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Grevlek posted:Is it okay to post my sealed pool list and have you roast me about how bad I am? I went 0/4 at prerelease tonight. I won a game each round, and had competitive game threes, but I just didn't have the gas to finish. It was my second prerelease, I went to THB, and then something happened where I couldn't go to them again for over a year. Why not? People do it all the time in the Arena thread.
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https://www.moxfield.com/decks/hfwsZm1AdUWATohQrBgKTQ So I think I should have added the Earth Cult Elementals or something, it didn't look like I had anything to curve into. Maybe I should have gone into white a bit too? I put all the WRG cards in the sideboard, and the rest of the cards in the 'considering' pile. I had 40 cards for R1 and R2, but after R2 I added Compelled Duel, Price of Loyalty, and You Find a Cursed Idol.
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Jul 17, 2021 07:18
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Yup, a lot of cards in there I wouldn't be playing. Barbarian Class is a questionable card in general, but in your deck especially it does very little. I would not play Price of Loyalty without sac outlets. Doubly so in Sealed. In Sealed also I'd avoid low impact cards like a lot of your equipment. In general you should be playing more creatures, and you have some decent ones available. Tiger Tribe Hunter is great. The green and red six drops and valor singer are all fine cards. And Bulette isn't very good. I'd play some more of your red removal. I think I'd also make a spot for Shessra, because running out of cards after trading blows without your opponents side of the board is one of the biggest problems in Sealed. e:also just wondering whether you typed in every card, or there's an automated way of importing your pool (like from photos)?
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Jul 17, 2021 07:35
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Rinkles posted:An official Start Wars expansion now seems inevitable. Heroscape, Heroquest, Transformers, My Little Pony, Micronauts, ROM: Space Knight, Battle Beasts, Inhumanoids, Jem and the Holograms, M.A.S.K., Nerf, Visionaries, and tons of licensed properties that they're on good terms with including Marvel, Power Rangers and Disney I eagerly await Secret Lair: Nerf War with alt art Nerf versions of Sword of Fire and Ice, Viridian Longbow and Ratchet Bomb Except It's A Nerf Spiral Football
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Jul 17, 2021 07:46
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Silhouette posted:Heroscape, Heroquest, Transformers, My Little Pony, Micronauts, ROM: Space Knight, Battle Beasts, Inhumanoids, Jem and the Holograms, M.A.S.K., Nerf, Visionaries, and tons of licensed properties that they're on good terms with including Marvel, Power Rangers and Disney If we finally get the long awaited ROM/Marvel reunion as an MtG set, a bunch of nerds will spontaneously combust.
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Jul 17, 2021 07:52
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Grevlek posted:Is it okay to post my sealed pool list and have you roast me about how bad I am? I went 0/4 at prerelease tonight. I won a game each round, and had competitive game threes, but I just didn't have the gas to finish. It was my second prerelease, I went to THB, and then something happened where I couldn't go to them again for over a year. You had an absolutely ridiculous red black deck, and then you played green for some inexplicable reason. Almost every single black card in your pool is better than your green. There's maybe two green cards in your deck that I'd be happy about playing, and you left the best green common in your sideboard. At a glance I'd play something like this, https://sealeddeck.tech/S1BvhHmEJb. I'm sure there are finer changes that could be made, like dropping a 2/2 for Dungeon Map to get to your top end sooner, but I didn't put more than 10 minutes into this.
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Jul 17, 2021 08:23
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Went 6-0 tonight with this sealed deck. Warlock Class was a game changer at least twice, Wizard helped me break through once. Double Mindflayer was hard to beat when I saw it, and I saw it a couple times. Dragon Turtle was the mvp somehow. It showed up almost every game and gave me the time I needed to develop against the aggro decks.
