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Hellsau posted:The last time I played EDH for fun, I had a Brion Stoutarm deck that would cast Threatens and fling creatures around. I missed my third land drop for three turns, and two people just started killing me. Once I died, the player with Mana Reflection in play who no one bothered attacking or distrupting won the game immediately. It was really stupid and I don't play EDH anymore. EDH can be frustrating. You bring a fair deck and someone combos out while two other idiots in your pod do nothing to stop the combo player. Or you bring a combo deck and win but everyone whines about it. The best experiences I've had are with a group of people who you know pretty well, who build semi-competitive but play competitive. That way if Johnny combo is being a prick, you can gang up and take him out early. Or if you have a deck that is too strong and wins too frequently, people don't whine but you figure out you need to play something else next time or tone it down. It can be a nice social experience but only if the group clicks. Also oldbies like me don't have time for Standard but are attached to our collections and want to keep playing with what we have, with a few upgrades now and then.
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Oh does Ral Zarek work for Bolas too? I bet Tibalt also does then.
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Excuse y'all, not all multiplayer Magic sucks. 2HG is amazing when done in a Limited format, and Archenemy was a rad idea that handles more than a little poorly.
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Attorney at Funk posted:Oh does Ral Zarek work for Bolas too? I bet Tibalt also does then. Naw he needs a BR walker. Main storyline Daretti?
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The Sexual Shiite posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/6pondr/how_do_i_report_bullying_at_a_dci_event_that_is/
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Balon posted:Naw he needs a BR walker. Main storyline Daretti? Just timeshifted sarkhan
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Balon posted:Naw he needs a BR walker. Main storyline Daretti? Tibalt can easily be BR.
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Reene posted:I honestly just liked that Bolas was just smuglord.gif as hell the entire time, it was super hokey and stupid but in a fun campy way. it's not High Literature but it doesn't have to be to be fun to read. Yeah he was a delightful ham and I thought the story was hilarious because he was just dunking on the entire gatewatch.
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The start of it where Lili possessed some zombie crocodiles to eat a demon was pure  in the best kind of way.
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Siivola posted:Brandon Sanderson presumably still has an editor. I'd like to see you prove that.
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Attorney at Funk posted:Oh does Ral Zarek work for Bolas too? I bet Tibalt also does then. This is the only good twist out of Magic Story I've seen in forever. Ral working with Bolas (wittingly or not) is hilarious given how well acquainted he is with Jace. Smashing Link posted:EDH can be frustrating. You bring a fair deck and someone combos out while two other idiots in your pod do nothing to stop the combo player. Or you bring a combo deck and win but everyone whines about it. The best experiences I've had are with a group of people who you know pretty well, who build semi-competitive but play competitive. That way if Johnny combo is being a prick, you can gang up and take him out early. Or if you have a deck that is too strong and wins too frequently, people don't whine but you figure out you need to play something else next time or tone it down. It can be a nice social experience but only if the group clicks. Also oldbies like me don't have time for Standard but are attached to our collections and want to keep playing with what we have, with a few upgrades now and then. This is exactly why I tore apart Alesha and made it Kaalia instead. Because I was tired of bring Fun Times to the Try Hard Tables. And I wanted to swing Hellkite Tyrant into Esper Artifacts starring Silas and Tymna. Edit: Also for some reason "No Guys It's Totally Not Mono-U Counterspells and Clones starring Sakishima" never counters Kaalia or deals with the fact I get to whap him in the face for 10 on turn 4. Because that's less dumb than me regurgitating Recruiter of the Guard with Alesha, apparently? Count Bleck fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jul 26, 2017 |
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And nostalgia be damned, the plot of the last few sets has been hit-or-miss (BfZ was a loving travesty and MaRo's comment of "we didn't know what people wanted from a return to Zendikar" was loving stupid), but NPH was fun, and I enjoyed the hell out of both Innistrad blocks.
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mandatory lesbian posted:i like that it took all of 4 blocks for the watch to be created and then seperated I like to think that Wizards planned to make them a longer-running thing, but fans made so much fun of it that Wizards decided to immediately scrap it. Also I doubt the group is gone for good. Dark middle chapter and all.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Tibalt can easily be BR. Only red can have truly The Worst planeswalker tho
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I'm making a super-flavorful Cat themed deck for EDH once that Cat deck comes out, but I'll probably never play it because there's too many try-hards at my store ever since they started running tournaments. Like almost every card is going to be cat-themed, there are so many good cards that happen to have cats in the art. Natural Order, Surprise Deployment, Mirri's Guile, Path to Exile, Blazing Archon, etc. I didn't see it posted here (except the bit about Steamflogger Boss), but Maro put up a blog post about Unstable: quote:I promised to post the new info I gave out at the panel. Note that it’s all about Unstable. Here it is:
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Lawnie posted:Only red can have truly The Worst planeswalker tho yea trash mythics are extremely part of reds color pie
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BJPaskoff posted:I didn't see it posted here (except the bit about Steamflogger Boss), but Maro put up a blog post about Unstable: Wish I played more kitchen table Magic so I could make a Crossbreed + Simic deck.
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Jul 26, 2017 22:08
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I'm late to this conversation, but 2HG draft is a goddamn amazing format.
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I like the idea of Unsets but playing a CCG with cards that aren't worth anything and can't play anywhere else feels bad. Love the non green factions he described though.
