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Carl Killer Miller posted:What are some good lands to get into if you're starting off modern? I want to sell off a bunch of my draft junk, maybe a few hundred dollars' worth and see about building my first modern deck. That seems to be the smart place to put money if I'm starting off. Decide on the deck you want to play and then buy the lands in it? If you have 0 modern cards don't just buy a bunch of lands and then not have a playable deck.
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Carl Killer Miller posted:What are some good lands to get into if you're starting off modern? Fetches, shocks, fastlands, manlands, checks, pains, etc for your deck of choice. If aggro, prioritise fastlands, shocks and pains. If control, fetches and shocks. Do you know which deck you'll play or what color(s)? Trip report, "Affinity", 3-0-1 Round 1: Death and Taxes, his game never really comes together and I run him over with small critters, especially fliers. 2-0 After, he played burn and won handily. Round 2: UW control, he never gets his sweepers in time and is unable to keep up with my tiny fliers, apparently the second time he's lost to to "Affinity," the other time (last week) also my doing. 2-0 Round 3: Eldrazi Taxes, went to time in game 3 wherein I ran him over with Ravagers and a Master. Highlights of this match include losing a total of 8 cards to Gonti over the course of the match. What a frustrating experience. He got my loving Aether Grid AND Plating off a Wear // Tear he jacked from me. Goddamn. 2-1 Round 4: Split for 5 packs (12.5 store credit), gave him the token since I won a random. Funny how WotC is making sure there's enough promos at each store now that it's no longer a standard-legal eternally-playable spell on the line. 0-0-1 Takeaway: Nissa is indeed too spicy for my deck, I guess I'll go back to Bolts. Back to Nature once again an MVP as all of my opponents main 8-10 Paths. Maybe she can sideboard vs white since they'll make sure I get all my basics.  Slowly but surely turning all of my money into store credit, :tenbux: at a time. MNgoons and neighboring state goons ought to get in on Regionals, November 4 at the Minneapolis Convention Centre, start time 10:, $40, modern.
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play bogles e: oh man my store on gives 9 in store credit and you pay 10 to get in. you get 12? that's nice a pale ghost fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Tubgoat posted:Fetches, shocks, fastlands, manlands, checks, pains, etc for your deck of choice. If aggro, prioritise fastlands, shocks and pains. If control, fetches and shocks. Do you know which deck you'll play or what color(s)? E: Also the whole CFB Judge shenanigans turned out pretty well. 
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Carl Killer Miller posted:What are some good lands to get into if you're starting off modern? I want to sell off a bunch of my draft junk, maybe a few hundred dollars' worth and see about building my first modern deck. That seems to be the smart place to put money if I'm starting off. You only need 20 mountains to play Burn poo poo, man, maybe even just 19
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I have to say, these stores I'm hitting on vacation are spoiling me. $4 store credit/pack you would win. A pack per win for $12 drafts, and a pity pack if you go 0/X (cannot be redeemed for store credit) Sure beats no store credit, $15 drafts, 3-0 5 packs and 2-1 1 pack.
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Soul Glo posted:You only need 20 mountains to play Burn Not if you want a good burn deck in modern, and burn is a legit deck in modern
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I've tried r/w burn on xmage and I feel as if the game too often ends with the opponent with three life left while I'm stuck topdecking lands
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Mikujin posted:Next time, you both may want to re-read Gonti and Wear//Tear. Did just now, please elaborate?
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Tubgoat posted:Did just now, please elaborate? Fuse has a clause specifically about casting from your hand.
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Tubgoat posted:Did just now, please elaborate? You can only fuse when you cast it from your hand.
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Oct 14, 2017 06:16
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Aha! Thank you. Now I'm REALLY glad I pulled that game out!
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Canadian nationals tomorrow. Wish me luck.
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GoutPatrol posted:Yeah, I kind of felt bad yesterday because I was playing Standard Mill last night. I had Hostage Taker'd a Scarab God away the turn before. They just tank for a minute, then pass. I draw, go into main phase, and cast it. They say "in respoise, I'll Vraska's Contempt [the Taker] Since I'm a stupid newbie: why does it not work that way? Wouldnt VC exile the Taker, thus returning the Scarab God to his side of the board before it resolves? I feel like I still don't get the stack sometimes. Or does casting the exiled creature not go on the stack at all? PJOmega posted:I have to say, these stores I'm hitting on vacation are spoiling me. $4 store credit/pack you would win. A pack per win for $12 drafts, and a pity pack if you go 0/X (cannot be redeemed for store credit) 10€ draft with rare/foilpick is where it's at.
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" and I gotta point out it doesn't work that way. And then I pulled no take backs because they were really passive aggressively making GBS threads on my deck playing 4 Slither Blades and Winds of Rebuke before. If you've got 4 Gods and 4 Torrential Gearhulks in your deck you should know how to do that correctly. And no, this person wasn't borrowing a deck to learn how to play.
