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rabidsquid posted:Without context this is quite good. "Will work 4 Stokes." "Like, you need only one?" "No, a whole playset."
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I haven't seen this NPR article shared yet. It's so weird to hear about this from a totally uninvolved perspective. "The Ugin"
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Veyrall posted:I haven't seen this NPR article shared yet. It's so weird to hear about this from a totally uninvolved perspective. NPR Blog. Call it what it is.
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Apr 19, 2015 03:58
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Veyrall posted:I haven't seen this NPR article shared yet. It's so weird to hear about this from a totally uninvolved perspective. FRF was a really good time for that story, honestly. Imagine the same reactions if they'd gone to a pre-release for, say, DGM...
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Apr 19, 2015 04:10
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Veyrall posted:I haven't seen this NPR article shared yet. It's so weird to hear about this from a totally uninvolved perspective. It's too bad the article is so... poorly written. I feel like there's a lot of really interesting stuff you could take away from what Magic has done, but the constraints of the time they had for the article (and how they're trying to frame it as something it kind of never was) make it come off feeling really wildly inaccurate.
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Apr 19, 2015 04:23
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Top 4ed gameday with Abzan Control and played against that stupid hexproof Silumgar 5 out of 6 rounds and in top 4. I hate that card.
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Apr 19, 2015 04:53
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The Lord of Hats posted:It's too bad the article is so... poorly written. I feel like there's a lot of really interesting stuff you could take away from what Magic has done, but the constraints of the time they had for the article (and how they're trying to frame it as something it kind of never was) make it come off feeling really wildly inaccurate. Its actually a cut down version of http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/03/11/392381112/episode-609-the-curse-of-the-black-lotus, but trigger warning for Zac Hill's voice.
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Apr 19, 2015 05:14
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Took second at gameday with esper dragons, now watching the cfb video of top 8 dragons of tarkir cards post pro tour and number one is silumgars scorn. Vindication!
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Apr 19, 2015 06:14
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Angry Grimace posted:Meh, casual appeal isn't usually $30 good. As long as they're moving cards why would they drop the price when it's already seeing some standard play and is going to be in standard for another year and a half?
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Apr 19, 2015 08:20
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Went 3-1-1 at Game Day, tied last game to stick in Top 8, then went to the finals and lost for the playmat against G/R Dragons. This promo Regent is very shiny. I have now lost twice to the same guy with G/R Dragons, the judge/tourney organizer. Once he starts popping out Thunderbreak Regents it is very tricky for me to keep up. Need to figure out the right sideboard plan with Gruul Deck Wins for that I think. Dohaeris fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 08:28
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Made top 8 in both of my lgs' Game day tourneys and traded the promos for $40 in store credit. Im running Shaheen Soorani's Esper list, and I feel like the card advantage angle isn't as great as i'd like. I'm stuck on 5 or 6 lands a lot, and get torn between scrying lands on top to be able to do more things per turn or scrying removal on top because it keeps me from falling even farther behind. I still have a lot to learn
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Apr 19, 2015 15:32
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Went 3-1 at Game Day and took 1st after the cut running Shota's UB Dragon Control list except running 4 main deck bile blights, 1 less ultimate price (I apparently only had 2), and thoughtseizes in the side instead of main because half my store is running RDW. At modern last night almost went 3-1 with Boros Burn, with my only loss being the mirror where I lost the die roll. Beat Splinter Twin after he mulled to 4 on game 3. I would have had it in 2 but I misplayed and tapped out to cast an Eidolon on turn 3 when he already had 3 lands out. Edit: Lots of people get confused when the control deck puts a morph out though. It usually ate a lightning strike or stoke though which was what they were going to counter anyways. I did bring it in against an older UB Control deck which won me the game. Cost the guy 2 kill spells each to remove both of them. Obsoletely Fabulous fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 17:21
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Jeskai tokens went well at gameday until I got absolutely and rapidly crushed in the semifinals by a Mardu dragons deck. My opponent had Orator of Ojutai to ward off early aggression, Draconic Roar and Crackling Doom to kill my good threats, and Thunderbreak Regent, Stormbreath, and Dragonlord Kolagan to close out the game. Tokens just doesn't seem to have the answers to those threats - Stokes in the main, and I brought in Disdainful Strokes and a End Hostilities in for game 2, but didn't see them. Granted I only played 2 games against him but I feel like he'd probably win 80%+ of the time against me. Unfortunate, because his finals opponent was UB control, which he said is his worst matchup while I feel it's one of my best. Also unfortunate that I got 4 packs for 3/4th place and the top 2 split a box and a half.
