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All right, listen up y'all. I'm y'all's Standard format, Khans of Tarkir. I brewed decks for twenty years in Shards of Alara, so don't even think about messing with me. Y'all feel me? Let's take roll here.
Do you mean Abzan?
My name is Sultai...
Are you out of yo goddamn mind? Sultai? What? Do you want to go to war, BUG? 'Cause we could go to war. I'm for real. I'm for real. So you better check yourself.
Do you mean Temur?
Son of a bitch! You say your name right, right now.
Here!
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Boco_T posted:Since I won through the lottery with my prize packs last night and got a foil Ashcloud Phoenix, I am hoping SCG shows Ashcloud Jeskai on camera all day and in the top 8. Please raise it up! I played Flip or Rip with my two prize packs at a draft. My friends won a Rattleclaw Mystic and Dragon-Style Twins, we only tore up a few commons and uncommons. One guy got six fetchlands at the draft, which I think must be some kind of record. He was in the beginner's pod, and the only person who realized the (to quote a new player) "pretty lands" are worth money.
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GonSmithe posted:God dammit I'm so mad my new job didn't pay me this week so I could order like 20 Narsets at $2. Don't worry, she won't hold a price much higher than that. Certainly not enough for you to profit.
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superstepa posted:Do you guys think that a Mono-red burn with prowess creatures can be a thing? There is a deck like this, it's called SubSligh. Check the brewhaus. It's capable of turn 3 kills.
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I love that Khans is having an impact in Legacy right away. Has anyone played Jeskai Ascendancy in a big Modern tournament yet?
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Sep 29, 2014 02:32
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Sep 29, 2014 05:11
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Kraus posted:So glad I got Swiftspears for a quarter apiece. poo poo, they'll cost me two quarters and a dime now. Seriously though, I'm glad it's not a rare.
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Sep 29, 2014 18:21
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TheLawinator posted:I think that comes from being used to the idea that not all of your cards are fantastic. When all of your cards are dope, you just want to draw more of them. I don't know about that. In Vintage I'd rather have a Dig Through Time effect because all my cards are good, but only a few of them are Tinker good. I can't comment on Legacy to the same extent, but it seems to me that the best 2 from 7 cards may be better than getting 3 randoms, one of which is likely a land. Of course Treasure Cruise costs less mana, but the instant speed of Dig Through Time is a big deal for some decks.
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Sep 29, 2014 18:47
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There's a reason Ancestral Memories costs 2UUU and Concentrate only costs 2UU, basically. Dig isn't quite as good as Memories because it doesn't stock the graveyard, but on the other hand it's an instant. There are so many advantages to both cards, it really depends on whether you'd rather cast the sorcery for U or the instant for UU.
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Sep 29, 2014 19:02
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When should I sell my 4 Glittering Wish? I'm pretty sure this new Modern Jeskai Ascendancy deck is the real deal, and the banlist won't be updated until December 20.
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stinkles1112 posted:So can somebody tell me why Purphoros doesn't see more play? He seems potentially absurd in a shell with Rabblemaster, Hordeling Outburst, Bloodsoaked Champion and a number of other things. Are there easy answers to Gods that I'm not seeing besides Erase and Deicide? Because I really want to try a semi-budget token deck. I played 3 Purphoros in a Standard deck tonight, I won all my matches but Purphoros was never responsible. He just doesn't do much on his own, and he may be good with other cards in the deck, but he makes it too easy for an opponent to shut me down by answering my other cards.
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Oct 1, 2014 04:06
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qbert posted:I have to admit, opening an entire booster box is fun. More fun is watching someone's terrified reaction when you play Flip and Rip. I thought it was stupid, then I actually played it. Everyone should try it at least once, especially with a new player.
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Veyrall posted:Destroying valuables for kicks has got to be the most over-indulgent thing I've heard of in a good while. Actually, the EV of a game of Flip and Rip is higher than the EV of opening a box, and it's more fun. I hope being all cool and detached from human emotion is working out for you, though.
