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If I wanted to play 1x Orhzov Pontiff in the side of Death & Taxes, do you think I could get away with just the 4 Vials and 2 Caverns to cast him?
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Jun 27, 2017 12:02
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Star Man posted:They can unban Stoneforge Mystic after I get my playset first.
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Jun 27, 2017 13:50
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Aston posted:If I wanted to play 1x Orhzov Pontiff in the side of Death & Taxes, do you think I could get away with just the 4 Vials and 2 Caverns to cast him? Brian DeMars had a recent article about splashing black in Death & Taxes and he recommends either going up to 4 caverns if you are just adding in pontiff, or adding 3 fetches and 2 scrublands if you plan to bring in more black cards from the sideboard. https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cause-im-the-death-and-taxman/
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Jun 27, 2017 14:11
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The Sexual Shiite posted:promos are 13 bucks each on Amazon. Get to buying. I don't like foils.
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Jun 27, 2017 16:14
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Star Man posted:I don't like foils. HERESY! Unban Jace, Stoneforge, and Bloodbraid.
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Jun 27, 2017 17:01
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reprint cabal therapy
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Jun 27, 2017 17:20
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Thisuck posted:HERESY! I'm one of those people that prefers all of his cards to be of the same edition and finish if I can help it. Foils are typically more expensive than regular cards too, so I'd rather use the money I save buying plain cards to buy more plain cards. It takes something like foil special editions of a card that are way cheaper than the regular one for me to consider them. Like, if I needed Loyal Retainers for a deck, I'd rather pay ~$30 for one that came from Commander's Arsenal or the Amonkhet Invocation edition because it's cheaper than the $50 I'd have to pay for one from Portal: Three Kingdoms if I wanted it in English.
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Jun 27, 2017 17:20
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Caleb did a banned series on Jace. I will watch it when I get home from work. Granted the meta is way different now. https://www.channelfireball.com/videos/the-modern-banned-series-finale-bloodbraid-elf-vs-jace/
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Jun 27, 2017 17:42
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Maybe these people should put out new videos or articles as the metagame changes so that people aren't quoting things that aren't relevant anymore.
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Jun 27, 2017 17:44
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Star Man posted:I'm one of those people that prefers all of his cards to be of the same edition and finish if I can help it. Foils are typically more expensive than regular cards too, so I'd rather use the money I save buying plain cards to buy more plain cards. It takes something like foil special editions of a card that are way cheaper than the regular one for me to consider them. Like, if I needed Loyal Retainers for a deck, I'd rather pay ~$30 for one that came from Commander's Arsenal or the Amonkhet Invocation edition because it's cheaper than the $50 I'd have to pay for one from Portal: Three Kingdoms if I wanted it in English. the other acceptable time is when the foil reprints are in the correct frame, e.g. Crucible of Worlds and Noble Hierarch
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Jun 27, 2017 17:55
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:the other acceptable time is when the foil reprints are in the correct frame, e.g. Crucible of Worlds and Noble Hierarch I don't have nostalgia for a period of the game I never played in.
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Jun 27, 2017 17:57
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Star Man posted:I'm one of those people that prefers all of his cards to be of the same edition and finish if I can help it. Foils are typically more expensive than regular cards too, so I'd rather use the money I save buying plain cards to buy more plain cards. It takes something like foil special editions of a card that are way cheaper than the regular one for me to consider them. Like, if I needed Loyal Retainers for a deck, I'd rather pay ~$30 for one that came from Commander's Arsenal or the Amonkhet Invocation edition because it's cheaper than the $50 I'd have to pay for one from Portal: Three Kingdoms if I wanted it in English. I use as many different printing as possible of a card to piss people off.
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Jun 27, 2017 20:19
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I use as many different printing as possible of a card to piss people off. I don't get pissed that other people do that 
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Jun 27, 2017 20:24
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i put some of the cards into their sleeves upside-down and play them as such
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Jun 27, 2017 20:38
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and then I only tap things at a 45 degree angle
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Jun 27, 2017 20:38
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ThePeavstenator posted:and then I only tap things at a 45 degree angle this is the real abomination here, because it makes the game state unclear
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Jun 27, 2017 20:40
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I use beads to represent tapped permanents.
