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Hey if anyones interested i just got interviewed for an mtg podcast about spirits and the best cards for spirits in 2021, link is here: https://youtu.be/yIOCw9BTnAo Please excuse my poorly lit office!
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:my Childhood Favorite Best Ever magic card is Feral Lightning back when i played standard in Zendikar days i tried running an insanely aggresive deck with ball lightning and zektar shrine expedition and fling to the dome for an extra 6/7 damage. it wasnt great but it did make for some interesting plays, like act of treason a titan, attack then fling it
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Dec 30, 2021 05:29
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Mezzanon posted:Hey if anyones interested i just got interviewed for an mtg podcast about spirits and the best cards for spirits in 2021, link is here: https://youtu.be/yIOCw9BTnAo Dr Queller, is that you?
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HootTheOwl posted:Dr Queller, is that you? I wish. dr queller is significantly better at playing spirits than I am.
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Dec 30, 2021 05:56
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It's definitely lightning bolt. Honorable mention goes to arc slogger, mirrodin was the first time I played competitive and big red is so much cooler than affinity.
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Dec 30, 2021 06:43
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My favorite card is Lifeline. I'm sorry.
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Dec 30, 2021 10:05
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Tempest was about when I hit my stride and "got" Magic, and my favorite deck at the time revolved around Living Death. Shortly followed by Sliver Queen when Stronghold happened.
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Dec 30, 2021 10:53
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I have a 5-color “rusty toolbox” EDH deck from years ago that has two of my favorite cards, Soothsaying and Lethal Vapors. Soothsaying has become sorta overshadowed in recent years but I still think it’s a great draw throughout most of a game, and very overlooked. Both were super cheap when I picked them up and it’s kinda funny to see them relatively expensive now.
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Dec 30, 2021 14:19
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One of my favorite cards back during the "high school lunch period" days was Powerstone Minefield. Had a deck with four of them, four Caltrops, and all kinds of stuff like d'Avenant Archer, Kris Mage, and other RW pingers that often could only hit attacking or blocking creatures. Just slogged down the board to make it so anything attacking needed to survive a shot of anywhere from 2 - 10 damage on average, and won through big dudes with protection from either red or white that didn't get damaged from my own minefield. Nowadays, though, it's gotta be Reflect Damage. I've caught so many people out with that in EDH games, and it's just so much better than Deflecting Palm and others, because it turns back all of the damage from one source (so like, a Hurricane for 10 with three players and a flyer would reflect 40 damage back to the caster), and it doesn't change the source either, so people can and have gotten Commander damage'd out by their own Commander. It's funny, every single time. Well, I find it funny, anyway.
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Dec 30, 2021 14:22
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t1 dark ritual -> hypnotic specter was the poo poo also loved me some hymn to tourachs
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Mezzanon posted:I wish. dr queller is significantly better at playing spirits than I am. At this point I’m convinced Dr Queller is an AI trained to play spirits and switches between Bant and UW depending on win rate
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Dec 30, 2021 14:36
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evilweasel posted:t1 dark ritual -> hypnotic specter was the poo poo 
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My terrible attempts to make my fireball burn deck work with mana flares, good memories
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I have no way of proving this but I swear it's true: When I started playing Type I I became aware of turn one kills, though I was never on the receiving end of one.. Channel-Fireball being the classic. A Forked Berserk on a Ball Lightning being the more stylish and less probable one. I thought it was absurd and thought there should be some kind of Turn 0 interaction to stop it. I think I templated it something like "0 Interrupt: Reveal a blue card from your hand and pay 2 life. Counter target spell." I thought Force of Will was a great on-theme name for such a card. I posted about it on the Usenet. On AOL message boards. In IRC chats. Imagine my belief I had briefly spun the Lathe of Heaven when I saw the spoilers in Inquest magazine. Can I prove that it was Wizards reading my posts and not just parallel invention? No, of course not, but I still like to think it's true, especially with them keeping the name. So for a long while it was my favorite. I collected a whole binder page of them and sold it along with my P9 to pay for my first wedding.  Nowadays I'd Say it's Nicol Bolas, God Pharaoh. My favorite big dumb evil dragon planeswalker, and one of my very favorite effects as a loyalty ability. (play your opponents deck against them.) I have a deck where with the nut draw I can cheat him out turn 3. My only problem is most people snap concede instead of letting me start making their deck work for me. I even named this little mutant after him.  
