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TheKingofSprings posted:You ignored the actual salient point I made about a card that occupies a similar niche to Priest in what it does while being good as a card by itself and being a 2 of in a couple of solidly performing decks but not format oppressing. I honestly meant to acknowledge your point about Ooze but forgot to paste it into my other response. I do think Ooze is more fair though, it requires an investment and is a much slower response than a 2 mana flash answer to multiple things. My main point is the same thing OFS said above. Priest is good in a lot of matchups and even the ones where she doesn't shut it down, she's half of a combo that beats other fair decks. Seems a good bit unnecessary, but it might be fine.
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Serenade posted:Oh, huh. I could have sworn mono white control only got away with Scrying Sheets because of top. But if it's not needed then good, more deck space. I don;t think there is a monowhite control modern deck. There's a deck in legacy called the Mighty Quinn that use scrying sheets and snow plains, but the versions that use top do it more to set up terminus.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I honestly meant to acknowledge your point about Ooze but forgot to paste it into my other response. I do think Ooze is more fair though, it requires an investment and is a much slower response than a 2 mana flash answer to multiple things. My main point is the same thing OFS said above. Priest is good in a lot of matchups and even the ones where she doesn't shut it down, she's half of a combo that beats other fair decks. Seems a good bit unnecessary, but it might be fine. Which fair deck is this combo beating? BGx has more than enough removal to take it off the table, Bant Company sure doesn't like facing down a Displacer period when it's able to flicker multiple times, and Bant Eldrazi can actively use your own combo against you in the late game, with a way higher rate of drawing into their piece thanks to Ancient Stirrings.
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The Shortest Path posted:When they were briefly in standard together that was a good deck, but the version of MWC that stuck around after Kamigawa rotated for TSP was solid and didn't need Top. Yeah, if these weren't co workers I'd be all over proc martyr with some instant win combo or a modern owling mine. But I'll settle for dumb skred / pyrohemia + stuffy doll. e: Johnny Five-Jaces posted:I don;t think there is a monowhite control modern deck. There's a deck in legacy called the Mighty Quinn that use scrying sheets and snow plains, but the versions that use top do it more to set up terminus. Yeah, that's the one I had in mind.
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:I don;t think there is a monowhite control modern deck. There's a deck in legacy called the Mighty Quinn that use scrying sheets and snow plains, but the versions that use top do it more to set up terminus. There's a fun goofy rear end mono white turbo fog deck but it dies to chalice on 1 but god drat if it aint fun to play
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Mar 30, 2017 19:42
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:Since I was getting caught up on the thread and story chat was a few pages ago, I do want to say while 99% of the stories are hot garbage every once in awhile a good one happens! the good story was emrakul waifu, and that wont be beat by anything
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Mar 30, 2017 19:43
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TheKingofSprings posted:Which fair deck is this combo beating? BGx, or at least jund would probably be fine. Usually arbiter or thalia ends up eating all the removal spells but jund is favored in my experience. Part of the problem with taxes decks is that they run out of gas or don't have enough removal and this eases that problem. Combo would be great against merfolk and be useful against shadow decks since they don't run as much removal as traditional jund, although I don't think shadow is that good vs taxes decks anyway. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to protect creatures when you have displacer, wisp+vial, and resto. Like I keep saying, I could be completely wrong about it, but I think it's an unnecessary addition to whites' silver-bullet ammo box. That's the part that would bother me, I'd worry it would discourage some of the variety that's all over modern right now.
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mandatory lesbian posted:the good story was emrakul waifu, and that wont be beat by anything Nah the best one was when Kruphix's prophet went to visit him and the whole story was him telling her "lol here are the myriad ways in which we could be turbofucked at any moment", except written way better than that.
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Containment Priest makes it a lot harder to protect your non-Containment Priest creatures when they'll get permanently exiled if you try to protect them, so there's a big opportunity cost to running the combo in your deck.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Containment Priest makes it a lot harder to protect your non-Containment Priest creatures when they'll get permanently exiled if you try to protect them, so there's a big opportunity cost to running the combo in your deck. Yeah that's also a fair point, I was just thinking of protecting the priest. It would add a lot more interaction to the deck. I don't think it's a necessary card for modern at all but I'd play it if they printed it. Guess we will see.
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C-Euro posted:Nah the best one was when Kruphix's prophet went to visit him and the whole story was him telling her "lol here are the myriad ways in which we could be turbofucked at any moment", except written way better than that. it wasnt actually written much better then that
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the story is trash, why are y'all defending it, what is this
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TheKingofSprings posted:Containment Priest makes it a lot harder to protect your non-Containment Priest creatures when they'll get permanently exiled if you try to protect them, so there's a big opportunity cost to running the combo in your deck. I think removing creatures for value at 3 cmc or above in modern is good without being crazy. None of this is even online without vial until what, turn 4? Less with displacer? Still not seeing how its broken.
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Mar 30, 2017 19:56
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You might not care'mrakul, but other people do'mrakul.
