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I rage quit for the first time just now. A green elf deck that also had Opposition. He could just keep all my land tapped indefinitely. Saw no point in continuing the game. Guess I'll have to start playing best of 3 and actually using a sideboard.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I rage quit for the first time just now. Quitting when you can't win is just conceding. Uhhh also yeah what are you playing that's one game and no sideboards
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May 19, 2017 23:55
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May 19, 2017 23:58
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I rage quit for the first time just now. Now that you've gotten your feet wet what have you been playing/brewing?
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May 20, 2017 00:52
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:... For example, Ray of Command and Swords to Plowshares are solid on their own and also work really well together. ... I remember losing a match to Ray of Command + Swords to Plowshares way back in the day (97 or 98). What made it memorable (and frankly, I never thought this memory would ever resurface) was that the guy I lost to was named Ray. He was probably in his late-30's, had super thick glasses, bleach blond hair, and the kicker - always wearing cutoff jean shorts (think Tobias Funke).
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Tortilla Maker posted:I remember losing a match to Ray of Command + Swords to Plowshares way back in the day (97 or 98). Ray sounds really cool.
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May 20, 2017 01:14
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I was rooting for Gerry in the finals, and now I'm extra glad I did.
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May 20, 2017 02:20
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I can't wait to win a PT trophy with a $12 bid.
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suicidesteve posted:I can't wait to win a PT trophy with a $12 bid. Its embarrassing how bad the pt trophies are.
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May 20, 2017 03:05
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I'm honestly surprised they get to take the trophy home, and it's not some sorta weird MTV Movie Awards situation where they just recycle the poo poo later.
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May 20, 2017 03:12
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Soul Glo posted:I'm honestly surprised they get to take the trophy home, and it's not some sorta weird MTV Movie Awards situation where they just recycle the poo poo later. They get the topper, the base with all the names stays with wizards.
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May 20, 2017 03:22
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Has anyone seen the Chris Fennell/Lingering Souls BW Zombies against Marvel decks? How do they sideboard? I feel like there's not much it can do besides with Unmake the Marvel or the Ulamogs it casts. I've also not figured out what the Scrapheap Scroungers are for in the board. Just to go more aggressive against slower decks? Never figured out what to drop.
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May 20, 2017 03:24
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BizarroAzrael posted:Has anyone seen the Chris Fennell/Lingering Souls BW Zombies against Marvel decks? How do they sideboard? I feel like there's not much it can do besides with Unmake the Marvel or the Ulamogs it casts. Scrapheap Scrounger would replace removal in the matchups where you want them.
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May 20, 2017 03:43
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Cactrot posted:They get the topper, the base with all the names stays with wizards.  Oh, of course. I was right to be surprised, at least.
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Tales of Woe posted:Transgress the Mind and Anguished Unmaking vs marvel, presumably cutting Fatal Pushes since they don't really hit anything in that deck. Yeah, I think I drew badly against Marvel, thats what I did.
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 Yeah I'd probably try to sell that to help out Planned Parenthood too. There's no way I'd be showing that off on my mantle. GerryT is gas.
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So, some guy posted an actually pretty good takedown of Amonkhet's graphic design, and how the design has been kinda lacking in general as the years go by.
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Veyrall posted:So, some guy posted an actually pretty good takedown of Amonkhet's graphic design, and how the design has been kinda lacking in general as the years go by. He had me up until he said Mouth is a dumb name for a card, and now we have a blood feud.
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I disagree with most of that video. The cards look better than ever, even if some of the Amonkhet art is not quite to my taste.
