"God's Beard!"
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I am actually shocked at how those two games played out.
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Magic: The Gathering |OT3| Enchantment Under the Siege
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I am actually shocked at how those two games played out.
keeblerdrow
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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.)
charlequin
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charlequin
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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
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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!"
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Ian duke looking like he just finished a plate of strawberries for breakfast
Edit: 16/19 sultai players made day 2
c:
Edit: 16/19 sultai players made day 2
c:
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
That was a fantastic match. Really nice control deck clinic there.
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.
divisionbyzorro
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No big announcements?
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
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Weird that they're not even bothering to promote any of the new upcoming products. No announcements whatsoever.
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.
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
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Ok nerds, it's Magic, not the council ushering in a new country into the UN. Dial it back a notch. lol
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
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 thought for sure Atarka would stop at $15.. Nope..
Makes me sad.
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.
Makes me sad.
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.
The Technomancer
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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
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.
Spot on lol.
Spot on lol.
"God's Beard!"
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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
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Sphinx's Rev is nice, but it's no Gravecrawler.
"God's Beard!"
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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
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
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.
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!"
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Sovereigns has more flavor because the art looks like rainbow sherbet.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Gravecrawler wins because it doesn't look like sherbert.
"God's Beard!"
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If that's what you call winning, then I suppose it does.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
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!"
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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.
In our own ways, we are all breaching hippocamps striving to become pegasi.
Etrian Oddity
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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.
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.
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?
"God's Beard!"
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Den Protector is really good. Like, wow.
charlequin
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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.
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
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Damn, I was planning on running Mono-Red/Atarka at Game Day, and now I'm just gonna look like a bandwagoner. 
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
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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
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.
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.
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