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King Kambrook posted:I too love the nicknames cards acquire. I'd be really interested to see which of these are common around the world. (I'm in Brisbane) Where do you play? I've noticed people seem to either love or hate GG so they're either huge GG fanboys or they will only ever play at Ace. Also, best card is Smoke, for much the same reasons as Stasis.
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I've finally bought back in to this stupid hobby after not playing since Planeshift, so I picked up the Theros and BotG event decks to kitchen table at home - do either of these go anywhere decent? The Theros event deck looks very different to most UW control decks I've seen (but I'm not going to spend $100 on Revelations) If I add a couple of Pack Rats and another Desecration Demon or 2, does the BotG deck go ok? Maybe a couple of Gray Merchants and some more card draw? Speaking of - is Read the Bones or Sanguimancy worth it or should I stick with Underworld Connections?
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Mar 10, 2014 05:02
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At GP Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, someone was playing a graveyard-based BG deck with Commune with the Gods, Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, Nighthowler and Nemesis of Mortals. I'm trying to throw together a similar deck on DeckStats, but I'm stuck at the above cards. Can anyone remember the list or know of a similar one?
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Mar 15, 2014 15:48
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I've managed to crack a couple of Felhide spirit binders in some sealed boosters, and I'd love to use them in a BG or BUG monsters deck. As an inspired enabler, I would use Karametra's favour, which also helps mana ramping on smaller creatures or with Pheres-band trompers I guess - in addition to the usual Mystics and/or Caryatids Then, just put in a bunch of big tribute monsters like Golden Grove Snake, Pharagax Giant or Thunder Brute to copy and profit? Maybe a few Nylea or Xenagod, as well. Does this seem legit or should I just be boring and stick with Domri+Courser and the rest of the usual suite?
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Mar 16, 2014 13:18
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Went to my first FNM ever last night, after only playing casual back in middle school. Went 3-2 in matches, went 8-6 on games. Pretty happy, having barely playing the game in 15 years - although I think a lot of my wins have to do with playing a really fast B aggro in a room full of durdly control/combo decks.
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Mar 29, 2014 12:56
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:Finally, a use for Strionic Resonator. How would Strionic Resonator interact with Keranos? The first ability isn't triggered - there is no 'when you draw' - so you use strionic in response to the trigger going on the stack after revealing, meaning you can either draw twice or do 6 damage (in 2 packets of 3)?
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Apr 8, 2014 06:44
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Mind Fart
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May 29, 2014 22:32
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Speaking of, when can we expect that we start to see more info on Khans of Tarkir/Huey?
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May 30, 2014 01:13
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Deofuta posted:Or perhaps triple it with the fancy new legendary red creature. A mana ability is an ability which generates mana and doesn't target anything - they don't use the stack and can't be responded to. e.g. Elvish Mystic's ability is a mana ability and doesn't use the stack. Deathrite Shaman's first ability that generates mana targets a card in the graveyard, so it can be responded to and isn't a mana ability.
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Jul 2, 2014 05:50
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:I look forward to calling the wedges BUG, RUG, Junk, America, and Mardu. BUG, RUG, Junk, America and Nazi. Gonna play the heck out of some of those Temur and Sultai.
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Jul 27, 2014 05:51
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Elves is such a sweet deck. I'm so close to finishing mine, I just need to finish buying Gaea's Cradles and Bayous in paper 
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Aug 27, 2014 00:55
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ungulateman posted:Went 3-1-1 with my pseudo-block-constructed White Heroic deck at FNM. I think I sat next to you round 1 - I went 3-2 playing B/G constellation at what I think was this FNM
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Aug 30, 2014 10:08
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ungulateman posted:Good Games in Brisbane? There's no shortage of jank mono-white Heroic decks and players out there, I'm sure. Yup. My deck generally does well because of main-deck Grim Guardians as blockers, plus Bile Blight and Hero's Downfalls against all of the aggro that seems to be in that meta, and then I can side in Drown in Sorrows as well if I need. I lost to UW control and GR monsters, both matches I got horribly mana screwed and didn't get off 2 mana. I beat Junk midrange, Izzet midrange and mono-white aggro.
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Aug 30, 2014 14:30
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Zendikar fetches should get cheaper because a lot of decks would prefer allied fetches - although most of the combo decks will probably stick to Tarns because UR is the main colour pair for combo decks. If this draws more people into modern, then yeh, expect Cliques, Cryptic Commands, colonnades, Remands, Paths, Bolts/Helix and Snapcasters to go up, because UW and Esper control and Naya zoo mana bases just got a lot cheaper.
