Hexproof, indestructible and 12 butt. Have to resort to Descend upon the sinful.
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Magic: the Gathering - Shadows over Innistrad |OT| Blue's Clues
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Hexproof, indestructible and 12 butt. Have to resort to Descend upon the sinful.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
dies to triple languish
I'm surprised we haven't seen any weird leaked cards for EDM yet -- don't we usually have at least one by now? Did they actually plug the leaks?
Yeah if you can get around Hexproof haha
Yeah if you can get around Hexproof haha
I told some people about that - they didn't seem believable to them.
I really should just make this guy my avatar, despite not really being a huge fan of the series:
Yeah, his thing is repeatedly calling people idiots.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Yup I bought the deck in paper. So cheap. So sweet.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Ugh, played the stupid Pro Tour Moneypit and got the Esper Control deck. First match: utterly excruciating mirror, like watching paint dry. Second match need 1 goddamn untapped land on the next turn to wipe the board and not die, draw tapland and cast 2 anticipates, nothing but junk and and taplands. I don't get how people can play decks with so many fucking taplands.
Sorin and Narset also both suck when you have so many lands
Sorin and Narset also both suck when you have so many lands
A Serious Man
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He basically says the gameplan is to focus on ramping into Goggles and WB and get the game over as soon as possible. He brings out the Fiery Impulses, Chandra and Traverse for Atarka, GDD, Draconic Roar and, if you're on the play, Tracker.
SigmasonicX
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Interesting interview with Brian Weissman about the origins of card advantage. It's interesting reading about how they started out playing 200-card decks with the life total set to 40 to make things more exciting, and how surprised everyone was that card drawing and discarding was strong.
Karsten's article says that as well. I think the match up needs some cards changing, I'm going to switch a Rending Volley for a Roar and could do with another card for Gideon.
Ugh, played the stupid Pro Tour Moneypit and got the Esper Control deck. First match: utterly excruciating mirror, like watching paint dry. Second match need 1 goddamn untapped land on the next turn to wipe the board and not die, draw tapland and cast 2 anticipates, nothing but junk and and taplands. I don't get how people can play decks with so many fucking taplands.
Sorin and Narset also both suck when you have so many lands
I've done it 3 times already
1.) Jeskai Control: 0-2 and a bye. I don't think this deck can actually win games of Magic, it seems absurdly awful against anything that isn't a CoCo deck.
2.) Sultai Midrange: 3-0, beat Jeskai Control, GW Tokens and Goggles Ramp. I think this is actually the best deck in the gauntlet- it has all the control elements of the B/G deck, but the addition of Silumgar gives it a great weapon against control decks, who basically can only answer it with Ruinous Path.
3.) Bant CoCo: 2-1, lost to Finkel's GB, beat Mono White Humans and G/R Explosive Vegitation Ramp. Deck is as powerful as advertised, though the GB matchup seemed really hopeless.
I think one of the problems is that all of the decks are tuned for a metagame where Bant CoCo is a significant part of the metagame, while in the gauntlet it's only 6% of the Metagame.
Today I realized I have all the cards I need to make a Coldsnap cube. Four of every common, two of every uncommon, one of every rare, would make a cube of 390 cards. I'm wondering how bad this would turn out; a lot of the problems of Coldsnap draft happen when you got 6+ of some of the ripple cards; here I'd be limited to 4 of each. I could throw an extra 2 of each snow-covered basic in to bring it up to 400 cards.
A Serious Man
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How fucking long is going to take magiccards.info to update their "Standard" tag to not include KTK and FR? What is this? The Dark Ages?
There are many other ways to see this besides mc.info, though the site is really good of course
Got rocked in the commander tournament, almost got to blow through and deal damage to a player with Tajic + Worldslayer. I was so close brehs
Infinite Stars
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I can't tell if I'm unlucky, but I lost 2 matches vs Ad Naseum Combo at a modern FNM that went off turn 3.
How SSG isn't Banned yet is a mystery. The card literally enables the degenerate combos way.
How SSG isn't Banned yet is a mystery. The card literally enables the degenerate combos way.
Trying to Figure out a good mirror breaker for BG Seasons Past since I plan on playing it tomorrow and I know at least one other person is too. The problem is any creature-based breaker just gets hit by Infinite Obliteration and/or Transgress the Mind. The former isn't a huge problem, since it's likely that they won't expect the specific card, but the latter is. My first thoughts were either Gaea's Revenge or Plated Crusher, but they both get plucked from the hand pretty easily and blocked by Hissing Quagmire as well.
Maybe I should splash blue for Lumbering Falls. I'm also considering Accursed Witch since it's pretty hard for the deck to deal with once it hits the table. The issue, of course, is that it's not terribly useful in most other matchups.
[Edit] Call the bloodline actually avoids Transgress and can even save cards from it in a pinch. Hmm.
Maybe I should splash blue for Lumbering Falls. I'm also considering Accursed Witch since it's pretty hard for the deck to deal with once it hits the table. The issue, of course, is that it's not terribly useful in most other matchups.
[Edit] Call the bloodline actually avoids Transgress and can even save cards from it in a pinch. Hmm.
A Serious Man
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Hedonist's Trove
I got nothing.
A Serious Man
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The main issue is going to time. Once the loop is established they can just cast Nissa's Renewal repeatedly to keep themselves alive. Witch seems too slow to help with this.
The deck only runs one Renewal, so I just have to hope to hit it with Transgress. Wining Game 1 is the real issue. Odds are, Game 2 will go to time, so closing it out isn't as big a deal, but I'd still like to have a way to do it anyways.
keeblerdrow
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Use the splash I have been: 2 World Breakers & 1 Wastes. You can attack his manlands with the cast triggers and it closes games quicker. It also shores up a lot of the worse matchups for the deck. Except Esper Counterspells. That's just still a wash.
Oh, and drop 1 Dark Petition and put in an Ob Nixilis. It's a good secondary target for the 5-drop when you already have another Petition in hand. And it closes games quicker.
"God's Beard!"
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I'm getting tired of all the belligerent salty players on cockatrice.
Speaking of which, this week's Magic TV is the first time I've heard a pro mention using cockatrice for testing. I always assumed that they do, just makes more sense.
Speaking of which, this week's Magic TV is the first time I've heard a pro mention using cockatrice for testing. I always assumed that they do, just makes more sense.
charlequin
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blogatog said:
Mark it: the block is Kaladesh, and the mechanic is "E," the mechanic first mentioned in this article, which was cut from Mirrodin but R&D liked enough to try again later, which Rosewater said could fit in a future artifact block, and would resolve the hints about a design challenge solved after a very long time. (I remember there being one more post that specifically confirmed that it was at that time in an open design, but I can't find it at the moment.)
"God's Beard!"
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nice sneaky pun there
yuck. I hate the Gatewatch.
I think Sorin is above all that crap, he is also an order of magnitude (at least) more powerful than the gatewatch 4, so he'd be kind of out of place.
A Serious Man
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The Gatewatch are being positioned as the protagonists of the Magic movie, should that project ever get off the ground.
Giant Panda
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Yeah, Wizards thinks all of their boring characters are their best ones. I would have liked racist Nissa in a movie.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Jace is a compelling character who, as a white male between the ages of 16-49, I can totally relate to.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I thought I couldn't like Gaby more but then here she is playing modern fish at SCG.
Oath of Liliana is definitely happening in the next set, whether it makes sense or not.
Infinite Stars
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I guess the wraths/counter measures didn't work out? Did they board in Eerie Interlude or something?
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