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suicidesteve posted:I know. But they aren't? Highest percentage of any deck played in the format is jund at 7%. There is no "majority" in modern anymore. Infect and affinity are the next two most played at 6% and 5% respectively, and infect is actually kinda bad in the meta right now but people still play it. Jeskai nahiri is the 5th most played and came in 4th and 9th at GP LA and Charlotte and is actually a pretty good deck. Most of your comments about the format seem to come completely from a bit of a sour personal point of view but the numbers recently don't agree. In 15 rounds at GP Charlotte I played against 10 different decks off the top of my head, more in the GPT/challenge I did Friday. Sorry your personal experience hasn't been good, might just be your local scene. I don't want people to be discouraged to try modern when it's actually in a really good place now. Legacy is fun too and I love pauper until peregrine Drake ruins it. It's me, I'm the guy that actually has fun playing magic (except EDH).
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Sigh... it's really frustrating that my new LGS sucks so much. Dude puts no effort into anything, including magic events. What's worse is he won't give up the reigns. I worked at an LGS in a pretty big MTG market for five years and can help him if he'd let me. Now I finally don't work at a store and STILL can't play the drat game. Hooray for 3 people showing up to Modern when where I moved from had multiple stores in a 30 minute radius firing 20+ person events weekly. /Endrant
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Fingers McLongDong posted:But they aren't? Highest percentage of any deck played in the format is jund at 7%. There is no "majority" in modern anymore. Infect and affinity are the next two most played at 6% and 5% respectively, and infect is actually kinda bad in the meta right now but people still play it. Jeskai nahiri is the 5th most played and came in 4th and 9th at GP LA and Charlotte and is actually a pretty good deck. Sure but I don't care at all about GPs. I care about MTGO because that's the only place I realistically get to play modern more than once a year, and all I ever play against is burn/burn pretending it's zoo, infect, Ad Nauseam, Dredge, Storm, basically anything except the decks that actually lead to interesting games. I still have yet to see any evidence that the UWR deck is actually good instead of not wildly unplayable like control used to be. So sure maybe modern is fun if you play at GPs or something but on MTGO it's as terrible as it's ever been and until WotC actually starts caring about card accessibility it's going to keep being a terrible goldfish fest.
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Skyl3lazer posted:One week to EMA as of today Just learned my store is doing $35 24-player drafts for the first month it's out, with 8 EMA packs going to the winner of each 8-player pod (4 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd/4th). Super tempted to sign up for one at those odds even though I'm not a great Limited player.
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One local store doesn't have a huge supply but they're doing a hush-hush limited thing for regulars. Haven't heard how much they plan to price it but it's cool to know I at least have the option. I'm mostly looking forward to finding out what the official Japanese name of Force of Will is, since everyone I know in Japan just calls it "Will." Sometimes cards get good localizations but a lot of them are overly literal in ways that don't really carry the same gravity as they do in English, and I'm interested in seeing how they come up with new names for things that have been established in players' minds for years.
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My store is doing nothing but drafts of EMA when it comes out, $35/draft, limited to 3 drafts/person/day, to deal with their limited allotment. Should be good.
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Skyl3lazer posted:One week to EMA as of today Maybe 75 cards in that set aren't garbage. The drat thing's a disappointment.
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Anyone disappointed in EMA had expectations they should have realized were unrealistic from the start. (Or they were holding off on buying their Rishadan Ports, I guess.) It's completely in line with the other paper Masters sets we've had before.
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EMA is one of the best sets ever for pauper (which is an eternal format). It might force them to ban Ghostly Flicker, but other than that I think it's a pretty amazing set for one of the more underappreciated formats. I'm pretty excited for it.
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Elyv posted:Is Nimble Mongoose going to do things in Pauper? doesn't it seem very good with moldervine cloak or rancor?  joking aside you'd think you'd be able to do something with like 4 basking rootwalla 4 wild mongrel 4 circular logic 4 deep analysis 4 arrogant wurm 4 nimble mongoose
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Zoness posted:doesn't it seem very good with moldervine cloak or rancor? Hell, add in Careful Study and Aquamoeba and you literally have Block UG Madness (with Mongeese and extra Deep Analyses)
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Mongoose seems terrible in a world full of edicts and 1 mana 5/5s. If there was a land that had island and forest as land types so you could Land Grant for an Island I'd see it being very good in a Gro type deck. Or maybe UG Delver will still be a thing. Idunno, but my brewing attempts have been remarkably unsuccessful.
