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Sickening posted:His wife works and he is the stay at home dad. Lucky.
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hello friends! i'm going to the GP this weekend and i don't really know very much about the new limited format. can someone point me in the direction of genuinely useful advice about the draft format? should i just play lsv's set review under some white noise while i sleep tonight? eat someone's prerelease cards to gain their power? please help, tia
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mcmagic posted:Lucky. Meh, if it was my wife playing magic all day instead of ya know, watching our 2 year old I would probably send my child to daycare. I would also be pursuing divorce, but that is a given.
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Jan 29, 2016 23:00
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My two year old has a job in magic finance. Value!
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Jan 29, 2016 23:01
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rabidsquid posted:My two year old has a job in magic finance. Value! Good news for you! Calciform Pools has jumped one cent since OGW came out!
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Jan 29, 2016 23:11
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Good news for you! Calciform Pools has jumped one cent since OGW came out! A Calciform Pools spec is basically a license to print money. Firstly, the difference between the all-time high and low is nine cents. Lets face it, the card is the definition of stability. Secondly, when I get hired at wotc the Calciform Pools set is pretty far out behind the Relentless Rats set and the Nothing But Walls Set.
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Mikujin posted:Mind Funeral ... (the most cards I've milled with it are 36, after double-Surgicaling two of my opponent's 4 of lands with 3 copies each still in I'm normally a proponent of extracting threats instead of lands (outside of stuff like Tron) but that does sound like a spicy use for Surgical. Now I really wish the only local Modern event I know of wasn't A) On my preferred gym night and B) On the other side of town  E: Can you cast Archive Trap for its alternate cost off of Snaps? My guess is no but if you can then I might have to look into picking up one or two Snaps someday. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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Angry Grimace posted:It's a shiny button that says "put cards in collection," I can't help it I'm kinda looking forward to the new phantom sealed. Who wants standard junk clogging up their account? Once they announce constructed leagues where you just bring a decklist and points to enter instead of digging up Lillys and poo poo I'll call modo perfect. (Keep the pptqs and high end tournaments bring-your-own-cards only so the secondary market doesn't totally crater if you want idgaf)
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Sickening posted:Paul Cheon is such a loving deadbeat. He is telling the people in the chat that there are many downsides to parenting. One of them appears to be that your two year old wants attention from you when you spend most of the day playing magic. It appears his child doesn't want to go into another room all by himself and leave him alone. yeah you think you saw something under the bed? you wanna hear something real scary? missing your p1p3 because ur too busy pulling an old teddy bear from under your bed. Leave daddy alone, go see a star war or something
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If you think having a kid will alter your lifestyle in a way you won't like, don't loving have a kid.
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Sickening posted:Paul Cheon is such a loving deadbeat. He is telling the people in the chat that there are many downsides to parenting. One of them appears to be that your two year old wants attention from you when you spend most of the day playing magic. It appears his child doesn't want to go into another room all by himself and leave him alone. its actually heartbreaking watching him stream (i haven't for ages) because he always looks super upset every time his Human Child comes around to say hi
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Death Bot posted:its actually heartbreaking watching him stream (i haven't for ages) because he always looks super upset every time his Human Child comes around to say hi Did anyone make a Youtube compilation of this? Or anyone have links to some of these moments?
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It's so loving sad, I don't know how people can continue to watch it. I think it's one thing when Jeff Hoogland stops to change his baby's diaper or streams while his toddler is napping, but it just seems so outlandish that his Wife lets him just "watch the kid" while streaming MTGO all day.
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Jan 30, 2016 00:32
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OfChristandMen posted:It's so loving sad, I don't know how people can continue to watch it. well how else is she gonna find a real man to settle down with?
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C-Euro posted:I'm normally a proponent of extracting threats instead of lands (outside of stuff like Tron) but that does sound like a spicy use for Surgical. Now I really wish the only local Modern event I know of wasn't A) On my preferred gym night and B) On the other side of town And to answer you latter question, no. Archive Trap has one alternate cost, Snapcaster just gives it another in Flashback, and you can't use alternate costs on alternate costs.
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I have played against that mill deck before and it was close all games. I decided to price the deck and wow, its incredible how expensive some of that is for being in only playable in this finge deck. Glimpse the Unthinkable is 20 bucks on the cheap end? Modern is a strange format.
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Sickening posted:I have played against that mill deck before and it was close all games. I decided to price the deck and wow, its incredible how expensive some of that is for being in only playable in this finge deck. Glimpse the Unthinkable is 20 bucks on the cheap end? Modern is a strange format. Unthinkable has casual appeal. See big, fat angels that belong to no competitive decks.
