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Lawnie posted:Reprint swords but with "target creature takes up farming" still sincerely wish farming was a keyword, drat richard garfield for doing things like making the card read easier
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"You may cast this creature from farming."
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May 6, 2017 18:11
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PJOmega posted:"You may cast this creature from farming." Cincinnatus legendary creature looking good, Roman Republic block confirmed
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May 6, 2017 18:14
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JerryLee posted:Cincinnatus legendary creature looking good, Roman Republic block confirmed Can't wait to see voting and monarch wreak havoc in non-multiplayer sets. 
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May 6, 2017 18:19
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Sickening posted:If the creatures didn't draw cards, produce tokens, reanimate, and have evasion you would be correct. It's more that the cost of all those things is too high. 3 mana and 1 or less card in hand is a lot different than 1 mana and a zombie. Tapping three zombies to draw a card rather than attack seems like a weird anti-synergy. The menace is probably the best thing it has going for it, but card for card and synergy wise it feels so much worse than GB to me.
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May 6, 2017 18:17
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Marketing New Brain posted:It's more that the cost of all those things is too high. 3 mana and 1 or less card in hand is a lot different than 1 mana and a zombie. Tapping three zombies to draw a card rather than attack seems like a weird anti-synergy. The menace is probably the best thing it has going for it, but card for card and synergy wise it feels so much worse than GB to me. Yet g/b is like the decks best matchup.
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May 6, 2017 18:26
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Being able to tap your dorky aggro creatures to draw cards when they can't attack profitably sounds awesome to me. My problem with the deck is the lack of reach. The white splash for the 2-drop seems to help a bit, but that's only ok. I'd actually consider splashing red for Cut//Ribbons instead.
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May 6, 2017 18:46
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May 6, 2017 19:11
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I managed to go off with Hapatra and Archfiend of Ifnir against a board full of creatures, and it was glorious.
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May 6, 2017 19:16
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JerryLee posted:Cincinnatus legendary creature looking good, Roman Republic block confirmed Would legit love to see a Roman period block but that nut was probably already busted when the Theros setting was created. Then again the thing that made Rome last so long was co-opting good poo poo from over civilizations, so you could set up a block where four colors each have their own distinct flavor and the fifth color just cribs stuff from each of them, with a little bit of its own unique stuff too.
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May 6, 2017 19:29
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Maro has said that they intentionally designed Theros in a way to leave the door open for a Rome-themed set.
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May 6, 2017 19:31
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whydirt posted:Maro has said that they intentionally designed Theros in a way to leave the door open for a Rome-themed set. Only if the second set of that block ends with the plane burning itself down.
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May 6, 2017 19:37
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TheMaestroso posted:I managed to go off with Hapatra and Archfiend of Ifnir against a board full of creatures, and it was glorious. Then I lost because my opponent found his wrath. Oh well.
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May 6, 2017 19:40
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C-Euro posted:Would legit love to see a Roman period block but that nut was probably already busted when the Theros setting was created. Then again the thing that made Rome last so long was co-opting good poo poo from over civilizations, so you could set up a block where four colors each have their own distinct flavor and the fifth color just cribs stuff from each of them, with a little bit of its own unique stuff too. Most people can't tell the difference between Roman and Greek settings and just assume that Rome copied or stole everything around them and never ever made anything on their own. They'll just think it's Theros II.
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May 6, 2017 19:41
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Siivola posted:Going off with Hapatra feels so good. I managed this turn three play last Friday, after a mull to five: "Okay, untap, draw. Attack with Hapatra? Since there's no other creatures on board she takes the -1/-1 on herself, creates a snake. Swamp, cast Plague Belcher, takes the counters, another snake. Go." Few things are as fun as going from facing down a Rhonas with five other creatures to turning your 0/2'd Archfiend into a counter cannon by playing Hapatra, cycling to shrink their board and get six snakes...and then drawing another cycler to do it again.
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May 6, 2017 19:49
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Ugh. Sealed GPs are the loving worst.
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May 6, 2017 20:49
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Ugh. Sealed GPs are the loving worst. Who opened 2x Glorybringer? With Edifice of Authority backup?
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May 6, 2017 20:53
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Fun thing to do this standard: start a debate about the pronunciation of Canyon Slough
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May 6, 2017 20:56
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PJOmega posted:Who opened 2x Glorybringer? With Edifice of Authority backup? Oh I mean for watching. Mostly because of that reason right there.
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May 6, 2017 20:58
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Canyon Slough: "Black-red dual"
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Ugh. Sealed GPs are the loving worst. its really not very good as a format, it only "works" for pre-releases since people there for that just want to see a bunch of new cards i really don't understand why it's a gp format, it's incredibly luck-based
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mandatory lesbian posted:its really not very good as a format, it only "works" for pre-releases since people there for that just want to see a bunch of new cards Basically this. I'm not a fan of just randomly lucking into cards and getting multiple perfect bomb rares/mythic means you usually just win.