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pretty hosed up if one of the coolest block decks ever can't hack it in an all common format imo. also i dont think ug madness played mongeese but i honestly dont remember. realistically what im saying is why isnt there a threshold deck gently caress this format. Zoness fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jun 3, 2016 |
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Zoness posted:also i dont think ug madness played mongeese but i honestly dont remember. realistically what im saying is why isnt there a threshold deck gently caress this format. Hence, "with Mongeese"
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Zoness posted:pretty hosed up if one of the coolest block decks ever can't hack it in an all common format imo. I'll probably try it again with mongoose but I've tried to force pauper UG madness to exist for a while and it just doesn't get there like other decks. I played with a list similar to the above but also with careful study, waterfront bouncer, and aether burst. What ends up happening is your hand doesn't quite stay full enough and you end up without the reach or evasion to close a game. The old UG madness deck played multiples of Wonder, which the Pauper deck desperately needs to close a lot of games.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I'll probably try it again with mongoose but I've tried to force pauper UG madness to exist for a while and it just doesn't get there like other decks. I played with a list similar to the above but also with careful study, waterfront bouncer, and aether burst. What ends up happening is your hand doesn't quite stay full enough and you end up without the reach or evasion to close a game. The old UG madness deck played multiples of Wonder, which the Pauper deck desperately needs to close a lot of games. yeah i know about wonder, it is probably a big missing piece from the deck for sure
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Network42 posted:Delver is just a better threshold deck. fomo sacer fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 3, 2016 |
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Zoness posted:pretty hosed up if one of the coolest block decks ever can't hack it in an all common format imo. With threshold you get werebear, without threshold you get angler. The 5/5 wins 
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Johnny Landmine posted:Anyone disappointed in EMA had expectations they should have realized were unrealistic from the start. (Or they were holding off on buying their Rishadan Ports, I guess.) It's completely in line with the other paper Masters sets we've had before. If your emotions disagree with our overlord, quit Magic, commit seppuku.
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Oraculum Animi posted:Is 8 fetches enough to run 2 Grim Lavamancer in modern Boros burn? Why are you only playing 8? They are great with Searing Blaze too.
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mcmagic posted:Why are you only playing 8? They are great with Searing Blaze too. Presumably because lol @ Tarns and Mesas.
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suicidesteve posted:Presumably because lol @ Tarns and Mesas. What this man said. And I have the Searing Blazes.
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suicidesteve posted:Presumably because lol @ Tarns and Mesas. Oraculum Animi posted:What this man said. And I have the Searing Blazes. Play 3x Sacred Foundry 1 or 2 Plains and 2-3 Windswept Heath.
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Pretty hosed up that Wizards left the best deck in the format, the Mighty Quinn, out of the gauntlet Also, extremely hosed up that a bunch of people have explained Nic Fit and have neglected to mention you're obligated to run at least one sideboard Tsunami. it's actually in the rules.
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AgentSythe posted:Pretty hosed up that Wizards left the best deck in the format, the Mighty Quinn, out of the gauntlet What if you're playing BUG Nic Fit?
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suicidesteve posted:What if you're playing BUG Nic Fit? better hope you find those four river of tears to cast your jace e: if anyone ever wants to play bad decks or bad cards, or wants extremely bad opinions on how to accomplish something in a game of constructed Magic: the gathering, I'm your man Johnny Five-Jaces fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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eSporks posted:I don't really keep up with new sets, is there any sweet new tech to add to my nic fit doomsday deck? What about porting it to vintage? Spanish Inquisition is a powerful brew that you have made even more powerful by slamming some Doomsdays in there. You already have the hot Wild Dogs technology to make sure you can turn on your culling the weak/other sac cards and isn't just dead in your hand if you already have enough mana. i mean there's nothing really that enhances the engine of the deck and you probably have the two best "manual style" creatures you can pact for so i'm pretty sure this deck is perfect
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eSporks posted:I don't really keep up with new sets, is there any sweet new tech to add to my nic fit doomsday deck? What about porting it to vintage? This list is super tight so I'm not sure what you would even want to remove, although obstinate baloth seems like the weakest link in here (I'm assuming it's a counter for burn?) and something like Worldspine Wurm might be a useful swap as a NO target / hardcastable "worship" type dealie. Obliterator and Baloth seem like the weakest cards in here by a wide margin as everything else is pretty tightly woven into the engine except for the singleton broodmate, which doesn't have a better replacement that meets the "flies and avoids a single target removal spell" because there isn't anything larger with hexproof that flies.
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eSporks posted:I don't really keep up with new sets, is there any sweet new tech to add to my nic fit doomsday deck? What about porting it to vintage? I'm staring at this list and I think I got an aneurysm.
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So this legacy Eldrazi deck (+ 1 Strip Mine) went 6-1-1 at a recent NYC vintage tournament: https://twitter.com/JMJACO/status/739256500061868032 I guess I really need to finish building it.
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mehall posted:Okay, this is dope, and I now know what I'm gonna practice on xmage, to see if I wanna build. AgentSythe posted:You already have the hot Wild Dogs technology to make sure you can turn on your culling the weak/other sac cards and isn't just dead in your hand if you already have enough mana. eSporks fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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CompeAnansi posted:So this legacy Eldrazi deck (+ 1 Strip Mine) went 6-1-1 at a recent NYC vintage tournament: https://twitter.com/JMJACO/status/739256500061868032 My favorite part is that even though it's unpowered, he just couldn't help himself with the alters. Thing should've been crusty, faded, and with a bunch of altered white bordered Eldrazi. 
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