divisionbyzorro
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It's super fun for the player casting it!!
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Magic: the Gathering |OT4| Izzet Me; Izzet You? A Love Story
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It's super fun for the player casting it!!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
No, it actually isn't, unless you actually dislike playing Magic: the Gathering.
Casting 4CMC spell that says "you win" is not "fun" by a metric that isn't "I like to win completely at random." The problem with Mind Twist is that it doesn't need any other cards to be completely broken the second you cast it. If an opponent casts Mind Twist X=3+ on you, you just lose and a large percentage of decks can't respond to it in any meaningful manner because they have no cards in hand.
divisionbyzorro
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You're not wrong in that it's a miserable card for the actual game. But in powered cube I love it.
Etrian Oddity
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Fuck, the new Seeker of the Way and Rhino are great.Some pretty good money in the Magic Origins Clash Pack
Also intro decklists but who cares about those
"God's Beard!"
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Brad Nelson made a good point about Archangel of Tithes comically buffing your opponent's Rabblemasters lol
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's a more miserable card in powered cube than anywhere else. You just win for free.
no it doesn't.
it doesn't do anything unless you go t1 mana vault or something. and even then counterspells exist.
Agreed. I love Jaya. I really hope we get a Planeswalker card of her. It's funny in some ways that her existing card is kind of close to the idea of planeswalker cards.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yes, Mind Twist doesn't do anything without ramp. C'mon.
Mind Twist is dumb even if you don't ramp at all and cube is still a limited format and 90% of the decks don't have counterspells.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The difference is that those cards are fun to play and not necessarily unfun to play against.
divisionbyzorro
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I really hope I get to Fastbond + Strip Mine + Crucible someone before this cube rotates.
That should give some context to why I love Mind Twist.
That should give some context to why I love Mind Twist.
"God's Beard!"
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More pleasant games with randoms on cockatrice:
Halfway through game one he suddenly yells at me about drawing cards on my turn before passing priority and goes off calling me a bunch of names. He was tapped out with a monoblack deck so I don't even know what the issue was. I even rewound the draw for him to try and figure out what he's trying to do at which point he paradoxically tells me to hurry up while cussing me out.
He never said anything before this and it was like turn 7 so I'm not sure what exactly was going on. It's a proxy system for testing, there's like 0 incentive to actually cheat and it's hard to know what people's expectations are for shortcutting before playing with them. I just said GGs and quit out the game, at which point he sent me the above message.
Normally I don't use ignore lists or anything like that, but Cockatrice is such a small community that I've been forced to start listing the people that act like this to me. I might even go back to the other conversations I posted here and add them to my ignore list because I'm always wondering if I'm rejoining one of these guys.
Most of the program has been great so I hate having to keep posting these things.
Halfway through game one he suddenly yells at me about drawing cards on my turn before passing priority and goes off calling me a bunch of names. He was tapped out with a monoblack deck so I don't even know what the issue was. I even rewound the draw for him to try and figure out what he's trying to do at which point he paradoxically tells me to hurry up while cussing me out.
He never said anything before this and it was like turn 7 so I'm not sure what exactly was going on. It's a proxy system for testing, there's like 0 incentive to actually cheat and it's hard to know what people's expectations are for shortcutting before playing with them. I just said GGs and quit out the game, at which point he sent me the above message.
Normally I don't use ignore lists or anything like that, but Cockatrice is such a small community that I've been forced to start listing the people that act like this to me. I might even go back to the other conversations I posted here and add them to my ignore list because I'm always wondering if I'm rejoining one of these guys.
Most of the program has been great so I hate having to keep posting these things.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";171462629]
[/QUOTE]He has been knighted, and you haven't, so I think technically he can say whatever he wants to you. That's how it works, right?
I typically just play local games against myself to test on Cockatrice. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to get decks to a point where they're worth sleeving up to do real-life playtesting. Also, you don't have to worry about dealing with people like that.
I typically just play local games against myself to test on Cockatrice. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to get decks to a point where they're worth sleeving up to do real-life playtesting. Also, you don't have to worry about dealing with people like that.
charlequin
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That's why it's so fucked up in Time Spiral. It's supposed to be better(ish?) now.
I mean, it's not really anything like Mirrodin beyond the artifact thing. Reading this guide (and looking more closely at the art, thanks to the large images) makes it exceedingly clear that this is a real, impending setting in a way that (say) Regatha is not. It's gotta be on the schedule in the next few years.
Vryn: ring ring ringety ring ring ringer ring ring ring.
"God's Beard!"
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Well, I am technically a baron so I think I'm still higher on the social ladder. Not knightly at all.
Seems like it will be the 'steampunk' set that people have been asking for. If that's the case, I think we'll probably see a new Ral Zarek there, since he'd fit in pretty well as an Izzet member.
The Technomancer
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While I love the look of Kaladesh, I do hope its steampunkyness doesn't rule out a return to Fiora outside of Conspirary, or even just again in a supplemental set. I love the more renaissance vibe they had going on there
"God's Beard!"
