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Post Post #6315 (isolation #200) » Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:19 am

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Playing in my first PPTQ this weekend. Haven't spent too much time playing modern, so this will be...an experience.
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Post Post #6321 (isolation #201) » Sun Jun 07, 2015 1:37 pm

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Went 2-4 officially in the PPTQ today with Living Twin. I conceded the last round and split as my opponent wanted the PWP for GP byes. Still got 5 packs out of it. Lost to the heavy permission decks: UR Twin twice and Esper Control. Beat Tarmo-twin twice very easily and then crushed what looked like Abzan Company.
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Post Post #6339 (isolation #202) » Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:41 am

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In post 6338, theelkspeaks wrote:planning to play draft or sealed Origins at a pre-release event the weekend of the 11th/12th. Anyone have any good resources to share, especially with a focus on Limited and/or Origins specifically?


The Limited Resources podcast is what I listen to. They talk a lot about Limited, and will have a full common/uncommon set review at some point the week leading up to prerelease.
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Post Post #6349 (isolation #203) » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:34 am

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I'm traveling down to Chicago for the SCG Open this week. It's my fourth ever Competitive event after a PTQ, a PPTQ, and a GPT. Looking forward to it.
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Post Post #6351 (isolation #204) » Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:11 am

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The old 2-0 -> 0-3. Had a ton of fun. Drafts all day now
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Post Post #6386 (isolation #205) » Sat Aug 15, 2015 5:24 pm

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In post 6385, Espeonage wrote:Is there any simple sideboard tech in mardu against rally decks?


Tormod's Crypt may be your best shot.
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Post Post #6391 (isolation #206) » Sat Aug 29, 2015 3:24 pm

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Post Post #6398 (isolation #207) » Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:22 am

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In post 6397, PeregrineV wrote:Bought the Eldrazi v Zendkiar duel decks this Friday. Played 4 games. Eldrazi won all 4 pretty handily. They have this thing called removal that removes whatever Zendikar tries to put on the board. Will do more testing, but definitely not seeing the balance in the two decks.


hint: duel decks are never balanced, you just have to hope it's not a COMPLETE mismatch.

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Post Post #6415 (isolation #208) » Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:32 am

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Theros Block >>>>>>>>>> DTK/FRF
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Post Post #6443 (isolation #209) » Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:19 pm

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I'm currently running Raphael Levy's Loam Pox in Modern. It's incredibly difficult to play, but I always feel like it's my mistakes when I lose. The deck has a lot of play, and a lot of decisions to make every turn. It's great, it's probably the most fun deck I've ever played.
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Post Post #6450 (isolation #210) » Mon Sep 28, 2015 4:02 pm

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I'm collecting Prism Arrays. I now have 7 after prerelease weekend. Haven't opened any winnings.
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Post Post #6457 (isolation #211) » Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:39 pm

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Just got back from Day 1 of GP Madison. I went 3-3 drop. Enjoyed myself a lot.
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Post Post #6459 (isolation #212) » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:53 pm

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While I may have scrubbed out of the GP at 3-3, I did complete a goal of mine, which was to get all these signed:
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Post Post #6472 (isolation #213) » Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:37 am

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So when you copy something, you copy the base card characteristics, not any effects on top of that. It's Layer 1 in the layer system, so nothing else that affects the card affects the copy. This includes P/T changing effects, type-changing effects, or abilities.

If you Supplant Form a Gideon in creature mode, you will have a Gideon planeswalker with 4 loyalty.

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Post Post #6476 (isolation #214) » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:35 am

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In post 6473, Sudo_Nym wrote:I was pretty sure about the temporary effects not copying, but it was the loyalty counters I wasn't sure of, since that's different from a temporary effect. I guess that doesn't transfer to the copy, either.

That does mean that copying something like Spike Feeder is pointless, since you don't get the +1/+1 counters and it dies immediately.

How does that accord with copying a copy? If I Clone your Clone, then I get whatever your Clone was copying, not a copy of Clone itself. I assume this as something to with Timestamps, since I think they're both Layer 1 effects?


Planeswalkers are treated as having an ETB effect that says “This permanent enters the battlefield
with a number of loyalty counters on it equal to its printed loyalty number.”

A copy of a permanent still has to enter the battlefield and will still have any ETB effects work, whether it's a replacement effect or an ETB trigger. So you still get the counters if it's Clone specifically. If something is already on the battlefield and becomes a copy of Spike Feeder, it will just die immediately

As far as Cloning a Clone, you do get the copy of whatever the first Clone is Cloning, because it's never actually anything else. It has a particular set of copiable effects, and according to the CR, a copy's copiable values are whatever it has copied.
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Post Post #6481 (isolation #215) » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:01 pm

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In post 6480, Ythan wrote:Who plays Modern? I'm tired of rotations but I don't want to jump into a format nobody plays.


