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Post #5624 (isolation #1001) » Sun Dec 07, 2014 5:54 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
Would there be any interest from anyone here in renting a house in vegas for the week of MM2015 GP? Looks like it would cost ~100-150 per week per person.
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Post #5660 (isolation #1009) » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:41 pm
Postby Thestatusquo »
I haven't had an actual "this is a bug" issue on mtgo in a couple of months. I've had a whole fuck ton of "wow this is designed really shittily" issues, but thats a given with mtgo.
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Post #6118 (isolation #1012) » Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:38 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
Just registered for Grand Prix Vegas.
Roll call. Who else is going? If we have enough it would be cool to have a MS dinner/drinks one of the days. I'll be there Thursday night til monday morning (maybe later on monday. I haven't booked my flights yet.)
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Post #6119 (isolation #1013) » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:35 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
Also, I'll be with 3 other goons who are likely to like games like mafia (my buddy nick even comes to some of our meets here) so maybe we can even get a drunken mafia game going one of the nights.
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Post #6129 (isolation #1015) » Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:00 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
I liked AVR well enough. Best draft formats in the last few years:
1) INN-INN-INN
2) m14
3) KTK-KTK-KTK
Couple of notes: Fate reforged is the worst draft set in a long time. It's the perfect combination of "rares being absurd" and "commons/uncommons being horrendous" that leads to games that are decided by power level imbalance and not by play skill. I don't know how many times I've lost to citadel siege, but I'll be very happy when it never happens again.
Ideas like "3 colors are awkward" or "nothing feels right" are symptomatic of weaker players. Most notably, it implies that most of the players at your store don't know how to adjust their draft values to pick mana fixing highly enough.
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Post #6137 (isolation #1017) » Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:06 pm
Postby Thestatusquo »
m14.
Wait, you think m14 was forgettable? M14 is like the weirdest format we've had in the last 3 years. Aggro was unplayable. Divination was a first pick. That format was fucking dope.
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Post #6138 (isolation #1018) » Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:08 pm
Postby Thestatusquo »
In post 6136, Espeonage wrote:Normal benchmarks are kinda out the window in DTK. Like 3/3 for 3 is undercosted for creatures in drafting at the moment which puts a new light on the format for me when I realised. Also removal is strong but hard to find, so take it when you can because it's not going to come to you.
3/3 for 3 has and always will be under costed. Thats not new at all.
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Post #6146 (isolation #1019) » Fri May 01, 2015 5:05 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
I know its budget, but the key to good budget is knowing when and where the budget needs to be expanded. It's 100% wrong to not be playing 4 den protector 4 deathmist raptor.
I don't think you need wooded foothills. It doesn't fix your mana, and you don't really have any synergies to take advantage of it.
I think you need some sort of interaction. Stratus dancer is not enough. You're going to lose to getting run over by more powerful decks. Cards like disdainful stroke seem potentially very good in your deck.
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Post #6161 (isolation #1025) » Wed May 06, 2015 3:30 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
I've started to think that you're just almost never going to get "the red deck" in this format. It's viewed as good by pretty much everyone so you end up with at least 3 sometimes up to 5 people at a table trying to be in red.
Last night I opened up with roast into tail slash, saw a third pick pacifism and then just never saw another red card the rest of the pack. Ended up wheeling some really nice white and went into pack 2 with almost mono white plus the two red cards. Got shipped 2 pristine skywise pick 3 and 4 and pivoted hard into blue. Ended up working really well for me.
I feel like I need a very strong reason to be in black or red, and by that I mean I need to open a bomb, otherwise I will start avoiding them. Our table had 4 black drafters and 5 red drafters.
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Post #6168 (isolation #1026) » Thu May 07, 2015 3:51 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
The toughness fight card always wheels super late. There was a draft a couple of weeks ago that I saw that card 12-13-14th in a row. If you're getting cards that good that late your deck is going to be good.
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Post #6180 (isolation #1029) » Sat May 09, 2015 3:53 pm
Postby Thestatusquo »
In post 6176, bv310 wrote:It looks exactly like Modern Masters 1 for me. A fun draft format with a handful of $50 bills thrown in for funsies. I like the archetypes they have available, and the rarity changes are neat.
