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Magic: the GAFering |OT2|
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blindrocket
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This is what they posted on Facebook:
Hopefully Magic 2014 hits the Steam sale with a 75% off in a daily/flash so I can pick up the Expansion Pack for cheaper.
I'm jealous, that's gotta be real convenient.
I've always been kinda lazy with replacing old sleeves, but I try to buy in bulk like this when I do. I've heard decent things about Ultra Pro's these compared to the old shitty ones, but I've used KMC's exclusively for years now.
I live 15-20 minutes from them now.Haven't yet taken advantage.
I'm jealous, that's gotta be real convenient.
I've always been kinda lazy with replacing old sleeves, but I try to buy in bulk like this when I do. I've heard decent things about Ultra Pro's these compared to the old shitty ones, but I've used KMC's exclusively for years now.
yeah but the expansion is normally 4.99 and is still 4.99 its only on sale at 2.50 on steam. I want to buy it since I already have the regular gamwe
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Ultra Pro's are the only sleeve I use.
Used to have some dragonshields that were nice, too, but I detest having a bunch of crap all over the back of my sleeves. Solid red or solid blue for me...that's it.
Used to have some dragonshields that were nice, too, but I detest having a bunch of crap all over the back of my sleeves. Solid red or solid blue for me...that's it.
if you are using dfcs u nees to use ultra pro black
I use Ultra Pro Matte precisely because they're easy to replace.
Wow really? I felt kind of bad stomping on it in sealed with Randy.dec. What were you playing? (I was using B/W Weenie.)
e: I was bored, here's my full decklist.
8x Plains
8x Swamp
3x Terramorphic Expanse
2x Suntail Hawk (offensive player of the year)
2x Tormented Soul (MVP)
2x Griffin Sentinel
1x War Priest of Thune
1x Black Knight (suboptimal, in retrospect, I blame nostalgia)
1x Charging Griffin
1x Bloodhunter Rat
1x Gravedigger
1x Serra Angel
1x Aegis Angel
1x Honor the Pure
3x Mark of the Vampire (6th man of the year)
1x Spirit Mantle
2x Murder
1x Public Execution
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
My Ultra Pro's are luckily not transparent at all, or yeah, DFCs would be a problem.
EsotericManiac
Banned
I specifically use dragon shields as well. I can't imagine using any other sleeve and I've quite a lot
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
Has anyone here ever tried making a Stuffy Doll/Boros Reckoner Modern deck? It seems like to could be super explosive. Just them, Volcano Hellion, and lots and lots of burn.
blindrocket
Member
Strange. According to what they posted it should be on sale. Right?
I have a deck like that but I used Seething Song to accelerate, and used Mogg Maniac before Reckoner was even a thought. Fun deck, but with the Hellion, you have to find a way to stay ahead life total wise. Otherwise it's a super dead card.
blindrocket
Member
What's up with the sudden interest in my Reflecting Pool's on deckbox?
I got two request for them just yesterday. Seemed interesting.
Should I hang on to them or trade them off? IMO, they seem pretty cool but I don't see them used in any Modern list I've looked at.
Also, I did some trades yesterday.
I traded off a play set of Desecration Demon, 2x Venser's Journal, 1x Coat of Arms
and in return I got
3x Living End, 1x Sword of Body and Mind, 1x Blightsteel Colossus, 1x Underworld Cerberus, 1x Reaper of the Wilds, 1x Fleecemane Lion.
I got two request for them just yesterday. Seemed interesting.
Should I hang on to them or trade them off? IMO, they seem pretty cool but I don't see them used in any Modern list I've looked at.
Also, I did some trades yesterday.
I traded off a play set of Desecration Demon, 2x Venser's Journal, 1x Coat of Arms
and in return I got
3x Living End, 1x Sword of Body and Mind, 1x Blightsteel Colossus, 1x Underworld Cerberus, 1x Reaper of the Wilds, 1x Fleecemane Lion.