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May 20, 2017 05:43
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I hope they get rid of the black border and just print art all the way to the edge. If Invocations are legal with a glittering gold top edge, it should be find to print borderless cards.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Has anyone seen the Chris Fennell/Lingering Souls BW Zombies against Marvel decks? How do they sideboard? I feel like there's not much it can do besides with Unmake the Marvel or the Ulamogs it casts. The Marvel match up is good, but my sideboard had 4 transgress and 2 dispossess. sounds excessive but I only boarded in 3 transgress vs Marvel (and both dispossess) and I needed more hand disruption because I boarded out all the removal except Salvation. Having 4 Transgress vs UR, which is a less than stellar match up, is important. I didn't find old scrappy to actually be very good, at anything, and it doesn't work with cryptbreaker and will make diregraf colossus smaller. I'd honestly just have the 6 cards I mentioned, some Never // Return, a couple Declaration in stone, and 3-4 Gideon.
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Hellsau posted:I hope they get rid of the black border and just print art all the way to the edge. If Invocations are legal with a glittering gold top edge, it should be find to print borderless cards. Legality isn't the problem there, it's that then you'd have no margin of error at all for cutting the cards correctly. You'd see all sorts of horrible art bleed. You already see cards that are noticeably off-center, but because of the border there isn't anything visible from other cards.
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So on MTGO if you have a Vampiric Tutor in hand and a Skirge Familiar in play, you can click the Tutor to try to cast it, then discard it to the Familiar to make the black mana you needed. The Tutor won't get cast, you won't get a mana, and you get this error.quote:1:13 AM: ??bug?? Vampiric Tutor tried to move from limbo to 1001728 Good times. Also you get shunted into the combat step apparently? Because I didn't hit F2. At least you don't lose the 2 life for the Tutor.
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May 20, 2017 06:18
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anyone have experience using Manatraders or another card renting service for modo? they on the level? i'd like to play standard without pants on and without spending 300+ on digital pieces of cardboard (at one time)
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Hellsau posted:So on MTGO if you have a Vampiric Tutor in hand and a Skirge Familiar in play, you can click the Tutor to try to cast it, then discard it to the Familiar to make the black mana you needed. The Tutor won't get cast, you won't get a mana, and you get this error. Is THAT how you go to combat????
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How does the New Perspectives//Approach the Second Sun go off without Weirding Wood? You can only generate 12 Mana (4-2+4-2+4-2+4-2) plus any basics put into play via Sheffet Monitor. Is the hope really to hit all 4 viziers, all 4 Shadow of the Grave, and at least 2 lands?
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My new favorite thing in Magic is watching my opponents pour two single-target removal spells into my Torrential Gearhulk just to kill it. Then I follow it up with another one.
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DangerDongs posted:U/R Emerge folk, how can Mardu beat you unplayable draws aside? Yeah I'm suprised that UR emerge didn't have a stronger showing recently. It seems well positioned. Edit: Holy poo poo Gerry, that loving rules. Double Edit: Is there a way to withdraw from a MTGO league queue and get your product back? If you hit cancel it doesn't look like you get it back... Salvor_Hardin fucked around with this message at 08:34 on May 20, 2017 |
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So I just went 3-0 with the worst deck in the Gauntlet, Mono-Red Land Destruction, due to my opponents getting laughably unlucky. Feels nice beating Academy with two Chills in play because you attacked them from 20 to 8 with a loving Mogg Fanatic, then two more attacks with it and a Ghitu Encampment plus one Cursed Scroll activation while the opponent does nothing, then winning the last game because the opponent didn't know that Intuition could get three of the same card! Combo Winter Gauntlet power rankings: Tier 1: Jar Tier 2: Bargain, Academy Tier 3: Tinker Tier 4: Replenish, lovely Black Deck with heavy modifications to the maindeck, Wildfire Tier 5: Red Land Destruction, lovely Morphling Deck, Stompy The powerlevel between the decks take MASSIVE steps downward between the tiers. Jar is insanely good, hard to stop, and it plays three Megrim as part of its gameplan - Bargain and Academy cannot win with a Megrim in play and have zero