A Serious Man
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This match got me sweatin'.
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Any CoCo/Chord deck is worth building.Kiki-Chord is a FOTM deck but it looks hilarious....
Alcibiades
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Heh, I gave a friend of mine a foil Eye of Ugin at GP Vegas earlier this year - said he needed it for his Commander deck or something. At the time they weren't worth much and regular non-foil versions were tabling in drafts.
I probably have a at least a couple stored away somewhere from those drafts...
I probably have a at least a couple stored away somewhere from those drafts...
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
LSV murdering his own guys for no reason
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
LSV on the whitelist again
"God's Beard!"
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I think the power of the other decks in legacy is probably too high for the eldrazi cards to make an impact even in that case. I mean, Terminus, Swords and Force of will are all pretty game-wrecking, and even aggro mirrors you're playing against stuff like turn 3 craterhoof.
"God's Beard!"
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Yup, fantastic.
divisionbyzorro
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It feels like the CFB deck really should have put a Newlamog into the sideboard.
"God's Beard!"
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Very few games have gotten far enough to play an Ulamog. Even in the mirror a lot of games are decided by the curve.
charlequin
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She's been at WotC for twenty years so I'm pretty confident that she knows how to play and keeps up generally on what's going on in competitive play, but probably not enough to not get confused about this, lol.
They just want to make absolutely sure people play three completely different archetypes.
Well, because a) except Memory Jar they don't pre-emptively ban anything and b) everything about how this Pro Tour went as an event is actively good for them, even if they have to make bans to adjust the format afterwards.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Damnit I just missed it. LSV took it 2-1?
divisionbyzorro
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This matchup feels like it's 100% about Drowner of Hope. LSV masterfully kept that card from ever being a factor in that game. Let's see him get to the finals!
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";194500556]Very few games have gotten far enough to play an Ulamog. Even in the mirror a lot of games are decided by the curve.[/QUOTE]
I guess the risk of drawing it early is worse than the opportunity to tutor for it late?
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";194500556]Very few games have gotten far enough to play an Ulamog. Even in the mirror a lot of games are decided by the curve.[/QUOTE]
I guess the risk of drawing it early is worse than the opportunity to tutor for it late?
A Serious Man
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LSV winning games I certainly would not have.
Yep, Eye of Ugin just did too much work fetching up creatures.
The chat went absolutely nuts
"God's Beard!"
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Yeah, Sower already bricks the majority of creatures in the mirror pretty well while progressing your gameplan.
A Serious Man
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Well this sucks.
divisionbyzorro
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This, by the way, is why I stopped trying to play Magic competitively. I simply do not have the mentality to spend days, let alone hours, to have my tournament ended by shitty luck.
"God's Beard!"
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I suck at Street Fighter so I'm better off flipping coins in PPTQ top 8s, but I agree with you for the most part. The last Pro Tour top 8 was so horrendous with non-games that they brought back 3/5s.
"God's Beard!"
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I wanna see Ivan Floch win. That dude is the PT god right now.
Idk, i thought the red blue version was said to be better in the eldrazi mirror match. They played a best of 5. Im sure lsv will be more than happy with his finish, considering he is playing a busted deck.
"God's Beard!"
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Remember everyone, Floch made top 8 at a Standard pro tour with Prognostic Sphinx, Despise and Returned Phalanx.
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!";194501849]I wanna see Ivan Floch win. That dude is the PT god right now.[/QUOTE]
Dude's always there, but Tao's deck just stacks up favorably against everyone else's. I don't know if its by design that it has that advantage over the colorless version, but still.
Dude's always there, but Tao's deck just stacks up favorably against everyone else's. I don't know if its by design that it has that advantage over the colorless version, but still.
"God's Beard!"
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Join the Floch Flock. He's got this.
Etrian Oddity
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Affinity decks always remind me of just how wild Mirrodin's standard was. My memory is shady, but it was basically just Affinity, Tooth and Nail and Krark Clan, right?
"God's Beard!"
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I wonder if people will remember Eldrazi decks this way.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't think Twin would be good against the Eldrazi deck anyways.
"God's Beard!"
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Well, they'd play more Warping Wails but the combo would still be pretty good. The Eldrazi deck uses a lot of its mana in the early turns. Chalice on 1 is annoying for sure.
Simply Sarah
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It just sorta feels like it's a stronger deck than the colourless in general. The coloured cost Eldrazi just seem to add more to the deck than the cards from the colourless version. It's not really any slower and it seems a good bit better if the game starts to stall. Skypawner gives a flyer and a scion. Drowner of Hope is absolutely ridiculous. Obligator is super swingy. Vile Aggregate can break a stall hard.
The main thing I see the colourless version potentially having over Draft Eldrazi is that it's able to better deal with certain decks pre-sideboard due to the main deck Chalices and Ratchet Bombs. The drawback there is that those aren't all that strong against another Eldrazi deck.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Affinity is one of those decks that's not likely to eat any bans any time soon and is pretty much permanently a Tier 1 deck but I don't feel like I'm skilled enough to play it.
You can only learn and get better by playing a deck.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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they are but they are also interesting and they are an evolution of the really messy flip cards from Kamigawa.
ThLunarian
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Just bought 3 playsets of Planar Chaos commons off Ebay for a total of $50 including shipping.
Let's watch and see if a) the orders actually get fulfilled, and b) Simian Spirit Guide stays above $4.
Last I checked, there's still another playset available for $35 including shipping if anyone wants to try their luck.
Let's watch and see if a) the orders actually get fulfilled, and b) Simian Spirit Guide stays above $4.
Last I checked, there's still another playset available for $35 including shipping if anyone wants to try their luck.
We need to go deeper. Triple faced cards with each face a flip card and the last flip a level card.
You'll get every Planechase common except Spirit Guide.
It spiked to $24.
The Technomancer
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You haven't played real magic until you've played eight player THG Commander Archenemy Planechase
we played that exactly once
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