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Archenteron posted:Replace an Anger of the Gods with a Blasphemous Act (this is the 
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Getting silly in advance of Worcester; I don't know if I'll go, but if I do it might be with nonsense like this. 4 cabal therapy 4 veteran explorer 4 green sun's zenith 4 academy rector sylvan library 2 evolutionary leap pernicious deed knight of the reliquary tireless tracker eternal witness leovold, emissary of trest 3 brainstorm 2 baleful strix jace tms sigarda, host of heroin titania, priestess of land recursion garruk the flippy 4-drop meren of clan nel toth cruel reality overwhelming splendor dovescape verdant catacombs 3 misty rainforest 3 windswept heath polluted delta 2 phyrexian tower volrath's stronghold savannah 2 bayou scrubland 2 tropical island 3 forest island swamp plains sb 3 carpet of flowers 2 collective brutality reclamation sage toxic deluge chromanticode 4 force of will true-name nemesis 2 flusterstorm  need to find slots for 1-2 diabolic intent and 1 DRS. Unsure if the FoW plan is even reasonable here, have never tried to play this deck before and sleeved this up without much research.
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Feb 7, 2018 23:25
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I don't know if 3 Brainstorm of 0 DRS is more egregious here. Force seems bad considering you have like 7 blue cards.
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Feb 7, 2018 23:33
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Why are there almost zero relic of progenitus for sale in the uk 
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Feb 8, 2018 00:34
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Stangg posted:Why are there almost zero relic of progenitus for sale in the uk I think I've got more than a playset, if you want snail mail from the US
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Feb 8, 2018 16:37
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Tim Raines IRL posted:I think I've got more than a playset, if you want snail mail from the US Thanks for the offer, I managed to order them from Europe after two attempts, need them for Grand Prix Lyon next week 
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Feb 8, 2018 16:59
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Casual-ish modern deck modified from here. Scales or Constrictor + Ravager + Walking Ballista. Can someone tell me if anything in my maybeboard should go mainboard and if so, what to sub? Deck: Abzan Scales    //Main Lands (20) 4 Blooming Marsh 1 Forest 1 Gavony Township 1 Godless Shrine 2 Marsh Flats 2 Overgrown Tomb 1 Swamp 1 Temple Garden 1 Vault of the Archangel 4 Verdant Catacombs 2 Windswept Heath Spells (15) 3 Ancient Stirrings 4 Dromoka's Command 3 Fatal Push 4 Hardened Scales 1 Solidarity of Heroes Creatures (25) 4 Arcbound Ravager 4 Arcbound Worker 3 Dark Confidant 4 Hangarback Walker 2 Scavenging Ooze 4 Walking Ballista 4 Winding Constrictor //Sideboard 2 Anafenza, the Foremost 4 Lingering Souls 1 Pithing Needle 2 Spellskite 2 Surgical Extraction 4 Thoughtseize //Maybeboard Aetherborn Marauder - evasion Ancient Stirrings - squeeze in another or nah? Aquastrand Spider - reach Avatar of the Resolute Genesis Hydra - mid game bomb. Everything in my deck is low cc so this is good value 2 for 1. Obsessive Skinner Protean Hydra Retribution of the Ancients - combat tricks Traverse+the+ulvenwald - I subbed in ancient stirrings instead, since it provides value even without Delirium, and most of what I want to fetch is colorless anyhow. Steel Overseer - instead of scavenging ooze?  Display deck statistics
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Feb 8, 2018 18:29
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BrianBoitano posted:Casual-ish modern deck modified from here. Scales or Constrictor + Ravager + Walking Ballista. Can someone tell me if anything in my maybeboard should go mainboard and if so, what to sub? You should probably play the overseer over scooze, traverse over ancient stirrings (any creature in your yard counts for 2 types), and find a slot for Nissa, voice of zendikar. That said, I played this deck for several weeks when GDS was at its peak. It gets completely wrecked by point removal, and you really need to get critical mass going on your ballistas or hangarbacks by turn 4 or 5, which is tough to do while staying alive. The meta is quite a bit different now, though. Let us know how it goes - it’s certainly sweet when it gets to go off.