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Sickening posted:I have played against that mill deck before and it was close all games. I decided to price the deck and wow, its incredible how expensive some of that is for being in only playable in this finge deck. Glimpse the Unthinkable is 20 bucks on the cheap end? Modern is a strange format. Mill is a casual all star strategy. Glimpse has been $20 for years
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Milling also has casual appeal in the sense that some people literally put value in the idea that you might mill someone's win conditions and win that way.
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Sickening posted:I have played against that mill deck before and it was close all games. I decided to price the deck and wow, its incredible how expensive some of that is for being in only playable in this finge deck. Glimpse the Unthinkable is 20 bucks on the cheap end? Modern is a strange format. But seriously, as someone mentioned, Glimpse has been expensive since Ravnica block rotated almost entirely on the back of the kitchen table scene. There's all sorts of casual mill decks and sometimes people get really excited about putting this in their super cool deck. I know it also got a lot of play in Tiny Leaders when that format was kind of popular.
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Sickening posted:I have played against that mill deck before and it was close all games. I decided to price the deck and wow, its incredible how expensive some of that is for being in only playable in this finge deck. Glimpse the Unthinkable is 20 bucks on the cheap end? Modern is a strange format. Glimpse has always been stupidly expensive and despite buying them at roughly their current price point, I would be fine seeing them go down. This is the only deck I know of that plays them and I don't even understand what "casual appeal" means here, they suck in EDH and no one playing kitchen table Magic is going to drop a C-note on a playset just for kitchen table games. E: Other than Glimpse the deck is not horribly expensive if you have the lands. $5 Archive Trap is the next priciest non-land in my build, unless you're splashing white like I am for Path (but you probably own the Paths already anyway). It makes me sad there's no other viable UB/UW/Esper archetypes in Modern, I have all these fetches and dual lands in those colors but nothing else to use them in Grixis/Jeskai control-ish decks I guess, but then I'd have to buy the appropriate Rx lands and stuff like Snapcaster that I can't (currently) justify buying.Mikujin posted:In game 1 my first Surgical is always on a threat, but once you get to look at their deck you know what you're fighting. That said, I always pen down which lands and how many are in because using Surgical to remove lands you Mind Funeral can hit can sometimes be totally crushing. A lot of decks, for example, play 3-4 of fetches and 1-2 of the shocks they're using. Sometimes it's worth using that info to Surgical fetches, too. Not entirely what Surgical is there for, certainly, but providing yourself with multiple outs and avenues of play in order to burn your opponent out [of cards] is important when you're playing a super linear strategy. Hm, hadn't thought of it that way. The downside of pulling out fetches is that they're easy search triggers for Archive Trap. Hell I'm playing around with a pair of Trapmaker's Snare to make sure I can get an Archive Trap into hand if I've had a slow turn. Also, don't forget that by your logic, Ghost Quarter helps reduce their library land-count too! How much aggro is in your meta? I saw that you have only two Crypt Incursions, that card is a literal lifesaver since you have so many ways to ding yourself between fetches, shocks, and Surgicals. I go 3/3 Surgical/Crypt maindeck with Surgical #4 SB, but I could see myself going 4/2(+1) in a slower meta. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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C-Euro posted:Hm, hadn't thought of it that way. The downside of pulling out fetches is that they're easy search triggers for Archive Trap. Hell I'm playing around with a pair of Trapmaker's Snare to make sure I can get an Archive Trap into hand if I've had a slow turn. Also, don't forget that by your logic, Ghost Quarter helps reduce their library land-count too! I've already been testing 2 x Ghost Quarter and so far it's been pretty neutral in gain. I've had a game or two where it's netted me an Archive Trap trigger (yay!), but I've had a few where I've had to mulligan an otherwise keepable hand because I had Ghost Quarter instead of the fetch it replaced. I'll keep grinding games out with both lists to try and see what gives me the most consistency. I've only run into a couple really aggressive decks, and I've been happy to have the Incursions in those cases. That being said, I've been happy to only have two in the main because it is sometimes a dead (or irrelevant) card. When it's good, it's great, but it's almost never good. Having the safety valve in is important though, because sometimes you do just gain like 30 life on it against burn and put yourself out of range really quick. I played out about 10 more matches since my last comment on Orb and I think it's growing on me. Sometimes it just taxes your opponent too much on a thin library, and sometimes just dropping it on T2 after like an Arhchive Trap it stops your opponent from making plays because they're scared to tap out and mill themselves.
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Mikujin posted:Oh, certainly, your goal isn't to immediately snap off Surgicals on fetches or anything. I just ran into a green deck that went off with Beck // Call and Cloudstone Curio (with Nettle Sentinels and Heritage Druids) and game 2 I got T1 Thought Scour and Surgical his Breeding Pools, which prevented him from combo-ing off. That's just the old modern combo elves  .
