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Marketing New Brain posted:A lot of the problem is cards not being powerful outside of their block synergies. Delirium and Energy are great examples, you need a critical mass to make them effective or solid enablers. Meanwhile a deck like Mardu works because it is just a good stuff deck, it'll take Cast Out and possibly a planeswalker and discard the rest. The issue I have with block-based synergy decks is that they largely build themselves.
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Marketing New Brain posted:A lot of the problem is cards not being powerful outside of their block synergies. Delirium and Energy are great examples, you need a critical mass to make them effective or solid enablers. Meanwhile a deck like Mardu works because it is just a good stuff deck, it'll take Cast Out and possibly a planeswalker and discard the rest. Cut // Ribbons in Mardu is wrecking G/B
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Standard looks better now. The meta is pretty open to some fun decks now. I predict an Abzan delirium control deck will be pretty fun. I might put one together.
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DangerDongs posted:Cut // Ribbons in Mardu is wrecking G/B I mean two mana flame slash isn't good enough because it is awful vs Mardu, and in general, but I guess anything can happen with the weird way in which they are building sets now. I think that card is extremely fringe and not going to see much play.
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G/B Delirium is back baby, and would have won against Jessup instead of drawing if Jessup wasn't slowed down by his chins. It is always awkward to watch both players show their hands, and mathematically a person would have lost, but they refuse to concede while the other guy begs for his win. Edit: Cut/Ribbons just won three games on screen today. Who knew shooting down Grim Flayers and then flinging 5 at the opponents face would be good in an aggro deck. Edit about Abzan: I have been playing Abzan G/B Snake adding Gideon and Sorin. It plays like Tokens with more removal and bigger counters. I can post a list if anyone is interested. DangerDongs fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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Apr 30, 2017 01:10
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Here's the book review I mentioned I was writing: Generation Decks, by Titus Chalk (amazon link) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 30, 2017 01:41
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Playing Draft the other day I had my opponent down to 1 when he turned on New Perspectives, cycled through half his deck to find Archfiend of Ifnir at my end of turn, then used it to wipe my board. Pretty much every game of this format has had some amazing play in it, all sorts of fun.
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If your goal was just to beat Mardu and you didn't care about any other matchup, what would you run?
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uninverted posted:If your goal was just to beat Mardu and you didn't care about any other matchup, what would you run? BG is probably the best choice right now if you want an established deck. There might be a better Abzan build or a WB control list that has even more removal and lifelinkers to put the game out of reach once it stabilizes.
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DangerDongs posted:G/B Delirium is back baby, and would have won against Jessup instead of drawing if Jessup wasn't slowed down by his chins. Drop it in the Brewhaus? I'm definitely playing black at Montreal, but don't fancy getting Heart of Kirens. I think I have most BG cards though. Would like to see if there is a Mardu deck that isn't vehicles now, I'd like to do a walker deck in those colors, see if using both Lilanas works.
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Apr 30, 2017 02:43
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I just want a blue control deck to be good
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GeneX posted:I just want a blue control deck to be good GeneX posted:I just want a blue control deck to be good GeneX posted:I just want a blue control deck to be good GeneX posted:I just want a blue control deck to be good  PLEASEe: and not just a midrange deck that plays Torrential Gearhulk
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GeneX posted:I just want a blue control deck to be good Same, and not tapout! I just want to play in my opponents' end steps.
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kingcobweb posted:Here's the book review I mentioned I was writing: Generation Decks, by Titus Chalk (amazon link) Don't you only post in here to promote your own writing? Do you get money if we buy the book through that link? You should really disclose that. I scrubbed your referrer info from the link in my quote. If anyone wants it, click through the link in my quote.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:Don't you only post in here to promote your own writing? Do you get money if we buy the book through that link? You should really disclose that.
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Ein Sexmonster posted:Yep. This isn't surprising given everything he writes is long-form autofellatio. I like calling him out on it.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:Don't you only post in here to promote your own writing? Do you get money if we buy the book through that link? You should really disclose that. Hahaha holy poo poo dude, I post stuff here because I've been posting in these threads since the first one and I got a good response from them when I was starting out and people seem to like what I write And no, there's no amazon referral link in there, I think that's visible if you like look at the URL or something, but I don't make any money off of this
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kingcobweb posted:Hahaha holy poo poo dude, I post stuff here because I've been posting in these threads since the first one and I got a good response from them when I was starting out and people seem to like what I write I can tell by the quality of your writing that you don't make any money off of it.
