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Sickening posted:Modern is about to start. I expect some magic cards are about to get even more expensive during this weekend. what are you guys watching?
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niss-uh or nees-ah? I swear it should be nees-ah, because I know a Nissa IRL and it's sure not niss-uh.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:11
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DigitalMocking posted:what are you guys watching? The pro tour? It appears the dumb oath part of the story was all Maro... figures.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:12
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I do it because I get all fidgety with my hands when I'm thinking. Someone I played cards with over 10 year ago showed up at my shop a while back and pointed out that they remembered the very specific way I move the cards around in my hand while playing, and we weren't watching pros back then. The people that do it where it makes that loud as gently caress flicking noise are annoying and I've told them to stop in matches before. The mic on streams always picks it up and makes it sound super loud though.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:13
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Card flicking isn't a problem and should be expected in a card game. Playing lands in front is something that should be punished like shiite law also rabidsquid posted:You probably listen to The Eagles spotted jeffery lebowski itt
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DigitalMocking posted:what are you guys watching?
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Feb 5, 2016 19:13
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I was so excited and then maro and nagel showed up
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Feb 5, 2016 19:13
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Lets Pickle posted:Yeah this Sigrist vs/ Turtenwald match is particularly bad, they're both sitting there staring each other down shuffling the cards in their hands. It's so loving dumb looking, hopefully they will make a new rule that's like "no doing that during a feature match." Basically this except with cards instead of lightsabers
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Feb 5, 2016 19:15
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Voyager I posted:Unfortunately this is pretty much every pro match. Turns out high-level Magic is not a home for the socially adjusted! Tbh I think the people shuffling cards are a bit more socially adjusted than the dudes who it apparently causes to go into a frothing rage. En Fuego posted:For feature matches I kinda wished that they would employ a card holder (something like a scrabble tile holder) and have a 'hole camera' so we/the announcers can see the cards quickly and cleanly.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:16
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The titans are dead. Good story telling.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:20
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Man this story is bad
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Feb 5, 2016 19:20
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Randy B is going to give us the expert opinion on the modern meta. Seems legit.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:23
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Sickening posted:The titans are dead. Good story telling. Ken Wisenhunt was a really poor hire and their ownership clearly just wants to keep costs low to sell the team so I think this is hyperbolic at best
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Feb 5, 2016 19:23
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it's too bad we didn't get this masterwork on an actual card imo
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Feb 5, 2016 19:25
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Sickening posted:The pro tour? They really wanted a DJ script.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:25
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Sickening posted:The titans are dead. Good story telling. I can't believe nobody thought of lighting them on fire before.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:26
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suicidesteve posted:I can't believe nobody thought of lighting them on fire before. Ugin probably tried but wotc wouldnt reprint ghostfire or smth.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:27
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Sickening posted:Randy B is going to give us the expert opinion on the modern meta. It's really cool that a million dollar company, when trying to promote their product, chooses to use a man with the voice of Porky Pig trying to simultaneously talk and drink a glass of water, the brain of Michael Scott from the office, and the body of a candle melted down, molded into a perfect sphere, then melted down again.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:28
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Zoness posted:Ugin probably tried but wotc wouldnt reprint ghostfire or smth. Hmm. Some combination of 5 Ghostfire and Mirrorpool. That's all it takes to kill Emrakul. How has nobody tried tried this before?
