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HootTheOwl posted:Do you like this version more than the pyre/extraction version? I built this version and have been too lazy to build the other version to test. Although extraction specialist seems pretty sick.
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Introducing to the thread our new pup, Mox Diamond ("Moxie"). Drake (Gilded) was under discussion but my wife thought people would confuse him with the musician. And Hellfire just didn't seem to fit with his personality. 
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Welcome to the MTG Pets club, enjoy having to explain their name to everyone forever now. Worth it.
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Smashing Link posted:Introducing to the thread our new pup, Mox Diamond ("Moxie"). Drake (Gilded) was under discussion but my wife thought people would confuse him with the musician. And Hellfire just didn't seem to fit with his personality. gently caress yes, I love a good Magic success story.
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Mono blue spirits Pioneer league tournament report: Please note this was a paper league and took place over the last 6 weeks, so decklists were locked in 6 weeks ago (so winota and expressive iteration were live the whole time) R1 vs esper ninjitsu (?) Lose die roll Win 2-0 G1: opponent plays a slither blade, so I know we’re off meta. I play a 1 drop and curious obsession. Opponent ninjitsu’s stuff in and I bounce it with petty theft. Side out some countermagic for an unsubstantiate and witness protections (unsure why) G2: I witness protection my opponents ninja lord (lmao) they try to drown in the loch ascendent spirit but I rattlechains. R2 vs 5c gates (???) Win die roll Win 2-0 G1: I ride ascendent spirit and countermagic to victory G2 have you ever aether gusted a gates ablaze 3 times? Because now I have. R3 vs bant panharmonicon (?????) Win die roll Win 2-0 G1: i rattlechains my curious obsession’d mausoleum wanderer twice to protect from reflector mages. Opppnent has no fliers G2: I counter back to back collected companies while presenting a clock. R4 vs izzet control/wheels (finally a meta deck) (boo it’s Teran) Win die roll Win 2-0 G1: we both mull to 6. Opponent has a lot of cantrips and not a lot of removal and by the time opponent flips thing in the ice I’m able to redeploy at instant speed and have the clock. G2: is a long and drawn out affair. I honestly kind of disassociated and thought it was two games instead of one. I don’t get any damage in until turn 6 or so, which is usually really bad. I do land an early icon of ancestry though, which is turns out is good. Opponent plays and slowly flips a thing in the ice while we play the “end step flash in a creature, opponent removes it, I draw 1-2 extra cards” game. We get to turn 12 or so and I have 9 land in play, opponent cantrips, casts an iteration (decklists were locked in before the ban), and casts a second thing in the ice. So i mana beak it, opponent taps out to pay for it, and i geistlight snare it, then Flash in rattlechains, supreme phantom, and ascendent spirit. Untap, fire up 2x faceless haven and swing for the fences for all the damage. R5 vs rakdos midrange Lose die roll Win 2-1 G1: mull to 6, opponent ha a thoughtseize so it’s a 5 card hand. Lots of back and forth, opponents at 7 but I’m stuck on two lands but have lethal on the crack back for exactly 7. Opponent plays a graveyard trespasser and goes to 8. I need to draw exactly a 1 mana spirit, and I don’t. G2: mull to 6, turn 1 ascendent spirit chips in while I build mana. Wanderer in hand. I get greedy and read my opponent poorly and walk into a stomp on ascendent when I go to level it up but I’m pretty far ahead at that point anyways. Dive down saves a creature and rattlechains saves another. Faceless haven gets in for lethal G3: another back and forth. Opponent lands kalitas, which skews the race math for a bit as I’m swinging for 5-6 per turn and opponent is gaining 3. Opponent is at 10 and doesn’t fire up his den of the bugbear so I make the risky decision to otawara kalitas during combat. He taps down to one open mana to replay it. I draw and play icon of ancestry. Swing for 9, flash in rattlechains to pump wanderer to make it exactsies. Whew Top 8: R1 vs UW yorion I’m on the play G1: t1 ascendent spirit, opponent plays tap land, t2 curious obsession holding up snare. Ride that until I get the very obvious turn 4 supreme verdict, flash in threats to rebuild the board, play another obsession, and the clock does it. Sideboard: out shacklegeistx4, mana beakx1, brazenx1 In: icon of ancestryx1, mystical disputex3, dive downx2 G2: opponent sees 3 supreme verdict compare to my 3 curious obsession and eventually gets a big shark token and can activate hall of the storm giants