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Snacksmaniac posted:This works. Life hacks! Yeah, the curling is entirely due to humidity. The rice acts as a desiccant and draws the moisture out, uncurling them. Living in Louisiana, even my regular foils curl depending on the weather.
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Zonekeeper posted:Yeah, the curling is entirely due to humidity. The rice acts as a desiccant and draws the moisture out, uncurling them.
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Feb 9, 2015 15:12
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Ciprian Maricon posted:Why do people hate on Delver so much? It's not really a problem card, it doesn't even break the Top 10 of most played creatures in Modern. We are all sockpuppets of Maro, and getting a 3-power attacker for 1 is very unblue.
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Feb 9, 2015 15:33
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Ciprian Maricon posted:How many high level results did a Delver list post before treasure cruise? Delver didn't post those results because of Delver. It posted those results because of all the other great blue cards that facilitate the deck.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:04
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mcmagic posted:Delver didn't post those results because of Delver. It posted those results because of all the other great blue cards that facilitate the deck. Yea Delve focus itself is nearly meaningless unless you have, ya know, poo poo to use that helps you Delve up poo poo to pay.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:44
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yea Delve focus itself is nearly meaningless unless you have, ya know, poo poo to use that helps you Delve up poo poo to pay. Delve!=Delver
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Feb 9, 2015 16:47
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Madmarker posted:Delve!=Delver Yep I'm an idiot, still I stand by my feelings on Delve that are unrelated to this topic!
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Feb 9, 2015 16:48
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Living in Seattle is kinda awesome for MTG. There are an insane amount of PPTQs firing off nearly every weekend. A slight problem with this, that I have noticed, is that there are a ton of stores who have never run anything more than a PR or FNM doing Competitive REL tournaments for this. I don't know how Wizards helps facilitate running these, but it seems severely lacking. The level of preparedness for a tournament I experienced on Sunday really turned me off from doing any of these at anything other than established gaming stores. Fortunately, we have a lot. I feel for people who don't have another game store to go to, if they're always ran terribly.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:50
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yep I'm an idiot, still I stand by my feelings on Delve that are unrelated to this topic! In standard, maybe you need explicit enablers, but in eternal formats and you don't need enablers to make Delve good. The "enablers" in eternal formats are cards you would want to play anyway: cheap spells and fetchlands.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:52
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En Fuego posted:Living in Seattle is kinda awesome for MTG. There are an insane amount of PPTQs firing off nearly every weekend. A slight problem with this, that I have noticed, is that there are a ton of stores who have never run anything more than a PR or FNM doing Competitive REL tournaments for this. The flip side of this being, there are a zillion happening every week but the volume hasn't changed the fact that they're all Standard or Sealed.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:53
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Cactrot posted:The flip side of this being, there are a zillion happening every week but the volume hasn't changed the fact that they're all Standard or Sealed. Well, other than Modern I am not sure what else they could run.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:55
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En Fuego posted:Well, other than Modern I am not sure what else they could run. Modern is the format I'd most like to play, but they have the option of running Draft as well. Though I think only a few stores have the experienced staff/judges needed to run a competitive draft.
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suicidesteve posted:Extensive testing on my part has shown that Pyro in BUG Delver is much worse than Delver itself. For example, I've never played a turn 1 Pyro and attacked someone to death without casting another non-reactive spell. And you usually can't even cast it, geez. I know you're technicaly right and all, and just being humorous, but I've seen a BUG delver list splashing red before 
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Feb 9, 2015 17:16
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Cactrot posted:Modern is the format I'd most like to play, but they have the option of running Draft as well. Though I think only a few stores have the experienced staff/judges needed to run a competitive draft. Aren't Sealed and Draft part of the same competitive events? Swiss sealed, top 8 draft? Otherwise you'd have to jump straight from 6 rounds to 9 rounds and you'd probably have a bunch of pods with fewer or more than 8 people.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:24
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:Aren't Sealed and Draft part of the same competitive events? Swiss sealed, top 8 draft? Otherwise you'd have to jump straight from 6 rounds to 9 rounds and you'd probably have a bunch of pods with fewer or more than 8 people. Only for events that are above FNM level, like GPT's or GP's or PTQ's. Things hosted at a local store outside of that framework tend to be either sealed or draft.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:28
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Cactrot posted:Modern is the format I'd most like to play, but they have the option of running Draft as well. Though I think only a few stores have the experienced staff/judges needed to run a competitive draft. Modern feels like the worst constructed format right now...
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Feb 9, 2015 17:34
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mcmagic posted:Modern feels like the worst constructed format right now... Because of the Pro Tour? I don't really look to that for a view of what's hot right now. The modern meta is much wider than what was represented there, the PT seemed to be very slanted towards a certain expected meta.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:38
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Cactrot posted:Because of the Pro Tour? I don't really look to that for a view of what's hot right now. The modern meta is much wider than what was represented there, the PT seemed to be very slanted towards a certain expected meta. Any format where Siege Rhino exists in a tier 1 deck is a bad format by default. Because seriously gently caress Siege Rhino, it is everything I dislike about
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Feb 9, 2015 17:40
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Cactrot posted:Because of the Pro Tour? I don't really look to that for a view of what's hot right now. The modern meta is much wider than what was represented there, the PT seemed to be very slanted towards a certain expected meta. I really get the feeling that decks other than Twin, Burn and Abzan are just bad. I've messed around with Domain Zoo but it's an uphill battle. Madmarker posted:Any format where Siege Rhino exists in a tier 1 deck is a bad format by default. Because seriously gently caress Siege Rhino, it is everything I dislike about This is a really good standard format. Even with Rhino.
