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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Khanstant posted:

The invocations were meant to be carved into actual stone in a font nobody can read so it's amazing they compromised as far as they did

Hazoret the Pervert

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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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flatluigi posted:

i miss field decks but i assume they're too slow to hang in timeless
Field of the Dead? There are a ton of them, it's a tier deck. Primeval Titan ramp decks with bonus Natural Order.

Boco_T fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jan 16, 2024

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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If you thought this week’s Pauper event on Arena was lousy with Kiln Fiends, wait until the next one

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Cross-posting from the Arena thread.

Murders at Karlov Manor Limited Tips

Background
Have done 17 Bo1 Premier drafts in 3 days, plus two Bo3 Sealed events to start off the event. Record is bad: 38-51 in draft. Have also reviewed a lot of trophy decks across Bo1 and Bo3 draft and sealed. Finished Mythic #72 last season only to start this set out with that horrible 42% winrate.

Best Cards

Must-Play Mythics

MKM
Aurelia’s Vindicator, Intrude on the Mind, Massacre Girl Known Killer, Vein Ripper, Incinerator of the Guilty, Agrus Kor Spirit of Justice, Alquist Proft Master Sleuth, Anzrag the Quake-Mole, Etrata Deadly Fugitive, Kaya Spirits’ Justice, Rakdos Patron of Chaos, Trostani Three Whispers, Vannifar Evolved Enigma, Tomik Wielder of Law

SPG
Ghostly Prison, Victimize, Crashing Footfalls, Tireless Tracker

Must-Play Rares

Wojek Investigator, Cryptic Coat, Lost in the Maze, Steamcore Scholar, Krenko Baron of Tin Street, Krenko’s Buzzcrusher, Lamplight Phoenix, Axebane Ferox, Case of the Locked Hothouse, Aurelia the Law Above, Doppelgang, Ezrim Agency Chief, Ill-Time Explosion, Izoni Center of the Web, Kellan Inquisitive Prodigy, Teysa Opulent Oligarch, Tolsimir Midnight’s Light, Warleader’s Call

Mythic Uncommons

Neighborhood Guardian, Long Goodbye, Reckless Detective, Torch the Witness, Flourishing Bloom-Kin, Buried in the Garden, Detective’s Satchel, Lightning Helix, Private Eye, Repulsive Mutation

Great Uncommons

Call a Surprise Witness, Case of the Gateway Express, Karlov Watchdog, Perimeter Enforcer, Exit Specialist, Leering Onlooker, Soul Enervation, Undercity Eliminator, Case of the Burning Masks, Glint Weaver, Greenbelt Radical, A Killer Among Us, Coerced to Kill, Fuss // Bother, Hustle // Bustle

“Play as many as you can get” Commons

Inside Source, Makeshift Binding, Marketwatch Phantom, Novice Inspector, Projektor Inspector, Person of Interest, Shock, Loxodon Eavesdropper, Tunnel Tipster, Dog Walker, Granite Witness

“Don’t want to be in this color without at least one” Commons

Haazda Vigilante, Museum Nightwatch, Seasoned Consultant, Cold Case Cracker, Dramatic Accusation, Unauthorized Exit, Murder, Snarling Gorehound, Unscrupulous Agent, Galvanize, Red Herring, Bite Down on Crime, Nervous Gardener, Crowd-Control Warden, Gadget Technician, Escape Tunnel

“Surprisingly pull their weight” Commons

Defenestrated Phantom, Extract a Confession, Toxin Analysis, The Chase is On, Felonious Rage, Fanatical Strength, Sanguine Savior, Gravestone Strider, Sanitation Automaton

Format Tips

-Bomb rares and mythics are the #1 way to succeed in the format. If you get one of the must-play cards above, you should go out of you way to put it in your deck and build your deck around it. Chances are if you get one early, you can get another one or two later in the draft to go with it.

-You can fix for your bombs, take Escape Tunnels highly, one Public Thoroughfare is not too bad, Gravestone Strider is also premium because it filters and blocks 2/2s.

