|
long-rear end nips Diane posted:Meme deck top 8 Rooting for him to win tomorrow just to see him wear a mask and talk about HK during the winner's interview and watch how Wizards handles the exact same situation as Blizzard.
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 00:41
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 3, 2024 13:41 |
|
|
qbert posted:Rooting for him to win tomorrow just to see him wear a mask and talk about HK during the winner's interview and watch how Wizards handles the exact same situation as Blizzard. I would be shocked if they let him cover his face tomorrow.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 00:44
|
|
|
Sickening posted:I would be shocked if they let him cover his face tomorrow. This is normal for him and WotC has been letting him do it for some time.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 00:57
|
|
|
Toshimo posted:I know it's the cool goon meme to poo poo on literally everything because it makes you look edgy and cool, but Arena is better and more stable that MTGO has ever been at any point in its development. lol you literally need to restart the client every 45 minutes to make it functional. there are a million reasons you can poo poo on mtgo but "unstable" is not one of them
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 01:11
|
|
|
Right after today's matches ended all the commentators took a few minutes to go "where are the Golos decks in top 8 lololololol who said standard is bad right now?"
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 01:28
|
|
|
Look, you're all tryhard baddie netdecker casuals, but just remember - you're all great human beings compared to Tron players.Crackbone posted:Right after today's matches ended all the commentators took a few minutes to go "where are the Golos decks in top 8 lololololol who said standard is bad right now?" I'm guessing there's 7 out of 8 Golos decks in 9th-16th? good ol' 4 Oko 4 Nissa in 4/8 of the top 8.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 01:47
|
|
|
So did Ken Yukihiro almost punt game 3 vs Juza by waiting till eot to noxious grasp the deputy of detention? If he had done it in response to Tolsimir's fight (which isn't a may) he would have eaten the wolf and attacked for lethal the next turn rather than sweating topdecks for several more turns later.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 01:51
|
|
|
Dehtraen posted:Interviewer mistakenly saying Andrea Mengucci is from Spain to Javier Dominguez in a post match interview and then being immediately corrected in an awkward manner... https://www.twitch.tv/magic/clip/MuddyFreezingGoatPlanking Day9 also forgot Mengu's name., poor mengu https://www.twitch.tv/magic/clip/TransparentImpossibleMageImGlitch
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 01:53
|
|
doin’ us proud coverage team
|
I fuckin LOVE that I can search for longer than I’ve searched for anything for the past few years and cannot find the top 8 deck lists. It’s should take exactly one google search. It’s also possible that I’ve missed it, but what the fuuucckk
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:00
|
|
|
Does Standard fire at any of your LGSs? At mine, FNM is always draft with 8-16 people, Modern is lucky to get 8, and Standard never fires as a sanctioned event but sometimes they get 4 people and do 3 rounds round-robin. Saturday mornings they do a free-entry Standard event for promo-pack only prizes that gets like 6 people usually.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:04
|
|
|
Entropic posted:Does Standard fire at any of your LGSs? At mine, FNM is always draft with 8-16 people, Modern is lucky to get 8, and Standard never fires as a sanctioned event but sometimes they get 4 people and do 3 rounds round-robin. Move to a city, friend.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:08
|
|
|
meanolmrcloud posted:I fuckin LOVE that I can search for longer than I’ve searched for anything for the past few years and cannot find the top 8 deck lists. It’s should take exactly one google search. It’s also possible that I’ve missed it, but what the fuuucckk The ESports website is somehow more broken and harder to navigate than their original regular one.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:15
|
|
|
Fuzzy Mammal posted:Move to a city, friend. Yeah, I'm in the "city" for Northern Ontario my dude. I'd have to move like 1000km to be somewhere more happening for Magic. When I got back into Magic in like 2011 Standard was the only FNM format and it was routine to get like 20-25 people out for it. It really feels like it's died.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:16
|
|
|
Hellsau posted:Look, you're all tryhard baddie netdecker casuals, but just remember - you're all great human beings compared to Tron players. Actually... There's 8.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:21
|
|
|
meanolmrcloud posted:I fuckin LOVE that I can search for longer than I’ve searched for anything for the past few years and cannot find the top 8 deck lists. It’s should take exactly one google search. It’s also possible that I’ve missed it, but what the fuuucckk I had to use MTGGoldfish. They have all the lists but don't have place numbers for anyone out of top 8. Niton posted:Actually... There's 8. wait seriously?
