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No sleeves. The horror!
Comments section says they weren't allowed on camera due to glare or something.
A bait that will only work on MTGO, lol.
How do you poop when you have balls that big? I mean, they must be touching the water unless you sling them over your shoulder or something.
He's in a losing position no matter how he plays that straight. The SnT is his best out to a winning position.
Show and tell revealing nothing
~FOR VALUE~
I love this game. I like to imagine I'd expect a S&T revealing nothing to be a bait for Control Magic, but there's no way. I'd expect an Emrakul to hit the board and drop the biggest creature I can to attempt lethal next turn.
Now that's awesome. Shame it didn't pan out, but man that must have felt good.
That was *this* close to being the greatest play in all of Magic history O_O
Kibler vs Finkel in a mtgo cube match has been awesome so far. Finkel won game 1 even after a crazy punt where he Mystical Tutor'ed Timetwister and then accidentally shuffled it away. Going into game 2 now. Also Drew Levin, Efro, Shahar, and Huey are all in the chat, and maybe more that I dont know/are hidden.
http://www.multitwitch.tv/bmkibler/jonnymagic00
Edit: weird, both Solemn Simulacrum and Memory Lapse are showing as different art for each of them. Is this supposed to be a thing?
http://www.multitwitch.tv/bmkibler/jonnymagic00
Edit: weird, both Solemn Simulacrum and Memory Lapse are showing as different art for each of them. Is this supposed to be a thing?
This is when it turned... and it wasn't the mighty fleet, it wasn't some fancy new weapon, it was an elemental named Flickerwisp who captured a Phyrexian Praetor.
Custom art.
blindrocket
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Watching, as a spectator, Modern format games on MTGO is pretty interesting! You get to see some pretty wild brews.
I was jumping from game to game trying to find a match that featured a deck that I want to play just to see how it works but I didn't really have any luck seeing Jund or anything on that level.
I did see mono black devotion which was neat. Phyrexian Obliterator seems so sweet I don't see why he wasn't that sought after before. Someone attacked with a 7/7 creature, he blocked with the Obliterator and they were forced to sac 7 permanents! Which was... EVERYTHING THEY HAD. Pretty stupid to attack with that thing untapped.
I saw a LOT of Junk and Rock (Golgari colors). A lot of Kitchen Finks, Murderous Redcaps, Restoration Angels.... even an Emrakul that was cast only with enchanted lands.
I saw someone trying to get the Melira, Sylvok Outcast and Kitchen Finks combo going which made me grin.
It's the wild west out there on MODO.
I was jumping from game to game trying to find a match that featured a deck that I want to play just to see how it works but I didn't really have any luck seeing Jund or anything on that level.
I did see mono black devotion which was neat. Phyrexian Obliterator seems so sweet I don't see why he wasn't that sought after before. Someone attacked with a 7/7 creature, he blocked with the Obliterator and they were forced to sac 7 permanents! Which was... EVERYTHING THEY HAD. Pretty stupid to attack with that thing untapped.
I saw a LOT of Junk and Rock (Golgari colors). A lot of Kitchen Finks, Murderous Redcaps, Restoration Angels.... even an Emrakul that was cast only with enchanted lands.
I saw someone trying to get the Melira, Sylvok Outcast and Kitchen Finks combo going which made me grin.
It's the wild west out there on MODO.
divisionbyzorro
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Modern is so close to being an amazing format. I'm still really bummed about the banning of Seething Song; with Storm and Eggs now gone, the format doesn't have a real "unfair" deck left (other than Twin and Pod, both of which are growing more and more midrangy with each iteration). One of the appeals (to me anyway) of these wider formats is having representatives from different historical archetypes, and missing Storm (or even something Storm-ish) is sad to me.
Eggs needed to die, but I agree that Seething Song was a bullshit card to ban.
The format has plenty of unfair decks, though! Storm and Living End can both perform in dailies to some extent. Scapeshift is also pretty unfair and uninteractive, and the more focused Twin decks are still showing up.
blindrocket
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I've been playing Living End versus just about anything lately and it's pretty powerful, if uninteractive to an extent.
I let my friend play my Jund deck while I played Living End and I beat him every time.
We swapped decks and he managed to Living End with one life point left. I was at 20 life but dead with his next turn and I had no creatures to attack with. Thankfully casting Chandra Pyromaster I dealt the last one bit of damage to him and won. It was a very close game.
I let my friend play my Jund deck while I played Living End and I beat him every time.
