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rabidsquid posted:I know that wasn't field percent at tournaments but it's a similar concept. The amount of any given field a deck makes up skews t8 numbers and MODO X-0 and X-1 finishes the same. Agreed. I think that people put way too much stock into finishes without considering actual win rates, which is why it's dumb that Wizards tries to keep win rate and matchup data from getting out there.
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what are the worst lands you can give someone with a vedalken plotter in modern? tendo ice bridge having used the charge counter? crumbling vestige? edit: contested war zone? Molybdenum fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Feb 2, 2016 02:42
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Molybdenum posted:what are the worst lands you can give someone with a vedalken plotter in modern? Forbidden Orchard? Why are you trying to run Vedalken Plotter in Modern? I thought it had errata that said you were only allowed to play it in Zedruu EDH.
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Feb 2, 2016 02:48
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Molybdenum posted:what are the worst lands you can give someone with a vedalken plotter in modern? Boseiju in a deck you're not running counterspells in? Untaidake and Hall of the Bandit Lord are both pretty bad, too - you really want to give your opponent a land that's WORSE than a wastes.
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Feb 2, 2016 02:51
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Entropic posted:Forbidden Orchard? it's a pretty funny way to gently caress with tron if you're not playing red or black I guess e: although I don't know why you wouldn't play spreading seas instead unless you're playing blue tron
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Feb 2, 2016 02:52
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Making a portion of your mana base be terrible cards so bad you wish your opponent was playing them doesn't seem like a great plan.Elyv posted:it's a pretty funny way to gently caress with tron if you're not playing red or black I guess It does seem kind of cute as a sideboard card for the blue tron mirror.
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Feb 2, 2016 02:54
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Turns out it's Vesuva: It literally does nothing. Give your opponents a rock.
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Feb 2, 2016 02:55
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For those of you that stream live MTG or enjoy learning some behind the scenes stuff, Paul from Loading Ready Run did a stream explaining the system he put together that automatically recognizes cards and plugs them in to XSplit to help viewers follow plays. If you want to see the system in action, it worked spectacularly in their stream of them playing their OGW prerelease decks.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:01
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Feb 2, 2016 03:17
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Known modern legal card Sorrow's Path.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:31
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Its pure, unadulterated badness transcends all format barriers.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:33
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JerryLee posted:It's a cool design but was it ever even seriously playable? Yeah, we used it back when 9th was in Standard. For example. It was the only one-cost choose-and-discard spell, mind. No Duress, and the other 1-cost discard options gave the opponent complete control. Distress and Castigate cost two (though Castigate was and is amazing anyway). Or were even sadder. It also helps it shared some time with Stupor and Rise & Fall.
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my favorite thing about Sorrow's Path is still that your opponent can tap it with an Icy Manipulator or whatever to clasm your board
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Zoness posted:Why use xsplit instead of obs tho Because they're doing it professionally, and can afford and make use of the paid tools in XSplit.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Yeah, we used it back when 9th was in Standard. Why does that deck have a one-of Meloku with zero ways to cast or reanimate it?
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Feb 2, 2016 04:13
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Name should be printed over the dots.
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Feb 2, 2016 04:30
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JerryLee posted:The funnier part of that article is that Hedron Crab was killed "for constructed reasons" I can see and understand why (we're going into a return to Innistrad and thus probably graveyard shenanigans, and the delve synergy would be amazing for the brief period of time before rotation), but even so I find it kind of amazing that Hedron Crab is now too dangerous to exist for standard. Hedron Crab.
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the Orb of Zot posted:I can see and understand why (we're going into a return to Innistrad and thus probably graveyard shenanigans, and the delve synergy would be amazing for the brief period of time before rotation), but even so I find it kind of amazing that Hedron Crab is now too dangerous to exist for standard. With Shock about to rotate out, a turn 1 0/2 is just too hard to answer.
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the Orb of Zot posted:I can see and understand why (we're going into a return to Innistrad and thus probably graveyard shenanigans, and the delve synergy would be amazing for the brief period of time before rotation), but even so I find it kind of amazing that Hedron Crab is now too dangerous to exist for standard. To be fair, the issue is that Delve is kind of a broken mechanic, not the stupid crab.
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Feb 2, 2016 04:46
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Molybdenum posted:what are the worst lands you can give someone with a vedalken plotter in modern?
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Seat of the Synod is an instant game loss. Seems good.
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suicidesteve posted:To be fair, the issue is that Delve is kind of a broken mechanic, not the stupid crab. It's sort of a devil you know vs. devil you don't thing, I suppose, but I'm not sold on the idea that Crab Delve would be that much more toxic to this standard than anything that already exists in it.
