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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1560 on: June 05, 2018, 05:43:46 PM »
This is neither here nor there but when I would play High Tide in legacy events for the decklist name I'd always call it "MS EXCEL 2010 GOTY"
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1561 on: June 05, 2018, 06:16:53 PM »
Duels of the Planeswalkers could be a good way to learn i guess, i never did though, and generally dislike digital magic. MTGO is alright when it doesn't crash, and Arena seems promising, Duels games were v dull the times i have tried. I've seen people learn quickly jumping into weeknight paper drafts and getting trashed, but essentially getting tutored by the friendly nerds at the shop. YMMV depending on your local scene of course, but imo getting sunk in limited events is likely the quickest way to learn the core concepts of the game; how to value cards, how to build decks, how to play well. Draft can be brutal though, especially after the set's been out a few weeks and you're up against people who understand what the key archetypes are, and can easily pick the best cards pack to pack while you fumble around.  If drafting for the first time prob do a pre-release, or go to a casual draft in the first week of a release.

Your LGS will usually have learn 2 magic events occasionally too where they supply casual decks.
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« Reply #1562 on: June 05, 2018, 06:47:58 PM »
Your LGS will usually have learn 2 magic events occasionally too where they supply casual decks.

Plus there's generally Magic Celebration in the summer (if they're still doing that) where they do a Pauper Tournament and give a promo out.

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« Reply #1563 on: June 05, 2018, 07:26:37 PM »
If they're smart they'll add a tutorial to Arena that's similar to the one Eternal has. You earn a lot of "free" cards in Eternal playing through a ftp "campaign" that teaches you game basics as you unlock cards and decks.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1564 on: June 06, 2018, 12:18:09 PM »
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« Reply #1565 on: June 07, 2018, 01:33:30 PM »
https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/27221

TL;DR Arena Update

Kaladesh Block added, full Standard banlist in effect, competitive Constructed & Draft with sideboarding in addition to Quick Constructed & Draft, no more time limits on when you can Draft, Aether Revolt quick drafts this weekend, and a new Singleton format.

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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1566 on: June 07, 2018, 08:35:07 PM »
Pour one out for my Ramunap Ruins

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« Reply #1567 on: June 07, 2018, 08:55:05 PM »
Wow, I might actually get online. Couldn't abide no sideboards and subsequently, the online domination of mono-red.
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« Reply #1568 on: June 07, 2018, 11:27:34 PM »
Pour one out for my Ramunap Ruins

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I popped a few this morning before they pushed out the update. 🔥🔥🔥
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1569 on: June 08, 2018, 10:51:25 AM »
AER-AER-KLD drafts are tough. Most cards feel like junk.

I met my first WotC staffer and luckily I drew a near perfect hand. A turn three Maulfist Revolutionary boosted by a turn five Verdurous Gearhulk. During my other turns I could clear a path with cheap removal spells.

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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1570 on: June 08, 2018, 01:17:54 PM »
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/6/8/jacking-out/

Welp. Way to insure I don't spend money on you, Wizards. :doge

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« Reply #1571 on: June 09, 2018, 09:54:55 PM »
AER-AER-KLD drafts are tough. Most cards feel like junk.

I met my first WotC staffer and luckily I drew a near perfect hand. A turn three Maulfist Revolutionary boosted by a turn five Verdurous Gearhulk. During my other turns I could clear a path with cheap removal spells.