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Jul 17, 2021 08:38
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Forsworn Paladin sure ain't no Knight of the Ebon Legion as a black 1-drop, but it was absolutely bonkers in my sealed last night and won me every game where I got it to stick on the board Even without treasures it makes lategame blocking really difficult when crappy bears are suddenly able to kill dragons, there probably isn't a place for it in constructed but drat it felt good in limited
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Jul 17, 2021 09:39
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Silhouette posted:I eagerly await Secret Lair: Nerf War with alt art Nerf versions of Sword of Fire and Ice, Viridian Longbow and Ratchet Bomb Except It's A Nerf Spiral Football Sorry, they already did that https://scryfall.com/card/h17/2/nerf-war
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Jul 17, 2021 15:56
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loving Righteous Valkyrie. I wish Wizards would quit putting enablers + finisher abilities on the same card. Moreso when it's lifegain, meaning it's a game extender + enabler + finisher. Plus every ability on the card stacks from multiple Valkyries. It's in a standard where you don't even have to run marginal creatures to maximize its value. All of this MIGHT be okay if it were easier to remove, but quad-rear end means it brickwalls a ton of aggressive creatures and dodges most common removal. It doesn't break the game but it's just an obnoxious design.
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Jul 17, 2021 16:25
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Grevlek posted:It was my second prerelease, I went to THB, and then something happened where I couldn't go to them again for over a year. Lol same here. No way that's not a coincidence. Either one of us, sure, but both?
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Jul 17, 2021 16:32
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Crackbone posted:loving Righteous Valkyrie. this is true but not about righteous valkyrie. you can kill the angel, counter the angel, make them discard the angel. the card that's actually emblatic of the problem you're describing is alrund's epiphany. it does everything you're describing and you can basically only counter it. it's the worst. they should stop printing extra turn cards. or go back to making them unplayable.
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Jul 17, 2021 19:43
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510rems posted:this is true but not about righteous valkyrie. you can kill the angel, counter the angel, make them discard the angel. the card that's actually emblatic of the problem you're describing is alrund's epiphany. it does everything you're describing and you can basically only counter it. it's the worst. Just because you can counter/kill/discard something doesn't make it okay. By that metric Oko and Omnath were just fine. (And because people just can't seem to read context, I'm not saying Valkyrie is as good as either of those.) Crackbone fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jul 17, 2021 |
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Jul 17, 2021 20:14
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Kaldheim does seem to be defining the 2022 queue.
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Jul 17, 2021 20:20
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Kaldheim was actually a powerful set. It's just that Eldraine has skewed the grading curve so much it looks weak in comparison to existing outrageous bullshit that was/is standard. When Doomskar of all cards didn't see play than you know that existing card pool was just stupid nuts. E. Revenant fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jul 17, 2021 |
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Jul 17, 2021 22:15
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E. Revenant posted:Kaldheim was actually a powerful set. It's just that Eldraine has skewed the grading curve so much it looks weak in comparison to existing outrageous bullshit that was/is standard. Doomskar saw play in historic, and the cards that kept it out of standard weren't eldraine cards. Signs actually still point to no Doomskar in future standard, because it is defined by manlands and white's lack of instant speed removal keeps control players in dimir.
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Jul 17, 2021 22:30
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People like to blame Eldraine for everything but none of the cards that make Wrath of God bad (Selfless Saviour, Seasoned Hallowblade, Redaine, Anax, Lurrus etc) are actually from that set. e: manlands are also a good point, there will probably be an absurd number of them around in 2022 standard.
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Jul 17, 2021 22:32
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The Klowner posted:Lol same here. No way that's not a coincidence. Either one of us, sure, but both? This was a lovely derail the first time; please let it lie.
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Jul 17, 2021 23:13
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potatocubed posted:This was a lovely derail the first time; please let it lie. I don't know what you're referring to but it just read like a coronavirus joke to me? Like "gee i wonder why no social in-person activities happened the last year and change" 
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Jul 17, 2021 23:17
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The second part about Doomskar was more about hyper-normalization in the standard card pool post Eldraine. Kaldheim in the old balance model would have been the high water mark and not be considered a weak set like some do.
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Jul 17, 2021 23:17
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Shrecknet posted:Now that WotC has gotten into the "directly sell specific cards to consumers" game ('because gently caress the stores that evangelize and promote your product!') I can't imagine destroying the RL to print Secret Lairs of the P9 are too far off. They might do it with silver-bordered reprints and go "these are proxies for kitchen table play" at first but like you said - they're whales, if you shovel more cards into their baleen you can strain out more Bring back gold borders you cowards
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Jul 18, 2021 01:09
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Irony Be My Shield posted:People like to blame Eldraine for everything but none of the cards that make Wrath of God bad (Selfless Saviour, Seasoned Hallowblade, Redaine, Anax, Lurrus etc) are actually from that set. I thought it was the part where you would have to hit the entire playset of edgewall innkeepers before breaking parity on casting Doomskar.
