Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[Thestatusquo]

when he randomly bought cards to attempt to make money off of them.

This is just about the worst idea of all time.

FUCK Thragtusk

If you're losing to thragtusk than you're not building your RDW correctly.

[xRECKONERx]

Eh?

Not really, Mutilate boardwipe T4 is bad news when I have out 2x Ash Zealot + Cackler + Stromkirk

[xRECKONERx]

like Thragtusk forces you to trade down, not to mention having Garruk Relentless out (which he got out super early both fucking games) hurts a lot

[Thestatusquo]

Then you drop thundermaw and swing for game. Or you drop conscripts and swing for game. RDW has tons of answers to tusk.

[Thestatusquo]

Not really, Mutilate boardwipe T4 is bad news when I have out 2x Ash Zealot + Cackler + Stromkirk

Sounds like you over extended. Theres no reason to play out the fourth, and probably even the third creature if you know hes running board sweepers (and even if you dont, maybe)

[xRECKONERx]

Dropped Conscripts, took Garruk, killed Thragtusk

Too many wolves

[Thestatusquo]

Why didnt you take tusk and swing at his face? if you had 4 creatures out, 2 of them being hasters, I can't imagine he was at high life.... Furthermore, this makes no sense. He board wiped turn 4 but then he had a garruk in play and a thragtusk? What turn was this?

[InflatablePie]

So I found this. Basically it's a (kinda clunky) MtG stock market type simulator. Apparently there's a contest where after some amount of time (doesn't say) whoever makes the most trading and selling cards via sim, gets a set of Geists. You start with $500 to buy stuff with.

I signed up because bored and I like the idea of stock market type things, and invested in a fuckton of Blind Obedience and Boros Charm (obvpicks), as well as some Master Biomancer/Prime Speaker Zegana, and a handful of random smaller stuff like Domri/Aurelia Warleader/Deathpact Angel/Gyre Sage.

Should be interesting to see how these cards rise/fall. Also I'm really tempted to buy $10-$20 in Boros Charm. They've gone up $.25 in the last two days alone...

[Thestatusquo]

If you had started a week ago and spent your whole roll on exquisite blood then you would have already won. How does that make you feel?

[Fate]

SO SHEA THAT BANT AURA MIRROR MATCH

DETERMINED BY SKILL AMIRITE

[xRECKONERx]

Why didnt you take tusk and swing at his face? if you had 4 creatures out, 2 of them being hasters, I can't imagine he was at high life.... Furthermore, this makes no sense. He board wiped turn 4 but then he had a garruk in play and a thragtusk? What turn was this?

Different game.

I'm just pointing out my issues against any kind of G midrange matchup. A lot of it came down to the draws, too, but I literally couldn't do anything else. Maybe I was too ambitious with throwing out 4 creatures, but it's not like my Noble could stop Thragtusk.

[Thestatusquo]

I don't know what point you think you're trying to make, and for certain I have no idea because I've never played the match up, but in general mirror matches are among the most skill intensive matches in the whole game. Knowing which cards are important, when to "go for it" as opposed to holding back, and by extension mulliganing decisions are critical and tough things to figure out. The person who knows what cards to care about, when to mulligan and for what kind of hand, and who has the better SB plan is typically the person who wins a mirror match.

For perspective, when Tog was the deck of choice and almost everyone was playing it, most tog decks were focusing on countering each others draw spells in the mirror to get an advantage. One player, whos name escapes me at the moment, decided that this was foolish and that in the mirror only one spell mattered- mana short to cast your upheaval - so he stopped countering anything but his opponents mana shorts or their counters on his mana shorts. He ended up winning the event through about 5 mirrors.

In the future, when you want to ask a question like this, where you're sarcastically trying to make a point that magic is not a skill game just because you are unaware of the particular skill that it takes because you are new, ask yourself "Do I have any clue what I am talking about here?" If the answer is no, as it almost certainly is, you should instead ask HOW the match is skill intensive, not try to prove your completely and utterly wrong point that it isn't.

Just saying.

[xRECKONERx]

Tbf Bant auras is less playing magic and more playing solitaire

[Fate]

10 words for 3 paragraphs

I think I won that trade

[xRECKONERx]

11 words*

[Fate]

FUCK

[PeregrineV]

Anyone know the promo cards for each guild? Also, anyone going to pre-releases this weekend?

[Gammagooey]

It's okay, I'll pull a Domri Rade tomorrow, right? Right?

no they're mine

they're all mine

[Fate]

IMMA FIGHT YOU GAMMA

FIGHT

YOU

PIT FIGHT BITCH

[Gammagooey]

SON I WILL TRAMPLE YOUR FACE IN

[bv310]

Anyone know the promo cards for each guild? Also, anyone going to pre-releases this weekend?

http://www.mtgsalvation.com/gatecrash-spoiler.html
Entire Set Spoiler. Promos are:

Boros - Foundry Champion
Simic - Fathom Mage
Dimir - Consuming Aberration
Gruul - Rubblehulk
Orzhov - Treasury Thrull

[bv310]

Also, piloted Omni to 4-1 tonight. Could have won that lost match by tutoring better. Went Door/Temporal instead of Door/Kessig with Drogskol in play. Could have swung lethal with mana up to drop Door if he survived.

[Fate]

4 and 0 so far I LOVE GRUUL BABY

cracked raiders in my guilds pack, haven't used her yet

[Fate]

Burning tree emissary MVP

Turn 3 battalion? Yes plz got combat medic to

[Fate]

Holy shit Aurelias Fury is so broken and won me the finals. 4 and 1 for the night. Also my phone says its 30 bucks right now