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Time posted:i want to play pioneer more but i just find it boring I’m having fun in leagues doing lotus field* stuff, but yeah RB is such a boring deck to have be the best in a format lol. fadam fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Silhouette posted:Exodus was set 3 in the Tempest block And it was the first set to use the black/silver/gold set symbol rarity notation.
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Sep 18, 2022 20:44
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Pioneer feels boring to me too tbh
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Sep 18, 2022 20:50
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Aphrodite posted:Then I think you will be surprised. Feel free to call them out, then. You wanna be first to volunteer?
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Sep 18, 2022 21:04
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Pioneer is boring because indomitable creativity is boring and should be banned Edit: basically every format sucks right now because they're dominated by like 2 decks each Standard is nothing but mono black, pioneer is mono black and creativity, modern is mh2 money pile.dec and pauper is all turbo initiative Silhouette fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Sep 18, 2022 22:25
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legacy is the good format, despite everyone hating UR
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TheKingofSprings posted:IDK dude it came off strongly as you scoffing at people sick of Wizards financial treadmill and the utterly insane degree to which they’ve ramped it up and wanting to play without engaging with it, you could replace Monkey with any card but that’s the one in particular that pisses me off the most Wait until Ilmucche starts pming you. Its totally in good faith and not creepy. Silhouette posted:Pioneer is boring because indomitable creativity is boring and should be banned Pioneer is ... very boring ATM. I don't even know what kind of shakeup it needs. There are just so many other more interesting formats. Sickening fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Sep 18, 2022 22:40
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By passing off counterfeits, do you mean trading them for real cards, or just passing them off as real in tournaments. Because yeah im not gonna trade my deck lol. I need that to play. If I wanna try a different deck, I'll order another set of "proxies" for like 1/100th of the price
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A Moose posted:By passing off counterfeits, do you mean trading them for real cards, or just passing them off as real in tournaments. Because yeah im not gonna trade my deck lol. I need that to play. If I wanna try a different deck, I'll order another set of "proxies" for like 1/100th of the price presumably selling/trading them for real cards or money on the plus side, while a lot of the Chinese black core cards are pretty much impossible to visually suss out if they’re double sleeved, they’re actually pretty easy to detect if you know what to look for (generally the light test is sufficient, no need to bust out a loupe or scale)
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Sickening posted:Wait until Ilmucche starts pming you. Its totally in good faith and not creepy. You're talking to TKoS about unsolicited PMs and/or IRC DMs, lol. lmao. rofl.
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Sep 19, 2022 05:10
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Time posted:i want to play pioneer more but i just find it boring Because it is.
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Sep 19, 2022 09:20
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Silhouette posted:Standard is nothing but mono black, pioneer is mono black and creativity, modern is mh2 money pile.dec and pauper is all turbo initiative Standard owns right now. There are several decks that absolutely dumpster mono black, so you get this over-meta of those decks fighting with each other while mono black kills everything else.
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Sep 19, 2022 09:35
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Chamale posted:Standard owns right now. There are several decks that absolutely dumpster mono black, so you get this over-meta of those decks fighting with each other while mono black kills everything else. What other decks are there?
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Sep 19, 2022 10:41
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Isn't greasefang the new hotness?
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Historic still best format
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Greasefang is definitely the new hotness in Explorer, and probably Pioneer as well. The Abzan version is the most powerful and consistent version in Bo3. I've posted a bunch about it in the Arena thread, because the deck is insane. It combos off on turn 3 or 4 more often than not, and once I had it go off on turn 2 (t1 stitcher supplier hit greasefang and parhelion, turn 2 Can't Stay Away). The deck laughs at sorcery speed graveyard hate, since Grisly Salvage and Corpse Churn are both instants. I've been hit by Go Blank, only to cast Salvage on their eot and topdeck a greasefang to go off. The only GY hate that really works against it is Unlicensed Hearse and Scavenging Ooze. Repeatable, instant-speed GY hate.