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Apr 19, 2015 17:58
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Esper Dragons just won GP Kraków. The final was an Esper Dragon mirror, and so was one of the semis. Matchups were infinitely more watchable than G/W Devotion.
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Apr 19, 2015 18:17
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qbert posted:Esper Dragons just won GP Kraków. The final was an Esper Dragon mirror, and so was one of the semis. 6/8 of the decks in the top 8 were Esper Dragons.
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Apr 19, 2015 18:46
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I pulled a Homer at my Gameday yesterday. Only 11 people showed up, so good odds to get the promo, but after some horrible draws/mulligans in round two and some misplays in round three, I finished 2-2 and in 9th place. But the guy who finished in eighth (who happened to be the guy I destroyed in the first round) had left, so his promos slid down to me! Then I bought a leftover Atarka prerelease box, since I hadn't been able to make the prerelease and just wanted to (and wanted to see if I'd pull the Dragonlord Atarka promo), and lo and behold that's exactly what it had. Happy after all.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:08
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Andrew Boswell is currently down a game to a 14 year old in the top 8. Apparently this kid has just missed out on a GP top 8 and got 2nd in his states.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:18
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Alaan posted:Andrew Boswell is currently down a game to a 14 year old in the top 8. Apparently this kid has just missed out on a GP top 8 and got 2nd in his states. The kid has been playing TCGs for a while, I guess is one of the top Yu Gi Oh players in the world too.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:33
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Does he have some kind of pyramid-shaped necklace?
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Apr 19, 2015 21:38
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Managed to win my game day today  . Got a bit lucky in terms of matchups (the only green ones were generally Temur Dragon variants) but I think I played pretty solidly.Atarka's Command is absurdly good
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Apr 19, 2015 21:40
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Haha holy poo poo has Boswell had bad luck on Ajani. A full wiff on the first search(This may have also been an Anafenza I was out of the room when this first happened) followed by the only hit being Anafenza while he already had one on board. Edit; Ahaha. Bonus: hits Anafenza off of Tasigur. Alaan fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 21:51
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I should teach my little cousins how to play legacy so people will get mad when a couple of 8 year olds beat them in their children's card game.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:57
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4-0 the swiss, beating a Jeskai Ascendency Combo and Esper Control deck to get there, then in the top 4 cut, managed to draw 16 of 24 lands after 3 fetch shuffles whilst playing Jeskai Tokens with perhaps only 2-3 other spells that were instantly countered. Fun day though. Thankfully, the usual TO who runs our midweek as pre-mentioned went home early as he wasn't doing too well... So, what's the Thunderbreak going for? Managed to pull another Dragonlord Atarka in my prizes too, so not a shabby day all said and done.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:59
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And Oliver the 14 year old knocks out the Boswell the top seed to advance to the semis.
