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checkplease posted:Playing mardu in the gauntlet and beat ur eldrazi game 1. But the guy was pretty bad with the deck and looks like he kept some bad hands. I love mardu in general but boy did I have a tough time with that deck against abzan company and then zoo.
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Entropic posted:Not just "another Magic artist"! Sierra Rush's statement Man, this is just a bad week. 
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Feb 11, 2016 04:10
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bhsman posted:Apparently Christopher Rush, another Magic artist, has died. loving hell.
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Angry Grimace posted:This is not going to make people think the format is fun. This is because modern isnt actually fun
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bhsman posted:Apparently Christopher Rush, another Magic artist, has died. Jesus. Two in one week.
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TheLawinator posted:I love mardu in general but boy did I have a tough time with that deck against abzan company and then zoo. Yeah next two games were gw company and then abzan company. Both wrecked me, couldn't keep up with all the eteneral witness company or gavony chains. Though I did make a few mistakes like forgetting that k command kills spellskite...
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Star Man posted:Jesus. Two in one week. Who was the first?
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A big flaming stink posted:Who was the first? Star Man posted:Wayne England, everyone.
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AgentSythe posted:In which King Idiot Fucker Moron Owen Turtenwald talks poo poo about Relentless Rats I beat him with Signal the Rats awhile back actually on MODO edit: Actually I don't know exactly who was playing, it was one of the Pantheon card accounts
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https://twitter.com/maro254/status/697650350153576448
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lsv posted:I battled Yuuya Watanabe and his Griselbrand Reanimator deck in Round 12. We had some fast-paced games, and Thought-Knot Seers and Chalices were crucial. The key strategic point in the match came when I played Pithing Needle and named Griselbrand. Marshall came over to verify what I named so the coverage booth would know, and I said “Griselbrand Enraged.” He was confused, then mildly annoyed, and everyone was satisfied.
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bhsman posted:Apparently Christopher Rush, another Magic artist, has died. I met him at GP Chicago the summer of 2014. I know that's almost two years ago and a lot can happen in that time but he was so vibrant, laughing at everyone's bad jokes, signing a million cards, doing alters right at his table. I never met Wayne England but I loved his art, not only in Magic but in Warhammer and D&D as well, always dug his stuff from Kamigawa block in particular in terms of Magic. 
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While I don't really think that England's art ever really meshed all that well with MtG's aesthetic, man but did he ever do amazing things for Games Workshop when I was growing up. His Chaos and Greenskins were iconic.
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STiL. posted:While I don't really think that England's art ever really meshed all that well with MtG's aesthetic, man but did he ever do amazing things for Games Workshop when I was growing up. His Chaos and Greenskins were iconic. 
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where in the video was this?
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Feb 11, 2016 08:43
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The blackest Lotus. loving terrible.
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GeneX posted:where in the video was this? It's at 25:40.
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OTOH your signed Black Lotus (let's face it, collector's edition) just became an endangered species
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I've skimmed Turtenwald's article, and whilst I disagree with the thrust of it (he doesn't argue the core case that modern shouldn't be a PT format well) it highlighted the problem with the Eldrazi deck, that it is able to get a lot of stuff before the mana system should allow them to be afforded. Obviously part of that are the "ancient tombs" of Temple and Eye, also Phyrexian mana and Simian Spirit guide. Should they maybe look at a Gutshot or Dismember ban? At least LSV could claim to have gotten a card banned! Gutshot is good against Affinity and Infect though. Or would it be enough to ban Temple (my pick since it turns off T2 Thought-knot Seer for the most part)? I'd like the deck to exist in some form, ideally in a way that let's the pre-OGW processor deck compete. Think I'm going to sell mine again and invest in brewing some more.
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STiL. posted:While I don't really think that England's art ever really meshed all that well with MtG's aesthetic, man but did he ever do amazing things for Games Workshop when I was growing up. His Chaos and Greenskins were iconic. Oh gently caress I knew I recognised the name from somewhere else
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Wurzag posted:Oh gently caress I knew I recognised the name from somewhere else I think he handled all the art direction on Gorkamorka.
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BizarroAzrael posted:I've skimmed Turtenwald's article, and whilst I disagree with the thrust of it (he doesn't argue the core case that modern shouldn't be a PT format well) it highlighted the problem with the Eldrazi deck, that it is able to get a lot of stuff before the mana system should allow them to be afforded. Obviously part of that are the "ancient tombs" of Temple and Eye, also Phyrexian mana and Simian Spirit guide. Should they maybe look at a Gutshot or Dismember ban? At least LSV could claim to have gotten a card banned! Gutshot is good against Affinity and Infect though. Gut Shot is about as fair as a free card can get
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Feb 11, 2016 15:29
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Luis Scott Vargas posted:Gut Shot is about as fair as a free card can get Not an emptyquote Less jokingly: I think I agree. It's a good effect, the number is low enough to make it count and to hint at what it's supposed to be, without making it painfully obvious.
