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TheKingofSprings posted:E: Luckily Merfolk looks to be getting some very strong support in the next set what besides this guy? 
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Apr 8, 2018 22:09
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Rinkles posted:what besides this guy? Silvergill Adept
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Apr 8, 2018 22:11
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TheKingofSprings posted:Silvergill Adept uh, that was from last set
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Apr 8, 2018 22:17
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Tainen posted:MTGO is a quality program MTGO is a treasure.
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Apr 8, 2018 22:20
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mossyfisk posted:uh, that was from last set Oh, rip Uhhh there’s the 3/3 for 5 that draws cards off of lands I guess
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poo poo is weak posted:An interesting point was brought up at the beginning of this video. It's against the rules to receive outside assistance under any REL, yet popular streamers receive comments from hundreds of viewers throughout their matches. From a practical perspective, obviously most of the comments are poo poo or unrelated - however it isn't unreasonable to imagine a player could receive valuable insights from a few comments. Who cares if it's a league, but it's kind of bullshit in a PTQ etc. You play worse while streaming so nobody would ever do it in PTQ and also it opens yourself up to getting ghosted.
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poo poo is weak posted:An interesting point was brought up at the beginning of this video. It's against the rules to receive outside assistance under any REL, yet popular streamers receive comments from hundreds of viewers throughout their matches. From a practical perspective, obviously most of the comments are poo poo or unrelated - however it isn't unreasonable to imagine a player could receive valuable insights from a few comments. Who cares if it's a league, but it's kind of bullshit in a PTQ etc. I'm a big fan of various card games and have been playing Slay The Spire a lot recently, and I'm active in the SA thread and did a video I posted to youtube with some commentary a few days ago. It's definitely harder to commentate as I play than just play, and if I was interacting with a chat and streaming, I imagine it would add another layer of distraction that getting a few tips from people, assuming I could read through it all in time, wouldn't begin to make up for. The better you are, on average, the less a random person in the chat is probably going to be able to help you. If you have someone like LSV streaming, how many people in the chat are really capable of coming up with better lines he should be considering? Anyone who is good at these games that's streaming is going to have their win percentage/decision making go down or at best remain the same even with chat helping them.
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I used to play Magic when I was younger, but haven't really in over ten years. However I got an invite to Arena for the stress test and have started playing on there. As a lot of people have pointed out there are a lot of crappy elements to the UI and unintuitive things, but it's refreshing to get back into Magic and a digital card game more complicated than Hearthstone. I've been focused on trying to improve the Merfolk precon but I'm still short of a bunch of uncommons that I'd like. I'd say that's my biggest complaint about the economy so far, they shower you in commons, 90% of which are totally useless and at best give +0.1% to the vault. Still I'm having enough fun and since I'm going to be moving in a couple months I might start playing in person again.
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Some Numbers posted:For new players. They're designed to be mostly noncompetitive so competitive players don't buy them and new players can get their hands on them. I'm surprised that no other industry that has confronted the problem of demand for a product outstripping supply has ever hit on the galaxy brain solution of making a worse product so that informed consumers won't want to buy it
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I'm more than a little annoyed that I haven't gotten an Arena invite yet.
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Apr 8, 2018 23:29
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GimmickMan posted:That's it? No flying, first strike or lifelink? Not even a fourth point of toughness or Hexproof White? Weeeeaaaak. Let's remember shades! Or things with black's pay mana to get huge effect since they vary what type gets it. 1/1 for 1, needs two mana to get +1/+1 3/3 for 4, needs two mana for +1/+1, and is gated by Delirium 1/1 for 3, 1 mana for +1/+1 or a gate for +2/+2 0/4 for 4, 2 mana for +2/+2 1/1 for 4, 1 mana for +1/+1, puts a swamp in your hand 1/1 with undying for 4, 1 mana for +1/+1 Comparing it to Nantuko Shade is missing a sinister underbelly: shades traditionally loving suck. That and Nirkana Revenant are the only ones that don't just straight up gargle turds. A 3/3 for 3 that gets +1/+1 for 1 mana each is actually waaaay above rate. Is it good? Probably not, 1/2 for 1 mana on a shade isn't actually a good trade, but drat, it's the 2nd best Shade.
