Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The correct answer is "a wizard did it."
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Magic: the Gathering |OT4| Izzet Me; Izzet You? A Love Story
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The correct answer is "a wizard did it."
Syph Medwes
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Why is Dragon Whisperer mythic?
"God's Beard!"
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Lantern control vs dredge makes my brain hurt. GGs to Bandini.
The problem is that targeted removal only goes so far against the deck. Lots of spellskites and recursion. And even more post board.
The problem is that targeted removal only goes so far against the deck. Lots of spellskites and recursion. And even more post board.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It poops 4/4 fliers
Infinite Stars
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Ugh, why can't we have gotten enemy fetches this block. I want to run Maya Aggro(mostly for Stoke/Howl/etc) but the pain lands are just awful to me. I don't want to pay life everytime I need red.
Because it's bonkers. If you don't have an answer for it right off it gets out of hand pretty quickly, especially in a R/G deck.
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
here we go
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I was finally able to play and open half of my MM2 box. Played with my friends in 4-person draft but I kept all the cards because they weren't paying up for packs. Got a Mox, Kozilek, Twin, Fulminator Mage as the big things so far. Also got a Comet Storm (that's my 2nd total) which means I think my mythics are out of the box.
They'll put it in the next multiplayer-centric supplemental set. Whether that's another conspiracy or plancechase or something completely new.
They might also put it into a commander deck.
here we go
The low on the paper version at TCGPlayer is almost $8. The deck looks pretty rad so I tried to pick up a playset but I was only able to pick up 2 due to some "inventory miscount" by a Pucatrade partner. I think he just realized he could get considerably more out of them in the short term if he dumped them elsewhere.
Sequence Six
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I used to have a few because I wanted a Field of Dreams I could jam into any deck.
I'm not very good at anticipating Modern trends.
I'm not very good at anticipating Modern trends.
"God's Beard!"
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Nice thing about the deck is that it's super cheap. Mox Opal isn't even that important and the second most expensive cards are the Spellskites.
divisionbyzorro
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Can it beat Tron? How does it survive Karn?
Needle.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I honestly don't believe for a second WOTC would allow a Prison Deck to flourish in Modern.
SigmasonicX
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Latest Developments article about Standard issues. Notably:
1. They are well aware that red has been typecast as the burn and weenie color, and they acknowledge that part of this is due to them downplaying land destruction and Wheel of Fortune effects. They plan on trying some new things with it; they make a comparison to how 20 years ago, people couldn't have imagined black without Dark Ritual.
2. There have sometimes been talks of going back to shroud, but for now, they plan on just being more diligent with hexproof, including using conditional hexproof.
3. Similar to how hexproof was overused soon after it became evergreen, it's possible that prowess, menace, and scry may be overused in the next few sets.
4. The new block structure makes it more difficult to put in seed and hate cards for the next/previous block, but they have some ideas for how to make it work.
1. They are well aware that red has been typecast as the burn and weenie color, and they acknowledge that part of this is due to them downplaying land destruction and Wheel of Fortune effects. They plan on trying some new things with it; they make a comparison to how 20 years ago, people couldn't have imagined black without Dark Ritual.
2. There have sometimes been talks of going back to shroud, but for now, they plan on just being more diligent with hexproof, including using conditional hexproof.
3. Similar to how hexproof was overused soon after it became evergreen, it's possible that prowess, menace, and scry may be overused in the next few sets.
4. The new block structure makes it more difficult to put in seed and hate cards for the next/previous block, but they have some ideas for how to make it work.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
My biggest problem with Standard development is that Standard continually pushes the same Control archetype - "draw/go/play unkillable threat."
I just wish they would encourage tempo strategies vs. straight up draw-go control. Playing Esper Dragon Control or whatever control deck is popular right now, does not feel terribly different from playing UW Control from last year. Its the same shit.
I just wish they would encourage tempo strategies vs. straight up draw-go control. Playing Esper Dragon Control or whatever control deck is popular right now, does not feel terribly different from playing UW Control from last year. Its the same shit.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
We can't have Sphinx's Rev in every block.
SigmasonicX
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dat anti Painter's Servant clause
It looks like this is on Vryn.
And what the hell @ the blog chosen to preview this card
"God's Beard!"
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It's not really gonna flourish, it just happens that Affinity is slightly weaker right now and Junk players are swapping to Jund so there aren't a ton of Stony Silences running around. People are leaning too heavily on Kolaghan's Command for their artifact hate and it doesn't really go that far against the Lantern deck.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";169038902]Nice thing about the deck is that it's super cheap. Mox Opal isn't even that important and the second most expensive cards are the Spellskites.[/QUOTE]
No, it's not. At least not if you don't already own some of the expensive pieces. The deck list pricing averages are using old price data. If you wanted to put it together yesterday it would have cost over $500. It's not one of the most expensive decks by any means but it's no longer cheap.