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Dec 30, 2021 15:02
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I love him (or her)
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I love him (or her) He and the missus wish you a belated merry. 
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Owlbear Camus posted:He and the missus wish you a belated merry. 
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Dec 30, 2021 15:38
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Not normally a lizard person but:
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evilweasel posted:t1 dark ritual -> hypnotic specter was the poo poo my mans  
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Dec 30, 2021 16:15
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Stop attacking my hand you monsters i had a good draw
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Dec 30, 2021 16:21
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mandatory lesbian posted:drat, if only hed play mcmagic lol why the gently caress am i getting these strays. evilweasel posted:t1 dark ritual -> hypnotic specter was the poo poo you should play premodern... Deadguy Ale is actually a deck.
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Dec 30, 2021 16:37
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evilweasel posted:t1 dark ritual -> hypnotic specter was the poo poo Thr only thing better was watching the kid with money to burn drop t1 dark ritual -> sol ring -> Juzam Djinn. To which yiu get to respond with dropping Spirit Link on the Juzam. Favorite card will probably be Pygmy Allosaurus. The name is too evocative of. Agreat concept.
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Dec 30, 2021 16:49
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Spirit Link on the Juzam. This was one of my favorite things to do. "Swamp, Ritual into sol ring into Juzam." "Drop a plains, Spirit Link, go."
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Dec 30, 2021 16:51
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I always loved using Bottomless Vault and just saving up all that mana to do a huge rear end finisher of a Lava Burst or Disintegration, if I was lucky enough to just have a Dwarven Hold out at the same time piling on counters ooooh man.  Coincidentally I had just discovered DBZ at the same time so giant gently caress off death beams was my total jam. That or getting a huge Drain Life spell off was satisfying.
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Dec 30, 2021 17:13
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Ok kill you. *has a facedown creature* "No."
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mana drain into t3 'Moti was my poison back in the day
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXlWG8AhszA Had no idea WoTC did that initial promo the last year. loving  a grand for a Tiamat.
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great to see the prof has pivoted entirely to videos you'd have to pay me to click on
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Man I just had one of my worst beats in arena premier draft. I played a turn 7 Dreadfeast Demon and copied one of my creatures to give myself two 6/6 flying creatures on my board along with a Skull Skaab and Lantern Bearer. Opponent had Bloodpetal Celebrant, Cruel Witness, Voltaic Visionary, and Kessig Flamebreather. I was at 10 life. On opponent's turn, he did the following: -Voltaic Visionary to draw a card -Ancestral Anger on Cruel Witness to draw a card and ping me for 1 -Ancestral Anger again on Cruel Witness (making it a 6/3 with trample) to draw a card and ping me for 1 -Alchemist's Retrieval on Dreadfeast Demon token and ping me for 1 -Alchemist's Retrieval on Dreadfeast Demon card and ping me for 1 - Attacks with all and I was dead on board Not gonna lie, did not see that one coming and it feels bad.
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flatluigi posted:great to see the prof has pivoted entirely to videos you'd have to pay me to click on He does those videos every year tho
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Owlbear Camus posted:I even named this little mutant after him. Owlbear Camus posted:He and the missus wish you a belated merry. My goodness.  My favorite dumb card from Ye Olden Times is probably Craw Wurm.
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I think I put that 0 mana arrow orb that gets worse every time you block with it into every deck I had as a kid. We were not sophisticated deck builders. - Shield sphere, that's it.
