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dragon enthusiast posted:the only notable magic thing I've done is 4th place split at a 128 entrant RTR prerelease. idk how some of you manage to do multiple flights of prereleases, that poo poo is super strenuous Capped at 4 rounds max and set payout per records. gently caress ever having to play that much at a prerelease.
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Well shoot, if we're counting FNM then I go X-0, 1st place at about 25% of the tournaments I've played in the last couple years You may all start bowing now
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Aug 15, 2019 00:05
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I had a low 20% legacy EVENT win rate in legacy for a few years. Playing D&T almost certainly killed that though.
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Aug 15, 2019 00:11
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When I was 13 I spiked a States but had to leave before top 8 started 
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Aug 15, 2019 00:31
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When do eldraine previews start
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Aug 15, 2019 00:35
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Prerelease starts 9-28 so, week and a half?
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Aug 15, 2019 00:40
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think they start at PAX so weekend of Aug 30
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Aug 15, 2019 00:43
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Ty goons
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Aug 15, 2019 00:44
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Bugsy posted:Capped at 4 rounds max and set payout per records. gently caress ever having to play that much at a prerelease. Does anyone else have a lgs that does Iron man/woman pre release events where they track your win loss record over all 5 pre release events from midnight Friday until Sunday night's event? Top 8 does a draft for a box iirc, poo poo is for whipper snappers who don't need sleep
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Aug 15, 2019 01:07
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Day 2'd a few opens, went 11-4 at the one GP I've attended, got 43rd at last winter's invitational, made top 8 at the only modern no-banlist scg Open to take place, spiked a couple pptq's. Got on camera against tom Ross once, that was fun. Feels ok for not getting to do big events too often.
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Aug 15, 2019 01:21
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I went 3-1 at FNM once and have a few MTGO 5-0 leagues under my belt NEXT STOP PRO TOUR
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Aug 15, 2019 01:25
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ItBreathes posted:I asked a while back what people's highest competitive accomplishment was and I don't remember anything notable. Mostly an FNM crowd. i won a game of magic the gathering at some point in time but tbh I'm just not into the grind. Tournaments are draining. I like playing high power level magic but too many games at once makes my ADHD lizard brain unhappy
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Aug 15, 2019 01:26
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I never stepped into the old PTQ/actual tournament structure, never felt like I had good ideas when I was trying to brew, and by the time I was actually a decent player I'd moved on to mostly playing casually. Like I've top 8'd a legacy 1k, me and a buddy won a 2HG prerelease, I top 16'd another prerelease with ~120 people (can't even remember which set it was though) and that may be it when it comes to non-FNM results. But I do like tournaments overall. The energy when you're having a good day is great. The drain when you're having a bad day is pretty horrible though. I just mostly stick to prereleases.
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Aug 15, 2019 01:36
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jassi007 posted:I'm bad if anyone gives a poo poo. :P My best finish is top 8'd a local monthly modern 1k. 
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Aug 15, 2019 01:43
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I have on multiple occasions, online and in person, in non-CCG settings, been thanked for my EDH deckbuilding advice. I'm basically extremely  every time it happens.Also, I won all 3 of my store's pre-release events for OG Ravnica block.
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Aug 15, 2019 01:51
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I've won a couple of FNMs, split the finals of a win-a-box tourney at my old LGS, and top-4'd another big local tourney when I first moved here  I don't play big events, which is a shame because SCG seems to do one at the convention center here every six months or so.
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Aug 15, 2019 02:09
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Toshimo posted:I have on multiple occasions, online and in person, in non-CCG settings, been thanked for my EDH deckbuilding advice. Can vouch, your advice is good and I find it refreshing to be told "no that card/combo just isn't good, here's why, drop it".
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Aug 15, 2019 02:51
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I've won a PPTQ, and some MTGO trophies. Last week I went to a MCQ and predicted I would go 2-4. Jokes on me, I went 2-5.
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Aug 15, 2019 04:10
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Imagine the Hogaak deck if they hadn't banned Deathrite Shaman. 
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Aug 15, 2019 06:45
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The Shortest Path posted:Imagine the Hogaak deck if they hadn't banned Deathrite Shaman. All of its current T1 plays are better than DRS would have been for what the deck is trying to achieve.
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Aug 15, 2019 08:53
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I won a GPT once and got a flight and hotel and 2 byes at GP Pittsburgh. A snowstorm had me arrive a day late, and I played like trash in the big side event. Nowadays, I can't remember the exact last time I played a game of Magic.
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Aug 15, 2019 13:01
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I cashed $900 at GP NJ back in OG Mirrodin Block by playing beat_affinity.dek. I beat some pro I hadn't heard of named Jordan something apparently.
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Aug 15, 2019 16:58
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Oh! I won my LGS's Fate Reforged Game Day without a single Fate Reforged card in my deck.
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Aug 15, 2019 17:01
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I won a few games of commander last weekend, which was the first constructed event I've been to in probably 5-6 years. I'm basically a pro.