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May 6, 2017 21:03
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mandatory lesbian posted:its really not very good as a format, it only "works" for pre-releases since people there for that just want to see a bunch of new cards My guess is because adding in a bunch of drafts and extra deckbuilding time is like adding in a couple extra rounds of play and GPs already run absurdly late
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May 6, 2017 21:06
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whydirt posted:Canyon Slough: "Black-red dual" It's slew
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it's pronounced woosterElyv posted:My guess is because adding in a bunch of drafts and extra deckbuilding time is like adding in a couple extra rounds of play and GPs already run absurdly late how many people show up to gp's on average? would truncating the number of rounds possibly be a solution
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May 6, 2017 21:18
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The Shortest Path posted:But I don't think those cards were ever printed in a version that had Landfall on the card. Elyv posted:My guess is because adding in a bunch of drafts and extra deckbuilding time is like adding in a couple extra rounds of play and GPs already run absurdly late This, plus Sealed isn't entirely luck based. It's more so than Draft but there are still things you can do deckbuilding wise and it rewards you for knowing the set and what cards are total beaters.
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May 6, 2017 21:19
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mandatory lesbian posted:how many people show up to gp's on average? would truncating the number of rounds possibly be a solution so many that the cut to top8 is always on tiebreakers already
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May 6, 2017 21:19
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UberJew posted:so many that the cut to top8 is always on tiebreakers already dang...
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Logistically there's just no way to do drafts on Day 1 of a GP without adding another 2-3 hours to an event that's already 9-10 hours with no breaks
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Barry Shitpeas posted:Fun thing to do this standard: start a debate about the pronunciation of Canyon Slough slew is US pronunciation sla-oo is UK pronunciation sluff means shed skin or discard
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May 6, 2017 22:18
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Ugh. Sealed GPs are the loving worst. At least we didn't have to sit through the legacy GP that an entirely new deck played by one of the best players in the world won! Angry Grimace posted:This, plus Sealed isn't entirely luck based. It's more so than Draft but there are still things you can do deckbuilding wise and it rewards you for knowing the set and what cards are total beaters. But you're still going to lose to the Stormbreath/Gearhulk/Skysovereign/Glorybringer deck if they draw them. I think I've said this before but of the top 12 seats at the Kaladesh prerelease, I was one of 2 people who didn't have a Gearhulk, Skysovereign, Nissa, or Chandra. Even I had a Saheeli which was almost good.
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Procrastinator posted:Being able to tap your dorky aggro creatures to draw cards when they can't attack profitably sounds awesome to me. My problem with the deck is the lack of reach. The white splash for the 2-drop seems to help a bit, but that's only ok. I'd actually consider splashing red for Cut//Ribbons instead. The deck with 4 Blood Artists lacks reach?
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I'm like Billy Madison going back to high school in my Trans Am and acid washed jeans. I just got crushed by a sliver deck? Things were going well until turn 6 or 7 then I got one shotted by multiple 4/4 and 5/5 first strike death touch flyers. Is it safe to say power creep and the evolution of the game has rendered my strategy of "1. Cast Serra Angels 2. Cast Mahamoti Djinns 3. Profit" to being as effective as the 10 year old I played in a tournament who literally had his entire collection as his deck and was trying to discreetly discard on the floor to avoid my Black Vice?
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I'm like Billy Madison going back to high school in my Trans Am and acid washed jeans. I just got crushed by a sliver deck? Things were going well until turn 6 or 7 then I got one shotted by multiple 4/4 and 5/5 first strike death touch flyers. That's absolutely how it is. Both of those cards are horrible now.
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May 6, 2017 22:42
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suicidesteve posted:At least we didn't have to sit through the legacy GP that an entirely new deck played by one of the best players in the world won! Tell me about this entirely new deck Steve
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TheKingofSprings posted:Tell me about this entirely new deck Steve I mean, it's an incredibly boring midrange snoozefest but at least it was something new! And 2nd place went to that terrible BR Reanimtor deck which was also pretty new!
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I'm like Billy Madison going back to high school in my Trans Am and acid washed jeans. I just got crushed by a sliver deck? Things were going well until turn 6 or 7 then I got one shotted by multiple 4/4 and 5/5 first strike death touch flyers. Yeah, over the last 15-ish years creatures have generally gotten better while non-creature spells have generally gotten worse. There are obvious examples going against both of those trends, but if you look at Legacy and even Vintage very few decks are running pre-Modern creatures unless they're some sort of combo enabler (like in Legacy Elves) C-Euro fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 6, 2017 |
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Also he doesn't wash his hands after making GBS threads. I am so glad we still remember this like 7 years later
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