-If you don’t get a bomb, you simply must be in WR or WG if you want a chance of getting a trophy. You can also get very lucky with a great WU Detectives build, but basically all the trophy decks I saw that didn’t have a huge bomb like Izoni or Krenko or Case of the Locked Hothouse or Kellan or Doppelgang were all decks with like 3 Shocks and 4 Dog Walkers and Inside Sources buffed by Fuss // Bother or On the Job

-Best of One is not worth it in this format, it is bad EV. Because you have like a 30%+ chance of not getting a bomb, you’re going to almost always end up with a bad record with those decks. At least in Best of Three you have a chance to try again when your opponent goes Neighborhood Guardian into Trostani into Inside Source.

-The “two power or less” cards are all good because basically every card in the set has 2 power or less. That one’s obvious, but it really will own you in many games when you play.

-Black is really bad in the set outside of bombs. Murder at common ends up not mattering because there are not enough other playable cards below rare to fill up a deck.

-Cheap combat tricks are extremely important and you will get people and they will get you with them. Auspicious Arrival, Toxin Analysis, The Chase is On, Felonious Rage, and Fanatical Strength are all worth putting in your deck, and it’s worth spending 2-3 slots per deck on them.

-My best records in the 17 drafts (no trophies) had the following cards in them:

5-3 - Izoni Center of the Web, Ill-Timed Explosion, Cryptic Coat
4-3 - No bombs, 4 Red Herring, 2 Crime Novelist, 2 Harried Dronesmith
4-3 - No bombs, 3 Inside Source, WB Two Power theme
4-3 - Judith Carnage Connoisseur, Krenko’s Buzzcrusher, 2 Long Goodbye

-Decks that I thought were good that had bad records because it’s Bo1

3-3 - Aurelia the Law Above, Krenko’s Buzzcrusher
3-3 - Aurelia the Law Above, Judith Carnage Connoisseur, Ill-Timed Explosion, Hunted Bonebrute
1-3 - Rakdos Patron of Chaos, Aurelia the Law Above
3-3 - Ezrim Agency Chief, Tolsimir Midnight’s Light, Alquist Proft Master Sleuth
2-3 - Lost in the Maze, Doppelgang, Lazav Wearer of Faces, Drag the Canal
1-3 - 2x Doppelgang, Archdruid’s Charm, 2x Flourishing Bloom-Kin
1-3 - Incinerator of the Guilty, Sharp-Eyed Rookie

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

la calaca tilica y flaca
classic hoogland image, where he didnt get invited to a streamer invite tournament

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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For the next 50 hours, you can play Artisan Brawl for MWM. All commons and uncommons for both your commander and your deck. So for everyone in the thread, get busy.

I won my games with Abomination of Llanowar elfs.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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If they bring back Magic Origins they can do the remix to Chandra's Ignition

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Why are people so excited about perennially unplayable Pongify?

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Strong Sauce posted:

Jolene is an uncommon legendary


edit: is that a snake with a horse's body???

im begging of you please don’t punch my rear end

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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It will be a fun card in Timeless, you can almost make the Breach deck into mono-black. Dump a bunch of cards in the graveyard, get up to like 5 mana, cast Kaervek with some rituals and copies of Tendrils in the yard and the game is over.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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snyprmag posted:


Non-legendary Nyxthos that etbs tapped but counts tokens, hmmm.
It's a Reverse Nykthos, read it again

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Paul Cheon was talking about this on his Discord earlier too, why Green Is Good:
"i'm not really sure how there's a 4 mana 4/4 vigilance, 5 mana 5/4 trample life link, 5 mana 6/5 reach, and a 4 mana plot 5/5 all in the same color"
"to go with a great ramp creature and a premium bite spell"

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Warm P

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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The spell has two targets, so if you remove one (the creature card), it still resolves the part regarding the other half (target player).

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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Miku’s Spark is the remix to (Chandra’s) Ignition, fresh and hot from the kitchen

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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let's gooooooooo
https://twitter.com/VIZMedia/status/1786199047558037558

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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

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This is the Scryfall link for the promos from the Japanese volumes

https://scryfall.com/search?q=s:pme...r&unique=prints

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