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Sickening posted:Last time I checked it was at least in the same loving state. not my fault you weird east coast folks put state lines between a city and its suburb
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UberJew posted:not my fault you weird east coast folks put state lines between a city and its suburb New Jersey: the suburb of New York probably a better state motto then whatever the real one is
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Also who gives a poo poo what state it's in, it's much easier to get to where they are having it.
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mandatory lesbian posted:New Jersey: the suburb of New York Liberty and Prosperity. Prosperity. 
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mcmagic posted:Also who gives a poo poo what state it's in, it's much easier to get to where they are having it. Its just silly to not call it GPNJ. Its not like people don't know where NJ is.
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May 3, 2016 19:12
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Do you guys remember when GP Seattle was held in loving Tacoma? Because I do.
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mcmagic posted:Also who gives a poo poo what state it's in, it's much easier to get to where they are having it. Easier to get to than what? If you don't actually live in NYC, okay maybe you're used to driving everywhere on the planet still, but to anyone living in actual NYC, no it's super loving inconvenient and there's no way I'm taking a bus from the Port Authority to Seacacus. It seemed like a fun idea, but there's nothing that makes a 1.5hr trip worth my time when literally any event space in the city is 45 mins or less.
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Some Numbers posted:Do you guys remember when GP Seattle was held in loving Tacoma? You mean GP Sea-Tac? 
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Sickening posted:Jessup's neck beard is a thing of beauty. He'd have to have a neck.
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Telex posted:Easier to get to than what? I guarantee you that 95% of the people playing in the GP won't be from NYC.
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Man_alive posted:Do you have a list for this deck? It looks like fun It is quite fun, though not particularly good, since it relies on keeping a bunch of 1/1 tokens alive in order to go off and isn't the fastest kill in the world by any stretch. I did beat real Goblins with it last night, though! code:The basic idea is that you make lots of goblin tokens, use those to draw lots of cards with Keep Watch and Distant Melody, ritual for the mana to keep the combo going, and then Haste everything with a Bushwhacker and win the game, probably while pitching all your extra cards to Rites of Initiation to make the final attack for a comical amount. I'm considering cutting some things to make room for Goblin Cohorts, just because the deck frequently finds itself behind on the board early on or making bad blocks and a 1 mana 2/2 would do a lot to smooth that out. Rites of Initiation is a stupid, stupid card, especially when combined with Keep Watch, so sometimes you will take games against real decks just because they didn't expect like four goblin tokens to be a lethal attack / your deck to have real cards in it. Voyager I fucked around with this message at 19:40 on May 3, 2016 |
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Some Numbers posted:Do you guys remember when GP Seattle was held in loving Tacoma? My favorite will always be GP Boston-Worcester.
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kizudarake posted:GP Oklahoma City is being held in Kansas? GP Boston is frequently held 2 hours west of boston in a shithole named worcester.
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Bread Set Jettison posted:GP Boston is frequently held 2 hours west of boston in a shithole named worcester. Look man it might be a shithole but it's THEIR shithole.
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Bread Set Jettison posted:GP Boston is frequently held 2 hours west of boston in a shithole named worcester. TWO HOURS?! That's ridiculous.
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I was going to defend the honor of new jersey, but honestly, northern NJ (especially Bergen County) is an NYC suburb and southern NJ is awful Central NJ is a combination NYC/Philly suburb
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May 3, 2016 20:23
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I dont have a standard deck but GPNY is pretty close to where I live if anyone wants to do some limited side events
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Some Numbers posted:TWO HOURS?! That's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. If you go at a reasonable clip it's more like an hour fifteen to an hour thirty minute drive.
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Caleb D is gonna be in the VSL tonight.
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Telex posted:Easier to get to than what? Why not take a train from N.Y. Penn? Its like 20 minutes tops and there's another train that runs direct from Secaucus to the Meadowlands.
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Bread Set Jettison posted:GP Boston is frequently held 2 hours west of boston in a shithole named worcester. I think you mean that GP Worcester is sometimes named after a shithole named Boston. 
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CountFosco posted:It is ridiculous. If you go at a reasonable clip it's more like an hour fifteen to an hour thirty minute drive. Yeah I just realized its not as far as I remembered.
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mcmagic posted:He's also an rear end in a top hat. First I've heard of either of the Jessups being called assholes. They're pretty quiet, and when either of them loses they blame themselves for misplays when explaining what happened.
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I had booked a hotel for the GP, but the lack of a standard deck and a refusal to play for prize tickets in side events made me cancel.
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BJPaskoff posted:First I've heard of either of the Jessups being called assholes. They're pretty quiet, and when either of them loses they blame themselves for misplays when explaining what happened. I've seen them be complete dicks to their opponent more than once. Kevin Jones on the other hand is one of the nicest dudes I've met playing magic.
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Hey, at least all of those GPs are still on Earth and not Hoth 
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Emerson Cod posted:Why not take a train from N.Y. Penn? Its like 20 minutes tops and there's another train that runs direct from Secaucus to the Meadowlands. Google never suggested trains for whatever reason aside from the subway that gets me to Penn. Plus all this seems like more hassle than it's worth for what is more or less the same prize payouts (maybe worse, I'm not sure how that "prize tix" compares to the usual booster/credit payouts at local stores). A GP seems like a super fun thing for either the really good player who expects to compete successfully at the major events (not me) or people who only live around one store that they're tired of and would like to try out a lot of new poo poo in one weekend after going 0-5 in the GP. Maybe next year when I actually have a standard deck and have given my soul over to whatever evils will compel me to build a Modern deck, but it sure doesn't seem like a good waste of $100+ to me.