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:22
|
|
|
Hellsau posted:wait seriously? Yep. 9th-16th are all Golos decks, 5 Bant, 2 Fires builds, 1 4 Color.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:30
|
|
|
FrozenPhoenix71 posted:Yep. 9th-16th are all Golos decks, 5 Bant, 2 Fires builds, 1 4 Color. lol so Golos fuckin' overperformed its share of the metagame into the top 16? How many of the players who had byes into the day 2 were on Golos? I know Ben Stark was on Weaselback Redcap Knights, were all the others on Golos? e: welp found the standings, they're not in the giant STANDINGS section on the banner that sticks to the top of the magic.gg page, but Field of the Dead is going away Monday and probably Oko or Nissa too. https://www.magic.gg/news/mtg-arena-mythic-v-day-two-round-7-standings 
Hellsau fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Oct 20, 2019 |
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:36
|
|
|
Sickening posted:I would be shocked if they let him cover his face tomorrow.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:40
|
|
|
Hellsau posted:lol so Golos fuckin' overperformed its share of the metagame into the top 16? How many of the players who had byes into the day 2 were on Golos? I know Ben Stark was on Weaselback Redcap Knights, were all the others on Golos? MPL players are the ones with byes, right? It looks 9 MPL players registered something other than Golos or Food. If you want a funnier statistic: Every single player that 5-x'd day 1 played either Golos or a T2 Oko deck, and only 3 of the 24 advancing players played a deck that contained neither Golos or Oko.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:48
|
|
|
Niton posted:MPL players are the ones with byes, right? It looks 9 MPL players registered something other than Golos or Food.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:51
|
|
|
Niton posted:MPL players are the ones with byes, right? It looks 9 MPL players registered something other than Golos or Food. There's four divisions of MPL players, and the winners of each section got a bye into day 2. I don't know how to find out who got the byes, and also I don't care because Field must be banned and something else green likely should be banned.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 02:55
|
|
|
I'm surprised that they didn't tell Tian to shut up on stream about the HK stuff. is wotc just too small potatoes for China to give a poo poo about? They've clearly been trying to gain market share recently over there with stuff like the global series decks.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 03:53
|
|
|
Retromancer posted:I'm surprised that they didn't tell Tian to shut up on stream about the HK stuff. is wotc just too small potatoes for China to give a poo poo about? They've clearly been trying to gain market share recently over there with stuff like the global series decks. Exactly what I was thinking. WOTC doesn't strike me as the kind of company that would ignore china telling them to knock it off or else. I would think that nobody has notified anyone yet.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 03:58
|
|
|
Entropic posted:Does Standard fire at any of your LGSs? At mine, FNM is always draft with 8-16 people, Modern is lucky to get 8, and Standard never fires as a sanctioned event but sometimes they get 4 people and do 3 rounds round-robin. Ours does, only because we bring 3 people, and the place runs it with 4-6 people. It loving feels horrible compared to the "good old days" where we would have 20+. I'm old. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 04:02
|
|
|
Sickening posted:Exactly what I was thinking. WOTC doesn't strike me as the kind of company that would ignore china telling them to knock it off or else. I would think that nobody has notified anyone yet. A little while ago they were being really careful referring to Taiwan as Chinese Taipei, so they’re either messing up or there’s been a policy change
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 04:16
|
|
|
For those people in the thread who don't have an encyclopedic history of Magic The Gathering, Lee Shi Tian, Taiwan, and Wizards of the Coast, this is a Certified Good Read: What's in a Name? – Lee Shi Tian and the Umbrella Revolution --- By Adrienne Reynolds
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 04:35
|
|
|
Mae posted:A little while ago they were being really careful referring to Taiwan as Chinese Taipei, so they’re either messing up or there’s been a policy change Chinese Taipei is the name China and Taiwan mutually agreed Taiwan would compete under for international events, do that one isn't really a controversy. I'm amazed at this threads ability to see a good thing and immediately start taking about how it will become bad. If WotC screws this up then react, but let's enjoy it while it's good.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 04:43
|
|
|
