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["God's Beard!"]

These games are so, so bad.

I am actually shocked at how those two games played out.

 

[keeblerdrow]

I haven't even been watching Magic that long, but I've been against putting people on commentary on formats that aren't their main dig. Put Marshall on the draft portions, side him on the Standard stuff, especially the top 8.

 

[kirblar]

I haven't even been watching Magic that long, but I've been against putting people on commentary on formats that aren't their main dig. Put Marshall on the draft portions, side him on the Standard stuff, especially the top 8.

It's really felt like they have some sort of requirement to put certain guys on commentary. (aka Rashad, who has no business ever going on commentary.)

 

[kirblar]

I think he has to max out Hydra here and pray. He can't win otherwise.

Ian's wrong- if he lets Adrian EoT the vault, he's not getting back into this game.

 

[charlequin]

That's the sort of misplay that will have people actively wondering just how you got to the top 8. Holy crap that was bad.

Now I'm curious which bit y'all were so upset about, lol.

 

[kirblar]

Just watch the first game. You'll know it when you see it.

 

[charlequin]

Just watch the first game. You'll know it when you see it.

I watched the whole match and I feel like there were a few big whiffs! (Though I guess I wasn't watching too closely until game 2 somewhere.)

 

[kirblar]

I watched the whole match and I feel like there were a few big whiffs! (Though I guess I wasn't watching too closely until game 2 somewhere.)

Unloading his entire hand into the Crux in G1.

 

[charlequin]

Unloading his entire hand into the Crux in G1.

Oh. Yeah that was a mess. I'm obviously tired since I was like looking for a single bad move instead of just, like, a big awful line of play, lol.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Ian duke looking like he just finished a plate of strawberries for breakfast


Edit: 16/19 sultai players made day 2
c:

 

[Arksy]

Yes! Mono-red is through to the final, that was a great game between mono-red and UB control.

All aboard the aggro train, choo-choo!

 

[Matriox]

Dragons of Pro Tour. DTK definitely had a bigger impact than I was expecting.

 

[Arksy]

That was a great round between Yasooka and Strasky.

Strasky plays Atarka and kills Icefall Regent, Yasooka plays Silumgar and captures Atarka, Strasky plays a second Atarka and kills Silumgar, and then Yasooka plays a second Silumgar and captures the second Atarka.

lol.

 

[WanderingWind]

That was a fantastic match. Really nice control deck clinic there.

 

[Arksy]

There seems to be quite a diverse distribution of decks. I'm new to MTG so I don't know, but I assumed in standard you usually only had two to four top decks at any one time. Is this a wider format than usual? I remember a lot of people in my LGS talking about how pre-KTK the only viable competitive decks were mono-black devotion and mono-blue devotion.

 

[Firemind]

That's why you don't play Esper. Color screwed even with two colours. :lol

 

[divisionbyzorro]

No big announcements?

 

[Firemind]

These games are so, so bad.

I missed the quarterfinal matches. This doesn't surprise me. I'd be nervous as hell if it was my first PT top 8 and I remember he made rookie mistakes against me in the past. Playing against control isn't the easiest. Unless you're playing mono red. :lol

Come on, Shota!

 

[WanderingWind]

Weird that they're not even bothering to promote any of the new upcoming products. No announcements whatsoever.

 

[Matriox]

I'm still hoping for an announcement of some sort at the very end, but I'm skeptical at this point.

EDIT: Yep. Nothing.

 

[Firemind]

Welp

That's why you have anticipate I imagine.

I'm amazed Shota got this far without any anticipates in his 75 considering mono red is the most played deck. I suppose having dragons in the deck means he can race mono red as opposed to just sit back and eat burn spells all day.

 

[WanderingWind]

Ok nerds, it's Magic, not the council ushering in a new country into the UN. Dial it back a notch. lol

 

[Firemind]

MTGO prices are hella wack. Mana Confluence jumped from 10 to 20 overnight. I have two, but still. Maybe I should unload them. It's not like I'm going to play standard any time soon. :lol

Edit: lol looks like Sarkhan is going to drop into non-existance.

 

[WanderingWind]

MTGO prices are hella wack. Mana Confluence jumped from 10 to 20 overnight. I have two, but still. Maybe I should unload them. It's not like I'm going to play standard any time soon. :lol

I told you people about Confluence. Check my post history. It was me versus the world and once again, Wandering "Motherfuckin" Wind comes out victorious.

