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Imo the best counterspell in modern is logic knot, because mostly it's just Counterspell
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On the other hand, Spell Queller laughs at your Cavern of Souls. "Cavern naming God, cast Purphoros?" Quell dat poo poo
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Oct 25, 2017 20:05
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As a fish player I welcome this resurgence of UX(X) tempo/control. More people need to play fish. It is an honest, blue collar deck for honest folks. A lunch pail, nine-to-five kind of deck.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:19
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Chill la Chill posted:
Because I think my team is over hyping it. I’m staying on bant spirits, play the deck you know.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:40
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Mezzanon posted:play the deck you know. Still one of if not the most important rules of Modern IMO. At the same time I was a topdeck away from going 3-1 last FNM with a deck I had sleeved up for the first time about five minutes prior to the start of the event.
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Mezzanon posted:Because I think my team is over hyping it. I’m staying on bant spirits, play the deck you know. This seems to be the best rule of thumb for every nonrotating/eternal format. With all the intricacies of every deck, and the sheer number of playable decks, knowledge gained by grinding with your favorite deck will generally give you better results than switching to some flavor of the week deck, even if the flavor of the week is a "better" deck than your personal favorite. There are exceptions to this rule.....see Eldrazi Winter.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:49
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Arena stream with the beta details is about to start https://go.twitch.tv/magic
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Archenteron posted:On the other hand, Spell Queller laughs at your Cavern of Souls. "Quell, actually..."
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Tainen posted:Arena stream with the beta details is about to start So when do I get to play with virtual pretend cards?
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:So when do I get to play with virtual pretend cards? Invites start November 3rd and they want to get the "priority queue" cleared by the end of November.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:22
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black potus posted:"Quell, actually..." 
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Katana Gomai posted:Invites start November 3rd and they want to get the "priority queue" cleared by the end of November. Cool. I'm glad I went to the pre-release to tap dinosaurs.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:40
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So the beta will start on November 3rd and for the first few weeks will be only online during specific times during the weekend to stress test. These tests will be using pre-constructed decks only. The goal is that by November 30th all the priority people will be in and the servers will be switched on 24/7. Once this happens it will be Ixalan constructed single game matches only. After a few weeks of that they will turn on full ranked best of 3 matches with they deck builder and they will slowly add in the Kaladesh and Amonkhet cards until they are caught up.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:48
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Is it eventually going to support Modern and Vintage? What about Limited? Cracking packs is fun, even if they're pretend.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:58
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So whats better Anti Storm tech in Affinity? Rule of Law or Thalia?
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Is it eventually going to support Modern and Vintage? They have only committed to standard at the moment. They said draft is fully functional at the moment but won't make beta till early next year probably
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Oct 25, 2017 22:00
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mcmagic posted:So whats better Anti Storm tech in Affinity? Rule of Law or Thalia? Ethersworn Canonist?
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Is it eventually going to support Modern and Vintage? I suspect they'll work their way backwards through the sets to eventually support Modern, but no way do they go all the way back to ABU for Legacy and Vintage. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they skip a few super weird Modern cards like Panglacial Wurm that really stretch the rules. Limited seems inevitable; if they have a stable way to play Standard, the draft portion is kind of just a way of building a deck.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:04
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Cactrot posted:Ethersworn Canonist? That seems to be out of favor for some reason.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:07
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mcmagic posted:That seems to be out of favor for some reason. I'm hard pressed to think of what that reason might be Comedy option: thoughtseize?
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Oct 25, 2017 22:09
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mcmagic posted:So whats better Anti Storm tech in Affinity? Rule of Law or Thalia? Probably Thalia, easier to cast and supports Affinity's game plan more than a do-nothing-else enchantment. Canonist falls to all the same artifact hate they'll be bringing in anyways, like Shattering Spree, etc. Rule of Law's main advantage is that they'll have to rely on Echoing Truth instead of creature removal; it may depend on whether you're on the play or draw and can drop it before their turn 3.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:15
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mcmagic posted:That seems to be out of favor for some reason. The reasons are pretty dumb. The reasons mainly are that canonist dies to lightning bolt and other artifact removal they might run while at least thalia will disrupt a little. This is dumb considering thalia is legendary and disrupts your own gameplan while rule of law has no synergy at all. These are all worse IMO.
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mcmagic posted:So whats better Anti Storm tech in Affinity? Rule of Law or Thalia? I used to have a lot of fun trolling Storm by using Birthing Pod to fetch Eidolon of Rhetoric.