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:Seat of the Synod is an instant game loss. Seems good. Island is strictly better than Seat of the Synod. In modern. JerryLee posted:It's sort of a devil you know vs. devil you don't thing, I suppose, but I'm not sold on the idea that Crab Delve would be that much more toxic to this standard than anything that already exists in it. We'd have turn 2 Bananamen or Treasure Cruises in a format that doesn't have any removal or counters. Edit: Also why has Collected Company almost doubled in price over the last few days? Does everyone want to play that stupid green ranger standard deck?
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So I got the proxies from China in. They make a great cube. They are thinner than regular cards and don't feel right, a bit floppier and not as firm, the color is a bit blue shifted as well. Otherwise they are fantastic and well worth the few bucks to get them. I am happy they are easily recognizable when you have them in your hands. There is no mistaking them for real cards. A little spread of the good stuff.
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suicidesteve posted:We'd have turn 2 Bananamen or Treasure Cruises in a format that doesn't have any removal or counters. A significant portion of the last standard tournament was playing some variant of gross value company deck on top of the usual flood of Rally decks, including the second place finisher. They seem to match up pretty well against some of the decks in the format like Jeskai Black that rely heavily on grinding out one-for-one removal with other forms of card advantage by just playing scads of medium sized creatures, some of which have built-in recursion. Even if you can keep a Jace up for a bit, it's really hard to Crackling Doom your way through a deck that can Collected Company to flip Den Protector to return a Deathmist Raptor to the battlefield and then get back Collected Company. Voyager I fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Onean posted:For those of you that stream live MTG or enjoy learning some behind the scenes stuff, Paul from Loading Ready Run did a stream explaining the system he put together that automatically recognizes cards and plugs them in to XSplit to help viewers follow plays. I've been thinking about making a browser plugin that lets you mouse over cards in a stream and pops up an autocard, except I don't have any actual programming skills so this is just a "man that'd be dope" kind of thing
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The Shortest Path posted:Why does that deck have a one-of Meloku with zero ways to cast or reanimate it? You know, I don't know. I'm going to guess it was reported to the site wrong.
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The Shortest Path posted:Why does that deck have a one-of Meloku with zero ways to cast or reanimate it? It's supposed to be a Mikokoro, Center of the Sea. Kamigawa was the block of dumb names no one could remember or keep straight. Woe be to the decklist transcribers. Actually you see weird errors on decklist sites all the time. I remember recently wondering for a minute why a Grixis control deck was running some Darkslick Drakes of all things, and why it had such a low land count...
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Entropic posted:It's supposed to be a Mikokoro, Center of the Sea. Kamigawa was the block of dumb names no one could remember or keep straight. Woe be to the decklist transcribers. Yes all those dumb japanese or derivative words that aren't "anime" or "waifu" are completely useless and dumb.
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Having a way to kill Hedron Crab doesn't actually prevent a turn 2 Tasigur. Also, Rally the Ancestors
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Molybdenum posted:what are the worst lands you can give someone with a vedalken plotter in modern? Glimmervoid. Bonus points because it's good for you if you have enough artifacts and even if you don't you can still play it on the same turn you swap it.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Yes all those dumb japanese or derivative words that aren't "anime" or "waifu" are completely useless and dumb. When many of those words sound very similar and come from foreign etymological roots, yes, for the purposes of the english speaking audience of magic the gathering, using somewhat similar sounding japanese-inspired names for everything in an entire block was a dumb decision.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Yes all those dumb japanese or derivative words that aren't "anime" or "waifu" are completely useless and dumb. Without consulting a chart, identify the following: Kaho Kaiso Kentaro Kenzo Kiku Kira Konda Kuon Kuro Kyoki
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Niton posted:Without consulting a chart, identify the following: Easy.  Just don't ask me what any of them actually do. gonadic io posted:Glimmervoid. Bonus points because it's good for you if you have enough artifacts and even if you don't you can still play it on the same turn you swap it. ... But what if they have an artifact too?
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suicidesteve posted:Easy. Clearly you know what Kaho does And I didn't even list all of them - there's still Keiga, Kumano, Kodamas (three of em!), Kiyomaro and Kokusho just for the Ks. And you still missed three of them. Niton fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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suicidesteve posted:But what if they have an artifact too? Then it's about the same as any other land  If only thawing glaciers were modern legal... (not sure that's a sentence that has ever been said before)
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Niton posted:Clearly you know what Kaho does Yes, punish this man for not knowing bullshit unplayable garbage from ten years ago.
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