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Funny how the best enchantments came in the block after Theros.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:07
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One Elemental, one Lion, mana dorks, versus Elemental, mana dorks. GW mirror!
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Mar 9, 2015 00:08
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At least Daniel drew the Sabertooth. It's the best we're gonna get for a G1 mirror breaker.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:08
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Aaaand this is why white and green are my least favorite colors...
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Mar 9, 2015 00:10
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Actually Sabertooth is kind of cool because he can bounce something like a manifested Nykthos or G. Hydra to his hand and then play it. Edit: And right when I said it he did it!
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Mar 9, 2015 00:11
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Patrick Sullivan already sounds like he's on the edge of snapping. I feel bad for finding this so hilarious.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:15
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Kyrosiris posted:Patrick Sullivan already sounds like he's on the edge of snapping. Schadenfreude is just as essental a part of a healthy mentality as empathy is. 
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Mar 9, 2015 00:21
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Kyrosiris posted:Patrick Sullivan already sounds like he's on the edge of snapping. I don't, this is what standard deserves
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Mar 9, 2015 00:23
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oh good, I got back from dinner in time for the finals. And would have gotten back in time to see them if I had waited 2 hours.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:24
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If this deck doesn't have a solution every deck can play, something's getting banned because it would be disastrous for the game.
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Wizards R&D: Hey guys, let's put incidental life gain on everything. Everything. Nice format, idiots. Angry Grimace posted:If this deck doesn't have a solution every deck can play, something's getting banned because it would be disastrous for the game. Perilous Vault.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:29
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Real tech for the mirror is Grindclock.
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forbidden lesbian posted:oh good, I got back from dinner in time for the finals. And would have gotten back in time to see them if I had waited 2 hours. Cecchetti is probably a few turns away from winning. He's setting up a giant Polukranos monstrous to wipe.
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Angry Grimace posted:If this deck doesn't have a solution every deck can play, something's getting banned because it would be disastrous for the game. What would be banworthy at this point? Mastery seems fine since you have to pay mana to manafest, whereas Whisperwood just sits and makes dudes for free. Alternatively, Nykthos?
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Mar 9, 2015 00:30
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Somehow control is going to be blamed for this state of affairs yet again.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:31
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Chill la Chill posted:Somehow control is going to be blamed for this state of affairs yet again. never heard of it
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Mar 9, 2015 00:33
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Over/under on Game 2 just being Baumeister being mana-screwed and Cecchetti winning with Elvish Mystic Aggro?
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Mar 9, 2015 00:35
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Holy poo poo I'd rather play Caw Blade mirrors forever than watch this awful match.
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bhsman posted:What would be banworthy at this point? Mastery seems fine since you have to pay mana to manafest, whereas Whisperwood just sits and makes dudes for free. Nykthos is probably the card.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:36
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Count Bleck posted:Wild Slash fericous actually has uses though, like going through protection given by combat tricks. Its basically better shock, and there's nothing ering with that. This screams to me "give Mono R a creature to block Rhinos early and potentially kill them if you can build a board presence"
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Mar 9, 2015 00:37
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So now that creatures are on the verge of ruining magic, do we get a New New World Order™?
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MiddleEastBeast posted:So now that creatures are on the verge of ruining magic, do we get a New New World Order™? New players like to play with creatures, so no.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:40
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rabidsquid posted:New players like to play with creatures, so no. Why does it have to be an either-or thing I hopped in liking both
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Hey guys, news came in! Me and my wife are having a kid, she's two weeks pregnant. The doctors expect her to give birth by the middle of game 2.
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MiddleEastBeast posted:So now that creatures are on the verge of ruining magic, do we get a New New World Order™?
