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suicidesteve posted:Sleight actually draws you the card you want when you aren't keeping sketchy 1-landers. Grixis' best hands are 1-2 land and a Visions... And in that spot it's better than either Opt or Slight.
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Sickening posted:The entire point of decks with tron lands is to beat fair decks so only combo/aggro wins tournaments. Well in my case it appears to be the perfect deck to 4-0 FNM.
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ThePeavstenator posted:They have to keep the planeswalkers looking the same. The actual problem is that there are only 5 planeswalkers and they all have one-dimensional personalities and are really loving boring and they're going to be featured on cards and in lore forever. Only five? Looks like someone's overlooking the continuing contributions of such excellent characters as Tibalt, Ral Zarek, and Ashiok
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Feb 21, 2017 22:46
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One day Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver is going to be a good card in modern.
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Sickening posted:One day Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver is going to be a good card in modern. It wasn't a good card in standard...
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Sickening posted:One day Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver is going to be a good card in modern. It's so, so close. I really want to play it in one of the esper control lists.
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JerryLee posted:Only five? Looks like someone's overlooking the continuing contributions of such excellent characters as Tibalt, Ral Zarek, and Ashiok Ashiok was actually pretty cool because they wrote basically nothing about them other than the fact that they make people have nightmares.
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Feb 21, 2017 23:08
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ThePeavstenator posted:Ashiok was actually pretty cool because they wrote basically nothing about them other than the fact that they make people have nightmares. Honestly I bet the not male or female gender aspect got ten times the ink of the actual story.
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Feb 21, 2017 23:19
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Ashiok could always be on Amonkhet seeing as he was last seen experimenting with a God baby on theros and now suddenly a plane owned by a dude whose flunkies always seem to be u/b has a bunch of Gods on it all of a sudden
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Fingers McLongDong posted:It's so, so close. I really want to play it in one of the esper control lists. IMO that's the best build we'll have for it; get lucky enough to hit a good creature with the first activation, keep Ashiok alive for a turn, and then animate said creature, which a control deck could probably pull off. That or put it in a deck with lots of Processors or other effects that can make use of the exiled cards. As it stands now, it just seems like a mediocre Mill card that I can't even run in my own Mill decks. Believe me, people have suggested it to me more than once.
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When your world has literal magic in it, anything is possible and explaining things in too much detail kills your atmosphere of worlds that have yet to be explored. This is why the gatewatch is lame and poo poo like Ashiok is cool.
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However, I am curious about the kind of insanity that Urza would have pulled in a place like Kaladesh.
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ThePeavstenator posted:When your world has literal magic in it, anything is possible and explaining things in too much detail kills your atmosphere of worlds that have yet to be explored. This is why the gatewatch is lame and poo poo like Ashiok is cool. Yeah, their storytelling plays all their cards out now and it's pretty weak.
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More outfits means they can make more stupid funko pops for the gatewatch.
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Balon posted:More outfits means they can make more stupid funko pops for the gatewatch. The year is 2072. The Atlantic Ocean is no more. The continent of Funko has arisen, dense enough to sustain life.
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Veyrall posted:I really wanna say they do. I mean, Gideon's new digs look ridiculous, but they are definitely different from his old ones. Chandra also covered her midriff and thighs in Kaladesh, which looks way better. Hey now, he wore a trenchcoat one time.
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Sorry but Chandra's chainmail-under-a-bra getup is still ridiculous.
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Dehtraen posted:Please don’t be disrespectful of the Iconic OutfitsTM. You might not care but others do I think that post might actually be MaRo's single greatest contribution to Magic.
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I really don't understand how I've read so many flavour texts with quotes from the Gatewatch, yet I still can't name any individual traits they have other than "shoots fireballs" "makes zombies" etc.
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Jenx posted:I think that post might actually be MaRo's single greatest contribution to Magic. I thought name-dropping Roseanne was his greatest contribution? Sailor Viy posted:I really don't understand how I've read so many flavour texts with quotes from the Gatewatch, yet I still can't name any individual traits they have other than "shoots fireballs" "makes zombies" etc. That is the flavor. There isn't much character development you can get out of a dozen sentences spread over cards.
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Imagine if you were able to decipher the character's sexual orientation by lining their flavor texts up in set order. Jace, asexual.
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I just want to check, if I drop Yahenni's Expertise and cast Always watching as a 3CMC card off of it, will my 3 toughness guys survive? Or do they die to the -3/-3 before the +1/+1 comes in?
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BizarroAzrael posted:I just want to check, if I drop Yahenni's Expertise and cast Always watching as a 3CMC card off of it, will my 3 toughness guys survive? Or do they die to the -3/-3 before the +1/+1 comes in? Yahenni's Expertise resolves, all creatures get -3/-3, Always Watching goes on the stack.
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Count Bleck posted:Yahenni's Expertise resolves, all creatures get -3/-3, Always Watching goes on the stack. In other words, they die.
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mcmagic posted:It wasn't a good card in standard... It was in RTR/THS when most of the last standard's Esper shell existed, with Ashiok serving perfectly fine as a wincon and value engine at 3 mana. Not as big of a deal as Elspeth but the card was a worker.
