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Cernunnos posted:12. 4 Buttpost, 4 Glimmerpost, 4 Vesuva. Cloud to Butt is the best addon ever.
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A big flaming stink posted:i'm also certain this is boros reckoner part 2, and they will never drop in price just to spite me. Yeah, I got 4 at... I wanna say $8.50 each? Might have been $7.50. I kicked myself for not buying in at $5 but hey, at least I'm happy now.
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Entropic posted:I love french cards because they're clumsily translated (as I suspect all the non-English cards are, but I actually speak french so these ones are funny to me) and for some reason ridiculously verbose. "Teysa, plénipotentiaire de fantômes" springs to mind. 
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Oct 1, 2014 23:01
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Bread Set Jettison posted:The Rock and His Millions remains king of deck names Hulk Gets Crabs
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Oct 2, 2014 17:20
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The fact that Khans has Legacy playable spells (multiple) and one legacy playable creature and a modern build-around powerful enough to warrant a ban is still not enough to keep the usual suspects from slagging it off as the worst set evar on Salvation 
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Oct 3, 2014 07:31
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OneDeadman posted:It does. As soon as the full visual spoiler went up I went in there saying "Alright, where's the aggressively-costed 3-power Prowess dude in Blue or Red." And lo, there he was.
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Oct 3, 2014 19:02
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My guesses: White- Lord Windgrace Blue- Teferi (duh) Black- Tevesh Szat or Leshrac Red- Jaya Ballard Green- Freyalise Sadly with Teferi in Bo Levar is definitely out. Commodore Guff is definitely blue/red and so sadly can't be a card. Also he breaks the fourth wall so much he'd probably have "+1: Name a character in the Magic canon. Destroy all permanents whose art depicts that character."
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Oct 3, 2014 21:25
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Hey, in Nemesis there was a sex scene between a four-armed Ertai and a Phyrexian, so, you know, poo poo happens I guess.
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Oct 4, 2014 21:16
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Does Sarkhan stop being a planeswalker while he's a dragon? Will using Ajani Steadfast's -2 give a +1'd Sarkhan both a loyalty counter and a +1/+1 counter? 1) Yes 2) No
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Oct 6, 2014 19:33
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I feel like the window for leveraging green creatures that just have good rates is so small when it doesn't take much time at all to get to the next plateau where you're doing broken crap with tons of mana. I'm still not really sure how Siege Rhino isn't suffering the same fate. Siege Rhino's lifegain is incredibly relevant since the format has so many fast, threat-dense aggro decks. In an environment where people are Lightning Striking your face, Rhino is often a 3-for-1 or better.
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Oct 6, 2014 23:50
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Niton posted:Yes? The pro tour is A Big Deal as far as deckbuilding goes, and a lot of pros have jobs where building a deck in secret is not only possible, but valuable. Yeah. Do you read Channel Fireball? What about Star City? You see all of the deck tech articles pros have done recently? They're all decks that they were testing for the Pro Tour and decided weren't quite good enough. Pros don't write about the deck they're going to play at the Pro Tour. Star City and CF are full of Tier 1.5 decks right now. I do expect Jeskai-based aggro and Abzan-based midrange to be big players in the Standard-- they're pretty obvious decks-- but the lists the pros will be running aren't published anywhere right now.
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Oct 7, 2014 03:44
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Chill la Chill posted:
Misdirection gets there. In LSV's recent CF video about Grixis control in Vintage, his opponent Yawg Willed. In response he cast FoF to dig for a counter. His opponent Forced his FoF, and he Misdirected the Force onto Will. It was the most insane value play I've ever seen.
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I don't get a lot of this aggro hate. I'm full Mardu aggro and it rolls right over Abzan midrange. Two cards put me over the top in that matchup: Ride Down and Chief of the Edge. Chief means that my Skullhunters, Champions, and Heroes walk through Caryatids, and my Aspirants and Rabblemasters trade with Coursers. Four Ulcerate mainboard also neatly shred blocking Coursers, and they won't play around it because they know my goblin tokens have to attack anyways and don't expect a trick. When they stabilize and drop a Polukranos or Siege Rhino, Crackling Doom eats it and maintains my momentum. Ride Down is an absolutely absurd card. It's very tough to play around. I sideboard four and they come in in every creature-heavy matchup. Like Doom, it's an insane tempo play that takes out their 4-5 drops and ticks down their life total. There are cards that crush me-- Hornet Queen, Drown in Sorrows (but I sideboard Mardu Ascendancy for the matchups where it's likely to make an appearance). I take a lot of damage from my manabase so I don't like Jeskai burn. But the deck semi-reliably goldfishes turn 4 kills, rips midrange apart, and mainboard two Sorins to race. It is the real deal.
