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thespaceinvader posted:Stormclaw Rager seems a Bit Good. At uncommon that's a goddamn Christmas Miracle.
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Apr 4, 2023 20:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOVXcDUcR1M Limited Level-Ups Rating the Morbid/Macabre bonus sheet Not as much of a format-changer compared to the previous two weeks. (left to right) Tier 1: big bomby creatures that have some incidental effects and don't really need work to set up. Tier 2: solid players that work in the decks that want the effect. Tier 3: requires specific synergies to be any good (note for Traitorous Blood: white actually has more good sac outlets than black this set) Tier 4: basically unplayable Edit: lmao i immediately die to Seance, common LLU fail CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Apr 5, 2023 02:55
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thespaceinvader posted:Stormclaw Rager seems a Bit Good. I'm surprised it doesn't say "only once per turn"
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Apr 5, 2023 03:21
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 https://www.17lands.com/draft/d2befc3fedf3443b819b6c3a52b6700b 4-3'd this draft, didn't post it beforehand because I didn't think there was anything worthwhile about it, but going to 4 seems like overperforming lol. I first picked Tireless Tracker and kind of warped my picks and got squeezed -- I didn't get more good clue payoffs and I couldn't find enough humans so the creatures seemed anemic. Turns out that Tireless Tracker can hard carry lol, and the two Grapple with the Pasts were actually super efficient in digging and turning on delirium. I probably could have eked out another win or two but I got too antsy and aggressive when I probably could have stalled for time, especially on the third loss... 21-17. 55.26%
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Apr 5, 2023 03:50
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 https://www.17lands.com/draft/baabe240a95e4f75a48bc9524064d841 My misplays have moved into the draft phase as I was debating between Always Watching and Thraben Inspector and ended up running out of time lol, the auto pick was Sigardian Priest so it wasn't a complete waste but that was pretty demoralizing! I still need to make one cut... Is Sage of Ancient Lore worth splashing here, I kinda have the fixing for it but its stats are not great?
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Apr 5, 2023 06:41
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thespaceinvader posted:Stormclaw Rager seems a Bit Good. Rakdos anvil decks are going to get really goddamn scary.
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Apr 5, 2023 07:49
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Sage of Ancient Lore seems only playable if you have lots of clues or other card advantage. At base case it looks to me something like a 2/2 for 5 that punishes you for playing spells but I haven't seen it in play tbh. Edit: I suppose it draws you a card so it isn't completely bad? Still not splash worthy.
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Apr 5, 2023 09:02
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Playing vampires in the Block event, lots of fun. But, in the first 2 games I managed to draw 7 copies of Voldaren Estate and a total of 3 other lands. Baffling. What is even more baffling is how I managed to win against a burn deck with only painlands. This is the first turn where I could cast non-vampire spells, even: 
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Apr 5, 2023 10:25
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sage is good if you can flip it reliably, so have instants/flash/abilities to spend mana on (clues also help here giving something to do). I'm not sure that deck has quite enough to make a splash worth it though.
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Apr 5, 2023 10:26
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:
play grace instead of censor, you have a decent number of flyers and spirit token makers, you can easily get in a position where you kill someone through the air with trumpet blast. Actually just cut sage instead, it's not nearly good enough to be worth splashing. Algid fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Apr 5, 2023 11:06
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Hammer Bro. posted:I filled out the Wizards survey and I can confidently say Not For Me. I'm old and I love alchemy. I really enjoy being able to play themed decks. Much more fun to play a deck of ninjas or Pirates or dinosaurs as opposed to "tempo switch control deck" or whatever. On a related note excited to see that the upcoming batch of cards appears to include a some strong frog cards. Nice to see that Wizards is finally listening to the community that wants to play frog themed decks. When we lost wizard frog and big frog in the last few changes it got pretty hard.
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Apr 5, 2023 12:48
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Seldom Posts posted:I'm old and I love alchemy. I really enjoy being able to play themed decks. Much more fun to play a deck of ninjas or Pirates or dinosaurs as opposed to "tempo switch control deck" or whatever. are those decks actually more viable in alchemy (which afaik is a higher power format than regular standard)?
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Apr 5, 2023 12:57
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Is there such a thing as too many 1 drops in a draft deck? I have this pretty decent BW deck, but I dunno if I'm skewing too low on the curve? But all the 1 drops are great! Do I maybe replace gossipmonger? Also is the 3/3 for 3 can be cast from exile any good? A recursive threat seems pretty good even if there are a few tap a dude cards that stop it in its tracks. Any other obvious cards that I should maybe replace if I have better? 
