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black potus posted:i got turkish food w/ lsv this week incl some delish coffee and i can confirm he is a smug rear end mother fucker Vindicated (both in the sense that I was proven right, and also utterly destroyed)
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whydirt posted:There's a big difference in showing some basic self confidence and making dumb jokes during a stream or YouTube video in order to entertain your audience and being a jerk to play against face to face. We're not v good socially so why would you ever assume we knew the difference?  E: there's a difference?  
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Dec 26, 2015 20:15
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oh sorry i misremembered, lsv is actually pretty nice and has paid for my lunch multiple times (though not as generous a soul as matt nass)
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Dec 26, 2015 20:15
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Drafting broken decks is fun but the fact that vintage cube is full of awful cards and archetypes that will never work is bad. I guess that may be unavoidable when so few cards are of the required power level.
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Dec 26, 2015 20:16
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few if any cubes are any good to play
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black potus posted:the lamb shank was very good though, and not smug
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Dec 26, 2015 20:29
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It's not like you have to force broken archtypes. My favorite deck to draft is GW Equipment, mainly because people don't realize how good the Swords are and pass me all of them because they are going for a broken combo deck. Sure, occasionally they execute their combo and kill you, but since half the table wants to draft blue the decks can't combo off consistently, and you can crush anyone in a fair game.
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Dec 26, 2015 20:40
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MiddleEastBeast posted:lmfbo "passive-aggressive bullshit", did someone poo poo in your christmas stocking? i never would have saw it if rabidsquid hadn't quoted it, i don't think you can get more passive-aggressive then responding to someone in a way specifically meant to not alert them
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Dec 26, 2015 20:45
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mandatory lesbian posted:i never would have saw it if rabidsquid hadn't quoted it, i don't think you can get more passive-aggressive then responding to someone in a way specifically meant to not alert them lol if you don't think that when people do that it's just out of laziness or habit, and not out of some deliberate attempt to deceive a stranger on the internet.
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Dec 26, 2015 20:49
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black potus posted:i got turkish food w/ lsv this week incl some delish coffee and i can confirm he is a smug rear end mother fucker black potus posted:the lamb shank was very good though, and not smug look at this smug bastard
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Dec 26, 2015 20:49
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editing isn't any harder then quoting, and if it's a habit its a bad one
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Dec 26, 2015 20:50
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It also might help if the pricing model for spending a few hours playing with pretty computer pictures wasn't absolutely hosed in the head. I haven't played MTGO in years but I can imagine if I directly or indirectly forked out $14 for a draft (or whatever it actually is for cube/phantom drafts; my point is still relevant as long as it's more than like one or two bucks) and then lost round 1 in 5 minutes then I'd be pretty justifiably salty. Magic wants to be a fun sportsmanlike game but it also wants to nickel and dime its players at every opportunity and somehow this creates a conflict of interest???
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mandatory lesbian posted:editing isn't any harder then quoting, and if it's a habit its a bad one it's just weird that your instinct is jumping to assume that it was done as an extremely lame and unnecessary "gotcha" when it's something that people do all over these dang forums (without a hint of passive-aggressiveness).
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Dec 26, 2015 20:54
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MiddleEastBeast posted:it's just weird that your instinct is jumping to assume that it was done as an extremely lame and unnecessary "gotcha" when it's something that people do all over these dang forums. ok
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Dec 26, 2015 20:55
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JerryLee posted:It also might help if the pricing model for spending a few hours playing with pretty computer pictures wasn't absolutely hosed in the head. I haven't played MTGO in years but I can imagine if I directly or indirectly forked out $14 for a draft (or whatever it actually is for cube/phantom drafts; my point is still relevant as long as it's more than like one or two bucks) and then lost round 1 in 5 minutes then I'd be pretty justifiably salty.
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Dec 26, 2015 20:58
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I'm one of the nicest posters in this thread. 
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Dec 26, 2015 20:59
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*pulls over* thats it everyone in this thread is banned! Is this what you wanted!?
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Judge question. My opponent has a top and a fetch land out. He activates top to draw revealing terminus and fetches in reposnse to the miracle trigger. Does top get shuffled away? I would think its ability resolves before the miracle trigger and it should be on top and therefore shuffled away...
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Dec 26, 2015 21:21
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Terrible Horse posted:Yeah, I like power cube and usually do a few every year, but I can completely see MJ's opinion that its full of unfun cards, and caters to "people in the know" and preys on noobs or middling players by offering them trap archtypes (any non-red aggro deck, for example, though this years cube seems to have improved on that). There's either broken cards or unplayable cards. They also keep putting Opposition in the Cube and gently caress Opposition. If you don't know what to draft I find that Natural Order/Tooth and Nail/ramp is open an awful lot and you can usually at least pull a 2-1 with it, sometimes by just being the guy with a bunch of big 4-5 mana green fatties + dorks. Cube is actually a format where you can pull of a very good win percentage as a mediocre player as long as you don't get delusions of grandeur and try to draft the fancy combo deck when you aren't skilled enough to put it together. The bigger problem I have with cube is trap archetypes like mono black in the Legacy Cube. Even when you get every good card for the archetype it is not a good deck. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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mcmagic posted:Judge question. My opponent has a top and a fetch land out. He activates top to draw revealing terminus and fetches in reposnse to the miracle trigger. Does top get shuffled away? I would think its ability resolves before the miracle trigger and it should be on top and therefore shuffled away... You are correct. Before your opponent can add something to the stack he has to finish resolving the entire ability for Sensei's Divining Top. You can't just interrupt effects in the middle of resolving. The miracle trigger event is "seen" during the resolution of Top's effect, but you don't get to act on it until that effect is complete, so Top is ontop of the library when the opponent sacs the Fetchland.
