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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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BizarroAzrael posted:What do people feel about the soulbond mechanic from Avacyn Restored? Think only the double strike one saw some constructed play, it's hard to think of it outside a bad format. Just seems like it's a mechanic previously seen on Innisrad that could work with the wedding theme of Crimson Vow. Maybe a different implementation beyond both bonded cards getting a keyword for the most part. The card draw, flicker, haste, and double strike ones saw play, I thought.
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Sep 25, 2021 02:07
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Back in the day, I used to be able to squeeze some entertainment out of lovely lopsided standard formats by listening to PSully and Cedric bitch about them on SCG coverage. Ah, the era of RTR/Theros devotion decks was a thing to behold.  Now, I don't even have that.
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Sep 30, 2021 22:56
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Yawgmoth posted:Oh man, I (partially) remember that DBZ game. It had five different colors of fighting styles and there was no cost to just running anything you wanted, but iirc you got some kind of bonus for sticking to one color? And all the orange cards were waaaaaayyyyyyyy better than anything else. A friend and I each bought a starter deck and like $10 of discount boosters at walgreens and I opened the super-mega-ultra rare Goku that was allegedly like $120. I traded it to the LGS for a box of Odyssey and saw it sit there in the case until they went out of business because the owner flat out refused to have any space for people to play at all ever and treated anyone who wanted to browse/buy anything that wasn't baseball cards like poo poo. The DBZ game was great but had some massive flaws. The funniest one was when the Cell Saga set came out and they printed Android 18 with a static ability that let you scry 6 before entering combat. (You drew three cards before combat each turn you had the initiative.) So everyone literally had to play Android 18 if you wanted to win purely through card selection. Tack on that Orange was more-or-less DBZ’s blue with all the best generic counters, Orange 18 became The Deck. Near the end of the game’s life (right before it extended to DBGT), they gave up and just hard coded the scry 6 into the rules. 
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Oct 4, 2021 21:06
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Luminous Mothra card with Power Conduit is my favorite janky combo that came out of Ikoria. It’s like a better undying/persist.
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Oct 5, 2021 15:52
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PleasantDirge posted:Do it D&D style and give cards abilities like "The filthiest" and "chicken fucker" and I'm 100% in on the John Waters collection. We only do 3 things in Maryland: Crab cakes, FTFY
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Oct 16, 2021 01:19
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The Dragon Shield sealable perfect fit inners are the top of the market right now.
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Oct 24, 2021 01:13
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mandatory lesbian posted:Has something like "Target artifact creature is no longer an artifact" been done before? Oko does this, technically.
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Oct 26, 2021 02:07
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The World Inferno posted:clues draw cards, treasure adds mana, food adds life... what else is there to token? Probably a super generic 1/1 right? That’s just a servo. Or the colorless Kamigawa spirits.
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Oct 26, 2021 11:40
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Huxley posted:What is the most explicitly hetero relationship in the game? I guess we have a wedding in this set, but other than that?  
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Oct 30, 2021 15:23
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meanolmrcloud posted:In the previous set, there was a 3/4 for 5 that generated 2 2/2’s and it was maybe the best common in the best color. There was also a 3/3 for 4 that gave a 1/1 in a medium color. The latter was rarely played, because a 3/3 body was almost as useless as a 1/1. I could see this being as good as diregraf horde. You forgot that it also nuked graves.
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Oct 31, 2021 00:55
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lol. This is better than Memory Deluge half the time and printed at common.
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Sampatrick posted:Which is all almost irrelevant because Memory Deluge is way better in most situations Memory Deluge is 2UU and puts the remaining cards at the bottom. Scattered Thoughts only has one colored pip, doesn’t get worse with cost reducers, and dumps the remainders in the grave. Unless you routinely get to a point where you’re flashing back Deluge for 7, Scattered Thoughts is the better card.
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Nov 1, 2021 16:53
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What the gently caress is that?! 
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Nov 1, 2021 16:56
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Lone Goat posted:not excited about a 7 drop that requires me to have even more lands in hand to do anything worthwhile This card is basically “draw until you have X nonlands in hand where X is the number of cards in hand.” You’re guaranteed to keep the same hand size only you get to turn all your land cards into gas.
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I’d love to see the population statistics of Innistrad, a plane that has gone through three apocalyptic events over 15 years on top of the already insane mortality rate of three intelligent species constantly hunting each other with a dash of zombies and psycho cannibal axe murderers added in.
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Nov 5, 2021 12:16
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Who do I have to suck off at WOTC to get an MTGA sealed event? Sealed is just the worst format, though. 
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Nov 5, 2021 16:10
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The Shortest Path posted:Rats are monoblack. Squirrels are almost entirely green, with a small black splash for variety. If rats were to get a secondary color, it should be green. It would make sense that the two major rodent classes overlap slightly.
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Nov 11, 2021 03:49
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LennyBriscoCountyJr posted:Three total RB rats. 2 from the original Ravnica block and 1 from Alara block. Yeah, and the Rakdos ones are obviously red due to an elemental affiliation with fire and Lyzolda. Saucer Crab posted:Mad Ratter is a red card that spits out black rats. And Underworld Hermit is a black card that spits out green squirrels. 
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Nov 11, 2021 15:59
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flatluigi posted:yeah i don't really see the huge upside of a 3/3 for 3 that conditionally drains for 1 per turn, that conditionally is a 4/4 that can drain for 2 It's the Ward - Discard. That's kind of nuts for a three drop that's already on curve + additional upside.