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Some Numbers posted:I'm late to this conversation, but 2HG draft is a goddamn amazing format. 
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Archenteron posted:Bolas: Come at me. Also what the hell gate are you dorks watching? Stupid kids. as someone who read the story, holy poo poo this is a good summary also way more fun than the actual story
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Elyv posted:as someone who read the story, holy poo poo this is a good summary This is a true statement
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Balon posted:Naw he needs a BR walker. Main storyline Daretti? Maro periodically picks questions on his blog that lets him say "while Tibalt's card was red, he is absolutely a black/red character" which is what makes me think Tibalt would be the third one.
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ShaneB posted:So apparently there was some major MTGO poo poo again today? lol Well it's been in downtime since this morning and was still down about 15 minutes ago when I tried so, probably.
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Archenteron posted:Bolas: Come at me. Also what the hell gate are you dorks watching? Stupid kids.
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Archenteron posted:Bolas: Come at me. Also what the hell gate are you dorks watching? Stupid kids. WotC hire this man to write the magic story.
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C-Euro posted:I like to think that Wizards planned to make them a longer-running thing, but fans made so much fun of it that Wizards decided to immediately scrap it. Basically we'll see each of them durdle around, then we'll see one of them decide that enough is enough/this can't stand/friendship/lili misses jace/we need to right the wrongs/bolas is farts, etc, then that member will get them back together and they'll do a Return of the Gatewatch set and so on. Hopefully during the break we'll have cool stuff like Chandra actually learning some new abilities, one-armed Gideon and Ajani saving Elspeth, Liliana encountering phyrexia again, as side stories. And I don't know if he's one-armed but that'd be an interesting change. It's a little funny they refuse to pay artists to do a comic when it's pretty clear the writing is just marvel/dc tier schlock since that's what they like. And they will never, ever, ever learn from the complaining. They doubled down on everything wrong with the Weatherlight Saga and were surprised when the complaining about the exact same problems came back.
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TwistedNails posted:I love him. Who do you recommend that's better? I listen to a ton of audiobooks at work while I do paperwork so legit recommendations would be cool. I recommend Scott Lynch 'The Lies of Locke Lamora' and Lev Grossman 'The Magicians". Those are the books that come to mind. I consider those 'strichtly better' than anything I've read by Sanderson, but it's all subjective and you may disagree. Both are great audiobook productions at least.
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Spiderdrake posted:Jace is in the next set, we're just going to do the "getting the team back together" arc through the next 1-3 years of sets. Where is our Development Vorthos?
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They are responding to some of the criticism about sets focusing too much on the Gatewatch and feelings of overload from seeing all of them in each story. Aside from being the dark middle chapter in their story, this also gives them a chance to spend more time with individual characters while also allowing the settings to be less overshadowed by the ensemble. The story is still real bad, obviously.
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The story is bad in the same way that every trad game's metaplot is always bad. The only thing unusual about it in this scenario is the popularity of the game itself. If you really want to see some red hot bad writing I urge you to hop into any GW-game thread on this subforum I thought this week's story was cool, sue me
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I was browsing at some of the recent standard top 8 decks. Is it actually possible to build a competitive deck for $150 right now?
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BJPaskoff posted:I didn't see it posted here (except the bit about Steamflogger Boss), but Maro put up a blog post about Unstable: Why does the Un set excite me in a way that Kaladesh never could?
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compton rear end terry posted:I was browsing at some of the recent standard top 8 decks. Is it actually possible to build a competitive deck for $150 right now?
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Spiderdrake posted:Jace is in the next set, we're just going to do the "getting the team back together" arc through the next 1-3 years of sets. The Weatherlight saga owned (at least according to kid me) and they need to bring some of that stuff back. I'll bet that the majority of current players weren't even around when all of that was wrapped up, especially if you consider Apocalypse to be the end of that story. Though you could argue that it wasn't fully put to bed until Future Sight.
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the Orb of Zot posted:Why does the Un set excite me in a way that Kaladesh never could? Same, I can't wait to see what they do with modern design ideas. But I know that no matter how fun it is to draft, people aren't going to want to do that after the first time or two because the cards are worth nothing. 
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Smashing Link posted:EDH can be frustrating. You bring a fair deck and someone combos out while two other idiots in your pod do nothing to stop the combo player. Or you bring a combo deck and win but everyone whines about it. The best experiences I've had are with a group of people who you know pretty well, who build semi-competitive but play competitive. That way if Johnny combo is being a prick, you can gang up and take him out early. Or if you have a deck that is too strong and wins too frequently, people don't whine but you figure out you need to play something else next time or tone it down. It can be a nice social experience but only if the group clicks. Also oldbies like me don't have time for Standard but are attached to our collections and want to keep playing with what we have, with a few upgrades now and then. The best part of EDH is unwittingly enabling your own death. I whipped out my new Locust God deck this weekend and had one of those (non-Sol Ring) quick starts. I was way ahead on board by turn 3, and was about to kill everyone one turn at a time with a swarm of Shared Animosity boosted locusts, when I wheeled the guy to my left (playing Risen Bladewing) out of his slow big dumb dragon hand into his Twilight's Call.  He then proceeded to nuke all of us with a billion Scourge of Valkas triggers. All while I was too afraid of letting the new Neheb player go off. Fun times.
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