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Mythic Conscription is super fun, I don't think it'll ever be in a competitive position though :-(
It's basically a worse Bloom deck lol
It's basically a worse Bloom deck lol
Getting cheaters on cockatrice too lmao.
Dude basically slowplayed all game, never said a thing then after i assume he passed and change the turn and draw my card and i play a land he create the token "HOLD ON I DIDN'T PASS". Ok dude whatever. I undo, go in end step, he fetch, in response i barbarian ring his creature "you didn't have mana for that last turn", except i did shithead we passed like 3 turns cause i knew you had stifle in hand and kept open specifically for this.
Jesus the shitheads.
Dude basically slowplayed all game, never said a thing then after i assume he passed and change the turn and draw my card and i play a land he create the token "HOLD ON I DIDN'T PASS". Ok dude whatever. I undo, go in end step, he fetch, in response i barbarian ring his creature "you didn't have mana for that last turn", except i did shithead we passed like 3 turns cause i knew you had stifle in hand and kept open specifically for this.
Jesus the shitheads.
keeblerdrow
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XMage for automatic rules enforcement, maybe?
Xmage is so full of bugs and crashes that it's just easier to deal with people than that program.
keeblerdrow
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HA. Now that's what I call an indictment.
Couple local players are going full dumb and buying #letzachplay shirts and playmats with the intent on taking them to bigger events. Was hoping it was just MRA people picking up on the story and crashing reddit/twitter/etc but it seems like this is a normal stance for players. Sorry to bring up (what should be) an old topic but I got a little shook when I heard people I know are committed to defending this guy indefinitely.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
#MaybeDon'tRape
Going to my first pre-release in more than 10 years (last one was mirrodin).
I've tried to fight getting back into magic because I know I'm going to be tempted to spend a lot of money on it, but it seems that its the only game in my area that gets a reliable number of players consistently to play with. There was a pretty consistent Netrunner group for a while, but it fell off the earth pretty abruptly a couple of months ago =\
I think I'm going to pick black as my color. Hopefully I can win a game or two after being away for so long.
I've tried to fight getting back into magic because I know I'm going to be tempted to spend a lot of money on it, but it seems that its the only game in my area that gets a reliable number of players consistently to play with. There was a pretty consistent Netrunner group for a while, but it fell off the earth pretty abruptly a couple of months ago =\
I think I'm going to pick black as my color. Hopefully I can win a game or two after being away for so long.
Make sure to look over the set a bit before you go and you'll be fine. Update us with how you do and good luck!
The MTR hasn't been updated yet, but according to this video you need to announce when you open a double-faced card. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvH6zNKLTc#t=1m42s
SigmasonicX
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Bothersome, but it makes sense. Before there was the variable that the other drafters either would or would not notice your pick, and forcing everyone to notice is easier than ensuring that no one would.
Anyway, after learning about it in this article, Vampiric Link (and Spirit Link) is a hilarious counter to Eidolon of the Great Revel.
EDIT: Really surprised to hear that we still have cases of the card being changed after the art comes in. Kytheon was originally a 4/3 for 2WW, but he was changed to a 2/1 for W after the art came back.
SolidSnakeUS
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Sorry for sounding really stupid, but how exactly do the flip planeswalkers work?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Cast them as creatures and when the condition on the card is met, you exile it and then flip it. The exile is necessary because it would die if you didn't because when you flip it, its the same object and it would have 0 loyalty counters.
When you fulfill the flip condition, the creature gets exiled, and then comes back into play flipped as a PW with their initial loyalty counters.
SolidSnakeUS
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Ahh ok, thank you. Sorry, I feel stupid for not reading it well enough haha. My bad.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The cube deck I just made is high on the list of dumb drafts I've ever made
Yeah, same as Innistrad. There was a discussion on twitter over whether the PT drafts should just use checklists.
dumb as in broken or dumb as in just broken the goggles do nothing? i want to see the receipts.The cube deck I just made is high on the list of dumb drafts I've ever made
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Dumb as in all it does it durdle until I can hopefully cast Elesh Norn.
Didn't think you needed to announce in Innistrad since every pack had a DFC.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
DFCs are public information. They were in INN too, you just didn't need to specifically say it since every pack had one. (I think)
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I think my reaction here is understandable lmao
divisionbyzorro
Member
Neat. You got Channel-Fireball'd
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The math you can't see makes it funnier
That I know. But here you actually need to announce that you opened a DFC. I get why, but it does make things a little awkward in terms of signals.
You: "Hey everyone I opened a Gideon."
Person to your right: "I guess I need to cut white so you can't play it."
SolidSnakeUS
Member
So yeah, totally going to buy another booster box for Origins .
Also, when is the exact date for Origins coming out?
.Also, when is the exact date for Origins coming out?
You just need to follow up your announcement of a Gideon with a long prepared thesis on why hate drafting is bad.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
So yeah, totally going to buy another booster box for Origins
Also, when is the exact date for Origins coming out?
Next Friday
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Guys I think I have a problem. I'm addicted to drafting janky as fuck Cube decks. Still, I'm surprised a Skullclamp wheeled after I saw a Bitterblossom in P1.
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