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suicidesteve posted:My understand of old packs is that any given uncommon (say, Wasteland) is about as rare as any given rare these days. So moving Wasteland to rare in TPR made it about as common as it was at uncommon in the original Tempest. Tempest has 3 uncommons per booster and there were 110 uncommons. 3/110 = 2.72% chance of opening one.* TPR has 0.875 rares per booster (1/8 chance of it being a mythic rare) and there are 53 rares. 1.65% chance of getting one.** So no, they're not as frequent. *Odds a little higher since the 3 uncommons won't be duplicates and I forget how to calculate that **Ignores foils
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You actually have a better chance of getting one over the course of a draft since you open three packs of remastered but only opened one pack of tempest
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Entropic posted:The official Jace names, in order of release, are Baby Jace, Jace, Anime Jace, Michael C. Hall Jace, Unplayable Jace, Flip Jace, and Begrudgingly Playable Jace. I think my current favorite Jace nickname is "Vice President Jace" for JVP.
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because i am a dumbass i sort of want to play that worldwake gauntlet even though some of those decks are WAY BETTER than some others. enjoy getting hit with BBE into blightning dumb rear end shrine of burning rage deck.Entropic posted:Is there a definitive list of "Oh, gently caress off" Limited cards? if we are going to ignore the stupidity of pestilence at common back when sets werent even remotely designed with any consideration for limited, mill jace was probably the worst because there was nothing you could do about it. in fact mill jace in four pack sealed was probably the biggest possible limited bomb in any limited format to exist. but i have a special place in my heart for suddenly, cats! rabidsquid fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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rabidsquid posted:because i am a dumbass i sort of want to play that worldwake gauntlet even though some of those decks are WAY BETTER than some others. enjoy getting hit with BBE into blightning dumb rear end shrine of burning rage deck. Is that White Sun's Zenith? I don't think you can properly really count anything before, like, Tempest block, for purposes of complaining about Limited. Limited didn't even really exist until at least Mirage, and there are so, so many things wrong in the early sets.
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All y'all forgot Drana in ROE.
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Star Man posted:All y'all forgot Drana in ROE. Marketing New Brain posted:Glorybringer ain't poo poo, Drana Kalastria was the loving worst. Imagine if Glorybringer killed anything, didn't exert and dealt you 10 damage on top of it.
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Drana was before my time, but yeah, that seems miserable. At least your opponent gets one turn to kill it though. Glorybringer is basically a guaranteed 2+-for-1.
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suddenly, cats! is indeed white sun's zenith. honestly all of the zeniths were playable to some degree or another but in limited especially a token generating spell that never goes away was unfathomably annoying. edit: mill sword wasnt as bad as mill jace since you could ostensibly interact with it easier but it ended games very nearly as fast.
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rabidsquid posted:suddenly, cats! is indeed white sun's zenith. honestly all of the zeniths were playable to some degree or another but in limited especially a token generating spell that never goes away was unfathomably annoying. I definitely won in that format decking people with the BSZ. They were both huge bombs in sealed too.
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suicidesteve posted:My understand of old packs is that any given uncommon (say, Wasteland) is about as rare as any given rare these days. So moving Wasteland to rare in TPR made it about as common as it was at uncommon in the original Tempest. It was an uncommon in 9th edition too.
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Marketing New Brain posted:I definitely won in that format decking people with the BSZ. They were both huge bombs in sealed too. Half the rares/mythics in som block were insane. It was annoying.
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While we're talking about cards that should have never been printed in limited... Invisible Stalker anyone? What the hell were they thinking printing a hexproof unblockable creature in the tempo color in the set with amazing equipment.
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invisible stalker without anything to wear was intensely bad so it wasn't really that bad. it felt terrible when you got domed by one with a butchers cleaver but a 20 turn clock on an uncommon wasnt really a huge deal. it was more of a Feel Bad dude than a bomb.
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Rinkles posted:Similarly to the Titans, Soul of Theros was miserable. Sure was! At prerelease, I had an insane triple Triplicate Spirits deck where the only match (or game even) I lost involved a game 2 where I lost to the guy with Soul of Theros after about 20 turns of me soaking damage with Avacyn, Guardian Angel. He hit 3 pieces of removal for both of my Avacyns before I hit one for his Soul of Theros. I lost the first game to having a quick double Triplicate Spirits into his black spell that gave all non-black creatures -1/-1 that I didn't even know existed. 
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Entropic posted:I had a game where someone cast Locust God, then untapped and cast Tragic Lesson, then cast Bloodwater Entity putting Tragic Lesson back on top of their library. Did you win that game?
