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Chairman Pow! posted:This deaths shadow would have made a great deck tech, I am unfamiliar with it and cant tell what is going on. Basically, you move to murder yourself as quickly as possible so you can play 5/5s for 1 at 8 life. Turns out it's Not Very Good Against Burn™
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Chairman Pow! posted:This deaths shadow would have made a great deck tech, I am unfamiliar with it and cant tell what is going on. It's a zoo deck that plays stuff like Street Wraith and Gitaxian Probe that becomes basically card draw that also turns on your Death's Shadow. It's not really complicated.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:21
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Chairman Pow! posted:This deaths shadow would have made a great deck tech, I am unfamiliar with it and cant tell what is going on. Actually I'm pretty sure people wanted to know what was in totally new and not seen before decks affinity and burn.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:21
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Chairman Pow! posted:This deaths shadow would have made a great deck tech, I am unfamiliar with it and cant tell what is going on. Cycle street wraiths(2 life a pop), grab untapped shocks with fetches, play swole Death's Shadow for B on T2.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:21
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JerryLee posted:A few pages back, but I love that the Ulamog and Kozilek resolution did turn out to be, in fact, exactly as dumb as it appeared at face value. People were all like "well, it looks really dumb, but they could be planning to surprise us with a later plot twist... let's wait and see..." i recognize that getting mad at magic fiction is extremely plebeian behavior, but god drat am i mad at this loving retarded story development
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Feb 5, 2016 23:22
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Suicide Zoo isn't new it has been a fringe deck for awhile
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Feb 5, 2016 23:22
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Count Bleck posted:Basically, you move to murder yourself as quickly as possible so you can play 5/5s for 1 at 8 life. Actually it beats Burn as long as you focus on dealing damage and not trying to gain life.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:22
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:i recognize that getting mad at magic fiction is extremely plebeian behavior, but god drat am i mad at this loving retarded story development Basically everything story wise and design wise they have done with this return to Eldrazi stuff has been a huge flavor let down for me.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:23
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:i recognize that getting mad at magic fiction is extremely plebeian behavior, but god drat am i mad at this loving retarded story development I mean, one almost literally cannot get the resolution of a cosmic horror plotline more wrong than this, so it's pretty offensive from a literary standpoint in addition to reducing our enjoyment of the wizard game whether you think that literary critics are also dumb babies is, of course, an open question
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Feb 5, 2016 23:25
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Not to mention that four plucky retards accomplished what 3 premending godwalkers were apparently unable to do.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:26
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JerryLee posted:I mean, one almost literally cannot get the resolution of a cosmic horror plotline more wrong than this, so it's pretty offensive from a literary standpoint in addition to reducing our enjoyment of the wizard game I find nothing more boring than magic lore, but in like 1 sentence or less, what did they do so wrong?
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Feb 5, 2016 23:27
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They took cool alien and outlandish monsters that were supposedly beyond the scope of the MTG universe power levels and then had them die to stupid poo poo that people would throw a fit if it had defeated Nicol Bolas or the Phyrexians
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Feb 5, 2016 23:29
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MiddleEastBeast posted:I find nothing more boring than magic lore, but in like 1 sentence or less, what did they do so wrong? They lit the big, bad gods on fire then the gods died. Because they were on fire.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:29
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MiddleEastBeast posted:I find nothing more boring than magic lore, but in like 1 sentence or less, what did they do so wrong? Imagine the Call of Cthulhu, but even though Cthulhu is a reality-warping cosmic horror that can never truly die, a bunch of teenagers kill him by tying him up and setting him on fire
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Feb 5, 2016 23:30
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rabidsquid posted:Ulamog, Actually It Turns Out He Is The Finite Gyre and Kozilek, Dead Dickhead are going to be their next printed iterations Ulamog wouldn't be Ceaselessly Hungry if he still had his Infinite Gyro  Fuzzy Mammal posted:Not to mention that four plucky retards accomplished what 3 premending godwalkers were apparently unable to do. Until we're shown otherwise, the reason why is that Jace is apparently smarter than Ugin, Sorin and Nahiri.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:32
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SEA GATE WRECKAGE ON SCREEN.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:32
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JerryLee posted:Imagine the Call of Cthulhu, but even though Cthulhu is a reality-warping cosmic horror that can never truly die, a bunch of teenagers kill him by tying him up and setting him on fire To be fair Cthulhu was defeated by a boat driving into him. Not KILLED but still kind of a lame way to go out.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:33
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Angry Grimace posted:Ulamog wouldn't be Ceaselessly Hungry if he still had his Infinite Gyro I don't super pay attention to all MTG lore but isn't Sorins storyline on every plane basically: "im going to gently caress this angel babe i made" "im going to gently caress my idiot elf apprentice" "im going to gently caress the hedrons" It doesn't seem like it's a big stretch to outsmart him
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Feb 5, 2016 23:34
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JerryLee posted:Imagine the Call of Cthulhu, but even though Cthulhu is a reality-warping cosmic horror that can never truly die, a bunch of teenagers kill him by tying him up and setting him on fire In war of the worlds, a technologically superior force, as in magnitudes, gets defeated by disease. I like the idea of the simplest solution not being found until later and leads to the defeat of otherwise insurmountable foes.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:35
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rabidsquid posted:I don't super pay attention to all MTG lore but isn't Sorins storyline on every plane basically: "im going to gently caress this angel babe i made" "im going to gently caress my idiot elf apprentice" "im going to gently caress the hedrons" I have no idea if Sorin, the Pornomancer is either canon or an upcoming card.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:37
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BJPaskoff posted:Most of the Eldrazi deck, except for the manabase, is from one small set. drat. The artistic liberty most Magic players make with their words annoys the poo poo put of me.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:37
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It doesn't matter because no one actually reads the story articles anyway.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:37
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I'm rooting against Muller because he's using Jace sleeves.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:38
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Chill la Chill posted:In war of the worlds, a technologically superior force, as in magnitudes, gets defeated by disease. I like the idea of the simplest solution not being found until later and leads to the defeat of otherwise insurmountable foes. Maybe the issue is that Ugin is just a really lovely dragon and can't actually produce fire, just some fire-looking magic. I appreciate that Chandra's contribution to the story is "showed up, applied Ballard's First Principle, defeated the Big Bad", though. 