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Nov 13, 2021 03:06
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The World Inferno posted:Went to buy a draft booster box of Crimson Vow and my LGS was selling it for $140. Is that actually what they're selling for now generally? Online I'm seeing it closer to a hundred. You can get them for $95+tax on eBay from legit sellers. It's not a very valuable set. Edit: Unless they're selling them with the box topper, which is probably another $20 value. Soooooo... AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Nov 21, 2021 |
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Nov 21, 2021 00:34
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Eej posted:Diamond is usually meta hell, 98% Mythic and lower is gently caress around town. This is why I don't really play much past making platinum. I know mythic is attainable by anyone with half decent skill, but I just don't have the time or patience to grind up through platinum and diamond.
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Nov 23, 2021 02:38
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I got my booster today and fully expect to spend all day tomorrow faffing about on Arena while shivering uncontrollably. 
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I braved all four days of New York Comic Con a few weeks back and came out unscathed. But yeah. It all comes down to a personal choice.
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HootTheOwl posted:Hullbreaker is worse than Tidespout right? Or the same teir since Tidespout can hit lands? All Hullbreacher fits where exactly. Hall of the Storm Giants is a land, so it doesn't cost a card, the various planeswalkers cost less, so I assume some sort of tron/reanimator? Double U for U tron isn't too bad, and they do run a whole lot of cheap U spells to get the triggers. I've also seen them run Tidespout so if it finds a home that seems like the best one. I haven’t seen a Mono-U Tron deck in the wild (either through my own play or from any Modern streamer I watch) in almost two years.  On a completely different note, I wonder how long it will take Modern players to realize Subtlety was designed to be The counter to the other pitch elementals and actually play it in blue control decks alongside Force of Negation.
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Nov 26, 2021 14:01
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Goa Tse-tung posted:the real bonus and reason to buy a bundle is the box itself Those removal insert box thingies that have been in the newer bundles for the last couple years are great. They fit my double sleeved, foiled, EDH deck perfect when no other box, professionally manufactured or otherwise, have fit it.
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I’ve never liked Vial as a card, but I accept it CoCo surpassed it as the instant speed weenie card a while ago.
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disaster pastor posted:There are two reasons I look back fondly on RTR/Theros Standard, because I am a monster: Cloudfin Raptor is bae.
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Strong Sauce posted:here it is, would be interested in what people would build with this. Your R removal is phenomenal, and the creature curve isn't bad. I would've done R/B or R/U. Your U pool is shallower but more powerful than B just off the two U rares. Your best black card is Wedding Security which works better with R than U. I could see an argument to go U/B and splash red for the removal if you wanted to get greedy.
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HootTheOwl posted:The Deliriusm +2/+2 mode isn't even the part that makes it competitive. It's the free "I will never draw another bad card again" part the same way players don't get how powerful a lantern effect is in Lantern. Or how the Jace+ can end a game. It's also why Xanathar was such a bomb in limited. It wasn't that you could play your opponent's crap. It was that you got to ensure they never drew gas ever again. So, if they didn't have an immediate answer to Xanathar, they would never get one.
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TheKingofSprings posted:That's Fusion!!! Wizards needs to print a card named "Polymerization" just to thumb YGO in the eye.
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MeinPanzer posted:It's funny that when I returned to MTG after literally 20 years away from the game and learned about all the tiny variations on kicker or whatever that got their own dogshit keywords, it's cleave of all things that leads people to claim that keywords have jumped the shark. "Everything is kicker" has been an in-joke for years, but at least the other keywords WotC has come up with have had some sort of flavor fill. "Cleave" is uniquely bad in describing the effect's function, especially coming from the Dungeons & Dragons company where "Cleave" has a very specific meaning that it evokes.
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My biggest gripe are the spellbook drafting cards. I like to be able to read a card and immediately know what it does. But spellbook cards necessarily obfuscate the effect. Having to go two menus deep to look at 16 possible effects this ETB trigger may have is obnoxious and actively harmful to gameplay in a client that ropes you after taking 5 second on a decision. It's absurd.
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Honestly, one of my favorite cards to come out of MID for Historic is Rotten Reunion. It hoses so many random value decks at instant speed. Phoenix, Cat/Oven, Darcy, Lurrus. It's free mill value, and it does so much random poo poo in zombie lists. Instant speed gatling zombie triggers, instant speed buff for Champion, instant speed tappable zombies for Cryptbreaker. I've used one to get 4 power on the board at EOT against a control player to kill them from 8 with a single Corpse Knight. Hell, I've used it to screw an opponent's delirium after they targeted my 2/2 Champion with an Unholy Heat.  Edit: Oh. Forgot. The decay zombies trigger Undead Augur when they attack. So much value. AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Wait. It's "Neon" Dynasty? All this time, I thought it was "Neo" Dynasty to go with the cyberpunk theme. gently caress it. Bring on the pink samurai and fuchsia ninjas.
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Mystic Remora, you heathens. 
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Eej posted:You can always just Thoughtseize the Perpetually Hasted creature and they will have lost all value from playing an understatted creature to buff it. Except most of the enablers aren’t understated. The most commonly played one is a 1/3 flying lifelinker with two relevant creature types for 1W. Also, lol on any retort that is “can be thoughtseized,” the even dumber cousin to “dies to removal.”
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CitizenKeen posted:Getting strong L5R community vibes from this. People still play L5R?
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My favorite card is Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. Though I played for a while beforehand, I didn't get competitive until Khans block, and I loved the poo poo out of that card. I have two pages in my binder dedicated to various printings of my boy, Eugene. 
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