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I'm going to make an efucated guess and say that the only reason Nantuko Shade was even playable was because it didn't cost a billion mana to cast and had Cabal Coffers in the same set to help make it huge. Because it certainly never did poo poo in Standard when it was reprinted in Magic 2012.
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Was Cabal Coffers ever so broken that they needed to not just reprint it? I don't understand why they made a worse card when coffers doesn't start generating extra mana til turn 5.
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Apr 8, 2018 23:42
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MBC was a pretty good deck back in the Odyssey era but it was never dominant because that was the same block with Psychatog, Upheaval, Wild Mongrel and Circular Logic.
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Apr 8, 2018 23:45
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Sickening posted:Was Cabal Coffers ever so broken that they needed to not just reprint it? It can't tap for mana without swamps in play. They don't print lands without at least the ability to tap for at least one colorless. Last time a land straight up lacked even that was Eye of Ugin in 2010.
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Apr 8, 2018 23:46
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It’s a worse card but it’s not actually that much worse. The non-basic clause sucks but playing Coffers in a splash deck was dumb anyways and tapping for mana means it isn’t dead the first 4 turns
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Apr 8, 2018 23:48
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Sickening posted:Was Cabal Coffers ever so broken that they needed to not just reprint it? I don't understand why they made a worse card when coffers doesn't start generating extra mana til turn 5. The more telling question is this: did they think Nykthos was too strong when it was in Standard?
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Sickening posted:Was Cabal Coffers ever so broken that they needed to not just reprint it? I don't understand why they made a worse card when coffers doesn't start generating extra mana til turn 5. In addition to what others have already said, perhaps Cabal Coffers's status as a $25 uncommon puts it on the unofficial Reserved List.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Couple of Jade Bearers, probably, are there no other good turn 1 drops for your aggressive deck? I added 4x Kumena Speakers and 4x Silvergill Adepts, moved the Castaway's Despair to sideboard and took out a couple of the 4 mana hexproof dudes. 4-0 in single games with the changes. Last game I got was kind of a standoff with a dude building up 1/1 artifact tokens, I cast Tempest Caller and hit him 24 damage. 
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How much play did Nykthos actually get outside of monsters? I remember it just being kind of cute in Mono Black, I know it was big in mono Blue but that deck fell off quick Bulky Bartokomous posted:I added 4x Kumena Speakers and 4x Silvergill Adepts, moved the Castaway's Despair to sideboard and took out a couple of the 4 mana hexproof dudes. 4-0 in single games with the changes. Last game I got was kind of a standoff with a dude building up 1/1 artifact tokens, I cast Tempest Caller and hit him 24 damage. Neat, I’m glad the changes seem to have helped TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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Apr 8, 2018 23:54
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Attorney at Funk posted:The more telling question is this: did they think Nykthos was too strong when it was in Standard? Major difference between Dominaria having a throwback to Cabal Coffers, and Nykthos being the strongest enabler and payoff for a central theme of Theros.
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Apr 8, 2018 23:58
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Does standard merfolk have enough wizards for the counterspell?
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W/G devotion was a pretty strong deck for a while. The mainfest/morph pile with Whisperwood, Nykthos, Raptor, and Mastery of the Unseen
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TheKingofSprings posted:How much play did Nykthos actually get outside of monsters? I remember it just being kind of cute in Mono Black, I know it was big in mono Blue but that deck fell off quick Nykthos was a big loving deal its entire time in standard, easily letting mono-color themes survive when sandwiched by RTR and KTK and their extremely heavy multicolor themes.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2018-04-08 No copies of Jace in top 32 apparently, 4 copies of Bloodbraid Elf
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Attorney at Funk posted:The more telling question is this: did they think Nykthos was too strong when it was in Standard? iirc, from whatever dev article, they considered it at the cusp of acceptable standard power level, if not slightly higher
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Edit: Mixing up Husk and Shade like a chump.