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Feb 5, 2016 23:40
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Niton posted:Maybe the issue is that Ugin is just a really lovely dragon and can't actually produce fire, just some fire-looking magic. Ugin: "I tried fire". Chandra: "Was it actually red?"
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Feb 5, 2016 23:43
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Entropic posted:It doesn't matter because no one actually reads the story articles anyway. I read them every single week and post a summary in the thread.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:43
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Angry Grimace posted:I read them every single week and post a summary in the thread. We commend your brave service doing it so that we don't have to.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:44
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Affinity player doing a pretty heroic grinding effort with Sea Gate Wreckage + Ghirapur AEther Grid
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Feb 5, 2016 23:44
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Niton posted:Maybe the issue is that Ugin is just a really lovely dragon and can't actually produce fire, just some fire-looking magic. That's really nice art. I'm surprised I've never seen it before.
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Chill la Chill posted:In war of the worlds, a technologically superior force, as in magnitudes, gets defeated by disease. I like the idea of the simplest solution not being found until later and leads to the defeat of otherwise insurmountable foes. Sure, that's interesting and all, but don't make the solution "literally setting the bad guys on fire."
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Feb 5, 2016 23:44
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I'm reminded of that TCC video from a week or two ago where the guy was talking to Chandra and he's like "you're just a lovely Jaya Ballard clone" and she's like "my hair is red though." 
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Feb 5, 2016 23:46
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Angry Grimace posted:I'm reminded of that TCC video from a week or two ago where the guy was talking to Chandra and he's like "you're just a lovely Jaya Ballard clone" and she's like "my hair is red though." That was a surprisingly good video.
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Chill la Chill posted:In war of the worlds, a technologically superior force, as in magnitudes, gets defeated by disease. I like the idea of the simplest solution not being found until later and leads to the defeat of otherwise insurmountable foes. Yeah, but I mean the whole point of that is that it's something that the ~*~heroes~*~ never thought of and is actually somewhat humbling to them. Even with that, there's an argument to be made that it could be a better, less deus-ex-machina resolution, but H.G. Wells didn't workshop his stories with us and now it's a bit too late.
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Count Bleck posted:That was a surprisingly good video. I laughed a lot at the Gideon one where he's like "okay your name is Kytheon" and then Gideon's like "no, I changed it to Gideon" and then he goes "why?" and Gideon says "some guy who speaks the same language as me mispronounced it."
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I mean it's actually Bonds of Mortality that did the important work. The whole thing is just a lesson in making sure you pack the right sideboard tech.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:54
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Chill la Chill posted:In war of the worlds, a technologically superior force, as in magnitudes, gets defeated by disease. I like the idea of the simplest solution not being found until later and leads to the defeat of otherwise insurmountable foes. That works because the aliens were an allegory for British colonialism.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:55
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Count Bleck posted:Can I borrow your time machine? I'll pick you up a couple dozen .50 cent Goyfs. Pros HATE playing decks like Tron.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:55
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I mean it's actually Bonds of Mortality that did the important work. The whole thing is just a lesson in making sure you pack the right sideboard tech. Bonds of Mortality doesn't do anything to Kozilek and their plan wouldn't have done anything to stop Emrakul.
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Tron isn't making waves because nobody is playing it. The decks not listed have less than 13 players; Tron has 11. In contrast, there are 51 Affinity players and 32 players on Eldrazi.
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mcmagic posted:Pros HATE playing decks like Tron. Pros hate good decks? I guess that's why there's so much Eldrazi!! 
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