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Went undefeated at fnm with Living End. It helped that 1) my first opponent was bogles, 2) no one plays eldrazi, and 3) people at my LGS don't appear to have much prior experience playing against Living End. Got a kozilek's return in one of my prize packs which was nice. Really felt sorry for the bogles guy, we played several games after for funsies and it was virtually impossible for him to beat my deck.
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Wurzag posted:Went undefeated at fnm with Living End. It helped that 1) my first opponent was bogles, 2) no one plays eldrazi, and 3) people at my LGS don't appear to have much prior experience playing against Living End. Is Bogles any good at the moment? I have the main deck built (except for the two copies of horizon canopy - but I think it can survive without those), and currently working on what to put together for my sideboard. The last modern deck I had built was goyf-less zoo and that seems to have fallen into a hot, unplayable mess.
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Feb 27, 2016 13:37
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Bogles is fine if you run well!
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Feb 27, 2016 13:38
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In that case I'll see about finishing it off and taking it for a spin one night.
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Feb 27, 2016 13:40
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LSV is looking for Abzan Falconers for a GP. It seems that Hardened Scales deck is real. If it had more than a tiny bit over a month left, I'd pick up the pieces for it.
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Feb 27, 2016 13:43
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Man_alive posted:Is Bogles any good at the moment? Bogles should run Suppression Field, which slows cycling. Rest in Peace should probably be in the SB too.
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Feb 27, 2016 13:45
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GoutPatrol posted:Bogles should run Suppression Field, which slows cycling. Rest in Peace should probably be in the SB too. That's how I do with bogles.
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Feb 27, 2016 14:18
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notbrant posted:Into an unknown modern meta(I literally play constructed against someone who isn't my son 5 times a year) Blue moon is good if you want to be competitive and don't care about your opponent having fun. RW burn is the same, except it's not much fun for you either. Also has trouble with chalice which a lot of the eldrazi decks are playing. Grixis Control is fun and interactive but is trash against the eldrazi decks.
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Feb 27, 2016 14:18
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Played against blue moon yesterday and it seemed solid
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Feb 27, 2016 14:31
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BJPaskoff posted:LSV is looking for Abzan Falconers for a GP. It seems that Hardened Scales deck is real. If it had more than a tiny bit over a month left, I'd pick up the pieces for it. Is there a link somewhere? Wanted to try something like that, msybe with Drana if mana allowed it.
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Feb 27, 2016 14:49
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Man_alive posted:Is Bogles any good at the moment? Brushlands are a good substitute for canopies, and cause less life-loss by an average of a fraction of a point since they tap for colorless for free.
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Feb 27, 2016 15:15
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notbrant posted:Into an unknown modern meta(I literally play constructed against someone who isn't my son 5 times a year) Blue Moon is a blast. I've been playing it the last couple weeks. There are a lot of decks that straight up cannot win game 1 if you land an early Blood Moon.
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Feb 27, 2016 15:20
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:Blue Moon is a blast. I've been playing it the last couple weeks. There are a lot of decks that straight up cannot win game 1 if you land an early Blood Moon. Welp, you sold me. Edit: Wait, no, that kills three other of my decks, and would cost several hundred to buy duplicates of those cards. Anil Dikshit fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 15:29
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DoctorOozy posted:I am tempted but I should be saving my money for the Birmingham Magic Madhouse event. I was thinking of going, did you go to the Manchester one?
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Feb 27, 2016 15:52
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kizudarake posted:Welp, you sold me. Sleeve all your modern decks in the same sleeves, switch cards in and out without repercussions. All 3 of my modern decks are double sleeved in purple KMC hyper mats, so if I need to pull fetches, cavern of souls, common sb stuff, etc I can easily.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:38
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Balon posted:Sleeve all your modern decks in the same sleeves, switch cards in and out without repercussions. I hate myself for not thinking about this sooner.
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Feb 27, 2016 16:57
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I pulled a Wastelands in a booster today, Expedition reprints don't count for Modern/Standard, right? Kind of disappointing, but I'm not complaining that much even if that's true.
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Feb 27, 2016 17:17
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Hah I wish, Wasteland in modern might solve the Eldrazi problem (or make it worse)
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Feb 27, 2016 17:25
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My infect opponent did not expect turn 2 Phyrexian Dreadnaught out of Grixis Delver. Legacy owns
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Feb 27, 2016 17:30
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The Shortest Path posted:Hah I wish, Wasteland in modern might solve the Eldrazi problem (or make it worse) Eldrazi already plays Ghost Quarter, giving them a better one seems really really bad
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Feb 27, 2016 17:56
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mandatory lesbian posted:Eldrazi already plays Ghost Quarter, giving them a better one seems really really bad Well, the difference is that Eldrazi's bullshit doesn't work at all if their sol lands get wasted, they have no way to play around it and still be doing the things that make their deck so disproportionately powerful, whereas a less degenerate deck just fetches for (or plays) some basics and keeps on trucking with its game plan.
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Feb 27, 2016 18:47
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JerryLee posted:Well, the difference is that Eldrazi's bullshit doesn't work at all if their sol lands get wasted, they have no way to play around it and still be doing the things that make their deck so disproportionately powerful, whereas a less degenerate deck just fetches for (or plays) some basics and keeps on trucking with its game plan. Wasteland completely killed cloudpost and MUD in legacy so this is true, wasteland will definitely fix eldrazi and not just give them the ability to go t2 TKS, turn 3 blow up your land.