maindeck answers. Tinker is too slow to beat Jar/Bargain/Academy, but basically cannot lose to a bunch of the shittier decks. Replenish is inconsistent as all hell, it's slow, and it can't do anything to stop the opponent from comboing, but I guess it can't lose with Opalescence + Parallax Wave + Parallax Tide in play. lovely Black Deck is so stupidly built - Engineered Plague in particular does literally nothing except against Stompy which can't ever beat you - so move the garbage out of the maindeck to fit all the discard you can and just hope to strip your opponent of all resources and kill them before they draw out of it. The Morphling deck is useless without an early Grim Monolith powering some threat out, and it just folds over to Skittering Skirge + discard which is just sad. Are they really forced to include completely useless decks? They're stretching across multiple different formats, from Tempest block + Saga, to Tempest block + Legacy, to a bunch of lovely underpowered decks using cards from Masques. The sideboards also make no sense, like what the gently caress is Massacre doing there? Why is the LD Red deck using Scald instead of Pyroblast, Sixth Edition didn't come out to replace Fifth until Urza's Legacy. Stompy I guess is the true example of there being no fail rate on Grizzly Bears, but that's not much fun to play. I'd kind of be down for Stompy, Monoblack, Monored, some lovely White Weenie deck and some lovely Morphling deck battling it out, but throwing that poo poo up against Jar is ludicrous. Also why the hell is the LD deck not running Mox Diamond, like jesus christ.
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PJOmega posted:How does the New Perspectives//Approach the Second Sun go off without Weirding Wood? You can only generate 12 Mana (4-2+4-2+4-2+4-2) plus any basics put into play via Sheffet Monitor. Is the hope really to hit all 4 viziers, all 4 Shadow of the Grave, and at least 2 lands? I imagine the idea is that you're cycling a lot, so you can find a Weirding Wood. Alternatively, I feel like you can probably engineer a situation against a lot of decks where you Second Sun and then pass with 2 mana up and cycling fog in hand. I don't play standard, though.
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Hellsau posted:So I just went 3-0 with the worst deck in the Gauntlet, Mono-Red Land Destruction, due to my opponents getting laughably unlucky. Feels nice beating Academy with two Chills in play because you attacked them from 20 to 8 with a loving Mogg Fanatic, then two more attacks with it and a Ghitu Encampment plus one Cursed Scroll activation while the opponent does nothing, then winning the last game because the opponent didn't know that Intuition could get three of the same card! i got the monoblack control bullshit 3 times in a row and discovered first hand just how terrible discard is against the top of the deck when basically everyone is drawing an instant win combo. and hey at least you can pitch the useless loving cards to unmask 
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TheDemon posted:You need one, preferably two Commit // Memory in the 75. Commit is an unconditional counterspell that even works on can't be countered and on every single relevant threat that could accidentally hit the board, and Memory gets you all your fogs back and turns on Fevered Visions. ManMythLegend posted:I might have to try it. I've been hesitant though because Commit is just really expensive for a counter and really just delays them casting whatever bomb they were trying to drop and it doesn't end up really delaying them that long if I have a Visions or two out. So trip report: I was wrong and you were totally right. Commit // Memory is better then Wildest Dreams in every way.
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I can't decide in Mardu if I should have a 2/2 split between Veteran Motorist and Thalia or remove a single Thalia or both for more Motorist. Motorist is faster, and scrying is huge. How important is Thalia's effect?
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Official MTG stream is trash, 720p only and showing Marvel mirrors. Starting now, SGC Team Constructed (teams of 3, one Standard, one Modern, one Legacy), looks fun.
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AceClown posted:Official MTG stream is trash, 720p only and showing Marvel mirrors. Cannot wait to watch some of this SCG event. They have the best coverage and team is a fun format.
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May 20, 2017 15:35
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AceClown posted:Official MTG stream is trash, 720p only and showing Marvel mirrors. ??? They are showing BW zombies VS UR control.
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YggdrasilTM posted:??? They are showing BW zombies VS UR control. They must have changed after I switched over to SCG
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