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Star Man posted:Who in the SCG minor league are worth following in the first place? Tom Ross and Emma Handy are the only two that I can think of. Caleb Scherer is a nice guy, and listens and debates alterations to his deck in his twitch. He had the most  moment the other day when it took him a while to realise the massive flood of twitch mods wasn’t because of support for him donating all his earnings for the night to the Korey memorial, but because he’d passed the requirements to be partnered. He seems super humble, and isn’t beyond calling himself out for bad plays and explaining what he’s done wrong.I really like Emma too. She’s another super nice player, gets far too much troll poo poo, and she’s part of a gaming inclusion charity. Tom and Todd I know little about, but they seem cool and good.
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Oldsrocket_27 posted:Fun fact, Jeff Hoogland banned me in both Magic and SCG’s twitch chats for daring to disagree with him over the BBE banning in SCG’s chat. How are letting him remain a Mod?
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Feb 10, 2018 15:42
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Niton posted:requires you to actually land a hit with a creature.
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Feb 10, 2018 16:21
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Hell yeah, round 1 Monster Ponza vs W/U Turns for the start of the GP. That's the Modern I want to watch. I'm sure next round will be Tron vs. Control or some other boring match up
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Feb 10, 2018 16:25
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https://twitter.com/marshall_lr/status/962099946013913088 About half way through this and it is a really good listen.
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Feb 10, 2018 17:27
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Tainen posted:https://twitter.com/marshall_lr/status/962099946013913088 Nice. Sincerely can't wait to get scalded by takes on the Lace cycle.
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Feb 10, 2018 18:51
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Some Numbers posted:No, it requires you to turn a creature sideways. It triggers off any combat damage. I didn't mean against a player! The point is, combat damage still has to happen. - you don't get counters until you've successfully attacked (or blocked) with a creature, so it offers zero immediate power. I don't think it's a safe unban, but I can imagine a world where it's too slow to generate value.
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Feb 10, 2018 19:08
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Do people ever try to lie about match winnings, and claim they are the victor when they lose?
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Feb 10, 2018 19:35
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Niton posted:I didn't mean against a player! The point is, combat damage still has to happen. - you don't get counters until you've successfully attacked (or blocked) with a creature, so it offers zero immediate power. I don't think it's a safe unban, but I can imagine a world where it's too slow to generate value. I generates value in legacy to the extent that it wins games. Noted slow format legacy.
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Feb 10, 2018 19:36
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DangerDongs posted:Do people ever try to lie about match winnings, and claim they are the victor when they lose? Happened to me at least once at fnm. The other time may have been a mistake.
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Feb 10, 2018 19:38
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DangerDongs posted:Do people ever try to lie about match winnings, and claim they are the victor when they lose? im the opposite, i fully embrace my dumbass plays last saturday at my lgs i saw a dude i played modern against and reintroduced myself as the guy who had to thoughtsieze himself bc he forgot the guy had a hexproof enchantment out when he cast it
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Feb 10, 2018 19:44
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DangerDongs posted:Do people ever try to lie about match winnings, and claim they are the victor when they lose? I've had it happen before when it used to affect your Elo rating. Guy pleaded and said he needed it for some bullshit byes at the next GP or whatever and since I was new, it probably dunked his 1700+ when I was in the 1400s somewhere. I just told him it was an FNM. Later found out that guy started a second number to ~protect the sanctity of a good Elo score~ and I had that removed and consolidated real quick too. 
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Feb 10, 2018 19:44
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DangerDongs posted:Do people ever try to lie about match winnings, and claim they are the victor when they lose? I've seen people accidentally or "accidentally" fill out a match slip incorrectly, does that count?
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Feb 10, 2018 19:45
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Soul Glo posted:im the opposite, i fully embrace my dumbass plays That's not how Magic works. You name the target when you put it on the stack, so if the target wasn't legal you never played it in the first place.
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Feb 10, 2018 19:53
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Xaerael posted:Caleb Scherer is a nice guy, and listens and debates alterations to his deck in his twitch. He had the most Caleb Durward is who I watch the most (with what little time I have). He’s great and is not shy from calling out obvious dumb play recommendations from the peanut gallery.
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mossyfisk posted:That's not how Magic works. You name the target when you put it on the stack, so if the target wasn't legal you never played it in the first place. eh it was funsies games and funny, plus i needed to reduce my life total for ds anyhow but now i know for real games!
