Sickening posted:

If enablers keep showing up the way they have so far, fiery temper is going to be a great card. Really surprising it is at common even given WOTC stance on good removal being at least uncommon lately.

Nahiri doesn't seem all that good right now. The plus isn't a great turn 4 line of play unless there is some zero cmc madness costs. I feel like the creature part of the -2 could have had a restriction but still have been better. Instead of tapped it could have had a power/toughness restriction or something similar. That way it stays flexible and doesn't just become a better bobby nixon. I just don't see how someone could play her over a more efficient madness enabler or strictly more powerful, specialized card.

Rinkles posted:

The new delver

End of Life Guy posted:

This mother fucker here is saying Evolving Wilds is constructed playable with a playset in each of the three decklists : http://www.starcitygames.com/article/32652_Dragons-In-New-Standard.html

Is mana getting that bad? I mean, any change is going to make things worse than now, but will it be playsets of Evolving Wilds kinds of bad?

Deckit posted:

Didn't look at the set before hand. Made a sweet Investigate deck and killed people with the 1-mana cost spell that buffs a dude for how many clues you have. 10/10 for this set, would clue again.

Telex posted:

I'm not suuuper sure this set is "great" for sealed non-draft play.

I didn't think about it too hard before hand but when I got my pity pack for going 0-4 (learning is the important thing, right?) I got 3 mythics. In one loving pack. I think the pack packer was drunk, but I got a Gitrog, Foil whatever the Hydra is (oh well) and Startled Awake in the same pack.

I also don't understand the sorting because I got an uncommon flip after the first mythic for a grand total of 8 common, 4 uncommon, 3 mythic in one pack. They're all garbage mythics I suppose but it's kinda weird how the magic sorting machine gets to throw that second flip card in there which can really unbalance your stuff. It explains how a guy I played against seemed to have hit a LOT of bombs if he had a pack that maybe gave him a 3 rare whammy.

Night Danger Moose posted:

Chamale posted:

Are any Tribal decks making an impact? I liked the look of Vampires quite a bit, and Zombies are a fun tribe.

mcmagic posted:

We didn't make it to Baltimore because of car issues but our Spirits deck wrecked two local FNMs and a IQ so I still think it's good. We'll see going forward.


Isn't the 9-0 guy from yesterday in Baltimore from Close Encounters? I could've sworn I've played against him there a few times.

Gensuki posted:

What is the statute of limitations on complaining about rude nerds at magic events? I am suddenly kinda peeved by this thing a guy said at the pre-release.

Gensuki posted:

What are people's thoughts of Alms of the Vein in an aggressive Vampire Madness deck?

I am playing four of, since two or three of them are fantastic as reach, but at the same time, they do not interact with the board, and they're taking the spot of a couple cards that might be better (e.g. lightning axes)

In a BRead deck wins kind of deck it seems perfect, but I also kind of am considering midrange, where the life gain seems good...?

odiv posted:

God, I'm going to make the worst loving deck for Game Day. LGS doesn't have any recent singles. I only played the SOI pre-release. No idea what I'm going to play, but I have 4 Languish and 2 Jace so... probably some lame UB control deck.

Thing is, it's worth my time to enter because the meta is soft enough I have a decent shot at first no matter what I play. It's just painful putting a deck together that's like, GB aristocrats with one Lili and no Abbeys or the Rites.

mcmagic posted:

Pretty disappointing GPNJ for me. Started off 7-1-1 on Day 1 on Bant Comapny drawing with the mirror in round 9 which was quite the feel bad and also vaulted me into the draw bracket so I go to play nothing but the mirror witch is a coin flip or GW Tokens and even if I didn't have no idea how to play with or against Archangel Avacyn, that is still not the best matchup for company and as usual my deck is better than I am. I did beat the non Tokens/Company decks I played against but 10-4-1 wasn't even close to good enough to cash. Too bad for me... At least I did get to meet BJPaskoff who was a very nice dude and hopefully I'll see you at more events in the future... Maybe even ones I don't crap out of haha.

It's definitely wrong for me to scoop to my opponent in that round 9 match to avoid getting into the draw bracket, right? I found myself wishing that I had at a few points today...

Count Bleck posted:

He sees play in a couple Modern decks and I believe a Legacy deck?

