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Elyv posted:What about the blazing shoal infect deck? I really like the version of that with blasphemous act.
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Fish Of Doom posted:Dread Return or Sword of the Meek are probably fine. There's no universe where unbanning Dread Return is a good idea.
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Dec 4, 2015 23:35
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suicidesteve posted:What?! When was this announced? Wasn't it a judge promo leak?
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Dec 4, 2015 23:36
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Snacksmaniac posted:Wasn't it a judge promo leak? I vaguely remember something about I think Shardless Agent but this is the first I remember hearing about the Port.
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Dec 4, 2015 23:37
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The Lord of Hats posted:Other takeaway: Stoddard also recognizes that Spider Spawning is the best. He is correct. Triple innistrad is the only draft I ever remember that had 2 different combo decks to draft , spider spawning and burning vengeance. They haven't ever been able to make a BV-like draft card work since inn. E: or not nearly as well
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Dec 4, 2015 23:37
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suicidesteve posted:I vaguely remember something about I think Shardless Agent but this is the first I remember hearing about the Port. We brought it up when it was first seen: 
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Dec 4, 2015 23:38
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Should we ban top? Why shouldn't we ban top? ban top and let players trade them in for boosters, then burn all tops destroyed this way
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Dec 4, 2015 23:39
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Please please let them print more interesting commons. Pauper loves weird design areas.
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PJOmega posted:Please please let them print more interesting commons. Pauper loves weird design areas. Commons don't make wizards money, sorry.
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Rinkles posted:Stoddard on making double small set drafts work I really like that he wants build-around-me uncommons to be a thing. We haven't had nearly enough of those lately. Not on the level of Spider Spawning / Burning Vengeance anyway. Death Bot posted:maybe we'll go back to the era of playable commons again
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Dec 4, 2015 23:55
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Banning terminus fixes miracles. It was never a t1 deck until miracles were printed and not having access to a 1 mana instant speed wrath opens up the format for more fair decks that aren't relying on cascade creatures and hymn to overpower the card advantage that terminus + counter/top + snapcaster represents. Terminus is only played in that deck and it will injure but not destroy the deck and open up the meta. Killing Miracles isn't actually healthy for the format because as the premier (and really only) hard control deck its existence keeps combo in check enough that every deck doesn't need to run blue.
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Wait, are people under some idea that Miracles is a dominant deck in the meta? It's annoying, I guess, but it's far from oppressive.
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Pussy Snorkel posted:Wait, are people under some idea that Miracles is a dominant deck in the meta? It's annoying, I guess, but it's far from oppressive. it's a lot less oppressive now that Dig is gone. I don't think it is actually oppressive, and didn't think it it needed to be kneecapped, but I still think terminus is the card to kill over top. there's a hundred bad decks that want to run top, plus one good deck. there's zero bad decks that want to run terminus, and one good deck. I don't think killing top adds variety to the meta.
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Dec 5, 2015 00:03
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Tops for some; miniature Jeskai Banners for others.
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Sigma-X posted:it's a lot less oppressive now that Dig is gone. I don't think it is actually oppressive, and didn't think it it needed to be kneecapped, but I still think terminus is the card to kill over top. there's a hundred bad decks that want to run top, plus one good deck. there's zero bad decks that want to run terminus, and one good deck. My Thought Lash deck is a lot weaker without Top.
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Dec 5, 2015 00:07
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Sigma-X posted:Banning terminus fixes miracles. It was never a t1 deck until miracles were printed I'd even go so far as to argue that there wasn't a deck called Miracles before the Miracles mechanic was printed 
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Entropic posted:when was that era exactly? Remember when doom blade was a common? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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C-Euro posted:I'd even go so far as to argue that there wasn't a deck called Miracles before the Miracles mechanic was printed Counterbalance existed in several forms beforehand, which is what I was referring to, obviously. RUG Counterbalance: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=36628 http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=36246 Standstill Variants like this Dreadstill: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=35554 Thopters: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=37839 I had also seen less successful U/W control variants with Wrath of God and the like, although for a long time Firespout was pretty much a wrath that didn't hit your goyfs.
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Sigma-X posted:Counterbalance existed in several forms beforehand, which is what I was referring to, obviously. 
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Angry Grimace posted:Tops for some; miniature Jeskai Banners for others. Don't blame me: I voted for Vorthos.
