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Okay, so are MCQs basically just PTQs from 20 years ago, or are they rebranded PPTQs, or are they rebranded RPTQs, or what? Because not requiring a judge for something that qualifies for the PT is fuckin' laffo. Incidentally I tried to grab the bug report on MTGO link last weekend and forgot they totally removed the support channel. Good times.
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It's supposed to be old school ptq's yea, but I guess enough stores couldn't scrounge up an L2 that they've eased off on the requirements. I don't think I've ever attended a comp rel event that didn't have a judge. It's frankly astounding really. e: OK the latest MTR lists tabletop mythic qualifiers as competitive, at least. (appendix F, 01/19 edition) Fuzzy Mammal fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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This is the stores reply. https://docs.google.com/document/d/138TTEaqT0KPM868jY_6GHtDuJBbC_KbGJifB05vs_3g/edit Its everything you ever thought it could be. 
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just retire the judge's program then
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Sickening posted:This is the stores reply. That doc makes sense from the store's perspective, bu tit's their mistake for thinking the MCQ is equivalent to an RPTQ and not a PPTQ. What a mess.
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Hellsau posted:just retire the judge's program then I love that the store owner claims that because judges are “the store’s employees” that he has to have them be retail underlings cleaning bathrooms instead of a part time employee that gets paid minimum wage to do a certain job during the event
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Hellsau posted:Okay, so are MCQs basically just PTQs from 20 years ago, or are they rebranded PPTQs, or are they rebranded RPTQs, or what? Because not requiring a judge for something that qualifies for the PT is fuckin' laffo. The MCQs after this one are based on seasonal planeswalker points (I think 250 a quarter) but these are all opens. In Taiwan the 2 we get are back to back Saturday and Sunday in the same place. And I signed up for both, because I hate money, and love losing.
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Devor posted:I love that the store owner claims that because judges are “the store’s employees” that he has to have them be retail underlings cleaning bathrooms instead of a part time employee that gets paid minimum wage to do a certain job during the event Don't put WotC's absolute garbage approach to the judge program on a LGS owner.
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Sickening posted:Time for some new mcq drama Devor posted:I love that the store owner claims that because judges are “the store’s employees” that he has to have them be retail underlings cleaning bathrooms instead of a part time employee that gets paid minimum wage to do a certain job during the event This won't be the only MCQ run without a judge, I guarantee it. Many more stores will have an inexperienced L1 running these, also. You won't hear much about those because the headlines aren't as sensational as "running an MCQ without a judge". Just watch for more disgruntled player stories than usual on social media. I don't buy the retail underlings thing either. Give them a 1099 for $150 or whatever if you're so worried about doing things by the book.
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Did anyone else look at the stores twitter account? It's most recent activity is from 2017 and because they can't figure out how to switch back to their personal account it's a bunch of tweets about pilattes .
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suicidesteve posted:So... Gideon is Magic Jesus? Yeah, like, what?
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Marketing New Brain posted:
Sure, but those are guys that specifically get themselves back from the graveyard. And I know Green gets Regrowth and such, but I've never seen a straight-up "Rise From The Grave" effect in Green. It makes sense that if it's any other color it's green, it's just about as weird as Harmonize to me.
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lol at Gideon dying right after he ditched that dumb as hell wrist whip thing for a sweet sword
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whydirt posted:lol at Gideon dying right after he ditched that dumb as hell wrist whip thing for a sweet sword What's the story behind the sword?
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Yeah and Bolas just loving smashed Blackblade like the second after they go on a quest to fix it.
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wotc’s treatment of judges is another one of those cute moments when capitalism’s mask falls off a little and you can see maggots crawling out of its eye
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:Sure, but those are guys that specifically get themselves back from the graveyard. And I know Green gets Regrowth and such, but I've never seen a straight-up "Rise From The Grave" effect in Green. Think of it more as "trying to reduce shuffling" instead of "how does it fit the color pie"
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Rinkles posted:What's the story behind the sword? https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Blackblade
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Rinkles posted:What's the story behind the sword? Some dude had a D&D character named Dakkon Blackblade in the late 80s early 90s. He had a sweet sword.
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Rinkles posted:What's the story behind the sword? The sword is Dakkon Blackblade's, it's supposed to be more powerful the more lands you control
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It was cool that the gave the evil soul thirsting blade to Gideon, but then killing Gideon and smashing the blade before it had a chance to make him evil is lame.
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Dr. Poz posted:Did anyone else look at the stores twitter account? It's most recent activity is from 2017 and because they can't figure out how to switch back to their personal account it's a bunch of tweets about pilattes . Which is bizarre, given they're a huge gamestore and they do all their singles through tcgplayer. They're also, insofar as I can tell, in competition with two other stores of means in the area. It's kind of bizarre they're half assing things.
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Ada posted:It was cool that the gave the evil soul thirsting blade to Gideon, but then killing Gideon and smashing the blade before it had a chance to make him evil is lame. Yeah, it's pretty loving stupid.
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If you look in the background of Gideon’s PW art you can see that it looks like Rakdos picked him up and threw him at Bolas which is pretty metal. Other than that Gideon sucks and I’m glad he got replaced by the black lesbian ghost assassin.
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Orzhov Gideon would have made Gideon marginally more interesting. That said, anything times zero is still zero, so.
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Tainen posted:If you look in the background of Gideon’s PW art you can see that it looks like Rakdos picked him up and threw him at Bolas which is pretty metal. Other than that Gideon sucks and I’m glad he got replaced by the black lesbian ghost assassin. If we can't have Elspeth back, at least we get Billie Lurk.
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Ada posted:It was cool that the gave the evil soul thirsting blade to Gideon, but then killing Gideon and smashing the blade before it had a chance to make him evil is lame. Agree WTF I don't care if Gideon sucks but you don't mess with the Blackblade.
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I just finished an utterly stupid game against white lifegain where they had two Pridemates at over 70 power (one near 100) and almost all lifelink creatures at nearly 100 life. They ended at -314. In one attack. It was dumb, Arena can't really handle 6 creatures attacking, much less 69.
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YeehawMcKickass posted:I just finished an utterly stupid game against white lifegain where they had two Pridemates at over 70 power (one near 100) and almost all lifelink creatures at nearly 100 life. This is probably the single best attack step I've ever seen in MTG arena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z30pd4KRP9o&t=26s
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Kurieg posted:This is probably the single best attack step I've ever seen in MTG arena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z30pd4KRP9o&t=26s lmao
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YeehawMcKickass posted:I just finished an utterly stupid game against white lifegain where they had two Pridemates at over 70 power (one near 100) and almost all lifelink creatures at nearly 100 life. At some point though you have to accept that 100+ creature boards are just never going to be handled correctly. At least it doesn't crash anymore.
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Ada posted:At some point though you have to accept that 100+ creature boards are just never going to be handled correctly. At least it doesn't crash anymore. click and drag to select multiples would help
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I just had someone Flickerwisp my Necromancy that was attached to a dude in legacy cube. I don't think he found the end result as fun as I did.
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Smashing Link posted:Agree WTF I don't care if Gideon sucks but you don't mess with the Blackblade. Nah I think smashing blackblade is cool and good. If it had been the only way to win would have been boring as hell.
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