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JerryLee posted:It also might help if the pricing model for spending a few hours playing with pretty computer pictures wasn't absolutely hosed in the head. I haven't played MTGO in years but I can imagine if I directly or indirectly forked out $14 for a draft (or whatever it actually is for cube/phantom drafts; my point is still relevant as long as it's more than like one or two bucks) and then lost round 1 in 5 minutes then I'd be pretty justifiably salty. Cube is usually the only time, aside from EDH, when I play MTGO. It's pretty easy to go infinite on the cube drafts, as you go 2-1 and you earn enough play points (100) for another one. Also, if you are bad at drafting broken smug decks it's really fun to watch other people smugly draft and play their own smug decks. They don't always win! Sometimes the rando pulls off hilarious poo poo too!
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MiddleEastBeast posted:it's just weird that your instinct is jumping to assume that it was done as an extremely lame and unnecessary "gotcha" when it's something that people do all over these dang forums (without a hint of passive-aggressiveness). This exchange is loving hilarious literally the page after "Ask any questions here we're really friendly!"
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rabidsquid posted:This exchange is loving hilarious literally the page after "Ask any questions here we're really friendly!"
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Yawgmoth posted:Really really friendly towards newbies and their questions. We're vicious hatemonsters when it comes to anything regarding tournament magic or spoilers. I don't think that's a really obvious distinction, or even a meaningful one. I am mostly basing this on the reactions my non-FLGS style nerd friends have had to that type of environment though.
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lsv is smug lmao New thread title please: Magic: The Gathering: I really hate that smug rear end in a top hat Luis Scott-Vargas Ok but in the interest of trying to understand - which magic hall of famer isnt smug then? Zoness fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Only goons would figure out a way to talk bad about lsv.
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black potus posted:few if any cubes are any good to play all cubes are at least fine imo (if not 'good'), even 720 shoeboxes or whatever, just because drafting is one of the best ways to play Magic and novel draft formats are fun to experience at least once. like i'm still glad I experienced 3x AVR even if i did lose to the mist raven deck, but OTJ is almost perfect, etc it's appalling though as a Cube tryhard how little WotC seem to test their changes though, i think they rely on post facto data like "white aggro, red aggro, and blue control are tier one" (real quote) a dozen swans fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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black potus posted:oh sorry i misremembered, lsv is actually pretty nice and has paid for my lunch multiple times (though not as generous a soul as matt nass) That's because he eats so many people's lunches on stream he feels bad about it
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a dozen swans posted:all cubes are at least fine imo (if not 'good'), even 720 shoeboxes or whatever, just because drafting is one of the best ways to play Magic and novel draft formats are fun to experience at least once. like i'm still glad I experienced 3x AVR even if i did lose to the mist raven deck, but OTJ is almost perfect, etc Cubes are like coffee/tea - good ones are enjoyable, but you really don't want to use the same cube to do multiple drafts in a row. Niton fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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lol jumped in a vintage cube, as I'm not a butthurt guy who hates broken cards/lsv. t1 goblin guide, t3 hero of oxid ridge, lose t1 goblin guide, t3 hellrider, fireblast, lose to be fair Im playing a fairly crap ramp/show/breach deck, but still.
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Terrible Horse posted:lol jumped in a vintage cube, as I'm not a butthurt guy who hates broken cards/lsv. Just play mono-smug bro. It seems to be the best strat according to the thread.
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Gridlocked posted:Just play mono-smug bro. It seems to be the best strat according to the thread. I was playing as smuggly as i could but hey, variance is part of the game. Sometimes cards that do damage just beat smugness.
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Terrible Horse posted:I was playing as smuggly as i could but hey, variance is part of the game. Sometimes cards that do damage just beat smugness. Haha, well, you win some ya loose some
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Of the Duels games, Magic Duels is free and ongoing (f2p model like Hearthstone but with a very player-friendly way to acquire cards without spending money.) If you want one of the paid ones, 13 is widely considered the best. There you play with a bunch of premade decks that you can edit to a pretty decent degree. Good way to wrap your head around a lot of different ways to play the game. But 13 probably won't have anyone online, so it's effectively single player vs AI only. Duels 12 is better than 13, and I haven't seen much disagreement. It has better puzzles and Archenemy instead of the most boring possible implementation of Planechase.
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Yeah 12+DLC is easily the best of the Duels. It has two of my favorite decks from Duels in the UG Kiora ramp and 5 color bombs.
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Have they set the dates for the other prereleases and game days this year, or do we have to wait for set names to release? I was hoping to turn in a list of weekends I could tell my boss to gently caress off on in advance, if the scheduled person is taking off. I found Oath and SOI, but nothing further than that.
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2014 is (unofficially) moddable, if that fits your fancy at all. It's certainly not the best on its own though.
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kizudarake posted:Have they set the dates for the other prereleases and game days this year, or do we have to wait for set names to release? I was hoping to turn in a list of weekends I could tell my boss to gently caress off on in advance, if the scheduled person is taking off. I found Oath and SOI, but nothing further than that. They give exact dates when they announce the set but the dates should roughly correspond to the release dates from this year. Somewhere in July and October for the 2 sets after SOI since they're releasing every 3 months. Supplementary releases are usually in May (sets like Modern Masters and Conspiracy) and November (Commander releases is all we get here now I guess RIP Planechase. And Archenemy I guess). Duel Decks release 2 weeks to a month before a set (I think).
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