I play Modern when I find the time. That's currently: In between rounds or beforehand on Standard night, and occasionally on Fridays if I don't feel like doing Sealed.
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Post Post #6483 (isolation #216) » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:40 pm

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In post 6482, theelkspeaks wrote:I'm slowly building towards a modern deck by selling any money cards I get in draft/sealed - I want to play it but it's a bit pricey.


Which deck?
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Post Post #6506 (isolation #217) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:38 am

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In post 6505, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:As a tier 3/casual deck it's probably fine; it has a coherent theme and can generate value. In any sort of competitive environment I'm having a hard time seeing what it matches up well against. Maybe the Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens and relatively non painful mana base would give you game against Burn. But it doesn't get any sort of pressure to force Twin into rushing into a mistake; Jund/Junk would just grind you out; Affinity largely doesn't care other than the two main deck wraths, not enough real interaction for Bloom Titan to be interested.

This is basically the non-budget version of that list and Yuuya took it to a 3-1 result at Worlds.


It actually out-grinds Jund/Abzan very well.

Someone at my LGS has run it for Modern night a couple times, and it's very, VERY successful. The grindy decks basically can't win once Emeria gets online, and Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens are great to help you get there.

Heck, it won the Modern Premier IQ at SCG Milwaukee a month ago. The deck is surprisingly strong compared to how it looks, and is definitely competitively-viable.

I also wouldn't really compare it to Yuuya's worlds deck. It has some similarities, but they're very different decks.
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Post Post #6510 (isolation #218) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:29 pm

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In post 6509, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:
In post 6506, hasdgfas wrote:
In post 6505, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:As a tier 3/casual deck it's probably fine; it has a coherent theme and can generate value. In any sort of competitive environment I'm having a hard time seeing what it matches up well against. Maybe the Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens and relatively non painful mana base would give you game against Burn. But it doesn't get any sort of pressure to force Twin into rushing into a mistake; Jund/Junk would just grind you out; Affinity largely doesn't care other than the two main deck wraths, not enough real interaction for Bloom Titan to be interested.

This is basically the non-budget version of that list and Yuuya took it to a 3-1 result at Worlds.


It actually out-grinds Jund/Abzan very well.

Someone at my LGS has run it for Modern night a couple times, and it's very, VERY successful. The grindy decks basically can't win once Emeria gets online, and Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens are great to help you get there.

Heck, it won the Modern Premier IQ at SCG Milwaukee a month ago. The deck is surprisingly strong compared to how it looks, and is definitely competitively-viable.

I also wouldn't really compare it to Yuuya's worlds deck. It has some similarities, but they're very different decks.


I guess I have a hard time seeing a nonfetchable land that requires seven other lands to trigger to be a consistent engine; especially when finding that out the Jund/Junk decks should be boarding in their Fulminator Mages. But hey, I could be wrong but I can tell you as a Bogles player I would delight in seeing that across the table from me and I don't think it's got enough disruption maindeck to regularly beat Bloom Titan either. Gonna take more than a single mid-size SCG toruney where he got a dream Top 8 (Living End, Burn, Burn) to convince me to pay attention to the deck.



It'll have bad matchups, as every deck does. For what it's worth, I did feel similarly to you when I first saw the deck, but its resiliency and power has impressed me more every time I've seen it played. I definitely think it's worth trying out a bit, although I'd suggest proxying it up and playing with it a while to see if it's your jam.
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Post Post #6521 (isolation #219) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:33 am

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In post 6517, Ythan wrote:I just don't see the appeal of buying card-for-card someone else's deck and using that.


Some people prefer taking something that's known to be good and then playing it to the best of their abilities because trying to make a competitive deck of their own is a skill they just don't have.

In post 6515, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:Hascow (or chamber), either you coming down to GP Indy next weekend?


Nope. It's a bit too far for me to want to travel down there.
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Post Post #6523 (isolation #220) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:46 am

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In post 6522, Ythan wrote:To the best of what abilities, though? What are you actually contributing, or are you just channeling another player like a lame medium?


Playing a deck and building a deck are VERY different skills. You're contributing your playskill.
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Post Post #6526 (isolation #221) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:52 am

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In post 6524, Ythan wrote:If a deck isn't shit it shouldn't take all that much thought to play? That's my take.