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Sep 1, 2014 02:43
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cheetah7071 posted:Are there any (good) decks in legacy that run delver but not Wasteland? I've been considering buying in online with duals and force at an all-time low and fetches following soon, and want to play a deck with delver in it because I love that card, but wasteland is pricing me out of RUG delver, my top choice. The whole point of RUG delver is basically land destruction. But this UR delver deck which won a Star City Open uses no wastelands: UR Delver - Andrew Schneider
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Sep 3, 2014 02:53
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Crusaderking posted:How did everyone's FNM go? I went 2-2 with mono-white heroic, which is far better than I thought I would do. I went 3-2 playing that janky UR artifacts deck 4 ornithopters 4 ensoul artifact 4 aeronaut tinker 4 scrapyard mongrel 4 illusory angel 4 quickling 4 lightning strike 4 bronze sable 4 shrapnel blast 2 dark steel citadel Just all value and BS combos. No doom engine or chief engineer, just tempo creatures. Probably needs some counter spells but meh, that's what sideboards are for.
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Sep 6, 2014 04:42
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I think Jeskai is not a control clan, but a tempo clan. It'll probably use efficient creatures and bounce/burn/combat tricks to stay a turn ahead of the enemy, rather than keeping the board clean until turn 12 when they finally draw their one bomb. Hopefully the 1-win con, UW or Esper draw-go decks of RTR-THS will be less feasible, because it's a really unfun archetype to play against.
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Sep 7, 2014 06:12
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MiddleEastBeast posted:Yeah my judgement is maybe just being clouded by what UWR usually represents in other formats. Yeah but I think that's a function of blue having been the 'the counter spell and card manipulation colour' and white being 'the banishing/prison colour' which leads to UW being a control goodstuff deck, splashing R for bolt and helix, hinging around Force of Will/Brainstorm/Ponder or Mana Leak/Serum Visions in the non-rotating formats. Since it seems that Wizards are sculpting a slower standard format, they can change the profiles of each wedge to be whatever they want in the more limited card pool.
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Sep 7, 2014 06:56
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Chill la Chill posted:I'm being hopeful that Quickling will be the core of a classic tempo style deck. Delver round 2 Quickling is super sweet. Bouncing a creature at instant speed in response to a kill spell is amazing, and you still get to swing for 2 in the air next turn. Hopefully something with a sweet '~ leaves the battlefield' trigger gets printed in U or Jeskai colours in Khans.
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Sep 7, 2014 07:32
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Count Bleck posted:We're close enough to 4 color. Might as well make it 4 color. BRUG seems like a cool word that'll catch on. GRUB midrange.  BURG?
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Sep 10, 2014 13:48
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Pyronic posted:http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/97312861103/why-no-ultimatums#notes I was kinda hoping for the command cycle to get reprinted - they probably would have fit theme-wise to some extent. Oh well, here's hoping for Modern Masters part 2
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Sep 14, 2014 05:16
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quote:Dig Througo chew through a deck and find exactly 16-20 damage to burn your opponent out with or countering the combo decks. Dig Through Time won't see play in Storm at all because it ruins your graveyard, so I'm not sure what you mean. On the other hand, I'm going to jam it in my UWR (jeskai  ) Delver deck so goddamn fast my head will spin. I'm actually hoping a Howl of thhe Hoard/Treasure cruise/master the way combo deck becomes a thing in Standard edit: bbcode is hard 
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Just woke up after doing FNM and a midnight prerelease. Chose Abzan, got a Duneblast as my seeded pack rare and High Sentinels in another pack, plus a couple of the common outlast synergists and a bunch of on-colour fixing in my random boosters. Deck ended up with a number of good white creatures, removal (Duneblast, Rite of the Serpent, Murderous Cut and Dead Drop) and a bunch of sweet fatties. The deck basically plays out as a slow control deck, then pump up some creatures with Dragonscale Boon and then swing in a for a bunch of lifelink damage. Loved it, but probably gonna try Sultai tomorrow, to see how far you can push Delve and self-mill. As someone else earlier said, Khans is fairly slow - there are a lot of big butts at common and Abzan looks popular. But Mardu can have some incredibly explosive starts if they hit an ascendency and a token generator or 2. I'm loving Khans limited though, I think it's a lot more interesting than Theros' 'buff up one big heroic guy lol'
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Sep 20, 2014 04:11
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ungulateman posted:Outlast is a busted as hell mechanic in limited and all you haters can suck it. How did your Jeskai Bestai deck end up last night? Also what clans did you run today?
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Sep 20, 2014 04:25
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My LGS does Sealed packs for $40  You get 1 pack for a draw and 2 packs for a win, from a 4-round event - so 4 packs per person in the prize pool. Or if you scrub out and lose all 4, you'll get a pack anyways as a consolation. Luckily, most people are happy to ID and split the prize support and just play some chill games, but some of the grinders take their games super seriously and bust their balls for that extra prize pack.
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Entropic posted:I really want the first strike and flying outlast guys to be playable at least as 1-ofs in a junk midrange deck with WG Ajani and Abzan Charm, but I'm dreaming aren't I? Part of me really wants to play WG heroic/outlast after rotation featuring: Ainok Bond Kin Abzan Battle Priest Abzan Falconer High Sentinels Phalanx Leader Reap What is Sown Abzan Charm Feat of Resistance Solidarity of Heroes or Incremental Growth I'm sure it'll be a pile of poo poo, but all those synergies 
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