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Sickening posted:If you wanting to watch something funny Paul is trying to figure out how to play infect, failing a little bit, and going full MJ and banning people who disagree with his plays. About as funny as MTG streams get. I'll never understand why people watch him. He's like a combination of the worst parts of Kenji, MJ, and SGDoc.
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suicidesteve posted:I'll never understand why people watch him. He's like a combination of the worst parts of Kenji, MJ, and SGDoc. and dzyl's on at this very moment!
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Jan 21, 2016 22:16
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suicidesteve posted:I'll never understand why people watch him. He's like a combination of the worst parts of Kenji, MJ, and SGDoc. I imagine it's mostly because LSV skypes in sometimes and gets some "sick burns" on him. Though they are not actually all that sick.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:17
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suicidesteve posted:I'll never understand why people watch him. He's like a combination of the worst parts of Kenji, MJ, and SGDoc. He's an easily flustered but otherwise incredibly average stay-at-home dad, who is actually very friendly 99% of the time. The CFB connection is absolutely why he's famous rather than another 1-200 viewer streamer, but he's pretty appealing in an Everyman sense.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:22
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Can someone post the MTG companies stickers and playmats again? I forgot to buy them last time and now redbubble deleted my cart.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:22
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Niton posted:He's an easily flustered but otherwise incredibly average stay-at-home dad, who is actually very friendly 99% of the time. The CFB connection is absolutely why he's famous rather than another 1-200 viewer streamer, but he's pretty appealing in an Everyman sense. To be fair he used to be a really good player. vv 
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Jan 21, 2016 22:23
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Elyv posted:you are not siding in kor firewalker against any decks that actually run kozilek's return I'm puting a few Returns in my burn sideboard. Works against Firewalker and more importantly works against Etched Champion and nexus, which is good.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:24
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Zoness posted:Bring back time spiral bolas who at least begrudgingly helped Teferi, not that he wanted to, stupid. I too want bolas to be an anime schoolgirl who I can add to my anime mtg waifu harem
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Jan 21, 2016 22:25
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dragon enthusiast posted:I too want bolas to be an anime schoolgirl who I can add to my anime mtg waifu harem  I'll trade for the alternate art anime waifu version when they make them.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:26
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The explanation for random card price spikes: "(1) Look for cheap, preferably old cards on want lists (2) Identify which card is cheap and in low enough supply that you can temporarily buy out the major sites that are being crawled by mtgstocks and other price aggregation sites (3) Buy them up (4) Relist them for $1000,- (5) Let Pucatrade, mtgstocks and other price aggregation sites adjust its market-rate to your newly forged pump-n-dump (6) Start sending out the crap card on Pucatrade to people who have it on their want list and are probably unaware of wth just happened (7) Use your pucapoints to buy legit cards instead of MTG pennystocks."
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Jan 21, 2016 22:31
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Angry Grimace posted:The explanation for random card price spikes: It really is loving repulsive that people do this poo poo.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:33
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Chill la Chill posted:
This already exists as fanart and is very nsfw
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Jan 21, 2016 22:33
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Madmarker posted:It really is loving repulsive that people do this poo poo. It explains some of the random bullshit spikes like Mindslicer and Field of Dreams, although perhaps not actual good cards like Karn. The bigger problem is that #MTGFINANCE sites like MTGStocks trawl sales data on eBay/TCG, etc. and list the price of cards as what people list them at as opposed to what they have been purchased at.
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dragon enthusiast posted:This already exists as fanart and is very nsfw
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People are actually buying Mindslicer at $10 which is super weird, it's the first time a poo poo spike card like that has actually been purchased at the spike price. About 98% of spikes are entirely because it turns out that when there's only 100 copies of a card on the market, if 25 people decide they want it at the same time because it's good in their cool new deck, it spikes the market. This is why all the Eldrazi poo poo, Tron poo poo, inquisition, etc, are spiking. It's not market manipulation, it just turns out that the same reason you want those cards, other people want those cards, and they're going to buy them. Field of Dreams, Mindslicer, other cards you're never going to play are market manipulation, but something is weird with Mindslicer where people are actually buying it at the markup price.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:38
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Zoness posted:Bring back time spiral bolas who at least begrudgingly helped Teferi, not that he wanted to, stupid. You know, if Bolas' horns curved down instead of up, he'd match a certain someone's hairstyle pretty well...