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Abzan is just favored highly in modern right now solely on the fact that it's full of value creatures and that LotV isn't held down by a 1 mana draw three. It'll diversify in a little bit.
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MaRo's Tumblr posted:
drat, that's a long time. Although it's "the end of design", and development probably doesn't happen in a week, but still, dang.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:44
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Lars birch did really well with domain zoo. Did you see the results for just modern?
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Don't you guys ever get tired of getting trolled by mcmagic?
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Madmarker posted:Any format where Siege Rhino exists in a tier 1 deck is a bad format by default. Because seriously gently caress Siege Rhino, it is everything I dislike about Nothing was worse than Thragtusk/Resto/Rites decks of 2 years ago. Just mind numbing to play against.
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Madmarker posted:Because seriously gently caress Siege Rhino, it is everything I dislike about
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Yawgmoth posted:Then maybe you can explain all the loving vitriol for this card because I've played it, I've played against it, and I don't see what the big deal is over it. I mean sure, it's good, being aggressively costed and having a free 3 point drain tacked on, but it doesn't have any evasion and is easily done in by all of the common white/black removal so it's not like you just drop it and win unless your opponent is in bolt range. It's a really good card with tons of value attached that shows up in a lot of really good decks with tons of value within them. Or basically people hate dominate decks.
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Yawgmoth posted:Then maybe you can explain all the loving vitriol for this card because I've played it, I've played against it, and I don't see what the big deal is over it. I mean sure, it's good, being aggressively costed and having a free 3 point drain tacked on, but it doesn't have any evasion and is easily done in by all of the common white/black removal so it's not like you just drop it and win unless your opponent is in bolt range. It has trample, dude. So, it isn't like token/weenie decks can chump it for days until they get their winning set up.
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Yawgmoth posted:Then maybe you can explain all the loving vitriol for this card because I've played it, I've played against it, and I don't see what the big deal is over it. I mean sure, it's good, being aggressively costed and having a free 3 point drain tacked on, but it doesn't have any evasion and is easily done in by all of the common white/black removal so it's not like you just drop it and win unless your opponent is in bolt range. It's in the best deck and also some people feel that Magic is trending towards midrange and are very vocal in disliking that.
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It's a really good card so you throw it in the deck with all the other really good cards and you have a really good deck. If you've heard people complain about Jund (or Naya) at any point in the last six years, the current complaints about Junk are pretty much the same, and Siege Rhino is their figurehead.
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Just be happy Restoration Angel doesn't exist in this Standard. I'd actually love to go back and look at all the years of Standard where people bitched about <Dominant Creature Name Here> all the time. Once Siege Rhino rotates, it will be some other card, and then some other card. Time is a flat circle, basically.
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Gyshall posted:Just be happy Restoration Angel doesn't exist in this Standard. Sphinx's Revelation, Thragtusk, Delver of Secrets, Jace the Mind Sculpter / Stoneforge Mystic,... since I came back to the game there's always been something.
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Arcbound ravager/disciple of the vault, loxodon hierarch, dark confidant, grave-shell scarab. I'm coming up blank for time spiral, maybe brine elemental?
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As someone who's played Sligh a bit and current maybe running RW aggro, at least to local store standard events tonight and tomorrow; Siege Rhino is frustrating, but its the perfect storm combination of it, and caryatid/courser and drown in sorrow that makes it so hard to fight through. I also dislike it having an extra point of toughness because its out of Stoke the Flames range. Ick. At least I have Chained to the Rocks and Valorous Stance in White. Once the backup package rotates I think it won't be as obnoxious in standard, hopefully. I still have a somewhat irrational distaste for the card since it's what killed Pod in my mind, and I liked Pod.  :
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Rimusutera posted:As someone who's played Sligh a bit and current maybe running RW aggro, at least to local store standard events tonight and tomorrow; Siege Rhino is frustrating, but its the perfect storm combination of it, and caryatid/courser and drown in sorrow that makes it so hard to fight through. I also dislike it having an extra point of toughness because its out of Stoke the Flames range. Ick. Hushwing Gryff will rotate out before Siege Rhino. 
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Cactrot posted:Hushwing Gryff will rotate out before Siege Rhino. That's some fresh hell to mull over.
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Feb 9, 2015 18:30
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Oh gently caress. I forgot about that. gently caress me.
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Feb 9, 2015 18:32
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I fully expect that Wizards already has a counter for Siege Rhino prepared and ready to drop in Dragons/Origins.
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Molybdenum posted:Lars birch did really well with domain zoo. Did you see the results for just modern? Yeah I did see it. Looks interesting but I don't have the Higharcs and I don't feel like buying them right before they are reprinted in MM 2015.
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