 

[Matriox]

I thought for sure Atarka would stop at $15.. Nope..

Edit: lol looks like Sarkhan is going to drop into non-existance.

Makes me sad.

I told you people about Confluence. Check my post history. It was me versus the world and once again, Wandering "Motherfuckin" Wind comes out victorious.

I just like them because they're better than City of Brass and those see some play. Got a set of foils for $65 awhile ago because why not.

 

[Firemind]

I'm a bit worried now. I just bought a foil Atarka for a tenner and I'm afraid the seller will cancel it now.

 

[The Technomancer]

There seems to be quite a diverse distribution of decks. I'm new to MTG so I don't know, but I assumed in standard you usually only had two to four top decks at any one time. Is this a wider format than usual? I remember a lot of people in my LGS talking about how pre-KTK the only viable competitive decks were mono-black devotion and mono-blue devotion.

That's not quite true (they weren't the only viable decks in, say, the way that Caw Blade was the only viable deck) Theros did lead to a somewhat narrower standard than usual. But you're right, I think this is also a fairly unusual amount of diversity, which is great

 

[ultron87]

There will totally be some aggro swarm deck that plays that Command and uses it to hit for an extra three + number of attacking creatures to close out games. Between Outburst, Dragon Fodder, and Rabblemaster it has to happen.

Called the Pro Tour winning deck.

 

[Matriox]

In general though I wish we saw less Abzan "Control" decks on camera. The top 8 shows a good diversity though, I'll take it.

Called the Pro Tour winning deck.

Spot on lol.

 

["God's Beard!"]

There seems to be quite a diverse distribution of decks. I'm new to MTG so I don't know, but I assumed in standard you usually only had two to four top decks at any one time. Is this a wider format than usual? I remember a lot of people in my LGS talking about how pre-KTK the only viable competitive decks were mono-black devotion and mono-blue devotion.

Last standard had 4 major decks: U Devotion, Bx Devotion, Jund Planeswalkers and UW Control.

This standard season you can do whatever you want because there's like some crazy bomb 4-drop in every color combo, but to be honest I preferred the games from last season.

In my restless dreams,
I see that card.

Sphinx's Rev.

You promised me you'd draw me
cards again someday.
But you never did.

Well, I'm dead on board now...
playing against mono red...
Waiting for you...

Waiting for you to
gain me nine health.

But you never do.

 

[WanderingWind]

Sphinx's Rev is nice, but it's no Gravecrawler.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Sphinx's Rev is nice, but it's no Gravecrawler.

Sovereigns of Lost Alara is still the sweetest Standard card ever.

Mother Teresa, Poseidon and Confucius all teaming up to give your duderguy +10+10, Trample and Annihilator 2.


Can't beat that flavor.

 

[WanderingWind]

Flavor? You mean the cloud creatures without flying? Flavor?

Gravecrawler is stronger than a normal human (zombies eat humans) but is weak (he's missing half his body) and moves so slow people can just walk around them (can't block). He is easy to kill, but keeps coming back again and again and again (zombies do that).

Now that, friendo, is flavor.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Sovereigns has more flavor because the art looks like rainbow sherbet.

 

[WanderingWind]

Gravecrawler wins because it doesn't look like sherbert.

 

["God's Beard!"]

If that's what you call winning, then I suppose it does.

 

[The Technomancer]

Flavor? You mean the cloud creatures without flying? Flavor?

This gets me every fucking time the card is played. I'm pretty sure I've lost games against my friend's Zur deck because I thought his Sovereigns had flying

 

["God's Beard!"]

Is it so wrong to dream? So wrong to yearn for something higher?

In our own ways, we are all breaching hippocamps striving to become pegasi.

 

[ultron87]

Went to play some casual games with some friends I haven't played with before. First game I get trapped under a Stasis. Second game trapped under a Contamination. Lol.

Yet also saw the most innocent Buried Alive ever that puts 3 Reanimating Skeletons in the yard.

 

[Etrian Oddity]

So I had no idea that Dragonlord Silumgar's art has Tasigur hanging from the dragon's necklace. Wicked.

At first sight I didn't care for the Khans block, but after getting into Standard I really have to say it's one of the coolest settings Magic has had in quite a while. I loved the distinctness of each of the clans in KtK, and it's cool how the timechange drastically changed the fates of the legendary creatures and clans. As a D&D nerd Tarkir is like a perfect campaign setting. Hats off to WotC because I think they set a high bar.

