Alien Manobo
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why can't i stop buying?
I just hope I can control myself not to open all the packs so I can use them for drafting.
I just hope I can control myself not to open all the packs so I can use them for drafting.
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Buy booster boxes until you have a playset and then send me the leftovers. Everyone wins.
except your bank account
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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What makes you think they'll blow up?
Damn, how many boosters per box and how much ?
I think we're going to see Red come back in a big way. It has a lot of nice tools now and some really great creatures.
Alien Manobo
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36 packs. cost me 4150 php, roughly around $100.
Just went through one box, no planeswalkers and only one of each shocklands with a foil Overgrown Tomb.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I don't think it's there yet. I know people will try but it's still not consistent enough I don't think. It has some nice tools but not enough to even it out.
I don't see any reason why would you want to go mono in any of the colors in the new standard. With access to 8 dual lands of 5 of the combinations right now, you're giving up a lot of flexibility and diversity by sticking to one color. I wanted to try mono red for the first weekend but realized there's no reason to not splash blue for stuff like Desperate Ravings and Delver, which is still a great tempo card, just a less broken one. Already in blue, might as well splash white for Geist of Saint Traft, which there are no cheap answers for anymore.
divisionbyzorro
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Geist of Saint Bullshit is one of the most important creatures in Standard right now.
The UB Delver decks will be interesting to watch. Goblin Electromancer looks to be nuts. Can you imagine curving Delver -> Electromancer -> Talrand's Invocation? The question will end up being if Delver ends up making the cut long term.
I guess the first SCG open is this weekend isn't it? Supply is going to play a huge role in the metagame for this tournament, although it will be very interesting to see what decks end up bubbling to the top. I'm very much looking forward to watching it.
Yeah, I'm actually probably just going to slap Spectral Flight on him. I don't know of any reliable way of getting rid of a 4/4 flying GoST except for Supreme Verdict or a 4 point Bonfire that they can run right into a counterspell.
And yeah, T2 into T3 Invocation is so strong. So, so, soo strong.
I have a foil of him I'd be willing to trade. I dont know what you have, but I'm not looking to break your bank over it.
divisionbyzorro
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Yeah...
Amazing that Clone and/or Evil Twin might actually become relevant if Geist blows up like he seems primed to.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Geist is going to be even more annoying these days with this kicking around.
If by annoying you mean awesome.
Yeah...
Amazing that Clone and/or Evil Twin might actually become relevant if Geist blows up like he seems primed to.
Would def be interesting if ET blew up. People seem to hate that card haha probably just because Metamorph and Image are better.
Mizzium mortars will be a big thing concerning him too
joeygreco1985
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Trying to save some cash, no new cards for me until M14. See you guys next year!
Deathrite is my sleeper of the set, love that card like crazy in all formats.
Just have to survive this hellish work day and I can pick up my two boxes and my gf gets hers.
Is Mortars really much of an answer when you need to get to six mana to deal with him?
I guess not. I still think it's going to see a ton of play, especially in control heavy decks.
Think I'm gonna get going early and grab a box before I head in to work. Can't wait for that feel
Good luck!
This is straight up wrong. With 2 modes Mortars is a lot better than Bonfire in certain decks, more efficient early on when killing just one guy and better than Bonfire late game, plus it's not bad if you draw it at the wrong time.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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The only aspect that is better is that you don't have to miracle it. Bonfire is better in every other way though.
The miracle aspect is huge though. And that's not even the only part of it, Bonfire isn't as efficient at killing single targets.
You have specific cards to kill single targets.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Eh, I don't think you need that much to kill specific targets when there's mass removal that doesn't hit your guys too.
What deck are you playing that has room for Bonfire and kill spells while keeping pressure on the board to take advantage of the 1 sided sweep?
That means you can't kill a 3 toughness guy until turn 5. Delver isn't going to be relevant any more, Lingering Souls probably won't bounce back with new Jace and less good opportunities for chumps / trades. Zombies are very resilient, they don't really care that much about a sweeper with Lotleth Troll, Gravecrawler and Geralf's Messenger. And there's Thragtusk, which if you want to attack into (what Bonfire decks should want to do) the first Bonfire doesn't really help.
The only deck I think it's good against is W/u Humans, but what colours are you in to play it when you don't have Sacred Foundry or Stomping Grounds? Even B/R or Jund Zombies isn't perfect as they fix the mana with Cavern which doesn't help.
Bonfire is still a very powerful card, but in this meta I doubt it will have much of a place straight away. Especially against something as versatile as Mortars.
JetBlackPanda
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this thread is pretty slow for a release day.
is everyone playing? lol
is everyone playing? lol
We start getting Day 1 results tomorrow from tournaments, so it should pick up.
Jeeeesus
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