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Jan 21, 2016 22:39
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Chill la Chill posted:But I want it to be official so we can have $500 Jace TMS as a tsundere school girl and her best buddy Lilian the strong Jojo goth, who is $600. You'll just have to wait for the eventual future block where the GatewatchTM travels to Multiverse-63 where everybody is gender flipped
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Jan 21, 2016 22:40
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oh, btw, even if you hate reddit, it's useful to read/sub to /r/mtgmarketwatch and /r/mtgfinance so you can see where all the speculators are looking / see the spikes on the day of rather than a few days later. There's also a fair amount of (terrible) discussion there, like people going "snapcaster won't go up in value now that splinter twin is banned" despite it creeping up 10% this week, etc (because snapcaster is amazing and by the time Modern season starts up he's gonna be everywhere, this is me predicting a spike, get on that poo poo fyi).
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Jan 21, 2016 22:41
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TheKingofSprings posted:You know, if Bolas' horns curved down instead of up, he'd match a certain someone's hairstyle pretty well... Yeah but his servants are all caster class. Or are angels I guess, by artwork.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:42
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Zoness posted:Yeah but his servants are all caster class. If Wizards got their poo poo together Tezzeret would be Archering all day in modern
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Jan 21, 2016 22:45
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Sigma-X posted:oh, btw, even if you hate reddit, it's useful to read/sub to /r/mtgmarketwatch and /r/mtgfinance so you can see where all the speculators are looking / see the spikes on the day of rather than a few days later. MTGfinance is bad ever since they banned the hype spec threads. Now those were real fun to watch as people convinced themselves about the value of their cardboard. dragon enthusiast posted:You'll just have to wait for the eventual future block where the GatewatchTM travels to Multiverse-63 where everybody is gender flipped
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Sigma-X posted:People are actually buying Mindslicer at $10 which is super weird, it's the first time a poo poo spike card like that has actually been purchased at the spike price. Mindslicer has sweet art and the colors with the old Odyssey-era border work well together. Also I have a bunch of them so speculate away Reddit.
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Chill la Chill posted:I will patiently wait for Nicole-senpai.  It's terrible and dumb. Ramos fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I'm puting a few Returns in my burn sideboard. Works against Firewalker and more importantly works against Etched Champion and nexus, which is good. Maybe I'm missing something, but the difference between 2 and 3 mana (in Modern) seens pretty huge to me against the types of decks you want a Pyroclasm style effect against. I mean against say Burn, they probably already have you at about dead anyways if they were on the play, and if your on the play Pyroclam or Anger of the Gods would have done what you need better. Is it just "moar pyroclasm" (and theres already 3 mana board wipes that are Clasm but better as is that dont see play in sideboards). So why are people hyped up on Return in Modern? It seems like once you resolve one of your big Eldrazi it tends to be all she wrote anyways, unless your really that worried about a Collected Company style deck.