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TheKingofSprings posted:Why does it have to be an either-or thing I don't know why the designers dislike combo. The cards that are typically good in control are very feelbad, basically anything that stabilizes them versus aggro decks. Midrange is always going to be very good against aggro and without decks that go over the top it will be very prevalent. I think going over the top is going to mean "midrange decks that can cast really expensive stuff" for awhile though. At least until Nykthos is gone. Then I dunno. Irony Be My Shield posted:Isn't it actually a land and an enchantment that caused this terrible mirror to happen though? Kind of. The fact that the thing that typically preys on this type of deck isn't really prevalent allows you to dick around with an enchantment and a bunch of permanents on board to make that land work well.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:46
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Cecchetti's sideboard looks built to beat the mirror. The man came prepared. Edit: I really hope to see a turn where he bounces and recasts Hornet Queen 5 times.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:47
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Samael posted:Trip Report- First ever Sealed REL event and the time to make the deck goes really fast! Hastily constructed a reasonably okay abzan deck with tasigur and a lot of warriors and a chief of the scales. Looking back, my red was way stronger than I thought and I should have probably gone jund. On that note, I came across a distressing number of assholes in the 2 chaos drafts I did over the weekend - draft #1 had several Greek guys who all had lovely attitudes and were really unpleasant to play against, and it was really satisfying to beat two of them in the Semi and the Final at the end. Draft #2 had a guy to my right who told me "We need to draft at a reasonable pace" in a completely  way after I was passed a pack of Apocolypse that was in a foreign language when I asked if anyone nearby could help me with translating some of the cards (I spotted a Jilt, but wanted to be certain before picking it), only for this guy to then hold up the draft portion himself for the rest of it. Good job, buddy! My first round opponent was genuinely annoying too, and very unpleasant (yet I beat him too, and it was super satisfying). Jesus christ, I just want to draft some old sets and laugh about a bunch of cards I don't know with other people, and I get some of the most grognardiest players I've ever faced.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:52
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went to lost and found and they didn't have it and it pretty much ruined my weekend. No GP promo now :/ Managed to get the CFB tokens off a friend as a gesture of kindness though, which was nice of them.
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Mar 9, 2015 01:00
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qbert posted:Daniel must be thanking that judge so hard now. It's the right call. He probably could have shortcutted it so he didn't shuffle - he hadn't scryed or anything - but he would have had to check with his opponent first.
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MySwan posted:Is anyone else worried we're going to hit the anime-esque matryoshka doll villains singularity, where there's always someone else bigger? It's going to peak with Bolas harnessing the power of the Eldrazi and the power of Phyrexia. P. Sure Bolas would win out over Elesh Norn, and considering how Green mana the eldrazi are, he could probably lead them around into some sort of trap...
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It's hilarious to me that the goal of Nissa in the mirror is literally to +1 her 4 times and then -7
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Mar 9, 2015 01:11
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This is just like one of my EDH games
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RME posted:This is just like one of my EDH games Its actually less like your EDH games and more like your posting
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RME posted:This is just like one of my EDH games
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MiddleEastBeast posted:So now that creatures are on the verge of ruining magic, do we get a New New World Order™? That's not what NWO is. Has WotC banned specific card combos instead of individual cards before? It seems the issue here is not Mastery of the Unseen or Nykthos specifically, but the two of them in combination.
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Elyv posted:It's hilarious to me that the goal of Nissa in the mirror is literally to +1 her 4 times and then -7 That is literally the point of Nissa period though? Edit: I just tuned in. This is game 2 and they're going on 80 minutes. Why.
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 GP Trip Report So, I've played Magic for around 15 years, played sanctioned for about 3 at a push, been a judge for 9 months, but this was my first GP I went 3-3 in the main event, 2-1 for the first matches, the wins, so no walk overs, but my deck was solid yet uninspiring. Round 4 my opponent has savage knuckleblade into zurgo into eupplant form my one decent guy. Game 2 goes much the same. Afterwards he tells me he also has a Yasova AND a Siege Rhino. He also had 2 byes, so he did plenty well. After my first loss, variance kicked in. I won at least a game in every round except r4, and my other 2 losses were close, but i saw far too much land. Thats magic though. I then did a chaos draft, scrubbed out of that, so went to the vendors and gave them money for foils for my pauper cube. After that, i find out my friend is 6-2, so right in contention for day2, also his first GP! He did make day 2, but his draft decks weren't great, so 2-4 iirc. Still, 9-6 in your first ever GP is nothing to sneer st. I think Karsten finidhed on a similar record, and LSV didnt day 2, so wss pretty happy for my friend. Got a bunch of sweet stuff from vendors, and signings from artists. Plus, Karl Kopinski seems like a brilliant guy. Definitdly going to another gp, just probsbly not standard in london later this year.
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Mr. Peepers posted:That's not what NWO is. No, and historically if a card combo was deemed unacceptable they've just banned one of the combo pieces. For example, they could have said "No running artifact lands and affinity cards in the same deck", but they banned the artifact lands outright instead because that's cleaner.
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