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AceClown posted:So how do players get on the World Championship? I don't understand how this isn't just Pro Tour 2: Ether Hub Boogaloo Pro Tour winners, winning the MTGO event, and top pro point winners in different regions.
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AceClown posted:So how do players get on the World Championship? I don't understand how this isn't just Pro Tour 2: Ether Hub Boogaloo https://magic.wizards.com/en/content/world-championship-event-types-events The season's top twenty-four players will be invited to compete in the World Championship. To be invited, you must do one of the following: Win a Pro Tour during the current season Be one of the Pro Points leaders of your region Win the Magic Online Championship of that year Finish the season with the most Constructed match points from Swiss rounds at Pro Tours Finish the season with the most Limited match points from Swiss rounds at Pro Tours Earn one of the top-ranked slots awarded to players with the highest Pro Point totals of the season who did not already receive an invitation to the World Championship
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Oct 7, 2017 23:37
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AceClown posted:So how do players get on the World Championship? I don't understand how this isn't just Pro Tour 2: Ether Hub Boogaloo This is a 24 man event that has highest pro point people and pt champions and stuff
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Oct 7, 2017 23:38
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Niton posted:Search for Azcanta is an amazingly dumb card and I love it. It's kind of like a JVP for the right deck
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Oct 8, 2017 00:14
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TheKingofSprings posted:It's kind of like a JVP for the right deck So it's going to shoot up in price and then stay at levels that are probably too high despite becoming unplayable or borderline unplayable in every format but vintage?
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Elyv posted:So it's going to shoot up in price and then stay at levels that are probably too high despite becoming unplayable or borderline unplayable in every format but vintage? Being rare I think it'll get into the $20+ range but not anywhere near JVP, at least it's not a mythic so that will help.
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ManMythLegend posted:I don't really, no. I watch some streams and screw around with janky decks but I'm not really an eternal format player which is why I'm asking. I'm trying to figure it out. Not every legacy deck list looks like this but https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/legacy-grixis-delver-24421#paper This is already an example of a very common deck (also see elves) in terms of speed, other decks are generally either cheating by reanimating or ramping, and some just get a little extra value out of very good 2 and 3 drops. I don't think there's a deck that doesn't play any 1 drops, and there's enough that play a lot. That list above is nearly half 1 drops. In a format with that kind of efficiency and power at 1 mana, every deck plays 4 copies of misstep, either accepting that they're gonna get hit by it or specifically building a deck that doesn't have any 1 drops... Aside from their own playset to hit delver and elves and whatever else 
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Death Bot posted:I don't think there's a deck that doesn't play any 1 drops, and there's enough that play a lot. Some Chalice of the Void decks(e.g. Stompy, MUD, Tezzerator) play very few or no 1-drops, but Chalice is a card that's actively trying to exploit that asymmetry.
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Oct 8, 2017 00:54
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TheKingofSprings posted:It's kind of like a JVP for the right deck Went through a dozen iterations of "Jacob Van... Poonen????" until I realized you were talking about flip Jace.
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Oct 8, 2017 01:11
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Won my FNM with Second Sun last night, feels good, I got to counter a Scarab God with Jace's Defeat, aw yeah.
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Oct 8, 2017 01:26
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I am going to HAVE to get two new art horizon canopies when iconic masters hits. I need to add to my mismatched card sets for trolling.
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Oct 8, 2017 01:35
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Modern FNM, ran more or less stock Affinity but with Lightning Bolts. I'm really not sure why people haven't tried Bolt already, it's amazing. 3-1, lost to Bant Spirits. Spirits is such a bullshit deck.
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Oct 8, 2017 01:37
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The Sexual Shiite posted:I am going to HAVE to get two new art horizon canopies when iconic masters hits. I need to add to my mismatched card sets for trolling. I'm someone who prefers his cards to be uniform, but who on earth gets bent out of shape over someone else having mixed editions of cards?
