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Tonetta posted:How the gently caress you gonna get a 3 digit dci, I have an 8 digit & I signed up in like 2002  First sanctioned event for me was the Legions pre-release but I had been collecting cards since Exodus.
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InterrupterJones posted:Mine's actually an 8 digit one from the Legions pre-release as well! I started a bit later with deckbuilding though, around Odyssey block. I remember my first rare that I pulled was a Petradon and thought it was the coolest card ever. I got into deckbuilding around that time as well, the first rare I can remember pulling and being really excited about was Terravore which is still an awesome card and I wish it was playable anywhere  E: Oh wait people were running it in Maverick and Aggro Loam five years ago I guess? C-Euro fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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myDad posted:So is this the unofficial standard thread or is there a healthy amount of modern players as well? This is a catch-all thread, I usually post deep discussion of Modern tech in the Eternal thread. We have the Brewhaus thread for Standard deck discussion but it hasn't seen much posting lately for a few reasons.
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Apr 19, 2017 12:30
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Shadow225 posted:I know a lot of people have bounced off MM17 draft, either voluntarily or not, but I'm curious what BR is supposed to do as a color group. The theme seems to be sacrifice, but the payoffs just don't seem good. The only token enabler I remember is Dragon Fodder, the payoff is Mortician Beetle, and the sac outlets don't seem to affect the board like even a simple Penumbra Spider. I've only drafted it 3 times, but I have never seen anyone force it successfully, even when it seems open. I got my rear end beat by a BRu Sac deck in our MM17 release draft. Unearth guys, Vampire Aristocrat, the red creature that lets you sac creatures to Shock stuff, etc. From what I could tell the blue splash was for Soul Ransom, which is disgusting in that deck if you catch your opponent not paying attention. I disagree somewhat with ShaneB on this, I had a lot of fun drafting MM17 but I suck at draft and don't want to pay $30 when I'm 90% sure to go 1-2. I will agree however that UWx, even just straight UW, is where you want to be. Saw a guy on Esper come back to win from a 44-1 deficit off of two Grixis Slavedriver each with Gift of Orzhova.
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Apr 19, 2017 18:10
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ThePeavstenator posted:The thing keeping old cards valuable is the fact that they are old and very, very few exist. Birds of Paradise is like $5 for an M12 printing but thousands for an Alpha/Beta copy. See also: Reverberate vs Fork, Phyrexian Negator reprint in a Duel Deck (which is easier to understand as a breach of the reserve list but c'mon)
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Apr 21, 2017 05:15
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ThePeavstenator posted:My uncle owned a game shop that only had a foiled-out collection that would fit in a backpack. My favorite part is "includes 6 ready-to-play decks" as if a store is going to put together a foiled-out Legacy D&T deck to loan out to any schlub who walks into the store. A guy at my last store had a foiled-out Azami EDH deck stolen but they eventually caught the guy and got him his deck back, although this was in bumfuck-nowhere Illinois so I don't know if being in SF would make this easier or harder to get back. E: Actually hey I have a Deckbox trade going with a guy who lives between SF ans SJ, sent it his way to try and spread it more quickly. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 05:28
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Smashing Link posted:Squee might have a home. Rebels probably wouldn't make the cut but I could be wrong. Invasion block has tons of great cards though like Absorb and Undermine, Fire/Ice. I always beat the Invasion drum when this conversation comes up because 1. Invasion rules and 2. Wizards has said it was the first block where they figured out how to design a three-set block as one cohesive thing, which strikes me as them figuring out "modern" design as opposed to the more random design they had leading up to that. If you started there you'd have to immediately ban any Storm card that can kill, but beyond that I don't think anything would be so egregious as to not let it have a chance in the new format. Maybe Entomb would have to go too, I dunno. And if you included 7ED in the deal nothing from that set immediately jumps out at me, though someone would figure out how to break Opposition really quickly.
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Apr 21, 2017 19:19
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Mezzanon posted:My plan is to use black border precise fits for my unlimited basics, and white border for every other card in the deck. FYI someone is gonna give you a hard time about using two different types of precise fits in one deck and try to get you DQ'd or whatever. No idea what the rules are for having different sleeves are if the insides look different but the backsides all look the same but be prepared to tell some grog, and possible a judge, why these aren't marked cards. Personally, I think they're cool and funny.
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Apr 25, 2017 12:45
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I went to a new shop the other day and they don't even try standard anymore. All modern and draft. Mine does Modern/EDH/Pauper on a rotation on Fridays and drafts on weekends. I need something bad to happen in either EDH or Pauper so I can get Modern every other week instead. I don't remember the last time they did Standard there in all honesty.
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Apr 25, 2017 21:14
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AlternateNu posted:Protean Hulk is already a $20 card. loving lol Just remembered that I have a spare copy of this, hell yeah. Too bad Deckbox prices take forever to approach conventional market value when there's a banning/unbanning like this.
