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Arriving on the ground floor to say that I am really looking forward to today's SCG Open!
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Sep 27, 2014 23:05
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Attorney at Funk posted:How have the decks looked so far today? I've yet to see a control deck. The format seems heavy on midrange and reach-heavy aggro decks. I haven't seen a Savage Knuckleblade yet, interestingly; the only Temur deck I saw was only running blue to splash Sagu Mauler. I'm very convinced that Sagu Mauler is one of the best cards in Khans, by the way. People are so quick to forget Simic Sky Swallower and this is situationally even better. e: haha, Doomwake Giant into a field full of x/1s, he Stokes the Flames in response to punch his Courser in 
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Sep 27, 2014 23:22
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Monastery Swiftspear takes the SCG Legacy Open! (also Delver of Secrets and other good cards but who cares)
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Sep 29, 2014 02:59
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The owner of my local store's husband opens up cases of product for singles and their own collections.  e: He had the entire set in foil, mythics and fetches included, by the the Thursday after pre-release. Including promo and non-promos. Man is insane.
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Oct 1, 2014 05:46
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Topdeck a fetchland, go to 3, slam-dunk a Zurgo into your enemy's face for the win. Ari Lax's draft deck is the greatest thing I have ever seen.
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Oct 11, 2014 23:21
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Watch Mantis Rider shoot back up to $10 for another month when it wins the PT.
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Oct 12, 2014 08:59
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 I still hope against hope that the MtG movie A: isn't terrible and B: features Ajani and Bolas' conflict in some way. Giant one-eyed badass cat-dude's the best.
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Oct 16, 2014 06:41
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Archenteron posted:I got nothing on the Sphinxes hexproof, though. Sphinxes are highly magical as well as being intelligent, so they're probably just misdirecting or passively negating enemy magic. Alternatively, because gently caress you, they're blue.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:52
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Crux of Fate is yet another flavor home run for Wizards. What a great card.
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Nov 2, 2014 06:06
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Storm pie: You eat little bits of your pie in such a fashion that you never get full. Then you vomit all the pie back up, eat it again, then vomit it at your opponent's pie, rendering it inedible.
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Nov 4, 2014 09:35
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I Love You! posted:Like 230 or something plus all the rest of the prizes, but I will probably have to turn most of that into a modern deck for the Pro Tour because I don't actually own a single deck of any sort I'd tell you to play Hatebears but Hatebears is awful against Delver and mediocre against Jeskai Ascendancy so you'd probably scrub out 
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Nov 10, 2014 07:24
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My favourite flavor texts are absolutely the Demigods from Shadowmoor and Eventide. They capture the bleak beauty of Shadowmoor flawlessly, the art is perfect for them, even their names capture every little thing. They're the perfect blend of Melvin and Vorthos. And it's all tied together by the incredible Seer's Parables.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:30
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I still can't believe the average Magic player is enough of an uncultured swine that we're not going to return to Lorwyn/Shadowmoor.  e: And that Wizards is so obsessed with the bottom line despite literally making GBS threads money out of every orifice regardless of the quality of their products
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Nov 14, 2014 05:43
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Equipment decks in EDH are always going to be white and often mono-white. I'm just going to spout off a big list of cards I think are good in specifically that kind of deck. Steelshaper's Gift. Mirran Crusader. Puresteel Paladin. Kemba, Kha Regent. Stoneforge Mystic. If you're interested in running RW, Sunforger is very good. Godsend. Batterskull. Loxodon Warhammer. Leonin Abunas. Leonin Shikari. Raksha Golden Cub (also a potential commander). Skullclamp. See also the many good artifacts listed above.
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Nov 18, 2014 00:35
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I love drafting a cool flicker-control deck in Cube and immediately aggressively flooding while my midrange opponent drops ten million threats then kills me with a Natural Order Progenitus.
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Nov 20, 2014 13:32
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Storm Crow is supposedly one of the strongest cards in Magic, according to the Internet. I think it's the fact that it presents a 20 turn clock while being large enough to survive powerful removal spells like Electrickery.
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Nov 22, 2014 19:30
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1. The cost is considered paid for. You don't need to sacrifice additional artifacts. 2. The effect will still take place. Only the original Lightning Strike gets countered. The Howl effect will be 'used up' and one (or two with Raid) Lightning Strikes will still be on the stack. 3. Yes, Ugin's Nexus triggered ability is irrelevant to whether Shrapnel Blast resolved or not.
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Nov 29, 2014 15:44
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That Hero's Downfall into Strived Silence the Believers was pretty legit tho
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Dec 7, 2014 11:24
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ZoMBiePiGGy posted:Its possible, but going back 1000 years should change things drastically. I wouldn't expect any of the current Khans to even exist given the butterfly effect. I mean if she dies then how will nerds write terrible fanfic shipping her and Sarkhan???
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Dec 11, 2014 05:58
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The decks that want a Mobilization effect don't play enough creatures to flip up using it to make it playable in Standard. In a control deck, I actually think it's worse than the lovely black enchantment in M15 which makes 2/2s, because that one can at least filter bad draws. This one just makes 2/2s for 4 and will sometimes 'kill' good cards by turning them into morphs (Elspeth, End Hostilities, etc). It'd be borderline playable in a white weenies deck, if Heliod (and Spear of Heliod) wasn't better there too.
