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Yuzenn posted:I mean his current budget deck is this https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/budget-magic-88-30-tix-mono-white-leyline-tokens-modern and it went 4/5 in matches for 30 tix Hah, I'm glad you pointed this out before all the prices spiked too much. This is exactly my kind of deck.
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I would totally build that deck if Legion's Landing wasn't so expensive. I have almost every other card in the deck.
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CompeAnansi posted:Hah, I'm glad you pointed this out before all the prices spiked too much. This is exactly my kind of deck. Leyline of the meek went up 1500% lol Seriously if he just would tip me off on which decks he is using i'd make a pretty penny buying up the decks prior....
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precision posted:None of my friends are interested As others have mentioned, the internet exists. But to be more clear, you are trying to pit your deckbuilding skill against hundreds or thousands of other players who like this kind of deck or that kind of deck and will spend countless hours discussing strategies vs. other popular decks, specific cards etc. You are unlikely to be good enough at magic to build something equal to that sort of collective deckbuilding conciousness. If you like meta solving and deckbuilding, then draft/sealed or a deckbuilding LCG other than Magic are more likely what you are looking for. Constructed Magic on any tournament/event level is full of known tuned decks. The thing is, these decks still have some wiggle room for individual choices and ideas, but obviously much less. the modern metagame is an amorphous thing that shifts and evolves. You have to watch it and keep up with it to see it and understand it though, and it sounds like it just is not your thing. When I started playing again a couple years ago after a long time of not playing, the thing I liked the most about modern was a chance to get to play with all the good cards and decks for a price that wasn't legacy/vintage. Even as a kid I would read event reports and the duelist etc. and I wanted to play Necro, Prosbloom, UB teachings/Dralnu etc. but couldn't afford it. Now I have a lot of good powerful decks and it is awesome.
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I tried to get my wife into it but she can't handle the complexity.
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I've never been to a prerelease before, but I'm going this weekend and am very excited! Are there any useful things I should know beyond the info in that sheet they put in the box? I'm not sure of even basic things like "do you get to keep the cards"
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TheKingofSprings posted:Do you think the RRR cost Goblin is likely to see any play in the deck? How does that thing not have haste?
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Yuzenn posted:Leyline of the meek went up 1500% lol I just built 8 whack again and I'm already up $50
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vegetables posted:I've never been to a prerelease before, but I'm going this weekend and am very excited! Are there any useful things I should know beyond the info in that sheet they put in the box? I'm not sure of even basic things like "do you get to keep the cards"  You'll need to borrow the lands at the store, however, so try to return those. The official prerelease primer isn't a bad read. If you're looking for some advice on which cards to pick, Luis Scott-Vargas is doing a set review on Channel Fireball, and they'll update with a new article for each colour every day.
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mcmagic posted:How does that thing not have haste? I mean you can just play boggart ram-gang if you need a 3-mana 3/3 haste goblin
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Yuzenn posted:Leyline of the meek went up 1500% lol SaffronOlive is a net negative to the health of the game.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:SaffronOlive is a net negative to the health of the game. Finally, something we can all agree on.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Do you think the RRR cost Goblin is likely to see any play in the deck? Sideboard card against token decks? Its about the only thing I can think ok.
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Precision, you should at least consider standard. It’s the closest I’ve found to the MTG experience I remember from the 90s. It seems popular on MTGO also as far as casual matches and single games. I never wait more than a few minutes for an opponent. E: just to elaborate a little, standard seems like there’s enough wiggle room to come up with a brew on your own that can at least not get shutout every time. I personally enjoy going 2-1 with my mostly home-brewed $40 Merfolk deck more than I would enjoy going 5-0 and winning FNM with something off the rack. I get that I’m in the minority on that but I like what i like.  It seems like in standard you can at least be mediocre on your own, which I don’t think is the case in modern where you have to pick an established deck to play or you are just wasting time and money.
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So this serum powder eldrazi stompy deck in modern looks pretty spicy. Anyone here play it?
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mcmagic posted:How does that thing not have haste? With haste it would have been an interesting card, I say that even if the first strike was removed. The lack of haste makes it almost unplayable even in standard. There are so few goblins in standard right now that the dom additions basically offer no goblin tribal options in the near future. I do appreciate the modern additions even if it doesn't add anything right away.
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I don't watch his videos because I don't like his voice, but I think SO is Good for the game.
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fadam posted:I don't watch his videos because I don't like his voice, but I think SO is Good for the game. I can't see how anyone can argue otherwise. He's overtly good for the game and if you actually care about lovely MTGO finance (where actually profiting by buying and selling from bots is insanely inefficient and a nearly complete waste of time) that's on you. I don't watch his videos but he's a light in the darkness of the many lovely actors in the competitive scene.
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The American Dream posted:There’s a star city open coming to my city in a few months. Is it worth going to for the side events or is it going to be a smelly hassle? Side events are a huge racket. Huge entry fee for only a few rounds, and the only prizes are whatever random junk is on their prize wall. If anything on the schedule catches your eye or if there's a format you aren't normally able to find opponents for, have fun, but they're totally skippable.
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ShaneB posted:I can't see how anyone can argue otherwise. He's overtly good for the game and if you actually care about lovely MTGO finance (where actually profiting by buying and selling from bots is insanely inefficient and a nearly complete waste of time) that's on you. I don't watch his videos but he's a light in the darkness of the many lovely actors in the competitive scene. I can't tell if people hate him because magic has a lovely economic model and anyone putting heat on any card will cause degenerate results or because he has a funny voice. Either way it's WotC's fault, buy proxies, let the world burn.