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Apr 26, 2017 02:05
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:If everything Mark's said has been right, the original block order was Eldrich Moon-Amonkhet-Kaladesh Really? I haven't seen that mentioned before.
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Apr 26, 2017 12:13
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Modern is probably the best format right now for playing whatever the hell you want, but a mono-red deck like that has very few ways to interact with the stack, your opponent's hand, or anything that you can't get rid of with damage. It's probably a lousy matchup in the first place, hell I have trouble with Ad Nauseum when I'm playing RG Breach and that's an actual deck. Needle is the best thing that springs to mind right now but keep a burn spell or two up in case they're also running Lab Maniac. A guy at my store runs both wincons, one MB and one SB.
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Apr 26, 2017 15:04
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Deckbox owns, some people have various complaints about but I don't think I would have gotten back into Magic when I did if I didn't have it for listing out my collection and decklists, and also for finding people for trading.
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Apr 26, 2017 16:38
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1. Play spells 2. ??? 3. Profit Sampatrick posted:2 Monastery Swiftspear is what really got me. Yeah that seems weird
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Apr 26, 2017 23:44
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YeehawMcKickass posted:I needed a budget-ish modern deck because of the death of standard so I put this together roughly. I had a large swath of the cards for a version of this still laying around from their times in standard, minus the enemy fetches and the b/r fastlands. It's actually not bad for the type of pile it is. I run four Swiftspear because any less is just stupid. This is about to get lost in "lol Felidar Guardian" chat but I've always been tinkering with a couple of different Mardu builds for Modern in my head and this is one I saw the other day. I think this type of deck may want Bob oer Bedlam Reveler but I'm not 100% sure.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:39
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Typhus733 posted:Not me from that league, but that's my deck! Been brewing it over the course of two/three-ish years. Bob makes it a somewhat different deck and is definitely meta call. That said, people really underestimate how good (or maybe just fun) it is to play a 2-4 mana 3/4 with prowess that ancestrals when he comes down. It's a deck with tons of game againt anything fair that gets poo poo on by Tron and Scapeshift. Cool, glad to hear you're having fun with it. The two Mesas are the only expensive things I need so maybe this is my excuse to pick those up.
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Apr 27, 2017 02:35
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Wurzag posted:wotc are such an amateur hour outfit. I mean I love magic and dnd but it's like they go out of their way to look as stupid as physically possible at every available opportunity. For better or worse WOTC is a business run by game designers, not businesspeople. And it's definitely shown at times.
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Apr 27, 2017 13:58
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En Fuego posted:This game could keep chugging along, though I think that the shareholder syndrome (shareholders who have no clue but profits) is the problem now. They want more releases and I don't think R&D can keep up and not make broken poo poo. I couldn't tell you how to do it, but Wizards needs to change something about their development and production cycles such that they aren't locked into certain decisions a year or more before a set is released. I think it's crazy that if there's enough player outcry over some trend in the game, then the next three or four sets are write-offs because they were locked in before the complaints were raised. What other business could get away with saying "we know you're unhappy but FYI we can't even attempt to fix this for another year" the way Wizards has said that they started turning things around in Hour of Devastation.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Because they value the counsel of Wiseman more than any of their other employees. Well that explains why we haven't seen any Moonfolk besides Tamiyo in years.
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black potus posted:This is two good posts so far??? https://twitter.com/drilmagic I'm a fan of those posts.
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Apr 30, 2017 23:30
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Here it is in all it's retarded 1996 glory: This deck owns BTW, also congrats because blue duals are generally more expensive than non-blue ones.
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We also have a thread in SA Mart for buying and selling cards, there are a few goons in there who run their own card stores who might be interested in those duals.
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FordCQC posted:So I played in the SCG Modern Classic this weekend and had a pretty interesting revelation upon speaking with my opponents. Almost all of them (and several tablemates) had drove 2-5 hours just to come play in the Modern Classic. None of them were guys that scrubbed out on Saturday and stuck around to play more. Further, they all had come the night before (since the tourney started at 9 AM) so they were paying for hotel rooms too. I wish I had this kind of motivation. I live within walking distance of my current LGS and don't know if I would go as often as I do if it wasn't so close. And poo poo, I'm tired on weekends and the last thing I want to do sometimes is drive somewhere to think all day.
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May 1, 2017 19:23
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What do you mean by "Valakut" deck in your sheet- Scapeshift decks, Through The Breach decks, or both? From my (limited) local observations they fare quite differently in the same environment. Also where's Mill
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May 4, 2017 01:39
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Soul Glo posted:I went 2-3 at a prerelease with a Skysovereign and the dwarf lord I went 1-2 at the Theros prerelease with 2x Stormbreath Dragon. If your bombs are the only good cards in that color, splash for that color rather than making it a key component of your deck!