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Four Score posted:OTOH your signed Black Lotus (let's face it, collector's edition) just became an endangered species I never did get my judge Bolts signed.  He couldn't make it to Eternal Weekend because of health problems.
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Did two PT gauntlets so far, got two different eldrazi decks. 6-0, and only once or twice did it feel particularly close. Only time I can think of is an infect player being one mana short of killing me. The deck just feels like it's doing things nothing else in modern can and it isn't even a particularly hard deck to play. I'm sure some decks will adjust to have answers but these eldrazi decks are really, really dumb right now.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Did two PT gauntlets so far, got two different eldrazi decks. 6-0, and only once or twice did it feel particularly close. Only time I can think of is an infect player being one mana short of killing me. The deck just feels like it's doing things nothing else in modern can and it isn't even a particularly hard deck to play. I'm sure some decks will adjust to have answers but these eldrazi decks are really, really dumb right now. I get the same feeling, though I think the infect match-up is kind of close. Sometimes you tap out to swing for 15 on turn 3 and they shrug, take the hit, and one-shot you with Might of Old Krosa and Become Immense.
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for those who have played the Eldrazi deck, please report back on whether Eye or Temple is the broken land in the deck, tia
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MiddleEastBeast posted:for those who have played the Eldrazi deck, please report back on whether Eye or Temple is the broken land in the deck, tia All broken lands are beautiful
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MiddleEastBeast posted:for those who have played the Eldrazi deck, please report back on whether Eye or Temple is the broken land in the deck, tia Eye, by a mile. The deck just doesn't work without a sol land, and Eye is far better in every single draw I had it in with the U/R version. Incidentally I also managed to go 1-2, losing easily to Jeskai Control and barely losing a third game to Infect where I mulliganed to 4, had a tapped Vile Aggregate, Eldrazi Skyspawner and Scion in play at 13 against an opponent at 9 with a Hierarch. I know the opponent has Might of Old Krosa and Groundswell and a land in hand and two unknowns. They play a land, attack with Noble. I choose not to block, they go Might, Groundswell, Become Immense for 13. I can chump there, force them to use a buff spell, but then I just have no clock because as it turns out mulliganing to 4 is not great. If they didn't draw Become Immense, though, I think I would have won on a goddamn mulligan to 4, which is just total nonsense. Eye is getting banned.
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Hellsau posted:Eye, by a mile. The deck just doesn't work without a sol land, and Eye is far better in every single draw I had it in with the U/R version. Incidentally I also managed to go 1-2, losing easily to Jeskai Control and barely losing a third game to Infect where I mulliganed to 4, had a tapped Vile Aggregate, Eldrazi Skyspawner and Scion in play at 13 against an opponent at 9 with a Hierarch. I know the opponent has Might of Old Krosa and Groundswell and a land in hand and two unknowns. They play a land, attack with Noble. I choose not to block, they go Might, Groundswell, Become Immense for 13. I can chump there, force them to use a buff spell, but then I just have no clock because as it turns out mulliganing to 4 is not great. If they didn't draw Become Immense, though, I think I would have won on a goddamn mulligan to 4, which is just total nonsense. Eye does allow a theoretical T2 win: T1- Eye, Eldrazi Mimic x4 T2- Red Source, Vile Aggrigate (5/5) swing for 20 Not sure that's likely enough to be grounds for a ban on it's own. I just want the old BW Processor version to come through mostly intact!
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BizarroAzrael posted:Eye does allow a theoretical T2 win: Alternatively: T1 - Eye, Mimic x3 T2 - temple, SSG, Reality Smasher swing for 20
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You know what plays well against that eldrazi deck?
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deftest posted:You know what plays well against that eldrazi deck? The return of maze's end turbofog?
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deftest posted:You know what plays well against that eldrazi deck? Come to think of it, isn't fog insane against infect and maybe even affinity too?
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what makes fog good against eldrazi and not just, you know, fog
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Come to think of it, isn't fog insane against infect and maybe even affinity too? Against infect when they've loaded up a bunch of pumps on a guy? Yeah. Against Affinity? No, Affinity is just going to swing for lethal against you next turn anyway. You'll need a dedicated turbofog effect and even then, if you miss a turn, you're probably dead.
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the only good fog decks were 4 color gifts in block and time sieve in standard.
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I'm actually working on UW Turbofog for Modern but it's not quite done. I doubt it's any good outside of beating Eldrazi but it's really funny and satisfies my need for lovely Mill decks. It even runs former PT winner Sphinx's Tutelage!
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gwrtheyrn posted:The return of maze's end turbofog? too much LD in modern for that to work....one crumble to dust and you're hosed
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:too much LD in modern for that to work....one crumble to dust and you're hosed They need to reprint Teferi's Response.
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