential card game rule "check for lethal". The store didn't have enough packs for more than eight people to draft Khans so it was "pick three Standard boosters", so at least that was fun, even though I got nothing of any remote value. Also had two newbies that let a Temple of Malady and Siege Rhino get passed to the same person 
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Grab-bag Draft/Sealed is a great format to do from time to time. Wacky combinations, unexpected synergies, off the walls combo's. Anything can, and often will, happen. In fact, I think I'll convince the guys at my LGS to do that for this week's FNM since we usually have a smaller crowd around Draft time on Modern Nights.
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I think Starcitys new event schedule will give TCG more room to grow their events to a larger scale.
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Some cool MODO behavior: Kenji on stream with a bloodsoaked champion and a flipped nezumi shortfang, selects attack with all creatures, but it doesn't attack with the flipped card because it's bugging out down by the land cards instead of attacking like a creature.
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No Friend of Gravity posted:Your daily reminder not to use MTGO: I cashed out MTGO when they announced V3 was going away forever, missed it and then came back with Khans, hated V4 so much I'm cashing out again a couple months later and not coming back unless something massive changes, plus I've started buying paper cards again for the first time since Weatherlight. Traded a big chunk of my cash out tix for a box of MM. Feels good man. mcmagic posted:Nah nothing to do with that. The Deck just plays a lot of bad cards and while it can be very powerful it's not consistent and you can end up with very bad mixes of cards. It's good in the meta game because everyone is doing these slow Grundy midrange things though. It's nothing like, for example, last standard's rabble red deck in terms of consistency and power level. I mean I'm not going to disagree that the core cards are basically unplayable anywhere else, but they're great together. I also absolutely disagree that it's not consistent. It has as much filtering, draw, and alternative ways to pull off its core strategy (make cheap mans big) as any other competitive deck. Yeah some games you just completely miss Ordeal of Thassa and that hurts it a lot, but sometimes Ascendancy doesn't draw Ascendancy and Whip doesn't draw Whip. The only deck I'd say is arguably more consistent is Abzan mid and that's only because nearly everything in it is playable on its own. I think it benefits a lot from standard having no decent, splashable removal below 3CMC, but so do other decks. "Good" and "good in the meta" are functionally the same thing. When was the last time a standard deck survived rotation and was still playable in extended/modern without substantial changes? Does that mean most standard decks are bad decks?
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I won a GPT over the weekend (for GP Vancouver), is there a way to see my byes on the Planeswalker Points site? It shows me winning it, but nothing else.
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Count Bleck posted:"So little Timmy is getting very excited right now." Hehe when I got back into magic during Theros block one of the first decks I built was a durdly r/w control deck that used sheep, walls, and removal to just chill out for 6 turns at which point I started dropping Shivan dragons and serra angels. Living the dream of my 4th edition roots rigtht there.
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Speaking of PWP, how much do the points you earn for doing well in FNM level events matter for Planeswalker Points/how much do those points matter for competitive events? My store has a guy who recently fell out of the PT Players Club and started slumming it with the unwashed masses in FNM draft and he always makes a huge deal about PWP during the events. It's usually innocuous stuff like refusing to split prizes in the final round in the X-0 bracket (4 packs for 3-0, 2 packs for 2-1, 3 packs each for the split "I'd rather have the points  ") or dropping out of the event as soon as he loses a round (particularly if he loses the first), but this week the event reporter was down and he almost quit the event right before we started cracking packs after the judge mentioned it in passing but agreed to stay after the judge promised we'd get PWP once the event reporter started working again. It seems like a weird thing to be worried about since the most I've ever earned for coming in first at FNM is 11 points, but maybe that's a lot of points?
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http://lrcast.com/exclusive-limited-resources-fate-reforged-preview-cards/   
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BXCX posted:Speaking of PWP, how much do the points you earn for doing well in FNM level events matter for Planeswalker Points/how much do those points matter for competitive events? My store has a guy who recently fell out of the PT Players Club and started slumming it with the unwashed masses in FNM draft and he always makes a huge deal about PWP during the events. It's usually innocuous stuff like refusing to split prizes in the final round in the X-0 bracket (4 packs for 3-0, 2 packs for 2-1, 3 packs each for the split "I'd rather have the points
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