Angry Grimace
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Magic: the Gathering |OT4| Izzet Me; Izzet You? A Love Story
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Sequence Six
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I actually might do this. I miss mono red and this gives me an excuse to run Obliterate again.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Its too bad nobody ever figured out a way to make Underworld Cerberus any good.
"God's Beard!"
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All my online trades have started coming in, finally got my Top playset ^_^
Fun fact: in Italian you fish cards from the top of your library, not draw.
#cappa
Fun fact: in Italian you fish cards from the top of your library, not draw.
#cappa
blindrocket
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I agree. I was hyped, bought a playset, now it is in my trade binder. :
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";168878672]All my online trades have started coming in, finally got my Top playset ^_^
Fun fact: in Italian you fish cards from the top of your library, not draw.
#cappa[/QUOTE]
The formatting is really weird on that Italian Top.
shrapnelmagnet
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Quick question: I am about to head to the finals of a DTK/DTK/FRF draft tourney and it's game 3 (it's a weird tournament - started with 21 players, lol).
Anyway, I am base green with reasonable splash into red and white. It's big dudes with lots of removal. My opponent is red/black with a few deathtouch targets. My Epic Confrontations don't line up super well to remove the Rats etc. I've sided one Confrontation for a Tail Slash. Do you think this is the correct move? I'm not super worried about my mana, but I feel like it might be a mistake... He has the deathtouch Cobra, too, which Tail Slash still fails against because my top-end is Surrak, the Huntcaller and two Elk Herds - only 5 power.
Anyway, I am base green with reasonable splash into red and white. It's big dudes with lots of removal. My opponent is red/black with a few deathtouch targets. My Epic Confrontations don't line up super well to remove the Rats etc. I've sided one Confrontation for a Tail Slash. Do you think this is the correct move? I'm not super worried about my mana, but I feel like it might be a mistake... He has the deathtouch Cobra, too, which Tail Slash still fails against because my top-end is Surrak, the Huntcaller and two Elk Herds - only 5 power.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
If you have Tail Slash you probably should be playing it to begin with. I would have all the Epic Confrontations and Tail Slashes in the game to begin with and leave them there.
Sequence Six
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";168878672]
Fun fact: in Italian you fish cards from the top of your library, not draw.
#cappa[/QUOTE]
Pesca una carta
ha
Fun fact: in Italian you fish cards from the top of your library, not draw.
#cappa[/QUOTE]
Pesca una carta
ha
$3-$4? I mean why not at this point.
It's starting to feel like we're in spray-and-pray mode with buyouts.
We are.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
ding ding ding
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
It's happening boys. Zoo is making a comeback. I may give up UWR as my secondary Modern deck.
Oh good queue more buyouts. Something to the tune of:
Wild Nacatl - $8 per
Kird Ape - $4 per
Loam Lion - $7 per
etc.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Hush, you!
Hey, Firemind and/or zorro, what was that one Magic site that I fell in love with buying from and promptly forgot about?
Hey, Firemind and/or zorro, what was that one Magic site that I fell in love with buying from and promptly forgot about?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Everybody is a comedian tonight...
shrapnelmagnet
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Thanks, yeah, I put the Confrontation back in and took out my Hunt the Weak (I had lots of removal). I probably should've had the Tail Slash instead of Hunt the Weak from the get-go.
I won, btw
Pyrotechnics to the face.WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
That's the one, thanks!
EDIT: And bought the missing pieces of that CoCo Zoo list. Besides the Goyfs, of course. Because lol. If they ban CoCo ever, Imma just quit Magic.
EDIT 2: Go watch Cheon's VoD of tonights stream and find around 2hr 40 minutes to see why Kolaghan's Command is the best thing ever.
Syph Medwes
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yea it was funny because I didn't even realize the utility of Tasigur, the Golden Fang at first
Icefall Regent on the other hand saved my ass so many times lol
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
lol
You can use Moonmist to untransform Gideon back into Kytheon, making him a regular creature. With Loyalty Counters.
You can use Moonmist to untransform Gideon back into Kytheon, making him a regular creature. With Loyalty Counters.
SigmasonicX
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Garruk's Packleader without the 4/4. Seems good in Limited.
EDIT: Good with Deathmist Raptor?
divisionbyzorro
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That card is incredibly powerful.
Wait, if you reflip him does he get an additional 4 counters or does it "reset" to 4?
SigmasonicX
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Loyalty counters are only put on when he enters the battlefield as a planeswalker. So:
1. Transform Kytheon normally.
2. Gideon is brought down to one loyalty.
3. Gideon becomes a creature and attacks.
4. Moonmist turns Gideon back into Kytheon. He still has one loyalty counter.
5. Moonmist turns Kytheon into Gideon. He still has one loyalty counter, and thus survives.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You know things aren't going so well for your opponent when they cast Slaughter Pact on their own Elesh Norn.
