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Why can't I play those cards and punch you in the face?
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# ? May 9, 2015 20:17 |
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Why can't I play those cards and punch you in the face? If you go to dome, you'll be missing my threats.
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# ? May 9, 2015 20:17 |
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Now that all this boring modern crud has been revealed when are we getting Origins spoilers?
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# ? May 9, 2015 20:32 |
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Dr. Stab posted:It is possible, for example, if you're using Grim Affliction, to have both a +1/+1 counter and a -1/-1 counter on something when you're proliferating. That's only because Grim Affliction does both during resolution and only when state-based actions are checked do the counters cancel each other. E: sort of clarifying for the person reading this, why it does this, that is. Lottery of Babylon posted:Do other opposite counter types like +0/+1 and -0/-1 annihilate each other the way +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters do, or is that rule only for +1/+1 and -1/-1 counter pairs specifically? Only +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters, which are the only kinds they use anymore. I don't think a stat-changing counter besides those has been printed and/or relevant since Wall of Roots, so it won't come up unless you engineer the situation.
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# ? May 9, 2015 20:34 |
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Almost a little sad to see mardu dragons so prolific today in the GP. I was hoping it was still going to be a little obscure going into the dallas open.
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# ? May 9, 2015 20:55 |
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Went 3-1 with Junk "Aggro" at FNM. Played against Mardu (2-0), GR midrange (0-2, g1 was to the wire, g2 had a two lander that never got there), Mardu (2-1, g1 Was a good back and forth game with me pulling a victory, g2 he destroyed me, G3 I destroyed him), and Ojutai Bant (2-0, but both games were awesome, interactive and really back and forth, ojutai's command is great). Switching back to "control" next week, match ups seem a lot more even.
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:03 |
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So I just got out of a gptq. Only four people showed up and I was told the winner would get a box. After I signed up, I was told because there weren't enough sign ups they couldn't do a box. Okay understand but kinda lame since that's what you advertised. But then a weird thing happened I don't understand. We only played two rounds. He gave everyone a buy for the first match, pairing us up against people who he added to the system, but weren't present, like people's girlfriends. That seems incredibly sketchy to me. Shouldn't I have just played the other three people? I may just be confused here but it seems weird. I won one game and lost the other. 2-0 and 1-2. Is this a normal thing people do? Apparently you have to have 6 people to fire a gptq but can you add people without their knowledge like that? It just seems weird and I like being eligible for prize support and nothing is really hurt by those people getting signed up like that, but it seems weird. Am I being overly paranoid or something? The alternative I guess is its cancelled everyone go home?
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:10 |
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Yes that store can lose their ability to run sanctioned tournaments if Wizards is notified.
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:31 |
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Dohaeris posted:So I just got out of a gptq. Only four people showed up and I was told the winner would get a box. After I signed up, I was told because there weren't enough sign ups they couldn't do a box. Okay understand but kinda lame since that's what you advertised. Did you attend a GPT or a PPTQ? I have no idea what a GPTQ is. Also yeah you need a minimum amount of entrants to fire a sanctioned tournament. What the store did was sketchy but I've seen it before.
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:32 |
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Ended up leaving with 25 in store credit which is what I paid to enter. So I didn't lose anything at least. Not sure the actual name, winner got byes for gp Vegas. Not a pptq.
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:39 |
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Yeah our FLGS will often add a phantom 8th player and drop them as soon as it starts to get the game to fire, but it's always at FNM and never at anything important and TBH it's much better than wasting the time to go to the store and not have it fire.
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:40 |
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Yah it's technically not allowed, but I don't really see it as a big deal as long as the store isn't using it as a way to take advantage of Wizards supplied prizes, like funneling FNM promos to their regulars or something. I've known several stores to do it, and they've always checked with the people whose names they use to make sure they're okay with it.
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:42 |
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Dohaeris posted:So I just got out of a gptq. Only four people showed up and I was told the winner would get a box. After I signed up, I was told because there weren't enough sign ups they couldn't do a box. Okay understand but kinda lame since that's what you advertised. The alternative is canceling the event and running a casual event in its place. I'm not 100% sure but I'm fairly certain that you need 8 people to fire a gpt given that you need 8 people to fire less serious stuff like FNM and game day. The store can get in decent trouble if a dissatisfied player snitches on them. The owner of my LGS wouldn't even let us register an employee who was willing to concede to his first round opponent and drop so we could fire a 7 man game day since there's apparently a local player who contacts WotC and has gotten a few stores in trouble.
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# ? May 9, 2015 21:53 |
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Not having sufficient competition for GP byes is a seriously abusable thing.
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# ? May 9, 2015 23:09 |
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Dohaeris posted:So I just got out of a gptq. Only four people showed up and I was told the winner would get a box. After I signed up, I was told because there weren't enough sign ups they couldn't do a box. Okay understand but kinda lame since that's what you advertised. The store broke Wizard's rules and if you don't like them you can get them in serious poo poo by reporting them for it. They didn't get the minimum 8 required for a sanctioned event so they falsified tournament entries to make it sanctionable.
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# ? May 9, 2015 23:17 |
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Problem is I do like them and they're my only LGS that's not atrocious within an hour drive. It's weird and annoying but I don't want to sacrifice my only good spot to play. If that happens again I'll just drop and ask for my money back (Which i'd probably get in store credit...) because it just doesn't seem right to do that to people who aren't there or are aware it's happening. I know personally I'm kinda weird about stats and stuff like that, so I'd hate it to see a weird tournament show up on my stats that I didn't participate in.
