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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Firebatgyro posted:

So I just moved down to Northern VA, whats the best place to go for pre-release around here?
All the shops are about the same, pretty good and the same pools of players. I'd say go to whatever's closest to you between:
Victory Comics
The Island Games
Curio Cavern
Comics and Gaming Fairfax

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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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http://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/855450003631767552
Dang It I Was Beaten

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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When you say "lobby games," his recorded non-League matches are always in the 2-player queue so at least he has a stake, even if it's $2/20PP. That's why the videos for Much Abrew or whatever always end in the window with 30 or 5 PPs showing.

He's not just in the Tournament Practice room, and I also think he does it to make it easier to cut duplicate match-ups out so you don't just get Leagues where he faces 2 Dredge 2 Burn and Affinity.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Procrastinator posted:

Thank you. I was legitimately just fishing for your differing opinion. I agree that karsten's list is pretty bad. There's no real reason to read limited or deckbuilding articles between set release and pro tour, sadly.
Ixlan Content is going to be so bad, two months between release and tour

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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I wish I could get to a shop in 5 minutes or less, I live in NoVA and there's a lot of good shops but somehow I ended up where I can't get to an FNM in less than 25 minutes on a Friday night. And after a full week of work, I've gotten tired of doing that.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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I live in Reston so I would play there every single week for sure. There are a lot of vacant places here.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Sickening posted:

It seems WOTC has done a great job of making the vods of everything sorted well. They are already all up for today.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/142445814

that is the zombies deck tech for those curious.
Still can't play back Twitch videos at any speed other than 1x, too bad, I don't have 5 hours to watch Standard.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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HOLY poo poo he did a TED TALK about the walking up stairs backwards thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OKUMmA0G6M

EDIT: Never mind it's a "TED x" which is like the Star City Tour of Ted Talks

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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They got rid of Modern because it didn't show enough new cards on the stream, so anything after that point wasn't going to contradict that it's more of a commercial than a legit competition

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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SCAMaz has NO BUSINESS Being On The Pro Tour
https://twitter.com/Amaz/status/867839308090101761

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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the two tix deck is up to 17 tix

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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https://twitter.com/SaffronOlive/status/871437903322390533

https://twitter.com/SaffronOlive/status/871438252024242176

Wizards L.o.l.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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there's a heaven for a G

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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goth smoking cloves posted:

Actually there are 69 cards left according to mtgsalvation.
nice

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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From my Timehop, 3 years ago

https://twitter.com/owentweetenwald/status/489488624850051072

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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mandatory lesbian posted:

I checked again and there's one in DC like right there on the page, I'm blind

Yeah and the standard one is in like a month or whatever. I haven't played Magic in months but I guess I can scrounge the $50 mono red deck to play in the GP since the Dulles Expo Center is closer to my house than any LGS I could attend FNM at

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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ShaneB posted:

I basically can't watch live magic anymore, the breaks are too uninteresting and frequent.
You, and many others in this thread may be interested to know that they FINALLY added playback speed to Twitch, so you will be able to fire up the delayed or archived feed and skip all the garbage and watch it at 2x, in theory.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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I see that Amaz made day 2, glad The Web got so mad at Wizards

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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BJPaskoff posted:

The Approach UW deck has no win conditions other than resolving an Approach. Decklist is on DailyMTG.
It also only costs like $70, at least when I ordered all the cheap cards in it like an hour ago. I think I'm going to play it at GP DC.

(Note I did not get 2 Gearhulks for the sideboard, that would be another $40 or whatever, I'll just put some cheap crap in its place. The list that got 28th didn't have the hulks.)

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Count Bleck posted:

I too, have forgotten what Cavern of Souls does.
The teen that won that match on Jeskai is the local "Best Teen in the Store" that I have posted about occasionally over the last few years. Although now that he's been to like 4 Pro Tours and Day 2-ed 3 of them, he's more like the local "Best Magic Player in the Region"

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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I have put WU Approach into sleeves and I am going to play in GP DC (and some Standard events tomorrow) with it. I have played in 3 sanctioned Magic events so far in 2017, along with a good amount of Duels back in the first few months of the year. While I am familiar enough with the meta because I watch Saffron Olive, I hope I can mostly coast by on the fact that I play Hearthstone every day to make up for the fact that I haven't been able to reliably get out to FNM in a year and a half.

I should note that the Dulles Expo Center is closer to my house than any local game shop that I could go to for FNM.

Good luck to the other goons this weekend!

EDIT: The last time I played organized Standard was 12/27/2015, and so far in the 3 events I've played in 2017 (none since April) my record is 1-1-6. Lmao I'm a mark for paying good money to enter these events.

Boco_T fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Sep 1, 2017

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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The power is out in the Dulles Expo Center

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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80s James Hetfield posted:

Do they not stream any of the day one events?
Friday of a GP is side events and trials only

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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The DC one is only just at the end of round 2 anyway

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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As someone who sold his Horizon Canopies to a vendor at GP DC, I am a genious

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Omar al-Bishie posted:

I'm interested in a white soldier or human deck tribal build, are either of these potentially competitive? I brought my white weenie deck to FNM and lost every match
This one is solid on a budget and has videos to show you how it plays
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/budget-magic-93-20-tix-mono-white-humans-modern

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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No you can't

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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If you're trying to make fun of amped up (and horned up) Saffron Olive present day he'd be yelling DICK multiple times every other game

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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I guess I should have expected it considering it was the Ixalan survey and not something else but I realized I got to the end and they never gave me a box to say what I actually wanted to say: that FNM should be on Saturday or Sunday afternoon (and a shop needs to open closer to my house)

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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I got the invite

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Saffron Olive votes for Binding over Cast Out

https://twitter.com/SaffronOlive/status/923942261255299073

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Target has 25% off toys today only and toys includes Magic cards

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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http://twitter.com/cavemankellen/status/932385808379777030

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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The Chupacabra Rant is extremely good

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Rinkles posted:

Anything special about the two Jeskai control decks in the top 8? Just had a good run or something more?
Ben’s the teen I’ve know for like 4 years at this point, he’s always run UR Control in Modern and he’s been to like 4 Pro Tours so he’s just very very good at Magic and Modern specifically.
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/player/Benjamin%20Nikolich

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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MTGO Traders and Cardhoarder are good because you can buy the cards and then sign into MTGO and it delivers the cards by robot

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Thisuck posted:

Reprint this badass mofo

Now that it's 23 years later, they should make a functional reprint of this card in Dominaria named Viejo

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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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The problem is that the reward dole out is such that it will take several weeks to get a playset of one mythic rare.

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