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I don't like it, but the GAM name wasn't great either. (Especially after the initials stopped representing the hosts)
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# ? May 14, 2019 22:31 |
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moush posted:The GAM podcast rebranding to Arena Decklists is a bad idea in my opinion. It's so generic and eventually people will be using trackers to get all their decklists anyways. I feel bad saying this as a fellow content creator (albeit far less popular), but it feels entirely created by a consultant and not by them. Or at least not by Gerry. Gerry had essentially nothing to say about it, and I got the feeling he just signed off on whatever he was told was in the best financial interest of things. It has absolutely no personality, and THE PODCAST ISN'T EVEN ABOUT ARENA.
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# ? May 14, 2019 23:41 |
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The Arena Decklists branding does seem off to me and far too focused on something that their podcast isn’t exclusively about... it would be like if Limited Resources spent 30-45 minutes an episode discussing modern / standard / legacy - they instead did constructed resources (or whatever the short lived podcast was).
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# ? May 14, 2019 23:51 |
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Dehtraen posted:The Arena Decklists branding does seem off to me and far too focused on something that their podcast isn’t exclusively about... it would be like if Limited Resources spent 30-45 minutes an episode discussing modern / standard / legacy - they instead did constructed resources (or whatever the short lived podcast was). It might be signaling a shift in the type of content they are focusing on. A lot of the focus on Modern in the past few years was a refuge from any format that wasn't Standard. Now that Standard is thriving, I expect people to shift back towards it and Modern to be focused towards a smaller more entrenched group, which will be a bit of a self correction. I know Modern Horizons is coming out and maybe the format becomes amazing and grows significantly in popularity, and there's no reason not to continue these types of sets because Standard can only support 3 sets + Core, but not appearing on Arena feels like it just kneecaps the level of excitement over it.
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# ? May 15, 2019 00:25 |
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The last time I went to a paper magic event was a Return to Ravnica pre-release and the stereotypes about the smell of magic players was not completely unfounded
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# ? May 15, 2019 00:33 |
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Sickening posted:Horizon canopy for all the color pairs is cool and good and not broken at all. I dread the thought of modern/legacy blue-white control with on color canopies but otherwise I think you're right
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# ? May 15, 2019 00:38 |
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Anyone near the Irvine area: I'll be crashing the modern event at Kingslayer Games tonight. In from out of town but want to jam some paper.
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# ? May 15, 2019 00:38 |
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Marketing New Brain posted:It might be signaling a shift in the type of content they are focusing on. A lot of the focus on Modern in the past few years was a refuge from any format that wasn't Standard. Now that Standard is thriving, I expect people to shift back towards it and Modern to be focused towards a smaller more entrenched group, which will be a bit of a self correction. They claimed that the content wasn’t changing, which is weird because the first thing I thought when they started talking about the rebranding was that they weren’t going to talk about modern anymore. Edit: Actually, that’s not right. My first thought was to check if it was April 1st. The whole thing is very odd to me. Although, they did talk about wanting to be easier to find in a search, that certainly makes sense I guess. ShadeofBlue fucked around with this message at 01:35 on May 15, 2019 |
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ShadeofBlue posted:They claimed that the content wasn’t changing, which is weird because the first thing I thought when they started talking about the rebranding was that they weren’t going to talk about modern anymore. When I saw the show notes I thought it was a joke. That's how bad I think this is.
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# ? May 15, 2019 01:39 |
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evilweasel posted:they do not appear to have left themselves room to do a full cycle of one of the Future Sight lands since they said only five cards were reprints and those were basics, but they could do a colorshifted cycle of all of the future sight lands gently caress that, gimme a completed Tainted land cycle for each color/basic combo. https://scryfall.com/search?q=tainted+t%3Aland
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# ? May 15, 2019 02:14 |
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I'll take an Urborg and Cabal Coffers for each land type, thanks. Actual speculation: They reprint and possibly finish the Signet Land cycle.
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# ? May 15, 2019 03:54 |
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ShaneB posted:When I saw the show notes I thought it was a joke. That's how bad I think this is. Yaaaaaaah. The more I think about it, the worse it feels/sounds. I will say that rebranding in general is probably a good idea for them, but they chose a really awful name.
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# ? May 15, 2019 04:41 |
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The Shortest Path posted:I'll take an Urborg and Cabal Coffers for each land type, thanks. Yeah I think they kind of painted themselves into a corner when it comes to a dual land cycle with their stance of "no cards currently legal in Modern other than basic lands". There aren't many dual land cycles that aren't already Modern-legal and those cycles either can't be reprinted (OG duals) or probably aren't powerful enough to cut it in Modern (everything else). I suppose they could print a new dual land cycle but it would probably feel bad cannibalizing an idea from a later set.
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# ? May 15, 2019 04:57 |
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If I sacrifice Chandra, Fire Artisan her passive that activates on removing tokens doesn't activate right?