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mcmagic posted:It wasn't a good card in standard... I've seen it do work in cube and legacy, it quickly grows out of control and can't be easily answered and has a tendency to make goyfs to protect itself. Ad Nauseam also was pretty poo poo in Standard.
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Sigma-X posted:I've seen it do work in cube and legacy, it quickly grows out of control and can't be easily answered and has a tendency to make goyfs to protect itself. To be fair, there's a very large difference between combo card and generic good card. If a card makes it into Modern through being hyperefficient or extremely powerful(for example, Lightning Bolt or Bloodbraid Elf), then I think it's always seen standard play. Synergy or combo cards like Ad Nauseam, Melira, Death's Shadow, or Amulet of Vigor can get an advantage from being in a larger format. I don't think Ashiok falls into that second category.
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I'm proud of my boy Tireless Tracker making it into Modern, but Bedlam Reveler really surprised me by not making the cut into something like burn as a 1 of.
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DangerDongs posted:I'm proud of my boy Tireless Tracker making it into Modern, but Bedlam Reveler really surprised me by not making the cut into something like burn as a 1 of. *gal
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DangerDongs posted:I'm proud of my boy Tireless Tracker making it into Modern, but Bedlam Reveler really surprised me by not making the cut into something like burn as a 1 of. I've seen some as 1-ofs when I looked up lists on mtgtop8! It's not super popular though. I realized I was basically four Goblin Guides short of Modern Burn and put it together, minus the Guides because I'm hoping they'll be rares in MM17 and I don't have any tournaments to play until then. I've been goldfishing it and only get to ~12 damage before I'm in top-deck mode. Looking forward to playing with it and seeing how it actually closes the game.
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BJPaskoff posted:I've seen some as 1-ofs when I looked up lists on mtgtop8! It's not super popular though. I realized I was basically four Goblin Guides short of Modern Burn and put it together, minus the Guides because I'm hoping they'll be rares in MM17 and I don't have any tournaments to play until then. I've been goldfishing it and only get to ~12 damage before I'm in top-deck mode. Looking forward to playing with it and seeing how it actually closes the game. How many are you running? I tried running a single copy in Grixis Delver, but it competes with delve far too often. This control list that made it to the finals of that Team Open ran it though, along with 2 Kalitas and 2 New Lili main deck. He only used 1 Tasigur. http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=111710
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Elyv posted:To be fair, there's a very large difference between combo card and generic good card. If a card makes it into Modern through being hyperefficient or extremely powerful(for example, Lightning Bolt or Bloodbraid Elf), then I think it's always seen standard play. Synergy or combo cards like Ad Nauseam, Melira, Death's Shadow, or Amulet of Vigor can get an advantage from being in a larger format. I don't think Ashiok falls into that second category. Ashiok is legit good against pretty much every blue deck in legacy, especially when he's coming off a DRS turn 1.
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DangerDongs posted:I'm proud of my boy Tireless Tracker making it into Modern, but Bedlam Reveler really surprised me by not making the cut into something like burn as a 1 of. it's dece in the UR Delver deck in legacy running delvers, tay tays and stormchasers. that deck is good when the following conditions are met: -price of progress is a card you're interested in casting -the best combo deck is Sneak and Show
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ThePeavstenator posted:Ashiok was actually pretty cool because they wrote basically nothing about them other than the fact that they make people have nightmares. Entropic posted:Sorry but Chandra's chainmail-under-a-bra getup is still ridiculous. DangerDongs posted:Jace, asexual.
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Veyrall posted:Do you think Ashiok could be an aetherborn? Maybe one from somewhere other than Kaladesh? They have said that Ashiok is not aetherborn.
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Does anyone have that video of the Jund Depths vs. Miracles(?) match where in game 3 Miracles drops a RiP and then a couple turns later Depths player draws his one SB Helm of Obedience and Helms the Miracles player out?
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C-Euro posted:Does anyone have that video of the Jund Depths vs. Miracles(?) match where in game 3 Miracles drops a RiP and then a couple turns later Depths player draws his one SB Helm of Obedience and Helms the Miracles player out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8pmYFbtakM e: rewatching footage from the SCG Open that he won is a real treat as well. He plays one of the greatest matches ever against Andrew Shrout on D&T, completely grinds a RUG Delver player into dust and then hits one of the most insane LftL, getting back a tabernacle the turn he was going to die to his opponent's board of two delvers and no lands Johnny Five-Jaces fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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C-Euro posted:Does anyone have that video of the Jund Depths vs. Miracles(?) match where in game 3 Miracles drops a RiP and then a couple turns later Depths player draws his one SB Helm of Obedience and Helms the Miracles player out? I used to play Helm as a 1 of in Legacy Jund..... The salt was so delicious.
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8pmYFbtakM That is savage, thanks. E: Which Open did he win? C-Euro fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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mcmagic posted:I used to play Helm as a 1 of in Legacy Jund..... The salt was so delicious. I never drew it in almost a year of having it in my sideboard of Jund and RUG Delver.
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