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SOI is a blast to draft. There are so many archetypes you can play, but I will agree that G/W/R are a little too strong in the format. I've been Startled Awake + Geisblast doubling it twice in a row, and even though it feels bad it was funny as hell to see it happen. Both games the guy was below 3 life when it happened.
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Jun 25, 2016 08:25
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my drafted started as U/B tonight but ended up B/R when I opened a Devil's Playground pack 3, and got passed another foil Devil's Playground. I made a lot of little red bastards
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Jun 25, 2016 08:31
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just rust posted:Looking at the MTG Goldfish home page I happened to notice on the sidebar that Nimbus Maze was apparently bought out this week, as its average price is now nearly $40.00. Is there anything to this or is this just some random speculation? (probably hot hot speculation i know) Low stock, supposedly sees play in Bant Eldrazi lists as a tri-land, prime target for an mtgfinance buyout
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Jun 25, 2016 09:27
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I think Nimbus Maze is a cool dual. Hope we get to see that set some day.
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Jun 25, 2016 10:23
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Supposedly sees play is indeed the number one factor in mtg finance
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Jun 25, 2016 12:02
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rabidsquid posted:Supposedly sees play is indeed the number one factor in mtg finance You didn't hear this from me but Chud Toad is seeing a lot of play in Legacy right now. Stockpile yours for the inevitable price spike today!
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Jun 25, 2016 12:34
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Anyone know if GP Pittsburgh is being streamed today?
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Jun 25, 2016 12:46
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Count Bleck posted:You didn't hear this from me but Chud Toad is seeing a lot of play in Legacy right now. I wish I could remember the details better but I remember one of the original mtg finance guys took a bad spec on Vengevines and spent the better part of a year writing insider articles about how Vengevine was about to spike, all because he just wanted to cash out without taking a huge loss.
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Jun 25, 2016 12:50
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rabidsquid posted:I wish I could remember the details better but I remember one of the original mtg finance guys took a bad spec on Vengevines and spent the better part of a year writing insider articles about how Vengevine was about to spike, all because he just wanted to cash out without taking a huge loss. If the market doesn't go the way you want, you force it that way.
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Jun 25, 2016 13:37
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80s James Hetfield posted:Anyone know if GP Pittsburgh is being streamed today? Not mentioned on the event website ( usually is if it's streamed) so probably not.
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Jun 25, 2016 13:40
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I've opened 23 packs of EMA now. 0 mythics.
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Jun 25, 2016 14:18
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Parsifal posted:I've opened 23 packs of EMA now. 0 mythics. Don't worry, the next one will have a Worldgorger Dtagon in it.
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Jun 25, 2016 14:22
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I opened a pack of EMA and got the Karakas i needed for Nic Fit. Then opened a second one, gpt Mother of Runes, which the gf took off me for the foil kird ape she opened, as it goes in my pauper cube. EMA is a cool and good product.
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Jun 25, 2016 14:35
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mehall posted:I opened a pack of EMA and got the Karakas i needed for Nic Fit. It feels like the less of EMA you open the better I know people that have cracked boxes only to get two Balances in the same box. Mean while I've opened one pack and got Jace the Brain Bender. BUT I GOT THAT FOIL FLAME JAB THOUGH.
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Jun 25, 2016 15:12
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Parsifal posted:I've opened 23 packs of EMA now. 0 mythics. Necropotence is just around the corner!
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Jun 25, 2016 15:13
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It's fun to spend large amounts of money of pieces of cardboard and then look at the cardboard and imagine how much the cards are theoretically worth.
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Jun 25, 2016 15:19
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80s James Hetfield posted:Anyone know if GP Pittsburgh is being streamed today? That would imply some measure of competence on WotC's part to actually manage to have content on the internet for their 'top 5 esport brand'
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Jun 25, 2016 15:28
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Count Bleck posted:It feels like the less of EMA you open the better I cracked two packs, and got nothing above 25c 
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Jun 25, 2016 15:35
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Parsifal posted:I've opened 23 packs of EMA now. 0 mythics. A friend of mine bought a box and we all drafted it together. It was fun! There were 0 mythics.