Myriad Truths posted:

I often feel like this also. I hear a lot of stories about success with interesting synergy decks, but every time I play I find that these big creatures with 4+ toughness end up deciding games rather than how quickly you can reach delirium or how much value you get off of discard outlets.

Sickening posted:

Standard feel very solved at this point. Tokens is obviously the best deck.

I am glad to see the b/w control ended up as good as it is because it was the deck I was on from the beginning, but even with a heavy anti tokens sideboard the matchup can't get better than 50/50 against tokens games 2/3. Still lots of variety of decks compared to previous standards though.

Modern is loving awesome right now and I am glad.

Sickening posted:

Well it is already maxed out on planeswalker hate. Ruinous path, duress, and unmaking are as good as it gets. Hallowed moonlight is pretty medium and is hard to justify the spot unless they are running secure the wastes.

The problem is game 1 b/w just isn't favored and 2/3 you aren't favored enough.

Sickening posted:

Hallowed moonlight maindeck is definitely a thing and is what I do. Its a toss up if it stays game 2 though. I also run 3 path maindeck and I do 3 ob / 2 sorin. I only run 3 unmaking in the 75. The plainswalker heavy version of b/w is without a doubt the way to go.

I am almost tempted to side out kalitas in the matchup. It never survives. Declaration in stone and purge just hit it too often. I feel like smasher needs to be in the 75 because its been amazing every time it is for me.

Plague is awful and don't run it.

Sickening posted:

I feel like smasher is a better creature against tokens and other control decks. I am using 3 grasps and 2 prices main deck. No stones main deck.

C-Euro posted:

Help a brother out with a URL? Curious to see what they're using to turn on Scribe, there's only eight cards in my own deck that aren't lands, instants, or sorceries.

End of Life Guy posted:

In that last round, Gaby called Hedron Crab "Ancient Crab" and, three seconds later, LSV called it Ancient Crab then corrected himself and called it Hedron Crab even though he'd called it Hedron Crab like 13 times already.

Good on him. He totally did that on purpose to cover Gaby's mistake and I'm glad he did. She gets so much poo poo, but you can tell she's trying to get better. Twitch chat loving hates her but loves LSV, and he bought her some nerd cred by showing them that her mistake was so easy to make that even he could screw it up. That's really thinking on your feet, LSV.

Cactrot posted:

loving up one card name in a game with fifteen thousand cards means she is clearly incompetent.

mehall posted:

PPTQ report:

So me and the gf went to a pptq in Kirkcaldy yesterday, and they got a much higher turnout than they were expecting, at 35 players. (Lots of Scottish events, especially outside the big cities, get around 20 or so.)
I was on my 5-colour superfriends brew, and gf was playing Eldrazi Goggles.

R1 opponent was on G/W stuff. Not the token deck, it felt like G/W superfriends, with den protector for value. I kept a 2 land hand in g1 and got punished by it, not being able to wrath his board until turn 6 or so, which was already too late, g2 went my way pretty perfectly (take the early beats, wrath to stabilise, get some value walkers out, still be on a double-digit life total.) g3 was another kind of non-entity. I played it out fine, but my deck decided not to give me anything proactive the whole time, and he had solid answers for anything I did get, but that's Magic.

R2 I don't remember well, but I know I lost it 1-2, even though after dominating g1, my opponent was convinced he has so unfavoured.

R3 was against the hybrid company/displacer combo deck. He sided out a bunch of the combo bits for more pressure, which I felt was right, but I still brought in a virulent plague just in case. He had thought-knot out of the board, but it never managed to hit enough to push me off my game plan, so I got there, putting me to 1-2

R4 was against a guy who had too much creature removal that he couldn't side it all uot, but my deck drew it up wrong and I always had to be interacting in the form of shambling vent etc, so I was unable to strand cards in his hand for too long. The only thing I felt was a "misplay" all day except from a couple questionable mulligan decisions happened in g3 of this match. I played out a chandra and had the option of cashing her in to wipe his board, or plussing to try and put pressure on him. I played and plussed, then realised it was wrong (but Comp REL, so didn't ask for takesies backsies). He cracked back for 1 short of lethal instead of trying to clear some of my walkers (I had Narset, Chandra and I think it was flip-nissa, but might have been Gideon.) I cast the languish that I had in my hand, which is what made the decision to plus chandra the previous turn relevant as I figured my walkers would fog for me, and then I'd get to clear his board with an extra walker down. In response to the languish though, he sacs his board to flip westvale abbey. I had 6 or so cards in hand, including a second languish and an anguished unmaking, but only had one pain-free source of black mana. I zero chandra to hope I draw declaration in stone or quarantine field, or even a way to chump for a turn, but no joy. I was in too much of a hurry to pressure him, and most people do go after the walkers, but he saw that he could cut off my pain-lands.