Yeah, I hate AER drafts. Board stalls for days, so many piddly-ass creatures and both players just passing back and forth until they top-deck their fliers or their bomb mythic. :yuck The only thing I enjoy is drafting 5 or 6 Metallic Rebukes.
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« Reply #1572 on: June 12, 2018, 04:24:09 AM »
 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol



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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1573 on: June 13, 2018, 02:19:44 PM »
Why is there no emote for "fuck mana auto-tap"

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« Reply #1574 on: June 13, 2018, 02:43:43 PM »
Why is there no emote for "fuck mana auto-tap"

Only play Mono Red, then it always works.  :rollsafe
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1575 on: June 13, 2018, 03:05:43 PM »
Feels dirty playing constructed against people who don't know better playing precons :(

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« Reply #1576 on: June 13, 2018, 08:15:24 PM »
Went 5-3 in the Aether Revolt queue with Mono Black Control running a Fatal Push, 2x Cruel Finality, 2x Daring Demolition, 2x Mind Rot, and a Herald of Anguish.   8)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1577 on: June 13, 2018, 08:21:16 PM »
Why is there no emote for "fuck mana auto-tap"

You can turn that off AFAIK.

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« Reply #1579 on: June 16, 2018, 09:26:56 PM »
Grand Prix Las Vegas, a.k.a. WHEN BORE CON 2018 SHOULD HAVE BEEN. :maf

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Catching up on Core Set 2019 spoilers:

1. Reprint Man-o'-War but as a wizard brehs.  >:(
2. The Lili-chan planeswalker card is illustrated by someone who did Lili-chan fan art. What a world.
3. Blood Divination rules. Dark Bargain might be my favorite card in Dominaria after Seal Away so I'm glad it looks like Black is going to be a little less boring going forward.

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« Reply #1580 on: June 16, 2018, 09:37:21 PM »
Grand Prix Las Vegas, a.k.a. WHEN BORE CON 2018 SHOULD HAVE BEEN. :maf

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Catching up on Core Set 2019 spoilers:

1. Reprint Man-o'-War but as a wizard brehs.  >:(
2. The Lili-chan planeswalker card is illustrated by someone who did Lili-chan fan art. What a world.
3. Blood Divination rules. Dark Bargain might be my favorite card in Dominaria after Seal Away so I'm glad it looks like Black is going to be a little less boring going forward.

It's like you don't even care about Flip Bolas and the big timmy EDH EDs tho, omg  :umad
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« Reply #1581 on: June 17, 2018, 02:59:07 AM »
Flip Bolas is a stupid fucking card but that's par for the course for 4 ability planeswalker cards.

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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1582 on: June 17, 2018, 01:57:03 PM »

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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1583 on: June 17, 2018, 03:31:31 PM »
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« Reply #1584 on: June 17, 2018, 06:16:14 PM »
must say, i look forward to jamming grixis midrange goodstuff in standard :lol

but im most hype for adding guttersnipe to the ghitu lavarunner wizard burn deck :whoo

got together w battlebros for another battlebond draft last night. made a dumb gw support deck: doubling season, lots of ramp, 3x saddleback lagac, ley weaver, crowd goes wild, couple plated crushers. bud made a ub control/value list. pretty good. prettayyyy, prettyyyy good. pulled doubling season both battlebond sealed events i've played  :quark traded them both away to edh nerds for str8 gas because i hate counters matter decks.
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« Reply #1585 on: June 18, 2018, 11:05:37 AM »
Scapeshift reprint :rejoice
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« Reply #1586 on: June 18, 2018, 11:09:19 AM »
Crucible of Worlds reprint. :whoo

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« Reply #1587 on: June 19, 2018, 01:27:01 AM »


Weird card. I like.

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« Reply #1588 on: June 19, 2018, 11:20:11 AM »
Omniscience reprint.
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« Reply #1589 on: June 19, 2018, 11:25:32 AM »
Also, Llanowar Elves and Saprolings and other assorted x/1's continue to get shit on. People are already begging for Chaynewerler to get banned, and Wizards is like "oh well, we'll just print this at Uncommon, lmao". It's not a slamdunk 4x like Chainwhirler but still, it made me laugh.

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« Reply #1590 on: June 19, 2018, 12:34:25 PM »
Between Plague Mare and Nightmare's Thirst it's safe to say my initial hope of Black being less boring was quite misplaced. :doge

Also, I know we just came off a wildly successful nostalgia set, and this coming set is all about Nick Balls, but did we really need a new Chromium card?