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Jun 27, 2017 22:49
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Red (zone) beads for attackers, blue beads for blockers, white beads for +1/+1 and black for -1/-1, and brown beads for any tapped creatures because they're pooped! Can I borrow a spindown die?
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Jun 27, 2017 23:16
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Pontius Pilate posted:I use beads to represent tapped permanents. Pokémon beads for +1/+1 counters E: f;b
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Jun 27, 2017 23:17
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I'm like the only person where I play that keeps track of life totals on paper. Play all the white border, mismatched editions cards you want in your schoolgirl anime sleeves. Just keep track of your life total with pen and paper, represent tapped cards by turning them a full 90 degrees, and have your planeswalkers that enter the battlefield have their loyalty marked even if they're staying at their starting loyalty.
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Jun 27, 2017 23:26
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Star Man posted:I'm like the only person where I play that keeps track of life totals on paper. Play all the white border, mismatched editions cards you want in your schoolgirl anime sleeves. I keep track of life totals on my phone because it's FNM, who cares. If I play a GP or PPTQ the pen and paper come out. 100% agree with the others, although I've never seen any of the...unusual methods of marking loyalty.
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Jun 27, 2017 23:34
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I mark damage on creatures & players' life totals with grains of coloured sand
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Jun 27, 2017 23:39
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Summoning sickness is denoted by bits of lint & string I find in my pockets I tap my permanents 180°
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Jun 27, 2017 23:41
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Elyv posted:I keep track of life totals on my phone because it's FNM, who cares. If I play a GP or PPTQ the pen and paper come out. 100% agree with the others, although I've never seen any of the...unusual methods of marking loyalty. Using a phone app to keep track of life totals is an acceptable aubstitute for pen and paper at $5 tournaments like FNM and Standard Showdown. Just no dice, sticks, teeth, whatever....
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Jun 27, 2017 23:46
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myDad posted:I tap my permanents 180° this is appropriate for keeping track of abilities like Quirion Ranger and Wirewood Symbiote! 
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Jun 27, 2017 23:52
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:this is appropriate for keeping track of abilities like Quirion Ranger and Wirewood Symbiote! Woah...
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Jun 28, 2017 00:00
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Star Man posted:Using a phone app to keep track of life totals is an acceptable aubstitute for pen and paper at $5 tournaments like FNM and Standard Showdown. Just no dice, sticks, teeth, whatever.... Eh, I've had a couple times when the dishonest grinder-type has clearly tried to cheat his life total and not an innocent missed fetch or painland at the FNM level. Paper record makes it easier to resolve and gently caress rewarding that type of behavior. And is it really arduous to bring paper and pen? Plus if you're playing with hand revealing effects jotting their hand down on the same page as life total is much easier. At the FNM level I just leave the revealed cards revealed, but the aforementioned type usually doesn't. myDad posted:Woah... And exert!