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Feb 8, 2018 19:26
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Playing Miracles in modern competitive practice this week, I have ulted my 1-of Jace, The Living Guildpact three times over ~15 matches. Card is trash, and wins games.
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Feb 9, 2018 16:36
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Didn't have enough people to fire Modern FNM tonight so I jammed a couple of practice games on GW Company with those who did show up. Quick thoughts- --Either I've been under-valuing Tireless Tracker before tonight, or my opponents were undervaluing it, because whenever I stuck one I was able to really swing the game in my favor, often getting 3+ Clues before losing the Tracker. In my last game of the night I got both out at the same time, and hoo boy. Might go up to four as suggested by someone in the main thread, but I don't know what I'd cut. Probably Finks but in that case I would want to make space for them in the sideboard, which I don't know how I'd do. --Speaking of sideboard, would it be a good idea to try and make room for a couple of Fairgrounds Wardens? --From the makers of "Ghost Quarter myself" comes "Tec Edge myself", which I didn't realize you could do until I had to do so to pump a Knight for exactly lethal. --There's a new-ish player at the store running Mono-black Devotion, and because we keep getting paired up (and I keep beating him) I'm trying to think of ways to improve his deck. He's running almost entirely basic Swamps outside of a few black fetchlands and a couple of Nykthoses, so I was trying to think of good utility lands to include in a monoblack deck. Any ideas? First one that came to mind was Field of Ruin since he's running Bloodghast and could benefit from the extra Landfall triggers.
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Feb 10, 2018 03:29
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C-Euro posted:Didn't have enough people to fire Modern FNM tonight so I jammed a couple of practice games on GW Company with those who did show up. Quick thoughts- One Leechridden Swamp for spice (and it's fetchable) and to get ready to snap up the reprint of Obliterator in M25
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Feb 10, 2018 06:25
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Archenteron posted:One Leechridden Swamp for spice (and it's fetchable) and to get ready to snap up the reprint of Obliterator in M25 He's already running Obliterators, that card never seems like a pain in the rear end until you're staring one down across the table without any hard removal. E: His non-land cards are something like Thoughtseize IOK Lili (Veil and Last Hope) Push Dismember Gary Geralf's Messenger Bloodghast Gifted Aetherborn Obliterator OGW Kalitas Probably some other stuff that I'm forgetting C-Euro fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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Feb 10, 2018 06:29
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C-Euro posted:Didn't have enough people to fire Modern FNM tonight so I jammed a couple of practice games on GW Company with those who did show up. Quick thoughts- Urborg is a good one of land.
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Feb 10, 2018 16:43
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C-Euro posted:--There's a new-ish player at the store running Mono-black Devotion, and because we keep getting paired up (and I keep beating him) I'm trying to think of ways to improve his deck. He's running almost entirely basic Swamps outside of a few black fetchlands and a couple of Nykthoses, so I was trying to think of good utility lands to include in a monoblack deck. Any ideas? First one that came to mind was Field of Ruin since he's running Bloodghast and could benefit from the extra Landfall triggers. If he adds Urborgs he might be able to get away with Mutavaults. Otherwise, Ifnir Deadlands isn’t the worst.
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Feb 10, 2018 21:57
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I've been noticing a lot of Legacy goblins lists running earwig squad. Please tell me this is so that you can get 3 lands out of your opponents deck while wastelanding the rest to lock them out of the game completely.
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Feb 11, 2018 07:15
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Mezzanon posted:I've been noticing a lot of Legacy goblins lists running earwig squad. Please tell me this is so that you can get 3 lands out of your opponents deck while wastelanding the rest to lock them out of the game completely. Squad is there to try to turn Storm and other similarly fast combo from a 10% matchup to 35-40%. If your opponent is running basics and isn't Tide you're already in great shape for the most part.
