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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. Hmm might try that next week, I took out my Thoughtseizes for Aven Mindcensors last week and went 2-2 and swapped to Blade Slicer this week and ended up... 2-2. I'm going to swap those out for the new Thalia once MoonMoon hits. The one match up that felt really terrible to play against is Blue Moon, the version I played had at least 3 Anger of the Gods main, with Goblin Dank Memers to flash those back to repeatedly wipe my board. Not to mention being able to flash back Ancestral Visions even if you process it with Stranglers. Also Blood Moon shits on the BW Haters, I imagine the mono-white one would be a lot better vs that match up. My current list. I am going to take out the 3 Ghostly Prisons, swap one for new Thalia, and maybe disenchants for the other 2 open slots. We have like 1 guy that plays Affinity in my LGS and he usually plays Standard.
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Who do we root for between Jim Davis and this 15 year old who's been to "35 countries".
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mcmagic posted:Who do we root for between Jim Davis and this 15 year old who's been to "35 countries". The 15 year old is quick to move around, unlike Jim Davis.
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Jun 25, 2016 21:35
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If he played at a reasonable speed I would root for reanimated Hitler over Jim Davies.
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Jun 25, 2016 21:37
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Is Zur going up uP UP?
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Irony Be My Shield posted:If he played at a reasonable speed I would root for reanimated Hitler over Jim Davies.
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Jun 25, 2016 22:28
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Thisuck posted:Is that judge next to Joe Losset sending out SOS via his eye brows? That Losset match is a great example of why Eye is the card that made Tron a T1 deck.
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Odd thing: that reddit thread they posted about how they're changing the rules for controlling another player so you can't look at their sideboard ever has been deleted. Not sure what this means; Tabak doesn't have anything about it on his Twitter or Tumblr, so...
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Count Bleck posted:Can you post your list? I've been looking at hatebears forever and I already have the vials from Merfolk. Deck: BW Taxes   //Lands 4 Caves of Koilos 4 Eldrazi Temple 4 Ghost Quarter 4 Godless Shrine 2 Plains 2 Shambling Vent 2 Swamp //Spells 4 Path to Exile 2 Thoughtseize 4 Æther Vial //Creatures 4 Eldrazi Displacer 4 Leonin Arbiter 1 Reality Smasher 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 4 Thought-Knot Seer 4 Tidehollow Sculler 4 Vryn Wingmare 4 Wasteland Strangler //Sideboard 1 Spellskite 1 Pithing Needle 2 Zealous Persecution 2 Timely Reinforcements 3 Stony Silence 2 Sunlance 2 Kor Firewalker 2 Rest in Peace  Display deck statisticsThisuck posted:Hmm might try that next week, I took out my Thoughtseizes for Aven Mindcensors last week and went 2-2 and swapped to Blade Slicer this week and ended up... 2-2. I'm going to swap those out for the new Thalia once MoonMoon hits. The one match up that felt really terrible to play against is Blue Moon, the version I played had at least 3 Anger of the Gods main, with Goblin Dank Memers to flash those back to repeatedly wipe my board. Not to mention being able to flash back Ancestral Visions even if you process it with Stranglers. Also Blood Moon shits on the BW Haters, I imagine the mono-white one would be a lot better vs that match up. I'm not certain what I'll cut for NewThalia, but she has a place in the list. I might try a 2/2 split with Wingmare and see how it does. You'll see I have RIPs in the sideboard for the scenario you're mentioning, plus it's relevant against a lot of other decks like anything running Goyfs, Snapcasters, etc. I've been considering trying mono-white as well with the topend being Archangel of Tithes to stop aggro strategies cold. I've even been considering putting 2 Ghostly Prisons in my sideboard to stop aggro matches as well, as Chord is typically a tougher match for me and they can't go infinite (immediately for the win) with a prison on board.
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I can't fathom cutting flickerwisp but who knows. Vial+wisp is an insanely versatile interaction. It's been too good to me to want to cut. I'm going to try to find room for a 1-of Mangara of Corondor because the interaction with it and displacer seems like a fun idea. I have seen a lot of variety in the lists so a wisp-less version might work. Deck is super fun though, probably the best deck under $500 in modern right now.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I can't fathom cutting flickerwisp but who knows. Vial+wisp is an insanely versatile interaction. It's been too good to me to want to cut. I'm going to try to find room for a 1-of Mangara of Corondor because the interaction with it and displacer seems like a fun idea. I like the whisps interactions a lot too, but they're only good if you have a vial on 3 or a displacer on the field. Otherwise they're very clunky and I find a LOT more use from Wingmare, especially because your can go Thalia in to Wingmare, and because Wingmare taxes stack unlike Thalia's. With that being said I still think it's one of the weakest cards in the list, which is why I'd consider dialing them back for NewThalia.
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Minority Deport posted:Odd thing: that reddit thread they posted about how they're changing the rules for controlling another player so you can't look at their sideboard ever has been deleted. Not sure what this means; Tabak doesn't have anything about it on his Twitter or Tumblr, so... It probably means whoever posted it didn't have permission to and just got overzealous. Unless it was Tabak or someone? Either way, I don't remember them ever announcing major rules changes first on Reddit.
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Balon posted:I like the whisps interactions a lot too, but they're only good if you have a vial on 3 or a displacer on the field. Otherwise they're very clunky and I find a LOT more use from Wingmare, especially because your can go Thalia in to Wingmare, and because Wingmare taxes stack unlike Thalia's. You mentioned your deck seeming weak in the aggro department, and Flickerwisp helps a lot in that department. Gets a blocker out of the way, and then is 3 power with evasion. Also consider cutting a swamp for Sea Gate Wreckage if you want some late game.
