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Sampatrick posted:Four best performing decks are Burn, Whirza, Tron, and Titanshift in that order If people are trying to do the midrange arms race thing all those decks either go over the top of that (tron, titanshift, Urza decks) or just burn them out while they’re getting set up. Good metagame call for those pilots.
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To be fair, Whirza gets more or less completely bodied by UW control
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Sep 1, 2019 19:38
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Sampatrick posted:Burn is owning the Open lmao It's one of my favorite decks. Other dudes get to build their sandcastles and goldfish their gameplans while you start rabbit punching them in the junk on turn one. It's the muscle wizard of magic decks. EDIT: Also, removing decks like phoenix or especially dredge remove a lot of ability to play under burn. It always feels bad when you're running a fast deck and someone just plays under you effortlessly. Looting being gone means that several decks that tried to play under you just can't now. rkajdi fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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Sep 1, 2019 20:00
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Sampatrick posted:To be fair, Whirza gets more or less completely bodied by UW control Yeah whirza has the same problem as the prison decks pre-war. It’s definitely more of a “make a bridge deck” than a dedicated goldfish combo
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Sep 1, 2019 20:32
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Is anything using hexdrinker right now? I want to get a set but with my luck it’ll lose half it’s value a month after I get them.
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Don't think Hexdrinker panned out as well as people thought it would. Just needs too much mana to be better than a savannah lions. Man, whirza looks really strong in this new modern, maybe even the best deck. Traditionally, midrange decks that had quick combo potential (twin, phoenix, etc.) have been really good, and this is the only one that can do something like that I think. On top of that, it has a prison/tutor element.
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Sep 1, 2019 21:04
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Bonus posted:Don't think Hexdrinker panned out as well as people thought it would. Just needs too much mana to be better than a savannah lions. It’s winrate against UW is somewhere hovering around 30%, if not lower. I like the deck a lot but that’s a big weakness to have in this format
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Sep 1, 2019 21:11
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Bonus posted:Don't think Hexdrinker panned out as well as people thought it would. Just needs too much mana to be better than a savannah lions. Vizier combo seemed pretty drat fast too. Trying to use rhythm of the wild in modern, however, really sucks.
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Sep 1, 2019 21:14
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Time posted:It’s winrate against UW is somewhere hovering around 30%, if not lower. I like the deck a lot but that’s a big weakness to have in this format Hmm, that's interesting. My first intuition is that it would be at least 50/50, or favored for whirza, due to the many angles of attack it has and the combo.
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Also yeah, I thought Neobrand and Vizier combo would be really powerful in the new slower meta. Looks like all the fair decks pack too much disruption I guess.
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Sep 1, 2019 21:17
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It's better for whirza than it was for the older prison decks because sometimes you just thopter sword them and that's good enough but it's definitely not favorable
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The American Dream posted:Is anything using hexdrinker right now? I want to get a set but with my luck it’ll lose half it’s value a month after I get them. It's ping ponged back and forth between $10-25ish bucks since it's printing. I just saw $11 and change on Tcgplayer and a set for $45 ish is pretty ok floor for a mythic from a master's only set that does do a thing. Low chance of it taking off but if it does find legs $11 will be a joke $7.43 was it's lowest price ever but even I'm too lazy to hold out over $16 worth of mythic fun snek but I also don't believe in it enough to get more than the 1 I have. PleasantDirge fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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Sep 1, 2019 22:20
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Sampatrick posted:Burn is owning the Open lmao unban Hogaak
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Sep 1, 2019 23:32
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probably fine to unban grave troll now? look just let me dream
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Sep 1, 2019 23:43
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What did Ross just do on stream? Everyone is lolling.
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Sep 1, 2019 23:55
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fadam posted:What did Ross just do on stream? Everyone is lolling. He forgot to put Reclamation Sage in his deck to destroy Blood Moon.
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Sep 1, 2019 23:55
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http://www.starcitygames.com/decks/Star_City_Games_Open/2019-08-31_modern_Dallas_TX_US/1/ Batterskull destroyed burn as a deck, burn is dead
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Hellsau posted:also why the gently caress do I need to restart Arena after every 6-7 games to stop it from visibly chugging, come on Wizards It's really bad and it gets worse with every update. I can't play 2 matches now without it being almost unplayable. It was doing other weird things last night too. My sideboarding would just end with like 10 seconds left and it randomly decided that a card I had highlighted for Command the Dreadhorde wasn't actually selected even though it was glowing yellow, which led to me eventually losing a game that would have got me to gold. TheKingofSprings posted:http://www.starcitygames.com/decks/Star_City_Games_Open/2019-08-31_modern_Dallas_TX_US/1/ This is what we said all along. Batterskull is just toooo good against the turn 3.5 deck that has no way to stop a 1/2!!!