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Jun 25, 2016 15:55
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EMA is cool to draft and I've enjoyed it a lot but just one of the worst sets to just open. Normally a box is always worth a fun draft + whatever cards you open but EMA's value is so poor that for the first time I'm considering just selling my boxes than drafting it. My first box was terrible value wise, the best cards I got value wise was a foil Hydro-blast. I had fun and all, so its not like I'm super salty but I'm looking at the two other boxes I have thinking "Maybe I should turn you into something else" Ciprian Maricon fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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Jun 25, 2016 16:08
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Took BW taxes to modern night last night, after replacing flickerwisp with vrynn wingmare and did MUCH better than usual. Round 1: Norin Soul Sisters This was a newer player playing a borrowed deck but still put up a decent fight. I was worried because Soul Sisters wrecks your flicker game but I kept great hand disruption both games with Thoughsieze/Tidehollow/Thought-Knot. Took the round 2-0. Round 2: Grixis Control I play against this deck a lot as a friend runs it, so I knew to go hard on the taxes angle. Got a little hairy g2 as he brought in some more board wipes but I made it there on the back on turn 2 Thalia, turn 3 TKS, turn 4 Smasher. Took the round 2-0. Round 3: Affinity This was against my buddy, who I test with all the time. Game 1 he smashed me good while i was boned at 2 lands and no vial. Games 2 & 3 I brought in 3 Stony Silence and, well, we know how that goes for affinity. As a funny story, i had sided out 3 of my Vials for the Silences and ended up drawing both in my opener for game 3. I got super greedy and let my vial do its work up to 3 counters for a free flashed tidehollow and wingmare. THEN I dropped my silence and got a tapdown lock with Displacer. My buddy was salty. Took the round 2-1. Round 4: Kiki Chord The finals, against a kid I call my protoge. This kid (I call him kid but he's like 17) comes to me for advice on all his magic related stuff and was super nervous to square off against me in the finals, to the point where he was shaking and sweating. I won the roll and immediately taxlocked him with a turn 2 Arbiter and nothing but fetches in his hand. He scooped on turn 4. Game 2 he dropped a pre-game leyline of sanctity, stopping all my hand disruption dead. Which was relevant because I kept a hand of turn 1 thoughtseize, turn 2 tidehollow, turn 3 TKS. I scooped when he dropped a nahari with a reso on board. Game 3 - a barnburner! We traded blows back and forth, and I got an early lead dropping him to 5 with fliers, shutting off a lot of his plan with arbiter and rest in peace. He ended up stabilizing quite a bit on the back of wall of omens and a flashed Resto, but i went with the sacrifice play of attacking with the team, pre-blockers blink his resto, then blink his wall after resto blinked it. Got through for exact damage the turn before he had enough mana to pay the tax and chord for kiki. Took the round 2-1. 4-0 for the tourney. This was by far the best performance I've had with the deck and it was a blast to play. I really think it needs more card advantage though, or better removal, or better aggro. Right now there's almostno way to punch damage through unless you get a displacer lock going. Even then, if your opponent has value creatures you're at a big disadvantage. I'll continue to tweak the deck, but I love it. It's great!
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Jun 25, 2016 16:51
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little munchkin posted:It's not unplayable but it's very weak imo. Blue is the worst color in the set, and Black is a support color with a few powerful cards and removal spells, but few ways to actually close games out. don't forget pyre hounds, aberrant researchers and rise from the tides. Basically UR is difficult to pull off, but can have a high payoff source: getting my rear end handed to me by UR MoreLikeTen fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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Jun 25, 2016 18:25
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Another victim of U standing for Blue in MtG.
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Jun 25, 2016 18:27
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whydirt posted:Another victim of U standing for Blue in MtG. guilty as charged
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Jun 25, 2016 18:32
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Balon posted:Took BW taxes to modern night last night, after replacing flickerwisp with vrynn wingmare and did MUCH better than usual. Can you post your list? I've been looking at hatebears forever and I already have the vials from Merfolk.
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Jun 25, 2016 18:40
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I feel like we should just make it a habit for people to include a decklist link in all play reports.
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Jun 25, 2016 18:43
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Nothing like an eBay seller sending you the wrong stack of cards. This will only take about two weeks to resolve.
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Jun 25, 2016 19:12
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Gonna participate in a SoI draft this evening, any basic tips for drafting this set?
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Jun 25, 2016 19:17
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Star Man posted:Nothing like an eBay seller sending you the wrong stack of cards. This will only take about two weeks to resolve. AMA about the time I ordered a Russian Monastery Mentor 15 months ago and it showed up 2 weeks ago. In English.
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Jun 25, 2016 19:17
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You know I'm starting to believe nobody actually knows how to draft older sets. Edit: nevermind died round 1 to a mono red deck. Count Bleck fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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Jun 25, 2016 19:20
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Lord Jigger posted:Gonna participate in a SoI draft this evening, any basic tips for drafting this set? Green is the best color, white is also pretty good. Delirium has tons of payoff and is pretty easy to enable, but madness is a bit harder to build around. All the good madness enablers are at uncommon, so there's no guarantee you'll see them. Vessel of Nascency doesn't look exciting but it's one of the best commons in the set. The tribal decks usually don't work out so I would just ignore them.
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Jun 25, 2016 19:44
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suicidesteve posted:AMA about the time I ordered a Russian Monastery Mentor 15 months ago and it showed up 2 weeks ago. Jesus christ, from where? Jupiter?
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Jun 25, 2016 19:48
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Zoness posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4pplrm/rules_update_controlling_another_player_and/ quote:It brings up questions of informational access, lengthy note-taking delays, the timing of strategic concessions, team dynamics, even the physical interactions between players. Tournament level MTG is so loving surreal.
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Jun 25, 2016 19:49
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Star Man posted:Jesus christ, from where? Jupiter? I think it was Ohio. Going to Pittsburgh. It was postmarked late May, 2015. Oh there was also the time I got a Judge Bolt from England that took 5 months to show up because it was stuck in Customs for 4.5 months! At least that ended up being free.
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Jun 25, 2016 19:50
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suicidesteve posted:I think it was Ohio. Going to Pittsburgh. It was postmarked late May, 2015. Oi. The person I bought from sent me four playsets of cards. Three of them were correct, but I got a set of Descend Upon the Sinful instead of a set of Declaration in Stone. I've already sent to seller a return request so I can get the correct cards because I don't want to have to drive all over Denver looking for a set. The store nearest to me sells singles for more than SCG, another one I like to go to sells right at SCG's prices, and I don't want to spend a bunch of gas trying to find a place that sells at a not poo poo price.
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Jun 25, 2016 19:54
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Nimbus maze could compete with adarkar wastes in a theoretical UW eldrazi deck
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Jun 25, 2016 19:59
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 GET YOUR ZURS NOW!!!
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Jun 25, 2016 20:18
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It's weird how quickly SCG went from the model of coverage to needing to pick up some tips from WOTC. Please do some timeshifted matches, guys, there is SO MUCH dead time on their modern weekends that it's pretty much not worth watching live.
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Jun 25, 2016 20:47
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Count Bleck posted:
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