Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[DeathNote]

I'm going to throw up.

I wish i had the discipline to save my money for staples instead of blowing it on overpriced standard.

[Thestatusquo]

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."

also, life complete.

[Sudo_Nym]

Well, now I want context.

[Gammagooey]

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)

[Thestatusquo]

Why would you ever do a 4-3-2-2?

[InflatablePie]

the value

THE VALUE

Deck (foil mountain = bonus value) and Pool. Only played one match so far.

[Thestatusquo]

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.

[Gammagooey]

^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.

[AGar]

also, life complete.

[Thestatusquo]

So, I don't know why I forgot to post this here sooner, but I often stream magic tournaments on twitch at the stream

https://www.twitch.tv/mtgcm_live

Stream schedule is
Wed: Modern.
Thur: Legacy.

7:30 PM Central Time.

I don't stream every time but I will try to keep people updated about when I am. I'm streaming legacy tonight.

Reminder that you can tune in to watch me cast modern tonight!

[Thestatusquo]

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.

[hasdgfas]

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.

[Thestatusquo]

LSV at 7-0 is

Love seeing him do well.

Hope he runs it back to top 8 again.

Really feels like cfb/ultra pro pegged the meta perfectly.

[Natirasha]

His draft deck was ridiculous.

[Thestatusquo]

the double olivia one?

[Natirasha]

The one he posted on twitter with Olivia and the 3 bloodsworns, yeah. Seemed like the sort of deck where you just smile and accept the 3-0.

[Thestatusquo]

His draft to start d2 was not nearly as good.

[Shanba]

I adore the deck that LSV is playing

[Thestatusquo]

Yes. I also adore LSV.

Locked for top 8 no. 2 in a row.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[Thestatusquo]

Also, for the first time in a long time standard seems more interesting than "4 different midrange decks slamming 4 drops into each other."

[Natirasha]

I mean technically last season was less that and more 'I have three different creatures in my hand and I can't cast any of them'.

[hasdgfas]

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"

[Thestatusquo]

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.

[DeathNote]

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.

[Thestatusquo]

No more modern pro tours