Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[Isis]

Its hard to make a perfect analogy, the Planeswalker is weaker and there's a band of cases where you can't block enough to prevent a few damage to the Planeswalker but you can block enough to protect your starting life total when you cast the mill bomb

[Infinity 324]

in that case you'd probably better cut your losses and start minusing the planeswalker

[Isis]

this is an imaginary planeswalker with no minuses but maybe we can give it a "-1: Shuffle your graveyard" for asserting dominance

[Isis]

This past first prerelease was my first experience with how rules text volume creep has affected the game.

All sorts of games were going to time but the time it takes to read one of these new cards cause it's been cast, in a prerelease context, shit was just silly.

It's a little bit exacerbated by capenna being a tricolor set with ton of fixing so players are often 4 color and playing all their rares. I don't like gold sets tbh.

[Infinity 324]

why did we decide to start the day on adrian sullivan's twitter

[Thestatusquo]

Why would you ever pay attention to Adrian Sullivan

[Infinity 324]

idk there was a tweet about him on our twitter and we hate ourselves i guess

[Thestatusquo]

Fair enough.

[Infinity 324]

the ratio of (number of new songs i've found while watching caleb durward's stream) to (amount of time i've watched his stream) is absurd

[Thestatusquo]

His music actually has a really cool story behind it too, where his reaction to twitch cracking down on copyrighted music was to go on a music finding binge for tons of indie artists who he then messaged directly and asked for permission to use their music on his stream.

Its super dope.

[Infinity 324]

i love that

[Infinity 324]

what the hell why did new snc cards become on manatraders the same day caleb gannon's cube is up

[Lady Lambdadelta]

I'm building a Syrix commander deck because Phoenixes

[Ythan]

How often does one have an opportunity to say phoenices?

[Lady Lambdadelta]

How often does one have an opportunity to say phoenices?

Well in my case a lot? but I like Phoenixes better. I like the X.

[Ythan]

I agree x is a cool letter.

[DeathNote]

Magic is being mean to me today. I swear I kept a 3 land hand with no 5 drops in it but look at my first 3 draws.

[Ythan]

"Betrayer"

[Infinity 324]

shoutout to scryfall for being fucking amazing, i'm constantly discovering new things about it even after mutiple years of using it

did you know you could sort results by edhrec popularity?

did you know you could filter for cards over/under a certain price?

did you know you could you regex in your search terms?

incredible

[Infinity 324]

*pokes thread*

this set looks sick

[Isis]

It looks really fun.

There's a very new LGS in my sector of greater Seattle doing a weekly draft fnm so I think I'll go there a bunch to play the set. Also grindworthy for arena. I didn't love snc. Hbg is more goofy fun but it's hard to want to grind the hearthstone set, I played snc more

[chamber]

SNC was one of the worst limited formats they've done in years. I've had fun with this set so far but I'm a bit worried it's going to be another tempo format. Not to the degree SNC was, but still having 2 back to back when SNC was so bad is a bit much.

[Infinity 324]

you're topdecking pretty often in this format ime if that matters to you.

we like tempo formats a lot (mid was awesome) but they're not for everyone

[chamber]

you're topdecking pretty often in this format ime if that matters to you.

we like tempo formats a lot (mid was awesome) but they're not for everyone

I don't mind a tempo format (though its likely my least liked of the options), I just really like a variety, and SNC was DOMINATED by tempo. Don't want anymore tempo right now. Also I've done like a dozen DMU drafts on arena at this point, didn't go to top decking in that many of the games. Several 7 wins with aggro and tempo decks where I just got ahead of the other guy and they couldn't win. A lot of the kicker cards just let you play really aggressively and then still push through a win when you start kicking stuff. But as always the format is early.

[Infinity 324]

it's very possible i'm just bad