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Magic: the Gathering - Shadows over Innistrad |OT| Blue's Clues

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Santiako

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Ashodin said:
RW equipment, I've been testing it for two weeks now. It fits into the meta as an outlier, and I have sideboard tech for the biggest decks I'll see there.

Radiant flames, hallowed moonlight, felidar cub, roast, etc
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I know you've been testing it for a while, but mtggoldfish put out a list and video of it today, just a heads up in case they have any card you may have missed.
 
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"God's Beard!"

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(Heeby)GB decks winning all over the place, Brad Nelson almost locked for top 8 with a World Breaker - Kozilek's Return deck, is this my spectator dream?

El Topo said:
Now we can also cross "Finkel smiles" off the bingo board.
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Where are we at? I just woke up:
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Ashodin

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2-0 first round. There's a guy here with a I'd tap that t shirt, cool bro

My opponent forgot that Kiora's ult puts three 8/8s onto the battlefield like five turns later
 
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"God's Beard!"

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Yuuya is a monster. Playing a 1-drop aggro deck and still making several non-inuitive plays involving the ordering of his spells in the first several turns. Even if he didn't win that game, you can imagine why he's rising to the top when a lot of other mono white players aren't.
 
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SigmasonicX

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I really didn't expect Seasons Past to be a breakout card in this PT. Given the interaction with tutors, I wonder if Wizards will continue the "put on the bottom of the library" experiment.
 
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Matriox

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This is late news, but anyone that gets these and doesn't want them can mail them to me. Kthnx!

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";201709799]
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I'm counting season's past loop as an infinite :p[/QUOTE]

Finkle just used 2 Grasp of Darkness on a flipped Abbey.
 
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A Serious Man

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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";201710295]No, I meant literally losing the ability indestructible. Burn from within or that on cantrip enchantment both do it.[/QUOTE]

Peep the square left of mid.

Also Loam Dryad is a squire and Kiblar finished low I believe, we can get there!
 
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Matriox

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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";201710295]No, I meant literally losing the ability indestructible. Burn from within or that on cantrip enchantment both do it.[/QUOTE]
A Serious Man spotted it, but you have one left of center square is what I was referring to.
 
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Santiako

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Brad Nelson's GRoggles deck could do literally nothing against Yasuoka's Esper Dragons deck. Watch him get paired with it in the top 8 again, lol
 
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Lucario

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Why the hell is this the same weekend as pax east :(

Loving the season's past value deck. Wish I could watch more without killing my battery!
 
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charlequin

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Okay, so based on the metagame reports so far, these seem to be some of the takeaways:

  • Tiny Jace is losing ground as he doesn't fit in most good archetypes and the one he's best in is probably better without him.
  • Green and white are far and away the best colors in this environment, blue is the worst.
  • Investigate is the best Standard mechanic in SOI (which feeds into that "green and white are the best" thing, lulz), while the graveyard stuff isn't really making a splash.
  • Bant Company is good, but also beatable; it converted poorly to day 2 and it seems like most of the other strong metagame decks just perform more reliably.
  • Contra expectations after SCG, Goggles seems like it's the real deal.

Anything I'm missing?

Giant Panda said:
If Kaladesh is the next block, then investigate will also play amazing in standard until it rotates out. I hope they print more investigate.
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Investigate is right now the strongest of several pretty solid pieces of evidence that Kaladesh is next, IMO.

Lucario said:
Why the hell is this the same weekend as pax east :(
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PAX is super late this year because of scheduling issues, normally it'd happen at the right time to do a Spring Set preview panel.

kirblar said:
RIP Modern PT :p
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In retrospect it's pretty convenient that we skipped one of the most garbage Standard environments in PT OGW and are back in Standard when things are a bit more enjoyable to watch.

OnPoint said:
Why? I like the Modern PT.
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Modern PT distorts the Modern format, leads to more random results, and (usually) doesn't show off the latest set very well. I want there to be high-level Modern (I like the format a lot despite its numerous problems) but locating that in GPs is just more sustainable and functional, I think.
 
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SigmasonicX

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charlequin said:
Okay, so based on the metagame reports so far, these seem to be some of the takeaways:

  • Tiny Jace is losing ground as he doesn't fit in most good archetypes and the one he's best in is probably better without him.
  • Green and white are far and away the best colors in this environment, blue is the worst.
  • Investigate is the best Standard mechanic in SOI (which feeds into that "green and white are the best" thing, lulz), while the graveyard stuff isn't really making a splash.
  • Bant Company is good, but also beatable; it converted poorly to day 2 and it seems like most of the other strong metagame decks just perform more reliably.
  • Contra expectations after SCG, Goggles seems like it's the real deal.
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Black-green seems to be working out pretty well too, both in control and Aristocrats shells.
 
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charlequin

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SigmasonicX said:
Black-green seems to be working out pretty well too, both in control and Aristocrats shells.
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Yeah both black and red seem to have some solid stuff and work well in supporting other decks, but I think every single really good deck has either white or green as the mechanical core, right?
 
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kirblar

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You can also do something like add a 5th PT, or change up worlds so it more strongly features Modern as a format. (Team Unified Modern, for instance.)
 
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"God's Beard!"

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SigmasonicX said:
Black-green seems to be working out pretty well too, both in control and Aristocrats shells.
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That means it's the perfect time for my BG midrange to shine. Moving up to 2 Kalitas main for sure.

charlequin said:
Yeah both black and red seem to have some solid stuff and work well in supporting other decks, but I think every single really good deck has either white or green as the mechanical core, right?
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The #1 seed deck is base black.
 
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charlequin

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Lol at Finkel. "I didn't think there would even be 16 Pro Tours." "I'm not saying I'm bad at Magic -- I'm fine at Magic."

kirblar said:
You can also do something like add a 5th PT, or change up worlds so it more strongly features Modern as a format. (Team Unified Modern, for instance.)
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Yeah, you're right, Worlds is kind of the optimal place to feature it.

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The #1 seed deck is base black.[/QUOTE]

Seasons Past?
 
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