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I'm just going to put this out there. My buddy is cashing out if anyone knows any whales here looking.quote:MTG Related Status: I’m about to offer up the last bit of my collection. I’m focusing on my business and personal development and don’t have time to play. Would prefer one Buyer. Various Conditions mostly MP, some HP. Scans will be up tomorrow night. Taking Offers. It’s going to be in the realm of $100k. The UL & CE set have already been sold.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I'm just going to put this out there. My buddy is cashing out if anyone knows any whales here looking.  Fingers McLongDong posted:One thing though, most sideboards have a single Lyra Dawnbringer in the sideboard. I get that it's a baneslayer angel that can pump your entreat angels, but what matchup are you bringing it in for? in legacy, it is for BUG midrange and control decks because they cannot, in one million years, ever kill that card. I do not play similar GBx or RBx strategies in modern, so I don't know what the sideboard plan looks like, but my guess is that, like you said, stuff like terminates go away and then they can never, ever deal with it
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Jun 26, 2018 22:24
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I'm just going to put this out there. My buddy is cashing out if anyone knows any whales here looking. Yeah, one buyer sounds like a plan
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Jun 26, 2018 22:41
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What do you think of Spirit of the Labyrinth as a sideboard card in Modern humans? Vialing it in response to a loot spell would be a major blowout, and it is also good against storm and KCI. It does die to any removal spell, but if they are bolting this then they aren't bolting a Mantis Rider.
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Jun 28, 2018 12:15
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it's okay against hollow one, but still a blank against dredge and their looting spells. I suppose it depends on what your meta is (that you brought up KCI as a deck to worry about at all leads me to believe there's some weird stuff going on over there) and what you want to take out of the sideboard for it.
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Jun 28, 2018 17:39
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I'm going to add a spirit to the sideboard of my WB taxes deck just because at a local level it's pretty good right now. Good against mardu pyromancer, control, storm, hollow one, and I guess KCI if anyone feels like getting saucy. Last time I used one in modern was the treasure cruise days but it seems pretty decent right now.
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Jun 28, 2018 17:51
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Spirit of the Lab seems horrible against storm and control. What am I missing? Are you really bringing in a 2 mana 3/1 just to make the cards Serum Visions and Remand slightly worse? The only playable card in the format that Spirit is good enough against is Faithless Looting, and good luck keeping her alive against a deck that's half removal.
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Jun 28, 2018 18:03
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suicidesteve posted:Spirit of the Lab seems horrible against storm and control. What am I missing? Are you really bringing in a 2 mana 3/1 just to make the cards Serum Visions and Remand slightly worse? The only playable card in the format that Spirit is good enough against is Faithless Looting, and good luck keeping her alive against a deck that's half removal. Serum visions, opt, remand, and manamorphose in storm. Humans and taxes both have worse cards. Also control these days is using teferi and jtms. Also humans, spirits, and taxes are all very creature heavy decks so yeah, spot removal obviously sucks but is much easier to play around. Especially with how easy taxes and spirits can protect a few creatures. You're also forgetting goblin lore in hollow ones decks and all the extra draws in KCI since it got popular.
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Jun 28, 2018 18:16
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I would pay money to see a pro get his Goblin Lore blown out on camera by a Collective Company into Spirit of the Labyrinth.
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Jun 28, 2018 22:47
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AlternateNu posted:I would pay money to see a pro get his Goblin Lore blown out on camera by a Collective Company into Spirit of the Labyrinth. There was that Legacy tourney where a guy flashed in Notion Thief in response to an opponent's Jacestorm, does that count?
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Jun 28, 2018 23:06
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C-Euro posted:There was that Legacy tourney where a guy flashed in Notion Thief in response to an opponent's Jacestorm, does that count? Twice. Back to back games. It happened to a kid who played at my LGS.