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Elyv posted:answer is clearly Patrick Chapin, he was in jail for some time What did he do? I think it was something drug-related, but I don't remember exactly. I'm surprised no one's answered Bertoncini yet, he has no respect for the laws of man or wizard.
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A big flaming stink posted:one of my friends puts their graveyard and their library on opposite sides of the playmat. that's a pretty interesting arrangement i have to say I play Dredge, so there are a lot of impractical things I do with my graveyard out of habit. I tend to tile cards so that I can read everything in the graveyard, even though almost nothing in this format makes that relevant. I also have to remember not to exile creatures with Delve when I have a choice because that limits Liliana ultimates.
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Oct 1, 2014 20:30
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"If ~ would leave the battlefield, instead remove all noncombat damage from it. If ~ has lethal combat damage marked on it, destroy it." That works and I think it matches the correct rule lawyer phrasing, but it's screwy with effects like Karn Liberated and Lich's Mirror.
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JerryLee posted:That said, I'm confused as to why he felt it necessary to mention this at all. He alludes to some "widespread" idea about fitness being related to Magic success, but I can't say I've ever encountered it before. The entire section of the article is completely out of left field. Travis Woo. The guy streams Magic with his shirt off and rambles about how the latest diet is going to make him a perfectly sculpted Magic machine.
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Jorath posted:I'm posting this here as my posting was deleted from MTGS. See if you can guess why. I believe the answer is no, because there's no need to maintain the order of cards in a hidden zone. Similarly, when you cast a Brainstorm, you don't have a duty to tell your opponent whether the cards that go on top were in your hand initially or not. So Nalini may shuffle those hidden cards before making the decisions. I have no idea why it got deleted though, what's the reason?
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Korak posted:Sam Pardee talking about being 16-0 with the deck including winning with two 4-0s makes me think there's a lot more game to it. That's the Modern version, not Standard. When's the next big Modern event, like a GP or PT? I figure we'll see a lot of Jeskai Ascendancy in the top 8.
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Devor posted:1UUU This textless Cryptic Command was the first modal spell I ever encountered, so I called bullshit when I noticed it seemed to be changing its function each time.
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Lunsku posted:https://twitter.com/RealJacobWilson/status/518992135086161920  The Best Tweet.
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Well I sold all my rabblemasters when they hit 10 ish but one of my team mates just cashed out. I think we're still sitting on 500 or so... Congratulations are due, that's the most successful spec I've ever seen in Magic. Does your friend have any stock tips?
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Zoness posted:To be fair, his opponent arguably misplayed by FoWing the FoF instead of the Misdirection, but he probably didn't see how the Misdirection was being resolved, since the most obvious interaction would be to redirect the FoW to Misdirection, which is normally how Misdirection counters a spell. If I read that right, the YawgWin and FoF were on the stack when the opponent Forced FoF, and then LSV had the Misdirection. The most backbreaking play I've seen with Misdirection was Recall, Recall in response, Misdirection the second Recall in response, Misdirection the Misdirection for a net of 6 cards.
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suicidesteve posted:At prerelease, I saw a guy flash in the Ancient, bounce 3 lands, hold priority bounce 3 more lands, and recast the Ancient. This meant he had no more islands for his opponent's Durdle Turtle to walk through, and allowed him to return a lethal attack when he was otherwise dead to unblockable damage. When did Aetherling ever remove landwalk from a card? The best thing about the existence of complicated bad cards is that it allows amazing stories like this to happen.
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By contrast, for the Jeskai deck to get a T2 kill, your opener + top card needs to have one of your 15 mana dorks, two of your 16 lands, one of your 3 Jeskai Ascendancy, and one of your 4 Gitaxian Probe. Getting those consistently is a stretch, to say the least, but it can and does happen.
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toadee posted:OK I realize that you can replace Glittering Wish with Idyllic Tutor, but, wouldn't banning Wish greatly restrict your ability to tutor up answers and therefor possibly be the card to get banned? I'm not even saying it's the smartest move but I know Wizards will be loathe to ban a brand new card, There once was a 3-mana enchantment that Wizards was loathe to ban, and the result was a lot of lovely Magic because they banned support cards instead of just banning Necropotence.
