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I traded my Shivan Dragon for a Craw Wurm since they were basically the same size and casting cost and I liked green more than red.
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Jan 17, 2016 04:27
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Also, gently caress anyone who complains about chaff rares if you've not opened multiple *laces from packs.
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Jan 17, 2016 04:28
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whydirt posted:Also, gently caress anyone who complains about chaff rares if you've not opened multiple *laces from packs. Or 2 Vizzerdrixes in 4 packs. I actually opened 2 of that X-lace with Cipher from my 9 packs of DGM after prerelease.
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Jan 17, 2016 04:30
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God my prerelease sucked. My pool was a general pile so I tried RB aggro to maybe steal a few wins and didn't win a single game. With there being so many 1/3s for 2 and 2/3s for 3 in this set, 2/1s and 2/2s just can't attack at all. The 3 mana black instant common kill spell was absolute trash; I wouldn't even look at it as removal and rather as a really lovely combat trick, because it barely kills a third of the commons in this set, and costs more than most of what it does kill. Same thing applies to the Infest variant and the 2 mana Shock, the toughness in this set is just really high in general.
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Jan 17, 2016 04:31
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Cactrot posted:Before my 20 year hiatus I had traded into a beta time vault, and I have no idea where I put it or what happened to it Same but replace beta time vault with handful of revised duals and force of wills. I have an inkling of where my collection might be, but the guy who might have it is teaching in Japan after his house caught fire.
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Cactrot posted:Before my 20 year hiatus I had traded into a beta time vault, and I have no idea where I put it or what happened to it I know the feeling. I do the same thing even now, friend. I had lost a stone blade deck for a year by placing it inside a eurogame. And now I misplaced it and shardless bug deck and my mom put a bunch of my stuff in the basement storage, so I'm lucky to find them in 2 years. Legacy's gonna be way dead by that point lol.
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Jan 17, 2016 04:40
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I hate everyone and everything and want to post about it on the Internet. Is this the right place?
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Star Man posted:I hate everyone and everything and want to post about it on the Internet. Is this the right place? This or the GW death thread, but the latter has a lot of anime. We love our anime there.
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Jan 17, 2016 04:53
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World Breaker is basically Ulamog. If you cast it you don't lose.
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Jan 17, 2016 04:58
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Chill la Chill posted:This or the GW death thread, but the latter has a lot of anime. We love our anime there. I like durdly midrange creature decks and control, so the removal of Splinter Twin from Modern makes life nice. Also, banning Deceiver Exarch instead of Splinter Twin means that they attach the enchantment to Pestermite instead. I knew someone that tried that deck for double Standard Extended in 2011, before New Phyrexia released.
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Jan 17, 2016 05:02
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Mana symbols as "flair" on the Reddit sub-reddit have been removed. Patrick Jarrett explains here: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/410la1/why_mana_flair_disappeared/
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Star Man posted:I like durdly midrange creature decks and control, so the removal of Splinter Twin from Modern makes life nice. Pestermite dying to bolt and needing to splash a 2nd color if you want 5+ copies of your creature is a bit important. Banning splinter twin means they want the archetype to die, banning exarch means they want to make it weaker but still good.
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Star Man posted:I like durdly midrange creature decks and control, so the removal of Splinter Twin from Modern makes life nice. How many of your midrange creature cards have cool anime alters (counterfeit proxies) ? 
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BJPaskoff posted:Mana symbols as "flair" on the Reddit sub-reddit have been removed. Patrick Jarrett explains here: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/410la1/why_mana_flair_disappeared/ On the one hand who cares it's reddit, on the other hand it's sweet that they found probably the actual worst person in the world to do that guys job and they're letting him do it.
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BJPaskoff posted:Mana symbols as "flair" on the Reddit sub-reddit have been removed. Patrick Jarrett explains here: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/410la1/why_mana_flair_disappeared/ Finally he admits he misspoke about something. Just the least important thing.
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BJPaskoff posted:Mana symbols as "flair" on the Reddit sub-reddit have been removed. Patrick Jarrett explains here: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/410la1/why_mana_flair_disappeared/ I really hope they replace Trick because he is absolutely the worst.
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Jan 17, 2016 05:08
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3 of the 10 people at the prerelease today opened expeditions. I got a Flooded Grove, the guy next to me opened a Tec Edge, and a guy at another table got a Bloodstained Mire. Went 2-1-1 for 2 packs, but it doesn't matter because the LGS does flat payouts!
