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C-Euro posted:Magic: the Gathering is cool and good. Disagree. Brownhat posted:Is it worth trying to unload my playset of Bazaar of Baghdad now, since Dredge is effectively dead? Lol yes the deck that didn't even play Misstep 2 years ago is dead because some of its dredges will be minus one now.
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https://twitter.com/OwenTweetenwald/status/1166837429690494977?s=19 Huh. This might be the first actual apology I've seen for this type of thing. Also it taught me that apparently I hadn't unfollowed him on Twitter. Brownhat posted:It didn't? Because I sure remember playing at Eternal Weekend 2017 with Misstep, after seeing it start getting played in like April/May of that year. I've been defeated by rounding off a few months!!!
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Aug 28, 2019 23:33
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little munchkin posted:"For reasons completely unrelated to the failure of my rebranding attempt two days ago, I suddenly see the error of my past actions." Yeah, I mean it's not great. But it's at least an apology. Literally the first of its kind.
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Aug 29, 2019 01:37
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Owlbear Camus posted:I have a prediction for the new walker: Wild if true
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Aug 29, 2019 03:25
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teddust posted:So I'm seeing a lot of sword of light and shadow in modern, where in legacy fire and ice is the norm. What's the reason for that? True-Name.
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Aug 31, 2019 15:58
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Hellsau posted:also why the gently caress do I need to restart Arena after every 6-7 games to stop it from visibly chugging, come on Wizards It's really bad and it gets worse with every update. I can't play 2 matches now without it being almost unplayable. It was doing other weird things last night too. My sideboarding would just end with like 10 seconds left and it randomly decided that a card I had highlighted for Command the Dreadhorde wasn't actually selected even though it was glowing yellow, which led to me eventually losing a game that would have got me to gold. TheKingofSprings posted:http://www.starcitygames.com/decks/Star_City_Games_Open/2019-08-31_modern_Dallas_TX_US/1/ This is what we said all along. Batterskull is just toooo good against the turn 3.5 deck that has no way to stop a 1/2!!!
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Sep 2, 2019 01:05
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Owlbear Camus posted:MTG Arena is (for all our complaining) a reasonably good digital implimentation of standard and will let you jam out at all hours practicing evaluating the game state, choosing lines of play, and other skills that will translate however you end up playing. Seconding Arena being a decent way to get into the game. Just be aware that if current trends persist, you'll need a supercomputer to run it by the end of the year. I also would strongly recommend against drafting on Arena. It's fun in person with some friends though.
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Sep 3, 2019 00:17
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Hellsau posted:Yeah playing a bunch of Omniscience drafts reminded me just how much I hate bot drafts. The cards you want in Omniscience drafts are mostly garbage, so it's fine, but you get to see how absurd the individual card rankings are. Like, Unsummon is some sort of insanely high pick for the bots. I got a 3rd pack 8th pick Overcome and I'm just trying to figure how that would ever be possible. The first pick was an insane bomb and the other 6 bots weren't in green? From the same pack, my rare was the green leyline which did not wheel. 
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Sep 3, 2019 01:22
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The WAR planeswalkers were a test run for getting rid of artifacts, enchantments, instants, and sorceries and replacing them with planeswalkers
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Sep 4, 2019 04:23
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Framboise posted:show me the faeries wotc Wotc: ok https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDmGr1HWwAEgaVG?format=jpg&name=large Edit: also a 2/2 flying faerie for UG that taps for U/G suicidesteve fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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Sep 4, 2019 06:12
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This Brawl thing is by a huge amount the most unfun event they've ever had on Arena.
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Sep 5, 2019 07:32
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fadam posted:I get that there are different strokes for different folks, and I understand that Magic is a game that appeals to a broad spectrum of interests, but I will never understand why people like singleton lmfao. What is the appeal of Magic with the worst part (variance) cranked up? I guess I've only played it during arena events, so maybe its a lot better with a tuned deck. One of the things I like is you get to play with and against the sweet cards that weren't quite good enough. Something like Dovin Baan or Mu Yanling that just aren't quite good enough for their format, or just have better options. Or if you're playing a deck built around a commander, you find weird build around cards that didn't have enough support.
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Sep 5, 2019 19:13
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Tainen posted:If any of the Brawl exclusive cards break into standard... Lol that mana rock is going to be $15.
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Sep 6, 2019 19:43
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I can't be the only one who wants his "on an adventure" card to have 3 unicorns, right?uggy posted:God those names all suck, it’s the normal sit around making puns poo poo like har har look at how loving smart we are, we came up with names literally anybody could with the task “name a female gingerbread person” also maybe toss a got name in there They own actually
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Sep 6, 2019 21:34
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ShadeofBlue posted:Oh I know what the principle is, I'm just saying that it doesn't work very well in my experience. Ranger-Captain doesn't really time walk the opponent unless they literally have neither a creature, nor any instants. That's not a particularly common scenario. As for the mana, Grixis is Dimir + battle rage, so it's not any different. 2WW Hatred with protection included is powerful
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Sep 7, 2019 08:13
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It's so you can see what cards you draw before choosing what you target. See also: Dream Eater, Hypothesizzle. This isn't hard to figure out
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Sep 7, 2019 22:56
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Drewjitsu posted:Right, player b said that the attacking creature would put 2 damage on each creature and then he would dive down one of them to prevent it from being destroyed. Which is impermissible via the rules, due to damage not going on the stack. If you're letting damage happen, the creatures die. Damage doesn't go on the stack, but you choose the order to assign lethal damage before you do damage. So it sounds like nobody here really know how combat works. The short version: attacker chooses which creature to take damage first. Blocker casts Dive Down targeting a creature. Damage is assigned, with lethal needing to be assigned to the first creature before any others can be assigned damage. So the blocker should have targeted the first creature to keep both alive, but apparently they targeted the second one.
