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Sit on my Jace posted:The first Pioneer Challenge was today, right? Curious what the format looks like after a proper event like that. Yes! Finals is happening right now. UR Phoenix vs Sultai midrange. Seemed like a lot of UR Phoenix and a lot of Sultai midrange. Mtgo top trophy earner made it to the top 8 with his 4c saheeli list
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PJOmega posted:Gooooooooooooooo fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yourself! Since the other option is to force everyone into big box stores you can't play at (and that are full of ripoff MTG products) I can't criticise a shop for trying to keep business at their shop. And the second wave of them if supposedly huge, so if you wait a month you'll be drowning in arcane signet's.
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Oct 27, 2019 23:51
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Dehtraen posted:Yes! Finals is happening right now. UR Phoenix vs Sultai midrange. Lots of people had a ur Phoenix deck, and this used almost all the high value cards from it. I'm thinking about going with it or Bant spirits as my first pioneer deck or of the gate.
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Oct 28, 2019 00:01
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boy this modern match has been going on for loving ages
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Oct 28, 2019 00:08
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rkajdi posted:Lots of people had a ur Phoenix deck, and this used almost all the high value cards from it. I'm thinking about going with it or Bant spirits as my first pioneer deck or of the gate. Spirits looked powerful whenever I’ve seen it on stream - I just think the build needs to be refined a little. Also, Sultai midrange won.
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rkajdi posted:Lots of people had a ur Phoenix deck, and this used almost all the high value cards from it. I'm thinking about going with it or Bant spirits as my first pioneer deck or of the gate. I think it's that and also when you have a critical mass of looting and card draw Phoenix becomes very strong and quick relative to the rest of the field. Cards like Izzet Charm can help a lot with it too.
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Yiggy posted:Lgs is holding a free brawl event where they’re giving out promo packs to encourage the format. I threw together a simic ramp birthing pod-like deck using prime speaker vannifar as the commander. Mostly was trying to think of a good way to shoe horn in my single oko since I doubt I’ll ever have another to try in another format. P janky but hope it’ll be fun. Brawl event was super casual. Stuck with the Vannifar commander, was fun but I needed to pack my deck with more creatures and fewer cantrips. The oko came out easily enough each game and instantly put a target on my back so he’s less effective when you’ve got several players going for him. Brawl seemed fun enough and I’ll keep a deck with me for LGS trips but I don’t know when I’ll ever see more brawl games.
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Oct 28, 2019 00:34
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first pioneer challenge winner https://twitter.com/oRSMTGO/status/1188583771517456384 oko and goose in every format
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Elyv posted:first pioneer challenge winner That deck is going to be pushing 1k in a hurry.
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Elyv posted:first pioneer challenge winner Jesus christ 237 players in a challenge? Glad I went back to sleep, dear lord.
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Hellsau posted:Jesus christ 237 players in a challenge? Glad I went back to sleep, dear lord. Is that a lot or not very many? I am not a MTGO man.
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Oct 28, 2019 01:12
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MikeCrotch posted:Is that a lot or not very many? I am not a MTGO man. Pauper Challenges were hitting 90-100 during Astrolabe, and dropped down to 65 after no ban was announced. Today was the first post-Astrolabe Challenge, dunno how big it was. Prizes don't increase depending on player count, with top 16 getting some stuff, 17th-32nd getting their entry fee back, and everyone else getting nothing for their 25 bucks. Yesterday's Pauper MCQ was 149 players, smaller than this challenge! Note that the early start time probably helped boost attendance since it vastly increased the amount of European players that could justify playing in it.
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JerryLee posted:Rhox wasn't that outlandish. For a Timmy creature and especially for the time, it had a pretty non-insulting combination of cost, stats and textbox. I mean from a strictly character marketing perspective.
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Dehtraen posted:Yes! Finals is happening right now. UR Phoenix vs Sultai midrange. Where can I find the top 8 at?
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Kjermzs posted:Where can I find the top 8 at? Top 32 will get posted tomorrow on the MTG website, and they'll get uploaded to MTGGoldfish in a much more readable format like an hour later.
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I can't believe Wizards managed to ressurect MTGO at the expense of prematurely killing MTGA's eternal format
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Wizards could make so much money if they'd just loving spend the resources to fully support Arena with an actual eternal format.
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the barrier to releasing an entire decade of sets on arena is much more logistical than it is just about coding it up
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Oct 28, 2019 03:58
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flatluigi posted:the barrier to releasing an entire decade of sets on arena is much more logistical than it is just about coding it up The reality is, you don’t need an entire decade of sets to effectively cover the most important cards Hell, even just doing every rare and mythic gets you 80% there with gallons of useless crap
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Oct 28, 2019 04:03
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Hellsau posted:Wizards could make so much money if they'd just loving spend the resources to fully support Arena with an actual eternal format. Seriously just let me play Brawl. I'm pretty sure this is the first time since Eldraine release I've gotten all 15 wins for the week. It's (for now) the only playable format left in the game.
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flatluigi posted:the barrier to releasing an entire decade of sets on arena is much more logistical than it is just about coding it up And it’s also a lot of cards to throw at new and returning players like me. I’m still learning Eldraine, let alone 5 more added sets or whatever.
