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Just milling around after FNM and the local LGS only has 34 for pre-release when it usually pushes into the high 60's/low 70's General consensus is this set is boring and nobody is interested in playing it. Haven't seen this much of a lack of interest in years.
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16 here for pre-release and I opened an Invocation Omniscience. This is all I could ask for from a pre release.
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Jul 8, 2017 06:23
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I disallowed my opponents Evolving Wilds crack on turn three leaving them with just one land in play. Best feeling ever.
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Jul 8, 2017 06:34
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Mezzanon posted:Wait it costs money? I just thought it was a secret boys club where we pat eachother on the back and say the holocaust didn't happen obviously we need an mtg thread patreon so we can afford to send one goon a month to travis woo wake up sheeple training
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Jul 8, 2017 06:39
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Jul 8, 2017 06:41
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Don't like the connotation
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Jul 8, 2017 06:43
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Listerine Hangover posted:
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Jul 8, 2017 06:57
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Rinkles posted:Don't like the connotation Veyrall posted:This guy gets it The next set could get back to end block sets actually being exciting pushed versions of mechanics. Be a nice chance to do some wacky wedge legends. Then again, cat tribal.
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Jul 8, 2017 07:18
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A shaggy dog story about my local game shop, how WOTC absolutely thunderfucked them, and a Google Maps conundrum/easter egg: TL;DR: Some cheeky loving bastard went onto google maps and labeled the old Legion Games location as "Misty Mountain" and marked it "Permanently closed" on google maps. So the closest game store to me for the last 10 years or so started off as "Misty Mountain Games North" (in 2006) and was run by Steve Port, aka "Legion Events". June 2011, the stripmall Misty Mountain was in was scheduled for destruction to put up some fancy-schmancy rental apartments, so he relocated the store a thousand feet northwest onto the main highway and rebranded it Legion Games . He started up Legion Supplies, which you are all familiar with, in the back warehouse. Sometime in early 2015 Steve announced he decided to sell the game store to a local chain so he could concentrate on hosting GPs. After he sold the game store he did business out the back warehouse for a while, then... Middle of 2015 WOTC Dreamers games moved next door in their strip mall and continued to use the Legion branding. Legion rented new warehouse space. So anyways. The local chain that purchased the game store, Dreamer's Vault, has used the Legion Games branding on the store and website since 2015. They finally left the old Legion Games branded store in February 2017 and now have a Dreamer's Vault branded location a few miles away in a different strip mall. The original Legion game shop is a Harbor Freight now. The lingerie and sex toy shop Legion Games shared an entrance (and bathroom) with got it's own entrance now that Harbor Freight moved in. Some cheeky loving bastard went onto google maps and labeled the old Legion Games location as "Misty Mountain" and marked it "Permanently closed" on google maps. I'm trying to suggest edits to fix the map, but I'm not sure how or if I even want to.You can't rename a place that's already marked "Permanently closed" without first making an edit that suggests it's not permanently closed. There's no "correct the name of a business that's permanently closed" button. I can't say the business moved because Legion Supplies moved just around the corner but the game shop, now owned by different people entirely, moved to a different place a few miles away.
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Jul 8, 2017 07:48
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Dehtraen posted:I disallowed my opponents Evolving Wilds crack on turn three leaving them with just one land in play. Best feeling ever. Used a Aven Minsdcensor to stop a Evolving Wilds trigger, top 4 cards where a bust, can't beat silly crap like that in limited. So far we have 42 players and the format is fairly slow, tons of games going to time.
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Jul 8, 2017 08:10
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Went 0-1 drop at the midnight release. Opened a bad pool and also my cat died. This is the worst pre-release ever.
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Jul 8, 2017 08:43
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Balon posted:16 here for pre-release and I opened an Invocation Omniscience. This is all I could ask for from a pre release. 2-1 for 3rd place. Not a single mythic in our pool but did have glorybringer, neheb, and a torment of hailfire (cast off of neheb ofc). Lost to a Bolas and mana screw. Womp womp. Still got my invocation - gonna try to offload it and build another modern deck!