I switch one dispute out for an extra dive down here G3: t1 ascendent spirit, opponent plus tap land, t2 curious obsession with dive down backup lets goooo. I make one small misplay here by playing a second faceless haven over My otawara (I always over value that bounce) and I am lightly punished when rattlechains gets portable hole’d. Fortunately I’m fine to battle back by drawing more cards and presenting a clock + disruption. T4 vs rakdos mid (same player as r5) I’m on the play Win 2-0 G1: I go land mausoleum wanderer, pass. Opponent thoughtseizes and I decline to counter, opponent takes obsession and passes. I play shacklegeist and swing 2. Opponent plays bloodttithe harvester and passes. I play land, wanderer, supreme phantom, swing 7, clock is on. Opponent plays second harvester, sacs the first to kill supreme phantom. I swing 4 and petty theft harvester to opponents hand while it’s still summoning sick. We’re both in top deck mode but I have a brazen borrower I can flash in. Side in: 3 dive down, 1 icon of ancestry G2: we both lead off with land and pass, I cast ascendent spirit (I side out 2 in this matchup) on turn 2 so I can protect it with dive down, which is good because it counter a stomp at end step. Opponent untaps and pushes the ascendent and casts a bloodtithe harvester, which is fine because I untap and cast icon of ancestry. I’m tapped out so opponent plays a sorin and makes a 2/3 everyone gets a nice torn of sorcery speed haymakers. I play land 4, supreme phantom, pass. Opponent goes for the dreadbore and I rattlechains to protect it. Rattlechains eats a push, but that’s fine because I’m drawing two cards per turn with icon so I eventually just attrition them out with that and an eventual curious obsession. Drown your opponent in card advantage. I have a really nice play in this game where my opponent goes for k command to deal 2 damage and destroy icon, so I activate icon in response, and draw into a spirit with flash that I can use to buff a mausoleum wanderer big enough to counter the k command. Finals vs mono green big deck (tiny black splash for 2 vraska main and 5 removal cards in the board) I’m on the play as top seed Win 2-0 G1: we both mull to 6 and I go land, pass. Opponent goes land elf, I flash in spectral sailor, untap, land, shacklegeist (no attack) pass, tap elf on opponents upkeep to stop the t2 kiora. Untap, play supreme phantom, swing with shacklegeist, pass. Upkeep tap opponents elf, let kiora resolve, opponent T can’t combo off and passes, untap, play land, petty theft kiora, swing with geist, pass. Upkeep tap elf, counter something. Repeat as necessary while building a board and countering key spells, reduce opponents life total to zero. Sideboard in: 3 witness protection, 3 aether gust G2: opponent appears to keep a hand of 2 land, 3 llanowar lef, kiora, cavalier of thorns (and draws a doom blade in the first 3 turns. I play into removal because you can’t fear your opponents 5 sideboard removal spells. I counter cavalier of thorns and my opponent luckily (for me) draws air, while I draw a mix of creatures and spells. Start the parade! Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jul 13, 2022 |
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Mezzanon posted:Start the parade! My understanding is that MonoU is pretty favored against MonoG outside of Skylasher shenanigans, but great write-up and great win 
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C-Euro posted:My understanding is that MonoU is pretty favored against MonoG outside of Skylasher shenanigans, but great write-up and great win Yeah I came up with the deck name after playing against mono green exactly once and getting steamrolled. After putting in actual reps mono green does feel favored for mono blue, the game is “delay the combo finish while presenting a clock” and NOT “counter haymakers”
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After a full month since release and multiple orders later: I finally have my Sailors' Banes
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Why I love being a Jund player: I haven't touched Modern since I added these Ignoble Hierarchs to the deck, and yet I'd have to change very little (if anything) to sit down at an event. It's mostly tweaking the lands to fit in a couple of the new Kamigawa channel lands that play nicely with Wrenn and maybe tweaking the sideboard or some creature numbers. I refuse to completely take Bob out, though. Screw you, Ragavan 
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Sailor's bane trip report: Card is very good, and really hard to deal with. It's only a matter of time before the secret is out and you can't just time walk delver with an endurance. The real powe here though is that you can run it and an escape titan without consequence in a way you can't with murktide.