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I'm surprised that Ghost Quarter is giving you mana trouble, with only running two colors I thought it would be better for you but yeah the deck relies heavily on colored mana. I dread seeing decks with Blood Moon, probably the most dangerous card after Leyline. I had Orbs when I first built the deck but I'm a baby who doesn't like to hurt himself so I dropped them for the Snares (which also help me get my SB Ravenous Traps when I need them). They're probably also better for you since you have Snapcasters in your build, and I am not baller enough to have them. That said I still have those Orbs somewhere, I might put them back in my SB if I find an aggro-heavy meta here.
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C-Euro posted:I'm surprised that Ghost Quarter is giving you mana trouble, with only running two colors I thought it would be better for you but yeah the deck relies heavily on colored mana. I dread seeing decks with Blood Moon, probably the most dangerous card after Leyline. On the flip side, sometimes you get a game where you draw them both and casually strip mine your Grixis Control opponents blue sources and he doesn't bother searching because you could have Archive Trap (I didn't). Also found out how land-light that deck really operates when I hit him with Mind Funeral (he had 25 cards left) and I got his whole deck, having never used Surgical. He was salty as hell. E: Snapcasters have been great in the build. Sometimes you're just flashing back Thought Scour to cycle, but sometimes you're flashing back Mikujin fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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Zoness posted:Ok to be fair skullclamp is really close to being the worst too. Lion's Eye Diamond is pretty close in the race. I don't really mind the VMA ancestral and time walk but I can see how those would be upsetting, sure. The real crime of VMA is how bad Goblin Trenches looks with the modern card frame.
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C-Euro posted:Glimpse has always been stupidly expensive and despite buying them at roughly their current price point, I would be fine seeing them go down. This is the only deck I know of that plays them and I don't even understand what "casual appeal" means here, they suck in EDH and no one playing kitchen table Magic is going to drop a C-note on a playset just for kitchen table games. I am sorry to say but you are wrong my friend. Casual kitchen table players will absolutely drop that kind of cash on Glimpse. This isn't mtg finance at all, this card has been one of the most popular casual cards basically ever as far as I can tell. They aren't even going in specific decks, it's like zoness said casuals love the idea of hitting all of your win cons in mill and holy gently caress 10 cards for 2 mana??? Honestly I have even seen Traumatize kick around in casual play groups a lot.
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Attorney at Funk posted:The real crime of VMA is how bad the modern card frame looks.
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Anybody else have that friend that says "you should come with me to so and so's, we always get 20 for modern." And it turn to poo poo? I get people want to build up a player base at their lgs, but don't lie to me. We had 5 show up for modern. Ugh.
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I just did my first draft in MTGO and I have no idea how to find out if my cards were worth any tickets, or how to work the trade system if they are. Can anyone give me the rundown, or point me to a guide?
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Mikujin posted:E: Snapcasters have been great in the build. Sometimes you're just flashing back Thought Scour to cycle, but sometimes you're flashing back What decks running Liliana are letting you swing in with a 2/1 with no other ways of interacting with the board? If you were running the Esper build and had access to Path I could maybe see it. rabidsquid posted:I am sorry to say but you are wrong my friend. Casual kitchen table players will absolutely drop that kind of cash on Glimpse. This isn't mtg finance at all, this card has been one of the most popular casual cards basically ever as far as I can tell. I would have thought that the price on Glimpse would keep more kitchen players away but I guess they are more serious than I thought. When people say "kitchen table players" but not necessarily EDH I'm usually picturing kids.
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Even kids will save up to buy magic cards they want. It's not like they need to save up for fetches and typed duals or anything so dropping the cash on a sweet older mill card isn't a huge burden. Kitchen table players buy singles!
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Sickening posted:I have played against that mill deck before and it was close all games. I decided to price the deck and wow, its incredible how expensive some of that is for being in only playable in this finge deck. Glimpse the Unthinkable is 20 bucks on the cheap end? Modern is a strange format. "it is 10 year old card competitive players have all sold them to dealers and when casuals stop playing they tend to end up in shoe boxes forgotten about" quote:I work for a cardshop. We rarely get staple mill cards traded in to us, and when we do they fly off the shelves. This means the demand is much higher than our supply.
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C-Euro posted:What decks running Liliana are letting you swing in with a 2/1 with no other ways of interacting with the board? If you were running the Esper build and had access to Path I could maybe see it.
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is Thought Knot modern playable? It's currently 14 tix, wondering if it will hold that
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Terrible Horse posted:is Thought Knot modern playable? It's currently 14 tix, wondering if it will hold that Considering that Modern Eldrazi can pop it out on turn 2 very often, yeah, I think it's going to hold.
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Chill la Chill posted:Probably. Their mistake was not continuing this fantastic line of ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HztAWVUO1Zo This led me to a video of the final minutes of Mike Long winning the '97 pro tour over Mark Justice, and I gotta say, while they both kinda seemed like dicks, but holy poo poo was Mike Long a tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXAOlb15HD8
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