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Elyv posted:
This is the state of Rituals now.  This seems like the worst possible compromise between the two modes of spirit guide.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:26
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Entropic posted:What should I play in the top 8 of my local store's modern league tomorrow? I'm top seed so I'll be on the play and I think they're doing best-of-5 so sideboarding will be really relevant. On the play every match? Burn. How many sideboard slots is everyone really going to dedicate to Burn given the decks you're anticipating?
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Sep 5, 2017 20:29
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Isn't sideboarding less relevant in a Bo5 than a Bo3, considering that 40% of the Bo5 is pre-sideboard and 33% of the Bo3 is?
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Sep 5, 2017 20:30
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Automatic 4-of in Miracles. Or, I guess the budget option for monored devotion.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:34
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Elyv posted:Isn't sideboarding less relevant in a Bo5 than a Bo3, considering that 40% of the Bo5 is pre-sideboard and 33% of the Bo3 is? Well the other way to look at it is you have to win at least 2 post-board games versus having g to win at least 1. So you don't want to play a deck that gets completely hosed post board. E: I don't know if they're doing the "first two games pre-board" thing
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Sep 5, 2017 20:34
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Entropic posted:What should I play in the top 8 of my local store's modern league tomorrow? I'm top seed so I'll be on the play and I think they're doing best-of-5 so sideboarding will be really relevant. The answer is bogles with mainboard leyline. I am seriously 18 -3 with bogles in matches since I sleeved it up last. Sickening fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 20:35
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Entropic posted:What should I play in the top 8 of my local store's modern league tomorrow? I'm top seed so I'll be on the play and I think they're doing best-of-5 so sideboarding will be really relevant. My go-to answer for this is usually "whatever you feel most comfortable playing". Turn 1 Thoughtseize seems good against a lot of what you listed, plus you still have access to all of White's good SB cards.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:35
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Entropic posted:E: I don't know if they're doing the "first two games pre-board" thing oh, I was assuming that they're doing this. Otherwise the reverse is definitely true
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Sep 5, 2017 20:37
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And let me tell you about intervention-pact and how its been a blowout lately against scapeshift and anything else on the mountain bolt plan.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:40
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Elyv posted:
So I saw a RR Goblin and was excited for like .5 seconds until I read the card.... This ain't no Ash Zealot.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:44
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Maybe being a pirate will be relevant somehow
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Sep 5, 2017 20:46
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Entropic posted:Maybe being a pirate will be relevant somehow
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Sep 5, 2017 20:47
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Ein Sexmonster posted:We did just see a very potent common payoff for limited. This guy really wants treasure payoffs too though. He seems extremely niche and only good if you have good payoffs for both parts of the card. If he was 1R improvise shenanigans could happen, but maybe that would have been too good? RR seems too restrictive for an improvise deck. The best pirates so far seem to be u/b anyway
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Sep 5, 2017 20:57
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Elyv posted:
The format is super obviously "ramp into big dinosaurs." The ramp part is shock-proof so I would take it fairly high if that was the deck I was getting into (so many of the rares are just big dinos it might be easy to end up in such an archetype). I mean, there's a reason all but a tiny number of the dinosaurs are 6+ mana. It's probably a tribal vs. battlecruiser format. There are cheap guys you can play but they're largely build arounds that aren't terribly powerful if you don't, and the other option is making treasure and spending it all on tyrannosaurs.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:04
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RR is a reasonable cost for a 1/1 and a Lotus Petal.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:08
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:RR is a reasonable cost for a 1/1 and a Lotus Petal. A 1/1 with Tribal synergies, even
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Sep 5, 2017 21:10
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Entropic posted:Well, I'm glad they're not pushing all the mythics. Gearhulk would be stupid as gently caress if you could cast it, eat an attacker and draw 7 cards. I suspect that's the reason why they split the card draw that way. They probably should have just not printed Gearhulk, but it is what it is.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:11
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Sep 5, 2017 21:16
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They like making these strictly-better Hunt the Weak variants for limited. This seems like a high pick https://twitter.com/maro254/status/905162386113310720
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Sep 5, 2017 21:17
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Dinosuar tribal fight card when Dinosaurs have enrage, most obvious thing ever.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:18
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Death Bot posted:I was given the advice at some point to just start with picking the best card in every pack and you will figure out pretty quickly what colors are open. Obviously there's deeper strategy available, but once your 2-5 picks are the same color that should be a pretty big hint How has that worked out for you? I'm going to try that out the next time I draft instead of sticking myself into a color early. Draft before last, that still put me in a couple colors early but that draft was bizarre (I ended up playing 4 unquenchable thirsts, 3 ambuscades, and 4 unsummons) On another note, if you're drafting a control deck how often do you hold your control cards for your opponent's bombs? For example, is it worth thirsting a cursed minotaur that's chipping at you on turn three, or do you hold it in anticipation of their angel of condemnation that you saw last game? I know that there's not a blanket answer to this because of all the other factors involved.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:20
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Veyrall posted:Automatic 4-of in Miracles. Who would play this over Warren Instigator
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Sep 5, 2017 21:21
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Tainen posted:Savage Stomp Forget dinosaurs, curve winding consictor into that and you have a 4/5 and their dude is dead.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:32
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TheKingofSprings posted:A 1/1 with Tribal synergies, even Are these goblins lemurs for some reason?