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flatluigi posted:the barrier to releasing an entire decade of sets on arena is much more logistical than it is just about coding it up they had the option to plan for it from the start, they knew an expertly made digital client for MTG would make them a billion dollars, and they chose to make a barely competent digital client and setting for a few hundred million dollars.
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they didn't do it from the start because they're still making money off of mtgo and releasing arena with everything would both still be ridiculous logistically and kill MTGO stone deadArivia posted:And it’s also a lot of cards to throw at new and returning players like me. I’m still learning Eldraine, let alone 5 more added sets or whatever. people want pioneer which would add 20 more sets to what's currently available live (16 if you count the ones that were available pre-collection wipe in early beta)
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Hellsau posted:Wizards could make so much money if they'd just loving spend the resources to fully support Arena with an actual eternal format. it's pretty obvious that arena was a motivating factor for frontier
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suicidesteve posted:Seriously just let me play Brawl. I'm pretty sure this is the first time since Eldraine release I've gotten all 15 wins for the week. It's (for now) the only playable format left in the game. Ah yes, the Oko format against all others
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GoutPatrol posted:Ah yes, the Oko format against all others *shrug* at least in this format if you kill their turn 3 Oko they're probably not playing it again on turn 4. I think I went like 8/1 against Oko overall, and the 1 was because I mulled 3 hands that didn't have a 2nd land and never really did anything to their turn 2 Oko.
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flatluigi posted:the barrier to releasing an entire decade of sets on arena is much more logistical than it is just about coding it up Either way it's not as if they don't have the resources to do it within a realistic timespan, they just don't want to.
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Arivia posted:And it’s also a lot of cards to throw at new and returning players like me. I’m still learning Eldraine, let alone 5 more added sets or whatever. That format wouldn't be for a player like you. So why worry about it?
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It'd really discourage drafting, since wildcards would be literally the only realistic way to actually put decks together for that format.
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Is there a functional alternative to gatherer? That thing has absolutely hobbled my efforts to spice up murder goats and find more discard cards for UR Phoenix to run beyond all previous imagination. I usually don't do anything like this, format might be sweeter than it is good but for now at least I really don't care
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PleasantDirge posted:Is there a functional alternative to gatherer? That thing has absolutely hobbled my efforts to spice up murder goats and find more discard cards for UR Phoenix to run beyond all previous imagination. I usually don't do anything like this, format might be sweeter than it is good but for now at least I really don't care Scryfall is everything gatherer wish it could be in that regard.
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Mat Cauthon posted:Either way it's not as if they don't have the resources to do it within a realistic timespan, they just don't want to. I doubt they have the ability either. The game is creaking under the weight of just the normal rotation schedule and a handful of events. I doubt they could handle releasing one legacy set every three months. And the financial incentive to do so is really speculative and cannibalistic of mtgo.
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PleasantDirge posted:Is there a functional alternative to gatherer? That thing has absolutely hobbled my efforts to spice up murder goats and find more discard cards for UR Phoenix to run beyond all previous imagination. I usually don't do anything like this, format might be sweeter than it is good but for now at least I really don't care Gatherer has basically been abandoned since 2012. Scryfall is the only thing you need.
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Sickening posted:That format wouldn't be for a player like you. So why worry about it? Because it’s still a bunch of new cards/events/etc? At least with Historic I can stay on pace and reasonably build into it. Adding all the sets for Pioneer would throw that right out the window. Scryfall isn’t perfect though. I needed to search for all spirits in Modern not from Kamigawa block the other day. You can do that in Gatherer but not in Scryfall, it won’t let you use logic operators on formats/sets for some reason.
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Sickening posted:That format wouldn't be for a player like you. So why worry about it? I started playing back in 2016 and was recommended by people at my LGS to dive face-first into Modern from the get-go. I think that was probably the most frustrating way to learn but I think it was definitely the most rewarding way because I learned way more about game mechanics that way. For what it's worth @Arivia: You don't really need to "learn" sets-- just what cards in them get used the most and what the core mechanics of each set are. You'll never see the vast majority of Magic's library of cards because the vast majority of them range from rarely played to never played. Framboise fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Oct 28, 2019 |
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Arivia posted:Because it’s still a bunch of new cards/events/etc? At least with Historic I can stay on pace and reasonably build into it. Adding all the sets for Pioneer would throw that right out the window. this works fine?
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Arivia posted:Scryfall isn’t perfect though. I needed to search for all spirits in Modern not from Kamigawa block the other day. You can do that in Gatherer but not in Scryfall, it won’t let you use logic operators on formats/sets for some reason. type:spirit legal:modern -block:chk https://scryfall.com/search?q=type%3Aspirit+legal%3Amodern+-block%3Achk&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
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Arivia posted:Because it’s still a bunch of new cards/events/etc? At least with Historic I can stay on pace and reasonably build into it. Adding all the sets for Pioneer would throw that right out the window. You definitely can do that in scryfall lmao.
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whydirt posted:type:spirit legal:modern -block:chk Did you have to type that in manually or something? I couldn’t do it with the advanced search page.
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Arivia posted:Did you have to type that in manually or something? I couldn’t do it with the advanced search page. You overlooked it. 
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