It depends how you reflip:
Moonmist kills the walker if you do it normally (because they have no Loyalty counters). If Kytheon still has one, he'll live with whatever he had when he was Moonmisted the first time. If you trigger the transform clause, Kytheon is exiled and loses all the counters, then returns to the battlefield with 3 loyalty counters.
Unplayable in every format.
It depends how you reflip:
Moonmist kills the walker if you do it normally (because they have no Loyalty counters). If Kytheon still has one, he'll live with whatever he had when he was Moonmisted the first time. If you trigger the transform clause, Kytheon is exiled and loses all the counters, then returns to the battlefield with 3 loyalty counters.
Unplayable in every format.
divisionbyzorro
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Completely misread the card at first; I thought it said "three or less" not "three or greater." Not sure why (I guess I thought it was supposed to be the opposite of Packleader or something). That makes it muuuuuuuuuuuch worse than I thought.
Just drafted an Abzan token planeswaker blink whip removal-heavy deck that kind of drafted itself, with a crazy manabase too, fixing lands just kept on coming.
Damn my cube will be so sexy with Origins, Kytheon and Jace and Lily and Nalaar parents, so good. Now they need to reprint Gemstone Mine.
Damn my cube will be so sexy with Origins, Kytheon and Jace and Lily and Nalaar parents, so good. Now they need to reprint Gemstone Mine.
Turn him into a rat then.
He and Sovereign don't really fit the token theme, but Pack Rat ftw
"God's Beard!"
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Elemental Bond into Sidisi Brood Tyrant would have been my jam lol
shrapnelmagnet
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From the video I watched, you were / are basically right (was behind on the thread, only just saw this post). Kinda lame, but I guess it makes sense.
It's honestly discouraging. I don't play competitively, but some fringe cards are just fun casual cards. It makes me really worried that the collective price of older "reasonable" cards will rise obnoxiously over the next little while. Worried in the sense that I feel anxious like I need to try to think of ALL the cards I could ever want that haven't spiked and just buy up a playset. This is obviously impossible / ridiculous, but still.
Example: I love a card like Boros Reckoner. It plunged near rotation (~$2.60 currently), obviously, but I still haven't picked him up (not playing as much casual constructed with friends). I'd hate to come back in 3-4 few months and see him at $10+ because speculators are just grabbing up every rare that wins a couple daily events. Maybe this is a bad example? Anyway, I guess that's just how it goes.
Keru_Shiri
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I wonder how many of the buyouts are actually folks reaching similar conclusions and rushing to nab a set or two of older cards for themselves.
divisionbyzorro
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It's the classic "run on the bank" scenario. Some amount of the cards are being snatched up in bulk by speculators, and some of them are being snatched up by players fearful of missing out on staples, and then there's a lot of people who are a mix between the two (I'll pick up a playset for myself and a spare one to sell at a profit).
shrapnelmagnet
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That's definitely possible - I know that I, personally, won't do that and will just "make do" with something else when I go to build a particular casual deck. I do like to buy Mogg Maniacs, when I see them, though, haha. That said, I haven't bought singles in a while.
The extremely selfish part of me just wishes we'd get Chronicles 2016 and be done with it.
The extremely selfish part of me just wishes we'd get Chronicles 2016 and be done with it.
"God's Beard!"
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I added this dude on facebook because he had a wacky Standard deck that was fun to play against and now all I get on my feed is race war stuff.
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";168966012]I added this dude on facebook...and now all I get on my feed is race war stuff.[/QUOTE]
The Facebook experience defined in one sentence.
The Facebook experience defined in one sentence.
"God's Beard!"
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I've been testing that Lantern deck and so far it's straight beast mode.
Shatterstorm is pretty good though lol
Shatterstorm is pretty good though lol
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";168973527]I've been testing that Lantern deck and so far it's straight beast mode.
Shatterstorm is pretty good though lol[/QUOTE]
I was wondering for a long time why Shatterstorm wasn't being played in color. If you're R/G, or your meta is super light on Affinity and Tron, I can see Grudge more in the sideboard, but against those decks, Shatterstorm is normally "I win." For me, if I'm playing any fair amount of red cards, 2 Shatterstorms are in my board. It just feels so good to cast it.
Shatterstorm is pretty good though lol[/QUOTE]
I was wondering for a long time why Shatterstorm wasn't being played in color. If you're R/G, or your meta is super light on Affinity and Tron, I can see Grudge more in the sideboard, but against those decks, Shatterstorm is normally "I win." For me, if I'm playing any fair amount of red cards, 2 Shatterstorms are in my board. It just feels so good to cast it.
charlequin
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Yeah, Duels Origins is MTGStone. They (wisely) pretty much copied the model exactly.
There are some half-white half-desi people who look pretty white!
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