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ShaneB posted:I can't see how anyone can argue otherwise. He's overtly good for the game and if you actually care about lovely MTGO finance (where actually profiting by buying and selling from bots is insanely inefficient and a nearly complete waste of time) that's on you. I don't watch his videos but he's a light in the darkness of the many lovely actors in the competitive scene. Olive has nothing to do with the competitive scene so you can't really compare them.
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The American Dream posted:There’s a star city open coming to my city in a few months. Is it worth going to for the side events or is it going to be a smelly hassle? I have a really silly friend who does scg side events so he can cash out for SCG tokens. He then somehow turns these SCG tokens into quite a score by the end of the weekend. Some of these dumb tokens demand a price of 5$ bucks or more a piece and its incredible the trades he gets away with. If you have recently bought scg tokens on ebay you have probably bought them from him.
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There is a change to the card coatings to match how the Japanese cards are made starting with Dominaria http://company.wizards.com/article/news/commitment-excellence quote:To give you a preview of what Tom will be talking about, some players with highly tuned fingers may notice a different feel to your Dominaria cards at Prereleases this weekend. As part of our adoption of best practices from our primary printer in Japan, we're rolling out a new coating method for cards in English Dominaria booster packs that we believe is best in class. Tom's first article will explore the finer points of card coating and what that means for feel, playability, and, yes, even that new-card smell.
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Legion loyalist is back to being more than a 10 dollar card because why not.
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All y'all arguing that you can't brew your own modern decks and get results are just flatly wrong. You won't be able to win comp rel events, sure, but if you're just going to FNM then modern is a brewers paradise.
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sit on my Facebook posted:All y'all arguing that you can't brew your own modern decks and get results are just flatly wrong. You won't be able to win comp rel events, sure, but if you're just going to FNM then modern is a brewers paradise. Perhaps, but if I blame my deck then I don't have to take personal responsibility for my results.
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Sickening posted:Legion loyalist is back to being more than a 10 dollar card because why not.  sit on my Facebook posted:All y'all arguing that you can't brew your own modern decks and get results are just flatly wrong. You won't be able to win comp rel events, sure, but if you're just going to FNM then modern is a brewers paradise. Had anyone heard of the Hollow One or Humans deck 6 months ago? They are the best 2 decks in the format now. That is was is good about Modern (and I don't like Modern)
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mcmagic posted:Sure GW humans with CoCo was a thing for a while before the 5C Vial versions popped up.
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Tainen posted:There is a change to the card coatings to match how the Japanese cards are made starting with Dominaria If anyone watched the preprerelease with LRR you can see the cards are curled fresh out of the packs. So this is just pure horseshit
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80s James Hetfield posted:GW humans with CoCo was a thing for a while before the 5C Vial versions popped up. Maybe but it was terrible. It was the printing of 2 new standard cards that made Humans a real deck...
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TheKingofSprings posted:Where Skirk Prospector does have some potential is with Fecundity in a Goblin storm style deck. Are there other Fecundity effects in modern? Smothering Abomination is a decent imitation (Grim Haruspex doesn't draw off tokens), but it costs 2BB. I guess the cost isn't a big deal in a deck that can run Manamorphose (and maybe Goblin Electromancer for turning Dragon Fodder/Krenko's Command/Hordeling Outburst into rituals). Seems awful far away from any kind of consistency, but maybe it's possible to go RBg and use some Viscera Seers as additional sac outlets to draw into Prospector with 8 Fecundity effects. Skirk Prospector & Mogg War Marshal is insane and with a little bit of storm Empty the Warrens becomes ridiculous. Claim//Fame might have a place to reuse MWM or get back a Prospector as there are not enough goblin rituals. myDad fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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ShaneB posted:I can't see how anyone can argue otherwise. He's overtly good for the game and if you actually care about lovely MTGO finance (where actually profiting by buying and selling from bots is insanely inefficient and a nearly complete waste of time) that's on you. I don't watch his videos but he's a light in the darkness of the many lovely actors in the competitive scene. Bitter Magic Troll who has a pathological need to own every card in Modern and/or have access to every card that could plausibly be played in Modern at low prices, even if Bitter Magic Troll didn't know some card was plausibly playable in Modern.
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sit on my Facebook posted:All y'all arguing that you can't brew your own modern decks and get results are just flatly wrong. You won't be able to win comp rel events, sure, but if you're just going to FNM then modern is a brewers paradise. Probably depends on your store. When I quit playing back in the day, even FNM was mega competitive and grindy as hell. Didn't help that the prize support - including the promos - was basically all tied up in the top four. You can only go so many weeks getting stomped by very tuned decks and getting nothing for it before it gets old. Obviously that was that store and not a dismissal of your point entirely, just saying it's not an absolute thing either way.
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On a mull to 5.. it'd be better if Smothering Abomination was 3B or something
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myDad posted:On a mull to 5.. 
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Going off that early relies on your war marshals all being near the top of the deck, right?
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myDad posted:On a mull to 5.. Cool, I guess I know what deck I'm building next.
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cheetah7071 posted:Going off that early relies on your war marshals all being near the top of the deck, right? Starting hand was like 2 War Marshals 1 Viscera 1 Skirk 1 land, drew a land then Fecundity e: Okay it's pretty consistent t3/t4
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t4 should be easy because you can tap out for fecundity t3. But unless I'm misunderstanding, the sequence in that game was two war marshals, each producing net one mana, so you can play fecundity and still have two left to go off with all the two mana spells I guess I was mistaken about needing the other war marshals near the top to build to an early empty the warrens. There's no need to play empty early in the going-off turn so the war marshals letting you build to four mana can be at the bottom no problem e: oh I guess t1 prospector, t2 war marshal manamorphose fecundity, t3 go off works too cheetah7071 fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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myDad posted:On a mull to 5.. List???
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