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I think Hour draft is my favorite limited format since khans, even if it is a bit shallow (likely due to being a small set). Basically every 2 color combo is playable, and all the non-combo/prison archetypes are playable Cycling, reasons to block instead of race, and a good balance of common removal, value creatures, and aggro dudes are all very good. Incidentally, standard is also at its best since khans with multiple viable archetypes, color combos, and card choices (even if a 4 mana wrath would be nice)
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Entropic posted:Drana was before my time, but yeah, that seems miserable. At least your opponent gets one turn to kill it though. Glorybringer is basically a guaranteed 2+-for-1. One of the things that made Drana so powerful was her Format. Because they wanted the Eldrazi to be playable, removal was good at taking out small things, but not great at big things. This means that outside of a couple red cards (Flame Slash and Heat Ray), she was immune to every kill spell in the format. Vendetta and Corpsehatch are both non-black creature, White could Guard Duty it but it still eats all your creatures, the Plummet of the format did 3 damage, and it was never getting caught in combat.
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All limited is bad, the end.
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80s James Hetfield posted:All limited is bad, the end. Anything else you wish to be wrong about, while we're here?
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Power Matrix from Masques was a bad idea. That is why it's in my cube.
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Gatecrash might have had problems, but at least it gave us this mono TheMaestroso fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Anything else you wish to be wrong about, while we're here? If his posting history is any indicator, it's Literally Everything.
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Lone Goat posted:If his posting history is any indicator, it's Literally Everything. Not to be explain the post guy but I'm pretty sure after 2 1/2 pages of people going "X limited was great" or "X limited was bad" and others posts going "X was great but here's why Y sucked" it was a sarcastic comment
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TheMaestroso posted:Gatecrash might have had problems, but at least it gave us this mono
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80s James Hetfield posted:All limited is bad, the end. I'm going to unironically agree with this. I have never enjoyed limited formats that much.
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Bought three Coldsnap boosters for 3900 yen. Used them in a Chaos draft tonight. Opened a Bauble, Counterbalance, and Thrumming Stone. Opening old booosters: good with money?
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GoutPatrol posted:Bought three Coldsnap boosters for 3900 yen. Used them in a Chaos draft tonight. Opened a Bauble, Counterbalance, and Thrumming Stone. Opening old booosters: good with money?
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That's not profit though. It's not even quite breaking even, although it's probably wicked fun playing a chaos draft and thus totally worth the price of entry.
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The Shortest Path posted:That's not profit though. It's not even quite breaking even, although it's probably wicked fun playing a chaos draft and thus totally worth the price of entry.  Edit Dude hides how much he makes on Patreon now, but it is an absurd amount of money for someone who makes videos about how smart he is for buying $500 boxes of cardboard.
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PMush Perfect posted:
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Chill la Chill posted:Does he still make the really amusing videos that try to hype up Yeah he sells booster boxes for 74.99 which sounds awesome but you have to be a $20 a month patron to get the price which I guess is worth it if you are buying multiple boxes a month but otherwise isn't a deal. He does buy a ridiculous amount of product. He said he had 700 Commander 2017 sets and sold them out in a few hours.
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:Not to be explain the post guy but I'm pretty sure after 2 1/2 pages of people going "X limited was great" or "X limited was bad" and others posts going "X was great but here's why Y sucked" it was a sarcastic comment I've had the guy blocked for an eternity and every time someone quotes him it reminds me why. Dude just loving sucks at posting.
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Lone Goat posted:I've had the guy blocked for an eternity and every time someone quotes him it reminds me why. Dude just loving sucks at posting. ......a pro wrestling fan
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80s James Hetfield posted:......a pro wrestling fan lmao
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Speaking of good formats, I've been enjoying the triple RAV flashback draft. There are a lot of powerful uncommons and commons to work.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I'm going to unironically agree with this. I have never enjoyed limited formats that much. Always Be Cubing
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80s James Hetfield posted:......a pro wrestling fan Pro wrestling has better writing than Magic, easily. Could you imagine if jace punted a baby
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Pro wrestling has better writing than Magic, easily. Custody Of The Multiverse Ladder Match
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I hadn't drafted in a while so I decided to run a few last night. My first draft had me mulligan to five multiple times despite the deck being sweet. My next draft below was decided less sweet, guess the finish. Here's the deck  And the finish  the somewhat surprising 3-0 6-0. My first picks in Hour were Unquenchable Thirst and Oasis Ritualist, I still don't think Sifter Wurm gets the respect it deserves, same with Ominous Sphinx.
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