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[Angry Grimace]

Blocking a 2/2 Experiment One with one of our two Coursers when your opponent has 3 mana up is not the ideal play.

I'm going to squeal in delight if Pierre can end this game on Vraska's assassin tokens.

Edit: Golgari Charm doing it again

 

[divisionbyzorro]

I love watching control decks do their thing...usually. This Standard's Sphinx's Rev decks are painful, obnoxious, and borderline offensive to the concept of timed tournament magic. Back when Drownyard was in Standard, at least the Esper decks had a maindeckable way to win the game.

But let's be honest - Sphinx's Revelation isn't the culprit. Neither is Elixir. It's actually Jace; without a 4-of Jace, these decks would have a much harder time surviving to the point where Sphinx's Rev actually matters.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Monstrous Fleecemane has no real answer, though.

 

[Lucario]

Monstrous Fleecemane has no real answer, though.

ult jace for Soldier of the Pantheon :V

 

["God's Beard!"]

But let's be honest - Sphinx's Revelation isn't the culprit. Neither is Elixir. It's actually Jace; without a 4-of Jace, these decks would have a much harder time surviving to the point where Sphinx's Rev actually matters.

Apparently Floch doesn't agree with you.

 

[Firemind]

Cunningham is going to kill himself. :lol

 

[Angry Grimace]

ult jace for Soldier of the Pantheon :V

You can't ult Jace if opponent has a Monstrous Lion.

 

[An-Det]

Just turned on the coverage for the finals. Does it look weird to anyone else, like everything is going slightly too fast?

 

[The Technomancer]

I love watching control decks do their thing...usually. This Standard's Sphinx's Rev decks are painful, obnoxious, and borderline offensive to the concept of timed tournament magic. Back when Drownyard was in Standard, at least the Esper decks had a maindeckable way to win the game.

But let's be honest - Sphinx's Revelation isn't the culprit. Neither is Elixir. It's actually Jace; without a 4-of Jace, these decks would have a much harder time surviving to the point where Sphinx's Rev actually matters.

It turns out that its hard making repeatable blue effects that are powerful without being too powerful

lol

 

[Haly]

He looks ready to cry.

EDIT: Woooooooooooooooooow

 

[f0rk]

Nice mull to 5.

Ajani seems like the key card

 

[Haly]

Jace is straight up bullshit.

 

[f0rk]

I hadn't noticed Floch was playing off colour scry lands lol

 

[Haly]

Literally Ajani vs Jace now.

 

["God's Beard!"]

I hadn't noticed Floch was playing off colour scry lands lol

You always play a ton of scry lands in control.

 

[Angry Grimace]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";123887423]You always play a ton of scry lands in control.[/QUOTE]

The color you pick is just to represent whatever you want. You typically see Silence to make them think its maybe Esper or something.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Yay Floch wins ^_^

 

[Angry Grimace]

LMAO wins the Pro Tour with Sheep attack!

 

[alternade]

Huzzah!

 

[Firemind]

Floch ram out of win conditions, so he goat an Archangel of Thune to silambs the non-believers.

Super Standard is sheeping up to be very interesting for WMCQ grinders. Who's going?

 

[Angry Grimace]

Floch ram out of win conditions, so he goat an Archangel of Thune to silambs the non-believers.

Super Standard is sheeping up to be very interesting for WMCQ grinders. Who's going?

So baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Didn't a top 4 finish mean that Owen would captain the U.S. team for the WMC?

So Reid Duke's miserable day one draft not only cost him PotY, but also the captain's chair? Is he still live for a berth at Champs?

 

[Yeef]

Even as someone who plays a very similar deck, that Blue-White control deck is so boring. Not only does it not use any new Standard cards, but it also takes like 15 minutes to actually win after it's already won.

 

[ElyrionX]

Don't hate on control, guys.

So tempted to try this Cleansing Control deck but I don't have any Mutavaults.

 

[ElyrionX]

I love watching control decks do their thing...usually. This Standard's Sphinx's Rev decks are painful, obnoxious, and borderline offensive to the concept of timed tournament magic. Back when Drownyard was in Standard, at least the Esper decks had a maindeckable way to win the game.

But let's be honest - Sphinx's Revelation isn't the culprit. Neither is Elixir. It's actually Jace; without a 4-of Jace, these decks would have a much harder time surviving to the point where Sphinx's Rev actually matters.

Disagree. Jace is a 4-mana 4-loyalty drop and in that deck, casting him against most of the field is tricky as he dies very easily. Might as well cast divination for 3 and not give your opponent any idea what cards you grabbed.

