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Captain Invictus posted:Day9 is in rare form in his Dominaria United card review. someone bribed him to go back and rate Griffin Protector and its art highly after he said he hated the card(and the art) and boy, he's just incredible at this: Please don't skip this.
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Well got talked into going to a 2HG prerelease tonight. I haven't looked at this set or played any magic outside of commander in like two years. I'm sure it'll go well. Anyone have any like super simple tips or easy deck ideas to look out for.
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ChaosReaper posted:Well got talked into going to a 2HG prerelease tonight. I haven't looked at this set or played any magic outside of commander in like two years. I'm sure it'll go well. Anyone have any like super simple tips or easy deck ideas to look out for. Hope you get the walls to make a mill deck, if you mill one head you win the game
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ChaosReaper posted:Well got talked into going to a 2HG prerelease tonight. I haven't looked at this set or played any magic outside of commander in like two years. I'm sure it'll go well. Anyone have any like super simple tips or easy deck ideas to look out for. The domain deck (all five basic land types, there are a bunch of tapped dual lands with both so it's doable) is nice because there's a bunch of off color kicker costs in this set as well and going for domain means whoops you can basically always cast those kicker costs no matter what your base colors are. Assuming it's sealed.
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Sep 3, 2022 21:52
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went to a prerelease which was the first time playing paper magic in an lgs for me. opened ajani, archangel of wrath, defiler of vigor, and defiler of faith with a bunch of fixing and domain pay offs, built it out with bant with a few red for a single merias outrider. went 3-1 and had a good time, thinking i may get into going to draft nights
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Sep 3, 2022 22:01
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Today I learned that "exile until" style effects don't use the stack for putting the exiled thing back into play, and I'm not really clear as to why? I traded a brutal cathar into two iron apprentices, thinking they wouldn't have a legal target for their death triggers, but naw, timing on this effect is different from everything else because reasons.
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Sep 3, 2022 22:12
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I went to the afternoon prerelease today and got Sheoldred as my promo. Basically every game where it hit the battlefield and lived, I won. If the opponent doesn't have a quick answer to it, it becomes backbreaking. I didn't even block with it so it couldn't get combat tricked, but if they didn't have removal it didn't matter. I went 2-1, the one match I lost at the end was because the guy specifically kept removal in hand for Sheoldred and took it out instantly and I couldn't find my reanimators in time. I had a blast!
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Sep 3, 2022 22:40
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ObsidianBeast posted:I went to the afternoon prerelease today and got Sheoldred as my promo. Basically every game where it hit the battlefield and lived, I won. If the opponent doesn't have a quick answer to it, it becomes backbreaking. I didn't even block with it so it couldn't get combat tricked, but if they didn't have removal it didn't matter. Sheoldred has felt good to me in early Arena standard. It's sort of an unassuming card but like you said, if it's not answered basically the turn it lands it becomes a serious issue. And these midrange black decks (whether they are esper, grixis, or even monoblack) are running so many efficient early threats that they can tax your removal and it's not as simple as sitting there and holding one for Sheoldred. I like the card a lot more than I expected to. mikeraskol fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Sep 3, 2022 23:06
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After having fun at a prerelease last night, I went to a different store’s prerelease today, and it was bizarre how different the two experiences were. Last night I had a pool of cards that had some actual synergies, and everyone I played against was sociable and nice. Every game was fun. Today my card pool was awful, the deck had almost no synergies at all, and weirdly everyone I played against (except one dude) was doing that intense competitive thing, like playing the game was a chore for them. Also the games were absolute slogs that all took forever. I dunno if it was just bad luck or if it had to do with the atmospheres and general clientele of the different stores?
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Sep 4, 2022 00:22
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Sheoldred makes me wish that Peer Into The Abyss was still in standard  Edit: although the exploit scorpion from innistrad that does a Sign In Blood would be 6 damage to the opponent with sheoldred in play, imma start brewing something
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Sep 4, 2022 00:24
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TotalHell posted:After having fun at a prerelease last night, I went to a different store’s prerelease today, and it was bizarre how different the two experiences were. Last night I had a pool of cards that had some actual synergies, and everyone I played against was sociable and nice. Every game was fun. Could be atmosphere. There are two LGSes near me, one is pretty chill and relaxed and the other one is kind of weird and uninviting. Guess which one I prefer going to
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Sep 4, 2022 00:28
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Fenn the Fool! posted:Today I learned that "exile until" style effects don't use the stack for putting the exiled thing back into play, and I'm not really clear as to why? I traded a brutal cathar into two iron apprentices, thinking they wouldn't have a legal target for their death triggers, but naw, timing on this effect is different from everything else because reasons. It's because it's all formatted as one single ability. Contrast with Oblivion Ring, where the 'exile a card' and the 'return the exiled card to the battlefield' are two different effects.
