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Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

80s James Hetfield posted:

Yeah but if you take pride in winning because you beat someone at an LGS tourney where they're playing a Tier 2.5-3 deck and you're playing a Tier 1 (because you can afford it and they can't) you're kind of a grognard

That's completely different than somebody using fake cards.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 20:08

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:18

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Also with Unlife, if someone deals more damage than your life total from a single source, you'll end up in negatives.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 20:25

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

This FNM change is going to be a non-factor for the majority of stores. The type of people who specifically come to FNM for the good promos are usually the types of people I'd rather not have come to FNM at all.

Those basic lands will be the only ones I use if I can get enough of them. The scheduling restrictions on Standard Showdown are stupid, and actively hurting the event type as a whole. There are too many events on any given Saturday.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 00:14

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Sickening posted:

The issue most people have with this change is that the decision is so comically bad.

I'm not convinced it is.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 00:40

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

sit on my Facebook posted:

I actually rather like the idea of double faced tokens being promos and I'm also reasonably sure that enough people are going to vociferously bitch about this on Twitter that it'll be undone in a month and then they'll already have the double faced tokens to give out anyways so it's like win-win

Also new Standard seems sweet, scgcin had a ton of cool lists

The format always looks fun until the Pro Tour.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 01:02

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Ein Sexmonster posted:

Survived but stagnant in the same timeframe where magic grew massively.

The advantage Magic has is that it's not tied to a separate IP. The Pokemon TCG lost momentum back when people still considered Pokemon to be strictly a child's thing. Now it's picked up momentum again. Although YGO's problems stem from being run by Konami, which is a shitshow of a company.

Force of Will had a legit chance, in spite of it's cringey art, until bad decision after bad decision killed the playerbase's trust in the company.

Oh, and becoming a Force of Will judge was hilariously convoluted and frustrating.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 03:22

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Sickening posted:

Becoming a magic judge is still a shitshow for what it is.

No, it isn't.

To become a Force of Will judge, you had to volunteer (without any compensation) at one of their AGP events. Then you had to pass a rules test, which includes questions about rules that aren't even used in the game anymore. Also, that test has to be translated twice. First from Japanese to Italian, then from Italian to English. The person testing you doesn't even have the answer key: The Italian judge guy has it. The person testing you has to take a picture of your answer sheet and send it to the Italian.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 03:34

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Sickening posted:

Of course it is. The mentoring system is designed to keep it clique-y and at its lowest levels is pretty pointless. (What reason is there outside of being a store employee for being a level 1 judge?). The road to being a level 2 judge is paved with rear end kissing and volunteered time. Despite the written core values and all the smiles, there is definitely benefits to current l2/l3 judges to making the process for new judges suck.

So you couldn't pass the L1 test? Got it.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 04:05

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Sickening posted:

I am sure its really hard. How could anyone not respect the rules knowledge of the judge system when l3's don't know how path to exile works.

It's not hard at all. So where does all this bitterness towards the judge program come from?

What's the Path to Exile story?

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 04:17

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Hellsau posted:

Where's the poster with the relentlessly positive gimmick? I want the upside for the FNM changes.

People will only complain about what the promo is four times a year instead of twelve?

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 04:20

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

So far in our new era of CFB GPs:

Less Judge comp
Higher vendor prices ($6000 for a booth)

# ¿ Sep 23, 2017 00:55

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

BJPaskoff posted:

Link for the judge comp stuff?

From the Judgeapps posting for GP Santa Clara:

# ¿ Sep 23, 2017 05:42

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

PJOmega posted:

Yeah I'm gonna call bullshit unless all the LGSs in the PNW started buying their stock off Amazon for some reason.

Yeah, that's bull. The store I work at orders direct and they're still garbage.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 22:21

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Zerilan posted:

Checked mtggoldish and looks like $700-2k for any of the actual meta decks and $60-100 for the budget. Trying to find some ones in the budget deck that might be somewhat competitive at local modern tournaments and maybe have some overlap with one of the higher end meta decks to put me partway though building one.

Dunno if I'll touch standard at all unless I really get back into going to tournaments (casual play around here is almost entirely modern and commander). I just know that if I get back into the at all I'll at least want to build something I can at least pick up the occasional win with at local tournaments and poo poo, since I know once I get into any game I get into a competitive mindset about it.

Storm is a good deck and is pretty cheap, as far as meta decks go. If I build another deck it will probably be that Serum Powder Eldrazi.

Standard is actually pretty good right now. I'm gonna miss Approach of the Second Sun in the fall.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2018 00:31

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

suicidesteve posted:

Cavern was also printed between everyone leaving for Mirrodin block and coming back for Zendikar block so there might have been less opened.