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Feb 27, 2016 18:52
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Sigma-X posted:Wasteland completely killed cloudpost and MUD in legacy so this is true, wasteland will definitely fix eldrazi and not just give them the ability to go t2 TKS, turn 3 blow up your land. Well, Wasteland hasn't "completely killed" any deck in Legacy, and they all play lots of nonbasics (though they might not fetch for them if they see or suspect an opposing Wasteland). The question in Modern is whether it is a more effective anti-Eldrazi tool than it is an effective tool for Eldrazi against fairer decks. To use your sarcastic example, would the fair decks rather there not be wasteland in the format at all? Would its absence make their odds better against MUD?
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Feb 27, 2016 19:08
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Balon posted:Sleeve all your modern decks in the same sleeves, switch cards in and out without repercussions. My problem is that I usually end up having 7 out of 9 decks loaned out/being played by me every modern night, so that doesn't work so much.
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Feb 27, 2016 19:11
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The Hoogs with a hilariously cool deck
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Feb 27, 2016 19:14
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Wasteland would be a great tool for Eldrazi mirrors.
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Feb 27, 2016 19:15
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Has Eldrazi made much of splash in Legacy yet?
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Feb 27, 2016 19:18
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JerryLee posted:Well, Wasteland hasn't "completely killed" any deck in Legacy, and they all play lots of nonbasics (though they might not fetch for them if they see or suspect an opposing Wasteland). The question in Modern is whether it is a more effective anti-Eldrazi tool than it is an effective tool for Eldrazi against fairer decks. Everyone benefits from wasteland. It's just that it's a symmetrical effect. I don't think MUD is punished more by wasteland than it benefits from wasteland.
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Feb 27, 2016 19:19
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Rinkles posted:Has Eldrazi made much of splash in Legacy yet? It has online. We'll see if that translates to paper tournaments at the Open today.
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Feb 27, 2016 19:22
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Attorney at Funk posted:It has online. We'll see if that translates to paper tournaments at the Open today. One Eldrazi deck is 3-0 and it just beat Caleb Scherer apparently.
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Feb 27, 2016 19:23
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Sigma-X posted:Everyone benefits from wasteland. It's just that it's a symmetrical effect. I don't think MUD is punished more by wasteland than it benefits from wasteland. I would have thought that if there's one deck that relies on a degenerate land base for its power (whether that's sol lands or anything else) and one deck that can get by with basics, including fetched basics, then the latter deck would benefit relatively more from having wastelands in the format. Is that not true? To be clear, I never thought that Wasteland would "completely kill" a deck like Eldrazi, because if nothing else they can always play their poo poo off Wastes or nonbasics that aren't worth wasting for whatever reasons. It's just that their curve would look more like a fair deck's curve. And of course you're not always going to have the Wasteland, but that goes for any answer ever so it's not really a useful argument.
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JerryLee posted:I would have thought that if there's one deck that relies on a degenerate land base for its power (whether that's sol lands or anything else) and one deck that can get by with basics, including fetched basics, then the latter deck would benefit relatively more from having wastelands in the format. Is that not true? One thing here is that decks in Wasteland formats tend to just... not run a lot of lands. The Eldrazi decks in Modern run like 25, including 8 Sol lands. Unless you're clocking them really hard while wastelanding them, Eldrazi can just draw out of it. I definitely think the Eldrazi deck's vulnerability to Wasteland is overstated relative to the fact that it'd absolutely be the best Wasteland deck in the format.
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Command Tower updated for MTGO: No ETA on fixing it, though it's a 'high priority'! Blech
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I literally can't imagine a good card to hose Eldrazi decks that doesn't specifically have the word "Eldrazi" in the text somewhere. I think an Eye of Ugin banning is forthcoming.
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Attorney at Funk posted:I definitely think the Eldrazi deck's vulnerability to Wasteland is overstated relative to the fact that it'd absolutely be the best Wasteland deck in the format. In a certain sense it definitely would be insofar as it can run wasteland without "color"-screwing itself, and they just slot in to replace Ghost Quarters if nothing else.
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No-drawback "exile target colorless creature" for W or B potentially even with upside like cantripping would hose the deck pretty hard. With the added upside of telling Affinity and Tron to gently caress off too!
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Feb 27, 2016 19:59
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Attorney at Funk posted:One thing here is that decks in Wasteland formats tend to just... not run a lot of lands. The Eldrazi decks in Modern run like 25, including 8 Sol lands. Unless you're clocking them really hard while wastelanding them, Eldrazi can just draw out of it. *After Affinity
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The Shortest Path posted:No-drawback "exile target colorless creature" for W or B potentially even with upside like cantripping would hose the deck pretty hard. It'd also be clumsy, hamfisted and kill anything colourless they wanted to do in Standard.
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Feb 27, 2016 20:00
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It wouldn't be clumsy or hamfisted at all, single mana color creature hosers exist all over the place. Deathmark is a great example, and colorless-only hosers are more narrow and therefore less powerful than colored ones.
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