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The biggest question with Treasure Cruise is, how happy are they to keep a new card in the format compared to an old card? I don't think it's significantly stronger than Brainstorm, which has been a Legacy stable since before Legacy was even invented. Is Wizards content to have a second powerful blue spell that's as good as Brainstorm?
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That's the most longwinded trip report I've ever seen, just tell us your matchups and any changes you think your list needs.
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AnacondaHL posted:No, it's an acceptable tournament shortcut and if the opponent has a response they're allowed. Speaking of shortcuts, I have a really bad habit of announcing spells and doing the effect without actually taking them out of my hand. I think it's because I have so many token generators that I'm used to reaching for the stack of tokens. I'll cast an Elspeth, get distracted by the soldier tokens, and just stick a die on the table at 5 while keeping the actual card in my hand. I know it's awful, but no one at the Magic club plays counterspells anyway so it doesn't tend to make a difference.
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Blanking on Villainous Wealth is such a terrible feeling, it's even worse than missing a Chandra Pyromaster ultimate. Of course, I think Villainous Wealth is still worth casting in some matches because your opponent has so much value that you're almost certainly getting card advantage when X>=5. Usually, though, stick to casting Hornet Queen.
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qbert posted:My buddy won a 41-man GPT on Sunday playing Sultai Control. Aetherspouts, Downfall, Drown, Thoughtseize, Ashiok, Kiora, Nissa, and Jace. Control is actually great in a field of all midrange right now. Always remember that to win a game of Magic, you need to be much faster or slightly slower than your opponent. My local meta is full of control decks fighting an arms race of bigger bombs, which is why I'll probably play SubSligh at Game Day.
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a dozen swans posted:what oh my god don't do this it sounds super rude The dude has less than a page of posts in this thread, and thousands of posts in BYOB. What I'm saying is that clearly Chill la Chill needs to liveblog his date as he runs back and forth between gaming store and restaurant.
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tgijsola posted:Honestly this early on after a set's release the right thing to do on MODO is sell everything you get because on average prices are much higher than they'll be even three weeks from now. This is the correct answer. The vast majority of cards go down from their initial price just after release.
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Boco_T posted:Maybe I'm blind, but how does the deck win? Draw your whole deck, make a million mana, then...attack with 4 Cloud of Faeries over 5 turns? Use Ghostly Flicker repeatedly alongside Mnemonic Wall to cast all the Snaps you want. You have unlimited mana and your Cloud of Faeries are really easy to protect with Ghostly Flicker, so yeah you just attack 5 times and keep all your opponent's permanents off the table.
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Hellsau posted:I wasn't sure what kind of finisher I wanted. Probably going to go down to 14 islands, add a cantrip and a Mind Sculpt as the finisher. Didn't want to put effort into it if it wasn't going to be playable tomorrow. I'd say Capsize is best. It can help you while you're still somewhat early in the combo, after a few High Tides it can go infinite with Cloud of Faeries, and you can bounce all your opponent's permanents and then bounce their first land each time they play it. Just remember not to wind up with too few cards in your library after comboing.
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MiddleEastBeast posted:I don't get it. What's the bug? High Tide and Merchant Scroll were commons in Fallen Empires and Homelands respectively, but on MTGO they're uncommons and normally aren't legal in Pauper. Other cards affected by this bug include Sinkhole, Strip Mine, and Hymn to Tourach.
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Is it possible they changed the rules on Pauper, or maybe they plan on changing them but it got implemented too soon by mistake?
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What does the MODO terms of agreement say about exploiting bugs? Will I get in trouble if I use my 4 Hymn to Tourach, 4 Sinkhole, 4 Strip Mine deck in a Pauper daily?
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Terrible Horse posted:Didn't they kill pauper dailies/any way to make pauper profitable? Or did they keep the dailies but nerf the prizes or something? They nerfed prizes, but the events still fire.
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