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Nephzinho posted:So what do y'all think of rare redrafting? Why bother drafting when you could crack some packs and bet the contents on hands of poker? If you wanted to make it actually interesting you could then play games with the resulting decks. That actually sounds like fun.
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I mean, Poker is a pretty Spike-orientated game, isn’t it? You’re not exactly going to pull off a sick combo to win. I can see how wagering would make a difference for me, at least, because it makes the individual hands in the game all matter, whereas otherwise I just start doing stupid things because I find it more fun than the actual game. I guess that’s the key for me; the incentive is needed so that my brain believes “playing well” is the most interesting thing it could be doing. I wish this wasn’t the case; my brain sucks
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Nephzinho posted:So what do y'all think of rare redrafting? I raredrafted the ace of spades after winning our for fun Magic poker league.
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vegetables posted:I mean, Poker is a pretty Spike-orientated game, isn’t it? You’re not exactly going to pull off a sick combo to win. This is actually how most human brains work
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You open a pack of cards, and then bet the commons on who has the more expensive rare. If you lose, they get the commons AND your rare!
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Get this: imagine a game played on a board, but, bear with me here, you play to the best of your abilities anyway because you want to win.
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Chill la Chill posted:Get this: imagine a game played on a board, but, bear with me here, you play to the best of your abilities anyway because you want to win. wait, you mean that you could PRETEND that these things mean money? and those people I see on tv are just ACTING? they're so good at it!
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Chill la Chill posted:Get this: imagine a game played on a board, but, bear with me here, you play to the best of your abilities anyway because you want to win. But how does this apply to poker??? Please don't start a new derail.
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Why are mommy and daddy fighting?
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Star Man posted:Why are mommy and daddy fighting? Because mommy and daddy play to win and never ID.
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suicidesteve posted:But how does this apply to poker??? Please don't start a new derail. the real issue with poker is that it's not a very good game and it only becomes a decent-ish game when the stakes are high enough to force people to play well because its really only at that point that it becomes anything other than just "lets see who got dealt the best hand!" there are games that are fun to play just for the fun of playing the game and don't require people to take it seriously; poker is not one of them
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Mar 20, 2019 00:26
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is there a bridge thread
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Because mommy and daddy play to win and never ID. I've been offered an ID once at a PTQ in the last round and I declined because I had very slim odds to make too eight. I won the match but places ninth. Oh well, I sold the half-box of Return to Ravnica that I won for $60 and moved the gently caress on with my life.
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Wait can you play for brownie points? Maybe you could obnoxiously explain it 16 more times as though it has any bearing on my point
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Mar 20, 2019 00:38
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Wotc, can you print a hexproof 1/1 for u please? Thx
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Mar 20, 2019 01:01
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Wotc, never print anything with hexproof ever again pls, thx
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Sickening posted:Wotc, can you print a hexproof 1/1 for u please? Thx Bogles my mind how that hasn't happened yet
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Ada posted:Bogles my mind how that hasn't happened yet I mean, its hybrid but I need another one that is either hybrid or blue.
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evilweasel posted:the real issue with poker is that it's not a very good game and it only becomes a decent-ish game when the stakes are high enough to force people to play well because its really only at that point that it becomes anything other than just "lets see who got dealt the best hand!" It's more that the way poker is played is enormously dependent on people conveying information with how they value their wagers, and if the wagers are worth nothing then there is next to zero information being conveyed. Is the guy shoving because he still values winning and has a great hand, or is he shoving because he just wants to play a hand? Without any real information to be exchanged between players, it gets pretty boring fast. I remember way back when PITR was still a subforum (RIP  ) there was a contest between two posters on who would get to $100 dollars faster, a player starting from zero dollars and having no choice but to play freerolls to build his initial bankroll (freerolls are tournaments that cost literally nothing to play, and have tiny payouts for the winners) or a guy collecting cans and turning them in for change. Spoilers, both posters dropped out and disappeared. Poker without stakes is one of the most mind numbing things you can possibly do.