We swapped decks and he managed to Living End with one life point left. I was at 20 life but dead with his next turn and I had no creatures to attack with. Thankfully casting Chandra Pyromaster I dealt the last one bit of damage to him and won. It was a very close game.
Playing Tron in Modern is the definition of not fun, seeing how much nonbasic land hate everyone and their mother seems to run. Living End runs Fulminator Mages main, Rock runs Tectonic Edges main and Fulminator Mages sideboard. Jund runs Fulminator Mages sideboard. Merfolk runs Spreading Seas sideboard. Hate Bears run Leon Arbiter, Aven Mindcensor and Tectonic Edges main. And so on.
blindrocket
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I saw a new deck list that runs Spreading Seas main which would also nerf the Urza land.
My Living End paper deck runs Avalanche Riders since it was cheap next to the $30 price tag of Fulminator Mage. It still destroys land though.
My Living End paper deck runs Avalanche Riders since it was cheap next to the $30 price tag of Fulminator Mage. It still destroys land though.
divisionbyzorro
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Good point! I wasn't thinking about Living End. I need to buy some Fulminators and put that deck back together again; maybe it will reignite the spark that I've lost with Modern. EDIT: They're $35 on MODO? Never mind!!
Tron and Scapeshift are just ramp decks to me; they're totally uninteresting. And yes; Eggs had to die, but it was the last bastion of the kind of combo deck that I really like to play. Storm is still playable, but it's been nerfed so hard that it's not nearly as fun to play as it used to be, and I hate how inconsistent it feels. The pre-ban Storm list I had felt like a well-tuned machine. Post-ban it just feels lacking.
The problem with Seething Song's ban looking weird was because we didn't have access to the data point they used. Every other ban was expected.based on tournament data. But they looked at the G1 win % for storm on MTGO and did not like what they saw. And given that Storm G2/3 usually were "did you draw your hate?" I can understand the ban.
And the Urzatron player is trying to ramp into a Karn Liberated, which is a hella unfun card to be on the receiving end of.
lol @ Fulminator Mage being a $30 card. NEW WORLD ORDER Y'ALL.
divisionbyzorro
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Fulminators being so expensive is because of supply issues. I'm honestly quite surprised it didn't end up in Modern Masters; at this point we likely won't see it reprinted until Modern Masters 2 (since Hybrid is considered a "mechanic" that eats up a set's allowed "complexity").
blindrocket
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I remember a Youtube channel commentator hoping they would show up in M14, but they didn't. He thought that with all of the non- basic lands being used during standard at that time it would have been really good.
This is what I use for budgetary reasons:
It costs one extra mana though.
blindrocket
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Only because it was larger than the other images I found. I didn't want anyone squinting to read the text.
RIP Echo
blindrocket
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divisionbyzorro
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The deck is extraordinarily well-developed. It's just slightly underpowered and has a not-good Jund matchup. It's really fun to watch though.
blindrocket
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Here's a deck that I saw posted online today which looks interesting.
blindrocket
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I've been brewing a casual Modern deck that uses Arcanum Wings to swap out for an Eldrazi Conscription onto a Hexproof and/or unblockable creature.
The creatures I've put in are:
Geist of St. Traft - Hexproof and he can win the game on his own
Invisible Stalker - Hexproof and unblockable
Blighted Agent - Deals damage with infect and is unblockable so he can win the game in one attack with the Eldrazi Conscription on him.
The creatures I've put in are:
Geist of St. Traft - Hexproof and he can win the game on his own
Invisible Stalker - Hexproof and unblockable
Blighted Agent - Deals damage with infect and is unblockable so he can win the game in one attack with the Eldrazi Conscription on him.
blindrocket
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*double post*
blindrocket
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Do any of you have any speculation on what may be getting a reprint in the next two sets or cards you would like to see?
Just for fun...
I wouldn't mind seeing a Damnation reprint. The price of the card is pretty steep and it could perhaps fit the god theme of the Theros block.
I don't know if they would have two board wipes like this in standard at the same time though.
Just for fun...
I wouldn't mind seeing a Damnation reprint. The price of the card is pretty steep and it could perhaps fit the god theme of the Theros block.
I don't know if they would have two board wipes like this in standard at the same time though.
FTFY
"God's Beard!"
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Damnation would finally make black a playable color in Standard.
you're making me want to build a devotion EDH deck for every god now, gah
They're all so swingy and fun.Just saw this. Why the hell did Mutavault jump like that?
you're making me want to build a devotion EDH deck for every god now, gah
It's a lot of fun, and the mana base is easy to construct. I had this Monoblack Balthor deck before the devotion mechanic was known, and the cards slid right in so easily.
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