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dogsupremacy posted:Mtgo has a format a little like this. You make a deck of all basic lands and then your vanguard momir vig vanguard. You discard a card and pay x to get a random creature with x Cmc. There is actually some pretty deep strategy involved. Namely: don't play your islands
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ThePeavstenator posted:Namely: don't play your islands True, and what drop(s) you will skip as the odds of a decent creature start around 8 Cmc laff
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Mar 1, 2016 22:28
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There isn't really that much islandwalk and some creatures have decent blue activated abilities, plus sometimes you get an elder dragon. The only real rule is to get as many mountains in play as possible.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:49
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Momir is the best goofy dumb random format that actually has some strategy to it. There's important choices that are basically about managing the randomness and when you want to skip a turn to be able to cast higher drops later on. It's a fundamentally silly format where you can just auto lose/win to Leveller or Phage or Countryside Crusher or something, so as long as you don't take it too seriously it's fun. There's a lot of advantage to be ground out in careful reading all the cards and playing the boar state correctly, since it's all about random creatures both players may never have seen before.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:52
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Either rotlung reanimator or caller of the claw.
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suicidesteve posted:Wasn't that the one where someone Channel Earthquaked everyone, including himself, for lethal? That must have been a different article. http://imgur.com/a/jNoCT Runner up play of the game: Demonic Consulation for Soldier of Fortune (they were playing with real cards which were probably in decks stacked 3 feet high). Play of the Game: The other 4 players immediately killed the guy who tutored for the Soldier of Fortune.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:11
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Laboratory Maniac is the best 2-power creature, although I would like it better if it were an enchantment.
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Chamale posted:Laboratory Maniac is the best 2-power creature, although I would like it better if it were an enchantment. I wouldn't because then it wouldn't be a Wizard and I like tutoring for Wizards and also drawing cards off my Wizards.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:16
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Cernunnos posted:I wouldn't because then it wouldn't be a Wizard and I like tutoring for Wizards and also drawing cards off my Wizards. Well it could be both if a certain group of people hadn't dumpstered the tribal supertype 
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Mar 1, 2016 23:20
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Meatbag Esq. posted:Runner up play of the game: Demonic Consulation for Soldier of Fortune (they were playing with real cards which were probably in decks stacked 3 feet high). They must have done it more than once then. I remember reading about there being a huge multiplayer game like that that ended with Channel, Quake for 40. I remember the Soldier of Fortune thing too. That was pretty great.
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Speaking of Momir, I just curved Sliver Queen into Fury Sliver. It didn't end up doing as much as I hoped but it was funny. I got a Blazing Archon in play and had my opponent at negative 1 and then clicked for 8 and got Denizen of the Deep. 
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dogsupremacy posted:What's the deal with gp and scg pricing vs payout. Especially the scg thing is rough when you look at total taken in vs payout but with these record attendance events something needs to change. I mean I get that you want to cover venue etc but when you consider that competitive magic is a non trivial product seller (wotc) and probably a primary driver for the secondary market in just suprised they can't up the prizes/hype. The EV is really rough not even considering travel or lodging. At least with my poker tourneys there is at least a chance for some of the optimism. Unlike the current situation of I need to top 8 this 700 person event to cover any trip that I can't drive to and crash at a buddies place. I used to feel this way but do you even realize the overhead for something like that?
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Pussy Snorkel posted:I used to feel this way but do you even realize the overhead for something like that? $69 dollars
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Mar 2, 2016 01:05
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Dimir cutpurse. Especially with a forecast writ of passage
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guessing more like $4,201,337, source: i'm a master of #mtgfinance, read my articles at mtgprice.com
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rabidsquid posted:$69 dollars No, it's $420. black potus posted:guessing more like $4,201,337, source: i'm a master of #mtgfinance, read my articles at mtgprice.com Actually it's this.
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Cernunnos posted:I wouldn't because then it wouldn't be a Wizard and I like tutoring for Wizards and also drawing cards off my Wizards. Best 2 power creature is dis mofo: 
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Mar 2, 2016 01:21
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best 2 power creature is fulminator mage
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dogsupremacy posted:Mtgo has a format a little like this. You make a deck of all basic lands and then your vanguard momir vig vanguard. You discard a card and pay x to get a random creature with x Cmc. There is actually some pretty deep strategy involved. One pro strat is to run the shittiest white-bordered basics you can get your hands on; you wouldn't think people would get tilted by losing to ugly lands in the joke format but they do.
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dogsupremacy posted:What's the deal with gp and scg pricing vs payout. Especially the scg thing is rough when you look at total taken in vs payout but with these record attendance events something needs to change. I mean I get that you want to cover venue etc but when you consider that competitive magic is a non trivial product seller (wotc) and probably a primary driver for the secondary market in just suprised they can't up the prizes/hype. The EV is really rough not even considering travel or lodging. At least with my poker tourneys there is at least a chance for some of the optimism. Unlike the current situation of I need to top 8 this 700 person event to cover any trip that I can't drive to and crash at a buddies place. magic is a house of cards, they're all just trying to make out while they can
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Wurzag posted:best 2 power creature is fulminator mage question was best creature, not LD spell.