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# ? May 15, 2019 06:22 |
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Yes, loyalty isn't removed when that happens.
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# ? May 15, 2019 06:29 |
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# ? May 15, 2019 13:24 |
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Maybe it's just cause it's small on my phone, but who's Growlithe supposed to be?
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# ? May 15, 2019 14:12 |
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Kurieg posted:Maybe it's just cause it's small on my phone, but who's Growlithe supposed to be? Sarkhan? or Huatli.
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# ? May 15, 2019 14:19 |
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Lazav. They're all Lazav.
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# ? May 15, 2019 14:24 |
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GoutPatrol posted:Sarkhan? or Huatli. It's Arlinn's shoulder thing, I guess the black on the paws is supposed to be her hand-wrappings?
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# ? May 15, 2019 14:37 |
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Arliinn should be a Lycanroc because they both look neat but are big disappointments.
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# ? May 15, 2019 15:17 |
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Oceanbound posted:Lazav. They're all Lazav. Ditto. They’re all Ditto.
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# ? May 15, 2019 15:51 |
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Jace as Psyduck is the funniest poo poo
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# ? May 15, 2019 15:55 |
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https://twitter.com/h0lydiva/status/1128651518595534848?s=20
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# ? May 15, 2019 16:28 |
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Kurieg posted:Maybe it's just cause it's small on my phone, but who's Growlithe supposed to be? mowu
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# ? May 15, 2019 16:29 |
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Nice Also mox opal is 112 bucks?
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# ? May 15, 2019 16:34 |
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didn't that deck originate here?
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# ? May 15, 2019 16:38 |
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I'm sure that deck was simultaneously invented everywhere roughly the time that Charmed Stray was previewed.
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# ? May 15, 2019 16:49 |
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Sickening posted:
Have people started screaming for a Karn the Great Creator or Mycosynth Lattice ban yet?
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# ? May 15, 2019 16:53 |
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Dehtraen posted:Have people started screaming for a Karn the Great Creator or Mycosynth Lattice ban yet? They will somewhat soonish I think, especially if the London mull is integrated. Karn is extremely powerful.
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# ? May 15, 2019 17:19 |
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It's a truly miserable combo that deserves a ban in commander at the very least
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# ? May 15, 2019 18:12 |
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It’s a pretty brutal combo tbqh, Karn don’t gently caress around and it makes tapping out vs. Tron sketchy as all hell once they hit even 7 mana unless you like them going Tower into Karn
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# ? May 15, 2019 18:27 |
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ShaneB posted:They will somewhat soonish I think, especially if the London mull is integrated. Karn is extremely powerful. Yeah I think the problem with it is it's colorless so slots into any deck so it's cropping up everywhere now. Karn is really hard to deal with, and if you tap out at the wrong moment you are just locked out of the game since you can't even tap your lands for mana. It's a combo you can only "interact" with by preventing it, which is rough. I can see it getting obnoxious enough to ban Lattice, since that doesn't really do any collateral damage, just shuts off an annoying "oops I win" combo creating some miserable games. Don't ban Lattice in Commander, though. I play that in my Memnarch deck .
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# ? May 15, 2019 18:32 |
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sit on my Facebook posted:
Fixed!
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# ? May 15, 2019 18:34 |
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Is anyone else's local facebook groups seeing mass bannings due to the mythic edition? I am typically seeing someone posting a mythic edition for less than you can buy it online and the dozens of idiots harassing them for "greed".
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# ? May 15, 2019 20:18 |
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sit on my Facebook posted:It's a truly miserable combo that deserves a ban in commander at the very least It's substantially less powerful than hundreds of other combos which are legal in commander, why on earth would they ban it?
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# ? May 15, 2019 20:27 |
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Sickening posted:
I went to my store today to buy a pack just for the hell of it. I was talking about how Lattice had spiked and man there are like 15 rares in this set over $10! It's kind of crazy. I pulled a Mystic Confluence. The guy behind me who heard me talking was all "yeah I'll try too". He pulled Lattice. I am salt incarnate all i needed was to buy one more pack
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# ? May 15, 2019 20:30 |
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The Shortest Path posted:It's substantially less powerful than hundreds of other combos which are legal in commander, why on earth would they ban it? Because it’s a one card combo that instantly ends the game on 10 mana and forces a 1 turn clock on earlier turns. In a 99 card singleton format, having card 1 directly tutor for card two is bad news bears TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 20:41 on May 15, 2019 |
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Framboise posted:I went to my store today to buy a pack just for the hell of it. I was talking about how Lattice had spiked and man there are like 15 rares in this set over $10! It's kind of crazy. Don't ever think that way. That's how you get the scratch-off monkey back on your back. A few years back, I did the same with a pack of Avacyn Restored because my LGS had them on sale. I pulled a Descendants' Path. My friend who went right after me got Cavern of Souls. Edit: Also, if people are looking for dumb spikes, check this poo poo out. AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 20:47 on May 15, 2019 |
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