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Jul 8, 2017 08:59
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Mezzanon posted:Went 0-1 drop at the midnight release. Opened a bad pool and also my cat died. This is the worst pre-release ever. Well take it to a taxidermist, hopefully you'll get it back as a 4/4 double striker rather than a 1/1 lifelinker.
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Jul 8, 2017 09:00
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Imminent Doom is a beast in limited, that card single handedly beat me two games in a row.
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Jul 8, 2017 09:17
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Rythe posted:Imminent Doom is a beast in limited, that card single handedly beat me two games in a row. Seriously? It seems pretty difficult to have enough one drops to consistently activate that card.
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Jul 8, 2017 09:25
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That's what I thought but every game he is able to use the 1 cost enchantments and then after that it is machine gun damage time.
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Jul 8, 2017 10:10
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Torment of Scarabs has been beating me in so many games. But I got a foil Scorpion God so I can't complain.
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Jul 8, 2017 11:47
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Took 5th out of 42 players, Glorybringer is still a beast and I have never lost a game with him out especially backed by 10 removal spells and flying angels. I Won a Ultra Pro Force of Will play mat and a bunch of packs to crack with my daughter later. Over all I love the limited environment with this block, very fun.
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Jul 8, 2017 12:12
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went 4-0 tonight, 8-2 overall. ran WG midrange, focusing on exert and working around it with dauntless aven. splashed R for trial of zeal, emberhorn minotaur, and the R/W creature that drains when my creatures exert. that 7 drop wurm is the real deal.
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Jul 8, 2017 13:01
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3–2 with UR evasion, with Samut in it. It was okay when I got to play on curve.
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Jul 8, 2017 13:46
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Went to my second ever prerelease tonight (the first being Champions of Kamigawa way back when). Pulled Nicol-Bolas and prerelease foil Samut planewalkers from my box and Razaketh from one of my two bonus boosters. 10/10 would pay $30NZ to go 2-2 and walk away with easily double that worth of cards again. Also everyone was chill and I had fun
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Jul 8, 2017 13:59
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Mezzanon posted:Went 0-1 drop at the midnight release. Opened a bad pool and also my cat died. This is the worst pre-release ever. Condolences on the kitty.  You'll get no pity for the bad sealed pool though; I'm the master of bad sealed pools.
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Jul 8, 2017 14:49
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MisterOblivious posted:A shaggy dog story about my local game shop, how WOTC absolutely thunderfucked them, and a Google Maps conundrum/easter egg: Contact google. This is something they can (and should!) fix on the back end.
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Jul 8, 2017 15:01
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destroyed my midnight prerelease due to ridiculous luck: opened Bontu, Scorpion god, god-pharaoh's gift, mystic myriarch. That and some decent green beaters and some removal (splashing red for scorp god and open fire) made sure none of the games were even remotely closed. First match, I turn 4 scorp god off of gift of paradise, opponent just scoops. Feels good man.
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Jul 8, 2017 15:20
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Drew in the first round of my prerelease, then me and my first round opponent both won out, screwing up the top 8 math for everyone. His 9 year old son was there at his first prerelease and took top 16. Format seems grindier, but the top tables were mostly pretty aggressive deck. I personally was on a pretty vicious RG beatdown deck featuring 7 2-drops (earthshaker kenra and rhonas last stand) 6 3-drops and a pair of open fires and that red -1/-1 counter/2-to-the-dome spell gave me some reach (2 games won off the red sac desert, too) For the first time I'm not really super excited to draft a set, though. I don't feel like this has enough flavor and mechanic wise that really differentiates it from Amonkhet. Aether Revolt, for example, added improvise which completely changed the way you would evaluate cards; I could see that and predict that would be fun to try out. Afflict seems great, but not the sort of shenanigans-encouraging mechanic that excites me. Eternalize plays a lot like embalm (though one that discourages killing it) and desert tribal doesn't pump me up. I liked the way it plays, but nothing really grabbed me either. But we'll see on Monday how draft feels.
