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AlternateNu posted:Also, I just noticed they call the burn deck in the top 8 "Naya," but the only green spells are 4 Destructive Revelry in the sideboard. This is standard practice. People rarely run Atarka's Command anymore.
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"What does a good 4 card hand even look like for Affinity?" ... "Champion wins on mull to 4"
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Entropic posted:lol Yeah, that was a crazy, crazy finals.
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logis posted:"What does a good 4 card hand even look like for Affinity?" I hate affinity so much. I hated it during the original Mirrodin, and I hate it now.
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Affinity players: "What's that? Death's Shadow is the best deck in Modern? Let us show you how it's done."
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InterrupterJones posted:Affinity players: "What's that? Death's Shadow is the best deck in Modern? Let us show you how it's done." Grixis Death Shadow should be favored against affinity but it seems like some lists shaved down on some critical SB cards.
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Great art on the thoughtseize invocation https://twitter.com/eyesonthemise/status/876615366943936512
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Tainen posted:Great art on the thoughtseize invocation The demon is possessing the human, and making the human say, "What's the deal with airline food?!" Also the art box gets smaller and smaller every time I look at these invocations.
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I gotta say. The invocations really sucked. From their looking like complete poo poo to not having any real theme that made sense. There were just WAY too many of them too.
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Huh, maybe I won't have to get a foil LOR Thoughtseize for my cube after all. I never did like either art very much.
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Someone explain to me how every time I tuned in this weekend, LSV was waxing nostalgic about how Grixis Shadow was the best deck and all the best players were playing it and none of them T8'ed?
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Wizards went a little too crazy with the Masterpieces after the first ones went over well. They should have been a smaller number per set to start with (like 10-15 at most) and they never should have tried making them an Every Set thing. Also, you know what would have been amazing? Not announcing Masterpieces until the day after the BFZ pre-release.
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The smartest thing to do would be save them for the next Return sets for places like Ravnica/Mirrodin and break out the best-ofs of those planes. I assume they will be back for Dominaria in the same way next year.
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Or just don't print so many masterpieces that you have to put in poo poo cards.
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Carl Killer Miller posted:Have you guys had any experience drafting on cockatrice? I'm looking to practice my draft game skills without burning through money losing on MTGO. Peak times are at nights and weekends, it slows down during periods like early morning in the US. This isn't to say you can't draft then (I do it all the time) but more that your expectations should be set to more like 30-40 minutes. The drafts that fire fastest and most reliably are those devoted to whatever the current releases are, especially right after a new set comes out. Those you can draft as many times as you want for the weeks following the release. They're always filling up and always firing. Next up is MTGO vintage (Holiday) cube, then probably MTGO legacy cube, after that gimmick cubes like CHAOS which is hot for some reason right now. I haven't done flashback drafts enough to say for sure but I bet if you wanted to do something like a LOR draft at peak hours it'd fire eventually. The skill level is generally fairly low but this also varies by time - at peak times you get better players. At non-peak times you can get wild variance. The short version is that it's not super easy to draft on cocka but I think the balance is more on the fun side than the annoying side of the scale. If you have specific questions about how to do it or anything shoot me a PM or reply here or whatever.
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GoutPatrol posted:The smartest thing to do would be save them for the next Return sets for places like Ravnica/Mirrodin and break out the best-ofs of those planes. I assume they will be back for Dominaria in the same way next year. Dominaria masterpieces should be old-frame versions of cards that have only ever been printed in the Modern frame.
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JerryLee posted:Dominaria masterpieces should be old-frame versions of cards that have only ever been printed in the Modern frame. Bring back the futureshifted frame.
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Hellsau posted:Bring back the futureshifted frame. I want this so bad
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time spiral block is the only block i feel did 3 set blocks right. each set is different but linked by the idea of time, it's so cool, even if future sight is a beautiful mess of ideas individually basically i want the old frames, the planeshift frames, and the futureshift frames all to be included. but i suppose the new block is about the unfractured time stream or whatever the story of time spiral was supposed to be
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mcmagic posted:I gotta say. The invocations really sucked. From their looking like complete poo poo to not having any real theme that made sense. There were just WAY too many of them too. Counterpoint: Hazoret the Pervert is great. That said, yeah. They should have either gone in harder on the egypt theme with the actual art being hieroglyphic-y, or they should have reduced the frame a lot to give that great art space to breathe, and there should have been fewer of them. They do look way better in person than they do online, though (still not great, but a lot better)
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Hellsau posted:Or just don't print so many masterpieces that you have to put in poo poo cards. You can say "cards from the current set" instead of "poo poo cards"
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The pick-a-plane sealed gimmick on MTGO is pretty great. 6-0 so far with Mirrodin and Zendikar.
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I'm 2-1 with Mirrodin and Dominaria, 1-2 with Innistrad and Ravnica. I'd like to say I had lovely pools, but it was probably mostly me.
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I'm pretty sure Mirrodin is the best. I only beat my Mirrodin opponent because I had my 1x main deck artifact removal for LoxoHammer both times and he only drew his Elesh Norn once.
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This 17 land 4 sleight of hand grixis shadow list that Ari Lax posted is what is actually gonna get it banned.
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Hellsau posted:Or just don't print so many masterpieces that you have to put in poo poo cards. Yea this is the answer.
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mcmagic posted:This 17 land 4 sleight of hand grixis shadow list that Ari Lax posted is what is actually gonna get it banned. Toshimo posted:Someone explain to me how every time I tuned in this weekend, LSV was waxing nostalgic about how Grixis Shadow was the best deck and all the best players were playing it and none of them T8'ed?
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mcmagic posted:This 17 land 4 sleight of hand grixis shadow list that Ari Lax posted is what is actually gonna get it banned. It seemed very good but lets give it a week before we declare this just yet.
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Ari version or not, it's not unreasonable to say that grixis death's shadow is the best deck in the format. And it's also not unreasonable to say that nothing should be banned from it.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Ari version or not, it's not unreasonable to say that grixis death's shadow is the best deck in the format. It is in fact fairly unreasonable to state that a deck which saw zero copies played in the top eight of the Grand Prix this weekend is the best deck in the format.
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I really like the Esper Control and Jeskai Flash lists from this Modern top 8. http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=114223 http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=114224
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The Shortest Path posted:It is in fact fairly unreasonable to state that a deck which saw zero copies played in the top eight of the Grand Prix this weekend is the best deck in the format. It still could be reasonable to say it's the best deck, but overall had poor luck over this weekend. It's completely laughable to claim that not only is it the best deck, it's somehow so dominant that it needs to be banned.
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The Shortest Path posted:It is in fact fairly unreasonable to state that a deck which saw zero copies played in the top eight of the Grand Prix this weekend is the best deck in the format. No it isn't? Top 8 is an arbitrary metric and one GP is a questionable sample size. By your metric skred red is a clearly better deck than grixis death's shadow.
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Pontius Pilate posted:No it isn't? Top 8 is an arbitrary metric and one GP is a questionable sample size. By your metric skred red is a clearly better deck than grixis death's shadow. Any time a format has had a clearly-defined "best deck", it has shown up consistently and pervasively in multiple large tournaments. That is not the case for Death's Shadow. It's certainly a good deck, but there's no real argument for calling it the best. Modern is in a good place right now.
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wow my friend got T16 at the Modern portion of GP Vegas I didn't even know he was going
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Elyv posted:wow my friend got T16 at the Modern portion of GP Vegas Was he playing Grixis Shadow, because if he was I think this might be the tipping scale towards banning the deck.
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