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Having an existential crisis. After selling anything worth more than $5 and resigning myself to just having four archival boxes of bulk forever, I found out an LGS buys bulk. So I could liquidate everything. Before this knowledge, I was thinking about making little weak constructed battleboxes from each block but now I'm thinking about how much work that is and whether or not it will ever pay off, when I could just wait until inspiration strikes and build equivalently low-power decks for very cheap. I could pull out everything worth $1+ to keep "just in case" (lol) and the rest would disappear, gone forever. It's been three days and I'm not closer to knowing what I'm gonna do!
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big cummers ONLY posted:Having an existential crisis. After selling anything worth more than $5 and resigning myself to just having four archival boxes of bulk forever, I found out an LGS buys bulk. So I could liquidate everything. Before this knowledge, I was thinking about making little weak constructed battleboxes from each block but now I'm thinking about how much work that is and whether or not it will ever pay off, when I could just wait until inspiration strikes and build equivalently low-power decks for very cheap. I could pull out everything worth $1+ to keep "just in case" (lol) and the rest would disappear, gone forever. It's been three days and I'm not closer to knowing what I'm gonna do! When was the last time you played physical magic? What did you play?
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A Moose posted:Greasefang is definitely the new hotness in Explorer, and probably Pioneer as well. The Abzan version is the most powerful and consistent version in Bo3. I've posted a bunch about it in the Arena thread, because the deck is insane. It combos off on turn 3 or 4 more often than not, and once I had it go off on turn 2 (t1 stitcher supplier hit greasefang and parhelion, turn 2 Can't Stay Away). The deck laughs at sorcery speed graveyard hate, since Grisly Salvage and Corpse Churn are both instants. I've been hit by Go Blank, only to cast Salvage on their eot and topdeck a greasefang to go off. The only GY hate that really works against it is Unlicensed Hearse and Scavenging Ooze. Repeatable, instant-speed GY hate. The best is when you get paired up with that one person playing rogue mill decks
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HootTheOwl posted:When was the last time you played physical magic? My gf and I play a couple times a week but that's it. But, I am hoping covid numbers stay down and I start going to my lgs to play and meet people, which I hear is a lot of commander.
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Maro's teaser for unfinity is up First up, here are some things you can expect: • a card that can become over five hundred different cards for the turn • a card that enchants your graveyard • a card which requires you to use pantomime • an enchantment subtype appears on an artifact for the first time • a new subgame card in a color that’s never had one • a card that can make one of five different artifact tokens that each don’t do anything • an outside assistance card where the person assisting doesn’t even know • a common command • over ten new named abilities including best in show, gear up, and parade! • a card that can make multiple Storm Crow tokens • a cycle of “fill in the blank” cards • multiple cards that let you win a prize • a creature ability gets converted to a land ability • a planeswalker that doesn’t do what you say • a card that makes flying Cat tokens • a cycle of cards that care about certain objects you can see from your seat • another spell that lets you open a booster pack • a card that gives you a resource to pay costs that no card has ever granted before • a card that asks an outside person to rate something on a scale from 1 to 5 • between cards and stickers, over twenty-five nonevergreen/nondeciduous mechanics are returning Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards: • “An opponent tells you a statement about themselves and secretly notes whether it’s true or false.” • “Each player in an Un-game who can hear you may bid life.” • “where X is the greatest number of stored results on it of the same value.” • “except by creatures with flavor text” • “for each item in its art that’s not touching CARDNAME, another item, or the card frame.” • “As long as CARDNAME remains tapped, that effect doesn’t end.” • “As CARDNAME enters the battlefield, choose a word with five or more letters.” • “target non-Brushwagg creature” • “Ask a person outside the game to choose which of them is most like a rock band.” • “using the first letters of the names of permanents you control,” • “As long as three or more hands are touching CARDNAME,” • “first strike and a sword, vigilance