It's not just about removal; not being able to play more blockers and not being able to block with tokens, lands and half your other creatures is huge in this format; especially when they have a giant creature.
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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I don't normally think that my collection needs culling or anything but goddamn going through building some intro decks for some friends tonight and I do not need like 24 copies of Cancel
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
Gideon is fucking nuts. I +'d him once (dealt 5), traded my hangarback for 2 thopters, then the next turn played a soulfire grandmaster, activated the emblem, and still had mana up for removal, 2 2/2 flyers, a 1 Loyalty Gideon, and a 3/3 lifelinker.
The fuck is that!
I don't disagree, I just think you're probably losing that game if you have no way of removing it. Replace him with the 8/9 trample eldrazi and its not too different. That's a common. Just a tomato / tomahto disagreement.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Hahaha...yeah. I used this rotation as a major cull. I had like, 30 copies of Bump in the Night because I loved jamming that card back when it was in standard. I think 5 copies is good enough...(4 for RB burn one day and one for das Kube)
I used to give the cards away to new players but I don't know where to find them out here. I have 3 5000 card boxes full of cards that I'm just going to donate to to local thrift shop.
PS I think Im cursed with this set
Twice I've been paired down in the final round out of 3 drafts, in both I was undefeated.
Here are rare cards I have 3 of
Blight Herder
Nissa's Renewal
Beastcaller Savant
Cards I have 2 of
Exert Influence
Part the Waterveil
Scatter to the Wind
Gruesome Slaughter
Yep this set hates me. Out of 30 packs (keeping a tally in my head to see when I open the first expedition)
Twice I've been paired down in the final round out of 3 drafts, in both I was undefeated.
Here are rare cards I have 3 of
Blight Herder
Nissa's Renewal
Beastcaller Savant
Cards I have 2 of
Exert Influence
Part the Waterveil
Scatter to the Wind
Gruesome Slaughter
Yep this set hates me. Out of 30 packs (keeping a tally in my head to see when I open the first expedition)
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I ordered a playset when they were like 2 bucks. I rule.
I assure you I will sell them as soon as I can because fuck playing shitty aggro.
(you can't attack with Gideon the turn he comes into play)
Etrian Oddity
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Who expected it wouldn't? It's arguably the best command, and landfall is the freakin theme for this block.
Frankie Williamson
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Did a draft today that was really weird. Ended up drafting almost entirely green with a tiny bit of black. It was almost all ramp cards and a handful of big eldrazi. Went 3-0 without dropping a single game. It was bananas how well it worked. Was really fortuitous to get Oblivion Sower in my first pack and then From Beyond passed to me.
Catacomb Sifter is a busted uncommon. I cannot stress how incredible it is with scions.
Catacomb Sifter is a busted uncommon. I cannot stress how incredible it is with scions.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Holy crap, I thought y'all were talking about 50 buck Jaces. 85 dollars??
Dude, I can't hold on to my playset at that price. I held onto Bonfire when it spiked to 50 and regretted it ever since. It's time to sell.
But freaking how.
Dude, I can't hold on to my playset at that price. I held onto Bonfire when it spiked to 50 and regretted it ever since. It's time to sell.
But freaking how.
It's not actually worth $85. Other than Alter Reality Games trying to sell at $85, non-foils are completely sold out on TCGPlayer. Once people start relisting them, it'll probably be $60-70.
But that's still a ton.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
They're sold out everywhere at between that price now. No way they'll relist for the same amount. 85 may be the high end right now, but that is the price if you want to own them now. Not to get too deep into the semantics of what something actually costs, but if it's listed for 85 bucks, then that is its worth at this current time. I believe that price is unsustainable, for sure. Again, Bonfire burned (GET IT? HAHAHA) pretty bad when I bought a set for 30ish bucks and didn't sell when they hit 50 bucks a pop. I was less good at Modern then and believed it was eternal playable.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
wrong thread.
Yeah, this isn't going to stick for long. There are already a few copies on eBay for 70-75 so if you're going to sell, sell soon. I'm a little annoyed at myself for not finishing my set of Atarka's Command. Not that I have any intention of using them any time soon but I just figured I'd be able to get them for $4-5 sometime at a later date. If I'd put a little more thought into that I'd have seen this coming.