There are 9 rares that are worth more than a dollar. 9. As opposed to 30 in MM1.
There are 4 uncommons in modern masters 2 worth more than 3$. 1 worth over 5$.
The mythics are better since there is only one brick as opposed to like 5, but this set, as a set designed to mitigate high prices and reprint things that need it is an unmitigated failure. Absolutely horrendous.
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Post #6194 (isolation #1034) » Mon May 11, 2015 5:24 pm
Postby Thestatusquo »
That is one hundred percent shitty advice for sustainable legacy play. FoW is going to go in just about 70% of legacy decks, whereas the lands will not, and in a deck that cares about its life total as little as reanimator does shocklands are way closer to duals than forces are to dazes in a deck that completely dies to hosers.
In terms of which deck to play? I think that's mainly personal preference. I find tin fins to be more fun to play but reanimator is objectively the better deck (based off of tournament results in the last few years.)
But, like I said, forces are one of those cards you're going to have to pick up eventually if you want to play legacy even a little bit seriously. I'd suggest you do so.
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Post #6214 (isolation #1041) » Wed May 13, 2015 3:58 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
In post 6209, Espeonage wrote:I am think of picking a favourite art for each basic land type and ordering 25 of each. This is in the wake of falling in love with a foil swamp I opened recently that goes from boring to absolute amazeballs when in foil.
This is a good idea, but 25 seems like an excessive number. 17 should get you through even the most color heavy draft deck, and you rarely if ever want that many basics in a constructed deck.
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Post #6225 (isolation #1045) » Thu May 14, 2015 4:23 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
It's also a thread that you can reasonably just cast and likely still win the game with it if you're being hated out game 2. I'm not sure if that means it should be in the board but I definitely like it in the 75, and most lists online seem to agree.
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Post #6249 (isolation #1050) » Sat May 16, 2015 2:30 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
In post 6246, Espeonage wrote:I just don't see the point of playing if there isn't a redraft. There's no reason to even try to come first, just pick whatever is the most value and then leave.
well... uhhh...some people play magic because they enjoy playing magic.
I'm sorry you appear to not be one of those people?
In post 6248, Espeonage wrote:The two times I've done without redraft all first place got was whatever the fnm promo was at the time.
Then your store is really, er, "frugal" with their prizes. Most places that don't do redrafts actually give you packs as prizes for doing well.
In post 6244, Thestatusquo wrote:Unless its like a 9$ draft. My store does 9$ drafts on a weekday with redrafts.
Also, Modern Masters drafts will be redrafts a large amount of the time because of the cost.
Yeah. If it's super cheap, redrafts are ok. But regular price drafts with redrafts as "prizes"? No way.
In post 6246, Espeonage wrote:I just don't see the point of playing if there isn't a redraft. There's no reason to even try to come first, just pick whatever is the most value and then leave.
I like, you know, playing Magic too.
Oh yeah, charging 15 and not prize supporting is absolute horse shit.
I suspect there are almost no places that do that though?
In post 6264, Thestatusquo wrote:KoC, just saying "the person who does better in the tournament gets better prizes" with more pejoratives doesn't actually make it a bad thing?
Context is a wonderful thing, especially when you consider the context of "$18 drafts with no other prize support"
I mean, if you want to argue that that's how we want to introduce new players to the joys of FNM, that's cool
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Post #6274 (isolation #1054) » Sun May 17, 2015 5:41 pm
Postby Thestatusquo »
I'm not saying that redrafts are good. I agree they're bad. I'm specifically annoyed by his attitude that seems to suggest that people who are better in the tournament shouldn't get better prizes. Thats just...how tournaments work. And called people names like "playmore mcspikington" or whatever just shows that he's not good at the game and needs an outlet for his anger and jealousy towards people who are.
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Post #6284 (isolation #1056) » Mon May 18, 2015 10:35 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
The store I'm involved with here in Chicago runs 3 per head as prize support for drafts and 4 per head as prize support for constructed. 15$ and 10$ respectively.
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Post #6310 (isolation #1060) » Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:38 am
Postby Thestatusquo »
Missed D2 with a record of X-2-1. Guy chose to take the draw even though I had him dead on board next turn, had a banefire in hand and a draw knocked us both out.