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hey folks! it's been—*checks post history*  a while. it's been a while since I last posted in a SA Magic thread. let's leave it at that. I recently got back into the game, which seems like a good excuse to stream, I'll be streaming some standard brewing / MID drafts if you're interested in that stuff, or even if you simply want to yell at a stranger for not being a particularly powerful wizard. Maybe reminisce about how much you miss type 1.5, or how once you earned a "pro point" at a "GP," or how Shandalar remains the best piece of M:tG software ever created. For reference, I'll be testing out lists with an Esika's Chariot + Teleportation Circle + Glorious Protector core wrapped in either an Abzan or Bant shell, because I only like playing Yorion decks when nobody else is.  Edit: Done for the day—thanks for stopping by! I wound up not liking the Bant build a ton and the Junk list wound up looking like this: 
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Sealed is all the disappointment of cracking packs with all the frustration of tournaments play.
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Sep 18, 2021 21:59
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Played in the local prerelease and ended up going 1-2 with a black-white deck. My synergy came from Jadar, Dreadhound, the black adversary, and then some of the white creatures that care about creatures ETB or leaving the field. Also Adeline. It was okay, but I didn’t have a ton of removal in my packs and I tended to get steamrolled but any opponent that ran any kinds of werewolves. Turns out playing cheap creatures and then having them transform into big beasts is pretty powerful.
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Sep 18, 2021 22:05
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Pulled a Wrenn & Seven and a Moonveil Regent in my Pre-Release kit but I'm currently in lock down so it's all for naught and I'm sad on the internet.
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Sep 18, 2021 22:32
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DumbparameciuM posted:Pulled a Wrenn & Seven and a Moonveil Regent in my Pre-Release kit but I'm currently in lock down so it's all for naught and I'm sad on the internet. Those are very sweet cards.
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Sep 18, 2021 22:37
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i'm gonna suspend ancestral visions and we can hopefully all be smarter in 3 pages
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Sep 18, 2021 22:40
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my prerelease kit had foil moonveil regent and the big demon; two mythics nice; shop got us set boosters as a bonus, opened a black commander rare in it most people at the event ran Rx piles, turning creatures sideways works, who knew tracking day/night in paper was easier than I thought
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Sep 18, 2021 22:47
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fatherboxx posted:my prerelease kit had foil moonveil regent and the big demon; two mythics nice; shop got us set boosters as a bonus, opened a black commander rare in it I kept loving up and letting day turn to night while fighting werewolves. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson after the first time, but no.
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Sep 18, 2021 22:55
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mikeraskol posted:Those are very sweet cards. Yeah I'm not mad about it but it would have been nice to beat face with them. Oh well time to build a G/R landfall commander deck I guess???
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Sep 18, 2021 22:58
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TotalHell posted:I kept loving up and letting day turn to night while fighting werewolves. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson after the first time, but no. The Celestus is a great pickup no matter what you're doing in MIH draft, because it either enables your wolves or shuts off your opponent's
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Sep 18, 2021 23:03
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God I love drafting UB. This deck didn't come close to losing.  See the draft here as I switch out of Shipwreck Sifters disturb and hard in to decayed. T2 lord in to t3 Flip or Falcon, with something to do with the tokens afterwards is usually gg. With the tapper I got by without the black removal. Remember to set a stop on the damage step or end of combat to be able to cast Cobble on your tokens before the decay triggers resolve.
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Sep 19, 2021 00:05
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Silhouette posted:The Celestus is a great pickup no matter what you're doing in MIH draft, because it either enables your wolves or shuts off your opponent's Yeah, I had one in my sealed prerelease packet and just totally ignored it since my deck barely interacted with the day/night cycle.
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Sep 19, 2021 00:34
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Nothing good came in my two pre-release packs anyone else notice that the spin down die have the same red color pattern as previous packs? Was sort of hoping for like a Halloween orange this time around. Or is it just the Fat Pack boxes that have a uniquely colored spin down?
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Sep 19, 2021 01:13
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Jiro posted:Nothing good came in my two pre-release packs anyone else notice that the spin down die have the same red color pattern as previous packs? Was sort of hoping for like a Halloween orange this time around. Are the 20's not symbols any more?
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Sep 19, 2021 01:26
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Jiro posted:Nothing good came in my two pre-release packs anyone else notice that the spin down die have the same red color pattern as previous packs? Was sort of hoping for like a Halloween orange this time around. Mine was off white with black numbers.
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Sep 19, 2021 01:33
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Anyone considering playing two headed giant: I would urge you to open 2x meathook massacres to win the game on the spot repeatedly. Also learn the interaction for daybound/nightbound in 2hg (It’s neither play can cast spells to make it night, but one player is to cast two spells for it to become day)
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Sep 19, 2021 01:54
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Legacy pit open getting towards the top 8 they just lost the stream though lol
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Sep 19, 2021 01:57
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Mezzanon posted:Anyone considering playing two headed giant: I would urge you to open 2x meathook massacres to win the game on the spot repeatedly. Magic: The Gathering: If Two Players Cast No Spells, It Becomes Night
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Sep 19, 2021 01:59
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Magic: The Gathering: If Two Players Cast No Spells, It Becomes Night Wizards isn’t made an official ruling on it but I ran it up the flagpole with the local L3
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Sep 19, 2021 02:10
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I got absolutely housed yesterday playing standard vs a dude with a b/w control deck running 4xmeathook massacre and 4xwarlock class, and it made me realize that the Classes not being legendary is loving stupid
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Sep 19, 2021 02:14
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Silhouette posted:I got absolutely housed yesterday playing standard vs a dude with a b/w control deck running 4xmeathook massacre and 4xwarlock class, and it made me realize that the Classes not being legendary is loving stupid The Lands deck some goon posted a while ago occasionally gets multiple Druid Classes in play in a single turn, with enough mana to power them all up. That is the turn when you win.
