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Even peasant cube is always a blast. My buddy survived a T4 artisan of kozilek without killing or hindering it in any way. The regen splicer followed by the +1/+1 cock blocked me. On the other hand I wrecked fools with Malevolent Awakening and Cloud of Faeries and Rav bounce lands.
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Sickening posted:Updated my janky list for azban scales. Why do you like servant of the scale so much but not arcbound ravager? Still waiting on jumping in, but I'm curious about your dislike of ravager. Seems good to me if only for the flexibility with the other artifacts.
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Lawnie posted:Why do you like servant of the scale so much but not arcbound ravager? Still waiting on jumping in, but I'm curious about your dislike of ravager. Seems good to me if only for the flexibility with the other artifacts. If I had to guess, it's to get a consistent counter-having 1-drop in a deck that really wants to use its 2-drops for the Constrictors, and that Servant will hand over its counters to anything while Ravager is just to artifact creatures.
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Servant is a straight upgrade to Arcbound Worker, and Ravager seems like it's not enough payoff compared to the other 2-drops in the deck. e: Sickenning what are your thoughts on Spike Feeder?
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Everyone gave great advice for starting out again and explaining the rule changes; thanks so much. To clarify, I stopped playing seriously right after Lorwyn, and casually just as planeswalkers were first introduced, so I'm pretty familiar with the concept, although it seems like they're much more substantial and relevant to deck strategy now.little munchkin posted:What up, same situation for me. Paid $4.50 for force of wills back in the day, 14$ for some taigas. No idea what happened to them. Went to a draft on a whim 1.5 years ago, had a good time so I kept it up. I guess I'll just need to see what formats people are playing around my local shops. I recall having EXT decks was a lot of fun, and playing STD kept you up to date with new releases and was fresh and interesting. I don't remember Modern or Commander existing, so they sound cool to look into. There's so much more help online than there was in the way back. Just need to find the right places to dig in. There's so much info out there, it seems overwhelming. Going to be fun to catch up though.
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JerryLee posted:Hero's Downfall could be an uncommon without too much stretching as far as the dynamics of the game are concerned (economic greed is another matter). The only real game-logic justification for it being rare is that it interacts with planeswalkers, which I realize is a semi-official rule, but I don't think it justifies making it a rare if that in turn is an obstacle to reprinting it. 
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TheKingofSprings posted:What is actually fun about Magic?  All jokes aside, spell interactions were always the fun part of MTG for me, although ramping into an efficient creature curve and then burning your opponent out by turn 5 is a close second.
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I've seen this GIF a few times, but I don't know the context. Is there a video of it somewhere, or can someone explain it?
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ManMythLegend posted:I've seen this GIF a few times, but I don't know the context. Is there a video of it somewhere, or can someone explain it? It's a blind flip bonfire to win Worlds
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ManMythLegend posted:I've seen this GIF a few times, but I don't know the context. Is there a video of it somewhere, or can someone explain it? It's a gif of Aaron Forsythe contemplating a change in careers.
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Sigma-X posted:It's a blind flip bonfire to win Worlds It wasn't even to win the whole thing, it was to knock the US out.
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Subways Jared posted:Everyone gave great advice for starting out again and explaining the rule changes; thanks so much. To clarify, I stopped playing seriously right after Lorwyn, and casually just as planeswalkers were first introduced, so I'm pretty familiar with the concept, although it seems like they're much more substantial and relevant to deck strategy now. If your friend owns Heroes and Fantasies skip their events and go to Dragons Lair or Gamers Pair-a-dice. But I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "runs all the tourneys."
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GP Barcelona's Top 8 is literally 4 matches of Mardu vs 4-color Saheeli.
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AlternateNu posted:GP Barcelona's Top 8 is literally 4 matches of Mardu vs 4-color Saheeli. Whatever they do with the B&R tomorrow regarding standard they look bad. Frequently ban poo poo? Awful and indicitve of major internal failures let it ride? Stagnant 3 deck format.
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They need to just stop trying to make artifact sets. That is a good start.
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ManMythLegend posted:I've seen this GIF a few times, but I don't know the context. Is there a video of it somewhere, or can someone explain it? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJTCYEg3Tc Kibler was representing the USA at worlds, this was the deciding match, last game. USA was very behind but Kibler was making a comeback with Olivia Voldaren picking off Cheng's (his opponent) creatures. Olivia had been pumped up to a 9/9 and would have swung for lethal next turn. Cheng taps the top of his deck and miracles Bonfire of the Damned for lethal, effectively eliminating the USA team from the tournament What makes it better is that Aaron Forsythe, director of R&D for MTG, is standing right behind Kibler watching it go down and gets to see how frustrating it is to play against cards with the Miracle mechanic Dehtraen fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Mar 12, 2017 |
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Miracle is the worst mechanic ever made. AVR was a mistake.
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AlternateNu posted:GP Barcelona's Top 8 is literally 4 matches of Mardu vs 4-color Saheeli. hmm, that was the same thing that happened at the mtgo championship thing i thought this was supposed to be a 3 deck meta
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mandatory lesbian posted:hmm, that was the same thing that happened at the mtgo championship thing Mardu adapted to push out GB. Mostly a good transformational sideboard plan.