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Judge question: are you allowed to shortcut "infinite scry 1" to "look through your deck and cut to the card of your choice"?
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mcmagic posted:I've seen them be complete dicks to their opponent more than once. Kevin Jones on the other hand is one of the nicest dudes I've met playing magic. I have to keep balancing all the good things I've heard about Kevin Jones with the fact that he has also gave himself his nickname. My internet rear end in a top hat impulses don't know who to side with. Barry Shitpeas posted:Judge question: are you allowed to shortcut "infinite scry 1" to "look through your deck and cut to the card of your choice"? If your opponent agrees. But you have to keep your library in the same order.
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keeblerdrow posted:I have to keep balancing all the good things I've heard about Kevin Jones with the fact that he has also gave himself his nickname. My internet rear end in a top hat impulses don't know who to side with. His nickname is outstanding tho
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On the other hand, infinite scry 2 lets you stack your deck (in polynomial time...)
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I've heard if you can demonstrate infinite scry and your opponent doesn't want you to just cut to your intended card it's basically forcing one to slow play.
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I don't really understand the Hoogland hate, but I've only ever seen him on stream. I know he had some regrettable social media meltdowns, but at least he's willing to drop a game to pay attention to his children instead of yelling at his kids/wife like Cheon does.
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Barry Shitpeas posted:Judge question: are you allowed to shortcut "infinite scry 1" to "look through your deck and cut to the card of your choice"? IANAJ but it seems like you ought to be able to, it's just the kind of thing you really need to announce you're doing before you do it and if your opponent is at all not OK with it, call a judge. Don't just pick up your library and start looking through it. I suppose technically what you should say is "I'm going to scry 1 %number of cards in my deck% times, putting on the bottom each time, which is the equivalent of just looking at my deck without changing the order, can I shortcut that by just looking at my deck without changing the order?" and then "Now I'm going to shortcut scrying one however many times it takes to cut to this specific card by looking through my deck and cutting to it without changing the order." You want to make sure it's clear what you're doing, clear that you're not changing the order of your deck, and that your opponent is OK with each step before you do it. The only argument I can think of against allowing that kind of shortcut is that letting someone pick up their deck and look through it does raise the possibility of them rearranging it if you aren't watching carefully enough and they could drop cards accidentally or something which would result in them accidentally illegally reordering their deck.
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Oldsrocket_27 posted:I don't really understand the Hoogland hate, but I've only ever seen him on stream. I know he had some regrettable social media meltdowns, but at least he's willing to drop a game to pay attention to his children instead of yelling at his kids/wife like Cheon does. Mostly him thinking his poo poo don't stink and that he's a rogue genius based on how his Reddit posts.
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ShaneB posted:I've heard if you can demonstrate infinite scry and your opponent doesn't want you to just cut to your intended card it's basically forcing one to slow play. it takes like maybe 30 seconds to scry through a whole deck I don't understand why anyone would think this? Especially since if you have set up an infinite scry loop you're about to win?
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Telex posted:Google never suggested trains for whatever reason aside from the subway that gets me to Penn. Norin Soul Sisters is the most hilarious deck in paper magic, and if you don't love torturing your opponent with fucktons of triggers each turn, then I don't know what to tell you.
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Oldsrocket_27 posted:I don't really understand the Hoogland hate, but I've only ever seen him on stream. I know he had some regrettable social media meltdowns, but at least he's willing to drop a game to pay attention to his children instead of yelling at his kids/wife like Cheon does. He's a huge baby that kicks people from his channel when they criticize him at all and says some stupid things on Facebook. He also seems to think pretty highly of himself which comes off irritating. I find Cheon way more likeable and the stuff people say about him is usually pretty overblown imo. Guess people could say the same thing the other way around though.
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ShaneB posted:Mostly him thinking his poo poo don't stink and that he's a rogue genius based on how his Reddit posts. Yo unrelated to anything else I'm gonna try and be online tonight and I'll ping you so I can get my Mental Notes back!!! Hope you kicked rear end with them!!!
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So I played the Pro Tour Gauntlet and got the R/W Eldrazi Goggles deck. I had played against it a few times. The deck is totally, unplayably bad and has no good matchups. The Season's Past deck might have some poor matchups and being bad against Company is probably unacceptable and losing to enemy lands is kind of dumb, but at least it beats other control decks. RW Eldrazi Goggles has a few removal spells, a six mana sweeper, and a bunch of air! How is that supposed to beat aggro? It's playing 6 spells that only burn creatures and 3 Fiery Tempers, with no real answer to enemy planeswalkers. How is that supposed to beat control? It's just horrible. I can deal with a horrible rake to play fun/good decks on the fly. Paying to pray to avoid the 3-4 decks that are significantly worse than the other decks is just miserable. Going 1-2, 2-1 and 3-0 and losing points is really stupid when you can get stuck with some dumb bullshit like Sultai Midrange or RW Eldrazi Goggles and just be dead.
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