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Sep 19, 2021 02:37
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Speaking of MTG advertising I remember back around like the M10 release every poster and piece of ad copy was like "YOU are a PLANESWALKER." and I wonder if that ever confused people about the rules and made them think stuff that targets planeswalkers can go face
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Sep 19, 2021 03:03
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goferchan posted:Speaking of MTG advertising I remember back around like the M10 release every poster and piece of ad copy was like "YOU are a PLANESWALKER." and I wonder if that ever confused people about the rules and made them think stuff that targets planeswalkers can go face Honestly that still fucks with me. I don't think I've ever actually misplayed because of that, but I end up doing a double take while reading cards sometimes because of that kind of flavor stuff before there were planeswalker cards.
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Sep 19, 2021 03:10
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wait, you guys are saying I can't exile my opponent, instantly ending the match as they get banished to the shadow realm?
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Sep 19, 2021 03:40
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Huh, now that I'm looking at scryfall, I didn't realize that they just went with the "anything that damages target player can also damage target planeswalker" thing for several sets; I thought that was just a way to errata pre-PW cards to give more avenues of interaction. Looks like good old Hero's Downfall was the first "target creature or planeswalker" card.
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Sep 19, 2021 03:42
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Playing a durdly UB deck with a few of the fun "exile your opponent's cards to steal them" like Rogue Class and Siphon Insight and went up against a RW burn deck that I had zero chance against for how slow I was. But then my Siphon Insight pulled his Rem Karolus while I was at 4 life with an ~okay~ board to his poor one. I cast it, because hey at least it gives me a turn while he shoots it down, before he resumes hitting me in the dome to finish the game. But it turns out he doesn't know how his own cards work, because he just kept sending his burn upstairs (to no effect) instead of killing the Rem, then I finished him off with Grazilaxx card advantage. I also got to live the dream of returning the discard 1B creature with Grazilaxx's ability.
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Sep 19, 2021 03:49
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goferchan posted:Looks like good old Hero's Downfall was the first "target creature or planeswalker" card. I think it was dreadbore.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:11
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Cactrot posted:I think it was dreadbore. You're right, that beats it, not sure what I messed up in my search.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:20
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It’s funny to think how much better the early planeswalker era would have been if the rules had allowed you to target planeswalkers with damage based spells with simple templating like they do now. Being forced to balance around burn decks really neutered red’s response to walkers.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:39
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goferchan posted:Huh, now that I'm looking at scryfall, I didn't realize that they just went with the "anything that damages target player can also damage target planeswalker" thing for several sets; I thought that was just a way to errata pre-PW cards to give more avenues of interaction. Looks like good old Hero's Downfall was the first "target creature or planeswalker" card. It was slightly more complicated than that in a way that created highly unintuitive edge cases. The Planeswalker Redirection Rule made it so whenever you targeted a player with something that would deal damage you had the option to, on resolution, have it deal damage to a Planeswalker they controlled instead. This meant you couldn't bolt a walker if they had a leyline, and that you didn't know what they were going to hit before you responded.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:42
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:and that you didn't know what they were going to hit before you responded. I did enjoy when someone would get 'caught' on tournament streams not understanding that interaction, and letting a bolt targeting the player resolve because they didn't understand the planeswalker redirection rule.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:46
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One time I had a Jace, the Mind Sculptor at 12 and I let a Lightning Bolt resolve because I forgot my life total was 3.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:48
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rinski posted:hey folks! it's been—*checks post history* Heck yeah been forever. I’ll have to check the vods.
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Sep 19, 2021 05:07
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alternate art version
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Sep 19, 2021 06:27
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I would buy secret lair: gargoyle cards but it's a picture of ron paul
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Sep 19, 2021 06:27
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My sealed pool was very nice for pre-release. And I ended up going 3:1 wins losses for my matches. Red/Green/White Werewolf Coven felt really fun, although obviously I played it more because that was what my pool had for creatures that were good and synergestic, not because three-colour will be powerful in limited.
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Sep 19, 2021 11:02
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sit on my Facebook posted:Edit; Sealed is the People's Format, truly egalitarian Sealed is the closest limited gets to mimicking Capitalism. If you’re smart and skilled, you can maybe win with a lovely pool, but the odds are against you. And anyone starting with all the bombs/removal/synergy in the world can coast to victory thinking they’re the best player in the room. (  )But every once in a while, you get the classic failson who opens the perfect pool but still scrubs out blaming everyone else for “just drawing better.”
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Sep 19, 2021 13:37
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rinski posted:hey folks! it's been—*checks post history* Oh drat, welcome back! I hope I get to catch one of your Cat Car blink deck streams.
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Sep 19, 2021 14:41
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LifeLynx posted:Oh drat, welcome back! I hope I get to catch one of your Cat Car blink deck streams. if you think anyone with that AV isn't awesome I can't help you, welcome back Rinski!
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is Annul maindeckable yet? Esika's Chariot is everywhere and I think there might be enough splash damage (Ranger Class, Portable Hole) to make interaction that's that cheap playable. obviously you're over the moon if you snag some big dumb artifact like Maul of the Skyclaves
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