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mcmagic posted:Legacy: See! You should play in the thunderdome.
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Overall record: 89-56-11 Win percentage ignoring draws: 61.379310 Win percentage including draws: 57.051282 drat this is what I get for mostly playing modo and (legal aboveground unsanctioned) team drafts.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:09
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jassi007 posted:See! You should play in the thunderdome. No thanks.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:11
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"McMagic, huh? What's he playing?" "Jund." "So why are you boarding in four Chains of Mephistopheles?" "You wouldn't understand."
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Apr 9, 2015 17:16
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I can definitely see why he doesn't play with you guys acting like that.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:41
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Ramos posted:I can definitely see why he doesn't play with you guys acting like that. Um he made a poorly substantiated claim, was called out on it with evidence, continued to support that claim and then dodged a tournament invite? I mean I don't really care about the last part but the first 3 are the same pattern with almost every post he makes. Like this is the kind of poo poo people mock pro tour commentators for.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:44
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Ciprian Maricon posted:It's crazy to me how many shops have Judges and run regular REL events like total rear end, there's a prevailing attitude that the friendly and relaxed atmosphere of FNM rules wise also needs to be extended to tournament structure or it wont be accessible. Kudos for stepping in and making things better. qbert posted:I wanna see my record too but I've forgotten both my login name and password and hitting the link to get an email sent from Wizards seems to be broken.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:45
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Lol the people complaining are the "tier 1 only, no scrubs" types and quit after the first land is played cuz they think they're playing a scrub or rogue deck 
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Apr 9, 2015 17:45
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Chill la Chill posted:Lol the people complaining are the "tier 1 only, no scrubs" types and quit after the first land is played cuz they think they're playing a scrub or rogue deck Yo that's crazy scrubs are 'free wins'. 'Free wins' is a stupid phrase. Also people ragequitting at not understanding my motions was my favorite reason to play the hedron crab - crypt of agadeem "dredge" unearth deck in standard. Zoness fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 17:48
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Zoness posted:Um he made a poorly substantiated claim, was called out on it with evidence, continued to support that claim and then dodged a tournament invite? Eh, fair point, I stand corrected.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:02
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Finally figured out my PWP login stuff, turns out I'm not as bad at modern as I thought. quote:Modern: There is one guy the computer regularly pairs me against in the first round at modern night: quote:Overall record: 2-10-0  I may also have big fish in a little pond syndrome with draft, I'm fairly certain I'm not this good quote:Booster Draft:
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Apr 9, 2015 18:03
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BXCX posted:I may also have big fish in a little pond syndrome with draft, I'm fairly certain I'm not this good
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Apr 9, 2015 18:05
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BXCX posted:
I feel like LGS drafts usually have this phenomemon if 1-2 players at the table are consistently more experienced than the rest. I think in terms of difficulty drafts go something like: ELITE Team Test Drafts / Pro Tour Pods GP Pods Modo 8-4's / "Casual" team drafts with grinders Modo 4-3-2-2 / Low REL large events Modo Swiss / FNM or other frequent LGS drafts basically if you draft on modo a lot you will probably consistently do well against your LGS
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Apr 9, 2015 18:06
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There's a Pro Tour player in this thread? Wow, I just learned today people who are actually good at Magic: the Gathering post in this thread. And here I am scrubbing out at FNM with whatever ill-advised changes I've made to my deck that particular week.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:18
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Pretty sure there's at least two that were at PT FRF but they both post v rarely.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:23
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my alter ego is pro tour player luis "scott" vargas
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Apr 9, 2015 18:24
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BXCX posted:MerfolkVsAffinity.txt I feel your pain brother  
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Apr 9, 2015 18:27
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My offline win percentage is 65? In MTGO it feels like I'm at 50% or lower. Guess it goes to show how much better the competition is online, at least vs. my lovely city. If only if wasn't such a bad program that makes me ashamed to spend money on it.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:43
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Zoness posted:Pretty sure there's at least two that were at PT FRF but they both post v rarely. Another dude on another forum I post on played in one random PT several years back and just scrubbed out and went out to visit the nice city it was being held in.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:49
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BXCX posted:MerfolkVsAffinity.txt Yup. gently caress this matchup. Absolutely. gently caress it hard.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:10
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Count Bleck posted:Yup. gently caress this matchup. Absolutely. I've actually won that matchup..... I knew 5 of the people at my LGS were on Robots at the time, so I packed my sideboard with 4 Hurkyll's Recall and 4 steel sabotage. I managed to BARELY win games 2 and 3.......so It is possible to win that matchup, but it is not easy.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:15
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Count Bleck posted:Yup. gently caress this matchup. Absolutely. Speaking of hosed up matchups, how do you beat Jund as Merfolk? Hope your opponent kills themselves with Bob?