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Jun 28, 2017 00:16
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Star Man posted:I'm like the only person where I play that keeps track of life totals on paper. Play all the white border, mismatched editions cards you want in your schoolgirl anime sleeves. I should do pen+paper but I have a Black Lotus spindown that people always compliment me on, and I have no idea where I got it. I do spindowns for my life and my opponent's and they typically do pen+paper. Double bookkeeping and all. I've been trying to track the number of cards in opponent's decks when I play Mill using p+p but I still need to perfect my technique 
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Jun 28, 2017 01:29
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Double-post but lol at this deck- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/instant-deck-tech-wu-belcher-modern
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Jun 29, 2017 22:56
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C-Euro posted:Double-post but lol at this deck- this deck is just modern parfait. I mean, sorta. you have to gently caress around with awful cards like endless horizons instead of land tax, and you don't get a scroll rack, but a base white control deck with weird finishers and not drawing your lands is parfait e: of COURSE Twoo is playing a base white deck
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New legacy brew, Battle of Wits Leovold! Surprisingly winning a lot of matches, it's 10-3 so far. It's not very all-in on the Battle of Wits, that's just there (along with Madcap Emperion) as an "I Win" button. It's mostly just BUG midrange valuetown. It's 228 cards, which is small for a Battle of Wits deck, but I wanted to maximize the density of good cards. I am still looking for suggestions for good high-value small creatures, especially green ones that I can find with Green Sun's Zenith. Here's the list:code:
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So I'm pretty close to having a Mardu Pyromancer deck put together in the vein of this group of decks, any thoughts? Deck: WBR Pyromancer    //Lands 2 Arid Mesa 2 Blood Crypt 4 Bloodstained Mire 3 Marsh Flats 3 Mountain 1 Plains 2 Sacred Foundry 2 Swamp //Spells 1 Collective Brutality 1 Dreadbore 4 Faithless Looting 1 Fatal Push 2 Forked Bolt 3 Inquisition of Kozilek 2 Kolaghan's Command 4 Lightning Bolt 3 Lightning Helix 4 Lingering Souls 2 Terminate 3 Thoughtseize //Creatures 3 Bedlam Reveler 4 Monastery Swiftspear 4 Young Pyromancer //Sideboard 2 Celestial Purge 1 Damnation 1 Fatal Push 1 Hallowed Moonlight 2 Painful Truths 2 Rakdos Charm 2 Stony Silence 2 Surgical Extraction 1 Wear // Tear 1 Zealous Persecution  Display deck statisticsSome versions of the deck are running 1x Stomping Ground and 3x Abrupt Decay in the SB, which is super-spicy but I don't know how good it is.
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Jul 2, 2017 03:05
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Blood Moon can absolutely steal games from your worse match ups. Working one into the main and two in the board is worth trying.
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I don't really get that removal base. Bolt is barely a card against two of the top decks in Modern, and you're running a single Push and no Paths in WB for a whole pile of cards that can't kill a 4/4. I'm also not sold on Pyromancer in a deck without cantrips, or honestly even running Pyromancer in Modern now that Gitaxian Probe is banned.
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Voyager I posted:I don't really get that removal base. Bolt is barely a card against two of the top decks in Modern, and you're running a single Push and no Paths in WB for a whole pile of cards that can't kill a 4/4. I think the idea is to cast cheap Revelers with an empty hand and draw 3 for RR. I could easily be talked into Paths but it feels weird not running 4x Bolt in a red deck. You're right about Bolt not being good against creatures like Death's Shadow and TKS though. If we really want to peel back the curtain, I just want to run a deck with 4x Lightning Helix because I really like that card. Plus I already had everything for this deck except the Mesas (and the Moons, which I'll probably work in somewhere) so I figured I might play around with it a bit.
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The typical build for Grixis Shadow is 0 bolts. Some lists have 1-2 copies but I'd imagine that's largely a response to all the company lists with 4 x Mirran Crusader in the maindeck, and that's not really a problem you're going to have in a deck with lots of red creatures and access to Path. Bolt is just not in a great place right now.
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Voyager I posted:The typical build for Grixis Shadow is 0 bolts. Some lists have 1-2 copies but I'd imagine that's largely a response to all the company lists with 4 x Mirran Crusader in the maindeck, and that's not really a problem you're going to have in a deck with lots of red creatures and access to Path. I play two bolts and like them for the extra reach. They still hit enough to be ok as removal and bolt snap bolt still wins games. I won't pretend to be an expert though. Edit: To be fair though, they are also my go to cards most of the time as the first thing to board out. Mef989 fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Jul 2, 2017 23:48
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Mef989 posted:I play two bolts and like them for the extra reach. They still hit enough to be ok as removal and bolt snap bolt still wins games. I won't pretend to be an expert though. Same in every way. It's my fav card so I'll always play one anyway.
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Yeah two bolts definitely won't give you cancer or anything, especially if it's in addition to a bunch of Pushes and Paths. I'd probably run a list something like 4 x Push, 2 x Path, 2 x Bolt, 2 x Helix as a starting point. Probably no Dreadbore since you premium removal with Path and plenty of board pressure for walkers. EDIT: in retrospect that looks pretty crowded on small poo poo removal, but this is the kind of stuff you have to tune through testing / knowing your meta anyways.
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