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Oct 9, 2014 05:26
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:I can't access magic.wizards.com to even tell you either way. All I know is the Gatherer still says it's Modern-legal. Banlists are only updated when they release a new set. Also if they ban Wish but not Ascendancy I will be furious and surprised, since you'd have thought they'd have learned their lesson with combo decks powered by three-mana enchantments.
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Oct 10, 2014 04:41
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frameset posted:There was one exception a long time ago to the B+R announcement scheduling, when Memory Jar was emergency banned. True, but I think if ever a card deserved an emergency ban, that was it. What an absolutely absurd card. What were they thinking?
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Elyv posted:urzasblock.txt True, but having played at the time, Memory Jar was orders of magnitude worse than anything else in the block. Tolarian Academy and Yawgmoth's Will are more powerful cards in Vintage, but within Type II at the time Memory Jar was far and away the worst thing they printed. The card enabled a deck with a 75+% Turn 1 win rate. Nothing else in the format was close to that degenerate.
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Oct 10, 2014 17:50
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I can't wait until he absolutely blows out someone else in blue with that Icy Blast. Shouldn't have passed that thing, man! edit: and then he immediately plays into the obvious Weaponmaster :/
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Oct 10, 2014 21:30
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If your opponent plays their 5th mana precombat and has Jeskai, Temur or Abzan colors available you always, always assume Weaponmaster, Snowhorn or Guide. Ponyback Brigade generally doesn't flip midcombat and Abomination is less of a blowout, but those three are consistent traps that are always played in on-color decks and are common, so you have to assume that your opponent has it even if you haven't seen it.
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Oct 10, 2014 22:22
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So what do people think were the breakout cards today? Obviously seeking Jeskai Ascendancy combo in Standard is awesome and I'm getting the rest of my playset (but I think the Caryatids are the real price there; jesus, they're $17 each now, makes me feel dumb for trading away my regular and foil ones). Anything else spiking?
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Oct 11, 2014 05:02
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Traded away two Digs last week for $3 each  . At least I got my JAs last night for $4 each.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:21
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Sickening posted:So I guess this pretty much confirms that we may never seen Alex on camera ever again? Seems weird that coverage has totally blacked out on him. Honestly? Wizards likes having a "heel" around. Maro has come right out and said that he thinks Mike Long was great for the game even though he was a blatant, unsportsmanlike cheater because he gave people a villain. I don't think they're "encouraging" Bertoncini to cheat but I don't think they see it as big a problem as we do.
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Attorney at Funk posted:I don't think it does, honestly, except maybe insofar as them playing up Mike Long in the past informs how sheepish they are about giving Bertoncini coverage now. Yeah, I'm not willing to ascribe a lack of Bertoncini on camera to unwillingness on Wizards' part to "reward the cheater." If they were confident enough that he would cheat that they made it a matter of policy not to show him then they simply would ban him from the tournament.
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Really hoping there's no Jeskai player in the finals so the deck doesn't spike as much and I have a chance to pick it up. I just need to stop trading forever, because I am on a streak of trading away format staples that spike up in price shortly after being traded. Elspeth, Dig Through Time, Caryatid, Mantis Rider etc. EDIT: Does anyone remember that site that shows card prices in a set visually by resizing the cards? DAD LOST MY IPOD fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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I like Strasky's build-- I'd like to see a Czech deck tech about it.
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Rinkles posted:Sorin's price is gonna overtake Sarkhan's, isn't it? As well it should, because he is a superior card by far. Sarkhan is super, super overhyped. Also, my testing has showed that a three-color Mardu aggro deck with aggressive black one-drops, Skullhunters, Aspirants and Rabblemasters matches up really, really well against Abzan. It folds to more aggressive burn-heavy aggro like Jeskai or Mono-red, but Chief of the Edge will ruin any Abzan player's day. It lets Skullhunters, Bloodsoaked Champions, and Tormented Heros kill Caryatids and Aspirants and Rabblemasters kill Coursers.