CorruptShadow
Member
As an example, there's a monored control deck you play against in the campaign mode that uses Earthquakes and land destruction to beat you and usually has an empty board. I was playing the Innistrad block-centric White Weenie deck against it and had the bright idea to cast a Fiend Hunter to stash one of my Thraben Valiants so that I'd have something a little beefier than a 1/1 spirit token to swing with after a board wipe but when I cast it the game didn't even bother to ask me if I'd like to exile one of my own creatures, so it was just wasted mana. -_-
I do appreciate the opportunity to play with cards I would otherwise never want to, though. In sealed deck mode I built something around Tormented Souls and dumb buffing auras that I call RandyBuehler.dec.
If you go into the options there is a complex targeting option, (I don't remember the exact term) that will allow you to target your own stuff. I always enable that, and I enable having to press a button to move between phases, (I don't care for the clock.)
Yeah, turning all the advanced options on is pretty critical.
I think probably my favorite thing in 2014 is the last puzzle in the expansion. It is a Storm thing and is pretty awesome.
blindrocket
Member
Played Commander for the first time last night.
I have two decks, Power Hungry and Eternal Bargain.
Eternal Bargain has some insane life gain. And Power Hungry allows Prossh to deal some insane damage.
My friend that I invited over to play enjoyed it all so much (it was our first Commander game) he ordered all five Commander 2013 decks online!
He says he's going to make an uber deck out of all of them. Cherry pick the best cards from each if he's able to.
It seems like I'm going to need some help buffing up my Power Hungry deck.
I have two decks, Power Hungry and Eternal Bargain.
Eternal Bargain has some insane life gain. And Power Hungry allows Prossh to deal some insane damage.
My friend that I invited over to play enjoyed it all so much (it was our first Commander game) he ordered all five Commander 2013 decks online!
He says he's going to make an uber deck out of all of them. Cherry pick the best cards from each if he's able to.
It seems like I'm going to need some help buffing up my Power Hungry deck.
It should. I did check on the PSN store website I haven't checked on PSN itself from my ps3 ill do that tonight.
You just made Magic 2014 a lot better you should get some sweet Wizzos kickbacks imo.
CorruptShadow
Member
Well in Power Hungry just run Food Chain, cause you know I heard infinite dudes and infinite mana is kind of good.
blindrocket
Member
EsotericManiac
Banned
Unfortunately, I don't think that's really the best way to make a better commander deck. Obviously having a larger pool helps, but it would probably be wiser to have an overall strategy for the deck and find cards that would help synergize the deck even more so.
All 5 commander decks have some pretty good cards so it's not like it's a waste.
blindrocket
Member
I agree, I don't really see why he felt the need to get all five. He likes to collect the cards though.
Any more suggestions for my Power Hungry deck?
Here are some that I've read about or thought of on my own:
Army of the Damned
Avenger of Zendikar
Awakening Zone
Blood Artist
Copperline Gorge
Doubling Season
Dragon Broodmother
Grave Pact
Gruul Turf
Kresh the Bloodbraided
Mycoloth
Parallel Lives
Phyrexian Arena
Rakdos's Carnarium
Rootbound Crag
Skull Clamp
Woodland Cemetery
And maybe for some fun artifacts:
Akroma's Memorial
Elbrus the Binding Blade
The lands are obvious, but the others I'll have to look at the deck and see what I really want to replace. Maybe others could help me with ideas?
CorruptShadow
Member
Yeah and keep sacking Prossh and replaying him you get infinite Kobolds and infinite mana in this loop. The only caveat is that the mana must be used for creature spells, but with all the tutors in black you should be able to set up a concordant crossroads, craterhoof behemoth finish relatively easily. Concordant is only necessary in a group game, hoof will likely be fine in single player, providing they don't have spot removal when you swing.
lawlohwhat
Banned
Went 2-2 at a 16 man tourney today with this deck. Had the tiebreaker against the winner (there were no undefeated players) and lost to a weenie deck 1-2 when I misjudged a golden mulligan opportunity. Not missing the whip at all so far...
fifasnipe2224
Member
New avatar checking in.