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Dec 5, 2015 01:31
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Niton posted:Should we ban top? Assemble a giant stack of random cards at Wizards HQ. People take in their tops and tap them to draw a card off the stack. In response, MaRo casts Ancient Grudge, ripping the Top in half, but they get a card for each top they hand in! Alternatively they can stand there and wait for Maro to cast Ancient Grudge so you can tap it in response, in which case Sam Stoddard turns up and slaps you over the head with an oversized copy of Krosan Grip and takes your lunch money
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Dec 5, 2015 01:57
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Angry Grimace posted:There's two particular reasons why SFM isn't getting unbanned 1) SFM pretty much obliterates the entire design space for equipment being good ever again, 2) You have to simultaneously ban a non-problematic card. They're never going to make new equipment as good as jitte Batterskull or sofai. Batterskull is blanked by maindeck artifact hate. Stoneforge is ok without jitte.
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jassi007 posted:Batterskull is blanked by maindeck artifact hate. Bread Set Jettison posted:"dies to removal"
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Dec 5, 2015 05:32
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You actually do end up in a bad spot if you spend two turns worth of mana to get a batterskull into play and your opponent spends only one turn of mana to get rid of it.
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Dec 5, 2015 06:22
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However, they have to kill it when you don't have 3 mana available.
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Dec 5, 2015 07:09
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Procrastinator posted:However, they have to kill it when you don't have 3 mana available. In response to the Living Weapon trigger, cast Kolaghan's Command. Destroy Batterskull, Shock Stoneforge. Germ Token dies on ETB.
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Cernunnos posted:In response to the Living Weapon trigger, cast Kolaghan's Command. Destroy Batterskull, Shock Stoneforge. Germ Token dies on ETB. Uh, or let the living weapon resolve and do the same thing. Unless they have 3 mana up, then it's maybe not a great plan.
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Dec 5, 2015 07:30
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Yeah, I mean, it doesn't have to be attached to return to your hand.
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Procrastinator posted:However, they have to kill it when you don't have 3 mana available.
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What deck wants Sapphire Charm in its sideboard again?
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Ramos posted:What deck wants Sapphire Charm in its sideboard again? Mono-blue Delver. It's... not a good deck.
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Mono blue delver sounds terrible. I do grixis and if you know what decks you are going to see it's a great troll card. I'm ok with the slot because Dack Fayden is on artifact duty. A resolved and protected batterskull is almost unbeatable and there are a ton of sfm decks. You want like 10 cards that gently caress them up. I preboard 2 pyroblasts so switching them out for something dumb and situational is the way to go.
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Bought a few boosters tonight just on a whim. Opened a foil Godless Shrine. The only question now is, with it being Christmas time and all...sell it now or hold onto it and hope that the price of that piece of cardboard goes up to more than $55 in time?
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Are there any good custom young pyro tokens?
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Molybdenum posted:Are there any good custom young pyro tokens? The real question is how scantily clad do you want your red elemental girl. Outside of that, these two are pretty cool:  
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AlternateNu posted:The real question is how scantily clad do you want your red elemental girl. Those look like 8/8s or something. The only non scantily clad red elemental girl I found was this one: http://tokens.gregrava.com/tokens/elemental-fire/
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Molybdenum posted:Those look like 8/8s or something. The only non scantily clad red elemental girl I found was this one: I think that's  Inifinite cosmic intimidation! Snuffed out by a squirrel.  You can also go this route:   
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I had a night to myself and I spent some time looking for events on a Friday night. Found a random event called "win a case" a hour away and figured what the hell. Turns out the case was the prize support for the top 8. I won two boxes for a 10 dollar entry. No deck lists and casual rules. My first opponent was playing with proxies for standard and my last opponent in the finals had at least a 30 card sideboard. Bizarre night.
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Sickening posted:I had a night to myself and I spent some time looking for events on a Friday night. Found a random event called "win a case" a hour away and figured what the hell. Turns out the case was the prize support for the top 8. I won two boxes for a 10 dollar entry. Sounds like a fun time. I stayed home and played Xenoblade Chronicles because wading through 4 rounds with various flavors of Abzan for a top 4 which is like 30 something in store credit if we split isn't worth it for me right now
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Apparently at some point recently Wizards instituted some auto-filter for swears in the MTGO chat but it also carries over to the game log. And the list of words they censor is weird. So now "The Rack" is "The ****" and Chief of the Edge of all things is "***** of the Edge."
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