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May 6, 2017 03:26
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Soul Glo posted:Oh no I had a great RW deck that looked like I brought it from home mandatory lesbian posted:i had plenty of good cards, just not the ability to play them good. still lili buys like 3 drinks for me so i'm happy with the night Oh don't get me wrong, I am God-awful at limited. I'm just commiserating.
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Oh yeah, I'm running a road race on Sunday and picked up my race gear today, and the brochure they included in my swag bag smells almost exactly like a just-opened booster pack. I feel like I need to send this to a lab of some sort to reverse-engineer the smell.
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GoutPatrol posted:Nothing draws a crowd around me like playing Modern Time Warps. I went 2-1 but got to beat an Abzan Company after they gained infinite life with an awakened inkmoth nexus. Everyone has fun except my opponents. This deck is really miserable to play against so good job being a monster I guess. There was a guy who used to show up at our store with that deck and I'll never forget the time I was playing against him as Mill. One game he had nearly decked himself but had an Awakened land in play that was going to kill me next turn. I got one more chance after he tapped my poo poo down and topdecked my lone Ghost Quarter. The next game his combo fizzled out for a turn and I dropped a Mesmeric Orb 
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JerryLee posted:Cincinnatus legendary creature looking good, Roman Republic block confirmed Would legit love to see a Roman period block but that nut was probably already busted when the Theros setting was created. Then again the thing that made Rome last so long was co-opting good poo poo from over civilizations, so you could set up a block where four colors each have their own distinct flavor and the fifth color just cribs stuff from each of them, with a little bit of its own unique stuff too.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I'm like Billy Madison going back to high school in my Trans Am and acid washed jeans. I just got crushed by a sliver deck? Things were going well until turn 6 or 7 then I got one shotted by multiple 4/4 and 5/5 first strike death touch flyers. Yeah, over the last 15-ish years creatures have generally gotten better while non-creature spells have generally gotten worse. There are obvious examples going against both of those trends, but if you look at Legacy and even Vintage very few decks are running pre-Modern creatures unless they're some sort of combo enabler (like in Legacy Elves) C-Euro fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 6, 2017 |
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Procrastinator posted:Marvel should have put permanents into play instead of casting spells. But Ulamog would still be nuts on turn 4, so who knows. As someone who plays Through the Breach in Modern, a 10+ CMC creature is ridiculous on turn 4 even if you don't cast it. Hell, a 6 CMC creature on turn 4 is still really drat good.
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May 7, 2017 23:48
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AlternateNu posted:TtB gives them haste. Turn 4 Newlamog w/o cast and w/o haste isn't crazy considering the deck building requirements needed for that to go off. That's true, but even if you just plop it into play without haste your opponent has to already be holding removal that turn or they're in huge trouble. And while I don't play Standard, everything that I've been reading in this thread tells me that removal is v bad right now.
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Tortilla Maker posted:I remember one of my opponents asking for a count of the number of cards in my deck at the Dallas Regionals in 1999. He wanted to make sure my main deck was no less than 60 cards. I need to ask this every so often when I play Mill and I'm never quite sure how to do it. I should just be writing down their deck size when it changes the way you track life total but I'm too ADD to do it consistently.
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Lone Goat posted:Just keep your picture of your girlfriend in your wallet like everyone else. Harsh
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Sickening posted:mm2017 is finally getting a little bit of relief in singles prices. Goyf is down to low 70's again. Lily to the high 50's. The rest are starting to steadily fall again. That could all change if the pro tour bombs hard and the scg tour pushes interest again. Great, just in time for all of my spare cash to go towards moving costs
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Pontius Pilate posted:It's definitely still good enough for FNM level play and it sounds right up your alley. Storm also fits the bill. Is anyone here playing Storm? I haven't seen it locally in a long time but it's it's been slowly but surely creeping up the metagame chart in MTGGoldfish. It got a huge shot in the arm in the last few months, with Baral getting printed and MM17 bringing down the price on Gifts/PiF/Tarn. If I didn't already have a bunch of decks I never play I'd be tempted to build it, it's not the type of deck I ever play. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 03:42 on May 11, 2017 |
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cheetah7071 posted:I long for the enchantment with the text "state based actions aren't checked" My question is whether or not a functional reprint of Staying Power would fly in actual Magic, even if it was a version that only stuck around for a certain number of turns. Seems like it could cause a lot of memory headaches though. E: Something like Freeze Frame XWU Enchantment ~ enters the battlefield with X time counters. During your upkeep, remove a time counter from ~ or sacrifice ~. "This turn" and "until end of turn" effects don't end. Making it only stick around for X turns means I can't go Wrath -> Silence -> ~ to lock the opponent out of the game. Although, for three cards and 7+ mana you probably should get close to winning. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 04:16 on May 12, 2017 |
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GoutPatrol posted:I'm pretty sure this type of effect can only work in an unset. I got my The Cheese Stands Alone functional reprint, let me dream dammit (yes I know that card involves a much simpler check)
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