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Oct 8, 2017 01:47
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Tubgoat posted:Modern FNM, ran more or less stock Affinity but with Lightning Bolts. I'm really not sure why people haven't tried Bolt already, it's amazing. 3-1, lost to Bant Spirits. Spirits is such a bullshit deck. Affinity doesn't run Lightning Bolts because Galvanic Blast exists.
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Oct 8, 2017 01:51
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Tubgoat posted:Modern FNM, ran more or less stock Affinity 
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Tubgoat posted:Modern FNM, ran more or less stock Affinity but with Lightning Bolts. I'm really not sure why people haven't tried Bolt already, it's amazing. 3-1, lost to Bant Spirits. Spirits is such a bullshit deck. How many time do you find yourself in a situation where Bolt is noticeably better than Galvanic Blast? Efb;
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Oct 8, 2017 01:52
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I am downloading Xmage, friends, since I didn't get into Arena.  I should not have let myself get back into magic. I'm starting to slide from "I'll just play limited" to "I'll just get some standard-legal duals, since those would be good in anything..."
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Tubgoat posted:Modern FNM, ran more or less stock Affinity but with Lightning Bolts. I'm really not sure why people haven't tried Bolt already, it's amazing. 3-1, lost to Bant Spirits. Spirits is such a bullshit deck. loving lol
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Oct 8, 2017 02:24
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So Ramunap red isn't dominating the tournament?
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Oct 8, 2017 02:32
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Pretty sure lightning bolt is only better than galvanic blast in games that you could never, ever win.
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Oct 8, 2017 02:34
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AceClown posted:I don't get this Worlds tournament at all, say I watch the World Cup for soccer, I can get behind my national team and watch them play all the way to the end (of the group stages GG England) but this is all single players not team based so I don't get it. Worlds was like a Pro Tour but better until 2012, when it became a weird tiny tournament. Winning a Pro Tour is way more impressive at this point, even if all the players are top tier.
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Oct 8, 2017 03:12
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Tubgoat posted:Modern FNM, ran more or less stock Affinity but with Lightning Bolts. I'm really not sure why people haven't tried Bolt already, it's amazing. 3-1, lost to Bant Spirits. Spirits is such a bullshit deck. 1. gently caress Affinity 2. I really want to build Spirits but there's like three or four other Modern decks that I want to build right now lol. I'll see where I am once I finish my Hierarch and Company playset.
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uninverted posted:Pretty sure lightning bolt is only better than galvanic blast in games that you could never, ever win. AlternateNu posted:How many time do you find yourself in a situation where Bolt is noticeably better than Galvanic Blast? ThePeavstenator posted:Affinity doesn't run Lightning Bolts because Galvanic Blast exists. Hold onto your loving asses. Y'all ready for this poo poo? I run both. 
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if I splash green stompy with white, what would be some good cards besides path to add? I'm running loxodon smiter on xmage and path but the rest I added was just some meh enchants I stole from bogles and I don't think they're doing the deck any good
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Omar al-Bishie posted:if I splash green stompy with white, what would be some good cards besides path to add? I'm running loxodon smiter on xmage and path but the rest I added was just some meh enchants I stole from bogles and I don't think they're doing the deck any good Voice of Resurgence and Qasali Pridemage are options. Though I don't play modern, so others can determine how valuable they are in main/sb/at all.
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Omar al-Bishie posted:if I splash green stompy with white, what would be some good cards besides path to add? I'm running loxodon smiter on xmage and path but the rest I added was just some meh enchants I stole from bogles and I don't think they're doing the deck any good If you want to build a G/W Stompy style deck look into stuff like Watchwolf, Fleecemane Lion, Qasali Pridemage, Voice of Resurgance, Polukranos, and Advent of the Wurm. You could also check out G/W Hatebears. There's about a thousand different ways to build it and it's always fun IMO. Either way be prepared to look longingly at Horizon Canopy and wish you had some. Even though it's getting a reprint in Iconic Masters you can almost guarantee it won't drop much in price because the demand for them will far outstrip the print run of the set just like it does every reprint set.
