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Sampatrick posted:I'm still confused by why Nissa is suddenly blue and not racist. Nissa as an Elf Planeswalker was way more interesting than Nissa as generic naturey Planeswalker. They made Garruk evil and needed a new green planeswalker for the hex-men
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Tired: The Reserved List is good because it helps cards maintain their value. Wired: The Reserved List is good because it pushes eternal players onto MTGO, which is superior to paper Magic.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Might as well just ban the concept of fun Worked for Standard.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/april-24-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-04-24 Announcement Date: April 24, 2017 Standard: No changes Modern: No changes Legacy: Sensei's Divining Top is banned. Vintage: Gitaxian Probe is restricted. Gush is restricted. Effective Date: April 24, 2017 Magic Online Effective Date: April 24, 2017 The list of all banned and restricted cards, by format, is here. Next B&R Announcement: June 14, 2017 (Effective date for that announcement will be June 19, after Grand Prix Las Vegas)
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It was pretty obvious when they lied about the format in the last banlist update their plan was "hope Amonkhet fixes it" and the pro tour is the only thing that'll convince them it didn't. I hope those goofs got lucky.
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Apr 24, 2017 15:49
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What's Vintage going to look like without the Mentor decks?
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Apr 25, 2017 13:11
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This might've been the best move they could've made at this point but they had to clown themselves to hell and back to get to this point in the first place.
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Apr 27, 2017 14:39
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INN-RTR owned because it had Esper Sphinx's Rev decks with Nephalia Drownyard as a win condition.
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I'm not interested until he reviews Mein Kampf
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Apr 30, 2017 14:34
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How popular is MTGO Commander anyway?
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May 3, 2017 18:02
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:This is a 1v1 focused list, you know. They're both on MTGO, I've seen them in Vintage lists. I assume that a big part of it is they're both way cheaper online than in paper and tutoring is way less of a hassle with instant shuffling and the ability to see your entire deck at a glance.
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May 3, 2017 18:07
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:They're also literally the most powerful tutors and a gigantic push towards black commanders that others can't match. Yeah but those are good things. Eat poo poo, everyone else.
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May 3, 2017 18:13
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mossyfisk posted:Every time I see a Magic argument caused by differing understanding of the term 'fair' in context, I take a drink. That's fair.
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I hate mixed-format PTs. I always show up really prepared for the slow dance but I'm just totally clueless in draft.
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May 12, 2017 19:27
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mcmagic posted:gently caress this stupid deck. It's like watching someone pulling on a slot machine that's going to just shoot you in the face 65% of the time
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May 12, 2017 21:45
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Madmarker posted:Truth............I would kill to see Wrath of God reprinted...let alone Damnation. A cheaper wrath would be cool but it wouldn't do anything about how many threats can dodge sorcery speed destruction. I think something like Rout, Merciless Eviction, or Planar Cleansing would be better for Standard right now than Wrath or Damnation.
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May 12, 2017 22:06
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mailorder bees! posted:oh please no. EVERYTHING went to time that year. It's not my fault they won't concede in the mirror when I have more Countefluxes than they have win cons.
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May 12, 2017 22:22
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Finally, can someone answer me this: Maze of Ith is really powerful but there are a lot of decks that just don't care about it and the decks that ought to care about it usually either a) get value from just having creatures on the board b) can flood the board to go around the Maze c) have Wasteland. It's an extremely powerful but situational card which is why you typically only see it as a 1-of in decks that can tutor for it.
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May 14, 2017 16:04
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If they're going to keep printing knock-the-top-of-your-deck card advantage/mana engines like CoCo and Marvel there's no real reason they can't reprint Miracles in Standard.
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mcmagic posted:Yes. And Copter and Reflector Mage and Guardian. That said I'm not sure "I'm sick of Marvel, please unban Emrakul" really makes sense either.
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mcmagic posted:I was never not sick of Marvel.... the card and the game play it fosters is horrible. That wasn't my point - unbanning Emrakul would just make Marvel both better and more annoying to play/play against.
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May 15, 2017 15:53
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Star Man posted:So if Marvel gets banned, what's the next card we bitch about? Is Fatal Push $10 yet?
