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Aranan posted:I'm a little sad to see the old thread go because it has been around longer than my return to Magic. There's a post from January 2015 of me talking about getting back into the hobby with a focus on EDH and talking about a bunch of janky decks ( Zurgo Helmsmasher Voltron, Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Krenko, Mob Boss, and Daretti, Scrap Savant). Truly an artifact of an ancient time. How did your Spider Collider deck work out in practice?
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I couldn't go back to a world without Moxfield global tags for deckbuilding
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Aranan posted:There are a few ways you can Make Playing Cards. My preferred way to Make Playing Cards is using Photoshop templates and sending the final images off to a company that will Make Playing Cards for you. There are different card finishes, and I'm actually pretty fond of the plastic playing card one because you can riffle shuffle like mad and not have to use sleeves, plus they're super durable. As someone who has Made Playing Cards, I approve this post
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Batterypowered7 posted:Is Conquest the format where you get to scry X at the start of the game, where X is the number of players ahead of you? Yes, they trialled it for a while and it became an official rule about a week ago
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Bust Rodd posted:Adding scry to the 2nd/3rd/4th players opening hand would dramatically impact cEDH. Letting the 4th seat storm Is storm not a thing in Conquest? Or just this particular issue is less of a factor because so much fast mana is banned?
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This poo poo is so blatant that it flipped the last anti-proxy holdout in my group
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Batterypowered7 posted:Oh boy, you just triggered like three to five people in this thread. When it comes to the overall experience of playing Magic, there are at least 3 different goals I'm considering, so I don't find that it makes sense to talk about a singular goal. I have found the most enjoyable way for me to play commander is: -build decks within the power range of my group, with a variety of ways to win -play each game trying to win to the best of my ability -approach each evening of playing magic with the goal of having fun with my friends Only 1.5 of those goals are "try to win", but in my experience those are the two that count. Leave win cons out of your deck and you increase the chance of grindy games that get boring. Playing suboptimally on purpose is just patronising to your friends. If you have the win, go for it and if it feels unsatisfactory then change your deck. Approach each session expecting to lose more than you win because that's just how it goes in a group playing at the same power level.
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Jun 28, 2022 20:53
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Johnny Truant posted:
Yeah, you've got it. It's one of the longest running rules change requests, but I think it's always been a minority position
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If I have a mono green commander and I'm looking at cards to put in the deck, it feels pretty intuitive that I can't include cards where half the frame is one of the other 4 colours e: I also taught half of the players in my group how to play Magic and they have never been confused about the hybrid rule being the way it is. The only thing related to hybrid mana that they ever needed explaining was Extort not counting for colour identity Tarnop fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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Bust Rodd posted:I really don’t ever want to dogpile anyone in Magic, much less a woman in magic, but this person sucks and shouldn’t be on the CAG Based on what I've seen from the rest of them she seems like a great fit
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The Shortest Path posted:I think you are very severely misinterpreting her tweet lmao This is the person who has complained, at length, that commander is too fast for her angel tribal deck
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Threat assessment in commander is a complex thing with a whole bunch of factors including hidden information in other players' hands and decks. She's provided none of the context we need to judge whether her fellow players were mistaken, but she's happy to talk poo poo from a position of authority in the community. It's bad form, imo
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Toshimo posted:There is only 1 card required to play Commander the correct way: My friends love it!
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Bust Rodd posted:Getting caught up on podcasts at work and just listened to a really thoughtful episode of EDHrec about your Commander Pet Peeves. Really got me thinking about what kind of bad habits I have during games and how I want to present myself in games. This episode came at a really good time for me. There's trouble brewing between a couple of players in my group and one of them contacted me about it after the last game we played. We have a player very guilty of salt over interaction and not acknowledging their leading position (I bet these two go together a lot) and the person who this has annoyed the most is guilty of being on her phone any time it's not her turn. I've been having some stress about this and feeling like it's on me to resolve it. Now I'm just going to link the video to the group and tell them I noticed a couple of things in it that I do that I'll try to be better about in future. I can be bad about quarterbacking, which often goes hand in hand with assuming perfect information. I'm going to try it cut it out.
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MasterBuilder posted:Could I get some suggestions for the last 4 cuts along with a mana base review for this Mardu aristocrats deck. Current commander is Alesha who smiles at death. With only around 40 mana sources, I think you should be cutting from the top of your curve. I'd drop these 4: Orcus Young Necromancer Greed Zariel
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Toshimo posted:I know it's budget but Rhythm of the Wild feels like a must-include for this sort of big battlecruiser style deck. It does all the things you want. Temur Ascendancy as a budget alternative perhaps? It works on the tokens too
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checkplease posted:I want to make a new deck in honor of my newborn twins. What are some possible commanders to use? A quick search shows Adrix and Nev. And there are partners of course. Any other options I’m missing? This might be covered by "and there are partners of course", but Rowan and Will Kenrith are twins e: curse you, Heath!
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Jul 31, 2022 15:09
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I proxied up Bust's Slam-pires deck for a few games tonight. Highly recommended. I've been frustrated in the past trying to build a midrange version of Edgar and it's better than my efforts. I'm sure he won't mind me linking it again for the thread
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I'm thinking of making a cEDH battlebox of 4 decks for my casual group. It's going to be proxies so card price isn't a concern. Can any of the resident cEDH players recommend 4 decks that play well together? If at all possible we'd like to avoid thoracle type win cons, they've been kind of played out at a slower speed in our group already. Thanks!