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Wurzag posted:best 2 power creature is fulminator mage it's mystic snake and it's not close
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It's definitely from Visions. Nekrataal, Man-o'-war, Uktabi Orangutan or my personal vote: the far less iconic Shimmering Efreet. Phasing is the best.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:21
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best 2 power creature is Dark Confidant.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:41
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Mar 2, 2016 02:50
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Uktabi Orangutan or Kiki-Jiki for me. "Is it true that the apes wear furs of gold when they marry?"
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The things that have been revealed from Soi look pretty rad and I'm considering coming back to MTG to see how it goes.
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Lawnie posted:Uktabi Orangutan or Kiki-Jiki for me. All I remember Uktabi Orangutan for is the monkeys in the background going at it.  I also was just reminded that the Unhinged Uktabi Kong confirms that that is exactly what those monkeys were doing: 
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Cernunnos posted:All I remember Uktabi Orangutan for is the monkeys in the background going at it. and its flavor text is aping (  ) Gorilla Titan.
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Cernunnos posted:All I remember Uktabi Orangutan for is the monkeys in the background going at it.
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I just realized that unlike most Un-set cards, there appears to be nothing mechanically stopping Uktabi Kong from being reprinted in a "real" set. Aside from I guess maybe the mildly fourth-wall-breaking name? (I'm assuming they could replace the art and/or flavor text if they felt the need.) That'd be a pretty cool thing for them to do someday. It's not like having it in a set instead of whatever other lovely Timmy rare would devastate limited or constructed formats.
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JerryLee posted:I just realized that unlike most Un-set cards, there appears to be nothing mechanically stopping Uktabi Kong from being reprinted in a "real" set. Aside from I guess maybe the mildly fourth-wall-breaking name? (I'm assuming they could replace the art and/or flavor text if they felt the need.) I mean, what's making it an un-set card is that it's a sex joke.
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JerryLee posted:I just realized that unlike most Un-set cards, there appears to be nothing mechanically stopping Uktabi Kong from being reprinted in a "real" set. Aside from I guess maybe the mildly fourth-wall-breaking name? (I'm assuming they could replace the art and/or flavor text if they felt the need.) Fun fact: As part of the "at least one card from every set ever" theme that 8th had going (which got us Giant Badger instead of Mana Crypt  ), they wanted to reprint The Cheese Stands Alone, using the same logic ("its rules make sense!"), MaRo fought hard to get it in, but rules people said it would be impossible because any version of a card is legal if the card is legal, and silver-bordered cards are always illegal, ipso facto cogito ergo et cetera, we get loving Barren Glory in PC.
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JerryLee posted:I just realized that unlike most Un-set cards, there appears to be nothing mechanically stopping Uktabi Kong from being reprinted in a "real" set. Aside from I guess maybe the mildly fourth-wall-breaking name? (I'm assuming they could replace the art and/or flavor text if they felt the need.) This got me wondering what other unglued cards could show up:  This actually seems like an interesting control card for a superfriends type deck.  This is just terrible unless you're playing a Zedruu deck.  This would also be lovely, but works  This really should be a red card but this seems pretty reasonable to print.  Doesn't this exist in non-chicken form somewhere?  Again, terrible. I could see them printing this as like a 5/5 or better in a set that brought back Evolve or whatever Experiment One's ability is.  I want this to exist.  Hey look, it's Forecast, years before it would be printed  Oh hello, Enter The Infinite  This would be broken as poo poo in multiplayer  I feel like they've done this basic concept with tribes somewhere      I don't even know that this guy would be broken if they printed him. Checks could show up if it didn't have the unnecessary "must be 3+ player game" on it.  I'm not 100% sure on mentioning teammates in rules text being "allowed" in the way it is written here, but Imperial Mask does it. AFAIK Six Sided Die are not a recognized Magic object so that cut out a lot of the otherwise playable cards from unglued. 
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I'd go with Grizzly Bears, received a playset of those and a bunch of other commons from my friends when I first started playing magic. Made my awesome GR deck with Kird Ape and bolts. My second choice would be Hypnotic Spectre, lame as hell when someone first turn ritual into spectre you in 94. Another lame opening is double ritual Hymn and Spectre.
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My favorite 2 power creature might just be Lore Seeker. I am moderately excited for CNS2.
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Where's all the EDH love for Sad Robot as the best 2 power creature?
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Tasigur: Jeb Bush Sidisi: Chris Christie Silumgar: Trump
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ShaneB posted:Where's all the EDH love for Sad Robot as the best 2 power creature? That's a funny way to spell Brago.
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whydirt posted:Tasigur: Jeb Bush Man, Tasigur has a lot more swag than Jeb. Jeb is like Angus Mackenzie
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