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Apr 5, 2023 13:03
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Rinkles posted:are those decks actually more viable in alchemy (which afaik is a higher power format than regular standard)? Feels like it to me? I usually steadily progress up to low diamond with my theme deck, and then I make a decision if I want to switch to a more meta deck to keep climbing.
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Apr 5, 2023 13:10
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Tiger Millionaire posted:Is there such a thing as too many 1 drops in a draft deck? There is such a thing as too many one drops and you are not close to it, especially since all of them are fine to draw late. I haven't been impressed by the 3/3 eldrazi but it isn't like it's unplayable. Gavony Unhallowed is your weakest card by far, maybe replace if you have something better, but they're playable.
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Apr 5, 2023 13:20
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Tiger Millionaire posted:Is there such a thing as too many 1 drops in a draft deck? Your 1 drops are better than 80% of the cards in your deck. Show us the sideboard so we can actually see what cards can be brought in, rather than making us guess.
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Apr 5, 2023 13:22
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Lone Goat posted:Your 1 drops are better than 80% of the cards in your deck. Yeah sorry lmao, out the house and the mobile app makes it awkward to screenshot the sideboard. Here's my relevant cards. After opening sorin and then getting doomed traveller, thraben inspector and an anguished unmaking I forced BW maybe a bit too hard. With all the token generation I have I was really hoping for some sort of decent sac outlet or the 3B 'gain 1 ping 1' vampire but I never saw one White 3x Strength of Arms 1x Devilthorn Fox 1x Borrowed Grace 2x Dawn Gryff 1x Apothocary Geist Black 1x Ghoulcallers Apprentice 1x Graf Rats 1x Gisas Bidding 1x Weirded Vampire 1x Midnight Scavengers 1x Certain Death 1x Abundant Maw Uncoloured 1x CryptoLith fragment 1x Harvest Hand 1x Epitaph Golem
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Apr 5, 2023 13:55
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The Midweek game is great this week, restricting the pool to just Innistrad cards. Amusing that it seems like hardly anyone is making a deck for this temp format, opting instead to run the precon werewolf deck with some tweaks.
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Apr 5, 2023 14:40
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Making these kinds of MWMs not all access is pretty dang greedy.
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Apr 5, 2023 15:10
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CatstropheWaitress posted:The Midweek game is great this week, restricting the pool to just Innistrad cards. Amusing that it seems like hardly anyone is making a deck for this temp format, opting instead to run the precon werewolf deck with some tweaks. I made a monowhite deck with all of the soldiers and aggro type cards I had in my collection. Won most of my games with it, kinda of like a janky standard monowhite aggro. Farmhand and Brutal Catcher MVPs
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Apr 5, 2023 15:18
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CatstropheWaitress posted:The Midweek game is great this week, restricting the pool to just Innistrad cards. Amusing that it seems like hardly anyone is making a deck for this temp format, opting instead to run the precon werewolf deck with some tweaks. I was on selesnya humans with the two Sigardas as the top end and played against mono-B zombies 3 times. I guess it was thematic
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Apr 5, 2023 15:51
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house of the dad posted:Making these kinds of MWMs not all access is pretty dang greedy. I sympathize in that if you opened up this many gamer options, it would probably take longer than 10 seconds to match up a game. Still, agree it'd be nice if they did what ever other game-based MMO does and just did a 'you can host a game and it shows up in a queue' kind of thing.
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Apr 5, 2023 16:04
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Rinkles posted:are those decks actually more viable in alchemy (which afaik is a higher power format than regular standard)? Everything is viable everywhere. When dungeons were in standard I made mythic with an Abzan dungeon deck. Magic players are terrified of ever playing an off meta deck but if you play an off meta deck a lot you are still gonna win about as much as your skill level would imply
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Apr 5, 2023 16:08
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idk how that works out statistically, but idk how bad the dungeon deck was.
