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I hope the sales generation of all the non-us countries is enough to make up for the fact that only 1 out of 3 pt's this year are in the us. I feel like is US is your main market that having your promotional tour at 2-4 am US time is a pretty dumb idea. Its definitely whiny, but just seems weird to travel to far away destinations when your playing a card game inside.
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Dehtraen posted:After the "Thugs 'n Bugs" WOTC / Hasbro flipout / apology, I think we're probably going to get "Jeskai Saheeli" or "Four-Color Saheeli" this was the stupidest nontroversy in the entire world and the fact that it is the reason we now will never see Breakfast Burrito, Copy Cat or Cheerios on coverage makes me really mad I generally think that accusations that someone is "just looking to be offended" are in bad faith but in this case, man, it's hard to see another angle
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Feb 3, 2017 04:13
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Wait, what is the objection to "Copy Cat" or "Cat Lady"?
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Entropic posted:Wait, what is the objection to "Copy Cat" or "Cat Lady"? The latter could be seen as misogynistic.
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Feb 3, 2017 04:33
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Heard one of the guys who plays at my store came in 4th place at GP san Jose last weekend, and of course there was zero loving coverage of it except for the top 8 decks. Thanks cfb/wotc.
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sit on my Facebook posted:This definitely feels like an under-explored archetype It's a Tezzeret deck, yes.
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Bugsy posted:Heard one of the guys who plays at my store came in 4th place at GP san Jose last weekend, and of course there was zero loving coverage of it except for the top 8 decks. Thanks cfb/wotc. look the thing that makes esports successful is teams wearing jerseys - not easy to access, daily (if not near-constant), live coverage of events at every level of competition
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Feb 3, 2017 04:53
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Entropic posted:Wait, what is the objection to "Copy Cat" or "Cat Lady"? They just plain don't do creative deck names anymore. The downside of someone getting offended and complaining has been judged to outweigh the upside of me smirking when the name pops up on coverage.
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Sickening posted:I hope the sales generation of all the non-us countries is enough to make up for the fact that only 1 out of 3 pt's this year are in the us. I feel like is US is your main market that having your promotional tour at 2-4 am US time is a pretty dumb idea. Marketing people choose the destinations. Marketing people attend them.
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Feb 3, 2017 09:49
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It's really not hard to work out if a funny deck name is stream-safe, even if you're being conservative. Copy Cat: yeah there's literally nothing there go nuts Cat Lady: ehhhhh there's a chance, nope I don't see why you can't have Breakfast Burrito *and* not have B/x decks named Thugs and Bugs, but maybe I'm expecting a little much.
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Feb 3, 2017 10:49
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Feb 3, 2017 11:31
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Rinkles posted:New Wotc coverage feature, the "advantage bar" Note that it took them about 5 tries to get the bar to point in the right direction.
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Feb 3, 2017 11:36
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Cards still glare obscured, Limited still boring. Pro Tour as usual.
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Feb 3, 2017 13:08
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Rinkles posted:Coverage gonna call the Cat decks by their proper name tomorrow? I get not wanting to use obscure or goofy names, but copy cat is actually descriptive. Don't know about the official designation, but Marshall's on the cat train.
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Feb 3, 2017 15:18
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"You know, these copy cat decks might seem the same, but they're really very different decks" Uh huh. I remember the commentators saying that about Eldrazi as well... "oh there's really five different archetypes here, It's very diverse! Please don't quit Modern"
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Feb 3, 2017 15:21
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Rinkles posted:Marketing people choose the destinations. Marketing people attend them. 
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Feb 3, 2017 15:24
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Good job nerds, get all up in arms about naming and they totally swerve you all and call it copy cat.
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Feb 3, 2017 15:35
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Rinkles posted:Don't know about the official designation, but Marshall's on the cat train. Oh good, Saheeli -> Negate -> Negate back. Standard looks so fun!
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Jabor posted:Oh good, Saheeli -> Negate -> Negate back. It was Dispel back even though the commentators said Negate for some reason. Also another vote for "Standard looks so fun" but not ironic.
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Rinkles posted:New Wotc coverage feature, the "advantage bar" what is even the point of that, other then being dead wrong when a control deck stabilizes at 5 life
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Jabor posted:Oh good, Saheeli -> Negate -> Negate back. ah, i've found the player who likes green creature match-ups for days
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What am I even supposed to be looking at on the "advantage bar"? Oh wait is it the tiny arrows that are dark grey on black?
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mandatory lesbian posted:ah, i've found the player who likes green creature match-ups for days The only reason why I am salty about it is that I had a Twin deck as my modern deck and then they print this poo poo.
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mandatory lesbian posted:what is even the point of that, other then being dead wrong when a control deck stabilizes at 5 life They're on the Twitch TV home page this go 'round, so maybe an attempt to throw the most minimal life vest to the general audience which is drowning in a sea of glare and implicit game rules.
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mandatory lesbian posted:what is even the point of that, other then being dead wrong when a control deck stabilizes at 5 life I'd assume they take stuff like that into consideration. It's probably so people browsing through twitch don't see the guy with 1 hp and think he has no chance.
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For everybody making fun of the Advantage Meter, I'm pretty sure that WotC actually mined their Magic Online data for decks matching the current-playing decklists and developed a hierarchical Bayesian model for win conditional on the current board, turn number, hand size, and player ELO. The Advantage Meter is a real reflection of the current player's actual probability to win. lol
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Feb 3, 2017 15:49
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So are there numbers up for the decks at the pro tour?
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It's round 5, the second round of constructed....so probably not.
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KillarySwank posted:If you're bad at the format, just play Affinity. um I play BURN, thanks. I just decided I hadn't played enough Modern to really bother trying to grind to the top 100 or whatever you need to actually get something back. I got ~160th last year and got a single pro point in reward, so I decided the $100 main event wasn't worth my time or money, since I live here and have no invested interest in going to this event. So I bought the $50 poo poo package so I get the playmat and promo and boosters and whatever, and I can just draft or play smaller constructed events. And leave whenever I want!
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Feb 3, 2017 16:28
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Sickening posted:Making the players wear these big headsets is really, really stupid. It's very very far from the stupidest thing they expect of their ~pro players~.
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Sickening posted:Making the players wear these big headsets is really, really stupid. I was watching a PT finals yesterday, and the crowd erupting when an important but not decisive card was drawn - audibly to the finalists - made the whole thing feel very amateur. This looks silly, and perhaps part of the reason is wanting to look more like an actual esport, but the headphones address an actual issue.
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Oh man, the PT has more twitch viewers than amaz does on HS at the moment, that's rare.
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ShaneB posted:Oh man, the PT has more twitch viewers than amaz does on HS at the moment, that's rare. drat, must be a rough day for Amaz.
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Procrastinator posted:drat, must be a rough day for Amaz. Still don't get why people like Amaz.
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Number 1 on Day 1 is Mardu Vehicles. I wouldn't have predicted that.
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Day 1 metagame breakdown: http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/ptaer/pro-tour-aether-revolt-day-1-standard-metagame-breakdown-2017-02-03 Mardu Vehicles at the top with 22,4%, Jeskai builds of Copycat at 16,9% and Constrictor based BG builds at 15.5% coming next. When put together, different Copycat builds at 24,7% if I didn't count wrong. Edit: They do note this themselves after the table.
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Count Bleck posted:Still don't get why people like Amaz. He's AWFUL. However, his Eternal streaming is actually watchable for now.
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They are spending more times building team stories than playing loving matches at this point. HOly gently caress.
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Sickening posted:They are spending more times building team stories than playing loving matches at this point. HOly gently caress. Magic is all about the story. Even when it isn't.
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