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Jun 28, 2018 23:13
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Serum visions, opt, remand, and manamorphose in storm. Humans and taxes both have worse cards. Also control these days is using teferi and jtms. Also humans, spirits, and taxes are all very creature heavy decks so yeah, spot removal obviously sucks but is much easier to play around. Especially with how easy taxes and spirits can protect a few creatures. You're also forgetting goblin lore in hollow ones decks and all the extra draws in KCI since it got popular. if you can manage to vial it in in response to a Jace activation that might be GG right there. I pulled that trick with leovold a couple times in legacy BUG vial nonsense, and provoked scoops.
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Jun 28, 2018 23:25
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Spirit of the Lab seems like a good card to have out with burning inquiry.
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Jun 28, 2018 23:33
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Jace, the Mind Sculptor in modern.
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Jun 28, 2018 23:35
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C-Euro posted:There was that Legacy tourney where a guy flashed in Notion Thief in response to an opponent's Jacestorm, does that count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28EW7MAfxnI
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Jun 29, 2018 03:08
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The judge cracking up around 6:40 is the best part IMO Should I take the time tonight to track down all of my Bant Spirits cards that are strewn about my collection, or be "boring" and take my already-assembled Mill list to FNM tomorrow?
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Jun 29, 2018 03:19
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C-Euro posted:The judge cracking up around 6:40 is the best part IMO Spirits!
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Jun 29, 2018 08:06
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C-Euro posted:The judge cracking up around 6:40 is the best part IMO Spirits is a good deck that is about to get better.
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Jun 29, 2018 16:54
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Mezzanon posted:Spirits is a good deck that is about to get better. Spirits being very solid makes Terminus slightly better, I think. I like casting Terminus.
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Jun 29, 2018 17:22
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Mezzanon posted:Spirits is a good deck that is about to get better. I'm with you, but all of my Spirits cards are spread out over the many piles of cards that I've traded for and then immediately forgotten about. Maybe instead of going to FNM tonight I should actually sort all of those piles, but I keep looking for excuses not to go to FNM these days. I wish the store in my neighborhood was the one doing weekly Modern instead of just the one across town...
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Jun 29, 2018 19:10
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C-Euro posted:I'm with you, but all of my Spirits cards are spread out over the many piles of cards that I've traded for and then immediately forgotten about. Maybe instead of going to FNM tonight I should actually sort all of those piles, but I keep looking for excuses not to go to FNM these days. I wish the store in my neighborhood was the one doing weekly Modern instead of just the one across town... This happened to me and I ended up with several playsets of mausoleum wanderer and rattlechains because I kept forgetting I had them. Might have to put spirits together if that new lord really is a big shot in the arm to make it more consistent. Would spirits actually want to play with SFM if it got unbanned? Seems like it'd be ok in a lot of creature strategies like that.
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Jun 29, 2018 19:34
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Fingers McLongDong posted:This happened to me and I ended up with several playsets of mausoleum wanderer and rattlechains because I kept forgetting I had them. Might have to put spirits together if that new lord really is a big shot in the arm to make it more consistent. Would spirits actually want to play with SFM if it got unbanned? Seems like it'd be ok in a lot of creature strategies like that. what do you cut?
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Jun 29, 2018 19:44
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Mezzanon posted:what do you cut? I'm asking you! I don't have much experience with the deck other than playing against it. I didn't know if the ability to coco into an sfm and put swords on the spirits is worth making any cuts.
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Jun 29, 2018 19:45
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C-Euro posted:I'm with you, but all of my Spirits cards are spread out over the many piles of cards that I've traded for and then immediately forgotten about. Maybe instead of going to FNM tonight I should actually sort all of those piles, but I keep looking for excuses not to go to FNM these days. I wish the store in my neighborhood was the one doing weekly Modern instead of just the one across town... You could spend one of those nights you don't go to FNM and sit at home all night getting your collection in order.
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Jun 29, 2018 19:48
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No. A tempo deck doesn't want to spend 2 turns and 4 mana to get blown out by a Kolaghan's Command, especially when those 2 turns and 4 mana could cast actual cards and get a better clock out anyway.