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Feb 11, 2018 07:33
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KenBearlLOLOL posted:Squad is there to try to turn Storm and other similarly fast combo from a 10% matchup to 35-40%. If your opponent is running basics and isn't Tide you're already in great shape for the most part. That's fair, I just noticed a lot of tempo lists run 5 mana sources total, so being able to kneecap 3 lands out of a deck seems like a plausible line.
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Feb 11, 2018 07:37
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Against a deck that only ever wants 2 lands and would love to have 3 less in the deck to draw? Probably not.
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Feb 11, 2018 07:44
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suicidesteve posted:Against a deck that only ever wants 2 lands and would love to have 3 less in the deck to draw? Probably not. Yeah but you also run 4x wasteland for those 2 first lands. Edit: By this I mean, is there ever a situation where it is worth it to consider using earwig squad to pull lands out of an opponents deck (since you get to look)? Edit 2: Like, I understand it's almost never going to be the optimal play, so I'm trying to imagine a scenario where it's cool and good. Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Feb 11, 2018 |
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Feb 11, 2018 07:45
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Mezzanon posted:Yeah but you also run 4x wasteland for those 2 first lands. Lands.even then, you probably just die slowly to Punishing Fire instead. If you're trying to use the Lands game plan, you should just be playing Lands. It's there for Show and Tell and Storm.
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EvilBeard posted:Lands.even then, you probably just die slowly to Punishing Fire instead. If you're trying to use the Lands game plan, you should just be playing Lands. Fair. I’m trying to get ready for GP SeaTac in April. I have infect and goblins built but I’m in an area where getting legacy to fire is lol. Give me advice.
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Feb 11, 2018 23:26
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play the deck with brainstorms and force of wills in it also play infect because i want someone to jam one or two Ride the Dilu Horse in there
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Feb 12, 2018 01:47
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The effect lasting indefinitely is tempting, wonder how many judge calls that one would get.
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Feb 12, 2018 03:10
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i should probably figure out what i am going to play at SeaTac too. The three decks I can put together easily that aren't embarrassing are: Grixis Delver (yuck) UB Death's Shadow UW Search for Azcanta Durdle Town I fear that there are too many Swords to Plowshares running around for Death's Shadow. I definitely learned some lessons when I took it to Vegas though, and adding more shocks and not loving around with Stifles and playing Thoughtseizes instead keeps all the strengths that the deck had in those games and shores up a number of its weaknesses
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Feb 12, 2018 05:10
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:play the deck with brainstorms and force of wills in it So tempting that dilu horse. But I do like goblins
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Feb 12, 2018 07:48
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I picked up a Jace last week for Legacy and hypothetical modern spec for $55 from card kingdom. It's gonna show up today. I hosed the order up initially, so I had a duplicate order that still showed as Pending in my card kingdom order history. I just used paypal to move the transaction to complete; am gonna be very curious to see if they ship me another at that price, now that it's selling for more than double that on eBay.
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Feb 12, 2018 16:54
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Now that we have Jace, where does he go? 2-3 in Jeskai control, Miracles (which might almost be a real deck now? I've been winning games on MODO with loving Jace The Guildpact)... do any of the GDS builds want this?
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Feb 12, 2018 16:56
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I should have picked one up for Blue Moon just in case, but alas.
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Feb 12, 2018 16:58
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prediction: spikes to $250 over next day or two, settles to $150, goes down to $95ish during peak supply of M25 but basically becomes the new Tarmogoyf for as long as its in the format. Unless it turns out to be bad, which seems unlikely to me.
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Feb 12, 2018 17:06
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Tim Raines IRL posted:Now that we have Jace, where does he go? 2-3 in Jeskai control, Miracles (which might almost be a real deck now? I've been winning games on MODO with loving Jace The Guildpact)... do any of the GDS builds want this? Jeskai control, some kind of blue junk list as a curve topper, he could potentially slot into Lantern, there are decks that might want him as a sideboard card vs control (Bant Knightfal) Basically any slower deck with blue might want one or two.