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meanolmrbutt posted:Semi related PT talk, this set is crazy for value. Online at least. I've been playing for free all weekend, just opening Fetches, Digs and the occasional Planeswalker. It's a pretty amazing feeling knowing you've got your money back before the rounds even start, even better winning some packs from it and doing it all over again. ugh gently caress youuuuuuu 2 Prereleases: 10 packs 9 Prize packs from 1 prerelease: 19 packs 4 drafts: 31 packs 5 prize packs from draft: 36 packs 24 packs for judging a Prerelease: 60 packs. Total pulls: 4 fetches, 0 planeswalkers. Plenty of Ugin's Nexus, See the Unwritten, and Surrak Dragonclaw!
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The only way to avoid accusations of netdecking is to brew alone in a cabin in the woods like the Unabomber, only making yourself known to the world when you send scrawling, typewritten manifestos on the power of obscure cards to Channel Fireball. Like Travis Woo.
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Yeah maybe I'm weird. I love organizing cards and I would do it if you lived in Mass  .Anyways, I have been watching LSV streaming Vintage Stax, and 1) it looks incredibly fun and 2) I keep wanting to get MTGO because I have decided Khans standard is the season I start playing big-boy magic at GPs and stuff, so I need more practice, but it looks so horrible and broken I just can't make myself do it.
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Oct 15, 2014 00:53
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) 85% complete modern decks together. +30% if you'll accept cards/boosters. Totally serious if you live in seattle hit me up. Just don't steal anything haha.
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AnacondaHL posted:See Elspeth, Sun's Champion trend after last year's Fall PT for example This is bizarre to me because Sarkhan is still like $10 more than Sorin despite being a much worse planeswalker and showing up in lower numbers in a not-as-good deck.
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mcmagic posted:Sarkhan is not "much worse" than Sorin. That's a silly statement. Less good, rather. Less good and, even in the deck where he shows up, less used.
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I am judging my first GP in November (New Jersey!) and am super excited. They're going to put me on side events as I am a garbage tier L1, but it's experience. Plus I've almost finished the left sleeve of my judge shirt. I was hoping to embroider my collar with Brian Kibler sideburn hair.
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Brownhat posted:I'm judging all three days, and I'm coming from Cleveland. Riding with some other judges. They posted the schedule already? I'm judging but I don't know what days. My uncle lives one town away so I got to stay with him for free. It's my first GP as well. I'm L1 so I'll only be on side events. Other news: drafted the most insane Jeskai deck tonight, Mantis Rider, Waterwhirl, two Windscouts, Trumpet Blast, Seeker, two Wardens, Ride Down, Charm. Went 3-0 without dropping a game. I also opened a Foothills in my pool, which was cool. Trades tonight: Foothills plus two bulk rare foils -> Strand Brimaz -> 2x Dig Through Time + 2x End Hostilities $37 cash -> Sarkhan, 2x Anger of the Gods, Dig Through Time, Temple of Triumph. Not bad for a night's work.
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Brownhat posted:In your acceptance email, it says which days you are working. Not the judgeapps one, but the one from Steven Zwanger. Ah ha! I'm Friday and Saturday. Probably will play some Sunday (if that's kosher, like I said first GP).
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Sickening posted:What does a l1 make working at an event like this for two days? Brainstorm playmat, deckbox and sleeves, Star City water bottle, a month of Star City premium, two boxes of Khans, packet of judge foils, $190 cash. God I hope Elesh Norn's in the packet. A guy can dream.
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Brownhat posted:Yeah, I'm hoping for some Elesh Norn lovin' as well. Last one I got had Entomb, Karador, Riku, Nekusar, SoFaF and Hanna. I want to move that Hanna but it's so gorgeous I can't bear to trade it away if I don't have one to replace it.
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Count Bleck posted:"Come closer, darling. Let me compleat every ounce of your body~" ~uguu 
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Angry Grimace posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ivQDZx1BM 99% of the time that's true but in this case that Lotus is worth at least three times as much as the sealed deck would have gone for. I'm seeing between $5-6k for the sealed starter deck, a 9.5 Alpha Lotus is not going to be less than $20k if he did sell it.
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Toshimo posted:This is why I occasionally make people play out their combos. So is there an actual difference between Purse and Cornucopia in terms of how they allow Ascendancy combo to go off? They're both 0-cost artifacts that you can pump mana into if you want some utility before you combo off.
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These interviews are agonizing. "I'm an actor by trade. This is a city full of a lot of dreamers."
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