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The Technomancer
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A well done RPG by Obsidian with a budget would be the stuff of dreams
Gatekeeper
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Planescape.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Two questions about Ravnica:
If the whole plane is covered in this, where the hell does all that smooth stone come from?
and
What exactly is at the bottom of all of those canyons that are spanned by bridges everywhere?
If the whole plane is covered in this, where the hell does all that smooth stone come from?
and
What exactly is at the bottom of all of those canyons that are spanned by bridges everywhere?
Maybe they quarry all that stone from underneath the city.
Streets?
They recently revealed that there's an ocean covered up by parts of the city, so that?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Is the stream choppy for anyone else? Was fine to start and now it's unwatchable. I was just watching mlb in HD too so I don't think it's my internet. :/
And then chaining Eternal Witnesses and Cryptic Commands. Yasooka's deck is sick.
Sometimes it just stops for me, requiring me to move my mouse over it to restart it. Not too bad otherwise though.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Bleh, wish I knew why twitchtv hates me so much.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Maybe it's because the people I know idolize him too much but I'm always so happy to see Finkel lose. I'm also excited to see Yasooka be so dominant right now, I hope he wins it.
Edit: LOL, of course the stream is absolutely perfect now that the match is over... Why does god hate me!!
I'm so glad I sold my shocks 6 months ago and basically got full price on em.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Holy shit, goyf is $80? How much was it before modern? About the same?
Between Modern now existing and Legacy's boom, it's been up there for a while. It's been a huge staple of every major format it's been in, and has only climbed since leaving Type 2.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Alright, I thought it was lower before modern but my memory is also pretty poor so I guess I was mistaken.
It's been in the 75-ish range for a long time now. Blame Modern. (It was about 55 pre-Modern.)
If I was to post a few of my decks would you guys be able to help me improve/update them a bit? I just ask because most of the cards in my decks are from older sets (Kamigawa or before) and I have been spending time the last few days trying to improve them. The problem is I don't have any knowledge of cards that came out from 2007 onward really! I am open to any cards since I play casual for the most part, but I still want good decks.
narcosis219
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That's what we're here for bro. Post away
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Alright I was right then, I thought it was 50-60 before modern was created.
GoutPatrol
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These would be cool if they didn't look like they came out of Myst III.
divisionbyzorro
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Played my first ever M13 swiss draft just now - I finally found myself with some free time. Drafted a sweet UB deck. 2 Harbor Bandits, 2 Liliana Shades, 2 Scroll Thieves, Murder (only saw one the whole draft, sadly, which turned out to be my undoing), Archaeomancer, Clone, sideboard Harbor Serpent for the mirror, etc. Plus a really greedy splash: 1 mountain for a Chandra's Fury. I went in basically biasing myself to beat creature decks.
Round 1 I smashed an Esper deck. Round 2 I lost in a very, very tight match against a RW exalted deck (he topdecked an X burn spell the turn before I swung for lethal in game 2, and then I never drew a third swamp game three and had to pop Mutilate with only two swamps just to survive another couple of turns while leaving a Griffin Protector in the air). Round 3 I was simply massacred by an RB control deck that apparently managed to pick up every single burn spell in the pool.
The draft format actually seems fairly interesting compared to previous core sets. I would definitely be interested in drafting it again in the future, which I don't think I ever would have said about previous core sets.
Round 1 I smashed an Esper deck. Round 2 I lost in a very, very tight match against a RW exalted deck (he topdecked an X burn spell the turn before I swung for lethal in game 2, and then I never drew a third swamp game three and had to pop Mutilate with only two swamps just to survive another couple of turns while leaving a Griffin Protector in the air). Round 3 I was simply massacred by an RB control deck that apparently managed to pick up every single burn spell in the pool.
The draft format actually seems fairly interesting compared to previous core sets. I would definitely be interested in drafting it again in the future, which I don't think I ever would have said about previous core sets.
narcosis219
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M13 is personally my favorite core set to draft. It has so many options available. Every color has answers!
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I've thought steam vents looked fugly for a while now... That just confirms it. :/
Mockups. Stomping Ground looks much better in-frame. Steam Vents? Less so.