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mandatory lesbian posted:hmm, that was the same thing that happened at the mtgo championship thing I don't think anyone actually thinks GB is good. Excepy for Reid Duke because it's GB.
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DangerDongs posted:They need to just stop trying to make artifact sets. That is a good start. SoM wasn't really that bad for Standard, if I recall correctly, aside from its equipment which were primarily only a problem because of the previous block's sins. I guess Birthing Pod with the full suite of value creatures in Standard during SoM's tenure was kind of dumb (lookin' at you, Thragtusk) but again that wasn't SoM's fault. Of course, Phyrexian mana took a gigantic poo poo on eternal formats that Wizards is still slowly fixing, but we're talking about Standard here.
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Yeah, the problem was Stoneforge Mystic, not the swords or Batterskull. And Birthing Pod was never really broken in Standard with a more limited suite of creatures to chain through than in Modern. Most of the good artifacts were fairly costed enough to not be real problems. Somehow even Wurmcoil Engine aka The Sixth Titan never even came close to eating a ban. The worst thing that block did was Phyrexian Mana, which gave us Dismember and Mental Misstep.
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mental misstep wasn't great in standard but dismember killed everything but the titans so it just made them more ubiquitous however we had bolt so therefore it's a good standard
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Abzan Company vs 5 color aggro match on screen for SCG Dallas Apparently they let him set his life total at infinity. In theory, shouldn't they make him set it to a definitive number? I guess it ultimately doesn't matter unless the opponent can conceivably deal infinite damage, but still.
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His actual life is a finite number but displaying infinite is accurate enough for a broadcast screen.
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InterrupterJones posted:Abzan Company vs 5 color aggro match on screen for SCG Dallas The people doing the graphics probably don't know the number he chose so they went with the next best thing. Also eleventybillion probably wouldn't fit on their overlay.
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InterrupterJones posted:Abzan Company vs 5 color aggro match on screen for SCG Dallas the difference between 1 million and infinity is arbitrary in magic
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That's all fair enough. Looks like he won anyway, so w/e.
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I challenge anyone to come up with a situation where the fact that someone's life total is only 90 billion and not infinite actually matters. e: the proper thing to do in these situations is of course to set your life total at Graham's Number.
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Entropic posted:I challenge anyone to come up with a situation where the fact that someone's life total is only 90 billion and not infinite actually matters. Player A made 50 billion tokens that last further than just the end of turn. Player B picked his life total at 500 billion, game is in turn 1 of extra turns. 
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It matters if their opponent ends up getting an arbitrarily large amount of damage from some combo such as Splinter Twin. Actually Splinter Twin vs an on-board infinite life combo is a good example of why allowing "infinity" would be confusing. Under the current rules the Twin player has to name a number, and then after they declare attacks the Abzan player can name a higher number and thus always survive. If the Twin player could just say "make infinite Exarchs" it's unclear what happens when the Abzan player responds with "gain infinite life".
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After the Barcelona top 8 there is no way Felidar isn't getting the axe after they said they would be watching the deck. Good riddance.
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DangerDongs posted:After the Barcelona top 8 there is no way Felidar isn't getting the axe after they said they would be watching the deck. Good riddance. Yeah this is pretty absurd. Hopefully it'll take that cheating gently caress down before getting axed.
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DangerDongs posted:After the Barcelona top 8 there is no way Felidar isn't getting the axe after they said they would be watching the deck. Good riddance. ahh, clearly the solution to standard's woes is to turn it into a 1-deck format
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Serperoth posted:Player A made 50 billion tokens that last further than just the end of turn. It's all just arbitrary depending on who chooses first though. In practice, someone gains "infinite life" i.e. sets their life total to an arbitrarily large number. Then someone makes "infinite tokens" to kill them, i.e. says "yeah, whatever number you picked, I'll make twice that many tokens". It's not actually infinite, but getting hung up on whatever specific number someone picked is pretty pointless.
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little munchkin posted:ahh, clearly the solution to standard's woes is to turn it into a 1-deck format They can unban all three cards they banned and ban the Cat and get a better format. Hell, ban Gideon, Marvel and Cat and see what happens.
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Entropic posted:It's all just arbitrary depending on who chooses first though. In practice, someone gains "infinite life" i.e. sets their life total to an arbitrarily large number. Then someone makes "infinite tokens" to kill them, i.e. says "yeah, whatever number you picked, I'll make twice that many tokens". Oh yeah, I'm with you, "infinite" as shorthand for "arbitrarily large" is fine, I was just being a by pointing it out. There is the chance that someone will gently caress up ("Oh my opponent has 500 billion life? I make 100 million tokens then), but that's more of a theoretical thing than an actual realistic suggestion.
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Hellsau posted:They can unban all three cards they banned and ban the Cat and get a better format. Hell, ban Gideon, Marvel and Cat and see what happens. People finally drop that lovely format
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Irony Be My Shield posted:It matters if their opponent ends up getting an arbitrarily large amount of damage from some combo such as Splinter Twin. Actually Splinter Twin vs an on-board infinite life combo is a good example of why allowing "infinity" would be confusing. Under the current rules the Twin player has to name a number, and then after they declare attacks the Abzan player can name a higher number and thus always survive. If the Twin player could just say "make infinite Exarchs" it's unclear what happens when the Abzan player responds with "gain infinite life". my secret tech is to respond with "i gain infinity plus 1 life"
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