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Feb 5, 2016 19:29
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Hearing them tell the story I kinda wish one of them would have said "nah gently caress this" and left when they were taking the Oath, it would have made for much better storytelling.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:30
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little munchkin posted:It's really cool that a million dollar company, when trying to promote their product, chooses to use a man with the voice of Porky Pig trying to simultaneously talk and drink a glass of water, the brain of Michael Scott from the office, and the body of a candle melted down, molded into a perfect sphere, then melted down again. Why would wizards of the coast change anything when they're selling 20000 gp entrance fees
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little munchkin posted:It's really cool that a million dollar company, when trying to promote their product, chooses to use a man with the voice of Porky Pig trying to simultaneously talk and drink a glass of water, the brain of Michael Scott from the office, and the body of a candle melted down, molded into a perfect sphere, then melted down again. wotc's philosophy appears to boil down to "recruit the absolute minimum number of people possible even if we could have a much better product by recruiting like 4 more"
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Feb 5, 2016 19:31
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Just had it confirmed, hatebears #1 most interactive deck.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:35
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Jund and junk is control in modern, glad we cleared this up. lol so is eldrazi.... incredible.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:36
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Lot of control decks in Modern. Tin Fins, Affinity, Soul Sisters. Now that Twin is gone, the list of control decks is very large.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:38
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Feb 5, 2016 19:38
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GonSmithe posted:Hearing them tell the story I kinda wish one of them would have said "nah gently caress this" and left when they were taking the Oath, it would have made for much better storytelling. All the oaths are really bad but Chandra's is the worst because it reads like someone suggested having her say "Uh guys this is stupid?", only for weeks of focus groups and committee meetings and discussions of branding and can-we-make-her-oath-embody-redness-better to churn that down into an awful not-actually-rebellious-in-any-way oath.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:39
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Was he talking(/spoiling?) about Affinity/Burn/Eldrazi as the most popular decks this weekend, or was that just for what the feature match will be?
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Feb 5, 2016 19:42
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Telex posted:jesus loving christ does every pro player shuffle their cards in their hand the whole time? This makes me an even better magic player because as we all know, the more "I'm not touching you" antics you can pull, the better.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:42
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logis posted:Was he talking(/spoiling?) about Affinity/Burn/Eldrazi as the most popular decks this weekend, or was that just for what the feature match will be? Yep, I would assume those decks are about to spike. Everything affinity, burn, and infect is about to go up up up again.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:42
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logis posted:Was he talking(/spoiling?) about Affinity/Burn/Eldrazi as the most popular decks this weekend, or was that just for what the feature match will be? I believe that was the most popular decks this weekend. I'm really interested to see what kind of Eldrazi stuff they end up with.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:43
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alansmithee posted:Tbh I think the people shuffling cards are a bit more socially adjusted than the dudes who it apparently causes to go into a frothing rage. It's more like, we turn the stream off, not a frothing rage but whatever floats your boat. Better than looking like you're trying to hold in last night's taco bell marathon and sweating while sitting down but okay. And no, people do not flick poker cards in a live tournament at all. You will get a warning, then you will get disqualified if you pick your cards up off the table at any point in the game unless you're 90 and somehow playing Draw Poker. Chips, people shuffle the gently caress out of those all the time and the sound is much less annoying and the broadcasts tend to use proper microphones that don't pick the sound up as prominently.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:44
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And Wizards cuts to a mac desktop instead of the booth, great job.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:47
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I for one am glad that in our first feature match, as a break from standard, we get to see two different 3 color midrange decks filled with good cards going at it
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Feb 5, 2016 19:49
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Telex posted:It's more like, we turn the stream off, not a frothing rage but whatever floats your boat. Tbh turning the stream off because a dude is shuffling cards around is kinda raging, but whatever floats your boat. And players do shuffle their cards on the table constantly in poker tourneys. They don't pick them up, but they shuffle them around while they're lying flat (which is what I said). The whole point is that lots of people who aren't autistic goons don't need complete stillness and silence to play games.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:49
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alansmithee posted:Tbh turning the stream off because a dude is shuffling cards around is kinda raging, but whatever floats your boat. oh, ok.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:50
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alansmithee posted:During a lot of pro poker matches you'll see dudes shuffling their hole cards around on the table. No amount of magic hand shuffling will ever be as obnoxious as a table full of poker players shuffling chip stacks.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:51
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Everyone knows fidgeting helps you burn calories. They're just watching their weight.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:51
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Wow Telex you are so mad right now, haha, hahahaah!!!
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Elyv posted:I for one am glad that in our first feature match, as a break from standard, we get to see two different 3 color midrange decks filled with good cards going at it At least we get goyf instead of rhinos, I guess. Also I do understand trying to get people interested in the pros as players, but I don't think showing some elitist clique of magic dudes is really the best way of going about that.
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