EsotericManiac
Banned
Rcizzle
you're going to that dual land tournament in allentown this weekend, correct?
I should be going as well
you're going to that dual land tournament in allentown this weekend, correct?
I should be going as well
CorruptShadow
Member
That is awesome, do you perhaps have a link to that in a larger size? I would love to make that my desktop background at work.
The first deck you unlock in the Magic 2014 expansion is an exalted deck.
Despite having bad card selection, the enchantment one from the base game is heck of fun though. Kor Spiritdancer almost makes me forget that this card used to be good when it was green and in Urza's Saga. (Even though I dislike equipment, I would have liked to have been able to use that Kor deck from the Zendikar levels.)
Despite having bad card selection, the enchantment one from the base game is heck of fun though. Kor Spiritdancer almost makes me forget that this card used to be good when it was green and in Urza's Saga. (Even though I dislike equipment, I would have liked to have been able to use that Kor deck from the Zendikar levels.)
blindrocket
Member
All of the mono-blue at tournaments! Yeesh.
Has this become the mono-blue set or what?
Personally I'm looking forward to Born of the Gods in February. I'm hoping for some answers to pick up my Green / White deck.
Ajani being GW could help. Maybe even a multicolored devotion trick.
We'll see.
Has this become the mono-blue set or what?
Personally I'm looking forward to Born of the Gods in February. I'm hoping for some answers to pick up my Green / White deck.
Ajani being GW could help. Maybe even a multicolored devotion trick.
We'll see.
The manabase has completely screwed over the gold cards right now.
blindrocket
Member
Yup. I wonder if some Devotion trick could fix it in some way.
Getting a G/W Scry land would be at least something.
Next 3 are apparently the allied ones from RTR. Izzet/Golgari in set 3.
blindrocket
Member
Sweet.
I really hope it doesn't turn out that they are holding two duals for the last set. I understand not wanting to use 5 rare slots in a small set for lands, but it is just frustrating to get randomly hosed for three more months because of a color pair you happen to like.
divisionbyzorro
Member
I'm actually really excited to see this PT; I want to see what motivated deckbuilders do with it.
Yep. I agree. Live by the sword die by the sword. Publish them all please.
divisionbyzorro
Member
It's not uncommon for me to take a week or two off here and there. When I really started getting into Magic, I told myself it would never be a grind for me - I would never play unless I wanted to. I've had bad habits with other competitive games in the past where I would play them even when I wasn't having fun because I felt compelled to maintain rank or get better or whatever - Call of Duty for example was an incredibly negative force in my life for years. I've learned how to balance my life a lot better since then, and I've long sense learned to ignore the little gremlin telling me that I need to draft more.
Ethan Fleischer was rocking a huge blue mana symbol pin during those extended video previews of Theros Wizzos posted on their YouTube channel.
That guy makes Ben Stein look like Mark Rosewater.
I still play about twice a week and I fiend to play if I don't play at all within a week lol. Drafting is still fun for me (though I went 0-3 for the first time in a long time D: ), and I try to get in FNM. You got only 2 or so people playing T1 decks and everyone just brews their own thing so it's pretty fun.
Giving my Umericah control a break and gonna try out white weenies this Friday. God of Heliod still isn't a thing huh?
blindrocket
Member
I pretty much did. My Selesnya deck wasn't paired well with mono black which unfortunately took a large chunk of my local meta. I'll probably play a little bit more but I'm really looking forward to the next set. It doesn't help that I never fell in love with Theros. Neither the flavor or the mechanics.
That and I've fallen in love with Modern and Commander recently.
blindrocket
Member
I realized that I have a near mint Remand.
I can't believe it costs so much for a uncommon. It is valued higher than even Inquisition of Kozilek.
EDIT: Ah, I see it's a blue staple in Modern.
I can't believe it costs so much for a uncommon. It is valued higher than even Inquisition of Kozilek.
I was shocked to find out that Force of Will is uncommon, but it's also a lot more expensive.
EDIT: Ah, I see it's a blue staple in Modern.
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