and a shield, menace and mean eyes” • “with the same artist and different names” • “with #GuessThatMagicCard and no other text.” • “any number of printed Clown Robot tokens that aren’t touching each other, that you hid on the battlefield” • “choose A through M or N through Z.” • “If the cracks in CARDNAME’s art are completely covered,” • “An opponent chooses ‘the fastest’, ‘the scariest’ or ‘the weakest.’” • “As CARDNAME enters the battlefield, choose a named Magic character.” • “When you draw yourself, you win the game.” Here is some reminder text that appears in the set: • “Anything with two or more capitalized words in its name that begin with the same letter is alliterative.” • “A top is an outerwear garment worn on the upper body.” • “the card, not your head” • “They can’t be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.” • “Align the tops of both cards to check.” • “Don’t explain anything else. You choose targets.” • “This creature has first strike as long as it’s blocking or being blocked by a creature that comes after it alphabetically.” • “The vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and Y.” • “This spell costs 1 less to cast for each Clown you control.” • “It has their total power, total toughness, combined mana costs, all text boxes, names, art, and so on.” • “Something is hot if it has hot things in its art, like fire or explosions.” • “CARDNAME divides the battlefield into alpha, beta, and gamma sectors.” • “Each time you gobble, take a bit of food or sacrifice a Food token.” • “You can have two commanders if both have partner.” • “It becomes 2/2, then 1/1, ½ / ½ , and so on.” • “about 0.3 meters” • “Creatures in a log together can’t be blocked unless they’re all blocked.” • “Don’t touch other people’s phones without permission and be careful if you do.” • “Places everyone! The first creature in line gets +0/+0.” • “They continue to exist after they leave the battlefield.” Finally, here are some creature type lines in the set: • Creature - Rat Rogue • Creature - Alien Insect • Artifact Creature - Clown Robot Mime • Creature - Dog Employee • Creature – Beeble • Creature - Frog Guest • Creature - Human Hatificer Assassin • Creature - Alien Squirrel • Creature - Minotaur Child Guest • Creature - Porcupine Performer • Creature - Dinosaur Employee • Creature - Zombie Coward Guest • Artifact Creature - Plant Mutant Food • Legendary Creature - Devil Performer • Legendary Creature - Human Gamer • Legendary Creature - Alien Ooze • Legendary Creature - Human Pilot Employee • Legendary Creature - Elephant Mouse Performer • Legendary Creature - Human Clown Artificer • Legendary Artifact Creature – Robot
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big cummers ONLY posted:My gf and I play a couple times a week but that's it. But, I am hoping covid numbers stay down and I start going to my lgs to play and meet people, which I hear is a lot of commander. Well then I think you have the answer of when you should sell it/ what you should sculpt your collection to serve.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/september-19-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement
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Gavin also says Dark Ritual is being watched because it enables so many strategies that have been banned, but doesn't want to because it's considered an important staple of the format. Real glad I didn't impulse buy myself an MBC deck I guess.
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More videos like this please WotC
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Oh right, I forgot that unfunity is going to be legacy legal so I have to watch the spoilers instead of just being surprised if I ever draft it
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HootTheOwl posted:Oh right, I forgot that unfunity is going to be legacy legal so I have to watch the spoilers instead of just being surprised if I ever draft it Only some of them! So pick your favourites off the list above and hope
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Froghammer posted:More videos like this please WotC I watched the video and had to double check that it was on the WOTC website. This is one of the best videos of any topic they have ever done. I think if all future videos on bannings and other balance changes used this as a template, it would go a long way.  Ever get a gift from a friend that made you a little teary eyed? JFC
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Lord Banana posted:What other decks are there? Mono-white control, UW Vehicles, RG Stompy.
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Koirhor posted:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/september-19-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement Amzing how it only takes two and a half weeks for pauper to get bans but other formats have to languish for a year now.