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Omar al-Bishie posted:if I splash green stompy with white, what would be some good cards besides path to add? I'm running loxodon smiter on xmage and path but the rest I added was just some meh enchants I stole from bogles and I don't think they're doing the deck any good MTGGoldfish runs a Budget Deck series for Modern and one of the decks they did was Little Kid GW, it looks like a good starting point. That whole series is worth browsing through IMO, at least for FNM-level play. Cernunnos posted:Either way be prepared to look longingly at Horizon Canopy and wish you had some. Even though it's getting a reprint in Iconic Masters you can almost guarantee it won't drop much in price because the demand for them will far outstrip the print run of the set just like it does every reprint set. It's down to nearly half of what it was before it was designated for reprint. Granted it's still pretty expensive at ~$50 but that's way better than $100. If you ever wanted some then now is as good a time as any to get them. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Oct 8, 2017 |
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Tubgoat posted:Hold onto your loving asses. Y'all ready for this poo poo? That's a whooooooooole lot of non-artifact slots.
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AlternateNu posted:That's a whooooooooole lot of non-artifact slots. Nearly twice the regulation amount, in fact! I could only find 3 last night so I only ran 3, but when I find the last one, I'll make room for it too! I'm not using the set that's in Skred. 4 Arcbound Ravager 3 Master of Etherium 3 Memnite 4 Ornithopter 4 Signal Pest 4 Steel Overseer 4 Vault Skirge 4 Cranial Plating 4 Mox Opal 3 Springleaf Drum 4 Galvanic Blast 3 Lightning Bolt 4 Blinkmoth Nexus 4 Darksteel Citadel 2 Glimmervoid 4 Inkmoth Nexus 1 Mountain 1 Spire of Industry - 1 Ancient Grudge 1 Back to Nature 2 Etched Champion 1 Ethersworn Canonist 2 Ghirapur Aether Grid 1 Grafdigger's Cage 1 Nullmage Shepherd 2 Spellskite 1 Walking Ballista 1 Wear // Tear 1 Whipflare 1 more thing Sideboard needs to get retooled a little, and I may not run the 4th copy after all, but that's what FNM is for; a low-stakes testing ground for completely bonkers builds. One fellow piloted a Shared Fate deck to a 2-2 finish. 
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Who loves massive amounts of errata? http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/166162774138/what-planeswalker-redirection-rule-change
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Sickening posted:Who loves massive amounts of errata? This is going to break MTGO in half.
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Star Man posted:I'm someone who prefers his cards to be uniform, but who on earth gets bent out of shape over someone else having mixed editions of cards?
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Sickening posted:Who loves massive amounts of errata? If this lets me use Earthquake to take out more than one opposing planeswalker and still damage my opponent, I'm really quite fond of this change. Also they need to release some promo foil Alpha Lightning Bolts to celebrate, since the text will then be correct.
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Sickening posted:Who loves massive amounts of errata? This is fine as long as they never, ever print a card that deals damage to target player but not planeswalkers.
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Sickening posted:Who loves massive amounts of errata? im guessing only the few exceptions will receive errata and everything else will be covered in the rules change
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uPen posted:This is fine as long as they never, ever print a card that deals damage to target player but not planeswalkers. Tainen posted:im guessing only the few exceptions will receive errata and everything else will be covered in the rules change
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uPen posted:This is fine as long as they never, ever print a card that deals damage to target player but not planeswalkers. that's the entire point of the change, which is gonna super confuse anyone playing with...well any burn spell printed before champs of ixalan it sounds like
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mandatory lesbian posted:that's the entire point of the change No it's not. It's to eliminate a dumb rule.
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Rinkles posted:No it's not. It's to eliminate a dumb rule. a dumb rule you seem to have forgot makes it so you can't target players without also being able to target planewalkers with damage spells
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