For some reason I expect the shocklands' card layout and/or frame to be different in some way. Not sure why, nothing to go off of but I just feel that they want to make them special.
I would kill to have these arts in full frame kind of like the Game Day cards.
Wow those are some great lands, I will have to get a few of those for my decks sometime.
I have a bunch of decks that I want to improve, but I will just post one at a time over the next week or so in order not to confuse any one heh. I just bought a few booster packs last night, it has been a real long time since I had done that!
Anyway, here is my blue/black deck, I don't really have a special name for any decks. I am not up to par with the magic lingo yet heh. Creatures consist of a lot of ninjas and creatures that have special abilities when they do damage to a player. Most of the spells either give me some information on what the other player is doing or help some of my creatures get through and deal damage to the player. Potential problems include being able to compete in the early game I think since most of the creatures cost 3 or more mana.
Lands:
14 Island
8 Swamp
1 Waterveil Cavern
1 Tainted Isle
24 Lands
Creatures:
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
2 Throat Slitter
3 Mistblade Shinobi
1 Shimian Specter
1 Doomsday Specter
1 Raven Guild Master
2 Higure, the Still Wind
2 Smogsteed Rider
1 Student of Elements
1 Scalpelexis
1 Inkfathom Witch
2 Ninja of the Deep Hours
18 Creatures
Other Spells:
1 Coastal Piracy
1 Whispersilk Cloak
2 Writ of Passage
1 Exhaustion
1 Mind Bend
2 Spy Network
2 Dragon Wings
4 Veil of Secrecy
1 Trickery Charm
1 Telepathy
2 Terror
18 Other Spells
Still working on building sideboards for all my decks since I never had them before. Looking at this deck I think it would be fun to build a discard deck. I am guessing you would want a lot of black for that?
I have a bunch of decks that I want to improve, but I will just post one at a time over the next week or so in order not to confuse any one heh. I just bought a few booster packs last night, it has been a real long time since I had done that!
Anyway, here is my blue/black deck, I don't really have a special name for any decks. I am not up to par with the magic lingo yet heh. Creatures consist of a lot of ninjas and creatures that have special abilities when they do damage to a player. Most of the spells either give me some information on what the other player is doing or help some of my creatures get through and deal damage to the player. Potential problems include being able to compete in the early game I think since most of the creatures cost 3 or more mana.
Lands:
14 Island
8 Swamp
1 Waterveil Cavern
1 Tainted Isle
24 Lands
Creatures:
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
2 Throat Slitter
3 Mistblade Shinobi
1 Shimian Specter
1 Doomsday Specter
1 Raven Guild Master
2 Higure, the Still Wind
2 Smogsteed Rider
1 Student of Elements
1 Scalpelexis
1 Inkfathom Witch
2 Ninja of the Deep Hours
18 Creatures
Other Spells:
1 Coastal Piracy
1 Whispersilk Cloak
2 Writ of Passage
1 Exhaustion
1 Mind Bend
2 Spy Network
2 Dragon Wings
4 Veil of Secrecy
1 Trickery Charm
1 Telepathy
2 Terror
18 Other Spells
Still working on building sideboards for all my decks since I never had them before. Looking at this deck I think it would be fun to build a discard deck. I am guessing you would want a lot of black for that?
BTW lots of art from RTR and Gatecrash was spoiled
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6066501/facebookart.html
A few I liked:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6066501/facebookart.html
A few I liked:
So I haven't played Magic in about 15 years give or take, but just picked up the 2012 beginner set for my g/f and me. I'm curious what the best avenue for someone like us who will likely never play much outside of with each other, to get some more cards to play around with and not spend much in doing so, seeing as we aren't looking to be heavily invested. ebay perhaps? thoughts?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
BTW lots of art from RTR and Gatecrash was spoiled
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6066501/facebookart.html
A few I liked:
Where's his big blue friend?
Check out some of the 2-player products they make like Duel Decks and stuff also
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Lol, first thing I thought of too. Can't see anything but monsters inc
I don't even know where I'd get that, though I did get to take a tour of Valve on Thursday.
Seriously though, if you tell me where to get it I'll try to grab you some.
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