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Dec 30, 2021 20:37
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My favorite card was Survival of the Fittest when options were more limited - specifically back when you'd usually use it in a toolbox deck to grab Goblin sharpshooter, FTK, Sadistic Hypnotist, Tradewind Riders, etc. Fill with lots of mana dorks and Genesis and Squee for card advantage. You could go for a quick win, but you really had to commit with something like Volrath's shapeshifter copying Cephalid Illusionist followed by Phage the Untouchable.
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resistentialism posted:I think I put that 0 mana arrow orb that gets worse every time you block with it into every deck I had as a kid. We were not sophisticated deck builders. Shield Sphere is like $8 now because it's a 0 mana 6/6 in Arcades the Strategist edh decks 
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For some reason I looked up Lodestone Bauble, it's FOURTEEN DOLLARS???? Also now my adult brain is thinking of ways to use it to gently caress someone's turn over 4 times. 
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Leperflesh posted:I think howling mine and black vise were my favorites back in the 90s, artifacts seemed rare and special at the time and those actually functioned. But I more recently gave my heart to The Ozolith. Never had so much fun as shifting growing piles of +1/+1 counters to and fro as my opponents repeatedly fail to understand that yes I actually am fine with you killing my creatures, lol, please keep doing so. I get this feel from my Black Sacrifice Alchemy deck on MTGA. Twelve 1-drops, Meathook, with Blood Artist from Sanguine Brushstroke. Plays so well against removal and control. What are you gonna do, counter my Eye Twitch? Blizzard Brawl my Ghast? I am just going to kill all of my own creatures anyway, so oppo wasting cards and mana on it feels awesome. This was one of my first cards. I didn't even have enough swamps to play him in my first deck. Some kindly nerd gave me some Beta swamps at a local con so I could cast it. Been hooked on terrible black decks to this day. 
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Lhet posted:My favorite card was Survival of the Fittest when options were more limited - specifically back when you'd usually use it in a toolbox deck to grab Goblin sharpshooter, FTK, Sadistic Hypnotist, Tradewind Riders, etc. Fill with lots of mana dorks and Genesis and Squee for card advantage. You could go for a quick win, but you really had to commit with something like Volrath's shapeshifter copying Cephalid Illusionist followed by Phage the Untouchable. That was a little before my time, but I felt the same way about Birthing Pod.
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My fav card as a kid was Veteran Bodyguard. I'd just load him up with Holy Armor and protect him with Counterspells and we could never be defeated, it was great. Now my favourite card is Search For Azcanta. Just love to put things in the bin and pass the turn and draw spells and eventually know the entire order of my deck because I've activated it so many times, hell yeah.
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waffles beyond waffles posted:I get this feel from my Black Sacrifice Alchemy deck on MTGA. Twelve 1-drops, Meathook, with Blood Artist from Sanguine Brushstroke. Plays so well against removal and control. What are you gonna do, counter my Eye Twitch? Blizzard Brawl my Ghast? I am just going to kill all of my own creatures anyway, so oppo wasting cards and mana on it feels awesome. Hell yeah. This, Demonic Hordes…loved these beefy demon dudes (even though I refused to play black as a child because oh no the Devil!!!)
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waffles beyond waffles posted:I get this feel from my Black Sacrifice Alchemy deck on MTGA. Twelve 1-drops, Meathook, with Blood Artist from Sanguine Brushstroke. Plays so well against removal and control. What are you gonna do, counter my Eye Twitch? Blizzard Brawl my Ghast? I am just going to kill all of my own creatures anyway, so oppo wasting cards and mana on it feels awesome. This dude, a Dark Ritual or two, breeding pit = good times Soldier of Fortune is another hilarious poo poo card to troll your friends with if you can give him protection and vigilance and have some red mana available or treasures?? Oh what's that you keep scrying? Yeah keep shuffling your poo poo. Jiro fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Dec 30, 2021 |
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