Yeah, it's very much this.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2018 00:55

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

socialsecurity posted:

Did not expect to see T1 contructed decks with my first matches with a precon, are people just dumping insane amounts of money from the moment they start?

It's been insanely easy to plus on drafts, so it doesn't necessarily cost a lot of money.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2018 02:01

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

C-Euro posted:

The wording on Mission Briefing means you can pay alternate costs for the card you cast, right?

Yep. It's also not Flashback, so if the card would go somewhere other than your graveyard (Buyback, for example), it doesn't get exiled.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2018 23:18

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

It's really frustrating how low effort this official Arena stream is.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2018 21:47

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Angry Grimace posted:

I figured they would at the least explain that jewel but it never really was explained

Maybe Bolas just thought it was pretty?

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 01:01

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Angry Grimace posted:

He gave his spark to Karn as he died. Karn has many sparks. Maybe he could find the spark that Glissa had, which she gave to Slobad, which then ???

Slobad gave it up so all the people kidnapped by the Mirari could be returned home.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 01:27

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

https://blouke.blogspot.com/2018/12/never-ever-be-same.html

AJ Sacher's ex posted about what a piece of poo poo he was to her.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 22:41

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Angry Grimace posted:

I don't know why people keep insisting BO1 grinds rewards "faster" than BO3 because it doesn't do that the way people keep implying it does. Game wins in Bo3 count the same as game wins in Bo1.

Bo1 events are finished in fewer games than Bo3.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 23:44

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

ShaneB posted:

Exactly. I don't understand why this matters even to the "magic community"

A professional player with multiple GP and SCG Open Top 8s, including 2 Open wins. A writer for multiple Magic sites, and a streamer.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 00:30

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

The Wicked Wall posted:

Can anyone explain why modern GR tron fell out of favour for mono-G? Getting my Karns while they're cheaper and I realized I'll have everything needed for the current lists.

suicidesteve posted:

Red doesn't really add anything but does give you a crippling weakness to colored mana issues.

Pretty much this. The only thing the red was good for were sweepers, and Oblivion Stone and Ugin are just better sweepers in the current meta.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 00:41

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

AnEdgelord posted:

The bo1 ranked thing is just a test run people, stop freaking out

Are you new to this thread? Freaking out is what we do.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 00:04

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Rinkles posted:

Poland is statistically overrepresented (cool). Afaik, till recently we barely had any respectable PT finishes.

Also, where's LSV? Conflict of interest because of Dire Wolf?

It's literally the top 33 ranked pros from the last year, minus one person who either refused or wasn't offered a spot.

Baeckstrom is the missing person from the top 32.

Brownhat fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Dec 14, 2018

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 22:12

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

ShaneB posted:

I'm really surprised Baeckstrom wouldn't accept a contract.

Also, it's pretty wild that Andy B was beating me in a PPTQ 4 years ago and now is one of the top players, and I'm still occasionally winning a modern event at my LGS.

I think my least favorite thing about working for an LGS is never getting to play FNM.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 22:21

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

"Read each addendum card carefully so you know exactly how each one works. The word "instead" in the addendum ability indicates a self-replacement effect, meaning you won't get the base effect, just the upgraded one."

I'm really curious what they're gonna do with this. There's no reason to explain instead being in Addendum text if they didn't use it on a card.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2018 05:47

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

What happened to Teysa

Last time we saw her, she was being locked up by the Ghost Council. Odds are she gets her job back after Kaya does her thing, since Teysa understands all the complex laws in Ravnica.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2018 00:06

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Yeah, you can get a lot of actually playable cards on Arena for free.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Arena streamers usually have a bunch of codes to give away, if they do new decks that will probably be how they get disseminated

Also they had a code to get a bunch of free playables for the Game Awards, so expect them to do that from time to time as well.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 14:43

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Time posted:

Lol that the token has a double chin

I mean, Andrew Jessup has a double chin. This is easily one of the best drawn SCG tokens ever.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 23:02

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Khagan posted:

Why is the flavor text of this missing Tezzeret

Because Tezzeret isn't on Ravnica.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 18:06

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

https://twitter.com/GavinVerhey/status/1083803959716769792

I guess Challenger decks are back in April.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2019 22:30

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Khagan posted:

Anybody got the frilled mystic tempo lists from SCG?