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gwrtheyrn posted:The promo foils are pretty close to $200 already, so 200-300 shouldn't be all that surprising for the expedition Yup. Sold in 5 hours, might have underpriced it a bit. When I put it up this afternoon the going rate was about 350 CAD, so I undercut it to 300 + shipping for a quick sale. Now I think there's like one up on Ebay for 350 and the others are around 400 CAD. The first day hype is real.
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odiv posted:3 of the 10 people at the prerelease today opened expeditions. I got a Flooded Grove, the guy next to me opened a Tec Edge, and a guy at another table got a Bloodstained Mire. There was only 1 Expedition at my pre-release. It was a Wasteland. 
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Apparently, I got cheated in the first round of my second pre-release. Guy had had way too many uncommons and the judge caught him. Still won the match 2-1 though, and I never even noticed he had added cards. I do so love getting 2 zendikar resurgant and and a call of the gatewatch in my second pool, but the foil Ob Nix makes up for it. Endbringer is just so good.
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My pool was a thought-knot seer and jank. Oh well, I got two fetches trading the thought-knot seer.
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2 prereleases down, 1 to go. 3-1'd midnight to 5th place and 3 packs with Thought-Knot, and 2 Reality Smashers.   Lost in R2 due to a misplay, a game with PERFECT ally curve out, and some bad luck, swept all my other opponents. 5-0'd Saturday noon to 1st place and 5 packs with Noyan Dar, Munda's Vanguard, 2 Cyclone Sires and 2 Jwar Isle Avengers. Ondu War Cleric is nuuuuuuuts. R4 was the UW Mirror and he had 2xRefector Mage, 2xIsolation Zone, and Kozilek. R5 was an aggro RG deck where I won game 1 quickly, and won game 2 with both of us at 1 life before I swung for lethal. Opened a Cinder Glade Expedition in my pool and a Kozilek's Return in my prize packs. Goin back at Noon for my 3rd chance for sweet pulls. I'll take pics of my UW deck and my Sunday deck after the tourney tomorrow. Pyronic fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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Went to the prerelease having not opened a pack of magic cards since Urza's Saga. Pulled a Eye of Udin and went 3-1 running WG tokens w/ Nissa just tearing poo poo up. I fear this may be the resurrection of an expensive habit D:
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born on a buy you posted:Rumors of eternal masters this summer starting to make their way to the Internet. $20 boosters here we come TOOT TOOT
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The best part about all of the Trick Jarrett poo poo is that in his personal life he's a hardcore libertarian
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rabidsquid posted:The best part about all of the Trick Jarrett poo poo is that in his personal life he's a hardcore libertarian Suddenly the leak article makes so much more sense.
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rabidsquid posted:The best part about all of the Trick Jarrett poo poo is that in his personal life he's a hardcore libertarian That explains his posts on proxies at any rate.
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rabidsquid posted:The best part about all of the Trick Jarrett poo poo is that in his personal life he's a hardcore libertarian I don't know if this is true but I'm gonna believe it anyways because it makes everything so much funnier
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It makes sense that a philosophy that categorically denies responsibility towards other people would appeal to a man whose chief skill is just completely goofing it
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Lunsku posted:I really don't think it's a card. Too much effort to get enough out of it, I'd want three Shocks before I'd be happy about having played it and that's no easy feat. It's a drat shame that in the set that's supposed to be 2HG-friendly, that dumb card of all things doesn't even play nice with 2HG.
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I'm awful at Magic, started the day out 2-0 then proceeded to punt my next three matches and end up 2-3. Feel bad for the two players I won against because I did not deserve those wins at all and one of them just barely failed to make the cut to top 16. Got some cool rares in my pool for my cube I guess
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Promo: Oath of Jace Pack 1 rare: Hedron Alignment Pack 2 rare: Call the Gatewatch At least I had fun  , and my 2HG buddy's pool was able to carry me (to our 0-2, bye, drop).
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Trilas posted:Promo: Oath of Jace I got you beat. Promo: Inverter of Truth Call the Gatewatch Hedron Alignment Stone Haven Outfitter Managed 3-2 on the back of mostly decent commons. e: that was my solo pool. our 2HG pool was sick. Double Endbringer is OP. Entropic fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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I did poo poo today at a pre-release. I went 1-3 and so did my girlfriend. She still got a pack and it contained an Ancient Tomb expedition plus a thought-knot seer as the rare. Ownage.