"God's Beard!"
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I'm sad that I only have 5 Jaces now.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
I'm glad I ordered 4 Jace's 2 weeks ago. Jeez.
"God's Beard!"
Member
In retrospect, my trade of an MP Force of Will for two Jaces and a Hangarback Walker is not so terrible.
I've been back and forth on Abbot vs Hangarback Walker myself. Hangarback is easier to cast and the evasive tokens are great since I don't really have a lot of ways to push through creatures with my deck. On the other side, Abbot is great for hitting land drops, can trade with a lot more creatures while attacking and gets you more spells late in the game. My deck is more burn-oriented so Abbot might be better in mine, but it's hard to say. How's Gideon working with your deck? I built my deck to get under 3-mana removal so it's a different strategy, but I personally haven't liked much of the higher costed Jeskai cards. Plays a bit much into the Abzan/5-color decks' gameplans for my tastes.
I kinda want to play Deflecting Palm
I've been back and forth on Abbot vs Hangarback Walker myself. Hangarback is easier to cast and the evasive tokens are great since I don't really have a lot of ways to push through creatures with my deck. On the other side, Abbot is great for hitting land drops, can trade with a lot more creatures while attacking and gets you more spells late in the game. My deck is more burn-oriented so Abbot might be better in mine, but it's hard to say. How's Gideon working with your deck? I built my deck to get under 3-mana removal so it's a different strategy, but I personally haven't liked much of the higher costed Jeskai cards. Plays a bit much into the Abzan/5-color decks' gameplans for my tastes.
I kinda want to play Deflecting Palm
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
GamerKingFaiz
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My LGS said they only get 1 print run of Fat Packs, meaning they wouldn't get any more from WotC.
Is this the same case for big box stores (i.e. Target, Wal-Mart, etc.)?
Is this the same case for big box stores (i.e. Target, Wal-Mart, etc.)?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I held on to my Atarka's Commands for one reason: it was obviously going to be good in Standard as the "mono red" card of choice. I am a genius.
GamerKingFaiz
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Damn...I should've pre-ordered... >_<
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I can't be the only one who feels like the level of play at these SCG events doesn't seem particularly high, even on Day 2.
It's not. (I've top 8'd two of them- people at 6-0....shoudln't have been at 6-0, lol.)
divisionbyzorro
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The only Opens I ever watch are Legacy and Modern. The Legacy Opens tend to have reasonably good play; Modern seemed to be just okay last time.
Infinite Stars
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Considering players are doing stuff like tapping Hangarback when it still has sickness, yeah, it's not particularly high(And I say this as someone who isn't that good myself.)
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
There's a 12 year old on camera playing a Jeskai deck with Crackling Doom. I'm going to assume that is God's Beard.
Dragonmaster Outcast and Felidar Cub... is this limited
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Will trade Jace's for full art lands. Zen or BFZ.
Joe Molotov
Member
GB busting out the Dragonmaster Outcast!
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh god why is the completely free Pokemon TCG game so much better than MTGO?
Joe Molotov
Member
Valorous Stance on the opponent's Hangarback, well played lol.
Infinite Stars
Member
Because TPCi doesn't have their heads up their asses and actually recognize the importance of a digital counterpart?
Man, the free M:tG clients are better than M:tGO.
WotC is just not good at digital products. It's true across their entire product line and even extends to, like, basic stuff like wikis and forums that should be impossible to screw up because they come out of a box.
I have no idea why they're so incapable on this front, but they're shockingly consistent about it.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Wait, there's a completely free. Where???
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Okay, now you're just getting silly. The free clients aren't even close.
shrapnelmagnet
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And yet I find them infinitely more watchable than any Pro Tour or GP. The amount of mic issues alone on normal GP coverage is astounding.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Google "Pokemon TCG online". Its "free 2 play" but there's actually no in game microtransactions, the only way to spend real money is to actually go out and buy real Pokemon packs and from what I can tell doing daily events to accrue the currency for in game packs doesn't seem too onerous
I'm assuming because Pokemon's mechanics are nowhere near as complex as MTG.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I dunno, as opposed to...how often they show up at a competitive level? Having the determiner for "gold set" be "how often you open gold cards" seems pretty straightforward
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