So there were a bunch of lists in Gerry's article, so I guess I'll post em all?
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4 Warrant
4 Growth Spiral
4 Frilled Mystic
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
1 Dream Eater
2 Blink of an Eye
4 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
2 Settle the Wreckage
4 Hinterland Harbor
2 Sunpetal Grove
2 Glacial Fortress
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Breeding Pool
4 Temple Garden
2 Syncopate
4 Forest
1 Island
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Opt
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4 Frilled Mystic
3 Deputy of Detention
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
4 Warrant
3 Dovin, Grand Arbiter
2 District Guide
2 Blink of an Eye
3 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
2 Dive Down
3 Chart a Course
4 Hinterland Harbor
2 Sunpetal Grove
4 Breeding Pool
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Temple Garden
1 Island
1 Plains
2 Syncopate
4 Forest
4 Llanowar Elves
-------------------------------------------------------
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
4 Warrant
4 Frilled Mystic
3 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
2 Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage
4 Merfolk Trickster
4 Wizard's Retort
2 Settle the Wreckage
2 Chart a Course
4 Hinterland Harbor
4 Glacial Fortress
2 Sunpetal Grove
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Breeding Pool
4 Temple Garden
3 Island
2 Syncopate
4 Opt
--------------------------------------------------------
4 Frilled Mystic
4 Deputy of Detention
4 Hero of Precinct One
3 Depose
4 Warrant
3 Dovin, Grand Arbiter
1 Assure
4 Discovery
3 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
2 Dive Down
4 Hinterland Harbor
2 Sunpetal Grove
2 Glacial Fortress
4 Breeding Pool
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Temple Garden
4 Forest
4 Llanowar Elves
----------------------------------------------------------
4 Pteramander
4 Frilled Mystic
4 Warrant
3 Growth-Chamber Guardian
4 Quench
4 Growth Spiral
1 Chemister's Insight
1 Blink of an Eye
3 Dive Down
4 Chart a Course
4 Hinterland Harbor
1 Sunpetal Grove
4 Breeding Pool
4 Temple Garden
9 Island
2 Forest
4 Opt
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4 Growth Spiral
4 Frilled Mystic
2 Lava Coil
2 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
4 Wizard's Retort
1 Blink of an Eye
1 Wizard's Lightning
4 Merfolk Trickster
2 Unclaimed Territory
2 Dive Down
1 Chart a Course
4 Sulfur Falls
4 Hinterland Harbor
2 Rootbound Crag
4 Breeding Pool
4 Steam Vents
4 Stomping Ground
2 Syncopate
2 Island
3 Shock
4 Opt
-------------------------------------------------------
4 Growth Spiral
4 Frilled Mystic
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
2 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
4 Lava Coil
2 Expansion
2 Blink of an Eye
2 Dive Down
4 Sulfur Falls
4 Hinterland Harbor
3 Rootbound Crag
4 Breeding Pool
4 Stomping Ground
4 Steam Vents
2 Syncopate
3 Island
4 Shock
4 Opt
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4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
3 Drill Bit
4 Frilled Mystic
2 Doom Whisperer
2 District Guide
4 Thief of Sanity
2 Cast Down
3 Dive Down
2 Hostage Taker
2 Chart a Course
2 Vraska's Contempt
4 Hinterland Harbor
2 Woodland Cemetery
4 Breeding Pool
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Watery Grave
1 Swamp
2 Syncopate
4 Forest
1 Island
4 Llanowar Elves
-------------------------------------------------------
4 Frilled Mystic
3 Growth-Chamber Guardian
4 Pteramander
3 Lava Coil
3 Ionize
4 Risk Factor
1 Blink of an Eye
2 Dive Down
4 Chart a Course
4 Sulfur Falls
4 Hinterland Harbor
2 Rootbound Crag
4 Breeding Pool
4 Stomping Ground
4 Steam Vents
2 Island
4 Shock
4 Opt

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 17:44

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Errant Gin Monks posted:

I can�t get past Platinum tier one on the BO1 ladder and I want to break something. BO1 sucks

I heard from several streamers that they had to bite the bullet and play mono red to get through plat.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 17:55

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Errant Gin Monks posted:

It�s a very lovely prize for the work. Some guy did the math and assuming a 55% win rate it�s like 862 games to mythic.

That's why most people stop at Diamond, where I think the reward is like 4 packs and 1000 gold?

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 18:37

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

Ok but you get over a thousand gold a day for nothing so clearly that isn't the real prize, which will probably be pro tour invites eventually.

It's the only reward they advertised, but it might also be super low because this isn't an official season, either. I would guess Mythic is required to play in the million dollar event at PAX East.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 18:58

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

A Moose posted:

There will never be pro tour invites for Bo1.

There will almost assuredly be a path to pro tour invites through Arena.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 19:46

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

Tainen posted:

- Duplicate protection is being implemented for rares and mythics.

loving FINALLY.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 21:14

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:18

Brownhat: Jan 25, 2012; One cannot be a good person and enforce unjust laws.

The game one deck being random will most likely result in all the MPL players running two of the same deck.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 23:49

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