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Jul 18, 2021 01:09
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Shrecknet posted:Now that WotC has gotten into the "directly sell specific cards to consumers" game ('because gently caress the stores that evangelize and promote your product!') I can't imagine destroying the RL to print Secret Lairs of the P9 are too far off. They might do it with silver-bordered reprints and go "these are proxies for kitchen table play" at first but like you said - they're whales, if you shovel more cards into their baleen you can strain out more They will respect the reserve list by printing a new tournament legal power 9 more powerful than the old ones with new names and sell them individually for $10,000 a piece
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Jul 18, 2021 13:45
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Rutibex posted:They will respect the reserve list by printing a new tournament legal power 9 more powerful than the old ones with new names and sell them individually for $10,000 a piece Finally, the sol ring/mox combos we've been waiting for
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Jul 18, 2021 14:00
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mandatory lesbian posted:Finally, the sol ring/mox combos we've been waiting for Pretend you can see me with a mouth full of chewing tobacco knocking the dirt from my cleats right before I point my bat at some whackjob dressed up like a circus clown in the stands, center field who is holding a sign that reads "Mox lotus 3:16"
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Jul 18, 2021 14:06
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Mox Jewel - Artifact 0 {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
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Jul 18, 2021 14:51
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Bloke Lotus - Legendary Artifact Creature - Construct (0) {T}, sacrifice ~: Add WUBRG 0/1
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Jul 18, 2021 15:17
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how about sol ring but it costs one g/u hybrid mana and has etb draw a card gain 3 life
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Jul 18, 2021 15:21
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Original Mox were only rare. It stands to reason a Mythic Rare Box Topper should produce two kinds of mana
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Jul 18, 2021 15:30
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Black Locus Land - Locus ~ enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Choose a color. Add a mana of the chosen color for each Locus on the battlefield.
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Jul 18, 2021 15:35
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say no to scurvy posted:Black Locus Cloudpost gently caress yeah
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Jul 18, 2021 16:22
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I'm surprised WotC hasn't just printed a Sol Ring that only taps for (1). Then they can finally ban Sol Ring in EDH.
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Jul 18, 2021 16:26
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AlternateNu posted:I'm surprised WotC hasn't just printed a Sol Ring that only taps for (1). Then they can finally ban Sol Ring in EDH. They did? 
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Jul 18, 2021 16:34
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Shrecknet posted:They did? I think the whole point is that it’s something that’s not a land and thus can ramp you instead of eating a land drop..?
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Jul 18, 2021 18:55
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If they printed a sol ring that tapped for 1, and banned sol ring, it still wouldn't see widespread play because there are enough other 0 mana artifacts that tap for 1 that just aren't good enough to make the cut currently (ex chrome mox). And that's ignoring the fact that the RC has come right and said that sol ring is probably never getting banned.
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Jul 18, 2021 19:34
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This reminds me, so I just got back into Magic with AFR and the whole concept of one and done sets blew my mind vs blocks, but that isn't my question, just a large change to me. Colorless mana now has a graphic? Is it mechanically changed at all? Does anything legitimately require colorless mana be spent instead of a colored mana?
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Jul 18, 2021 23:52
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Drowning Rabbit posted:This reminds me, so I just got back into Magic with AFR and the whole concept of one and done sets blew my mind vs blocks, but that isn't my question, just a large change to me. Yeah "Colorless" is a color now. What you use to think of as colorless is "generic mana"
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Jul 18, 2021 23:58
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Drowning Rabbit posted:This reminds me, so I just got back into Magic with AFR and the whole concept of one and done sets blew my mind vs blocks, but that isn't my question, just a large change to me. Colorless as a required mana payment was a gimmick in one set and then dropped which is kind of a shame
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Drowning Rabbit posted:This reminds me, so I just got back into Magic with AFR and the whole concept of one and done sets blew my mind vs blocks, but that isn't my question, just a large change to me. For most sets this changed very little, since they don’t typically use colorless as a cost.
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Drowning Rabbit posted:Does anything legitimately require colorless mana be spent instead of a colored mana? 9 Eldrazi cards, also some activated abilities. It broke Modern for a while because the new cheap Eldrazi made an incredible aggro deck with Eye of Ugin.
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