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Jun 29, 2018 19:50
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Star Man posted:You could spend one of those nights you don't go to FNM and sit at home all night getting your collection in order. The store across town does Modern FNM weekly but the one within walking distance of me does it every third week and has a smaller turnout. Also the Fridays that I'm busy or traveling are always the Fridays where the closer store has Modern FNM. My collection is admittedly a mess but it's at least confined to one or two bins. I really just need to pick up some cheap deckboxes and sleeves and just sort them all into decks or partial decks.
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Jun 29, 2018 20:03
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how do i sell out of this bad game
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Jun 29, 2018 20:15
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:how do i sell out of this bad game Do what I did and go to a GP and sell it all and even though you're only getting like, 60% of retail your cards have all doubled in price anyway.
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Jun 29, 2018 20:29
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suicidesteve posted:Do what I did and go to a GP and sell it all and even though you're only getting like, 60% of retail your cards have all doubled in price anyway. oh I should probably sell a bunch of my dumb eternal format poo poo that hasn’t seen the light of day in years at the gp here in a few months
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I'm asking you! I don't have much experience with the deck other than playing against it. I didn't know if the ability to coco into an sfm and put swords on the spirits is worth making any cuts. suicidesteve posted:No. A tempo deck doesn't want to spend 2 turns and 4 mana to get blown out by a Kolaghan's Command, especially when those 2 turns and 4 mana could cast actual cards and get a better clock out anyway. This is pretty much correct. I mean your ideal line is hit geist and SFM off of a collected company at your opponents end step, then SFM in a sword, and spend mana equipping the sword to the geist and swinging. That's a bigger payoff than batterskull (even on geist) Instead you just run your extra playset of lords and try to have a faster clock while running the most disruptive tempo/aggro deck
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Hauki posted:oh I should probably sell a bunch of my dumb eternal format poo poo that hasn’t seen the light of day in years at the gp here in a few months Send me a list first 
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Jun 29, 2018 22:53
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The March Hare posted:Send me a list first do you really want one because it's becoming really hard to justify like 25 grand not being put to use at all and i'll probably actually sell
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Jun 30, 2018 00:35
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:do you really want one because it's becoming really hard to justify like 25 grand not being put to use at all and i'll probably actually sell I mean, yeah, send it over. I probably won't buy your entire collection but if you've got power or duals that I don't have I'll at least consider 'em at a price higher than GP buylist.
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The March Hare posted:Send me a list first sure, will do it's been on my to-do list for a while, but, well, life
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Jun 30, 2018 01:53
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The March Hare posted:Send me a list first Does that go for everyone? Because I have a lot of legacy stuff I'm not using.
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I mean I'm mostly after vintage stuff but sure. I still need two Korean gambles and the same explorations too in case anyone has any of those.
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The March Hare posted:I mean, yeah, send it over. I probably won't buy your entire collection but if you've got power or duals that I don't have I'll at least consider 'em at a price higher than GP buylist. Did you see the list I posted earlier?
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Did you see the list I posted earlier? Yeah, I'm not trying to drop 100 grand on magic cards in one go though...
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suicidesteve posted:No. A tempo deck doesn't want to spend 2 turns and 4 mana to get blown out by a Kolaghan's Command, especially when those 2 turns and 4 mana could cast actual cards and get a better clock out anyway. Activating SFM is an instant speed effect and Kolaghan's Command is hardly anywhere in the format. Honestly, even if Kommand takes out SFM and blows up your equipment, you're probably fine with that. It is better to trade one for one against Kommand than to have it blow up a creature and make you discard or have it hit your vial. Passing the turn with the option of Queller or SFM activation is a fantastic place, and with evasion and hexproof, Spirits are fantastic at picking up a sword. I think it's really foolish to think that you wouldn't play SFM in a UW deck that is jam packed with evasive creatures, some of whom also have some form of resilience.
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Man, like nothing you said makes any sense in the context of Bant Spirits. Maybe someone is going to make Spirit Taxes into A Real Deck or something, but that's not what we're talking about.
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