R5 Was against a B/W control deck. Game 1 I win in convincing manner, my deck was just better set pre-board to win the sort of grindy match we come to. G2 becomes a real slog, as I don't draw proactive things for turns and turns, meaning he gets to get into the game. I did get down Gideon, and another walker, but by the time I got to pressure him, he got to eventually gets to a new gideon, after killing another one of mine. I'm behind, and the life totals are both high thanks to duelling shambling vents, so I scoop it up to leave some time for g3. (We were at 22 and 27 respectively when I scooped.)

There's about 5 minutes left for g3, so I play in turbo mode, and he gets a bit mana-screwed. I get down oath of gideon for aggression, followed by gideon, followed by Ob Nixilis. He is forced to answer Gideon even though Ob Nix is about to ult, and he is still pinched on mana. I'm playing my fastest, most efficient magic here. He's playing at a sort of average pace, but well enough that I don't want to ask him to hurry, even though I know it's in his favour to play slow. (I thank him after the match for not eating up time.) I get to ult Ob Nix on turn 0 of extra turns, hit him to 15, he draws for the turn (13) and didn't find another land to make his hand live, passes, I draw (11) and play another walker (I think it was Sorin?) and he scoops them up. I'm not certain I had him in time, but Ob Nix emblem alone was going to deal another 6, and I still had a couple tokens.

R6 and I'm well out of contention. I'd had good ties for most of the day, but I'd got dragged as low as 22nd before the final round. I'm up against G/W tokens, which isn't a bad matchup for me, but he gets to run me over in 2 games. He drew 2 or 3 secure the wastes in each game. I once again kept a sketchy 2 lander on the play in g1.
G2 I feel was the low point of my luck all day. I had a hand with evolving wilds, oath of nissa, oath of nissa, oath of nissa, dark petition, chandra, flip-nissa. I get a llanowar wastes off the first oath, which lets me cast the 2nd oath to get a land for the t3 flip-nissa, but I never get to get to 5 mana and use petition to find a virulent plague to lock my opponent down. He was operating on 3 lands as well, but his deck does it better.

Overall, I ended 2-4, but with a couple changes in my luck, feel I could have made the T8.
GF went 4-0, ID, ID, She got unlucky in T8 though. Her ties were a bit clear of the person she ID'd with in R5, but the final round switched it, she was 2nd after the swiss, and got paired up against my R2 opponent, which was an awful match-up for her, made worse by him having a ton of hand attack and infinite obliteration.


I was trying out Sylvan Advocate in my board, and did bring it in a couple times, but never drew it so dunno if it's good for the slot. I'm gonna test Sigarda in that place over the next week before GP Manchester, as I think exiling evolving wilds and Oath's that I cast duplicates of (and excess instants/sorceries once I've got spell mastery) or even dead walkers, to make tokens could be good, but also having protection from late-game hand-attack is relevant in the super-grindy matchups that can come up. If I have 4 cards in hand, but no idea what you're weak to and you get to Transgress me before playing a threat, then I constantly get put on the back-foot. Plus, Sigarda doesn't die to Languish, so she's immune to half my wraths, meaning I can still play them with her on field.

Here's the list I ran yesterday:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/superfriends-for-standard/



e; The thing I forgot to mention is that I honestly feel like this deck is only a card or two away from being really really good. If WotC put even a 6 mana wrath in black in EDM, then I can cut white that Oath of Nissa doesn't fix for, and shift to blue for some permission, as all the cards I have problems with are non-creatures. (Coco, secure, hand attack, etc.)

caiman posted:

Eh, can someone help me understand this card's ability? When it deals damage to a player you get to exile some cards and then just put them back? What's the point? What am I missing?

rabidsquid posted:

It's a tough lesson to learn about the lottery, but maybe he won't spend as much on it in the future.

Rinkles posted:

I was looking forward to a madness deck, personally (w/ or w/o Jace).