 

[Jhriad]

Literalism > Subjectivity. Judges need to be as consistent as possible from person to person, event to event.

EDIT: This is the cheat in question I believe. Super ballsy.

http://imgur.com/a/FfazV

This kinda shit is completely unacceptable. Deliberate, practiced cheats have to get you lifetimed. Cheating can not be allowed to lead to success.

Watching the replay of the Pro Tour and seeing this guy in the Top 8 kinda makes me sick. I assume he didn't end there. Has there been resolution to the situation?

 

[Firemind]

He's not the guy who made top eight. Not sure if the investigation yielded any results.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Den Protector is really good. Like, wow.

 

[charlequin]

Watching the PT (well, what I could stay up/get up for, anyway) has boosted my opinion of Dragons a little bit. A few cool cards seeing actual play in the Standard decks. Still haven't drafted it though, a little skeptical of it as a limited format.

 

[ultron87]

Casual Magic with people not really plugged into the greater Magic community is so weird. One of the guys I was playing had a deck with Underground Seas, Windfalls, Force of Wills and Demonic/Vamp tutors, but it was all for the purpose of killing you by making you draw a bunch of cards when Underworld Dreams is out. Those were just the cards he had available from when he played back in the day. He was aware of the value of cards and everything, but it was just funny to see them used for something so relatively innocent. Then his removal was Bile Blight and Tragic Slip. It was a weird array of things to play around.

 

[Joe Molotov]

Damn, I was planning on running Mono-Red/Atarka at Game Day, and now I'm just gonna look like a bandwagoner.

 

[y2dvd]

Damn, I was planning on running Mono-Red/Atarka at Game Day, and now I'm just gonna look like a bandwagoner.

I mentioned facing it at FNM. A few people already had it brewed so no bandwagoning there!

Wasn't most of us negative about Dragons at first? Then again, I think y'all are too negative on most things initially anyways lol.

 

[Etrian Oddity]

I mentioned facing it at FNM. A few people already had it brewed so no bandwagoning there!

Wasn't most of us negative about Dragons at first? Then again, I think y'all are too negative on most things initially anyways lol.

I seem to recall a lot of "these dragons are lame" comments, haha.

Anyways, might as well post this for critique. It's working out pretty solidly so far

Creatures (18)
x2 Anafenza, the Foremost
x4 Fleecemane Lion
x4 Siege Rhino
x4 Soldier of the Pantheon
x4 Sylvan Caryatid

Planeswalkers (1)
x1 Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Spells (18)
x4 Defiant Strike
x2 Despise
x2 Dromoka's Command
x3 Read the Bones
x1 Ultimate Price
x3 Abzan Charm
x2 Utter End
x1 Duneblast

Land (23)
x3 Forest
x3 Plains
x4 Swamp
x4 Sandsteppe Citadel
x3 Blossoming Sands
x3 Scoured Barrens
x1 Cave of Koilos
x2 Llanowar Waste

Sideboard
x4 Display of Dominance
x4 Self-Inflicted Wound
x4 Surge of Righteousness
x3 Virulent Plague

Looking to add one more Anafenza for a quicker draw, one or two more Cave of Koilos and maybe one more Llanowar Waste.

The sideboard hate is amazing. By far and away I face more Heroic and token-based decks so it helps out a lot.

I think with -1 Fleecemane and +1 Annie it's pretty solid.

 

[MjFrancis]

Casual Magic with people not really plugged into the greater Magic community is so weird. One of the guys I was playing had a deck with Underground Seas, Windfalls, Force of Wills and Demonic/Vamp tutors, but it was all for the purpose of killing you by making you draw a bunch of cards when Underworld Dreams is out. Those were just the cards he had available from when he played back in the day. He was aware of the value of cards and everything, but it was just funny to see them used for something so relatively innocent. Then his removal was Bile Blight and Tragic Slip. It was a weird array of things to play around.

I've played against a similar type of person with a lot of the same cards in their deck. Casual guy playing Underground Seas, Force of Wills, Sol Ring, Demonic Tutor and Dark Rituals all to ramp out Vampires with countermagic. Thought my budget Splinter Twin deck was utter bullshit. I'm used to playing with game store casuals but this guy was a little different than what I was used to.

 

[Transhuman]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";159798877]All I know is I want a 5-second gif of this dude that's a whole shot of one of his close ups where he's just shaking like he's about to cry.[/QUOTE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU