Etrian Oddity
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Fuck, Wild Slash and Kolaghan's Command have fucking spiked in the past couple months. Knew I should've hopped on those.
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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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yup they def do. Beleieve in the kirblar, he doesn't spec because he doesn't have time to move shit.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";182017745]Got crushed. I don't know how I could have played differently but I also don't want to blame bad luck. I did get to correct a judge though, so at least I had a highlight for the day.
Why do you complain about literally every deck?[/QUOTE]
Damn. That's rough. Bad match ups / bad cooperation from your deck or was it a very prepared field?
Why do you complain about literally every deck?[/QUOTE]
Damn. That's rough. Bad match ups / bad cooperation from your deck or was it a very prepared field?
SigmasonicX
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I missed it, what happened?
Also, first time actually hearing LSV. For some reason, I previously imagined him having a wacky European accent.
Infinite Stars
Member
Does anyone have any idea how to do a splash of Red in a heavy White deck?
SigmasonicX
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4x GW fetchland, 1x RG tango? If you're unwilling to use a painland.
Infinite Stars
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That makes sense. I'm debating splashing WarFlare in my White Weenie deck because Kytheon's Tactics is too slow but Inspired Tactics is just meh for the cost.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Paulo is really good at Magic.
Sat next to him at a GP Balt and his opponent was clueless about who he was. "Oh, you're from Brazil, that's cool!"
"God's Beard!"
Member
M1g1: Mirror - mulled to 6 on the play, stabilized with mantis rider and double gideon emblem but in order to do so I had to go to a very low life total, bounced around 4-8 life until my opponent Dug into two burn spells. Very fun game.
M1g2 - Had all the answers, kept my opponent from doing anything but after seeing the top 15-20 cards of my library I never drew a single threat outside jace and eventually my opponent stuck a pair of planeswalkers. Still a fun game, lots of fighting over jaces. Got a weird judge call where we almost got warnings for misrepresenting the board state when... nothing happened. Really weird so I corrected the judge and he took it back.
M2g1: Esper Awaken - mulled to 6 on the play, kept Plains, Battlefield Forge, Hangarback, Hangarback, Mantis Rider, Dispel and never drew a third land. My opponent was playing super suspiciously but it didn't matter so I let it go.
M2g2: kept 7(flooded strand, prairie stream, sunken hollow, hangarback, mantis rider, treasure cruise, Sorin). Never drew red mana and continued to draw red spells until I died. I did get to kill a jace by stealing it with Silumgar and minusing though. That was fun.
0-2 was out of top 8 so I dropped. It takes two hours to get back so I decided to get out early rather than go for the extra testing.
I could swap from Cruise to Dig and add a 25th land based on these results, but these aren't things that happen in testing so I think it's still premature. My mana is 14-14-14-13 and I don't run forced taplands so generally the mana is quite good and Cruise is the card I'd rather have almost every time I cast it. I keep running back my options, but I don't think I had a ton of decision points.
shrapnelmagnet
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Ugh, Crucible of Worlds just slowly climbs in price... Feels like a dollar every couple weeks. I really don't want to pay 40 fucking dollars (US) for a Magic card, but there's no other card like it... It's a tough life.
I'm tempted to just buy damaged copies for $10 off, lol
I'm tempted to just buy damaged copies for $10 off, lol
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
PV made a huge mistake
LaserBuddha
Member
I'm screwing around with Azusa + Crucible + Storm Cauldron in EDH right now. People hate me.
charlequin
Banned
Ahaha, loved the ending of that Finkel/PVDDR match. All these Command shenanigans and cards like Soulfire Grand Master make for entertaining games.
"God's Beard!"
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What's unique about his build? I haven't seen much of it since I was playing today.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";182024759]What's unique about his build? I haven't seen much of it since I was playing today.[/QUOTE]
Seemed lke bog standard Jeskai black.
Seemed lke bog standard Jeskai black.
An interviewer said he can add another PT top 8 to his resume and he responds with something along the lines of: "Oh yeah it's great. That's a guaranteed 10k, maybe even 40k." LOL Owen keeping it real.
Glad Finkel has made top 8. Straight up beasting the last two rounds.
Infinite Stars
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Gotta love Sam Black running Bant Tokens and defending Secure the Wastes as secret MVP card
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Oh man loved that line, had me cracking up
"God's Beard!"
Member
Card sucks.
Yeah I keep going from 2-4, it changes based on how I configure the rest of my spells.
I'm really liking adding another Kolaghan's command. It's just always the card I want to draw.
SigmasonicX
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I'm surprised Transgress the Mind is seeing play.
EDIT: And apparently Exert Influence.
EDIT: And apparently Exert Influence.
"God's Beard!"
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Exert Influence has seen a bit of sideboard play the last couple weeks. Control Magic as a sorcery is really, really good. I've been back and forth on it vs the Dragonlord, but stealing a Gideon and ulting is too key.
SigmasonicX
Member
Ooh, Hooting Mandrills in Atarka Red.
(Or rather, ook, Hooting Mandrills in Atarka Red.)
(Or rather, ook, Hooting Mandrills in Atarka Red.)
Etrian Oddity
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I'm getting misty-eyed watching Brandon Burton and his mom. :'|
"God's Beard!"
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Let's go OWEN!
divisionbyzorro
Member
It works so well with both of Jace's loyalty abilities.
"God's Beard!"
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Yeah, I posted a deck in here that had liliana with silumgar's sorceror and the 1 mana bounce guy when dragons came out but I didn't think it was very good lol
I still don't
You complained about Abzan coming back.
You complained about GW being bad.
You complained about GW being too expensive.
You complained about Atarka Red.
If someone doesn't win with brews are you ever happy? lol
Etrian Oddity
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This. My Sultai 'crats deck can get its ass handed to it, but goddamn it's fun to pilot.
Opponent casts dash Mardu creature.
I sacrifice a scion to fuel Ruthless Deathfang.
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pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";182022434]M1g1: Mirror - mulled to 6 on the play, stabilized with mantis rider and double gideon emblem but in order to do so I had to go to a very low life total, bounced around 4-8 life until my opponent Dug into two burn spells. Very fun game.
M1g2 - Had all the answers, kept my opponent from doing anything but after seeing the top 15-20 cards of my library I never drew a single threat outside jace and eventually my opponent stuck a pair of planeswalkers. Still a fun game, lots of fighting over jaces. Got a weird judge call where we almost got warnings for misrepresenting the board state when... nothing happened. Really weird so I corrected the judge and he took it back.
M2g1: Esper Awaken - mulled to 6 on the play, kept Plains, Battlefield Forge, Hangarback, Hangarback, Mantis Rider, Dispel and never drew a third land. My opponent was playing super suspiciously but it didn't matter so I let it go.
M2g2: kept 7(flooded strand, prairie stream, sunken hollow, hangarback, mantis rider, treasure cruise, Sorin). Never drew red mana and continued to draw red spells until I died. I did get to kill a jace by stealing it with Silumgar and minusing though. That was fun.
0-2 was out of top 8 so I dropped. It takes two hours to get back so I decided to get out early rather than go for the extra testing.
I could swap from Cruise to Dig and add a 25th land based on these results, but these aren't things that happen in testing so I think it's still premature. My mana is 14-14-14-13 and I don't run forced taplands so generally the mana is quite good and Cruise is the card I'd rather have almost every time I cast it. I keep running back my options, but I don't think I had a ton of decision points.[/QUOTE]
That's pretty rough. I've pretty removed all the tri-lands from my deck at this point. After FNM and watching the pro tour today (my flight this AM made me miss states), this is what I'm playing moving forward. It's just flexible as hell. You can play Aggro, tempo, and control based on your draws. That I think makes it even more fun, since there are always options and outs.
Except Ugin. A resolved Ugin blows me out, usually on Game 1 only though.