No, it's not. At least not if you don't already own some of the expensive pieces. The deck list pricing averages are using old price data. If you wanted to put it together yesterday it would have cost over $500. It's not one of the most expensive decks by any means but it's no longer cheap.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I just don't have a ton of warm fuzzy feelings about Origins so far. I know its early, but I just have a bad feeling about the set.
Isn't that Medomai?
The flip walkers look really cool, but everything else seems like a mess.
SigmasonicX
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Jace is on either Vryn or Ravnica in this block.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";169046967]It's not really gonna flourish, it just happens that Affinity is slightly weaker right now and Junk players are swapping to Jund so there aren't a ton of Stony Silences running around. People are leaning too heavily on Kolaghan's Command for their artifact hate and it doesn't really go that far against the Lantern deck.[/QUOTE]
This is why I play Jund - the card quality is just stupidly high across the board. Shatterstorm or Ancient Grudge out of the board =V
I am 100% with you on this.
I don't think so.
It looks like Jace lost his memory by getting out-mind magic'd, based on the flavor text. It could be interesting if it turns out Ashiok was the one that was responsible for that. Ashiok, Tibalt, Domri and Tamiyo don't really seem to have any role in the overall plot at this point as far as I can tell, so I'm sure they're looking for ways to fix that.
It's still a core set. You expectations should be based on that. For me, all I really want out of core sets are interesting limited environments and cards that can go into my cubes. M15 had a decent limited environment, M14 was extremely dull and M13 was fantastic. Based on what we've seen so far, which isn't much, Origins seems to be somewhere between M14 and M15.
"God's Beard!"
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Not playing Mox Opals means the deck only costs around 300-350 bucks which is really good for Modern. They're one of the least important cards in the deck.
Bogles is super cheap and it still cost me like 250 to build the deck, even buying damaged cards.
SigmasonicX
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Now that you've said that, Ashiok is going to be revealed to be Jace's shadow come alive or something, like in A Wizard of Earthsea.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Ashiok was literally designed as "Evil Jace." When they started creative on Theros, the original B-plot was Jace fighting Evil Jace (Ashiok).
"God's Beard!"
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As long as Karla Ortiz gets to do the Ashiok art again, everything's good.
I wouldn't mind it if they were adversaries. The Jace/Tezz rivalry seems to have been put on the back burner and I'd love to see someone slap the stoic off Jace's face at least once, even if it was in the past.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
You know what I just realized? Tarmogoyf is expensive, yo.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Its disproportionately expensive, in fact. Its played in 2 decks, one of which is Tier 1. At least Dark Confidant is only $40 (or even less).
+ a ton of Legacy decks. Confidant's fallen hugely out of favor in both formats, tho it still sees play.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I always forget Legacy because the number of people who actually play it is so minuscule vs. Modern.
That said, Confidant is back in vogue in Jund! Confidant is my favorite card in that deck, really. You'd be surprised how many people just let you have a Confidant because they're dumb and think you'll die to it even though its a Constructed deck and you almost assuredly stacked your deck to not die to Dark Confidant.
I'm still not convinced Liliana of the Veil isn't gonna see a reprint somewhere (that isn't MM2017). The fact that they had her in M15 so long suggests they don't think she's that broken (LOTV is fucking OP as fuck).
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I really, really want to build this Zoo. Besides Goyf, I have all the pieces. It's so fucking sweet.
I heard Snapcasters were pretty expensive too. Just rumors for now doe.
I'd need the CoCos, 3 Hierarchs and 1 Goyf. Deck seems awesome.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't think anyone builds a Modern deck overnight. Its gonna take a lot of time, I think.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
RtR Draw-Go Control I'm familiar with, but what's enabling that style of play in the current Standard?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I know. I've been eyeing Zoo for a while and I knew CoCo was going to do big things in modern, so I snap bought those. But I totally didn't make the connection until that article. I'm going to main the shit out of it. I may buy like, a Goyf a quarter.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yup, I'm getting the Confidants now for Jund while they're (relatively cheap), and now just accumulating Goyf very, very slowly. :lol Its gonna take time to build that up.
I'll have a complete Modern deck in 2019. I'm literally Scalding Tarns away from having Twin ready to go. :lol
The thing that will really bother you is realizing that you could afford any deck in Modern if you had invested ~300 bucks into speccing on Snapcaster Mage 2 years ago.
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