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Apr 9, 2015 19:25
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Four Score posted:Speaking of hosed up matchups, how do you beat Jund as Merfolk? Hope your opponent kills themselves with Bob? Spreading Seas + Tidebinder Mage + Threads of Disloyalty, depending on your main and board of course. Not easy, you are not favored as fish, but certainly doable.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:26
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Four Score posted:Speaking of hosed up matchups, how do you beat Jund as Merfolk? Hope your opponent kills themselves with Bob? Basically what Madmarker said, you lock down their beaters and screw with their mana, if you're running Threads, take their Goyfs. Hope you get equal parts Lord of Atlantis and Master of the Pearl Trident so Maelstrom Pulse doesn't blow you out, side out Vials, they're pretty dead in this matchup.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:35
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Madmarker posted:I've actually won that matchup..... I knew 5 of the people at my LGS were on Robots at the time, so I packed my sideboard with 4 Hurkyll's Recall and 4 steel sabotage. I'm pretty sure the only two times I've beaten him was back in the days of Treasure Crusie when I was cleaning up against UR Delver by running 4x Chalice of the Void mainboard and I beat him on the dice roll. I thought UW Merfolk would be able to handle the matchup better but I was never able to stick a Stony Silence against him. Zoness posted:I feel like LGS drafts usually have this phenomemon if 1-2 players at the table are consistently more experienced than the rest. I think in terms of difficulty drafts go something like: This seems about right, at the ones I run I've setup the prize structure for draft to encourage a more laid back atmosphere and to push the players who are serious about EV towards the concurrent Standard FNM (which pays out in store credit generously to the top 4-8 depending on attendance) since I've found that the players who won't play a low EV event on principle are also the ones who are more likely to be lovely with new/inexperienced players. It makes things much nicer for the draft event when the people who are consistently good at draft want to be there because they like drafting enough that they'll do it when the most they can walk out with is 4 packs and a promo. I've been considering adding an 8-4 FNM draft slot in place of the scheduled Commander FNM slot that literally zero players have ever showed up for, but I don't know if I'd ever be able to get enough people to fire the event. That being said, one of my favorite things in the world is when a rando MODO grinder wanders in with the expectation of spiking the event and end up dropping early because their deck didn't work out like they thought it would since they make big plans on certain things wheeling, make bad reads on signals because they don't know that the 12 year old kid two seats down essentially picks cards at random, or have any awareness of how screwy an 11 person pod is.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:47
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If my opponent plays Manabond and I Stifle it at his EOT, he doesn't have to discard his hand, correct?
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Apr 9, 2015 19:53
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mcmagic posted:If my opponent plays Manabond and I Stifle it at his EOT, he doesn't have to discard his hand, correct? It's one effect. Presuming you do Stifle it, you'll have to do it before he gets the choice of revealing his hand. But yeah, if you Stifle the whole thing, the entire effect doesn't resolve, so he doesn't discard.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:55
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Serperoth posted:It's one effect. Presuming you do Stifle it, you'll have to do it before he gets the choice of revealing his hand. I can stifle in response to him putting that ability on the stack at his end turn though, correct?
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Apr 9, 2015 19:57
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Wait how are you guys getting your whole game history stats like that?
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Apr 9, 2015 19:58
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mcmagic posted:I can stifle in response to him putting that ability on the stack at his end turn though, correct? Yeah. A smart player will put the trigger on the stack when he doesn't want to use it to bait out a Stifle.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:58
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suicidesteve posted:Yeah. A smart player will put the trigger on the stack when he doesn't want to use it to bait out a Stifle. I've learned recently that Stifle is AMAZING vs Lands... Like, AMAZING.
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suicidesteve posted:Yeah. A smart player will put the trigger on the stack when he doesn't want to use it to bait out a Stifle. They don't get a choice. The effect goes on the stack (unless they miss the trigger, and since it's a "may" trigger, the fix is "it's a may trigger, you opted not to"), and you don't get a chance to respond after knowing whether they'd use it or not. VV: Or they might put the trigger on the stack because it goes on the stack "on its own", and just declare that they won't use it. It's a minor thing, sure, but a Good Player should be doing it anyway, despite the mindgame potential. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 20:02
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Serperoth posted:They don't get a choice. The effect goes on the stack (unless they miss the trigger, and since it's a "may" trigger, the fix is "it's a may trigger, you opted not to"), and you don't get a chance to respond after knowing whether they'd use it or not. Right. I'm saying they can put the trigger on the stack with no intention of using it because normally they just won't put it on the stack if they don't want to use it.
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From a highly technical rules perspective, the trigger is always put on the stack, but for the purposes of live tournament play, you might explicitly call out, "Manabond on the stack. Resolves?" if you want to bait a Stifle.
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Apr 9, 2015 20:09
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Dang I'm not as bad at Magic as I thought.quote:Overall record: 317-173-22
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Ciprian Maricon posted:Wait how are you guys getting your whole game history stats like that? I posted a link earlier, http://xamleeg.kavu.ru/ it explains how to get your data from planeswalker points site and then you paste it in the page and it parses it.
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Well, it happened. An rear end Formation Deck 4-0'd a daily event. This one seems to be a double combo deck with rear end Formation and the always reliable Rally the Ancestors combo. 4 Jeskai Barricade 4 Nyx Weaver 2 Purphoros, God of the Forge 4 Satyr Wayfinder 4 Siege Rhino 4 Sylvan Caryatid 2 Wall of Essence 4 Wall of Mulch 4 Commune with the Gods 4 Rally the Ancestors 2 Assault Formation 1 Caves of Koilos 3 Forest 2 Llanowar Wastes 1 Mountain 2 Plains 4 Sandsteppe Citadel 2 Temple of Malady 2 Temple of Plenty 4 Windswept Heath 2 Wooded Foothills
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Apr 9, 2015 21:27
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Angry Grimace posted:Well, it happened. An rear end Formation Deck 4-0'd a daily event. This one seems to be a double combo deck with rear end Formation and the always reliable Rally the Ancestors combo. Lol you can probably make this for like 30 tix if you already have some of the lands, caryatids are only 1-2 tix online. Might be worth trying.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Lol you can probably make this for like 30 tix if you already have some of the lands, caryatids are only 1-2 tix online. Might be worth trying. Its 116, but it can be made much cheaper by rearranging the landbase to not have Temple of Malady and to take out the Thoughtseize in the board.
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613-307-21 Apparently I'm actually coming up on my 1000th sanctioned match since I got back into the game. What I find really interesting are the breakdowns by specific opponent. Find out who your local nemesises are!
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