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Apr 5, 2023 16:14
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precision posted:Everything is viable everywhere. When dungeons were in standard I made mythic with an Abzan dungeon deck. Waiting for a game to start must have been horrible if you kept having to wait for someone else to queue up with another Abzan dungeon deck
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Apr 5, 2023 16:34
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I have to say I really appreciate that Wizards will put out a new card type four weeks after releasing Emrakul into the game. I absolutely look forward to my 5 mana 13/13 flample, pro instants, steal an opponent's turn card. Secret Emrakul in Hbrawl has been a lot of fun - and I've even lost three times after resolving Emrakul because the op stuck it out and knew I couldn't really do any damage when I hijacked their turn. Lots of concessions though. Just for reference: secret Emrakul is Crucias as a commander with a deck whose curve tops out at 4. I stole it from CGB and tinkered a bit, it's been fun.
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Apr 5, 2023 20:06
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Rinkles posted:idk how that works out statistically, but idk how bad the dungeon deck was. Well, it was just one example. It's not about me anyway, it's about stop telling people they "can't" play what they want in ranked Like yeah meta decks have a higher winrate but you as an individual will only do like maybe 1% better with a meta deck vs without one As much as I like to complain I don't actually lose more than normal I dunno it just really feels like people just assume they can't play whatever they want without actually trying it, and I'm saying that I actually do it. I have a historic deck that's based around Outlaws Merriment lol
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Apr 5, 2023 20:18
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A good player with a weird deck will win almost as much as a good player with a good deck. You should play the deck you enjoy, and with practice, it'll become the best deck for you. I'm having so much fun with my Oracle of the Alpha/Tainted Pact deck. I have to jump through some hoops, but when it goes right, I'm playing a Vintage deck while my opponent is still playing Historic. I replaced one land with Hall of Storm Giants, because that's a win condition when I'm looping Time Walk enough.
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Apr 5, 2023 20:44
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Chamale posted:A good player with a weird deck will win almost as much as a good player with a good deck. You should play the deck you enjoy, and with practice, it'll become the best deck for you. Yep that's exactly what I'm sayin Also if more people played off meta decks then it would become less necessary to play meta decks, it's a feedback loop and we all win (: Fake edit; okay, half of us win
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Apr 5, 2023 22:16
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CatstropheWaitress posted:I sympathize in that if you opened up this many gamer options, it would probably take longer than 10 seconds to match up a game. Still, agree it'd be nice if they did what ever other game-based MMO does and just did a 'you can host a game and it shows up in a queue' kind of thing. "All access" here means that you don't need to have the cards in your collection to play with them, not that it's a permanent queue
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Apr 5, 2023 23:09
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My Explorer Barbarian Class+Delina clone deck is jank and my opponent can see it coming from a mile away. I do not care. With enough good D20 rolls their removal means nothing as I cram the board with a legion of 5/2s with menace.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:22
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I got suspended for a week for winning two games with the Ninja's Kunai bug, so they are cracking down on it. I wonder if people who used it more than that are getting longer suspensions.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:27
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Chamale posted:I got suspended for a week for winning two games with the Ninja's Kunai bug, so they are cracking down on it. I wonder if people who used it more than that are getting longer suspensions. Arena announced the longest suspension they're giving out for abuse of the Kunai bug is 3 months. Sounds like some people abused it severely in ranked or events.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:32
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Why are the cosmetic bundles so random? I feel like I'd definitely buy some if they were actually relevant to any particular deck. They know what decks people are playing in decks and could bundle them together instead of 10 random cards nobody plays.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:49
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Khanstant posted:Why are the cosmetic bundles so random? I feel like I'd definitely buy some if they were actually relevant to any particular deck. They know what decks people are playing in decks and could bundle them together instead of 10 random cards nobody plays. They want whales to spend $10 for the single cosmetic they actually want
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Apr 5, 2023 23:55
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My guess is they ALSO want you to go "oh wow who knows when the next time this might come up will be" whenever there's something you even KIND of want in the cosmetics deals.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:57
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reignonyourparade posted:My guess is they ALSO want you to go "oh wow who knows when the next time this might come up will be" whenever there's something you even KIND of want in the cosmetics deals. Yeah it triggers my FOMO a bit, because I dont have any cool basics; they did those foil Theros Constellation lands like once and then never again.
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Ah, makes sense. Just doesn't work on me, whereas a bundle of cards I already play I'd waste the money to get. The money they're leaving on the table ain't much but it's there if they want to try.
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Zero VGS posted:Yeah it triggers my FOMO a bit, because I dont have any cool basics; they did those foil Theros Constellation lands like once and then never again. You'd think that they'd be putting a lot of cool basics back up, now that you can set favourite basics.
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