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fadam posted:I get that there are different strokes for different folks, and I understand that Magic is a game that appeals to a broad spectrum of interests, but I will never understand why people like singleton lmfao. What is the appeal of Magic with the worst part (variance) cranked up? I guess I've only played it during arena events, so maybe its a lot better with a tuned deck. Singleton forces variety and by default makes for more varied and entertaining games than modern or standard where most decks boil down to having pretty much the same game plan and seeing a lot of the same matchups. This is further enriched by the have that many singleton formats are designed to be played with more than 2 players. Tuned Singleton decks (speaking in terms of Commander and Oathbreaker at least) are still pretty efficient at accomplishing what they are designed to do without being monotonous and needing 4 copies of the same overpriced card. I played Modern for 2 years until I realized how very bored I was getting with it. I got into singleton formats and haven't really looked back much. Framboise fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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The singleton event a few weeks back has been on of my favorites. I played against a few of those Blue Mill decks with 30 Patient Petitioners or whatever they were called. Mostly those games came down to me having some sort of graveyard recursion, waiting until some of my beasts had a shitload of Undertow or whatever that Golgari mechanic is called, recursioning things back to the battlefield / hand and then winning. In fact that singleton event is what made me do my jank rear end Golgari / Drak recursion deck that I have a lot of fun playing.
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Sep 5, 2019 19:10
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I understand people like different things but I will never understand why people like a different thing
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fadam posted:I get that there are different strokes for different folks, and I understand that Magic is a game that appeals to a broad spectrum of interests, but I will never understand why people like singleton lmfao. What is the appeal of Magic with the worst part (variance) cranked up? I guess I've only played it during arena events, so maybe its a lot better with a tuned deck. the appeal of singleton is similar to the experience of playing a board game. everyone gets to cast some spells, a bunch of wacky stuff happens, and in the end it's not that important who wins or who loses none of that appeal translates over to arena/mtgo. there's no social aspect and the zero-sum reward structure makes things inherently competitive
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fadam posted:I get that there are different strokes for different folks, and I understand that Magic is a game that appeals to a broad spectrum of interests, but I will never understand why people like singleton lmfao. What is the appeal of Magic with the worst part (variance) cranked up? I guess I've only played it during arena events, so maybe its a lot better with a tuned deck. One of the things I like is you get to play with and against the sweet cards that weren't quite good enough. Something like Dovin Baan or Mu Yanling that just aren't quite good enough for their format, or just have better options. Or if you're playing a deck built around a commander, you find weird build around cards that didn't have enough support.
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I like Standard Singleton, and I like it a lot more than Brawl. Yeah there is some more variance, but there are a lot of interesting board states and interactions to work through as well. I don’t think I’d want to play serious tournaments in it, but it’s a fun casual format. Brawl gets too defined around the commander IMO and loses a lot of the variety while keeping the variance.
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:I understand people like different things but I will never understand why people like a different thing that's right
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MikeCrotch posted:Also I found the Psully healthcare rant Not nearly long enough.
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Sep 5, 2019 19:28
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Singleton is good when the power difference between the best card and the worst card in the deck is like 20%. These singleton precons are mostly garbage with like three constructed quality cards per deck so the variance of each draw is super high when you can draw a 2 mana 2/1 or a kayas wrath. It will be much better when you can actually construct the deck yourself.
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Sep 5, 2019 19:37
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Singleton's for when you don't care about consistency (ie winning or losing) which is why it's a casual mode
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Sep 5, 2019 19:41
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I would play the absolute poo poo out of sanctioned modern singleton. 
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Sep 5, 2019 19:51
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Someone please help me I have a friend who is convinced Rankle is going to revitalize Faeries in modern and that we should buy Bitterblossoms before it's too late.
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Count Bleck posted:Someone please help me I have a friend who is convinced Rankle is going to revitalize Faeries in modern and that we should buy Bitterblossoms before it's too late. I would rather cast mistbind clique than rankle. His art is super loving cool though.
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Count Bleck posted:Someone please help me I have a friend who is convinced Rankle is going to revitalize Faeries in modern and that we should buy Bitterblossoms before it's too late. Sell them as many Bitterblossoms as you can
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Did they blow all the spoilers yesterday and there's none for the rest of the week or what?
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SalTheBard posted:Drak recursion what? Count Bleck posted:Someone please help me I have a friend who is convinced Rankle is going to revitalize Faeries in modern and that we should buy Bitterblossoms before it's too late. fuckin' lol
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Sep 5, 2019 20:46
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Quick, tell me all of the reasons I should stick to BW tokens and not play this ridiculous 14 anthem deck I've just come up with at FNM tomorrow: 3 Force of Virtue 4 Intangible Virtue 3 Honor of the Pure 4 Leyline of the Meek 4 Auriok Champion 4 Raise the Alarm 4 Spectral Procession 4 Lingering Souls 2 Path to Exile 2 Secure the Wastes 2 Generous Gift 2 Sorin, Solemn Visitor 2 Silent Clearing 4 Marsh Flats 3 Godless Shrine 1 Swamp 2 Westvale Abbey 10 Plains side: 2 Rest in Peace 2 Stony Silence 1 Disenchant 1 Nature's Chant 1 Runed Halo 1 Sorcerous Spyglass 1 Wrath of God 1 Settle the Wreckage 1 Rule of Law 2 Beckon Apparition 2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant Do I jam a few legion's landings in? or find a place for elspeth tirel?
