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mcmagic posted:Over Flayer? I think you want both. You can play a lot of 2 drops when you don't have to give your opponent ramp in order to kill their stuff.
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do you mean unban because if so the answer is yes and for which one, the answer is to reprint brainstorm
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Jan 11, 2017 03:54
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Unban Top gently caress Modern let's go full control
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Yeah I meant unban. Or maybe just ban Serum Visions so I never have to cast that piece of poo poo spell again.
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Jan 11, 2017 04:29
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Voyager I posted:Yeah I meant unban. I let out an involuntary snicker whenever someone casts it against me. empathe posted:Unban Top gently caress Modern let's go full control Yes and ban Terminus. In both formats.
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Jan 11, 2017 04:46
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suicidesteve posted:Yes and ban Terminus. In both formats. Where's the fun in that?
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Jan 11, 2017 04:54
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Unban every card in the game and ban all Magic players.
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Jan 11, 2017 05:06
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suicidesteve posted:I let out an involuntary snicker whenever someone casts it against me. I didn't know you played Modern. Like, please tell me nobody goes deep enough to cast loving Serum Visions in a format where Preordain, Ponder, and loving Brainstorm are all legal.
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Jan 11, 2017 05:30
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Voyager I posted:I wonder if it would be safe to unban a regular cantrip now that Probe is rightfully dead. I agree with this but I'm not sure about your reasoning. In my mind they fill different niches- Ponder et al. are better for finding cards you need, while Probe's strength comes from it being a free way to determine if you can combo off. I'm not sure if Wizards is ready to start giving combo its good card selection tools back, and these two bans seems targeted at the two main combo decks in the format (Dredge and Infect).
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Jan 11, 2017 05:43
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Voyager I posted:I didn't know you played Modern. I play modern occasionally. It's always a mistake and I can't recommend not doing it enough. Somehow in the 3 modern tournaments I've played somewhat recently, which were full of (like probably 65%) Jund/k, Chord decks, and UWR I only ever get paired against Affinity, Burn, and Infect.
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Jan 11, 2017 05:44
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suicidesteve posted:I play modern occasionally. It's always a mistake and I can't recommend not doing it enough. Somehow in the 3 modern tournaments I've played somewhat recently, which were full of (like probably 65%) Jund/k, Chord decks, and UWR I only ever get paired against Affinity, Burn, and Infect. I want to watch you play Ad Nauseum so I can witness the tears streaming down your cheek every time you cast a filtering spell.
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Jan 11, 2017 05:53
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Voyager I posted:I want to watch you play Ad Nauseum so I can witness the tears streaming down your cheek every time you cast a filtering spell. Death first.
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Jan 11, 2017 05:55
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suicidesteve posted:I play modern occasionally. It's always a mistake and I can't recommend not doing it enough. Somehow in the 3 modern tournaments I've played somewhat recently, which were full of (like probably 65%) Jund/k, Chord decks, and UWR I only ever get paired against Affinity, Burn, and Infect. Come to my store, there's no Burn and only one guy I know of on Infect who shows up less than half the time. A few people on Affinity but I know one of them has a couple other decks he enjoys playing more, he hasn't brought Affinity in a couple months (lost a close finals to him when he was playing Ad Nauseum of all decks). The group that shows up from week to week is pretty varied so I never know what to expect going in. The only constant is one dude who either works at the store part-time or lives next door who's always on UWR control, plus another guy on a similar deck sans red. I've drawn one of them the last three FNMs but they're at least winnable matchups.
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Jan 11, 2017 06:15
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Star Man posted:Unban every card in the game and ban all Magic players. this is the correct opinion.
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suicidesteve posted:I play modern occasionally. It's always a mistake and I can't recommend not doing it enough. Somehow in the 3 modern tournaments I've played somewhat recently, which were full of (like probably 65%) Jund/k, Chord decks, and UWR I only ever get paired against Affinity, Burn, and Infect. pretty hosed up that when I was on Elves I played Jund, Jund, GR Tron
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Jan 11, 2017 14:53
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Just play grixis delver and never worry about having a good matchup.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Just play grixis delver and never worry about having a good matchup. I play Blue Tron. I'm way ahead of you.
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Jan 11, 2017 21:46
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just play bloom titan and don't worry about playing(because your deck is banned)
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suicidesteve posted:I play Blue Tron. I'm way ahead of you. what are your thoughts on noted skill-intensive card Cavern of Souls
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Jan 11, 2017 21:51
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suicidesteve posted:I play Blue Tron. You are just the worst kind of person. But I assume you're at least competent with the deck. The thing that drives me nuts about it on MTGO lately, I've done things like win "through a Mindslaver loop" ....my opponent couldn't actually figure out how to close the loop with sequencing, so I got to take a turn every other turn. Plus they were incredibly slow and made bad choices (you can't really do a fuckton of damage with Mindslaver effects against mono black when it's late game and I'm empty-handed, he was better off constantly recurring his Wurmcoil Engine and overwhelming me with the tokens). I'll take the win, but I will never get that hour of my life back (same reason I despised eggs and currently want to set fire to anyone playing Lantern).