neaden posted:Chinese Taipei is the name China and Taiwan mutually agreed Taiwan would compete under for international events, do that one isn't really a controversy. Ignoring your weird Chinese apologia, at the time, the team registered itself as Team Taiwan, and Wizards forced them to change it to remain in the event. So, yes, it was a controversy, and no, the Taiwanese aren't stoked about the whole thing.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 04:46
|
|
|
Toshimo posted:Ignoring your weird Chinese apologia, at the time, the team registered itself as Team Taiwan, and Wizards forced them to change it to remain in the event. So, yes, it was a controversy, and no, the Taiwanese aren't stoked about the whole thing. I'm sorry I phrased that poorly. The Chinese Taipei issue isn't free from controversy, but it is the name that Taiwan agreed to go by for international competitions. My second point of the something good was in reference to LSTs protest and Wizards handling of it so far, which at the present I think WotC has done a good job with. That wasn't clear in my first post, for which I apologise.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 04:56
|
|
|
As the only person here who has hung out socially with several people who were on Chinese Taipei magic world cup teams, I assure you they don't like the name
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 05:15
|
|
|
Neat that he made it to the top 8 again. Wotc is probably wary of repeating the blitzchung Hearthstone controversy. Maybe they'd have been fine with the mask regardless, but I imagine the fear of backlash was not a non factor.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 05:23
|
|
|
I'm hoping Wizards lets the format shake out a bit and only bans Field. Honestly I don't think there's a lack of answers to Oko (and Nissa for that matter), it's just any shell that holds them gets wrecked by Field decks. Elderspell, Angrath's Rampage, Bedevil, and Murderous Rider are all pretty good answers but the Black/Blue/Red stuff that wants to play those cards pretty much folds to Field. Even messing around with Sultai for Assassin's Trophy doesn't help deal with Field since usually you just end up ramping them a bit and still dealing with 1-3 zombies. Get rid of Field and some of the black control answers become more viable.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 05:52
|
|
|
I just took a swig of coffee and then paused a moment to wait for the client to catch up. In real life. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 06:02
|
|
|
I'm going to make a deck with Oko and T3feri. It can't possibly lose.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 08:51
|
|
|
pointsofdata posted:I'm going to make a deck with Oko and T3feri. It can't possibly lose. Put in Narset and Ashiok so your opponent can't draw, can't search and can't play instants as well. Planeswalker prison.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 09:00
|
|
|
ilmucche posted:Put in Narset and Ashiok so your opponent can't draw, can't search and can't play instants as well. Planeswalker prison. Better add some WAR Dovins to play it safe
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 09:28
|
|
|
Entropic posted:Does Standard fire at any of your LGSs? At mine, FNM is always draft with 8-16 people, Modern is lucky to get 8, and Standard never fires as a sanctioned event but sometimes they get 4 people and do 3 rounds round-robin. Our fnm standard is a free event that always seems to fire, usually 15-25 people every week I’ve been past two months. Not as well attended as Modern which seems like 20-30. Final round is pack to winner of evenly match pair ups and then prize pool + promos for top four. It’s gone to five rounds every time. Draft usually fires but only 7-11 people usually. Sometimes enough for two pods. PacNW city is population 160,000 or so. A couple weeks back I was in another city in Texas and tried their fnm and their standard had an entry fee but it had enough people for four rounds. Yiggy fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Oct 20, 2019 |
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 09:52
|
|
|
neaden posted:I'm sorry I phrased that poorly. The Chinese Taipei issue isn't free from controversy, but it is the name that Taiwan agreed to go by for international competitions. My second point of the something good was in reference to LSTs protest and Wizards handling of it so far, which at the present I think WotC has done a good job with. That wasn't clear in my first post, for which I apologise. https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466851
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 10:40
|
|
|
Lmao I can't believe that guy
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 10:48
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 3, 2024 13:41 |
|
|
That guy is actually not wrong. The Taiwanese government itself also has problems with using the name "Taiwan", since their official name is Republic of China, and still claims to be the real China, and the name wouldn't represent the areas that are under Taiwanese authority but aren't in Taiwan itself.
|
|
#
?
Oct 20, 2019 11:14
|
|
