|
Who is this woman commentating? She is really bad. "Oketra isn't that good on the splash, because you want to use her ability twice a turn!" No, I don't really think that's what you want to be doing with 8 mana.
|
#
?
May 6, 2017 23:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 13:59 |
|
|
GonSmithe posted:"Oketra isn't that good on the splash, because you want to use her ability twice a turn!" I think the woman is the Magic the Amateuring girl with the coloured hair but I'm only guessing based off her voice. Maria something? The only other women I'd expect them to have on commentary all have distinct voices.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2017 23:58
|
|
|
GonSmithe posted:Who is this woman commentating? She is really bad. i believe she was joking, but i can forgive you thinking only lsv is allowed to tell jokes
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 00:03
|
|
|
I think I've only heard Maria (the one that usually doesn't have colored hair) commentate once, when it was her first time in the booth, but she was great. Very natural, kept the flow conversational, asked relevant questions of the color commentator, and understood the boardstate (something surprisingly difficult for some people behind the mics). I was surprised she hadn't done it before.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 00:05
|
|
|
Is Gaby still working for WotC, I don't mind listening to her she's OK in my book.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 00:19
|
|
|
AceClown posted:Is Gaby still working for WotC, I don't mind listening to her she's OK in my book. She's usually on the CFB-run streams I think.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 00:24
|
|
|
Lone Goat posted:She's usually on the CFB-run streams I think. She's been out of the game for a while because of her divorce; same thing with LSV.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 00:25
|
|
|
Just pay Pat and Ced a poo poo ton of money to cover every event ever and never look back
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 00:28
|
|
|
It was Maria http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/organized-play/pro-tour-amonkhet-and-you-2017-04-20
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 00:58
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:I think I've only heard Maria (the one that usually doesn't have colored hair) commentate once, when it was her first time in the booth, but she was great. Very natural, kept the flow conversational, asked relevant questions of the color commentator, and understood the boardstate (something surprisingly difficult for some people behind the mics). I was close! Apparently she's been involved in TV/Radio for a long time.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 01:10
|
|
|
AceClown posted:Just pay Pat and Ced a poo poo ton of money to cover every event ever and never look back Pretty much.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 01:50
|
|
|
Maria is great and plays a ton of limited.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 01:55
|
|
|
She definitely got a lot better after the first match I watched, I take it back.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 02:00
|
|
|
Sampatrick posted:The deck with 4 Blood Artists lacks reach? When I was playing it, yeah, it kinda felt that way.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 02:00
|
|
|
Does anyone here have experience with Mardu Ballista and it's transitional sideboard? What is usually removed when bringing in the Oath of Lili / planeswalker package against control, mirror, GB etc?
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 02:10
|
|
|
DangerDongs posted:Does anyone here have experience with Mardu Ballista and it's transitional sideboard? What is usually removed when bringing in the Oath of Lili / planeswalker package against control, mirror, GB etc? It's for games on the draw vs the mirror, control and GB. I don't like Oath of Lili though...You're usually taking out the Exemplars, some number of Heart of Kiran and adjusting your removal suite. I'd rather play against the cat combo all day than the card Aetherworks Marvel. The card makes for poo poo gameplay and is completely unfun.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 03:49
|
|
|
mcmagic posted:It's for games on the draw vs the mirror, control and GB. I don't like Oath of Lili though...You're usually taking out the Exemplars, some number of Heart of Kiran and adjusting your removal suite. Thank you, and I 100% agree. At least with the Cat Combo you could hold up removal, but tower is counterspell or bust. Mardu question: With the list running 2 Avacyn, you don't remove any of those even when brining in more high costed cards?