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Jun 26, 2016 01:24
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Infect really does promote non fun, terrible, Magic.
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mcmagic posted:Infect really does promote non fun, terrible, Magic. Says the Tron player. Also yes welcome to the modern format.
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little munchkin posted:You mentioned your deck seeming weak in the aggro department, and Flickerwisp helps a lot in that department. Gets a blocker out of the way, and then is 3 power with evasion. After last night yes, im 100% in favor of adding a wreckage. And again I just felt Whisp was clunky. The double white cc was aggrivating as well, as is Sculler's wheb your opener is Caves & Ghost Quarter w/o vial.
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Jesus Christ, Jeskai Control is a deck.
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Balon posted:After last night yes, im 100% in favor of adding a wreckage. Yeah one of my test draws was 4 Scullers, 2 Ghost Quarters, and 1 Path, I'll try the Winged Mares instead of Flickerwisps next week and up my Displacer count. What do you guys typically cast for your 2 drop? I'm leaning Sculler over Leonin Arbiter and Thalia right now.
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Thisuck posted:Yeah one of my test draws was 4 Scullers, 2 Ghost Quarters, and 1 Path, I'll try the Winged Mares instead of Flickerwisps next week and up my Displacer count. What do you guys typically cast for your 2 drop? I'm leaning Sculler over Leonin Arbiter and Thalia right now. Depends entirely on what I think my opponent is playing. Against something fast like infect, Thalia. Against greedy manabases on the play, arbiter. If I have Ghost quarters available and I'm on the play, also probably arbiter. Against midrange stuff, probably sculler.
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Minority Deport posted:Odd thing: that reddit thread they posted about how they're changing the rules for controlling another player so you can't look at their sideboard ever has been deleted. Not sure what this means; Tabak doesn't have anything about it on his Twitter or Tumblr, so... Maybe they realized that if they're going to come after that rule to curb slow play - on something that is far and away a corner case that won't come up too often - maybe they should address the actual rules for slow play so that Jim Davis actually has to play more than one game.
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Thisuck posted:Yeah one of my test draws was 4 Scullers, 2 Ghost Quarters, and 1 Path, I'll try the Winged Mares instead of Flickerwisps next week and up my Displacer count. What do you guys typically cast for your 2 drop? I'm leaning Sculler over Leonin Arbiter and Thalia right now. On the play, Arbiter. On the draw, Sculler or Thalia. On the play you want to be able to catch them with a fetch in hand they can't use, then use Thalia to snowball that lead ahead or a Sculler to pick their early plays. On the draw, unless you're against a search heavy deck, Arbiter is just for making your ghost quarters and paths that much better - you really want to either tax their next turn plays or pick out their removal/threats.
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Are there recordings of today's modern? Any highlight matches, particularly with unusual decks?
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TheKingofSprings posted:Are there recordings of today's modern? Any highlight matches, particularly with unusual decks? For the Jim Davis matches you can heat up some lasagna and stare at a deck of cards you shuffled and placed across the table from you
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Star Man posted:Jesus Christ, Jeskai Control is a deck. This bodes well for Risen Executioner!
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On the play I would cast Thalia to gently caress up their turn 2 but it really depends on hand. If you can drop arbiter on 2 and then a 1 drop plus Thalia on 3 that's great. No 1 drop for turn three though means I'm putting her out on the play turn two. Turn two on the draw is really situation dependent though. It's tough. I'm used to mono white though
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uggy posted:I'm used to mono white though Cast Leonin den guard, equip Leonin scimitar
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A new LGS has opened in my city and it appears a good number of locals have defected to it already. First time I think this has actually happened in my city, there's only ever been two stores in the city itself.
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I witnessed the flipside happening recently where a newly opened LGS failed to take any customers from the other major one despite everybody seemingly hating playing there
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Count Bleck posted:
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GET YOUR ZURS NOW!!!
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Judge conference promo support is changing. When I saw the headline, I was worried they were going to really cut the promo support for conferences. I know that there was this concern about "promo farming" where judges who never really judged would go to the conference just to make some money. But the announcement is that we're going to get only four cards, most of them from an exemplar wave two waves back. It's less individual cards, but the value is going to be mostly the same. I definitely appreciate it more than getting the same old commander cards every time.
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topdeck become immense off a gitprobe to infect an opponent to death. G/U infect is loving stupid and degenerate.
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Dallas open fun facts. First time the open has hit its cap. 2nd largest open ever.
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uggy posted:On the play I would cast Thalia to gently caress up their turn 2 but it really depends on hand. If you can drop arbiter on 2 and then a 1 drop plus Thalia on 3 that's great. No 1 drop for turn three though means I'm putting her out on the play turn two. But then you risk them just playing and popping a fetch and a 2-drop creature. I think the far safer play is to lead with the Arbiter. Additionally, your turn 3 is then open to 2-drop + shambling vent or hold up a white mana to represent a path if you haven't played a Thalia. With an arbiter on board a LOT of people will avoid playing a creature if you're holding up path mana.
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Sheesh
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Rinkles posted:Sheesh red deck loses 
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Rinkles posted:Sheesh lol
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Rinkles posted:Sheesh Standard.jaypeegee
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Eela6 posted:red deck loses the only red deck in the format at this point, I think, is the weird UR 2/1 flier deck, there might be a few of those in "other" E: also what is sultai midrange E2: I don't think Bant Humans and Bant Company are all that different either, so 31 tokens and 27 bant colored company decks(plus rites) Elyv fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jun 26, 2016 |
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Elyv posted:E: also what is sultai midrange A rock-ish GB Advocate Languish deck splashing for Silumgar and Negate
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