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April Fool's Day being on a weekend this year means Wizards has no excuse to update their site with a disappointing April Fool's Day joke. Nothing will ever top that fake draft viewer.
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Thank you bicycle lands!
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Apr 1, 2017 17:26
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Yesterday they were 10 and change. Wow.
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Apr 1, 2017 17:29
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Oh snap. Patrick Chapin is on commentary at GP San Antonio.
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Apr 1, 2017 17:34
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AlternateNu posted:Oh snap. Patrick Chapin is on commentary at GP San Antonio. Patrick believes Death's Shadow shouldn't be banned. Good for him, I agree.
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Apr 1, 2017 17:36
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Ban mishra's bauble
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Apr 1, 2017 17:44
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TheKingofSprings posted:Reprint mishra's bauble
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Apr 1, 2017 17:45
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AlternateNu posted:Oh snap. Patrick Chapin is on commentary at GP San Antonio. Not sure if he's drunk or high but he's slurring and sounding terrible
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Apr 1, 2017 17:49
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80s James Hetfield posted:Not sure if he's drunk or high but he's slurring and sounding terrible Oh yeah. He's high as gently caress.
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Apr 1, 2017 17:52
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Dunno what y'all are talking about, I think he's killing it
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Apr 1, 2017 17:59
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TheKingofSprings posted:Dunno what y'all are talking about, I think he's killing it Doesn't mean he isn't also high as gently caress.
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Apr 1, 2017 18:01
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80s James Hetfield posted:Not sure if he's drunk or high but he's slurring and sounding terrible That's his normal voice
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Apr 1, 2017 18:11
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TwistedNails posted:That's his normal voice Yeah I've never heard Chapin not sound like that, though conceivably he's high literally 100% of the time.
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Apr 1, 2017 18:19
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Already have a playset woooo BJPaskoff posted:April Fool's Day being on a weekend this year means Wizards has no excuse to update their site with a disappointing April Fool's Day joke. Nothing will ever top that fake draft viewer. I fondly remember last year's (or two years ago?) FTV of one-drops where they "previewed" Will-o-the-Wisp because it was a perfect mix of "of course Wizards would be dumb enough to do this" and "oh God I want this to be real" because the flavor text was from Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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Apr 1, 2017 18:26
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My favorite Wizards April Fools' Joke was when they announced Unhinged on April First back in the day and everyone assumed it was fake. of course, the problem was that then unhinged came out and that set it the worst
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Apr 1, 2017 18:56
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pr0digal posted:loving April Fools man i think it's unplayable in standard, personally
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Apr 1, 2017 18:57
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https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater/status/848234009775812610
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Apr 1, 2017 19:03
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I think the cat snake may be a great sideboard card if control is a thing. 4 power for 3 against control really adds to the clock.
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Apr 1, 2017 19:56
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DangerDongs posted:I think the cat snake may be a great sideboard card if control is a thing. 4 power for 3 against control really adds to the clock. If a 4/3 beater for 1GG is good against control then control isn't playable because apparently it cannot remove an extremely vulnerable threat.
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Apr 1, 2017 19:59
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Hellsau posted:If a 4/3 beater for 1GG is good against control then control isn't playable because apparently it cannot remove an extremely vulnerable threat. If a creature dies to removal in standard doesn't automatically make it bad. Yes, cards like Tracker are better for the grind, but if they are on turn 3 and debating playing a Tower or holding a counter spell, and you play the Cat Snake they may not have removal in hand, or maybe just a shock. Card dies to terminate, must be bad.
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Apr 1, 2017 20:15
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If it's standard we're talking about, do you really want to play a three mana 4/3 to turn off your opponent's lovely cancel variant? Why not play a one mana 3/2 and laugh at them when they counter it?
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Apr 1, 2017 20:21
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DangerDongs posted:If a creature dies to removal in standard doesn't automatically make it bad. Yes, cards like Tracker are better for the grind, but if they are on turn 3 and debating playing a Tower or holding a counter spell, and you play the Cat Snake they may not have removal in hand, or maybe just a shock. Explicitly being a sideboard card that dies to the enemy deck's main plan makes it a bad sideboard card. If counterspells get much better with Amonkhet and there's no removal, and they ban literally every threat from Mardu Vehicles to enable those counterspells to be playable over traditional removal, then maybe the catsnake will get there. I just cannot imagine the deck that you can afford to sideboard in a vanilla 4/3.
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Apr 1, 2017 20:22
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I'm glad wizards is giving us answers to the truly out of control deck in standard: blue-centered counterspell-focused draw-go control.
