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DangerDongs posted:I'm really liking the U/W monument deck if you are in a meta with lots of control, and I'm also still falling more in love with U/R Emerge. Champion of wits is a good card. I played WU Monument against three red decks in a row on Saturday. I play in a very aggressive meta and it's amazing that I went 2-1.
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Star Man posted:It seems that this foil Neheb, the Eternal that I took p1p1 in a draft on Saturday is worth twelve bucks. Second pack had Hour of Devastation and the third pack had Neheb, the Worthy. I opened both versions of Neheb at the HOD pre-release and it was probably one of the best sealed decks I've ever played.
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Star Man posted:I played WU Monument against three red decks in a row on Saturday. I play in a very aggressive meta and it's amazing that I went 2-1. Are you saying its a bad match up? Sunscourage champion and fumigates in the board can help.
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Fog is back in business now that the mill deck isn't catching on. Easily can beat any Monument variety (UW, Mono White), and it's real hard to lose to RDW. As long as you can protect yourself from Ulamog in the ramp deck that's beatable too. Gonna ride the last few weeks out in style. The deck will die at rotation unless we get some kind of free draw mechanic in Ixalan
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DangerDongs posted:Are you saying its a bad match up? Sunscourage champion and fumigates in the board can help. The list I played used Dusk//Dawn. The only match I didn't side all three out was the third match because it was against a janky mono-red madness vampires deck and actually got a couple of hits.
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80s James Hetfield posted:Fog is back in business now that the mill deck isn't catching on. How do you deal with Insult//Injury?
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PJOmega posted:How do you deal with Insult//Injury? I have not ran into it. Is it a SB card for Mono red? Depending on match up I'll throw some SB Negates into the main.
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Somehow I don't think the "Nerdy reference to inform everyone in the room you've had sex" shirts are any more tasteful when you put them on your child.
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can we add "overwhelming fixation on pointless consumerism" to the HENRY offenses eligible for Death by Guillotine? 
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the sad part is that i know mtg players where i'm living now who would 100% put that on their child and then go to fnm AND make the store owners babysit
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People need to go back to being ashamed of this hobby.
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Snacksmaniac posted:People need to go back to being ashamed of this hobby. people stopped???
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Snacksmaniac posted:People need to go back to being ashamed of this hobby. This is still not worse than wrestling
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Jul 25, 2017 23:39
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In both wrestling and magic, tapping out is emasculating.
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If I saw that IRL I would probably snicker and roll my eyes and then not really care.
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Well, it's a good shortcut to saying "my parents are socially worthless."
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Star Man posted:The list I played used Dusk//Dawn. The only match I didn't side all three out was the third match because it was against a janky mono-red madness vampires deck and actually got a couple of hits. I think running two fumigates in the side will be common if RDW continues its reign. Sunscourge Champion is a beast against them as well. U/W has so much reach; I love it.
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Haven't been following the thread in the past few days, apologies if this has been answered Say I put three -1/-1 counters on a Festering Mummy with an Hapatra on the board Do I end up with 2 snakes, or 4? Basically, do all three of those initial counters get put on the Mummy at once, or one at a time until it dies? I made a kitchen table, casual deck in BG Hapatra, wanna make sure I know how it actually works
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gif Probst posted:is there a mtgoon discord channel? the irc channel in the op is still in use at least
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Soul Glo posted:Haven't been following the thread in the past few days, apologies if this has been answered You will get two snakes. Assuming each of the -1/-1 counters is being placed individually by its own trigger, the first one resolving will kill the Festering Mummy and cause the remaining two to fizzle due to the lack of a legal target. This gives you one snake, and then the Festering Mummy's death trigger will give you a second. (The Festering Mummy will actually die and trigger with the remaining two -1/-1 counter triggers still on the stack, waiting to fizzle, but that's basically just minutia for this example). If you were putting all the -1/-1 counters on from a single ability, it's still just two snakes. Hapatra gives you one snake for each instance of placing -1/-1 counters, no matter how many you place at once.
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Voyager I posted:You will get two snakes. Assuming each of the -1/-1 counters is being placed individually by its own trigger, the first one resolving will kill the Festering Mummy and cause the remaining two to fizzle due to the lack of a legal target. This gives you one snake, and then the Festering Mummy's death trigger will give you a second. Ah yeah, sorry, I was confusing Hapatra and Nest of Scarabs, which is also in here, which triggers multiple times ("one or more counters/create that many insects"). Let's say specifically Nest of Scarabs with Plague Belcher ETB which puts two on the Mummy. That would trigger twice since it's a single ability, yes? Then again for the Festering Mummy's ability.