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Just finished my first in person prerelease since 2019. My pool was pretty scattershot with the best cards leaning W/B. But it wasn’t enough for a full deck. So, I decided to go full 5 color domain having pulled a Jodah and eight duals to include two pain lands. It was a glorious mess that somehow got me 2-0-1, splitting the last round. He was just huge, made my six other legends huge, and the side effect of being base W/B was being able to recur him multiple times whenever they did manage to kill him. Pulled Karn and the green defiler from my prize packs, got a prerelease foil of the Stronghold enchantment off a dude for cheap, and made some great new local contacts. Overall awesome night.
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Sep 4, 2022 01:17
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Could be atmosphere. There are two LGSes near me, one is pretty chill and relaxed and the other one is kind of weird and uninviting. Guess which one I prefer going to I liked my old lgs for prerelease atmosphere. They did essentially no prizing, everyone got 2 or 3 packs and a few promos here or there which meant everyone made the deck they thought would be the most fun instead of the most optimised list. It's good for sealed where sometimes you open absolute trash or a god set of packs. 5c junk or mill decks were common.
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Fenn the Fool! posted:Today I learned that "exile until" style effects don't use the stack for putting the exiled thing back into play, and I'm not really clear as to why? I traded a brutal cathar into two iron apprentices, thinking they wouldn't have a legal target for their death triggers, but naw, timing on this effect is different from everything else because reasons. Way back when, Fiend Hunter had a separate triggered ability that used the stack and because of that, blink effects like Restoration Angel could cause the leaves trigger to resolve before the enters trigger, exiling the creature forever. E: this also meant that three Fiend Hunters with nothing else to target caused an infinite loop of exiling and returning. If neither player decided to intervene, the game ended in a draw. E2: Brutal Cathar returns the creature the microsecond it's gone, even in the middle of the resolution of an ability. If a Brutal Cathar has your Knight of Dawn's Light, and you Extinguish the Light it, you gain 4 life. Orange Fluffy Sheep fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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Sep 4, 2022 01:39
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Way back when, Fiend Hunter had a separate triggered ability that used the stack and because of that, blink effects like Restoration Angel could cause the leaves trigger to resolve before the enters trigger, exiling the creature forever. Wasn't this also a hostage taker problem?
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Sep 4, 2022 01:53
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ilmucche posted:Wasn't this also a hostage taker problem? Hostage Taker as printed originally in Ixalan could target itself. It would exile itself then immediately return to trigger again. If it was the only creature or artifact on the battlefield, it had to, causing an infinite loop. I don't remember if anything was primed to exploit infinite ETBs at the time, I try to remember a Kaladesh standard and I can only see an energy counter. It was immediately errata'd to say "another" because jfc.
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The scg weekend was maybe their worst attendance ever. Lots of factors outside of scg and competitive magic at play, but these big events might be a thing of the past soon. Sad times.
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Sickening posted:The scg weekend was maybe their worst attendance ever. Lots of factors outside of scg and competitive magic at play, but these big events might be a thing of the past soon. No one wants to shuffle anymore! SAD
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There are some big events happening in Europe soon, even some around legacy. I think the big events are hit or miss, but paper magic seems like it's coming back after the pandemic. Wasn't this weekend labour day in North America? Could explain bad attendance
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Sickening posted:The scg weekend was maybe their worst attendance ever. Lots of factors outside of scg and competitive magic at play, but these big events might be a thing of the past soon. Cedric had a thread discussing this, one bad event is not enough to call competitive MTG dead https://twitter.com/CedricAPhillips/status/1566196885202804738
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Would picking up the four 2022 Challenger Decks be a good starting point for casual fun kitchen table Magic with a friend? I've only played Hearthstone and they have never touched a TCG before but love games with lots of rules, for context.