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I'm trying to understand how it's possible to be this bad at Magic. Was the concept of the Upkeep phase completely beyond him or what?
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Pretty much. End step, too. He would always be careful to leave up Academy Ruins and blue mana, but then would never use it. There were a few occasions where I was able to disrupt him but he could have recovered far more quickly than he did had he just activated Ruins in his upkeep or something.
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Voyager I posted:I'm trying to understand how it's possible to be this bad at Magic. Was the concept of the Upkeep phase completely beyond him or what? Sounds like one of the better players on MTGO. I have pretty much no respect for people on MTGO. They're almost universally terrible. I played against Lands the other day. Dude main-phases a Marit Lage. With me having a Karakas in play. So I untapped, bounced it and played a RiP. Then after the RiP got Gripped they decided to let me equip a SoFI to my Thalia, Heretic Cathar instead of killing it with a Punishing Fire. Then declined to remove it from combat with Maze of Ith on the following turn. Given how badly they played, I figured I was about 90% to lose the match because that's how my life works. But somehow I managed to capitalize on half a dozen huge mistakes and win.
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This reminds me of people regularly bringing in Stone Rains against my Kuldotha Jeskai deck, just to 1-for-1 my artifact lands. Like...okay? Also the Dead Dog player who spent every draw step recurring Brownscale in order to die more slowly while preventing himself from ever drawing any outs.
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Nothing makes me happier than Molten Raining a bounce land and even I don't bring it in against that deck.
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I want to play Bitterblossom and Ajani Vengeant in Modern. Should I build up for WB tokens or Sun and Moon first?
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Star Man posted:I want to play Bitterblossom and Ajani Vengeant in Modern. Should I build up for WB tokens or Sun and Moon first? Play both, build Mardu badstuff.
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Voyager I posted:This reminds me of people regularly bringing in Stone Rains against my Kuldotha Jeskai deck, just to 1-for-1 my artifact lands. What format is this?
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Sigma-X posted:What format is this? pauper
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Star Man posted:I want to play Bitterblossom and Ajani Vengeant in Modern. Should I build up for WB tokens or Sun and Moon first? Mar-do it.
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god bless the people out there coming out with cool names for decks like "Dead Dog"
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 Picking up the Lotus lead to a great deal on some more clean Power, so I'm up to 3/9. It (rightfully) caused a bit of a freak out from the missus, though, so I'll be proxying up the rest. Going to my first Vintage event ever this weekend with the following list: code:
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Anyone who wants to see why Terminus needs to go, watch Reid's latest video. Match 3 I think. Terminus #1: on their turn 4 draw step, has Counterspell for Reid's Force. Because you should be able to cast a 2 mana spell plus a board wipe with 3 mana Terminus #2: the next turn to clean up the rest of Reid's cards, I think followed up by some spell or another. Terminus #3: a few turns later followed up by a JtMS. Because you should be able to wipe the board again and cast a 4 mana spell on the same turn that early in the game. What a cool card that isn't completely format warping!
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suicidesteve posted:Anyone who wants to see why Terminus needs to go, watch Reid's latest video. Match 3 I think. Without Top, Terminus would see zero play. It's never the payoff, it's the enabler.
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mcmagic posted:Without Top, Terminus would see zero play. It's never the payoff, it's the enabler. And Top is played in plenty of other decks and is a perfectly fine card contrary to what people want to believe from playing against bad players. Terminus is played in one deck and is singlehandedly responsible for keeping an entire archetype down. Again none of this matters because if they ban anything it'll be Top.
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Glad I've already got Elves in case they ban Top or Terminus.  It's not gonna happen.
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suicidesteve posted:And Top is played in plenty of other decks and is a perfectly fine card contrary to what people want to believe from playing against bad players. Terminus is played in one deck and is singlehandedly responsible for keeping an entire archetype down. What archetype is miracles keeping down? The deck is good but its not dominant I mean, ffs, Reid won both the match you are talking about and also the most recent legacy GP using a creature-based deck.
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Elyv posted:pauper The best format. Because I can play a foiled out Acid Trip control deck!
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The March Hare posted:What archetype is miracles keeping down? The deck is good but its not dominant I mean, ffs, Reid won both the match you are talking about and also the most recent legacy GP using a creature-based deck. Aggro. Like, all of it. I don't know how Miracles not winning a GP means it's not dominant? It's pretty clearly the best deck and by a good amount. What are its bad match-ups?
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