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HootTheOwl posted:Sailor's bane trip report: What shell were you running it in?
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ilmucche posted:What shell were you running it in? Dreadnought
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God do I hate Yorion. A control deck where all it's answers get to also attack. And here it is going to time every round. HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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I lose and now I have to stew on it for another half hour as we're 20 past time but they're still going
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Playing Modern @ FNM, I’m on GB Yawgmoth combo. Played 3 rounds (6 players, lots of folks outta town this weekend, normally we’d have 9-10). Match 1, Omnath, I get it 2-1 after a savage game 1 in which Wren & 6 just bodied me and ate all my dorks before I could get off the ground. Match 2, Belcher, first time playing this deck, I lose round 1 because I miss lethal on board. Doesn’t happen again so I get it 2-1 Match 3, Amulet Titan, I misplay Game 2 and miscalculate how to kill a Titan, and then forget again that I have Grist as an option for rough board states. I lose 2-1. Overall fun, I enjoy the deck a lot but I’ll enjoy it more when I get another dozen or so reps under my belt.
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I have played a lot of magic at a lot of events big and small but this is the first time I've played the same deck three times in one event. Yikes, ban this sick filth already.
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Top 4'd a Modern RCQ today Bant humans deck list: 4 noble hierarch 4 champion of the parish 2 avacyns pilgrim 4 meddling mage 4 unsettled mariner 4 thalias lieutenant 3 thalia, guardian of thraben 4 reflector mage 2 brutal cathar 3 shardless agent 2 Adeline, resplendent cathar 4 collected company 4 cavern of souls 3 horizon canopy 1 temple garden 1 hallowed fountain 1 breeding pool 2 forest 1 plains 7 fetches Sideboard 3 sanctifier en vec 2 deputy of detention 2 kataki, wars wage 2 mirran crusader 2 dromoka’s command 1 sanctum prelate 1 Lavinia, azorius renegade 2 Outland liberator R1 vs temur rhinos Lose die roll Win 2-1 G1: goes long and Is very close but opponent topdecks a stomp after putting me to 1 with brazen borrower G2: Lavinia and meddling mage both show up along with a respectable clock G3: opponent makes a misplay killing thalias lieutenant instead of unsettled mariner and cannot fury to wipe my board R2 vs jund sagavan G1: opponent misplays a bauble into unsettled mariner and shame concedes game 1. I also learn that Adeline’s token doesn’t have to attack the same target as Adeline. G2: thalia and mariner help lock out my opponents interaction. Opponent is trying to avoid delirium with two Darcy’s as chump blockers, i get bodied by a torpor orb but Adeline swing for big every turn and runs my opponent out of resources. R3 vs song of creation Lose die roll Win 2-1 G1: opponent cannot beat meddling mage and thalia and mariner game 1. G2: opponent deals with 2 thalia and I hit the 3rd off of a cascade (while another is in play, whoops) I make a big misplay by getting target fixation and my opponent combos off when I could have instead dromoka’s command to make him sac an enchantment G3: meddling mage on song, plus an Adeline to add a clock gets there. R4 vs 4c yorion Win die roll Win 2-1 G1: I have a fast clock that gets under his interaction while taxing G2: opponent has the t4 supreme verdict and I cannot recover well. G3: unsettled mariner + thalia + sanctum prelate on 2 locks opponent out while they’re stuck on 3 lands. Eventually they find a solitude for mariner + fury for two other creatures but