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Apr 19, 2015 22:04
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I hope this kid wins just for playing basic lands older than he is. (also it's my favorite plains art)
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Apr 19, 2015 22:18
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Mr. Peepers posted:Jeskai tokens went well at gameday until I got absolutely and rapidly crushed in the semifinals by a Mardu dragons deck. My opponent had Orator of Ojutai to ward off early aggression, Draconic Roar and Crackling Doom to kill my good threats, and Thunderbreak Regent, Stormbreath, and Dragonlord Kolagan to close out the game. Tokens just doesn't seem to have the answers to those threats - Stokes in the main, and I brought in Disdainful Strokes and a End Hostilities in for game 2, but didn't see them. Granted I only played 2 games against him but I feel like he'd probably win 80%+ of the time against me. Mardu dragons is a lot of fun, felt awesome to cast Foul-Tongue Invocation against a heroic player with one creature on the board and see him windmill slam gods willing then say "wait, what?" Kologhan, the Storm's Fury and multiple Thunderbreak Regents are hilarious force multipliers, and stormbreath can still get it done on its own against white heavy decks.
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Well that's unfortunate. Twitch just died right as the finals were going to start.
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So grats to Oliver Tomajko, taking the SCG Open. RDW got crushed.
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You could basically hear sadtrombone.wav when he dropped that Doomwake.
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Alaan posted:You could basically hear sadtrombone.wav when he dropped that Doomwake. My heart sank. The fires in my soul, quenched.  Good for Oliver though.
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Ask Me For Warez posted:So grats to Oliver Tomajko, taking the SCG Open. RDW got crushed. This kid is a good player and I''m happy to see the list. I'm thinking I need to swap my Renimator around because I never thought of using Den protectors. That list is amazing. edit: this kids game sense is amazing as well. like they pointed out he stopped warnings from happening where most of the older dudes would have not have noticed it. He also isn't cocky and was confident the whole way wiskibubbles fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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I am shocked that RDW lost to the Caryatid-Courser-Rhino-Whip-Doomwake list. It does look really good though, the reanimation package looks hard for control to grind through.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I am shocked that RDW lost to the Caryatid-Courser-Rhino-Whip-Doomwake list. It does look really good though, the reanimation package looks hard for control to grind through. with My Whip list I specificly put in caryatid- courser in the main board and put doomwake in the side just for RDW
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Ask Me For Warez posted:So grats to Oliver Tomajko, taking the SCG Open. RDW got crushed. Are there deck lists for this event yet? Also I went to game day with my barely updated Temur aggro list. Went 3-1, played control 3 times and a weird gruul ramp deck. I took out heir of the wilds and rattleclaw Mystics and boon satyrs and replaced them with coursers, caryatids, and thunderbreaks. The changes felt great, no new Sarkhans though. I know Temur aggro might not be T1 but I just love Bjg Knucks and I think he's criminally under used. My game against control is pretty great because my sideboard is full of counters and OG Surrak. The gruul ramp deck took a surprise G1 off me by ripping a massiv craters claw for 12. So I sided in 6 counterspells and then just got there after countering atarka after atarka. I lost to u/w control featuring NarsetWalker in 3 I hit an ill-timed land pocket G3.
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Mezzanon posted:Are there deck lists for this event yet? http://sales.starcitygames.com//dec...city=Providence There's the deck lists. I Love playing against Temur when I decide to play U/B control but again my list isn't the 100% standard you should do this list
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^^^ thanks! Edit: this is a weird double post I don't even know how it happened??? Since we're here, why do you feel so confident against Temur as u/b? What kind of Temur decks do you usually play against? Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 01:54
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I feel confident against Temur because of the amount of removal I run main board. I run 4 crux and 3 Vaults, 2 bb and 4 Downfalls 1 Cut. Also run Ashiok. which honestly fucks most mid range decks. But most of the Temur decks I play against are the mid range type and One temur control. I think most of the guys have changed to either RDW or Abzan
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Mezzanon posted:Also I went to game day with my barely updated Temur aggro list. Went 3-1, played control 3 times and a weird gruul ramp deck. Do you have a list? I am always interested in decks that can use OG Surrak.
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GoutPatrol posted:Do you have a list? I am always interested in decks that can use OG Surrak. Which one? The good one or the fun one? Nevermind that's both of them. Surrak, Bearpuncher is the best not-planeswalker
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One I can run in a PPTQ in 2 weeks and not go 0-X. Little tired of playing Mono Red.
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