 

[keeblerdrow]

Disagree. Jace is a 4-mana 4-loyalty drop and in that deck, casting him against most of the field is tricky as he dies very easily. Might as well cast divination for 3 and not give your opponent any idea what cards you grabbed.

You dig one deeper, get to control what you take, and have the opportunity to do it again. And then there are his other abilities. I'd take resolving a Jace over Divination in so so many situations.


At FNM, I'm developing a mono-green Nissa/Garruk list. No BTE and I have a couple Sylvan Primordials and a couple Worldspine Worms. I was thinking about shaving some creatures here and there and splashing black for 4X Lotleth Troll, 1x Apex Predator, and 2x Golgari Charm in the main. I want to keep my Nissas relevant so I'm thinking about putting in 4x Overgrown Tomb and 2x Urborg. My current planeswalker suite is 3xGreen Garruk and 2x Nissa. With the amount of creatures I'm drawing with Garruk, Lotleth Troll felt like it would have been a good thing to have on board so many times.

 

[ElyrionX]

You dig one deeper, get to control what you take, and have the opportunity to do it again. And then there are his other abilities. I'd take resolving a Jace over Divination in so so many situations.

The problem is, many decks/opponents won't let you use his -2 more than once.

 

[kirblar]

Jace is indeed mega bullshit

 

[Angry Grimace]

I think everyone is tired of post-Journey standard and is eagerly awaiting Khans. The biggest thing for me is that the key cards in the dominant decks are all rotating out (Sphinx's Rev, Pack Rat, Mutavault, Verdict, etc.). We actually get to see some other deck.

 

["God's Beard!"]

For emphasis, the best play all weekend.

 

[Angry Grimace]

For emphasis, the best play all weekend.[/URL]

Its even better you can't understand whatever he says in Japanese because it took everyone like 5 or 6 seconds to digest what he was doing.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

For emphasis, the best play all weekend.[/URL]

I love that you can hear the crowd roar. Those moments make me wish there was a crowd-cam they could cut to so we could share their reactions.

 

[Grakl]

Nice FGC GAF interview Kirblar dawg

 

["God's Beard!"]

Its even better you can't understand whatever he says in Japanese because it took everyone like 5 or 6 seconds to digest what he was doing.

Best sell of the tournament, too. Everybody thought he had nothing there.

 

[kirblar]

Nice FGC GAF interview Kirblar dawg

Thxn, I thought about mega-trolling with all MTG answers but that would mean twice the work.

 

[bigkrev]

Thxn, I thought about mega-trolling with all MTG answers but that would mean twice the work.

The PT you played in, was it the Extended one a few years ago? How did you do?

 

[Lucario]

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[Var]

Garruk Axes are up on Hasbro site.

 

[ultron87]

You guys are my heroes.

Got my order in. All gone now.

 

[Hero]

Sold out already. Fuck.

 

[Var]

Glad I was working from home today or I wouldn't have seen it.

 

[ultron87]

I'm going to be so tempted to open that stupid thing and put those PWs in decks.

 

[Var]

I'm going to be so tempted to open that stupid thing and put those PWs in decks.

Yeah, I think I am going to do both. It's not like I am ever going to really resell them so I might as well enjoy them.

 

[kirblar]

The PT you played in, was it the Extended one a few years ago? How did you do?

1-5, was dead at 1-4 and raredrafted.

 

[Firemind]

Ah, so that's what the sideboard looks like. Wow, looks so much better than mine. It makes sense to have the fourth Legion Loyalist and Rubblebelt Maaka 5-8, since they're so important in the creature matchups. Loyalist is especially brutal against Master of Waves. Shame it'll rotate soon. Gonna try and get the most out of it in this weekend's GP and WMCQs.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Nice of them to put that shit up at 730 am.

 

[bigkrev]

1-5, was dead at 1-4 and raredrafted.

Smart

 

[Firemind]

I didn't even bother to raredraft. Would much rather sightsee Amsterdam. If I were a tourist.

 

[kirblar]

I didn't even bother to raredraft. Would much rather sightsee Amsterdam. If I were a tourist.

I was in college and student loans hadn't hit bank account yet. Was cheapskating it, need to go back someday and relax/enjoy it.

I DID spot a wild gigolo on the tram though! Leather handbag, '80s suit - there was no mistaking it!

 

[Firemind]

May have just been an Italian magic player.

I swear I've never seen so many tourists in Amsterdam every day apart from maybe Paris. Today I've seen a group of people riding Segways through the dam square. smh

Hey, if you happen to qualify for PT Brussels, let me know and we can maybe meet up.