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A big flaming stink posted:It's more that the way poker is played is enormously dependent on people conveying information with how they value their wagers, and if the wagers are worth nothing then there is next to zero information being conveyed. Is the guy shoving because he still values winning and has a great hand, or is he shoving because he just wants to play a hand? Without any real information to be exchanged between players, it gets pretty boring fast. Okay but perhaps you didn't know that you could play for funsies
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InterrupterJones posted:Commander? War of the Sparks planeswalkers? Both? Hard to say but dear god I missed the boat on this one 
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  I like to think of it as teaching her character, and how to lose graciously.
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I have a bunch of situations I'm considering, please tell me which ones are "real poker" and which ones are "gently caress it I'll call" tia - we each pay ten bucks, get ten bucks worth of chips, then at the end of the night we split the money up based on how many chips each player ended up with - same, but we don't pay anything, all the money comes from the one guy in the group who thought poker wasn't interesting without anything on the line - we each pay ten bucks, get the same number of chips, and play until only one person has any chips left. the winner gets forty bucks and the last person eliminated gets twenty. - same, but the winner gets all sixty bucks and everyone else gets nothing. - same, but instead of a cash prize, the winner gets a tin medal that marks them as the winner of our weekly poker night - same, but instead of a tangible item the winner just gets the esteem and respect that is due to them as the winner of our weekly poker night
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Mar 20, 2019 04:10
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Owlbear Camus posted:
your deck seems like bullshit tbh
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Mar 20, 2019 04:19
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Jesus Christ are you guys still arguing about poker poo poo
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poker? drat near killed her!
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GoutPatrol posted:your deck seems like bullshit tbh Well that is an important lesson too.
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Owlbear Camus posted:
Getting your kid into EDH smdh
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Owlbear Camus posted:Well that is an important lesson too. I mean it is, but that the kind of poo poo that would put me off playing EDH for months. My playgroup is trying out new decks and we've decided on trying to keep decks to around 1-125 bucks when put into MTGGoldfish to keep them close to even power level. This is my new idea: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1723842#paper I really wanted to find a card where you could like Dubious Challenge things from the graveyard to give people a Phage but I don't think a card like that exists yet.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Well that is an important lesson too. Magus of the moat? Did your childs deck even have flying creatures?
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Chill la Chill posted:Get this: imagine a game played on a board, but, bear with me here, you play to the best of your abilities anyway because you want to win. have you considered that avoiding playing to the best of your abilities is the real way to win, socially?
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GoutPatrol posted:I mean it is, but that the kind of poo poo that would put me off playing EDH for months. If you get het up about mono-white fat angels, I have bad news for you about the rest of EDH.
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Sickening posted:Magus of the moat? Did your childs deck even have flying creatures? I think there's like one cat spirit or something. And removal!
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C-Euro posted:Getting your kid into EDH smdh call CPS
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edh is for people who actually enjoy playing magic
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Framboise posted:edh is for people who don't actually enjoy playing magic Fixed
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mtg but instead of 20 life they cut off a finger or toe
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dragon enthusiast posted:mtg but instead of 20 life they cut off a finger or toe you ask if your opponent wants to draw so that neither of you will lose any digits, but they are like "I came to play"
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Some Numbers posted:Fixed nah, i stand by what i said i know this thread has a hate-on for edh but tbh i have way more fun playing it than any other format and tbh it doesn't feel like many people in this thread actually enjoy magic as much as they love bitching about things they don't like in magic like for real i don't think i can remember the last actual positive inter-person interaction i've seen in this thread but folks like owlbear camus are good people because i enjoy seeing him talk about bonding with his kid over magic and seeing her obviously having a blast playing it tl;dr: tbh honestly the constant negativity in this thread is exhausting
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Toshimo posted:If you get het up about mono-white fat angels, I have bad news for you about the rest of EDH. EDH is fun, because it is multiplayer legacy where you can play your ponder and brainstorm along side of things that cost more than 3 mana. I wish the vintage fast mana would be banned though. But yeah, if watching people lose to once standard trash upsets you then I dunno.
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