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Well.....at least it's not CGI art. But Wizards looks like it moved from paying cheap eastern europeans to high school artists. E: Let me guess, you have to mail 100 pack wrappers to get the sticker for the black bar area? What will WOTC think of next?! Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Zoness posted:To be fair he used to be a really good player. I think he still is - it's easy to lose perspective with how many fantastic players stream, but Paul is still way, way better than the average player - while he's not making waves, he's also certainly not being hard-carried when he performs well at team events. I just like watching him because he has an almost comical overreaction to things going wrong 
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anglachel posted:Maybe I'm missing something, but the difference between 2 and 3 mana (in Modern) seens pretty huge to me against the types of decks you want a Pyroclasm style effect against. I mean against say Burn, they probably already have you at about dead anyways if they were on the play, and if your on the play Pyroclam or Anger of the Gods would have done what you need better. Is it just "moar pyroclasm" (and theres already 3 mana board wipes that are Clasm but better as is that dont see play in sideboards). Return is a card you can hit with Tron's Ponder, and when Twin was around you could play it at instant speed 
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anglachel posted:Maybe I'm missing something, but the difference between 2 and 3 mana (in Modern) seens pretty huge to me against the types of decks you want a Pyroclasm style effect against. I mean against say Burn, they probably already have you at about dead anyways if they were on the play, and if your on the play Pyroclam or Anger of the Gods would have done what you need better. Is it just "moar pyroclasm" (and theres already 3 mana board wipes that are Clasm but better as is that dont see play in sideboards). it's a pyroclasm you can find with ancient stirrings also sometimes the exile clause will do things
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Jan 21, 2016 22:57
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Elyv posted:it's a pyroclasm you can find with ancient stirrings While that is true, turn 2 is the critical point before decks like Merfolk get larger than 2 toughness.
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I'm bad at magic, can somebody explain to me why Prowess is such a powerful mechanic asides from the obvious text that's written on the card? For example, at pre-release my opponents seemed to be deathly afraid of Stormchaser Mage and would always attempt to burn removal on it as early as possible. In the instances when he lived, though, he never seemed to do much.
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dragon enthusiast posted:I'm bad at magic, can somebody explain to me why Prowess is such a powerful mechanic asides from the obvious text that's written on the card? For example, at pre-release my opponents seemed to be deathly afraid of Stormchaser Mage and would always attempt to burn removal on it as early as possible. In the instances when he lived, though, he never seemed to do much. Prowess is a very powerful constructed mechanic. Your opponent was probably overreacting (oath has no temur battle rage/ become immense combo like there was in Fate Reforged draft and is in standard)
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dragon enthusiast posted:I'm bad at magic, can somebody explain to me why Prowess is such a powerful mechanic asides from the obvious text that's written on the card? For example, at pre-release my opponents seemed to be deathly afraid of Stormchaser Mage and would always attempt to burn removal on it as early as possible. In the instances when he lived, though, he never seemed to do much. It's crap in a vacuum but does exceptionally well in limited metas with a lot of instants and sorceries or in constructed tempo decks. The reason why is that it rewards you for what you're were going to do anyway and are often on creatures with stats that with a slight boost can win out on combat situations and push for more damage they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
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Ramos posted:While that is true, turn 2 is the critical point before decks like Merfolk get larger than 2 toughness. Also when you'll generally be able to kill infect's creature rather than one of their three pump spells and when it'll result in 2 less damage from that turn 1 goblin guide/swiftspear You can also fit pyroclasm into a curve of egg on 1, clasm on 2, wurmcoil or karn on 3 and can't fit return in the same place, and that's a better high end than i see the instant speed giving atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Notably, you're still probably boned against Infect because they always seem to be holding Mutagenic Growth. Somehow.
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Ramos posted:It's crap in a vacuum but does exceptionally well in limited metas with a lot of instants and sorceries or in constructed tempo decks. The reason why is that it rewards you for what you're were going to do anyway and are often on creatures with stats that with a slight boost can win out on combat situations and push for more damage they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. I guess especially if you're using burn, you'll want to kill it as soon as the player is tapped out. But again, you need the right kind of deck for it to be a scary card.
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Imagine an infect creature with prowess. Stuff of nightmares.
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Rinkles posted:Imagine an infect creature with prowess. Stuff of nightmares. Fall 2016, Return to Battle-Scarred New Phyrexia.
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Ramos posted:It's crap in a vacuum but does exceptionally well in limited metas with a lot of instants and sorceries or in constructed tempo decks. The reason why is that it rewards you for what you're were going to do anyway and are often on creatures with stats that with a slight boost can win out on combat situations and push for more damage they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. I see, guess I should look at some Top 8 decks from the past year that feature it heavily.
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By wizards standards, isn't most of the infect deck on its own special reserved list? I feel like these cards should be even more expensive considering they are never going to be reprinted again.
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