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Peteyfoot posted:Would picking up the four 2022 Challenger Decks be a good starting point for casual fun kitchen table Magic with a friend? I've only played Hearthstone and they have never touched a TCG before but love games with lots of rules, for context. Honestly I think the REALLY good thing for casual kitchen table fun would be getting a box of jumpstart. Basically the same price as all four challenger decks since that's what you're talking about, way more variety and with trivial effort you can stick the individual components into envelops or something afterward to be able to randomly pick them again. Basically jumpstart is this whole thing where you basically grab two halves of themed decks and smash them together and end up with stuff like, Goblin Angels vs Dog Vampires. A whole box gets you like 24 of the individual packs, that's a whole lot of variety.
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reignonyourparade posted:Honestly I think the REALLY good thing for casual kitchen table fun would be getting a box of jumpstart. Basically the same price as all four challenger decks since that's what you're talking about, way more variety and with trivial effort you can stick the individual components into envelops or something afterward to be able to randomly pick them again. This sounds awesome!  I'll check it out, thank you for the recommendation!
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Peteyfoot posted:This sounds awesome! If you're getting a box, make sure you get the original jumpstart and not dominaria jumpstart.
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Peteyfoot posted:This sounds awesome! Just be aware they're talking about the original Jumpstart (https://www.amazon.com/Jumpstart-Booster-Box-Magic-Gathering/dp/B084SDYYMP), not the Dominaria Jumpstart that will soon be in stores. The former has 121 types of decks with a whooole lot of variation, the later has 10. CatstropheWaitress fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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ooo, I appreciate the clarification!
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Sickening posted:The scg weekend was maybe their worst attendance ever. Lots of factors outside of scg and competitive magic at play, but these big events might be a thing of the past soon. Baltimore was pretty crowded, this was a way worse location.
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Sickening posted:The scg weekend was maybe their worst attendance ever. Lots of factors outside of scg and competitive magic at play, but these big events might be a thing of the past soon. Have you seen the attendance at the NRG series events in the Midwest?
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ShaneB posted:Have you seen the attendance at the NRG series events in the Midwest? It's high!
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Went to a prerelease, went 3-2 because I kept aggressively misreading Artillery Blast (only works on tapped creatures) and I believe I could have gone 4-1 but it was extra late and I was tired and a few other things but whatever I had a lot of fun. Played 5 color goodstuff, pulled a Jaya but played it all of once. Also had Danitha, Archangel of Wrath, Nael, Djinn of the Fountain. Common shoutout to Magigoth Sentry and Argivian Phalanx, sometimes to win you just gotta play a lot of 4/4s.
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Went 1-2 with a Naya pile with 2 Rith. The first loss was fine but the third match had game 1 and 3 ended in mulling to 2 lands of 5 and not drawing a third as a control player slowly beat me down over 5 turns. But I did pull a foil borderless Liliana (don't ask about my black cards+no fixing) so swings and roundabouts.
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Lone Goat posted:Cedric had a thread discussing this, one bad event is not enough to call competitive MTG dead It's just the usual Twitter noise, people falling over each other to come up with the hottest take. Paper MTG is trending upward basically everywhere I look
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It's way more active than 2020.
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Magic has been dying for 30 whole years now
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I've only been to two physical prereleases since COVID. I forgot there was a player who always opened six on-color bomb rares/mythics. I had to play him this weekend and I'm still pissed about it. I'm bringing it up to the store soon because gently caress him.
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Kashuno posted:Magic has been dying for 30 whole years now Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’. That’s goddamn right.
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Went 3-1-1 at a 2HG prerelease last night for 7th which was 8 packs. I was only on UR, because my teammate insisted he play GWu with the duals for max value. It ended up working out, but I was a bit salty that I didn’t have anything to make my U and R spells with W kicker work really well. Our biggest pull was Serra Paragon which did crazy work. I had Shivan devastator which I didn’t draw in four games, and in the fifth game it got immediately countered. Najal and Balmor were the real mvps. Set’s fun as hell and I look forward to playing more limited.
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VictualSquid posted:I suppose that is one thing that wizards has consistently slept on with their massive amount of try hard play data from online play. have Turn 1 happen simultanously for both players
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reignonyourparade posted:Honestly I think the REALLY good thing for casual kitchen table fun would be getting a box of jumpstart. Basically the same price as all four challenger decks since that's what you're talking about, way more variety and with trivial effort you can stick the individual components into envelops or something afterward to be able to randomly pick them again. Peteyfoot posted:This sounds awesome! also (if you want to be decadent) let me put in a good word for Cubeamajigs over envelopes - you're never going to beat something like envelopes on price, but they'll hold up and protect the cards better and (at least for me) they help recapture some of the pack-cracking appeal
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