Its worth noting that I get paid in store credit for both judging and for streaming, so when I say "buy" what I mean is "use my xxx$ of store credit that I've saved up for 6 months on."
One time, back in 'nam, Sudo was set upon by an entire squadron of charlies. He challenged them all to a game of Pictionary, which he won resoundingly. The charlies were forced to not only surrender the skirmish, but also their world-famous chili recipe, which Sudo sold to Texas for a hefty profit. Sudo is a master of diplomacy.
FUCK YEAH just won a 4-3-2-2 mtgo draft against someone who played westvale abbey and nahiri, when the rares I opened were either awful (harness the storm and something else) or I never drew them (the werewolf that gives you cards when they play spells on your turn)
I also may have spent slightly too long thinking and spent the last attack phase mashing where the OK button appears
uncaged fury #1 (Pack guardian kicked ass pretty much every single game too though)
Seriously though, the EV is worse than swiss or 8-4 at literally every win rate. It's basically you just saying "no I do not want an extra pack in the pool." for no reason.
^I kind of hate the mtgo interface a lot of the time and thought I could probably win the first round and get better prizes than swiss but didn't want to play with all the actually serious people in 8-4 and have one of my minor misplays mean I probably win nothing.
Plus since the player pool in it is generally worse than 8-4, slightly worse prize rates for more fun actually winning and playing against less douchebags seems like an okay tradeoff.
In post 7010, Thestatusquo wrote:Pro tour in about an hour! My friend Gaby doing coverage again. Which is awesome. It's so surreal to watch her in the booth.
Got some friends playing to, so hope they get there.
She's been very good in the coverage I've seen her do. It's nice to get some fresh coverage folks in there. Her and Ian Duke have been great additions in the last year.
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
In post 7019, Thestatusquo wrote:Also, for the first time in a long time standard seems more interesting than "4 different midrange decks slamming 4 drops into each other."
There are a lot of cool things going on. I'm pretty happy we're rid of "shove all the good cards together minus a random color"
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
A lot of twitter is exploding that they shouldn't have shown the concession discussion, but I strongly disagree. There's no sport in the world where they would cut away from a tense moment like that, and as long as concessions are part of the sport, viewers should see how they happen.
For the record, as a judge, there was nothing about the discussion that wasn't above board. They discussed their hands and what cards were left in the decks (derived information from what cards were in the yard, not by looking at the libraries.)
Mangucci was a little bit too forceful but that can be forgiven because of the emotions of the situation.
Though I will say I probably wouldn't have conceded in Mori's spot. I think he was more likely to win from that position, but obviously these were two teammates playing the mirror so they probably knew better than I do.
Now that the pro tour demonstrated a few unique decks, I am thinking standard should get a little more interesting. Last Sunday at a PPTQ I went to, everyone was doing mono-white and bant coco so it wasn't really that fun.