What? Decks still take a ton of thought to play, whether it's a well-known and well-developed archetype, or something you brewed up for fun and brought to FNM.

In post 6525, Ythan wrote:I mean isn't that why people netdeck in the first place?


People netdeck in order to play powerful, tuned decks and try to use their playskill to get the best performance they can out of the deck, not to "not think".

I mean, I'm a brewer. I love bringing ridiculous decks to Standard nights at my LGS. I brought a Heroes' Podium deck once. But I still can completely understand why people would netdeck. Magic has a lot of different skills, and some people know their strengths aren't "coming up with a deck from scratch"
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Post Post #6582 (isolation #222) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 7:07 pm

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In post 6581, DeathNote wrote:Ok so then colorless doesn't work is what you're saying ^.^ I wanted to try and make a colorless deck work but it seems hard.


I think you can do it, but Hedron Archive and Reality Shift are not good cards, especially for an aggro deck like what you're working on.
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Post Post #6596 (isolation #223) » Fri Oct 30, 2015 3:07 pm

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Got to see my opponent play the sad post-attack land online tonight. He attacks with his Cliffside Lookout into my 3 open mana on turn 3, I cast Grave Birthing and block to kill his Lookout, he then plays Sandstone Bridge second main phase. I could feel his sadness.
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Post Post #6616 (isolation #224) » Sat Nov 07, 2015 7:40 pm

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In post 6614, Ythan wrote:Calling Kamigawa 2 next.


nah, they're not doing 3 returns in a row. If anything, I think they'll do a new plane, THEN return to Kamigawa.

Regardless of how poorly it may have tested, I think lots of people want to go back, and I think they have a good chance of actually going back.
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Post Post #6647 (isolation #225) » Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:59 am

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In post 6644, Natirasha wrote:I've literally never had a good 2HG experience.


well, maybe it'll be better with them focusing on it a little bit more. I find it to be a fun diversion during prerelease time, and that's about it.
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Post Post #6699 (isolation #226) » Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:59 am

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In post 6697, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote: (including a foil Prism Array, be still my beating heart)

I'd ask you to send this to me if it were in paper, I'm missing a regular foil one for my collection. I have a prerelease promo foil, but not a regular foil
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Post Post #6720 (isolation #227) » Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:46 am

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In post 6719, bv310 wrote:Maybe pick up some of the Commander precons? Meren and Mizzix are pretty unique, and similar on power level (Just don't buy Kalemne, the deck is weakest)


I actually really like doing precon v precon matches as a neat little pickup way to play Commander. (I disagree about not buying Kalemne, I think that deck is still very good).
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Post Post #6721 (isolation #228) » Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:48 am

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Also the Kalemne deck is the only one with Blade of Selves
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Post Post #6747 (isolation #229) » Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:59 pm

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In post 6746, Thestatusquo wrote:Cow is also an l1


Correct. I got certified just after the DTK prerelease.
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Post Post #6844 (isolation #230) » Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:02 am

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In post 6843, Ythan wrote:Can anyone confirm that a spell copy cast by isochron scepter triggers spellweaver helix?


If you can somehow Spellweaver Helix an Instant or Isochron Scepter a Sorcery, which neither of the cards allow you to do.
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Post Post #6869 (isolation #231) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:06 am

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Eye of Ugin is not surviving to another Modern PT. The question is how long it takes.
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Post Post #6872 (isolation #232) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:16 am

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In post 6871, Klazam wrote:
In post 6868, Thestatusquo wrote:Welp. Modern is broken.

In post 6869, hasdgfas wrote:Eye of Ugin is not surviving to another Modern PT. The question is how long it takes.

Based on what tournament?


Based on PT Oath of the Gatewatch. It's completely breaking everything. There are like 3 different Modern decks playing the same shell and Eye is allowing busted stuff to happen like casual turn 2 4/4s or two turn 1 2/1s that turn into attacking 4/4s on turn 2 and 5/5s on turn 3
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Post Post #6874 (isolation #233) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:22 am

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In post 6873, Thestatusquo wrote:10 of the decks currently in the top 16 (going into round 16) are this eldrazi deck.

It's had like a 75% win rate, which is deceptive since, as there are so many people playing it at the top tables, most of those losses are the mirror match.

It has just ripped modern in half.


The UR guys who are playing a draft deck with better lands are something like 90% win rate with the deck, and I think their only losses are to other Eldrazi decks.
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Post Post #6875 (isolation #234) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:24 am

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Chris Pikula has compared this to blackjack, saying it's super exciting to watch, but not due to in-game decision making. Instead, it's due to seeing what comes off the top of the deck.
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Post Post #6880 (isolation #235) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 12:08 pm

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Post Post #6881 (isolation #236) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:00 pm

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so the top 8 of the Pro Tour is:
3 C Eldrazi
2 UR Eldrazi
1 UBG Eldrazi
2 Affinity

Sure.
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Post Post #6883 (isolation #237) » Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:08 pm

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In post 6882, InflatablePie wrote:the real question is, how would the eldrazi decks fair against twin


I'm pretty sure they'd crush Twin, actually. It just does such powerful things so quickly.
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Post Post #6889 (isolation #238) » Sun Feb 07, 2016 1:12 pm

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I agree with Infect as a combo deck, but I think Burn has transformed a bit into an aggro deck now with it playing Wild Nacatls
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Post Post #6906 (isolation #239) » Sun Feb 14, 2016 4:20 pm

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In post 6905, DeathNote wrote:Super friends deck got me top 8 during gameday. Ended up losing the semi finals to Yore-Tiller midrange


FTFY.

Meanwhile, I was on Temur Company and made the semis of top 8. Lost to Temur Devoid Assault Formation.
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Post Post #6920 (isolation #240) » Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:56 pm

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In post 6918, bv310 wrote:I'm excited to draft it. If it's anything like VMA was on MTGO, it'll be a ton of fun.


I liked VMA for a couple drafts, but Madness and Goblins were a bit too oppressive for any longer than that.

In post 6917, Thestatusquo wrote:I am a little bit skeptical that this will make legacy affordable for most players on, say, a modern budget.

The big elephant in the room is the duals. If they don't dissolve the reserved list and reprint them likely any lowered cost of staples like forces and wastelands will lead to increased cost of the format in the form of higher demand for duals.

:/

It's shitty, but this is the position wizards has put us in.


I agree. I'm excited to pick up Wastelands(and Karakas and Rishadan Port?). I'm just very concerned about new people actually being able to get into the format. It's why I'm thinking there might be a new format to replace Legacy which just bans the Legacy banned list as well as anything on the Reserved List. Now that they're showing support for older formats, the Reserved List is a clear handicap to play as opposed to just another obstacle.
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Post Post #6922 (isolation #241) » Mon Feb 15, 2016 4:22 pm

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In post 6921, bv310 wrote:Honestly, you're not the first person I've seen say that. "Eternal" as a format name seems to be a rumour gaining traction (and a reason for me to finish my playsets of Shocklands before those spike hard on this rumour)


The main reason that I don't know why Wizards would show support for a format which is built around cards they can't reprint.
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Post Post #6939 (isolation #242) » Wed Mar 16, 2016 5:08 pm

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Played this list at Standard tonight. It was a lot of fun, and I got to loop Dark-Dwellers with Kolaghan's Command a few times, which felt disgusting.
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Post Post #6943 (isolation #243) » Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:32 am

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I'm not a big fan of Epiphany at the Drownyard. It's too similar to Steam Augury, which was quite bad. It's possible that it being more flexible will help it, but when you choose the piles and your opponent gives you one of their choice...
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Post Post #6955 (isolation #244) » Fri Mar 25, 2016 6:50 am

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In post 6953, DiamondSentinel wrote:there's just not enough of the rest of the Jacetice League.


Please don’t be disrespectful of the story. You might not care but others do. /Maro

In seriousness, I have to disagree. I love DFCs. They add so much flavor to the set. The set looks super fun to me, there seem to be a lot of interesting directions to go in draft.
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Post Post #6957 (isolation #245) » Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:25 am

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In post 6956, DiamondSentinel wrote:Ok, I for one think that the Jacetuce league pseudonym is endearing. I like the turn the story is taking.

But anyway, my first sets were the Theros sets, so I started with cards that bounced off of each other (constellation was one of my favorite mechanics I've seen) so cards that just exist on their own like dual sided ones don't appeal to me.