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Went 3/1/1 (people love forcing a draw when you have an unanswered valakut invoker in play) and 5/0 in 2 Headed Giant. Got a Expedition Mystic Gate. Two Headed Giant felt extremely different and was incredibly fun (says the guy on the winning team). I was playing Black/White Allies with a poo poo ton of vampires (with a focus on the cohort ally synergy) with 3 of the 1/4 flying vampires, and several other allies, and also played all of our colorless focused spells. I had Linvala as my bomb. My teammates was on Red/White allies, with a focus on rally triggersk and a some cohort stuff. He also had a Chandra. So our pool was pretty insane. At one point i had the 2/2 cohort gain 2 life ally, 2 of the 1/4 flying gain life ally, and the allie that burned each opponent for 1 whenever I gain. All the triggers. Chandra is the real deal in limited. Most of the Oath cards are pretty solid and even the worse is good filler if your in those colors. Going second was our choice everytime, and it seemed to have paid off. The difference is not 1 but 2 cards. Also people didn't realize you got a free mulligan, but you had to mulligan as a team. Some people didn't realize you shared your card pool either. Cards that would normally just be okay become incredibly good. Retreat to Hagra, Zulaport Cuthroat, and Kalastria Healer do double effect damage. And our roughest game was an opponent getting down double Nettle Drone (burning for 4, then getting to untap and do it again whenever they played a colorless spell). Surge costs become the normal cost for most spells with even the slightest bit of planning with your teammate. Support was really strong in 2 Headed Giant as well.
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anglachel posted:The difference is not 1 but 2 cards. Also people didn't realize you got a free mulligan, but you had to mulligan as a team.
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Did 3 prereleases and a tripe Oath draft so far. Went 2-2, 4-0, and 0-2 drop at the prereleases, but got a Strip Mine in the one that I lost. Have opened 3 Thought-Knot Seers so far. Drafting the set is fun, but goddamn a lot of the same cards show up. I drafted a pool with the following (didn't play all of these): 3 of the destroy attacking or blocking creature with power 2 or less 3 Mighty Leaps 3 of the 1/3 1W flying ally 4 of the 3/2 2W Ally that gives itself flying 2 of the 1/4 vigilance Ally 2 of the 3/1 2W with first strike when attacking 2 of the 3/2 goblin with menace with surge 4 of the Ally with Cohort that taps creatures 2 of the 3WW bird with support 2 plus some decent uncommons and rares. I loving destroyed everyone. My thought so far: -The black -3/-2 and the 2-mana shock are so loving bad, especially in Sealed. 3 toughness is the standard in this format, and 4 or 5 toughness is not unusual. -In Sealed blue is like a million times better than all other colors. You get card draw and fliers and counterspells, and some decent removal/tempo plays, and that common that makes colorless mana. You do need an actual win condition though. -Some of the multicolored uncommons are insanely good, while some are pretty mediocre. The UB one in particular is awful to play against, if you don't kill it fast you will lose. The GB one is also real loving good, as is the UG and UW one. UR, RW, and BR are not as good. -Green still sucks rear end IMO, though it's not QUITE as awful as it was before. Turns out not being able to interact with your opponent's creatures other than a 5 mana uncommon sorcery is bad. -I like Support a lot in draft, where the curves are tighter and combat is closer. It seems less effective in sealed. -In draft it seems easier to draft cards that require colorless mana than it is to draft sources of colorless, so if you want to use <> mana you need to draft it fairly highly. Drafting a deck that needs <> and doesn't have it feels pretty awful, I would imagine. This does very strange things to manabases and IMO Unknown Shores is a top-tier common, it effectively taps for 6 colors. Hedron Archive is an even higher pick now and will be a lot less likely to get cashed in. The creatures that produce colorless are good but don't count on them staying alive. All in all a really fun set so far, looking forward to 2HG tomorrow.
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Bugsy posted:Apparently, I got cheated in the first round of my second pre-release. Guy had had way too many uncommons and the judge caught him. Still won the match 2-1 though, and I never even noticed he had added cards. How do you catch this? Was he literally playing more uncommons than it was possible for his pool to open, or did he just have all of them on color and the judge asked to check the rest of his pool?
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