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kingcobweb posted:Hahaha holy poo poo dude, I post stuff here because I've been posting in these threads since the first one and I got a good response from them when I was starting out and people seem to like what I write
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I like KCW's writing. I won't say it can never use an editor, but I generally don't expect random blogs to be professionally edited. Well, peace. e: that being said, yeah, after rereading the comments to the art director interview, it should have some official corrections it looks like JerryLee fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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 Loving my draft deck. 4 wins out of 7, 3 losses. Sometimes I win by just beating down with Trueheart Twins and Gust Walkers, other times I use the manticores to rip their life away. I only added white to what was shaping up to be a red/black deck early on since it was my first pick pack 1. Here's hoping my wins keep coming!
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a land seems better then pyramid tbh
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yeah I would definitely cut pyramid for a land, might even cut something for a second land though I think that's borderline
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Ein Sexmonster posted:Did you ever go back and edit that art director interview with all the factual errors and misattributions? I'm going to guess no. If you actually want a full breakdown of this I can give that but if you're just gonna make Sick Burns about stuff I wrote two years ago then nah
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BizarroAzrael posted:Drop it in the Brewhaus? I'm definitely playing black at Montreal, but don't fancy getting Heart of Kirens. I think I have most BG cards though. Would like to see if there is a Mardu deck that isn't vehicles now, I'd like to do a walker deck in those colors, see if using both Lilanas works. Will do my man. I ended up cutting little Lili, and I haven't found room for big Lily yet.
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mandatory lesbian posted:a land seems better then pyramid tbh Yeah, I was gonna say at least do this - that's nuts. The pyramid's doing nothing in an aggressive deck with five-drops for the top end.
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kingcobweb posted:If you actually want a full breakdown of this I can give that but if you're just gonna make Sick Burns about stuff I wrote two years ago then nah What about sick burns on stuff you published tonight?
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The Sexual Shiite posted:Don't you only post in here to promote your own writing? Do you get money if we buy the book through that link? You should really disclose that. christ you're catty
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A big flaming stink posted:christ you're catty I just don't want this thread to devolve into people only posting to self-promote their blogs.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:I just don't want this thread to devolve into people only posting to self-promote their blogs. its a good thing it's only the one guy then
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The Sexual Shiite posted:I just don't want this thread to devolve into people only posting to self-promote their blogs. so i guess i shouldn't post a link to my blog where i argue against the reserve list and how bad edh is and the latest absurd mtgo bugs i've run up against?
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kingcobweb posted:If you actually want a full breakdown of this I can give that but if you're just gonna make Sick Burns about stuff I wrote two years ago then nah I generally genuinely enjoy your writing and, even if I didn't, it's different from the vast majority of generic, vapid magic writing that I'd say keep it up. Given that I do enjoy it, please write more.
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hell we post and "analyze" the magic stories, and KCW's stuff is way better than that (except for The Greatest Piece of Fiction Ever Composed, of course)
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Hellsau posted:so i guess i shouldn't post a link to my blog where i argue against the reserve list and how bad edh is and the latest absurd mtgo bugs i've run up against? I think referring to this thread as your blog is stretching it a little
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Does KCW's blog even have ads? I have ad blockers installed like a remotely sane person but I thought he just made his money through patreon.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Does KCW's blog even have ads? I have ad blockers installed like a remotely sane person but I thought he just made his money through patreon. afaik it doesn't, I have adblocker on too. I certainly don't monetize it. I tried that way back when and I never got above the $10 threshold to cash out Patreon rules, when I was at gatheringmagic they gave me $35 per column (which I had to negotiate up from $25), and they wouldn't tell me even vague traffic numbers.
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I thought the bit on the top ban was good
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If we're giving subjective opinions of KCW's writing - I really liked your set retrospective (to the point where I've re-read all of them at least three times) and not a single other article you have written since then, and you seem like someone I would genuinely not get along with if I met you in person. With that said - keep it up with the writing, since the more people who write about Magic and don't work for WotC, the better.
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