I like the Jacetice League name too, was just quoting Maro.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how well the cards synergize, even without it being "just play a bunch of enchantments". It's a bit less obvious, but things like discard outlets enabling Delirium and Madness at the same time is a fun synergy. Then it's fun to just play with double-faced cards, since you have to balance wanting them to flip with making sure you're still developing your board, and your opponent has to balance not wanting them to flip with knowing that they can't necessarily stop
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Post Post #7011 (isolation #246) » Fri Apr 22, 2016 3:47 am

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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.
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Post Post #7021 (isolation #247) » Sat Apr 23, 2016 3:55 am

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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"
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Post Post #7073 (isolation #248) » Mon Jun 20, 2016 4:21 pm

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In post 7072, TheButtonmen wrote:new emrakul seems fairly underwhelming compared to the past one but that is probably on purpose, that extra turn though really removes the haste aspect of mindslaving so im not really sold with its limited protection and somewhat lacking etb (for its cost).

new g/r guy is going to win tons of drafts then sit in a trade binder forever it seems
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Post Post #7077 (isolation #249) » Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:32 am

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In post 7076, McMenno wrote:So, does anyone else think that with Hanweir Garrison rdw might be viable in standard again? Or is gw tokens still too dominant?
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Also, I like most of this set, but Meld is...I don't know yet. My initial reaction was "What? Why?"
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Post Post #7104 (isolation #250) » Mon Jul 04, 2016 12:38 pm

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Post Post #7106 (isolation #251) » Mon Jul 04, 2016 1:24 pm

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In post 7105, Natirasha wrote:She's not as good as Liliana of the Veil, but yeah she's solid. I don't know how good she is in the current format because lmao coco and X/3s, but she'll def see play.
I wasn't expecting anything close to LotV, but she seems very powerful.
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Post Post #7136 (isolation #252) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:01 pm

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This may be the best Friday Nights stinger yet. Alison is incredible here, especially since, if you watched her during the pre-prerelease, she seems to be a very sweet person.
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Post Post #7147 (isolation #253) » Fri Aug 19, 2016 4:35 am

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Conspiracy 2 looks like the best Masters set ever, and also a great multiplayer set.
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Post Post #7149 (isolation #254) » Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:45 am

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Post Post #7155 (isolation #255) » Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:46 pm

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Just lost in the finals of a PPTQ. Was so close. Thought I had turned the corner in both games 1 and 3, but Kolaghan's Command is a heck of a card, and I was unable to keep up with it with my draws.
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Post Post #7161 (isolation #256) » Sun Sep 11, 2016 4:23 pm

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I was at GP Louisville this weekend for Team Sealed. It was a fun weekend. I may give a fuller explanation when I am back in front of a computer and not on my phone.
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Post Post #7173 (isolation #257) » Tue Sep 13, 2016 3:37 pm

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In post 7169, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:HAHAHAHA. This is a small world. So I wanted to see how Cow did before he said anything so I pulled Cow's name off his fantasy football team and started going through the GP Louisville coverage page, while it's not as small as us playing each other our teams actually sat right next to each other in the first round. We were on the end of the row of tables and they were right next to us.
Fantastic. I wasn't paying that much attention to the tables around me round 1, due to our opponents being team East-West Bowl.
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Friday: I did terribly in side drafts, but was able to turn it around and actually win a match in the Foiled Again sealed event, which made me feel better for the main event the next day.

Saturday - Main Event: We ended up building a sweet UG Emerge deck with double Elder Deep Fiend and double Lashweed Lurker, as well as a Drownyard Behemoth and a Wretched Gryff. We also put together a fairly aggressive GW Humans deck that had a Decimator of the Provinces to finish games off with. Our third deck was an awkward RB, low-synergy deck that all we hoped we needed from it was for it to steal a couple wins.

Then we got paired up against Andrew Brown, JC Tao, and Eugene Hwang round 1. Which was awesome, because that's why you go to GPs, right? They were a pleasure to play against, even though each of us lost(and Andrew's deck that I played against had Jace
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Next we won two straight, then we lost one due to a bunch of mulligans in game 3s. We won in R5 to go to 3-2 and were feeling pretty good. Then in the next two rounds, we lost to mulliganing unkeepable hands into unkeepable hands, or not drawing a 3rd land and getting run over. It felt like we hit a really bad run of variance in the main event, although it's hard to fully analyze when you're not watching every match in the match. I was playing the Emerge deck, so things felt good on my end, but it felt like every time I went to go watch my teammates play after I finished, they were mulliganing to 6 or 5.

We played one more round as another friend from Madison was judging, and had to debrief, but we wanted to have dinner all together. We ate at a delicious German-inspired bar and craft beer restaurant.


Sunday: Super Sunday Series. All of us decided to play in this. My pool felt really awkward to me, like I could make about 80% of a couple decks, and about 60% of a couple more, but couldn't quite get to a full deck I was happy with. Here is my pool if you want to try to put something together with it. I went 0-3, then dropped to go draft, even though 4-3 was guaranteed prizes, because I didn't want to spend 4 hours playing for minimum prizes when I could go draft a couple more times. One of my teammates went 1-3 drop, but the other one made top 8! Sadly he lost to the eventual winner in the quarters, whose deck had Liliana, Avacyn, and Thalia's Lancers, plus an Anguished Unmaking. Even with that, my friend could have won if he had thought about the hidden mode of Boon of Emrakul, to pump his own creature's power. Still, it was a fantastic performance that he was very happy with.

