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I'm going to have to play a list without Gideon, Ally of Zendikar in the board for now since I can't spring for a set until next month.
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In this xmage draft I opened two Sphinx of the Steel Wind and have four different reanimation spells. 
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Hopefully get another chance to draft ema in paper again, but one of the stores I draft at is out of product already. 3-0 with u/r tempo and 1 burning vengeance. P1P1 a wasteland, P2P1 a foil strix, had a mystical tutor and a chain lightning as my other value cards, and Arcanis and a young pyromancer as other bombs. Hated out a sulphuric vortex mid pack 2 in a dead pack. Got another wasteland, a top, and an enlightened tutor in prize packs.
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Bugsy posted:Hopefully get another chance to draft ema in paper again, but one of the stores I draft at is out of product already. 3-0 with u/r tempo and 1 burning vengeance. P1P1 a wasteland, P2P1 a foil strix, had a mystical tutor and a chain lightning as my other value cards, and Arcanis and a young pyromancer as other bombs. Hated out a sulphuric vortex mid pack 2 in a dead pack. I don't suppose those Wastes are for trade? Edit: Anyone else that opened EMA Wastes, I still need 3 to have a spare set. I've got shocks and lots of random stuff for trade. suicidesteve fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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Soul Glo posted:Pascal explains why here. You need to have them in your sideboard at least. More people are going to start playing Rites decks again as W/G tokens becomes more popular, and flying is pretty much the safest and sometimes only way to beat them. This meta is kind of like a rock (g/w tokens) paper (Rites) Scissors (b/w) control. There are obviously other decks, but these are the ones that really have shaped the meta. I also hate the G/W tokens decks. It looks boring to play, and it sucks to play against.
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So, I want to try and play standard. I kind of also want to compete because I have an unhealthy obsession with winning. My collection at the moment is appallingly small, as I recently came back to the game (some might remember me asking things a few months ago). Should I just find a card shop and go watch FNM to get familiar with the current standard meta? I remember being told buying packs is stupid and I should just buy decks directly; is this still the case? What's the next step up from winning st FNM?
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suicidesteve posted:I don't suppose those Wastes are for trade? Seeing as it was you, I was about to pass you a link to a local shop that cracks Russian boxes of new sets for singles and probably has a bunch of Wastes, but then I actually read what you were replying to/finally noticed the "EMA" and realized what you meant.
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DangerDongs posted:I also hate the G/W tokens decks. It looks boring to play, and it sucks to play against. The thing about G/W tokens is that it actually is a fun deck to play. The deck has so many angles of attack and it allows you to shape your game plan accordingly. Oh, are you running a bunch of spot removal? Here, have a bunch of tokens. Oh, are you running a bunch of sweepers? Here, I'll grind you out with planeswalkers. Oh are you clogging up the ground with efficient blockers? I'll sacrifice my board to make an Ormendahl and a few Ornithopter tokens and take to the skies.
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Madmarker posted:The thing about G/W tokens is that it actually is a fun deck to play. The deck has so many angles of attack and it allows you to shape your game plan accordingly. It's the best midrange deck in the format while being the best control deck in the format while being able to kill on T5 sometimes.
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Who else qualified for the WMCQ but can't be motivated to go to Nebraska? WOTC seriously? Nebraska?
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We're expecting Eldritch Moon spoilers today, right?
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Sickening posted:Who else qualified for the WMCQ but can't be motivated to go to Nebraska? I'm going to the Modern one in September...
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I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get my land right still. I'm probably freaking out about nothing, as its still playing fine, I just want to try to get it perfect. 2 Canopy Vista 1 Celestial Colonnade 1 Flooded Strand 5 Forest 1 Gavony Township 2 Island 1 Lumbering Falls 3 Plains 1 Prairie Stream 2 Sunpetal Grove 3 Windswept Heath 33 G, 8 U, 25 W Does this look about right? I have a Knight of the Reliquary in here to help a touch.
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BizarroAzrael posted:We're expecting Eldritch Moon spoilers today, right? Probably just Emrakul from the video.