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Jul 8, 2017 15:26
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Yeah I'm not even worried about going to be today. Set looks boring and I already ordered every card i want.
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Jul 8, 2017 16:52
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Spiderdrake posted:The next set could get back to end block sets actually being exciting pushed versions of mechanics. Be a nice chance to do some wacky wedge legends. Then again, cat tribal. 
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Jul 8, 2017 17:24
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Just finished my first prerelease. Lord, this set is poo poo, value wise. Went 3-1 with a B/G transform into B/W against more aggressive decks. Most expensive pull was promo stamped Bontu's Wanna-Wrath. The white cards were kind of thin on creatures but has lots of tricks plus Dusk//Dawn AND the new reduced cost Planar Cleansing. MVP was Nest of Scarabs. That with the new Bamut and the new 3 mana 2/2 that puts a counter on a guy is super cool. And just curving that into the 4 drop Gator that gets deathtouch and vigilance when someone has a counter made a couple people mad. Lost against a G/U/b eternalize deck that was able to just out value me. Note: The five drop 4/4 with vigilance and reach is better than it looks.
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Jul 8, 2017 19:57
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suicidesteve posted:Condolences on the kitty. I'm usually pretty good at it too but I was pretty frazzled
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Jul 8, 2017 20:09
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Got a foil endless sands and the centre of the card art is basically just a mirror
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Jul 8, 2017 20:17
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AlternateNu posted:Note: The five drop 4/4 with vigilance and reach is better than it looks. It was really good back when it was Sentinel Spider, so I'm not surprised it's got a home. Especially with a splashier mana cost.
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Jul 8, 2017 20:46
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Wurzag posted:Got a foil endless sands and the centre of the card art is basically just a mirror But no lie, I might order a foil endless now just to see that for myself
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Jul 8, 2017 21:15
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My goodness, people weren't kidding about this set having gently caress-all for value. I thought $9 for The Scarab God was a little underwhelming but it's actually the second most expensive single. Yes, that does mean Bolas is the only card in the set that breaks $10. EDIT: Hour of Devastation preorders are narrowly beating out famously valuable BFZ block's current single prices, and that's with rotation beginning to loom on the horizon and Gideon at an all-time low. Voyager I fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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Jul 8, 2017 21:23
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Voyager I posted:My goodness, people weren't kidding about this set having gently caress-all for value. I thought $9 for The Scarab God was a little underwhelming but it's actually the second most expensive single. I pre-ordered all the cards I was interested in and it came out to 11.53. Some of that was the b/w zombie I was reall only partially interested in. I think some rares and uncommons are going to creep up in value due to the how few packs are going to be opened. Abrade seems like an uncommon that is going to be 2 bucks before too long. I got a playset for .80. This set is giving me m15 vibes that anything that is going to be playable is going to end up expensive due to have few of them are going to end up in that category. Sickening fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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Jul 8, 2017 21:41
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I'm in the middle of a game against an opponent that got Stifle and Capsize in his kit. Yes, it was verified that he opened them. No, I am not having fun.
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Jul 8, 2017 22:06
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Nicol Bolas is not that good in sealed At least I cast him twice
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Jul 8, 2017 22:16
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Star Man posted:I'm in the middle of a game against an opponent that got Stifle and Capsize in his kit. Yes, it was verified that he opened them. No, I am not having fun. DQ for using electronic device during a sanctioned match
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Jul 8, 2017 22:27
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I beat the double-Invocation deck 2-0. Yeesh.
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Jul 8, 2017 22:30
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My sealed pool sucked and o dropped but at least I only paid $20 for it.
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Jul 8, 2017 22:35
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Oh look, now it's round two against someone that opened a Samut and Gideon.
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