I have a lieutenant in hand for exactsies R5 vs tron Intentional draw into top 8 Top 8 R1 vs UW affinity Top seed so I’m on the play G1: I’m able to put up a respectable clock but my opponent is able to make two constructs and get a shadowspear which means it’s game over. G2: t2 kataki opponent keeps a 1 lander. I also flip an Outland liberator G3: good back and forth. I keep a hand with a clock and a kataki in it after we both mull to 5. I play a t2 Adeline, t3 coco. Coco also hits a kataki. Opponent portable holes it, so I untap and play the kataki from hand and opponent scoops. Top 4 vs g tron I’m top seed so I am on the play G1: I feel like this is one of my worst matchups and my opponent had the ol T4 ugin G2: I make two Misplays that cost me the game. (Playing a liberator into a blast zone on 2, and not naming oblivion stone with meddling mage despite knowing my opponent had one in hand) because I am dumb and tired.
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I went 3-6 this weekend across both events at the NRG and boy do I hate magic and myself right now. 2-3 Zombardment (lost 3x Yorion) 1-3 Dreadnought. This is mostly my fault and not understanding legacy because who can play it ever 4 Phyrexian Dreadnought 3 Sailors' Bane 2 Brazen Borrower 4 Ledger Shredder 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath 4 Consider 4 Brainstorm 2 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 4 Stifle 4 Ponder 4 Dress Down 3 Island 4 Breeding Pool 4 Misty Rainforest 2 Wasteland 2 Polluted Delta 2 Flooded Strand 1 Otawara, Soaring City Sideboard 4 Leyline of the Void 3 Mindbreak Trap 3 Veil of Summer 1 Flusterstorm 1 Scroll of Fate 1 Archmage's Charm 2 Hullbreacher HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Aug 1, 2022 |
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Jul 31, 2022 21:00
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HootTheOwl posted:God do I hate Yorion. I just judged a modern RCQ on Saturday and I didn't catch the date on my post and was wondering if you had been one of my players! Top 4 was all Yorion btw.
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Yeah 4c yorion elementals is pretty unfun to play against in particular
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I play Yawgmoth at our Modern FNM and basically I have to draw my cards in exactly the correct order and they have to draw their Omnath and Solitude and Fury in the worst possible order for me to win, lol But oh my god killing Omnath with Grist feels electrifying
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On the yawg thing, +1/+1 and -1/-1 cancel each other now yeah? So 2 +1 counters and 1 -1 just become a single +1 counter as a state based action now?
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Yes, but only for +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters specifically. If you have a +1/+1, a -0/-1, and a -1/-0 counter all on the same creature, they all just stay there.
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Yeah it shouldn’t really matter but unfortunately I run Wall of Roots so I frequently have creatures with two different kinds of +\- counters on them. Luckily my opponents are all super good and extremely anal about boardstates ha ha ha ha lol
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Bust Rodd posted:Yeah it shouldn’t really matter but unfortunately I run Wall of Roots so I frequently have creatures with two different kinds of +\- counters on them. I run kalonian hydras and riot creatures in modern, wanted to make sure for the yawg matchup unfortunately
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ilmucche posted:I run kalonian hydras and riot creatures in modern, wanted to make sure for the yawg matchup unfortunately Post your list!