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I think I finally cracked Abzan in Standard by combining G/W tokens and Snake. Turn 3 Gideons are pretty mean. My only complaint is lack of removal for Planeswalkers. The Delirium theme is kind of weak, but the deck hits it a lot if the game goes long; fortunately the only pay off is the traverses, and postboard Ishkanah. I have not tried Avacyn yet. The deck is really fun to play and does well against control, and Mardu. Regular G/B is the hardest match up. 4x Winding Constrictor 4x Tireless Tracker 3x Servant of the Conduit 3x Walking Ballista 2x Rishkar, Peema Renegade 1x Green HULK 1x Noxious Gearhulk 4x Gideon 2x Little Nissa 1x Ob 1x Sorin 3x Fatal Push 3x Grasp of Darkness 1x Ruinous Path 3x Traverse the Ulvenwald 4x Blooming Marsh 3x Concealed courtyard 3x Shambling Vent 3x Hissing Quagmire 4x Forest 3x Swamp 2x Plains 2x Evolving Wilds SIDEBOARD 2x Gonti 2x Kalitas 2x Painful Truths 2x Natural Obsolesence 2x Fumigate 1x Ishkanah 4x Transgress the Mind
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mandatory lesbian posted:the story is trash, why are y'all defending it, what is this
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Siivola posted:I can certainly stop if it makes you uncomfortable, but it's actually okay to enjoy things. If the TG subforum has taught me anything over the last decade, it's that this is false
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Why don't we all just right our own story as the somethingawful forum one paragraph at a time. I'll Start: Jace wakes up from a dream, but remembers his name is actually Jack. He puts his pants on slowly knowing an other school day means an other rear end kicking, and just an other day of his math teacher making fun of his lousy IQ; they just don't understand my superior ways of thinking, but soon they will. He puts his favorite My Chemical Romance album into his walkman and walks out the front door hoping Soren won't bully him this day.
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Jace should be fine because Sorin doesn't do anything.
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whydirt posted:You might not care'mrakul, but other people do'mrakul. This was, I think, peak "decent idea poo poo execution"
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Sickening posted:I think removing creatures for value at 3 cmc or above in modern is good without being crazy. None of this is even online without vial until what, turn 4? Less with displacer? Still not seeing how its broken. It's not a broken interaction with a format where you can cast an Expertise on turn 2 to cast Breaking // Entering for free and swing with Emrakul and keep the Emrakul. There's plenty of broken poo poo in Modern.
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Siivola posted:I can certainly stop if it makes you uncomfortable, but it's actually okay to enjoy things. its okay to enjoy bad stuff, i agree. but don't pretend it isn't bad
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Rinkles posted:Is that super broken by modern standards? Removing a creature from the game for 2C the turn after you've died is way too powerful now if you'll excuse me I need to cast a turn 1 Chalice of the Void for 1 and reanimate a hasty Emrakul on turn 2. Fingers McLongDong posted:Priest isn't too much in legacy but white really doesn't need another silver bullet card that a lot of decks can't beat, and this one is easily maindeck if you also play displacer. It's a card that kills some of the variety around right now. I say this as someone that LOVES playing hatebears effects in every format possible but also as someone playing abzan company. As far as I'm concerned if your deck can't beat a 2 mana 2/2 with no ability to protect itself, that's a flaw with your deck, not with the card.
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mandatory lesbian posted:its okay to enjoy bad stuff, i agree. but don't pretend it isn't bad
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Siivola posted:The stories are written in-house by the creative team. in house by randoms that want to write
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Siivola posted:Fair. It's just, calling all this trash when comic books and Eragon exist feels sort of harsh. Comparing comic books to Magic fanfic seems pretty harsh too, man.
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Siivola posted:Fair. It's just, calling all this trash when comic books and Eragon exist feels sort of harsh. I was never able to get into comics but I have read Eragon as well as Magic Story and I can confirm that both are, in fact, trash. I actually prefer and enjoy Magic Story but I think that's because I actually have an emotional connection to it and also haven't read Eragon in years
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Siivola posted:Fair. It's just, calling all this trash when comic books and Eragon exist feels sort of harsh. The thing is, there's trash with a dead raccoon in it, and then there's trash with a live raccoon in it, but either way that's one raccoon i don't want anything to do with.
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There's actually zero difference between good and bad things. Surprised you guys didn't know that.
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Anil Dasharez0ne posted:The thing is, there's trash with a dead raccoon in it, and then there's trash with a live raccoon in it, but either way that's one raccoon i don't want anything to do with.
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LRR is doing a previews stream, first one was a Renewed Faith reprint and they have another one (non-reprint) they haven't revealed yet that they're building up to. EDIT: Prowling Serpopard 1GG Rare Creature - Cat Snake Prowling Serpopard can't be countered. Creature spells you control can't be countered 4/3 Sit on my Jace fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Anil Dasharez0ne posted:LRR is doing a previews stream, first one was a Renewed Faith reprint and they have another one (non-reprint) they haven't revealed yet that they're building up to.  
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CompeAnansi posted:A serpopard? Really? stupid name, cute picture also a 3 mana 4/3, which seems good
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Catsnake is neat. That Cycling Card puts more nails in aggro's coffin.
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TheKingofSprings posted:That cat seems very strong. Yeah. Luckily it only has 3 toughness, so Lightning Strike will be able to answer it.
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:the cat snake is adorable I like the idea, but it looks like a WIP photoshop to me. The head specifically stands out.
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