After I dropped, I drafted a couple times, split in the finals of one and scrubbed out from the other.(It really wasn't my weekend for side events). I also got to have a nice conversation with Howard Lyon, bought some prints and an artist proof from him, and he put a great sketch on the back of the proof. I also bought a prerelease Tamiyo from a vendor because Tamiyo's the best. It was some fun browsing of everything with a much emptier hall.


Overall, it was a very fun weekend and I'm very happy we went, even though we didn't have as good of a main event performance as we wanted. I'm looking forward to GP Milwaukee in December, which should be the next one I'll be attending.
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Post Post #7178 (isolation #258) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:30 pm

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In post 7175, Natirasha wrote:Slightly weak pool yeah, I think I'd have gone WB with a slight splash for Alphas off the Scarecrow. I could see WG too, the crossroads dude is decent.
I did the WB + splash for Alphas plan(registered this), and it just didn't end up matching up well against anything I faced. I got to play against Seasons Past + Nahiri's Wrath, for instance, which blows my late game out of the water.
In post 7176, chamber wrote:That pool doesn't seem weak to me. I agree with DDD otherwise.
It looked pretty good when I was opening the packs, but it ended up just feeling like every build I put together was missing something when I laid them out. Most of the builds were basically just sitting on their hands until turn 3 every game, which I'm not a big fan of, even in Sealed.
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Post Post #7182 (isolation #259) » Sun Sep 18, 2016 7:15 am

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So Yaw and I watch Vintage Super League and watched Community Super League. We thought that there might be some interest in an "MS Super League" in the vein of some of the older MS Magic Tournaments, but with more flexible scheduling. We were intending the format to be Modern. We would be using one of the unofficial Magic programs, probably OCTGN, so you don't have to own a bunch of expensive cards on MTGO or anything. I wanted to gauge interest in that from the Magic thread. Who would be interested in something like this?
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Post Post #7184 (isolation #260) » Sun Sep 18, 2016 7:34 am

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In post 7183, Sudo_Nym wrote:I haven't played in like 3 rotations (whenever RTR was), but I like tourneys. I'd probably return for it, if I knew what a Super League was.

10 players, Round Robin tournament, you have 3 trimesters of 3 matches and can pick a new deck for each trimester. Top 4 after the round robin goes to a playoff.
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Post Post #7196 (isolation #261) » Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:31 am

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I am completely unfamiliar with xmage. I know what Cockatrice is, but have found it inferior to OCTGN. I'll check out xmage this week.
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Post Post #7234 (isolation #262) » Sun Oct 02, 2016 10:35 am

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For folks interested in the Super League, please go here. I've started a thread for organization of the tournament.
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Post Post #7241 (isolation #263) » Sun Oct 09, 2016 2:53 pm

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Reposting link to Super League. We have a couple spots left!
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Post Post #7255 (isolation #264) » Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:13 pm

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In post 7254, Thestatusquo wrote:I will be at grand prix milwaukee if anyone is going to that.
I will indeed.
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Post Post #7259 (isolation #265) » Sun Dec 04, 2016 7:46 am

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In post 7256, DeathNote wrote:Can you essence flux a spell queller twice to permanently exile a card?
With Essence Flux? I don't think so. There will always be an ETB trigger immediately with Essence Flux because it's a blink. I don't believe there's a way to stack anything for permanent exile.
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Post Post #7261 (isolation #266) » Sun Dec 04, 2016 10:15 am

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In post 7260, Natirasha wrote:There would have to be two spells with CMC 4 or less on the stack ahead of the queller trigger, no? Assuming there were, you use the first ETB to counter Spell A, flux Queller, Leaves trigger goes on stack above exile trigger, Queller returns to play and you can target another spell.