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Aug 15, 2019 17:15
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Tubgoat posted:Oh! I won my LGS's Fate Reforged Game Day without a single Fate Reforged card in my deck. I won a MTGO modern single elim thing using a standard Jund deck (BBE era) that I mistakenly registered. heh
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Aug 15, 2019 17:17
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I won a MTGO modern single elim thing using a standard Jund deck (BBE era) that I mistakenly registered. 
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Aug 15, 2019 17:18
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BBE rotated out of Standard before Modern was developed, it probably would have been Extended 
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Aug 15, 2019 17:21
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I've top 32/cashed a few large events but my favorite accomplishment is starting 2-0 in vintage masters 2015 playing standard Naya dragons. Blue decks cannot beat a resolved dragonlord dromoka.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:12
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The first time I played magic I went 1 - 5 with a Tempest starter deck I bought that day. It was a small local tournament with 20 or so people. Not a theme deck mind you, but the sealed tournament pack. I was 12 at the time and had no idea why my opponent got so much hassling for losing 2-0 to my deck. It had so many cool cards.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:26
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Skyl3lazer posted:I've top 32/cashed a few large events but my favorite accomplishment is starting 2-0 in vintage masters 2015 playing standard Naya dragons. Blue decks cannot beat a resolved dragonlord dromoka. My only good memory of that standard era was taking down a Game Day with my own random list with See the Unwritten, Dragonlord Atarka, Atarka World Render, and Xenagos God of Revels. It was when I was in Michigan and unemployed, didn't have the money or energy to keep up with Standard, but was able to throw that together for next to nothing and no one was expecting it.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:27
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Skyl3lazer posted:I've top 32/cashed a few large events but my favorite accomplishment is starting 2-0 in vintage masters 2015 playing standard Naya dragons. Blue decks cannot beat a resolved dragonlord dromoka.  ) tournament.  buy in, 2/3 going to the winner 1/3 going to 2nd place. Everyone brought what they thought was their best deck. I brought what was essentially goblin sligh. Turns out when your deck can power out 20 damage on turn 3-4 you don't really have time to crank out tokens with Sacred Mesa, or play graveyard antics with Volrath's Shapeshifter, or anything of the sort. The final match was me against a guy who also was doing some kind of burn deck but it was based on using furnace of rath and some other cute tricks to get 4x or 8x damage on his burn. Game 2 he taps out on turn 4 to play furnace of rath after having Kindled my goblin turn 3 (since double goblin grenade ruined his day game 1), saying "well this will at least speed things up." I respond with "yeah it will! End of turn, kindle bolt fireblast good game?" He looked like I just punched him in the stomach. He had bolt/bolt/kindle in hand, he just needed to untap with furnace on board. Best $105 I ever won.
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Aug 15, 2019 19:16
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Man, my brain has been so ruined by years and years of asymmetrical effects that I completely didn't realize for a few moments that Furnace was symmetrical. RIP that guy.
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Aug 15, 2019 19:18
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Went 3-0 during a FNM draft last time I went. 2-0-1 during WAR prerelease. Terrible otherwise. I do want to try doing a modern MCQ sometime to see how long it takes to get punched in the face when I ask to see/read every single card but gently caress paying $1000 for the mana base alone
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Aug 15, 2019 19:50
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MisterZimbu posted:Went 3-0 during a FNM draft last time I went. 2-0-1 during WAR prerelease. Terrible otherwise. The mana base for 8 whack runs between zero and $200
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Aug 15, 2019 20:15
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Yawgmoth posted:furnace of rath quote:https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=4819 Mmm, love that early templating. Almost wants to sound like you choose one on resolution. quote:
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Aug 15, 2019 20:54
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MisterZimbu posted:I do want to try doing a modern MCQ sometime to see how long it takes to get punched in the face when I ask to see/read every single card but gently caress paying $1000 for the mana base alone If you had bought the fetchlands during Khans era or like a year or two afterwards, and then the Zen reprints after MM3 released, you'd basically have paid 60-70% less than they cost now.
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Aug 15, 2019 20:59
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ShaneB posted:If you had bought the fetchlands during Khans era or like a year or two afterwards, and then the Zen reprints after MM3 released, you'd basically have paid 60-70% less than they cost now. Btw if you read this and feel like you missed out, go buy every single card from MH1 you ever want to play.
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Aug 15, 2019 21:12
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It super sucks that the solution to Modern card prices is to have bought them earlier, but it's true.
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Aug 15, 2019 21:13
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Skyl3lazer posted:Btw if you read this and feel like you missed out, go buy every single card from MH1 you ever want to play. Seriously, and this goes for commons and uncommons as well. Some playable commons will probably be $2 in a year or two. Arcum's Astrolabe is already $1.
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ShaneB posted:If you had bought the fetchlands during Khans era or like a year or two afterwards, and then the Zen reprints after MM3 released, you'd basically have paid 60-70% less than they cost now. Unfortunately I only started again when Guilds came out, but I'll be the one laughing when my Steam Vents are $800 apiece.
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