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May 16, 2017 20:03
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Mark Rosewater posted:Several weeks ago, I said that we were taking steps to improve the processes behind the scenes in R&D to ensure that we don’t repeat some of our mistakes of the last year. I’m happy today to talk about one of these changes – the creation of a new group within R&D called Play Design. Another layer of people besides core designers to blame if future formats suck!
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Siivola posted:That seems like a... Good development? It does, though like AceClown says throwing more people in the hopper isn't going to necessarily solve anything if their processes suck and they're resistant to real change, so time'll tell if they've really learned much.
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May 17, 2017 18:06
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I want to see and play that terrible Legacy Black Devotion deck so much.
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May 18, 2017 02:45
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If you ever tweet about Magic at all even slightly, odds are he's found your account by keyword searching and followed you to try to get you to follow back, probably multiple times.
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May 23, 2017 03:31
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:What the gently caress. He's right.
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May 23, 2017 18:15
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Angry Grimace posted:I mean, that standard had GR Monsters (Polukranos into Stormbreath), UW Control, Mono-B, Mono-U, and RDW all as Tier 1 decks. Complaining about that Standard is just weird. People complained at the time mainly because while it was a really good Standard in terms of diversity of deck types etc. it also stayed roughly the same for the entire year. This was a complaint from pro players that trickled down into the wider population, and it's a fair cop, but yeah I think RTR-THS was unfairly maligned at the time and I'm glad history has rehabilitated it some.
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Angry Grimace posted:The fact it stayed the same so long might have been what killed the three-set blocks. BOTG and JIN did gently caress-all with the format because virtually all of the good cards were in Theros proper. BNG sucking is definitely what killed the three-set block. That set just didn't do anything anybody wanted. My favorite thing about the format was how affordable it was. Not only could you play basically the same deck all year but the only real money cards were Thoughtseize and Mutavault.
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One-drop mana dorks like 4-mana wraths are in the list of things Development decided was too constraining for Standard to have around all the time.
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BJPaskoff posted:Originally the article said "a bunch of which you'll hear about later today", which is why I've been waiting for more stuff to drop. I assume the decision to switch from an Announcement Day to an Announcement Week happened after Maro wrote his article. He writes them like 3 or 4 weeks in advance.
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DariusLikewise posted:Could it be a non-Jace planeswalker that makes Jace tokens for some reason or other or specifically hates on Jace because he's an rear end in a top hat It's probably the famed Jace PW who finally does illusion magic.
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Jabor posted:Do you consider Goblin King only buffing Goblins (instead of all red creatures or whatever) to also be a clumsy namedrop? Hopefully this time around two of the top three decks will be U/W Control and Mono-Blue again.
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Weren't there supposed to be Hour of Devastation spoilers today?
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Tainen posted:Newbie question. Let's say your opponent is attacking with a glorybringer. Can I defend with this card then exert it to cause the one extra damage so the glorybringer dies as well? I feel like on streams I have seen people activate card abilities as they are about to die / be exiled but I am not quite sure which abilities can and can't be used like that. Yes and no. Activating abilities after blocks are declared works like you want it to, but Fervent Paincaster can't block Glorybringer in the first place because Glorybringer has flying.
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uninverted posted:Could T1 mana creature, T2 counter your fetchland be a real thing in modern? Shadow of Doubt does the same thing with less work and that effect has only seen rare play in Modern.
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AlternateNu posted:I remember them specifically saying a couple years ago that they weren't going to do half-cycles anymore because it causes too many issues. Then all the changes started to come down the pipe, and apparently, they said "gently caress it!" because now we've had three of the last four as incomplete cycles (with the fourth finishing an incomplete cycle from like a decade ago). That was when they were planning to titrate rare duals out through all three sets of a block. Thing is, that only lasted one three-set block before they stopped doing those.
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rabidsquid posted:i thought they were switching to single set draft format Not until Dominaria next Spring, there's still Amonkhet and Ixalan as old-model two-set blocks to push out.
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Voyager I posted:Someone should make a deck with Ancestral Visions, Mishra's Bauble, and a whole buncha Pacts as some kind of weighted training deck for upkeep triggers. 
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