Jeskai Midrange.dec, Built with Decked Builder
http://decks.deckedbuilder.com/d/120560
M1g2 - Had all the answers, kept my opponent from doing anything but after seeing the top 15-20 cards of my library I never drew a single threat outside jace and eventually my opponent stuck a pair of planeswalkers. Still a fun game, lots of fighting over jaces. Got a weird judge call where we almost got warnings for misrepresenting the board state when... nothing happened. Really weird so I corrected the judge and he took it back.
M2g1: Esper Awaken - mulled to 6 on the play, kept Plains, Battlefield Forge, Hangarback, Hangarback, Mantis Rider, Dispel and never drew a third land. My opponent was playing super suspiciously but it didn't matter so I let it go.
M2g2: kept 7(flooded strand, prairie stream, sunken hollow, hangarback, mantis rider, treasure cruise, Sorin). Never drew red mana and continued to draw red spells until I died. I did get to kill a jace by stealing it with Silumgar and minusing though. That was fun.
0-2 was out of top 8 so I dropped. It takes two hours to get back so I decided to get out early rather than go for the extra testing.
I could swap from Cruise to Dig and add a 25th land based on these results, but these aren't things that happen in testing so I think it's still premature. My mana is 14-14-14-13 and I don't run forced taplands so generally the mana is quite good and Cruise is the card I'd rather have almost every time I cast it. I keep running back my options, but I don't think I had a ton of decision points.[/QUOTE]
That's pretty rough. I've pretty removed all the tri-lands from my deck at this point. After FNM and watching the pro tour today (my flight this AM made me miss states), this is what I'm playing moving forward. It's just flexible as hell. You can play Aggro, tempo, and control based on your draws. That I think makes it even more fun, since there are always options and outs.
Except Ugin. A resolved Ugin blows me out, usually on Game 1 only though.
Jeskai Midrange.dec, Built with Decked Builder
http://decks.deckedbuilder.com/d/120560
"God's Beard!"
Member
Just had to make sure, but yup, called the Lili-Faithful combo
So I ended up getting 4th or 3rd at states Ohio
My receipts:
https://twitter.com/ComicTown/status/655503986754232320?s=09
(I'm wearing the blue hat and 8th place)
Also that's a top 8 before we played the rounds. Ended up playing against the first place guy running 5c Bring to light and lost top 4 to atarka red.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Nice! You look distinctly not crab-like in real life though.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Man, Pantheon's Jeskai mana base is wild. Three Tasigur and no hangarbacks or planeswalkers. Makes sense with three Kolaghan's Commands, though.
blindrocket
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My four Event Decks showed up today so now I can build Standard Abzan. Whoo!
And I'll have enough leftovers I can build my friend a budget GB Aristocrats that could be good enough for FNM.
And I'll have enough leftovers I can build my friend a budget GB Aristocrats that could be good enough for FNM.
blindrocket
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That's just my Modern Jund deck and Legacy deck left out on the table. The Legacy deck is actually a stack of cards that can be turned into either Miracles or Jeskai Stoneblade.
I need to get better organized . On the floor out of picture are boxes of Magic cards in various states of disarray along with Commander decks and stacks of loose cards. It's getting a little sad, actually.
I need to get better organized . On the floor out of picture are boxes of Magic cards in various states of disarray along with Commander decks and stacks of loose cards. It's getting a little sad, actually.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
7 midrange decks. And Paolo.
20 copies of Gideon, 16 copies of Jace.
20 copies of Gideon, 16 copies of Jace.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";182041514]Just had to make sure, but yup, called the Lili-Faithful combo
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I'm too lazy to go dig through my posts, but I totally called Lili too. Granted, I thought her and Jace would see equal amount of play, so you know, you win some you lose some. I do feel like a genius jumping on those two super cheap though. I still believe in Kytheon too. Maybe not now, but he'll have a spot somewhere.
I'm too lazy to go dig through my posts, but I totally called Lili too. Granted, I thought her and Jace would see equal amount of play, so you know, you win some you lose some. I do feel like a genius jumping on those two super cheap though. I still believe in Kytheon too. Maybe not now, but he'll have a spot somewhere.
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