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Apr 1, 2017 20:31
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Hellsau posted:Explicitly being a sideboard card that dies to the enemy deck's main plan makes it a bad sideboard card. If counterspells get much better with Amonkhet and there's no removal, and they ban literally every threat from Mardu Vehicles to enable those counterspells to be playable over traditional removal, then maybe the catsnake will get there. I just cannot imagine the deck that you can afford to sideboard in a vanilla 4/3. Yeah, like... Sylvan Advocate is a 2-mana 4/5 and sees hardly any play. It's not that it dies to removal, it's that it's competitive with other creatures on pure stats, and those other creatures do have some resiliency or generate some advantage. A 4/3 for 3 is barely above rate nowadays. So it kind of needs the rest of its text to matter a lot, which it doesn't really right now.
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Apr 1, 2017 20:34
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what if they reprint counterspell
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Apr 1, 2017 20:50
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:what if they reprint counterspell If there actually was a CMU Blue style deck then the Serpopard would be good against it, but the way control decks work now they're a lot more geared to taking stuff off the board than keeping stuff off the board.
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Apr 1, 2017 20:54
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At least it's got higher power than toughness this time, maybe things will swing away from the x/x+1 for a while.
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Apr 1, 2017 20:56
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:what if they reprint counterspell Then they would've made a good decision regarding counterspells for the first time in a long time
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Apr 1, 2017 20:59
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Attorney at Funk posted:If there actually was a CMU Blue style deck then the Serpopard would be good against it, but the way control decks work now they're a lot more geared to taking stuff off the board than keeping stuff off the board. So the latest Temur Tower that took first at a GP plays 6 direct damage that can hit 3. 3 board wipes that only hit for 2, and of course the Tower. It plays 5 cancel type counters and 3 negates. It is pretty evenly split on board / before board removal. There is a good chance they board out towers if you are playing green due to your sideboard artifact removal.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:00
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:what if they reprint force of will  Do it, WotC, you pussies.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:00
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MM17 is a great draft format, and I've only just done my first one. Thinking person's format with access to great mana fixing, a fairly flat power-level across cards, powerful and synergistic commons, and no discernible hint of a real menacing aggro foil. My kind of limited format for sure.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:03
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MiddleEastBeast posted:MM17 is a great draft format, and I've only just done my first one. Thinking person's format with access to great mana fixing, a fairly flat power-level across cards, powerful and synergistic commons, and no discernible hint of a real menacing aggro foil. My kind of limited format for sure. It's a great limited format that makes going back to AER really painful.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:06
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4/1 at gp San Antonio and I am undefeated in all my games. Death shadow is good and people still don't instant what happens when death shadows bump into each other in all in attacks.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:12
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PJOmega posted:It's a great limited format that makes going back to AER really painful. Yeah, I am so burnt out on this format. I think SOI/EM was far better.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:16
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Sickening posted:4/1 at gp San Antonio and I am undefeated in all my games. Death shadow is good and people still don't instant what happens when death shadows bump into each other in all in attacks. What happens? I'm guessing that if you take combat damage while your Shadow is blocking something that's the same size as it, your Shadow gets pumped during combat and survives blocking?
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Apr 1, 2017 21:18
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DangerDongs posted:So the latest Temur Tower that took first at a GP plays 6 direct damage that can hit 3. 3 board wipes that only hit for 2, and of course the Tower. I dunno, it still seems like an overreaction to a handful of cards for a threat that's not actually that undercosted.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:19
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C-Euro posted:What happens? I'm guessing that if you take combat damage while your Shadow is blocking something that's the same size as it, your Shadow gets pumped during combat and survives blocking? More like if you trample over Shadow, it survives because all damage is applied simultaneously, and it ends up becoming X+T with X damage on it where T was the amount of trample before state-based actions are applied.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:30
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Swords to Plowshare is powerful. How powerful would it be in Modern, if it were somehow brought about? Friend and I were talking about cards that hose Death's Shadow, and that came up. Obviously it's not legal, but we were discussing how broke it would be in Modern.
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Apr 1, 2017 21:33
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En Fuego posted:Swords to Plowshare is powerful. How powerful would it be in Modern, if it were somehow brought about? Friend and I were talking about cards that hose Death's Shadow, and that came up. Obviously it's not legal, but we were discussing how broke it would be in Modern. Hella broken
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Apr 1, 2017 21:37
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En Fuego posted:Swords to Plowshare is powerful. How powerful would it be in Modern, if it were somehow brought about? Friend and I were talking about cards that hose Death's Shadow, and that came up. Obviously it's not legal, but we were discussing how broke it would be in Modern. Stupidly good. Also condemn probably does what you want against deaths shadow but isn't nearly as good in general
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