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quote:• a planeswalker that doesn’t do what you say
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Played an RCQ with creativity this weekend. I took Mengucci's list and got rid of leyline of the voids in the SB because I really hate the mulligan process of them in this deck. I kept ending up with a leyline + archon hand which felt like a double mull when it got hit with a petty theft EOT turn 2. Replaced with turn the earth which was an all star for me. Round 1: 4c omnath 2-0 Creativity claps this deck and it is almost never close. opponent was also not familiar with the matchup even though he is a good player overall. peak - Ice a blue source end step and creativity for two forcing a 4 card hand dump from opponent to solitude twice on tokens. untapped and did it again. Round 2: burn 1-2 Cannot win this matchup reasonably round 3: 5c rhinos 2-1 This is a tight matchup game 1 because there are lots of dead cards. post board with 3x fluster 1x gust and 2x veil feels great. their best play is suspending rhinos on 1, keep bindings in for that round 4: Murktide 2-1 Matchup feels good, leyline binding is incredible against murktide. prioritize killing drc over ragavan if you have to choose, but you can usually 1-1 your removal to their threats. they cant afford to drop a counterspell on that otherwise you will resolve creativity and murder them. Round 5: Living End 2-1 split first two games and its very close and then opponent double griefs me but turn the earth is immune to it. resolved LE but only got street wraith and one of the smaller cyclers. survived to hardcast archon a few turns later round 6: ID (opponent was on rhinos) top 8 was 3 people on new rhinos including my round 3 opponent. No 4c, no murktide made the cut. I lost game 1 then got a work email that couldnt wait and conceded to my opponent. dont know what the results of the event were beyond that Deck 3 Teferi, Time Raveler 4 Wrenn and Six 4 Archon of Cruelty 4 Indomitable Creativity 1 Transmogrify 3 Fire // Ice 3 Lightning Bolt 2 Prismari Command 3 Spell Pierce 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker 4 Leyline Binding 4 Arid Mesa 1 Blood Crypt 3 Bloodstained Mire 4 Dwarven Mine 1 Ketria Triome 1 Mountain 1 Raugrin Triome 1 Sacred Foundry 3 Scalding Tarn 2 Steam Vents 1 Stomping Ground 2 Wooded Foothills 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground Sideboard 1 Aether Gust 2 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn 3 Flusterstorm 2 Nature's Claim 3 Turn the Earth 3 Veil of Summer
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Oh, for got to add, huge props to the guy who brought glimpse and had the tightest game mechanics I have ever seen. It was like watching a blackjack dealer at a casino. Was never the last match in the room
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Sounds fun dude good work! I’m glad organized play is coming back.
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Time posted:Oh, for got to add, huge props to the guy who brought glimpse and had the tightest game mechanics I have ever seen. It was like watching a blackjack dealer at a casino. Was never the last match in the room That deck does look like a lot of wild fun to play
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I'm pretty sure I was at the same RCQ as you, I borrowed my friends living end deck and was 3-1-1 and 9th going into round 6, then made a brutal mis-fetch in game one of round 6 and eventually lost the match. Bummer but that's what you get for running crimson vow basics and not looking very hard I guess. I believe the finals were a 5c rhinos mirror, didn't stick around to see who won though.
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Koirhor posted:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/september-19-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement lmao cool faeries/delver gets to remain #1 thanks gavin
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I'd like to try teaching my 10 and 11 year old nephews to play, any recommendations for decks/teaching? I see places like Card Kingdom have Rookie Decks and Battle Decks, or the official MTG Challenger Deck products. (I basically just cube now and don't have a collection anymore to put decks together). They've played Pokemon so they've got some concept of card games.
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I would usually throw together mono green stompy to teach new players, since the play pattern is super linear and allows for the basics to shine through, so maybe try that? I've heard good things about the CK Rookie decks though.
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Rockker posted:I'd like to try teaching my 10 and 11 year old nephews to play, any recommendations for decks/teaching? I see places like Card Kingdom have Rookie Decks and Battle Decks, or the official MTG Challenger Deck products. (I basically just cube now and don't have a collection anymore to put decks together). They've played Pokemon so they've got some concept of card games. Get some of the old starter decks. Like the shivan dragon type.
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