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Sickening posted:The reasons are pretty dumb. The reasons mainly are that canonist dies to lightning bolt and other artifact removal they might run while at least thalia will disrupt a little. This is dumb considering thalia is legendary and disrupts your own gameplan while rule of law has no synergy at all. These are all worse IMO. I mean, storm will often play a shattering spree in the sideboard and they're already bringing that card in for affinity so that's probably a decent argument for not using it in affinity sideboards specifically. Also anything that can cast eidolon on t2 should use that instead of canonist thanks to bolt, I used eidolon when I played company and I know elves prefers eidolon as well.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:35
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My friend just runs 2 rest in peace 2 thoughtseize because they're more generally useful and Affinity only needs to disrupt storm for a couple of turns since it presents such a fast clock.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:35
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mcmagic posted:So whats better Anti Storm tech in Affinity? Rule of Law or Thalia? Thalia + Eidolon of Rhetoric
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Oct 25, 2017 22:42
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Cracking packs is fun, even if they're pretend. I just bought some sleeves at my FLGS today and someone in the store was opening a boz of Kaladesh. He was hoping to pull a Chandra and singles for commander. Nearly every card he wanted was available to buy in store for way less than the cost of that entire box.
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Balon posted:Thalia + Eidolon of Rhetoric I got eidolon of rhetoric + Kira in play against a grixis deaths shadow player the other day. Felt good man.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDnWbD3eJVg Whatever will suicidesteve's reaction be??
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Star Man posted:I just bought some sleeves at my FLGS today and someone in the store was opening a boz of Kaladesh. He was hoping to pull a Chandra and singles for commander. Nearly every card he wanted was available to buy in store for way less than the cost of that entire box. I said "fun," not "rationally optimal as a consumer choice."  Also if I spring for a box instead of opening them alone like a sad man doing scratch off tickets alone at the PDQ I am drafting it with friends.
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Rinkles posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDnWbD3eJVg en-com-passes?
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Oct 25, 2017 23:18
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Anybody else just get the stress test event invite for arena?
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I got the invite
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I said "fun," not "rationally optimal as a consumer choice." Oh, believe me, I like opening packs too and buy a Modern Masters 2015 or 2017 or Eternal Masters pack every once in a while on a lark. It's just that "opening packs is fun" is the reason people give me when I watch them drop $100 on a booster box and rip the whole thing open and get a whole lot of nothing. I wouldn't have that problem if they got a group together for a draft, even of the buyer was going to keep all the cards anyway.
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There's plenty of app games that give you free packs every day if you feel the terrible need to just open packs of some sort. The only sad thing is that you cannot play flip it or rip it with them. 
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I got my first ever structure deck today since I want to actually learn how to play and there's a place that runs get-togethers near my house. So I got the Jace deck with all of the Merfolk in it and the two booster packs that came with it had two pretty solid looking cards in Favorable Winds (blue spell which buffs flying monsters ) and Waker of the Wilds (turns lands into creatures) although I'm not sure if they'll end up in my deck or not. There's also this big old boat which looks cool but is probably more effort than it's worth. I do have a couple of questions though 1) how exactly do Planeswalker cards function? Jace has three abilities and one of them has a -9 on it which I don't understand. 2) I got these two treasure cards in my booster packs which have different backs. What's the deal with them? 3) I got this double sided card. One side is Dowsing Dagger and the other is a land. The land side says that it transforms from Dowsing Dagger and I'm at a loss about how it's supposed to function
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http://manadeprived.com/men-magic-building-community/Daniel Fournier posted:Just over two years ago, Jim Davis wrote an unfortunate article titled “Women and Magic” in response to a similarly-titled Meghan Wolff article ... Today, we’re going to take a quick look at the state of inclusivity in Magic in 2017 and use the framework of the Davis article to see what we, the male majority, can do to help. I've definitely been guilty of assuming a girlfriend of a regular at the LGS wasn't there to play FNM. For a while I just thought of Lepore as DeTora's boyfriend, but he was the exception that proves the rule.
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I can help with 2 and 3. The treasure cards are just placeholder tokens and nothing more. Many cards in Ixalan generate treasure as an effect and you use those to show how.many you have. Transform cards have a normal face with a cost and a transformed face. You play the side with a cost printed on it like any card, and when the condition printed on the first face is met, you may/must (depending on the card) flip it. The card is now solely whatever is on the flipped side and whatever it used to be is gone.
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Testekill posted:1) how exactly do Planeswalker cards function? Jace has three abilities and one of them has a -9 on it which I don't understand. 1) Play one ability of each Planeswalker you control each turn. The number bottom right is how many loyalty ot starts with, the + or - are how many counters are added or removed as a cost. 2) tokens, back not really relevant. 3) play dagger as equipment, transform when equipped creature hits opponent.
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