Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[panthaleon]

Mfw the set has no duals at un/common

It's a two color set you silly goose

[Isis]

I've been daydreaming about an anti-Rest in Peace card that dredge can run that is better than fragmentize (new dredge does mana for fragmentize better than nature's claim now imo)

The new curse of silence is such an answer to prayer. It's so perfect. Current modern dredge doesn't have enough turn one plays after the faithless looting ban. It's easy to get overwhelming advantage before land 4. And even when they pay four for rest in peace, you get to dredge 5 one last time!!!

[bugspray]

I've seen two life treated as roughly equivalent to one mana in a number of cases.

phyrexian mana

[Infinity 324]

first impressions from what I've been hearing: esper colors are way better than the rest, especially b and w. ub is the best archetype, and being aggressive with decayed synergies is very effective.

first impressions from me: format feels pretty grindy, but life totals matter. uw and ugx grindy decks seems good. ur sucks. lunarch veteran is absurdly good for a common.

[Ythan]

I've seen two life treated as roughly equivalent to one mana in a number of cases.

phyrexian mana

That's

exactly

the one I was thinking of~

[Isis]

I went 3-1 with black white in innistrad sealed... I think draft will be better.

Bunch of people in the store talked about flesh and blood having more organized play support than mtg now which made me hrm.

[kdowns]

I went 3-1 with black white in innistrad sealed... I think draft will be better.

Bunch of people in the store talked about flesh and blood having more organized play support than mtg now which made me hrm.

I think Wizards is just waiting for when they think they can safely announce that OP is going to be returning. Unfortunately, Wizards is falling behind other TCGs when it's coming to OP right now.

[Gammagooey]

Just finished my pre-release a couple of hours ago, there were a lot of people in WB it seemed. I was leaning RW or WB while opening my first couple packs, but the commons/uncommons weren't there for it so I wound up going Red Black (had two graveyard tresspassers, Florian Voldaren Scion, and a goodish amount of black removal) and splashed white for ANGELFIRE IGNITION w/ 2 plains and an evolving wilds and it was great and I went 3-1.
Played against WB (only loss and he had tonnnss of good shit, Champion of the Perished+Jadar+Liesa with him finding his one copy of Morbid Opportunist early both games and it doing serious work), then RU, WB again, and WG. Also had Wake to Slaughter and Burn Down the House but they really only seemed to matter a ton in the final match against the WG coven player where Burn Down the House pretty much won both games.

[Infinity 324]

sounds like fun but i'll stick with draft lol. too many bombs in sealed

[Thestatusquo]

I've been really enjoying this standard.

[Infinity 324]

what have you been playing

[D3f3nd3r]

My answer to Gamma’s question was “why not both?” So I went Mardu but only went 1-2 because of the usual reason people don’t build 3 colors in limited.

[Thestatusquo]

I brewed up a UR dragons deck right after rotation and it turns out I was not the only one with the idea lol.

This is what I've been playing. Almost up to Diamond in a few days:

[Thestatusquo]

Almost all of the miserable stuff has rotated!

[Infinity 324]

worthless scum

(nice gj)

[Infinity 324]

i've still not had the experience of ub being absurdly open. maybe i undervalued diregraf horde for too long. don't undervalue diregraf horde it's absurdly good.

not as good as organ hoarder though. that one is better than most rares

[Thestatusquo]

I thought ub was the consensus best archetype?

[Isis]

It is, I don't see how that's in tension with her post

[Infinity 324]

absurdly open relative to how good it is, i guess.

and the consensus is only among nerds like me who spend hours drafting every day, not the general arena population

[Isis]

They're really deep colors, you're probably supposed to move in even if they're visibly moderately cut

[Isis]

Yeah Tru tru

[Infinity 324]

They're really deep colors, you're probably supposed to move in even if they're visibly moderately cut

imeanyeah but black gets really really cut. i end up drafting uw a lot which is probably optimal i just wanna draft the deck that's less of a headache to actually win with

[Thestatusquo]

My point was just like I wouldn't expect it to be open very often.

[Infinity 324]

and the consensus is only among nerds like me who spend hours drafting every day, not the general arena population

yeah this most arena drafters don't listen to podcasts etc

[Isis]

Organ music

3U
Sorcery
You may choose a card you own named Strategic Planning from outside the game. Put it on top of your library. You may choose a card you own named Bloodbraid Elf from outside the game. Cast it without paying its mana cost. Beserker Elf creatures can't attack this turn.

Common