If there's only one spell you'd be forced to target that on the second etb and so that'd exile it before the the first etb trigger could exile it permanently. Which is to say, it's a near-impossible corner case.
yeah. But there wasn't any sort of indication there was a second legal target.
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Post Post #7263 (isolation #267) » Sun Dec 04, 2016 3:13 pm

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In post 7262, Thestatusquo wrote:
In post 7255, hasdgfas wrote:
In post 7254, Thestatusquo wrote:I will be at grand prix milwaukee if anyone is going to that.
I will indeed.
Judge or play.
Playing. I'm sticking to judging store events right now, nothing bigger.
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Post Post #7278 (isolation #268) » Wed Jan 04, 2017 5:59 pm

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In post 7276, Thestatusquo wrote:In louisville this weekend. Battling.
Wish I could be there. Good luck!
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Post Post #7319 (isolation #269) » Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:02 am

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In post 7318, Thestatusquo wrote:Image

Sleeving up this beautiful monster this weekend.
Wow. That sure is 75 Magic: the Gathering Collectible Card Game cards.
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Post Post #7346 (isolation #270) » Mon Apr 24, 2017 6:42 pm

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In post 7345, chamber wrote:This limited format seemed pretty fun so far to me.
Well, it can't be worse than triple Kaladesh.
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Post Post #7359 (isolation #271) » Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:48 am

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In post 7356, Sudo_Nym wrote:Rumors I've heard suggest we're getting a third Mirrodin block.
Ah good. Another artifact block. Those have
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Post Post #7368 (isolation #272) » Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:24 pm

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1 game win away from the Pro Tour :(

Lost in game 3 in the semis of a 2-invite RPTQ. I cycled the invite though, so I get to try again next season.
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Post Post #7513 (isolation #273) » Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:40 pm

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In post 7511, Glork wrote:So I’m pretty sure I want to sell off my Magic collection — haven’t played since Zendikar, and they are just raking up space in my closet at this point. I have a handful of Legacy staples (and some Vintage). I’ll post a list of notable cards and conditions in the next day or two. But I wanted to reach out to any scummers to “cut out the middle man” so to speak before I go to a marketplace or vendor.
I am definitely interested in a browse.
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Post Post #7515 (isolation #274) » Tue May 01, 2018 10:20 am

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In post 7514, Glork wrote:Ok so I guess I sold a lot more of my Legacy stuff than I had remembered, but there are still some things in the collection.

I updated an old spreadsheet, so I'm not sure how much these cards are relevant these days, but here's a list of cards priced on TCGplayer.com's marketplace, with market buy/sell columns listed. I also have a TON stuff from Kamigawa, Ravnica, Time Spiral, and Lorwyn/Shadowmoor blocks that aren't listed, so if you're looking for something specific let me know and I'll see if I can dig it up. Second sheet has some valuable uncommons/commons as well.

I also haven't gone through my bulk collection to see what I might have missed -- that would mostly be stuff from Invasion block and earlier, and some of it may be in MP/HP conditon.
I also have a ton of tokens, full-art/promo basic lands, FNM/MPR promos, etc., that don't have much value but would gladly throw in with other stuff just to get rid of them.

Glork MtG Catalogue

I'd prefer to sell in bulk if possible, and willing to just unload cards fairly cheap to do so. Otherwise, I'll take what I can't sell here to my local card shops in a week or two, and just sell to online vendors after that.


EDIT: Also some of the cards I had a tough time judging conditions of, and I'd be glad to take pictures of any card you want to see/verify of course.
There's definitely a bunch of stuff I'm interested in here. I'll PM you and we can discuss from there so we don't clutter the discussion in here.
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Post Post #7551 (isolation #275) » Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:41 pm

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I think Healer's Hawk is going to be a key part of Mentor curve-outs for Boros in Limited. Just attack with it and ever-larger Mentors and it'll likely be tough to deal with. I think it's very unlikely to see any Constructed play.
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Post Post #7664 (isolation #276) » Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:48 am

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In post 7662, James Brafin wrote:And now they have the two-card combo of poly raptor and marauding raptor in standard.
yeah, I love drawing the game
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Post Post #7675 (isolation #277) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 5:49 am

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In post 7672, popsofctown wrote:Monored doesn't really use its sideboard right now, so it wouldn't be that hard to swap out all the cards that get hosed by Leyline of Sanctity. There's lots of playable alternatives to directly targetting like Ghitu Lavamage, Guttersnipe, Risk Factor.
Risk Factor targets.