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Mikujin posted:No.  Well, there you go. Thanks for taking the time to clear that up for me.
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suicidesteve posted:Buy Null Rods now if you want them. Like right now. For vintage weekend last year I had to pay 25 for my last one :/
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Omar al-Bishie posted:I've tried r/w burn on xmage and I feel as if the game too often ends with the opponent with three life left while I'm stuck topdecking lands yes, thats burn
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Katana Gomai posted:Since I'm a stupid newbie: why does it not work that way? Wouldnt VC exile the Taker, thus returning the Scarab God to his side of the board before it resolves? I feel like I still don't get the stack sometimes. Or does casting the exiled creature not go on the stack at all? Another thing to note is that GoutPatrol starts his main phase with priority. Since the opponent doesn't have priority, he can't interrupt any spell/action that GoutPatrol wants to take until GoutPatrol deigns to pass priority. If the opponent wanted to prevent the Scarab God from being played, he should have cast Vraska's Contempt during the upkeep. Instead he tried to get his cake and eat it too and probably had to VC the scarab god instead.
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A close friend of mine who's an expert in affinity(top 16ed a GP with the deck, consistently does well in leagues) made some videos of him playing through some leagues and I think he does a reasonably good job of talking through his plays and stuff. Anyway if you're interested, take a look
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But can he teach me, a Merfolk player, how to make the matchup not horrid?
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https://twitter.com/lsv/status/919255796197638144
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Count Bleck posted:But can he teach me, a Merfolk player, how to make the matchup not horrid? Do what I've been doing and cut your opponent into a series of unkeepable hands until he or she gives up and keeps Signal Pest, Blinkmoth, Opal.
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Count Bleck posted:But can he teach me, a Merfolk player, how to make the matchup not horrid? Learn the matchup backwards and forwards and hope you know it better than the affinity player. Play a full grip of hurkyls in the board and play tight. At my LGS I am > 50% with fish vs affinity, sample size 20 or so. Edit: Speaking of fish, anyone tried the green splash? Figure cut master of waves and some other assorted stuff for coco, the 2/1 explore, and maybe the 2/2 for G?
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Jesus, watching the VOD of Nationals and the Skype message noises are just all over the place. Do they eventually mute them? (Also, I tuned in because the title is "US Nationals - Draft", but nope, it's Standard)
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Went 5-2 day 1 at Canadian nationals 3-1 standard 2-1 draft Then dropped to play the modern open tomorrow because there’s no way I’m gonna go 7-0 tomorrow for a shot at top 8.
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Mezzanon posted:Went 5-2 day 1 at Canadian nationals Are there really that many people at the Canadian Nationals that it justified a 14 round tournament, and only X-2 or better would make top 8? I figured there'd only be like 200 people.
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Hellsau posted:Are there really that many people at the Canadian Nationals that it justified a 14 round tournament, and only X-2 or better would make top 8? I figured there'd only be like 200 people. I think 700 or so registered? They had to change venues to a significantly larger space.
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very nice of him to not directly blame WOTC for making the trophies cheap as gently caress
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mandatory lesbian posted:very nice of him to not directly blame WOTC for making the trophies cheap as gently caress Having a trophy made is so incredibly easy these days. Youth soccer gives out better trophies.
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Hellsau posted:Are there really that many people at the Canadian Nationals that it justified a 14 round tournament, and only X-2 or better would make top 8? I figured there'd only be like 200 people. 14 rounds good Christ FNM last night was four rounds and I was so worn out I don't know if I could've made it home under my own power, how does anyone play that long? C-Euro fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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C-Euro posted:14 rounds good Christ *shrug* I feel fine after 10 rounds. Of course, if I'm still playing after 10 rounds it means I'm winning so that definitely helps.
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I start getting a headache after like hour 3. I think I lean over the table/stay tensed too long.
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People play long events and don't account for drinking enough water or planning on how you're going to eat. Always keep your bottle full, don't fill up on sugary poo poo, and walk around between rounds.
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Soul Glo posted:I start getting a headache after like hour 3. I think I lean over the table/stay tensed too long. Yeah the headache is what I get, I think last night might have just been particularly bad because I was on a new deck that is a prison/control deck, so not only did I have to stay super-focused I think I might have been the last person to finish in each match (so no time for snacks or water between rounds). Maybe there's a reason I gravitate towards fast non-interactive decks!
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C-Euro posted:14 rounds good Christ Yeah, I stopped going to one of my LGS because they routinely had six-round FNM drafts. Nope and nope.
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C-Euro posted:14 rounds good Christ Taiwan Nationals was 2 days for 205 people. I started round 1 at table 1 and was at table 101 at round 4. I ended up in 190th place playing 7 rounds.
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Carl Killer Miller posted:Yeah, I stopped going to one of my LGS because they routinely had six-round FNM drafts. Nope and nope. ....do you loving play round robin with your draft table or something?
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