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Partial Octopus posted:Just don't bother with leylines. All lies. 
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Tom Ross on stream right now appeared in his G2 to be playing around a card like Foul-Tongue. He immediately played a 2nd creature on the board whenever he drew one all game.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:29
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I wish that someday SCG would switch to broadcasting two feature matches simultaneously each round. I can't begin to describe how stupid and boring heroic decks are to watch. Put a lovely card on the battlefield, make lovely card better with pump spells, use protection spells to keep lovely pumped up card in play. I get that it's a viable deck and it works but if there's a more boring deck to watch I'm dying to know what it is.
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morning wood posted:I wish that someday SCG would switch to broadcasting two feature matches simultaneously each round. I can't begin to describe how stupid and boring heroic decks are to watch. Put a lovely card on the battlefield, make lovely card better with pump spells, use protection spells to keep lovely pumped up card in play. I get that it's a viable deck and it works but if there's a more boring deck to watch I'm dying to know what it is. I find all Abzan variants to be more boring. Edit: Probably because Heroic decks go against everything I learned forever ago so I find it really fascinating every time I see it. Abzan is just a dull, no frills deck that makes me wish for the return to rev/mono black decks. Failboattootoot fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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morning wood posted:I wish that someday SCG would switch to broadcasting two feature matches simultaneously each round. I can't begin to describe how stupid and boring heroic decks are to watch. Put a lovely card on the battlefield, make lovely card better with pump spells, use protection spells to keep lovely pumped up card in play. I get that it's a viable deck and it works but if there's a more boring deck to watch I'm dying to know what it is.  Why can't all decks be un-synergistic goodstuff decks?
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Apr 4, 2015 21:37
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bhsman posted:
This but without the sarcasm.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:40
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Wow, huge mistake by Tom missing the Rebound trigger on Center Soul.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:41
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I'd venture to say that lost him the game.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:46
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Eh, if he gets the rebound and says pro-black, doesn't Fabiano just block with Wayfinder, and the game ends much the same way? I think the bigger mistake was perhaps not leaving up blue for Stubborn Denial, but hard to know in advance.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:48
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So what happens to a rebounded card of you miss the trigger. It just stays exiled I take it?
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Apr 4, 2015 21:54
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Death Bot posted:So what happens to a rebounded card of you miss the trigger. It just stays exiled I take it? Yes.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:56
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Saw the tail end of the deck tech that mentioned using Abzan colors to play Assault Formation, Courser of Kruphix, and Nyx-Fleece Ram. Didn't see the whole thing but I'm thinking two other decent creature choices would be Orator of Ojuotai to have an answer to flyers and Wall of Limbs for the damage on sacrifice since you have potential life gain from Courser, Ram, and Sorin assuming he's being played. Thoughts? I just may have to try this at FNM.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:17
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morning wood posted:I wish that someday SCG would switch to broadcasting two feature matches simultaneously each round. I can't begin to describe how stupid and boring heroic decks are to watch. Put a lovely card on the battlefield, make lovely card better with pump spells, use protection spells to keep lovely pumped up card in play. I get that it's a viable deck and it works but if there's a more boring deck to watch I'm dying to know what it is. Edit: Butt Formation is definitely a thing, I watched a guy play it at FNM yesterday and he went 3-1. I might build it if ever I get bored of Sidisi Whip. Yawgmoth fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Apr 4, 2015 22:21
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Hey does anyone in Seattle know of any in-person playtest groups? I need to find one so I can playtest in general, but I need a group for the SCG Open that is coming up here at the end of the month.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:22
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Stupid gambling story: I went to the LGS because I decided I wanted a third Sarkhan Unbroken. They didn't have any so I bought two packs. First pack had Sarkhan Unbroken, second pack had foil Secure the Wastes and Kolaghan's Command.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:27
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http://hitbox.tv/marchhare legacy thunderdome match bein streamed by THE MARCH HARE
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Apr 4, 2015 23:22
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From MaRo's tumblr: Is there a mechanic that you really thought you’d never bring back that you did? Ask me again in a year : ) Hm, interesting. Could be nothing.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:06
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Serperoth posted:From MaRo's tumblr: One year later: Nope! Edit: Joke response: Rebound
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Apr 5, 2015 00:08
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Just go through his list of posts about the storm scale and find something that seems unlikely but not absurd. Then be amazed in a year you successfully predicted, I don't know, rebels or some poo poo. My personal preference would be delve and threshold in the same standard. Failing that, Frample as a new evergreen keyword.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:10
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Spiderdrake posted:Just go through his list of posts about the storm scale and find something that seems unlikely but not absurd. Then be amazed in a year you successfully predicted, I don't know, rebels or some poo poo. Most of the time I see him putting things higher on the list (rather than lower) once we get farther away from them and he realizes they're broken, e.g. Cascade. Kingcobweb wrote a (often unfair) review of RTR recently in which he basically laid into Maro for being employed by WOTC and toeing the party line. The one thing I will agree with is that Maro sometimes confuses "popular" with "good." Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Apr 5, 2015 |
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Apr 5, 2015 00:19
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Sotar posted:Hey does anyone in Seattle know of any in-person playtest groups? I need to find one so I can playtest in general, but I need a group for the SCG Open that is coming up here at the end of the month. Its not gonna be here, they moved it to portland.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:24
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Angry Grimace posted:Most of the time I see him putting things higher on the list (rather than lower) once we get farther away from them and he realizes they're broken, e.g. Cascade. Kingcobweb wrote a (often unfair) review of RTR recently in which he basically laid into Maro for being employed by WOTC and toeing the party line. The one thing I will agree with is that Maro sometimes confuses "popular" with "good." I just read the article I think you're referring to and it seems pretty good  The fact that Maro's voice is the way it is because of being employed by WOTC shouldn't serve to deflect critique. That's sort of the point.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:43
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Cactrot posted:Its not gonna be here, they moved it to portland. Well, nevermind then  . Still, I would like to know where to find playtest groups.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:49
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Serperoth posted:From MaRo's tumblr: annihilator.. calling it.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:50
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JerryLee posted:I just read the article I think you're referring to and it seems pretty good The problem is that Rosewater isn't revising history by originally saying a set is good and then later saying it was bad. He starts by saying "you will love this new set" and then later may say "turns out you didn't love the new set, and I believe the reasons are X, Y, and Z." People are just really, really upset that he won't commit to the saying Avacyn Restored was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. I don't think its fair to either expect him to believe or say that, regardless of whether he works for Wizards.