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Feb 12, 2018 17:09
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Tim Raines IRL posted:Now that we have Jace, where does he go? 2-3 in Jeskai control, Miracles (which might almost be a real deck now? I've been winning games on MODO with loving Jace The Guildpact)... do any of the GDS builds want this? I don't GDS wants it. I think a nice BUG shell would fit him well. Jace Lilly Goyf Snap Tasigur Gurmag Ancestral (maybe with as foretold for value) Removal Counters Sweepers
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Feb 12, 2018 18:13
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the really funny thing to me about Jace -- the only reason people started brewing miracles is [[Riverwise Augur]]... which is also, definitely, the card we cut for Jace, since it's just loving trashErrant Gin Monks posted:I don't GDS wants it. I think a nice BUG shell would fit him well. hmm, I have All Those Cards except for As Foretold. I also just bought a playset of Disrupting Shoal because because speculation (I want to brew Mono-U delver, or maybe Ur with red only to support main deck moons)
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Feb 12, 2018 18:20
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Just got my first game in with a janky Paradox Engine deck. It was fun as hell, went off on turn 4 after mulliganing to 6, though my opponent didn't have any removal or disruption which would've ate my fragile lunch. My coworker didn't believe at first read that Gilder Bairn worked the way he does 
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Feb 12, 2018 19:20
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BrianBoitano posted:Just got my first game in with a janky Paradox Engine deck. It was fun as hell, went off on turn 4 after mulliganing to 6, though my opponent didn't have any removal or disruption which would've ate my fragile lunch. Haha, I played against a deck like that once on MODO, and he housed me in game 1 and won on turn 4. Game 2, I cast an Ancient Grudge... and he conceded the match.
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There's another untap combo that's kind of like that wherein they make infinite mana with Pili-Pala and Grand Architect. His win condition was to cycle through his deck and cast four lightning bolts and then recur it four times with snapcaster mage. imagine his surprise when he read what my dryad militant did
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Feb 12, 2018 19:57
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Tim Raines IRL posted:Haha, I played against a deck like that once on MODO, and he housed me in game 1 and won on turn 4. Game 2, I cast an Ancient Grudge... and he conceded the match. Sounds about right. Johnny Five-Jaces posted:There's another untap combo that's kind of like that wherein they make infinite mana with Pili-Pala and Grand Architect. His win condition was to cycle through his deck and cast four lightning bolts and then recur it four times with snapcaster mage. imagine his surprise when he read what my dryad militant did As a janky combo player, my hat's off to that deck designer with one win condition, chasing the nut hand dragon. The funny thing is I'm not using Gilder Bairn in any infinite combo, just as a weird way to pop Ral Zarek or Tezzeret the Seeker the turn I play them, or just to boost my mana rocks. They can help me reach critical mass, but mostly Coretapper and Surge Node work for that and I just have the Bairn for shenanigans.
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Feb 12, 2018 20:13
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When I bought a JTMS last week I created 2 orders on Card Kingdom and only completed one of them. I noticed this today and that the other one still existed in Pending status for $55, so I tried to complete it because why not -- and despite being sold out, they had one on hold for my pending order from 2/6, and honored the price and shipped it! Pretty amazing.
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Feb 12, 2018 22:11
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If anyone is interested in testing for SeaTac on XMage, let me know, I'm likely bringing Aggro Loam and Grixis Delver and deciding between the two.
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Feb 12, 2018 22:28
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Real talk though does anybody have any experience on Legacy Goblins/Infect?
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Potential UB Faeries list with JTMS here. Jace makes late game discard/leaks much less problematic and between all your random fliers and Tar Pit you should be quite good at killing opposing Jaces. You also no longer need to play any Snapcaster Mages which means you can get away with playing more Mistbind Cliques which improves your big mana matchups - matchups that will probably become more common now that people are going to be playing more Jund/Uxx decks that tend to fold to big mana strategies. The sideboard is spaghetti on a wall and includes some somewhat experimental things but it's worth a shot. Let me know if y'all see any notable exclusions or have any ideas for what might be good in the deck.
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