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I generates value in legacy to the extent that it wins games. Noted slow format legacy. Legacy isn't slow, but it's a lot easier to get hits in with Jitte with TNN than just about anything I can think of! I agree with your point, though! I do think, though, that you'd have to dig a little bit deeper (Invisible Stalker?!) to get the same level of safety.
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Niton posted:Yeah, Jitte is pretty degenerate once it gets going, but.. it costs 2 mana to play, 2 to equip, and requires you to actually land a hit with a creature. I think it would probably be too good for modern, but not having a text box until you land a hit might be more of a downside than we give credit for. I would 100% slam it into bogles
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Mezzanon posted:I would 100% slam it into bogles Eh, I don’t think it would be bad per day but it’s not exactly good either.
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https://twitter.com/mtgaaron/status/962446774815268864
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Feb 10, 2018 23:25
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Jesus christ R&D get your poo poo together.
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Feb 10, 2018 23:28
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Hellsau posted:Jesus christ R&D get your poo poo together. These didn't make print so I don't see what the problem is.
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Who is the GP Toronto commentator who can't tell the difference between "th" and "f"?
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Feb 10, 2018 23:33
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Lone Goat posted:These didn't make print so I don't see what the problem is. Why bother wasting time designing cards that are on their face either unplayable or totally broken?
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Feb 10, 2018 23:55
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Hellsau posted:Why bother wasting time designing cards that are on their face either unplayable or totally broken? Because without pushing the boundaries of acceptability we never know what we can do.
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Hellsau posted:Why bother wasting time designing cards that are on their face either unplayable or totally broken? Because Magic design space is finite and unless you push eventually you will run out
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Feb 11, 2018 00:03
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The first one could pretty plausibly have been fine in standard, though it'd be busted in any format with dredge. The second one can be either broken or unplayable depending on the power of token spells and ramp in the format.
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weird "lmao" is censored on mtgo opp not a fan of vraska
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These own but they are not blue, checks out.
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I am really enjoying the LR Alpha set review.
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Hellsau posted:Why bother wasting time designing cards that are on their face either unplayable or totally broken? The whole point of design is you try a bunch of crazy poo poo and see what sticks. cheetah7071 posted:The first one could pretty plausibly have been fine in standard, though it'd be busted in any format with dredge. I think M15 shared a format with Delve.
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Would you guys say that the best way to get back into playing magic would be sealed draft ? I'm looking to start and before I only ever played casually with friends.
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Kurtofan posted:Would you guys say that the best way to get back into playing magic would be sealed draft ? yeah, but it's just called draft or booster draft. sealed's a different kind of limited where you open six boosters and make a deck. but yes, play limited, figure out which format you wanna play, and buy the deck in singles.
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Kurtofan posted:Would you guys say that the best way to get back into playing magic would be sealed draft ? It's how I got back last Fall. Would recommend. It's theoretically an equalizer in deck construction so you don't have to worry about showing up with your precon/welcome deck and just getting pasted, and it will start netting you a few Standard-relevant cards as you draft them so you can reduce the buy-in on a standard deck by owning/trading for a few things. I would further recommend listening to the Limited Resources podcast, and practicing on Draftsim if for no other reason than to be familiar with the kinds of cards you'll see as you're passing packs around so you know them without having to stop and read each one. Good luck, and remember it's just a kids game with little dragon and knight pictures-- don't get tilted.
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Hellsau posted:Is Dan Ward still savagely cheating his way to success with Dredge? Switched to bogles so he can't draw extra cards on camera anymore.
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Hellsau posted:Why bother wasting time designing cards that are on their face either unplayable or totally broken? Because if it's fun and only too strong because of cost they can just up the cmc in dev?
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Lone Goat posted:I think M15 shared a format with Delve. This was early design for the set before Khans of Tarkir, so it may have been that they knew they'd need to enable some kind of graveyard mechanic. Final set had the Souls and Satyr Wayfinder and graveyard hate in Tormod's Crypt, you know. Rakdos's Return cleared hoops and ended up being a strong finisher but in no way overwhelming, and Mind Shatter had gone through two standard tenures without issue. Why not try a discard X spell with convoke? It's not like they let it through two years of Standard, they just... tried a black effect with Convoke to explore what black could do with it.
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