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DoctorOozy posted:annihilator.. calling it. God please dont bring this poo poo back. Angry Grimace posted:The problem is that Rosewater isn't revising history by originally saying a set is good and then later saying it was bad. He starts by saying "you will love this new set" and then later may say "turns out you didn't love the new set, and I believe the reasons are X, Y, and Z." Wait why was AVR a disaster?
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Apr 5, 2015 01:12
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Errant Gin Monks posted:God please dont bring this poo poo back. To quote someone else "The problem is that [. . .] AVR comes out as a set that's awful in limited, that made Standard significantly worse, that contributed miserable fun-sucking cards to Commander, that left Legacy dumber, and that only really had Timmy wow-factor to show for it in the other direction." All to some extent true, but I don't know that its fair to say Maro's being disingenuous by producing positives from it. Indeed, they clearly learned from it since they did another set that is the same concept - its called Dragons of Tarkir, and I think for the most part, we're happy with the set both in Standard and in Limited.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:17
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Nothing's wrong with Annihilator and permanents aren't sacred cows.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:18
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Chill la Chill posted:Nothing's wrong with Annihilator and permanents aren't sacred cows.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:20
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I'll be surprised if we don't get enemy fetches, full-art basics, and the return of Landfall (hopefully better balanaced for Limited this time) in Zendikar 2.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:21
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Spiderdrake posted:Sorry having to sacrifice lands is a feelbad, moved to 9 on the storm scale. Even physical cards aren't sacred cows. Perhaps with time, magicians will learn the real magic was inside them all along.
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Entropic posted:I'll be surprised if we don't get enemy fetches, full-art basics, and the return of Landfall (hopefully better balanaced for Limited this time) in Zendikar 2. Landfall with all 10 Fetches in the format is pretty crazy. Crucible of Worlds reprint in Origins?
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Apr 5, 2015 01:27
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Balon posted:Landfall with all 10 Fetches in the format is pretty crazy. Crucible of Worlds reprint in Origins? They just can't print a bunch of cheap creatures that get +2/+2 from landfall like they did last time.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:28
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Chill la Chill posted:Nothing's wrong with Annihilator and permanents aren't sacred cows. Yeah you say that until someone show and tells the new emrakul into play and it's 20/20 haste, pro everything, annihlator 10, can't be blocked, flying, indestructable, you don't have to sac permanents.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:29
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Yeah you say that until someone show and tells the new emrakul into play and it's 20/20 haste, pro everything, annihlator 10, can't be blocked, flying, indestructable, you don't have to sac permanents. Can only be special summoned by sacrificing 4 Eldrazi creatures.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:30
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Mythic Rare Eldrazis that cost a million mana are going to have text that says "you pretty much win the game if you resolve this" no matter what. The exact wording and what abilities they use in doing it is fairly academic.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:31
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I mostly think the Eldrazi creature cards are really stupid. I don't think Annihilator is all of that but by god it doesn't help.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Yeah you say that until someone show and tells the new emrakul into play and it's 20/20 haste, pro everything, annihlator 10, can't be blocked, flying, indestructable, you don't have to sac permanents. I play with Karakas, actually. Dunno how you it can get pro everything but FOW is also p cool.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:33
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Entropic posted:They just can't print a bunch of cheap creatures that get +2/+2 from landfall like they did last time. As long as they don't swing too far in the opposite direction making it no longer synergistic with multiple land drops. I think they'll do that for a cycle but as long as they don't do it for all landfall triggers. I don't want to see all instances be "Landfall - this creature gains trample until end of turn". Also looking for a Hedron Crab reprint.
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Cards I would like to see reprinted Channel, Ashnods Altar, Fireball, Disintegrate, and Lightning Bolt. And not for the Channelball effect but Channel + Emrakul. Or maybe that's just broken.
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