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Jan 7, 2015 04:35
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vegetables posted:This is probably the first card since Future Sight that made me do a double take: ...Not Emrakul or Griselbrand? 
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Jan 9, 2015 18:22
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I opened four of the legendary dragons in my second pre-release pool. That was an insane 5CC deck. I had two non-Dragon creatures, a pile of removal, and about 5 of the manifest Auras. I only got multiple Dragons on the field in one game, and my opponent immediately conceded when I told him the triggers stacked. I know what deck I'm building for this standard.
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Jan 17, 2015 01:02
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Re: my absurd four dragon pool I got two of the U/W dragon (one as a promo), the G/W and the B/R one. I had one forest and one swamp in the entire deck thanks to a plethora of duals. Torrent Elemental ain't poo poo when it's permanently tapped by Ojutai. 
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Jan 17, 2015 10:16
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forbidden lesbian posted:Awesome, so it's not in Time Spiral Block or from a set from early Magic. Which means there is a chance they consider it "a thing White should be able to do"! I just wish it happened more often... The closest equivalent in recent times is Oust from RotE, I guess? White gets a lot of temporary answers or answerable answers, they just don't use the stack these days. Memory Lapse wasn't as color-pie bending as Planar Chaos, but the shards did kinda warp it a little - green getting sacrifice effects from Devour or red getting creature recursion from Unearth, for example. White and black getting traditionally blue things was Esper's contribution since its theme of colored artifacts was vague and tenuous.
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Jan 22, 2015 05:02
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One of the first non-core set Magic cards I saw was Damnation, and I immediately grokked (to borrow Maro's terminology) the idea of Time Spiral block and loved it for that. I'm a sucker for alternate realities and potential future storylines in general though so 
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Feb 4, 2015 06:46
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Rinkles posted:What are you referring to? I'm pretty sure he means Pongify specifically. "Remove a creature and give your opponent something in return" was white rather than black, and nowadays it's blue because...it's kind of like Polymorph if you turn your head and squint, I guess?
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Feb 4, 2015 11:35
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Splinter Twin is Modern's control deck. Just because it can occassionally vomit out a turn 4 combo win by accident doesn't make it not a control deck. Scapeshift is similar but trades speed for inexorability. Can't Combust or Mana Leak a land drop.
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Feb 5, 2015 10:02
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I dunno, I consider any deck that is happy to sit on a pile of counterspells and trade counterspells with its opponent until it can jam its finisher to be a control deck. See: every single Twin vs Blue deck match in PT Born of the Gods. The fact that Twin is also one of the best tempo decks in the format doesn't change that.
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Feb 5, 2015 10:21
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Entropic posted:Magic: The... I dunno, what comes after Gathering? Hocus-pocus: the Get-together
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Feb 5, 2015 20:36
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LSV cruising to a game 1 victory.
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Feb 6, 2015 16:44
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Count Bleck posted:He did, he did! It was a Hunt the Weak. 
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Feb 6, 2015 17:14
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Gore Swine 
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Feb 6, 2015 17:20
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Brad Nelson missed his Sultai Flayer trigger(s). 
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Feb 6, 2015 17:58
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I thought the Infect match there was going to be the strangest thing I saw this round. Then Shahar Shenhar Mutagenic Growthed his Goblin Guide 
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Feb 6, 2015 20:16
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It can also play Stain the Mind off its tokens! I could totally see a situation where your opponent flashes in an Exarch/Pestermite and you Stain the Mind in response while still having 3 mana to pay for Leak, or 5 to just recast it if they Remand it. Obviously you'd need to be in the middle of 'going off' to pull that off but it's a consideration. It could maybe use some Thoughtseize or Inquisition to give it actual game against combo decks, though.
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Feb 12, 2015 07:55
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I got into a stupid argument yesterday which I know I'm right about but need to be absolutely sure about. Goblin Piledriver and Alesha, Who Smiles at Death are attacking. Alesha's triggered ability is paid for and brings back a Goblin. Does Goblin Piledriver's triggered ability give him +2/+0 from having another attacking Goblin? I'm 99% certain that this is a 'no' because it's a triggered ability that fires when you declare attackers, much like Brimaz's, and if you cheat Brimaz in with Preeminent Captain or the like he won't trigger. Naturally, since I'm not a judge I can't possibly be right about anything (in this person's mind), so I dropped the matter, but I wanted to know if I was the one with the cat-piss here.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:59
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Well now I feel even stupider. I suppose I was under the impression that Piledriver just wouldn't trigger without any other Goblins on the battlefield when it attacked. I owe somebody an apology. Clearly this is Magic Online's fault somehow.
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Feb 13, 2015 00:33
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His genitals have protection from everything
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Feb 15, 2015 07:44
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BJPaskoff posted:There are so many traps for new drafters in Fate Reforged, and Aven Skirmisher is their captain. I always see new players with three or four of them. The sad part is that it's probably the only 1/1 flyer for 1 which has ever been correct to play. It triggers raid from turn 1 (for Skullhunter, War-name Aspirant, etc), is a good runemark carrier (not that runemarks are great cards, but still), turns on Battle Brawler and the like, and it's a Warrior. You just don't want more than one unless your draft is really, really bad.
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