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Bust Rodd posted:If I were you I’d probably build That's fair, and as casual players we're definitely underestimating how interactive that win condition is in cEDH. Thanks for the recs, time to read some primers
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Framboise posted:These are all good but I'd also mention Pako/Haldan too! Which would you swap it for in Bust's Probably Build list? It sounds like a fun deck and I'd like to include it
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Toshimo posted:Welp. I take it back. Sheldon Jr. sucks as a designer, so maybe we didn't need Doctor Who. Young Sheldon was right there...
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I just try to keep my tapped lands below a fifth of my total lands (and obviously make sure they're in the deck for a good reason). Seems to work out fine for casual play and feels a world apart from the kind of tapland-heavy land bases that plague precons
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Lands are the first thing you should proxy imo, because they're expensive and boring
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poo poo, I didn't spot the mention of tix and mtgo so my proxy comment might not have come across as it intended, sorry! Wasn't trying to be weird about it
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I've found the packages feature on Moxfield really useful for mana bases. I have one for each number of colours. You just drop every land in there for the cycles you want to use and when you add the package to your deck it excludes the cards that don't match the colour identity.
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Toshimo posted:Strong disagree. The mono-color cyclers are a self-fulfilling prophecy, like Reliquary Tower: if your deck is getting mileage out of them, it's not that they are good, it's that you've built your deck wrong. The use case I've seen for cycling lands is high CMC commander but fairly low curve for the rest of the deck. Would you say that the correct answer is more straight up card draw spells? For decks where I thought I needed a reliquary tower I've been switching some burst draw over to incremental and running more mana acceleration. Reasonable response, or I missing something?
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Being a good creator and being a good steward require different skills. Sheldon should definitely take some credit for Commander being popular though. Replacing actual format stewardship with passive-aggressive sniping via blog post drives exactly the kind of engagement and content-creation that the modern internet thrives on.
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Toshimo posted:Explain One person in my playgroup will describe any permanent controlled by another player that stops them doing exactly what they want as a stax piece.
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Silhouette posted:I wonder when wotc will finally make cards that prevent mill/library exile, and protect graveyards Giving yourself hexproof negates a few of the more common graveyard hate cards
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If Dockside got reprinted in a meaningful way so that it cost less than $50, it would probably get banned. That's pretty funny. There's a couple of questions I'd have liked prof to ask. One is how the process of unbanning works if ubiquity is such an important factor in a card getting banned. The other is in response to Sheldon talking about how he sees card design as the most important means of expressing the commander philosophy. It's basically the 3-mana rock question: if current commander card design is more in line with what Sheldon believes commander should be, why would players go along with that unless he's willing to ban the strictly better cards that already exist? I don't expect or want the RC to ban signets and talismans, I just want to hear what he thinks the steps are between "Print more 3-mana rocks" and "People actually play them"
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Batterypowered7 posted:I think he's hoping players will buy into his philosophy rather than just play the most efficient cards. An honor system type of thing. Yeah I didn't expect his answer to be good, I just wanted to hear him say it with a straight face LanceKing2200 posted:It's 100% this, and this is a fine philosophy to have right up until the point that competitive events exist. It also raises the question of "why have a ban list at all then?" It doesn't even need competitive events to exist. In my group we've raised the power level of our decks by lowering the cost of the ramp and interaction cards and the games are just more fun. Earlier active turns, fewer interminable board stalls. We played a game with unmodified precons again recently and it was just a grind. Our games end on turn 10, on average. This one took until turn 16 e: btw Prof did ask him that exact question. It's pretty early in the video. His answer was that you can rule zero around it so it's only a suggestion anyway Tarnop fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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MasterBuilder posted:MPC cards for anything recent won't have the holo sticker and from what I've read the print quality and texture are obvious to the point where actual authenticity checks aren't needed. MPC will also bounce back any order with a Wizards copyright line, or the official MTG card back. No one is mistaking one of those for the real thing unsleeved and even in a sleeve there's a really obvious blank space in the bottom right corner.
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The only thing Tapped Out still does better than Moxfield is token handling. If Moxfield told you which card in your deck produces each token and how many it makes with one cast/activation I would never load up Tapped Out again
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I've been sort of lukewarm on game knights for a while but I watched the 40K episode and the decks looked pretty fun. Do we know what the reprint policy is for the pre-cons? I would hope that whatever deal GW signed stipulates reprinting for as long as they're selling out, since they have no reason to care about the secondary value of any of these cards
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Heath posted:I'm so loving tired of this game Just the Universes Beyond stuff or something else?
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And the 30th anniversary set is Nintendo virtual console selling ROM rips back to people
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Heath posted:Universes Beyond, One Thousand United States Dollars, literally never-ending spoiler season, all of it. Every set is more disposable than the last. But since this thing is a big central thing in my friend group and is a main hobby we all share, it isn't something I can just ignore. I just wish Wizards would let stuff breathe, you know? You're definitely not alone in feeling this way. The pace of new releases has turned my fun time of upgrade hunting every new set into what feels like work. My only solution to this has been to halve the number of decks I'm actively maintaining and it's still kind of exhausting sometimes.
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pseudanonymous posted:Every set, we publish an article specifically just for like "hey add these 10-20 cards to your deck building vocabulary" so that you can skip most of the spoiler season if you just want the tl:dr. This is on goonhammer?
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The shockland Secret Lair was the one for me where it stepped over the line into feeling really gross with the whole having to buy duplicates to get a full set. Like those F2P games with economies designed so you always have some amount of their currency left over no matter what you buy. Oh and I guess also the fact that my friend has been waiting for a year (?) for his coin flip deck
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