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TheKingofSprings posted:How much play did Nykthos actually get outside of monsters? I remember it just being kind of cute in Mono Black, I know it was big in mono Blue but that deck fell off quick Mono-U didn't fall off quickly. It was the only deck that could really beat Mono-B. Those two decks dominated until RtR rotated when they lost Nightveil Spectre. Mono-G and G/r Monsters didn't appear until after rotation.
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AlternateNu posted:Mono-U didn't fall off quickly. It was the only deck that could really beat Mono-B. Those two decks dominated until RtR rotated when they lost Nightveil Spectre. Mono-G and G/r Monsters didn't appear until after rotation. I thought mono R was the only deck that could get a decent win rate until they printed Bile Blight and then welp
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If you're a streamer and you are afraid of ghosting, run on a delay. Kenji did for PTQs and such.
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TheKingofSprings posted:I thought mono R was the only deck that could get a decent win rate until they printed Bile Blight and then welp I wish mono-R was that good. (It was the deck I played.)
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It seems Arena has some kind of nasty memory leak or whatever. After a couple hours of playing, the interface slows to a crawl unless you exit and restart. Or at least it does this for me. So heads up on that.
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myDad posted:Does standard merfolk have enough wizards for the counterspell? Arcane Adaptation could help...
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I hosted a home event where a dude brought an A25 box. We only ended up with 4 so we split it up for sealed. loving going into this I didn't expect to say "wow this was a good box of A25," but it had Jace, Rishidan Port, Thalia, Blood Moon, Foil Bolas, foil Azusa, Ensaring Bridge, Pact of Negation, and one of the filter lands among other things. I personally offered up a "draft pack" of 3 A25 boosters to the winner to keep things interesting-- and won back my own packs. Plague winds and a couple filter lands. E: One of my more clever lines of play in my Orzhov Goodstuff I ended up in was having a Pacifism out. Drop an edict. Of course he sacs the Pacifism guy, sending pacifism to my yard. Drop an Auramancer, pick it up, and drop it on another guy. Felt cool I picked up the UW precon, and it looks pretty tight. I already traded for the 4 Glacial Fortresses and have a Search for Azcanta and a couple gearhulks to throw in it. So, as I start making substitutions... is there a sensible reason the mill deserts are in there? Just for screwing with scry effects in the mirrorish match? Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Apr 9, 2018 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:I picked up the UW precon, and it looks pretty tight. I already traded for the 4 Glacial Fortresses and have a Search for Azcanta and a couple gearhulks to throw in it. You can use it to trim cards off of the top of your deck post approach to get you there faster. You can also utilize it in the mirror for the same purpose if you have a count of how many cards down approach is for your opponent. I’ve also seen the UW Approach mirrors get to the point of decking g1, so that definitely gives you an edge there.
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AlternateNu posted:Mono-U didn't fall off quickly. It was the only deck that could really beat Mono-B. Those two decks dominated until RtR rotated when they lost Nightveil Spectre. Mono-G and G/r Monsters didn't appear until after rotation. Mono-G was a thing the moment Nykthos was printed, it just sucked poo poo because Supreme Verdict loving destroyed it. Gr monsters was a thing for the entire theros block, it just wasn't quite as good as mono-B.
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TheKingofSprings posted:http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/ugsimic-rivals-of-ixalandominaria-merfolk/ Mainboard needs to go away as a term.
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I really like the art for the MTG Goldfish videos on YouTube.
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TheKingofSprings posted:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2018-04-08 Should I give in and start running Mardu Pyromancer? Every time I see a build of it online the only card that I'm missing is the Cliffs (which is admittedly a decent-sized miss) and it keeps putting up results online. Does it have a decent game against Tron? There's been a lot of that at my LGS lately.
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