Magic: The Gathering: Megathread: Sorin & Sarkhan's Excellent Adventure

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Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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mcmagic posted:

Sidisi is AWESOME. That is all. Just value city.

Color me surprised, though the Sultai Delve decks both seem to have lost, from what I saw.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2014 17:24

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:51

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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Korak posted:

If you're playing Mantis Rider against a deck with 2/1 and 2/2s, always block and force them to have it.

Always. That G1 was stolen by that bluff. I hope Jadine can learn from this.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2014 18:04

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Jabor posted:

And G2 was actually lost because the guy totally forgot that Bloodsoaked Champion actually has a text box and isn't just a 2/1 for 1.

I thought that Bloodsoaked Champ was Exiled?

# ¿ Sep 27, 2014 18:38

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Dr. Stab posted:

Hold for years.

Hold it till the next millenium. Once it's a cultural artifact and a good Magic card, you will have all the value.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 17:54

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Destroying valuables for kicks has got to be the most over-indulgent thing I've heard of in a good while.

That, and the circle-jerk back-patting that people who do it engage in, as if they've somehow done something noteworthy or requiring of effort or skill.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 06:47

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:

I hope being all cool and detached from human emotion is working out for you, though.

Disgust is an emotion.

Dungeon Ecology posted:

Let's add "Flip and Rip is stupid and a waste of money" to the M:TG Bingo Sheet, shall we?

So, is the bingo sheet opinions the thread basically disagrees with, or poo poo that just keeps getting retread over and over?

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 07:33

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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Attorney at Funk posted:

As far as old timey deck names go I've always been partial to The Baron Harkonnen.

I gotta know, what deck went around with this name?

# ¿ Oct 2, 2014 19:57

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Mortimer posted:

Emrakul can be oblivion ring'd. The only thing that can stop yawgmoth is the combined power of pre-mending planeswalkers and a ton of powerful artifacts.

Actually, was Yawgmoth himself super-powerful, or was it just his army?

# ¿ Oct 3, 2014 22:38

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Kasonic posted:

If I remember correctly just his appearance on Dominaria instantly drained the life from the nearby Coalition armies and resurrected them as zombies.

Now we need Chocorojo to clear this up.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 05:55

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Triple Land Treasure Cruise. That was a beating, but I really enjoyed the stream.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 07:06

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

UberJew posted:

I had forgotten how unbelievably infuriating the glacial pace of every fucker who plays online is. While it is an available resource the game is not in fact challenging you to end the match with the least amount of time on the clock possible while pondering the incredibly complicated issue whether to use your savage punch (the only card in your hand) on the only legal target on the board to swing for lethal you ridiculously rude slowrolling motherfuckers.

I thought this was because every single person on MODO is multi-queueing, so that they can suck at multiple card games at once.

I have only played MODO once, but I was called a "luck-sack" twice in a half-hour period for holding a kill spell while my opponent was slow-playing their way to a 0-2 waste of tickets.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 08:03

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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Rinkles posted:

Can spirit planeswalkers be a thing?

I wanna say that a spark can only reside in a living, sentient host, which is why there arent a bunch of cockroach and deer planeswalkers.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2014 00:29

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

The best part is if they opened exactly none after doing that.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2014 06:56

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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Angry Grimace posted:

The thing that's dumb is that in Limited its not like you can somehow finagle an empty board on turn seven. I just played him and got chumped by that one mana dork with 2 mana regeneration until his fliers pinged me to death.

It exists to that you can have the immense satisfaction of tearing it in half. I once got a foil Mindreaver from a pack for Sealed, and it met that exact fate.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2014 07:40

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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I Love You! posted:

Having 11 lands by turn 11 of a game in draft is generally not a good sign. Having 11 lands by turn 11 of the next game is probably also not good. I think I need to change up my strategies because this one just isn't working out. Any suggestions that don't involve tearing off my own hands? I don't think I need them anymore.

Mana Weave, then shuffle. It doesn't have to be truly random, just random enough that you have no idea what you are drawing. Let your opponent shuffle for you just for the extra blindness.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 22:02

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

News Flash: Restore Balance deck beats UR delver, every time.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 03:08

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Boxman posted:

Holy poo poo that is just amazingly bad art.

I'm genuinely not seeing what's bad about it. It looks like a robot. Not particularly cool, but what makes it bad?

# ¿ Oct 15, 2014 01:45

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Treasure Cruise is OP. They should ban Gitaxian Probe to deal with it.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2014 17:59

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Amen to that. Dreamblade looked awesome. Everything was so weird and cool.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 18:25

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Kraus posted:

If the collectable aspect of this game were banished, I wouldn't mind at all. Here's a new set! Buy the whole drat thing for X dollars! Buy it multiple times for copies! Stores can still open the packages and sell singles!

You should look into Android: Netrunner. Or just Netrunner, as it's usually called. Or really just everything by Fantasy Flight Games. They have a different business model than WotC, and buying an expansion gives you an automatic playset of each card in that set. It's just that there are more expansions and fewer cards in each, but lot's of people seem to be loving Netrunner and its cousins, so go nuts.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 03:09

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Yeah, China continues to morph into this weird sci-fi dystopia.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 23:54

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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AgentSythe posted:

Scars/Innistrad standard loving owned

If you banned Delver of Secrets and Ponder, then yes it did.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 19:46

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Jeskai Aggro continues dominating on the SCG stream. David Shiels playing competently.