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 03:58
|
|
|
DangerDongs posted:Thank you, and I 100% agree. At least with the Cat Combo you could hold up removal, but tower is counterspell or bust. I never cut Avacyn... I could be wrong though.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 04:14
|
|
|
mcmagic posted:I'd rather play against the cat combo all day than the card Aetherworks Marvel. The card makes for poo poo gameplay and is completely unfun. Is there one designer at WotC that is like, "Yo I got this idea for a powerful card" and when everyone else tells them it's broken they're just like, "no don't worry y'all, you have to look at the top six, it's balanced because you can miss!" Company wasn't fun to play or play against, Marvel wasn't fun to play or play against. Having an entire game revolve around the random top six cards of a player's library is really stupid.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 05:24
|
|
|
Drafted Amonkhet for the first time tonight. UR Cycling/noncreature-spells matters is such a fun archetype for losers like me who love durdling and occasionally winning.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 05:27
|
|
|
Hellsau posted:Is there one designer at WotC that is like, "Yo I got this idea for a powerful card" and when everyone else tells them it's broken they're just like, "no don't worry y'all, you have to look at the top six, it's balanced because you can miss!" It's just really horrible and there is no way to interact with it. It might actually be reasonable if Ulamog wasn't in the format but the games just feel like too much of a crapshoot. It's so much worse than company. I know company felt bad but you were companying into 2/3's... Not cards that end the game on T4. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 05:30 on May 7, 2017 |
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 05:28
|
|
|
AceClown posted:Just pay Pat and Ced a poo poo ton of money to cover every event ever and never look back That would be awesome, I also like hearing LSV and Pat Chapin too but Pat and acedric are the best in the game in my opinion.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 05:35
|
|
|
mcmagic posted:It's just really horrible and there is no way to interact with it. It might actually be reasonable if Ulamog wasn't in the format but the games just feel like too much of a crapshoot. It's so much worse than company. I know company felt bad but you were companying into 2/3's... Not cards that end the game on T4. I dunno, when I Companied into Reflector Mage + Tireless Tracker, it felt pretty drat gross. I guess not as gross as a turn four Emrakul or Ulamog. They really should have tried out the 18 month rotation at least once.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 05:45
|
|
|
Hellsau posted:I dunno, when I Companied into Reflector Mage + Tireless Tracker, it felt pretty drat gross. I guess not as gross as a turn four Emrakul or Ulamog. They really should have tried out the 18 month rotation at least once. they did try it out once (SOI rotated out Khans/FRF), and apparently tons of people reacted to it by quitting Standard, hence the quick change back.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 05:49
|
|
|
Tales of Woe posted:they did try it out once (SOI rotated out Khans/FRF), and apparently tons of people reacted to it by quitting Standard, hence the quick change back. They tried it for like 3 days and I'm pretty sure there were 900 pretty big reasons people quit standard at the time that weren't the changes to rotation. mcmagic posted:It's just really horrible and there is no way to interact with it. It might actually be reasonable if Ulamog wasn't in the format but the games just feel like too much of a crapshoot. It's so much worse than company. I know company felt bad but you were companying into 2/3's... Not cards that end the game on T4. When I see "fair" Marvel games play out it actually seems like a totally fine card. Gerry T was playing a build for a while that didn't have Ulamog and it was just a completely reasonable card that gave you some good value in long games. But then turn 4 Ulamog happens. Turns out cast triggers are stupid.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 06:00
|
|
|
Tales of Woe posted:they did try it out once (SOI rotated out Khans/FRF), and apparently tons of people reacted to it by quitting Standard, hence the quick change back. it was a useful scapegoat for ignoring that they had pushed certain cards without printing good answers the change was never allowed a real chance
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 06:03
|
|
|
fwiw i don't really care much about the rotation period but BFZ wasn't meant to be in standard this long and it's kind of apparent
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 06:07
|
|
|
mandatory lesbian posted:it was a useful scapegoat for ignoring that they had pushed certain cards without printing good answers SOI standard was actually good so I don't think that was it.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 06:13
|
|
|
suicidesteve posted:But then turn 4 Ulamog happens. Turns out cast triggers are stupid. The problem they're running into is that beyond a certain point, mana costs really aren't an effective balancing tool. Of course, the problem is exacerbated by the relentless pushing of creatures in general. There have been ways to cheat or accelerate creatures into play for almost as long as Magic has been around, but when the creature you were getting was Verdant Force, Crater Hellion, or Angel of Despair, it was still relatively fair because those creatures are relatively fair. When it's Griselbrand or any of the Eldrazi Titans? Not so much.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 06:11
|
|
|
JerryLee posted:The problem they're running into is that beyond a certain point, mana costs really aren't an effective balancing tool. Of course, the problem is exacerbated by the relentless pushing of creatures in general. There have been ways to cheat or accelerate creatures into play for almost as long as Magic has been around, but when the creature you were getting was Verdant Force, Crater Hellion, or Angel of Despair, it was still relatively fair because those creatures are relatively fair. When it's Griselbrand or any of the Eldrazi Titans? Not so much. As for mana costs and creatures, that's a whole number of steps past what they did. I mean you're mostly right, but maybe overstepping intentional anti-cheat into play / can't flicker for repeat effect clauses by balancing against randomization is kind of the bigger thing?