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Sep 7, 2019 22:59
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Jabor posted:The whole point of templating it that way is so that your opponent can't kill whatever you're targeting in order to deny you your card draw. Not necessarily. They still print cards like Ral's Outburst that can be countered by removing the target. It's usually on cards that draw or otherwise look at cards before doing the damage so you can look at the cards before doing the damage. AFAIK this kind of trigger started with Keranos.
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Sep 7, 2019 23:02
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Sampatrick posted:3 mana teferi is in standard Dies to rider
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Elyv posted:https://twitter.com/kobelianinc/status/1171096254819864576 You expected consistency from WotC?
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Sep 9, 2019 18:29
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Huxley posted:Can you only choose because both halves are <4? Or can you Bloodbraid into the Goldilocks card and choose to cast the three bears? The reason seems to be because. Seriously. You can't cascade into other split cards with BBE because it sees them as the combination of their costs. These ones are different because.
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Sep 9, 2019 18:32
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rkajdi posted:Is that meaningful tribal hate for modern too? It might be okay, but I’m not sure if it h ate out and plague engineer. It's no Plague Engineer, that's for sure. sit on my Facebook posted:The thing to remember is that it's not actually this ruling that's the dumb one, it's the split card ruling that is bad Yeah. This one is good imo. The rule change that killed bird brains made no sense to me.
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Sep 9, 2019 19:04
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Morophon is a peasant serf now. Peasant Serf Lord.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:37
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Owlbear Camus posted:You know, I could poo poo on that flavor text but I'd rather they feel free to tee off and occasionally trip over their dick into sub dad joke level humor than feel like they gotta play it straight. They already did this flavor text on Onslaught. I'm 100% on board with reusing bad jokes.
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Sep 12, 2019 00:41
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Into the Story. 5UU instant Draw 4. Costs 3 less if an opponent has 7+ cards in their graveyard.
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Sep 12, 2019 01:12
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InterrupterJones posted:How many times has Shaheen Soorani written an article with the title "Card X is the finisher control is looking for" over the years? Has he ever written a different article? His whole schtick is "buy this terrible card from SCG to play a bad control deck that I won't be playing at the SCG Tour in *city nowhere near you*
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Sep 13, 2019 20:55
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Owlbear Camus posted:Am I the only one who occasionally goes to flea markets and garage sales with the fantasy of a "yard sale find" of some old shoebox with some beat up OG duals interspersed among the wood elementals and living walls, or a sealed box of some old set? No. And please do not disparage Living Wall. He has feelings. A guy at my store last year found a box at Goodwill with, among a bunch of junk, 1 of each grixis dual for like $5. They were Beta.
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Sep 14, 2019 22:10
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Experimental Frenzy's still legal! Turn 4, cast Fires of Invention, cast Experimental Frenzy for free. It's almost TOO good.
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Sep 14, 2019 22:21
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AlternateNu posted:Wait. I didn't play that early in the game's life. There was a point when state-based effects weren't checked until the stack was empty? The old rules were a disaster that I've never really understood, but I can tell you that at one point in the game if there was a Lightning Bolt and a Giant Growth targeting the same Grizzly Bear, that Grizzly Bear would not die regardless of the order in which they were cast.
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Sep 14, 2019 23:52
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nrook posted:Did any successful deck ever use Time Vault “honestly”, by banking turns and spending them later? It’s hard to envision. People have taken extra turns with it in a fair way, but no deck has ever put it in the deck to be used fairly.
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little munchkin posted:that particular example is really nonsensical though. people aren't sideboarding in unmoored ego against the grindy control/midrange decks that run command. They absolutely are. They shouldn't be, but those are completely different things.
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Rare land spoiled. ETBT, taps for black, 1BB: tap, draw a card and lose 1 life for each card in your hand. Edit: ETBT unless you control a swamp. It's hard to read the crappy picture I saw. suicidesteve fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:E: Didn't it recently get a near-functonal reprint that was basically that, a draft dross uncommon, complete with an art throwback reference or am I having a stroke? Plague Sliver a while ago, and there's a red uncommon Juzam in Horizons.
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Sep 17, 2019 19:47
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Sep 18, 2019 05:58
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Tubgoat posted:The precise word to describe my feelings regarding Spirits is most easily pronounced by a freight train crashing through a full maternity ward. Lol what
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Sep 18, 2019 06:20
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3 mana 2/3s: notoriously hard to deal with in Magic: the Gathering.
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ShaneB posted:I throw away all commons. This is not a lie. Bulk is literal trash and should be removed from your mental baggage. I keep cards that can be big for casual. Stuff like slivers, sacrifice cards, etc. that can be $1 in a few years. The rest I just leave on the counter for my LGS to deal with. Uncommons I keep anything that could be playable but still most of it never leaves the store.
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Sep 19, 2019 15:48
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Tainen posted:This seems super strong You can Ghostly Flicker this and an Astrolabe, stack the triggers so you draw after putting this on top, and get +1 storm for every 2U you have! I do wonder if this will be playable in some kind of pauper Tron build. Needing 3 islands is a pretty big downside, but it's not like Tron hasn't played Mortuary Mire in the past.
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So I drafted a Gargos. It's a mediocre BG deck until it draws Gargos, and then the game just ends. It's messed up.
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Star Man posted:Could have been worse. You could have been trying to learn Japanese through anime. Or Russian through Magic cards.
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