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Correct - the Nest of Scarabs would give you three insects total, though Nest of Scarabs giving you multiple insects is not the same as it triggering multiple times. It will trigger once each time you place any number of -1/-1 counters on a creature and give you that many insects. I think you are correctly identifying the main distinction, though - if you are placing -1/-1 counters on a creature individually, the creature dying will cause any of them still on the stack to fizzle, and your effects that care about you placing counters will only trigger for the ones that resolved. If you are doing them all with one ability, you can place any number of -1/-1 counters and get your triggers for them. Voyager I fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Jul 26, 2017 |
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Nest of Scarabs is so fun for exactly that reason. Exemplar of Strength and Channeler Initiate suddenly come with 3 free 1/1s. Related question: If I play Grind with a Hapatra on board, I get two snakes, right? Edit VVVV  Thought so, but wanted to make sure just in case.
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Hapatra says "whenever you put ... on a creature", so yes, you'll get a snake for each creature you put a counter (or counters) on.
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For standard mono blue Mill, essence scatter, the bounce spell, and sideboard Engulf don't seem enough to handle heavy aggro. Is there anything else good besides Aether Meltdown like the old bad mono blue Mill deck used?
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You have to pick off so many early threats with like Scatter or Horribly Awry the deck then becomes about defense vs creatures instead of the mill plan
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Mardu Vehicles/RDW can go so low to the ground and fast that counters won't help and milling/Engulf is too slow. I lost a game with an opening hand of three land, two fraying sanity, and a startled awake because Mardu Vehicles threatened to kill me T4
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Voyager I posted:Correct - the Nest of Scarabs would give you three insects total, though Nest of Scarabs giving you multiple insects is not the same as it triggering multiple times. It will trigger once each time you place any number of -1/-1 counters on a creature and give you that many insects. Got it, thanks
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If you want a good challenge this morning try to get through the Amonkhet story finale without laughing It starts with this quote:Nicol Bolas flew toward the heroes, eager to kill someone today. And only gets worse
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Tainen posted:If you want a good challenge this morning try to get through the Amonkhet story finale without laughing How the gently caress even does this get published.
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quote:Ruminating on all he had lost fanned the glowing ember of hate burning in his chest. The growing flame felt good. The hatred felt right. it's not like these writers have ever been Tolstoy but this is one of the worst I've seen in quite a while
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Troop started out on the creative team in 2006. Ain't nobody gonna edit his texts.
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Walked posted:How the gently caress even does this get published. Wizards does not want to pay proper writers.
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ShadeofBlue posted:Wizards does not want to pay proper writers. They made their game worse to put story first and then didn't pay for good writers? That is a WOTC move.
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The worst part is that a few of the actual Magic novels are...well, maybe not good but at least serviceable. What ever happened to Mark Grubb?
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80s James Hetfield posted:This is still not worse than wrestling My wife and I have recently gotten into both.
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I just participated in my third week at this LGS where they have a Commander league. They register me with a dci number, so I imagine it is a sanctioned league. They use a home brewed points system for achievements during play and then tally the points at the end of six weeks. On my second week, I was eliminated turn 7 when a player cast Emrakul. Someone else at the table countered it, but he chose to steal my turn, despite the fact I had not done anything of note at that point and was not the threat on the board. The only card he (or I) could cast from my hand was Toxic Deluge. I even suggested that the game had just started and not to kill me with my own card, but he did it anyway. The next week he and I are placed in the same pod again, and he starts rubbing in my face how I would have to do a laundry list of things to get back at him for eliminating me with my own turn. Lo and behold, he does it again. Emrakuled and took my turn. He proceeded to do all the cool things the deck is supposed to do, and earns all my achievements. I argued that according to oracle, I am still the active player, and I should be awarded the points. It's bad enough he crippled my board state, but they ruled he gets the points. I won the game with Mortal Combat, but using a card that "wins the game" earns points for everyone else. As I'm taking any victory I can get, the guy comes up to me and shows me Tormod's Crypt saying he could have used this, but he wanted the game to end. Mind you, points matter more than winning. This is straight up bullying. He's going out of his way to take any achievement or fun away from me. I talked the organizers about the ruling and the bullying, and they completely took his side. I grew up getting bullied. I know how it goes. Bullies aren't stupid and they push buttons until you react in a negative way that makes you look bad. The organizer said that he didn't do anything outside of the game to warrant bullying, but that's exactly it. He won't. He has all the power in the game, and he has the organizers on his side. I drove a half hour to get to this league and I don't feel welcome going back. I tried reporting him to the store, but they won't even recognize that there is a problem. Is there a formal channel I can go through to report the player and the store?
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