Edit: Mantis Rider continues being just a bit better than this Standard environment can deal with.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 21:50

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

qbert posted:

I feel like it's tough to complain about Mantis Rider when Siege Rhino continues to be an "okay I just win now" card.

That's easy enough to answer: I haven't seen Abzan in action yet, due to not having an LGS to go to for a bit while I move.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 22:10

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Welp, Abzan on camera now. Maybe I'll have a new card to whine about.

Going against the Ascendancy combo, so this....may not be the best matchup to really watch to see how AbzRange works against most decks.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 22:19

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

I don't know why that image is so table-breakingly massive, but it seems that Chamale is inordinately proud of ripping a piece of cardboard in half.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 22:22

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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Chill la Chill posted:

He's OK. The few times I've played him at Roanoke was fine - Todd Anderson is much worse. I just pity him because of that grinder story and how much he lost to become a real wizard.

I don't believe I am familiar with this story.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 04:15

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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Dungeon Ecology posted:

Hey, you guys, you're not allowed to run Griselbrand anymore because he died.

Isn't this a thing that actually happens in L5r?

Wadjamaloo posted:

There is a difference between appreciating the mythology or knowing it, and caring about it. I don't think I have met a single person that actually cares about the magic story.

A good friend of mine did quit the game because it got too silly, at one point. He still hates the thought of squirrel tokens actually being a thing. I know that's not exactly the same as quitting due to story, but atmosphere really does matter to some people. A ton of players want to run with "badass" or "cool" or "unique" creatures. I mean, look at people who have "pet" decks. Usually, it's not for gameplay reasons, but because they like murdering people with goats or minotaurs or else summoning "THE BIGGEST MONSTER" or what-have-you.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 06:02

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Ciprian Maricon posted:

Also lmao if you think the police would give two shits about your missing Puca Points if the operators ever just cut and run.

Actually, law enforcement people I know tend to take fraud and the like very seriously.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 18:21

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

I saw mysterious other worlds, I have ever since I was a child. Other worlds like those the exiled Mardu shaman Sarkhan claims to see in his visions. They are probably dreams and don't mean anything. After all, Sarkhan is a crazy person.

To be fair, Sarkhan is proven unstable.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 20:17

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

lonequid posted:

This image.

Did he really get a four-year suspension? Did he NOT realize Bertoncheaty already ate through the DCI's patience for cheating?

Edit: Also, I think I understand why Wizards didn't drag their feet on this punishment. Apparently internet bullies were threatening him and his girlfriend. A lot of people were ready to digitally lynch this rear end in a top hat before the DCI suspended him. I mean, people were ready to call his base to get the military to fire him.

Veyrall fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Oct 24, 2014

# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 07:15

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Myriad Truths posted:

What was said was that we knew the character but 'maybe' didn't know the name. I think it's the mask planeswalker from DotP that they did an Uncharted Realms for.

I have no idea to whom you are referring.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 02:58

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

I was misreading Feldon. He just became much better to me.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 04:56

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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Toshimo posted:

I don't know if the worst thing is that Freyalise is unplayable garbage or that they let some 8 year old fingerpaint her art.

Red alert everyone: Toshimo doesn't like a thing.

But really, after Guay does art on a card, do you really think many others could measure up? And I think the art looks great, so I don't know what you're even on about. As for playability, whatever it's green and has card draw

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 19:29

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

mango sentinel posted:

What's weird is, looks like she has faun legs for no reason. I mean, I guess if you're a planeswalker you can just do that kind of thing if you want I guess.

Well, she is a half-elf, so maybe the elf half of her comes from Lorwyn?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 20:04

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Toshimo posted:

I came to the grocery store looking for milk and got urine. I can be unhappy about that.

ftfy

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 02:06

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse

Madmarker posted:

I guess forging things in stones is a Thing on Zendikar. And she's the first Commander-walker to kinda protect herself.

Also, she's not immediately a 4-of in every single Legacy deck. Which is totally okay.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 16:07

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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suicidesteve posted:

You don't know anything! I want every new card to be a 4-of in vintage. I could actually see playing this as a 1-of in legacy Stoneforge decks.

Does Legacy actually play anything that costs 5 like that card though? I mean, I don't keep up with Legacy apart from maybe watching a stream or two occasionally.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 16:13

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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C-Euro posted:

What are Kor, anyway? White ~~elves~~ humans?

ftfy

C-Euro posted:

What makes them special?

They're just another race of beings out there, in Magic cosmology. I heard one guy with the theory that they're humans who become so aspected to White mana they take on the color, which also explains where the Vedalken come from.

For reference, the Vedalken are literally just blue people. Some of them have four arms, but that's a mutation special to Mirrodin and occasionally Ravnica's Simic guild.

Dear god I'm a nerd.

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:51

Veyrall: Apr 23, 2010; The greatest poet this
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That misses ~~all~~most defenders. It's got a lot of utility, I think, packed below the surface.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 19:34

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