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 06:54
|
|
|
Tales of Woe posted:SOI standard was actually good so I don't think that was it. Okay, maybe. It was another instance of the Gideon deck versus that other really powerful card.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 06:56
|
|
|
JerryLee posted:The problem they're running into is that beyond a certain point, mana costs really aren't an effective balancing tool. Of course, the problem is exacerbated by the relentless pushing of creatures in general. There have been ways to cheat or accelerate creatures into play for almost as long as Magic has been around, but when the creature you were getting was Verdant Force, Crater Hellion, or Angel of Despair, it was still relatively fair because those creatures are relatively fair. When it's Griselbrand or any of the Eldrazi Titans? Not so much. They also didn't usually exist in the same format, weren't good enough, or there were reasonable answers. Not only that, but you had to assemble A + B in your hand or graveyard or whatever to get your payoff. Marvel is just part A that finds its own part B. Even reanimating Ulamog in this format isn't completely unbeatable, even if it is hard to deal with. The problem is that Marvel cheats Ulamog out but you casts it. You can: 2-for-1 yourself to counter Ulamog + the trigger Counter Ulamog and get 3-for-1d and probably lose Counter the trigger and probably lose to an indestructible creature that kills you in 2 hits and can't be chumped Do nothing and probably lose to an indestructible creature that kills you in 2 hits and can't be chumped while you're down 2 permanents Play exactly Summary Dismissal And this all means you had to hold up 3+ mana on turn 4, so you didn't actually do anything and are probably going to lose to the Marvel anyway. And even if you do deal with it, they can probably just cast another Ulamog next turn for 0 mana. Tl;dr: Marvel is a bad design, but it would probably be fine if it didn't cast Ulamog. Spiderdrake posted:Griselbrand comes off as the separate problem of R&D trying to "fix" old broken cards, which they've had some bad luck with when it comes to necropotence. That's not really a creature issue, that's a long-standing problem they've had. I know you were around for them printing bargain and being like 'We think we've got it this time!!!' Griselbrand is just a mistake. They somehow took one of the most broken cards ever, gave you your draw step back, and made it gain you life to keep itself going. I don't know why they didn't give it the Eldrazi/Worldspine/Blightsteel anti-reanimation text. Really, my biggest problem is that it's a cheat-into-play target that just invalidates every other cheat-into-play option in 99% of situations. I think they got this right 10 years ago with the Myojin. When it ETBs if you cast it from your hand, do the thing.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 07:20
|
|
|
Went 4-4 at my first GP with a deck I felt could make day two pretty often. No huge misplays on my end but my lack of playing planeswalkers probably didn't make my Nissa plays optimal. Lost to decks that hade huge value or happened to go very wide. Best everything else pretty easy. All of the opponents were extremely nice. One of the guys I play with regularly made feature match randomly round 1 playing BW zombies and won so we can at least say he is undefeated lifetime in the feature match area of GPS. It's been really fun. I can post the deck if anyone is interested. If I could rebuild it I would make 2 changes right away but overall I thought it was a cool experience and would suggest anyone who hasn't done one to think about visiting.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 09:08
|
|
|
Cracker Baron posted:Went 4-4 at my first GP with a deck I felt could make day two pretty often. No huge misplays on my end but my lack of playing planeswalkers probably didn't make my Nissa plays optimal. Lost to decks that hade huge value or happened to go very wide. Best everything else pretty easy. All of the opponents were extremely nice. Post the deck and also all the other cards
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 09:40
|
|
|
Lone Goat posted:Post the deck and also all the other cards Will do when I get home tonight. Highlights were Sultai splashing the blue for Nissa and on boarded games two shimmerscale drakes (should have been main). I had Ifnir, the Beetle, hexproof crocodile, Nissa, two edifice and I think I am missing another bomb but I'm low on sleep. I played too much fixing in hindsight but I ran low on time deciding and having to fill out the decklist put me making some hasty decisions in the end. The red was also decent so I spent some time seeing if I may somehow splash the two electrify I had. Would love some thoughts as I don't play sealed (first time other than pre-release) and know it could have been improved upon.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 12:08
|
|
|
5 picks in, and BBD's draft is already ri-goddamn-diculous. Edit: He's the only blue drafter at the table. Easiest draft ever. AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 15:10 on May 7, 2017 |
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 14:59
|
|
|
It amuses me that the only 2 cards that see play from Battle for Zendikar that see play are ones that most people hate playing against. The should've just rotated it.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 17:11
|
|
|
They didn't, because those two cards are hilariously expensive and my collection value 
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 17:13
|
|
|
AlternateNu posted:5 picks in, and BBD's draft is already ri-goddamn-diculous. This is a really common thing this format. I don't get it. I've seen it in every color but green now.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 17:45
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 13:59 |
|
|
sit on my Facebook posted:It amuses me that the only 2 cards that see play from Battle for Zendikar that see play are ones that most people hate playing against. Manlands.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 17:57
|
|