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# ? May 9, 2015 23:23 |
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Entropic posted:The store broke Wizard's rules and if you don't like them you can get them in serious poo poo by reporting them for it. They didn't get the minimum 8 required for a sanctioned event so they falsified tournament entries to make it sanctionable. Their girlfriends should all get 6 month bans for agreeing to fix the outcome of their matches.
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# ? May 9, 2015 23:24 |
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Yeah there's a big difference between phantom 8th player for FNM and four people getting entered and dropped without so much as their go-ahead to fire a tournament with GP byes as a prize. That's the kind of thing that gets your sanctioning taken away, full stop.
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# ? May 9, 2015 23:27 |
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Here's a bizarre request: I'd like to import my uncommons into Pucatrade. However, I really don't look forward to typing them all out by hand-- there are hundreds from the current Standard sets alone. Does anyone have a text file that is simply every uncommon from Khans or Theros blocks, one per line, with a number at the front? That would make my life a lot easier.
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# ? May 9, 2015 23:58 |
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AceClown posted:Now that all this boring modern crud has been revealed when are we getting Origins spoilers? Never, Magic has been cancelled because Goblin Guide wasn't in MM2
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# ? May 9, 2015 23:59 |
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BXCX posted:The alternative is canceling the event and running a casual event in its place. I'm not 100% sure but I'm fairly certain that you need 8 people to fire a gpt given that you need 8 people to fire less serious stuff like FNM and game day. The store can get in decent trouble if a dissatisfied player snitches on them. The owner of my LGS wouldn't even let us register an employee who was willing to concede to his first round opponent and drop so we could fire a 7 man game day since there's apparently a local player who contacts WotC and has gotten a few stores in trouble. FNM can be casual events now. This happens at my LGS because it can never get 8 people there for standard.
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:05 |
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TheLawinator posted:Not having sufficient competition for GP byes is a seriously abusable thing. Something like this is what got Bob Maher suspended back in the day.
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:08 |
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rabidsquid posted:Never, Magic has been cancelled because Goblin Guide wasn't in MM2 Red's not allowed to have nice things don't you know?
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:14 |
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lockdar posted:
No one seems to have dealt with this part of your question. Heroic doesn't trigger from abilities, and it also doesn't trigger from things controlled by opponents. Also, proliferate doesn't target.
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:28 |
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I'm gonna double post because they're completely unrelated. Is there a clinic or tutorial about control mirrors? They seem to be the most nuanced of the match ups in which I find myself, and no matter my game plan, I can't quite win without a substantial bit of help from luck in the form of poor opponent draws. What do?
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:31 |
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End of Life Guy posted:I'm gonna double post because they're completely unrelated. Someone on CFB recently wrote an article about the esper dragons mirror. Count Bleck posted:Red's not allowed to have nice things don't you know? It makes me sick that Red is the only color that isn't playable in a mono colored deck in any format that is legal to play rabidsquid fucked around with this message at 00:39 on May 10, 2015 |
# ? May 10, 2015 00:33 |
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I... I wasn't being serious.
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:40 |
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Anyone who would joke about red decks is a monster
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:43 |
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End of Life Guy posted:I'm gonna double post because they're completely unrelated. http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/the-two-stages-of-the-control-mirror/
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:44 |
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rabidsquid posted:Someone on CFB recently wrote an article about the esper dragons mirror. Thank you both. I'll sip this coconut rum and settle in with a nice read.
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# ? May 10, 2015 00:51 |
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paul cheon has also played esper dragons a ton on stream. Haumph on twitch, i think especially before the rptq, so a couple of weeks ago
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# ? May 10, 2015 01:02 |
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I think Cuneo is doing pretty well at the GP It's probably that part where he's an expert.
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# ? May 10, 2015 01:55 |
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Zoness posted:I think Cuneo is doing pretty well at the GP Yeah his deck also looks absolutely bonkers
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# ? May 10, 2015 02:00 |
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Zoness posted:I think Cuneo is doing pretty well at the GP Having Arashin Foremost, Mastery of the Unseen, Big Ojutai and Pristine Skywise probably doesn't hurt.
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# ? May 10, 2015 02:17 |
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Here's a bizarre request: You should be able to generate checklists of text from magiccards.info as a search option (rather than the image gallery) and it should be trivial from there to copy / paste into excel and edit it down to exactly what you need.
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# ? May 10, 2015 03:37 |
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Wezlar posted:Yeah his deck also looks absolutely bonkers I think he's the best deck builder in north america but I have a soft spot for the dude who literally invented draw go
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# ? May 10, 2015 03:50 |
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rabidsquid posted:I think he's the best deck builder in north america but I have a soft spot for the dude who literally invented draw go I don't necessarily disagree but it's a limited gp
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# ? May 10, 2015 03:54 |
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Wezlar posted:I don't necessarily disagree but it's a limited gp I am just commenting that I like his deck building but I am glad this is the place for people to correct every possible thing constantly
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# ? May 10, 2015 04:01 |
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rabidsquid posted:I am just commenting that I like his deck building but I am glad this is the place for people to correct every possible thing constantly Actually we're usually pretty cool about mistakes and don't nitpick every little meaningless detail.
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# ? May 10, 2015 04:07 |
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suicidesteve posted:Actually we're usually pretty cool about mistakes and don't nitpick every little meaningless detail. JUDGE!!
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