Also, I'm very confused by "mono-red doesn't use its sideboard". It does a ton of sideboarding in every matchup.
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Post Post #7714 (isolation #278) » Mon Jul 15, 2019 5:16 pm

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In post 7713, Inferno390 wrote:Well I made it all the way to Silver 1 with my Red-Blue deck.
Still hunting for Enigma Drakes to finish up the build though.
Do you not have uncommon wildcards to craft them?
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Post Post #7718 (isolation #279) » Tue Jul 16, 2019 5:44 am

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In post 7717, Inferno390 wrote:Oh I did not know that.
Well Ixwas ctacking M19 packs for no reason.
Yeah, you just have to go to crafting and then filter to allow for "Not Collected" cards. It's way more hidden than it should be.
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Post Post #7722 (isolation #280) » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:14 am

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Viashino Pyromancer is already worse in mono-red than Burning Prophet.
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Post Post #7773 (isolation #281) » Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:17 am

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In post 7772, chamber wrote:It seems like it was made in an attempt to bring EDH players to Arena, arena only supports very few cards atm so classic EDH wouldn't work there.
They were not originally going to bring it to Arena, so I don't think that's the case.
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Post Post #7838 (isolation #282) » Fri Sep 27, 2019 6:30 pm

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In post 7834, chamber wrote:Jitte is probably fine in modern. I'm not convinced it would see much play. Immediately after unbanning stone-forge is not the time to introduce it though.
There's no way Jitte is acceptable in Modern.
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Post Post #7886 (isolation #283) » Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:25 am

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In post 7885, popsofctown wrote:make it cautious hope, went 1-3 at FNM :(
Then you're fine. I went 0-3 at the last FNM before my most recent GP, where I got top 100 and cashed.
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Post Post #7896 (isolation #284) » Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:25 pm

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Pioneer's great. Modern was getting way too unwieldy, and I'm looking forward to being able to play with some of my favorite cards from previous Standards.

Meanwhile, I heard something about a B&R announcement today? The problem is that when I went to look at it, all I saw was a 3/3 Elk with no abilities.
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Post Post #7920 (isolation #285) » Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:04 pm

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I am convinced Marvel is unplayable in Pioneer, with T3feri and Oko both turning it off.

My excitement for Pioneer is less for immediate Pioneer, which I expect to be a race to broken nonsense, but more for once we've iterated past the initial busted nonsense.
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Post Post #7924 (isolation #286) » Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:34 pm

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In post 7921, popsofctown wrote:Oko doesn't turn Marvel off, Marvel doesn't need the second spin more than like a quarter of the time and the first spin comes with the Marvel player holding priority after Marvel resolves.

Teferi shuts it down. It is cute that Glint Nest Crane has the "right" amount of power for clearing a Teferi that immediately -3'ed but it is reasonably likely the Teferi is enough disincentive to be doing Marvel things when you can other busted things that don't have an interaction with Teferi's static ability.
Yeah, I get it. I won a tournament with Marvel. But you DO miss sometimes, or you hit something that takes a turn and then is an Elk with a weird name. I do think T3feri is a much bigger problem for Marvel(and for "fun").
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Post Post #7949 (isolation #287) » Sun Nov 17, 2019 6:07 am

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I played Gruul Aggro in the Cascade event. Pelt Collector with Once Upon A Time is really dumb, and then if all your 2-drops get another Pelt Collector and grow those Pelt Collectors you just snowball.
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Post Post #7955 (isolation #288) » Mon Nov 18, 2019 12:26 pm

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OUAT is an absolutely heinous design. It's so much stronger than Ponder or Preordain(which are banned in Modern) because of how consistent the effect is. It's very comparable to Faithless Looting, which was ALSO banned in Modern, but actually needs fewer constraints in your deckbuilding to be good.

I genuinely believe that anyone who was playing a green deck with fewer than 4 Once Upon A Time built their deck incorrectly, because it just makes you so much more consistent, especially how your deck begins the game, which is the most important point of the game. It's incredibly offensive. Yeah, the second copy costs you two mana, but that's actually just a totally fair cost for that effect at instant speed. And with the first one costing 0 mana and giving you such consistency, it is completely absurd. It is a design mistake and they should just remove it from every single format the way they did Gitaxian Probe.
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Post Post #7956 (isolation #289) » Mon Nov 18, 2019 12:29 pm

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As an example, I've seen multiple different Pioneer decks get BETTER mana and more consistency by adding a third color, even if it's just for Once Upon A Time. That is complete nonsense.
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Post Post #7958 (isolation #290) » Thu Nov 21, 2019 1:59 pm

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In post 7957, popsofctown wrote:
In post 7955, hasdgfas wrote:It is a design mistake and they should just remove it from every single format the way they did Gitaxian Probe.
Gitaxian Probe was not removed from every single format, it was never banned from Standard.
Deck manipulation is just not as powerful in Standard formats, see: Ponder being stone cold unplayable in many past Standard formats.
In standard it's just a great card.
At the point in which it was removed from every single format it Magic, it was no longer legal in Standard. I'm not intending to argue it was a problem in Standard. But it was still a design mistake, just like OUAT. Now that OUAT is rightly banned in Standard, just get it out of every format.
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