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isn't burn known to do well in untested formats with unoptimized decks?
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turns out the solution to midrange decks being bad was not unbanning a card that preys specifically midrange decks
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TheKingofSprings posted:http://www.starcitygames.com/decks/Star_City_Games_Open/2019-08-31_modern_Dallas_TX_US/1/ ??? Three burn decks in the top 8, 0 total SFMs. Whirrza did win it, which shouldn't be a surprise given how well it was doing during Hogaak summer.
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rkajdi posted:??? Three burn decks in the top 8, 0 total SFMs. Whirrza did win it, which shouldn't be a surprise given how well it was doing during Hogaak summer. sarcasm from a sfm enthusiast
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rkajdi posted:??? Three burn decks in the top 8, 0 total SFMs. Whirrza did win it, which shouldn't be a surprise given how well it was doing during Hogaak summer.
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Rinkles posted:sarcasm from a sfm enthusiast Gotcha. Sorry about that. I did notice humans got proper hosed. Either playstyle or decks are probably going to have to change. Luckily, the cardpool is huge for that deck, and aggro with control elements seems like something that should still be valid. EDIT: Burn doing well in a format where people wanted to try out midrange isn't surprising to me. It's effectively spell aggro, so you end up just killing them before their deck does it's thing more often than not. It also has easy play patterns to get down, so there are a lot less misplays on it than most other decks. I always felt like I had a fighting chance with it at FNM, except in those situations where people just stacked their decks against it. rkajdi fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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Sep 2, 2019 02:16
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Plague Engineer is a mother fucker of a card.
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Star Man posted:Plague Engineer is a mother fucker of a card. Yup. I figure it's going to hurt tribal decks for a long time. Humans doesn't have much of a way to stop it outside of meddling mage or just growing the board before it shows up.
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mossyfisk posted:probably fine to unban grave troll now? 
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Burn is always a good deck in an unstable format. SFM will be boarding firewalkers because a Firewalker with a sword eats burn up. Burn's a known quantity and is easier to deal with than most via sideboarding. poo poo, could you imagine just sideboarding a spirit link onto Eidolon. (Don't do this but it would be hilarious)
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Whirza winning makes me so happy. Deck is sick af.
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feel a little dumb having sold my swords of the meek at 16 but I bought at 8 so I can’t feel that bad
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Sampatrick posted:Whirza winning makes me so happy. Deck is sick af. Buying Urza, Lord High Artificer is def not sick af.
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Burn being the Big Dawg of the weekend reminded me of this game, which is probably PSulli at his best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWXEKbtCiw&t=1051s
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Toshimo posted:Burn being the Big Dawg of the weekend reminded me of this game, which is probably PSulli at his best. PSully blew Ross' hair off
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PSully at his best is him ranting about the US healthcare system live on air while Cedric looks uncomfortable
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MikeCrotch posted:PSully at his best is him ranting about the US healthcare system live on air while Cedric looks uncomfortable Link? I’ve seen many of PSully’s rants, but I don’t recall one specifically regarding healthcare.
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If you have any Godsire’s lying around in your binder, good time to sell. Last I checked they’re up to $32 a pop.
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InterrupterJones posted:If you have any Godsire’s lying around in your binder, good time to sell. Last I checked they’re up to $32 a pop. Holy poo poo, what? Why? Edit: C-Euro posted:The latest set of EDH pre-cons includes a Naya deck centered around the Populate mechanic. Aniodia fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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Aniodia posted:Holy poo poo, what? Why? The latest set of EDH pre-cons includes a Naya deck centered around the Populate mechanic.
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Aniodia posted:Holy poo poo, what? Why? Yeah, I can’t think of any other reason. There is practically zero constructed value for that card. I guess EDH/MTG Finance is just a hell of a drug. Edit: Also, it probably wouldn’t be this bad if it had had any reprintings. Alara is considered one of those older new sets that ran out of its print run pretty quickly as I recall.
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InterrupterJones posted:Yeah, I can’t think of any other reason. There is practically zero constructed value for that card. I guess EDH/MTG Finance is just a hell of a drug. The stupid EDH morph deck made dream chisel jump to $10 and the flashback deck made the dumb judgement equivalent card also jump to $10 because EDH
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