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ilmucche posted:Quick, tell me all of the reasons I should stick to BW tokens and not play this ridiculous 14 anthem deck I've just come up with at FNM tomorrow: Silent Clearing Marsh Flats Path to Exile Secure the Wastes Force of Virtue Intangible Virtue Leyline of the Meek Keep or mull?
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Silent Clearing Mull, because I know if I keep that I get turn 1 thoughtseized. Point taken.
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ilmucche posted:Quick, tell me all of the reasons I should stick to BW tokens and not play this ridiculous 14 anthem deck I've just come up with at FNM tomorrow: If you are going to do token strats, why aren't you running Gideon, Ally of Zendikar? Make it an 18 anthem deck if you gonna be dumb. Edit: Also, realize that Leyline pumps your opponent's poo poo if they are running Young Peezy or Urza. AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Silent Clearing Swap your bad leylines for the good leylines and that's a snap keep.
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AlternateNu posted:If you are going to do token strats, why aren't you running Gideon, Ally of Zendikar? Make it an 18 anthem deck if you gonna be dumb. Don't have gideons. I run sorins and a Kaya orzhov usurper in bw. Only have 3 forces and 3 honor of the pures Toshimo posted:Swap your bad leylines for the good leylines and that's a snap keep. What are the good leylines?
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I mean the deck is bad for a lot of other reasons but I want to note that there’s a nonzero chance you give your opponent a 4/4 elephant lol
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Alright, regular BW tokens it is. I'll run that one out in casual play at the lgs for fun.
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ilmucche posted:Alright, regular BW tokens it is. I'll run that one out in casual play at the lgs for fun. I'm going to guess you don't have Bitterblossoms, either?
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AlternateNu posted:I'm going to guess you don't have Bitterblossoms, either? Off the top of my head because I made a few changes earlier: 2 inquisition of kozilek 3 thoughtseize 2 path 1 push 4 auriok champion 3 bitterblossom 4 intagible virtue 2 hidden stockpile 1 zealous persecution 1 generous gift 4 lingering souls 4 spectral procession 1 Kaya, orzhov usurper 3 Sorin, solemn visitor 2 secure the wastes 4 Marsh flats 1 white fetch 2 shambling vent 2 silent clearing 3 godless shrine 3 concealed courtyard 1 fetid heath 1 vault of the archangel 1 BLAST ZONE 1 swamp 4 plains Side 2 rip 2 stony 1 runed halo 1/1 disen/nature's chant 1 path to exile 1 sorcerous spyglass 1 generous gift 1 ashiok 1 of that black creature that gives -1/-1 1 wrath o' god 1 burrenton forgetender 1 other card that I can't remember
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Count Bleck posted:Someone please help me I have a friend who is convinced Rankle is going to revitalize Faeries in modern and that we should buy Bitterblossoms before it's too late. Take them to goldfish and show them the price timeline with a huge jump 5 minutes after they announced fae folk in the new set a few weeks ago. If they still want to buy them after that, sorry about your dead dehydrated horse my man, you walked him right to the drat river idk what else to do
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Did they blow all the spoilers yesterday and there's none for the rest of the week or what? Spoilers schedule https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/where-find-throne-eldraine-previews-2019-09-05
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Count Bleck posted:Someone please help me I have a friend who is convinced Rankle is going to revitalize Faeries in modern and that we should buy Bitterblossoms before it's too late. I say let them drop $200 on a playset of Faeries and watch them learn the hard way what Plague Engineer does. I say this as someone who really wants to play Faeries too.
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Kurtofan posted:Spoilers schedule quote:Surprise Buy-a-Box Reveal well it's not much of a surprise anymore
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On the live steam they just said they didn’t have any news today on the 2:1 Historic cards but that “the feedback has been heard, we are aware that people are not happy” Also there is a token to put your creatures on that have gone on their adventure 
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Yay, now everyone's happy!
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Tainen posted:
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Gone fishing
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Sep 5, 2019 22:52
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Can I get it on a T-shirt?
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Tainen posted:On the live steam they just said they didn’t have any news today on the 2:1 Historic cards but that “the feedback has been heard, we are aware that people are not happy” That is the best possible way to resolve that memory issue and I’ll insult the heck out of the mother of anyone denigrating it
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You know those people that never bring tokens they need? Have fun!
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Tainen posted:On the live steam they just said they didn’t have any news today on the 2:1 Historic cards but that “the feedback has been heard, we are aware that people are not happy” This seems overly complicated, I mean do you play this card on a table, or keep it in a deck box? It just seems like it has a lot of memory issues Tainen posted:On the live steam they just said they didn’t have any news today on the 2:1 Historic cards but that “the feedback has been heard, we are aware that people are not happy” When I player Hearthstone I played Wild exclusively. When you go to craft a Wild card they let you know it's not standard legal, and you can't even get into the Wild crafting section without clicking a button that very clearly toggles the format. I'm not sure what Arena is trying to do here. The way you make the artificial scarcity is to not sell the older boosters. It's like they want to double dip on not selling packs AND making them cost more to craft Ate My Balls Redux fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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Star Man posted:You know those people that never bring tokens they need? Have fun! if someone like the dude upthread desperately needs a token to say when a card is on adventure or not i imagine it'll never leave their wallet between games everyone else will just, like, remember or use an unofficial marker
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I hope you are all going to loudly announce that your creatures are Going On An ADVENTURE and emphatically place them on this token every time you use this ability
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