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HootTheOwl posted:Post your list! This is roughly where I'm at. Jam it into the ponza package. I'm thinking of shaving on lightning bolts to add more hydra and titan to have top end, as I originally had to make cuts to get some extra lands in. 20 leads to some horrendous mulligan decisions I've found. When I say riot creatures I mean I give them riot with rhythm of the wild https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2649234#paper 4 Arbor Elf 3 Blood Moon 4 Bloodbraid Elf 2 Bonecrusher Giant 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance 2 Endurance 7 Forest 2 Inferno Titan 2 Kalonian Hydra 1 Kessig Wolf Run 2 Klothys, God of Destiny 3 Lightning Bolt 2 Molten Rain 2 Mountain 3 Pillage 4 Rhythm of the Wild 4 Stomping Ground 4 Utopia Sprawl 1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Windswept Heath 4 Wooded Foothills 2 Anger of the Gods 2 Blightbeetle 2 Cindervines 2 Collector Ouphe 2 Obstinate Baloth 2 Return to Nature 1 Scavenging Ooze 2 Stormbreath Dragon
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How about some fulminater mages in that pile
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Can someone remind me the name of the card that gives 9 poison counters if you are playing with a Companion? I think it costs G or GG.
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Smashing Link posted:Can someone remind me the name of the card that gives 9 poison counters if you are playing with a Companion? I think it costs G or GG. What?
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Smashing Link posted:Can someone remind me the name of the card that gives 9 poison counters if you are playing with a Companion? I think it costs G or GG. I don't think this exists, the last card to dole out poison counters was in kaldheim and it cared about creatures with death touch.
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Bust Rodd posted:How about some fulminater mages in that pile I was thinking about it, but fulminator only hits nonbasics. I like blowing up everything. The land destruction is something I've been trying to optimize. Ideally I'd be on 6 or 7 land destruction spells. Obviously the rhythm package with hydras and titans makes it non-optimal. Would the 2/2 body be better than molten rains? Maybe cut 1 rhythm and 1 fetch? I think the top end is a bit weak with only 4 real payoff bodies for rhythm.
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all I can say for sure is that Bloodbraid Elf into Fulminator Mage loving whips rear end, and in general I think Fulminator Mage being in play can function as kind of a pseudo Magus of the Moon, it can sort of soft lock your opponent out of the mana they want if they don’t perfectly play around it, it can cause players to overthink and try to get clever. Plus you can board them out vs heavy basic decks
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Smashing Link posted:Can someone remind me the name of the card that gives 9 poison counters if you are playing with a Companion? I think it costs G or GG. there's no real card like that. But "spell that grants 9 poison counters" triggered something in my brain and I found this: MTG posted:Q: "Has there ever been an Invitational card that was submitted and rejected right off the bat as being too powerful?"
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Went 3-1 at FNM and came in first with Yawgmoth R1: 2-1 mirror match Very back and forth with lots of instant speed CoC for silver bullets. Close as hell. R2: 2-1 Izzet Murktide I just find my combo exactly when my opponents taps out R3: 0-2 Hammertime Insane openings from my opponent both games, never had a chance R4: 2-0 Infect Games aren’t close, her deck just cannot beat my deck.
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I like how your results perfectly explain why Hammer is a deck and infect isn't in modern right now.
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Hi, this might be the wrong thread to ask but is now a good or bad time to try to sell an unplayed German BB Underground Sea? Is the market for high end stuff doing well, down in the dumps? Is it likely to continue to appreciate? All speculation welcome. E: I guess what I'm trying to do is sell it at the perfect time, so, definitely a perfectly easy question to answer. Bulky Bartokomous fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Hi, this might be the wrong thread to ask but is now a good or bad time to try to sell an unplayed German BB Underground Sea? Is the market for high end stuff doing well, down in the dumps? Is it likely to continue to appreciate? All speculation welcome. Only if you're selling it to me. I'm actually dead serious, you can see my recent posts in the trading thread, I literally just decided to replace the duals in my cube with FBB German.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Dreadnought seems cool Goyf can't be correct here. It just can't be right to be on Goyf in your uro/Dreadnought deck. He says at the end that it can't be endurance but it has to be, right? HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Aug 19, 2022 |
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