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Sep 5, 2017 21:32
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Remember when "drafting dinosaurs" was a term used for a good fallback draft strategy in any format that had a lot of big dumb green guys? Now it's a thing you're supposed to try to do!
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Sep 5, 2017 21:32
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Entropic posted:What should I play in the top 8 of my local store's modern league tomorrow? I'm top seed so I'll be on the play and I think they're doing best-of-5 so sideboarding will be really relevant. mono white taxes? almost all of those decks are soft to the mana denial plan when you're on the play, except affinity and coco but with such a small field you can go heavy on the sideboard hate little munchkin fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 21:33
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I'm still surprised they had O-Ring for so long, got rid of it and replaced it with a card with the "proper" formatting and then never printed Banishing Light again.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:46
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Entropic posted:They like making these strictly-better Hunt the Weak variants for limited. This seems like a high pick I saw Rosewater's name scrolling down before I saw the tweet so I had the experience of, "God, I hope he doesn't do the whole "World, meet [card name]" thing agai-dammit."
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Sep 5, 2017 21:47
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Angry Grimace posted:I'm still surprised they had O-Ring for so long, got rid of it and replaced it with a card with the "proper" formatting and then never printed Banishing Light again. Banishing light will probably come back with the return of core sets
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Sep 5, 2017 21:47
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Angry Grimace posted:I'm still surprised they had O-Ring for so long, got rid of it and replaced it with a card with the "proper" formatting and then never printed Banishing Light again. They've used the template for many other designs that probably wouldn't have been around if the "until" formatting was never invented. Banishing Light is the most vanilla use of it possible, so it's good they're trying different variations.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:07
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Where is the exiled card coming back?
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Sep 5, 2017 22:48
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Kuiperdolin posted:Where is the exiled card coming back? Between this and Hostage Taker, their templating sure is getting lazy this set.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:55
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The Human Crouton posted:Between this and Hostage Taker, their templating sure is getting lazy this set. It's literally just Brain maggot's templating dude, this isn't an issue
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Sep 5, 2017 22:59
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The Human Crouton posted:Between this and Hostage Taker, their templating sure is getting lazy this set. It's not an issue, the way "until" is worded and interpreted it always returns to where it was exiled from.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:05
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Angry Grimace posted:It's not an issue, the way "until" is worded and interpreted it always returns to where it was exiled from. Ok. I was just using Tidehollow Sculler as a reference. Didn't know that being able to return to hand was explicit in the rules.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:12
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The Human Crouton posted:Ok. I was just using Tidehollow Sculler as a reference. Didn't know that being able to return to hand was explicit in the rules. Since Banisher Priest they've moved away from the "two separate triggers" templating model in favour of "until" which puts things back where they came from when the condition ends. Mostly to avoid having to explain how the stack works to new players when someone pulls the "blink my o-ring in response to the ETB trigger" trick.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:38
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I got assigned Caw Blade in the Worldwake Gauntlet and every match has involved my opponent rage-quitting at some point where they weren't close to losing.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:41
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https://twitter.com/RosewattaStone This is the good poo poo
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Entropic posted:Since Banisher Priest they've moved away from the "two separate triggers" templating model in favour of "until" which puts things back where they came from when the condition ends. Mostly to avoid having to explain how the stack works to new players when someone pulls the "blink my o-ring in response to the ETB trigger" trick. Ok. That makes sense. I had a faceless butcher deck back in the day that pulled the same trick, and the rules debate was a pain. I've been playing magic since before and after the template change, but I never had reason to notice it until today.
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