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BizarroAzrael posted:We're expecting Eldritch Moon spoilers today, right? Probably just the one card (Emrakul) via their YouTube channel.
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BJPaskoff posted:Probably just the one card (Emrakul) via their YouTube channel. Whats the over/under for modern playability?
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Sickening posted:Whats the over/under for modern playability? It's gonna have to be insane to be better than the ROE Emrakul or Newlamogg.
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Saffron Olive claims to have the spoiler, but I don't know where he got it.
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Boo if true. It's standard playable. Just not anywhere near the old one modern.
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Jun 20, 2016 15:41
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Cool, a 5 mana 13/13.
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What's funny is how much less synergy this has with Nahiri than old Emrakul.
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Oh, at first I read that as you gained control of a creature only which made it much much worse.
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loving lol on that set symbol.
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Protection from instants is interesting.
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mcmagic posted:Boo if true. It's standard playable. Just not anywhere near the old one modern. It's on the wotc youtube.
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Sickening posted:Protection from instants is interesting. Ensures that it's going to survive most of the time.
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Sickening posted:Protection from instants is interesting. It does make it a bit better with Nahiri than casting. But there's Hallowed Moonlight for the Nahiri Ultimate and plenty of Sorcery removal that deals with it no problem.
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I'm really over Eldrazi, and will be upset if they ruin the flavor of Innistrad.
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BizarroAzrael posted:It does make it a bit better with Nahiri than casting. But there's Hallowed Moonlight for the Nahiri Ultimate and plenty of Sorcery removal that deals with it no problem. I would still rather get a Dragonlord Atarka off Nahiri's Ult.
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BizarroAzrael posted:It does make it a bit better with Nahiri than casting. But there's Hallowed Moonlight for the Nahiri Ultimate and plenty of Sorcery removal that deals with it no problem. Until your opponent takes over your turn and uses your sorcery speed removal on your own guys or something. I can almost feel the mindwrack demon speculators going ham at the moment.
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AlternateNu posted:loving lol on that set symbol. It's a promo card right? It's probably just the symbol for that card, not the entire Eldrich Moon set
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I wonder how disappointed wotc is that everyone figured out that emrakul is the villain months ago
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uninverted posted:What's funny is how much less synergy this has with Nahiri than old Emrakul. Given that Nahiri + Emrakul is a Modern-level synergy, they're not exactly going to put a better one in Standard
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80s James Hetfield posted:It's a promo card right? It's probably just the symbol for that card, not the entire Eldrich Moon set Its set # is 6/205 ,so I think that is the set symbol. I think Octopi are cool therefor I like it.
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Barry Shitpeas posted:Given that Nahiri + Emrakul is a Modern-level synergy, they're not exactly going to put a better one in Standard Didn't wizards say they don't think about modern when creating standard cards, so if they break the format they just need to do some banning that come too late.
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Man what an awful and underwhelming card. They can't even just loving have it mindslaver, it gives your opp an extra turn. It's probably mediocre but playable in standard and unplayable everywhere else.
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I mean, it's definitely worse than old emrakul if you're doing something silly with like tron or cloudpost or something but honestly this guy seems reasonably castable off like eldrazi temples and stuff - instant, sorcery, land, creature, artifact and he's down into like Worldbreaker territory. And he'll usually come with a plague wind (via chump attacking) attached, plus some extra value depending on what your opponent actually has in hand. You can make them cast all their sorcery-speed removal on not-Emrakul targets, so that they'll have to topdeck well to actually get rid of him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TN0b8ik0B8 The narration was corny, but the reveal of Emrakul in the trailer was pretty neat and I'm sad I saw the card before watching the video. Looks like we're getting Emrakul-warped versions of various monsters. The way they did the flashes of things like the werewolf and the horse becoming Eldrazified leads me to believe that there will be DFCs where one side is the monster and one side is the Emrakul-warped version of it.
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80s James Hetfield posted:It's a promo card right? It's probably just the symbol for that card, not the entire Eldrich Moon set Given that Announcing Eldritch Moon did not include the set symbol, I would not be surprised if this was the actual set symbol.
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