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« Reply #1591 on: June 20, 2018, 01:32:43 PM »


Nice.  8)
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« Reply #1592 on: June 20, 2018, 04:06:11 PM »
How would that work with a sorcery card requiring X mana like fireball?
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« Reply #1593 on: June 20, 2018, 04:21:48 PM »
How would that work with a sorcery card requiring X mana like fireball?
Wouldn't X be 0?

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« Reply #1594 on: June 20, 2018, 04:37:46 PM »
How would that work with a sorcery card requiring X mana like fireball?

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/6jvndi/how_does_casting_x_mana_cards_for_free_work/

How would that work with a sorcery card requiring X mana like fireball?
Wouldn't X be 0?

So yes. That is correct.

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« Reply #1595 on: June 21, 2018, 10:13:29 AM »
A strictly better Arcane Lighthouse reprint (and not just strictly because it's legal in formats I actually care about). :leon I could see Modern Burn running one in the SB.
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« Reply #1596 on: June 29, 2018, 04:10:53 PM »
My first Arena Competitive Draft went really well. Bouncing wizards are terrific, especially when they trigger twice. I hope they tweak the reward system. Opening packs isn't as rewarding when most of the cards are grayed out.

The open beta can't come soon enough. I also hope they will add M19 soon.

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« Reply #1598 on: July 04, 2018, 03:17:58 PM »
Fucking hell, anything outside of Singleton and Draft on MTGA is unbearable. It's the same fucking 3 decks everywhere.

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« Reply #1599 on: July 04, 2018, 03:20:13 PM »
Fucking hell, anything outside of Singleton and Draft on MTGA is unbearable. It's the same fucking 3 decks everywhere.

Congrats, now you know what Standard sucks. :doge

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« Reply #1600 on: July 04, 2018, 06:58:40 PM »
That's a pretty standard, Standard meta bruv.

It makes absolute sense that once a meta settles with a card pool the size of a standard rotation you will get 2-3 decks that are the "correct" decks to play based on win % against the '"field" whatever that is. Not that i think they always have it right, and there's usually a number of other decks which are viable but considered not quite as good. You don't have to conform to the Spike meta, there are a lot of tier 2 and 3 standard decks you can get good win % with. "Spikes" are often shit players too.

That sort of deck homogenization is inevitable online anyway, with such large numbers of people playing digitally and collating data the meta settles a lot faster now. Having only 3 decks to really consider when playing competitive constructed in standard is quite interesting (and very different from eternal formats), you can really prepare for a specific field and in a lot of ways, the focus on aggro, midrange and control over the highly linear combo and aggro decks of the modern meta, makes for a better skill tester.

What do ye think about the DRS ban Kara? Will degenerate gy decks suddenly become a lot better?
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« Reply #1601 on: July 05, 2018, 04:51:43 PM »
Singleton is gone.
And Borinaria is already back for Quick Draft. And doesn't rotate the fuck out of competitive draft.

Cool.

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« Reply #1602 on: July 13, 2018, 01:38:03 AM »
It hasn't been that long since our lords and saviors banned Deathrite Shaman, but I'm ready to say... WE'RE BACK BABY.



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« Reply #1603 on: July 13, 2018, 09:17:36 PM »


You don't need lands, just build lol.

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Two Fatal Pushes tho. Too bad this wasn't a paper draft. :lol
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« Reply #1604 on: July 14, 2018, 02:20:43 AM »
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You don't need lands, just build lol.

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Why is it that the UI only seems to fuck me in drafts? Plus I had two back-to-back server game freezes

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« Reply #1605 on: July 14, 2018, 08:55:03 AM »
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You don't need lands, just build lol.

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Two Fatal Pushes tho. Too bad this wasn't a paper draft. :lol
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Why is it that the UI only seems to fuck me in drafts? Plus I had two back-to-back server game freezes

The game is a bit of a mess. And yeah, shuffling seems to go for the worst shit.

Also, the new update turned the board into a candle-lit dark room. Amazing.

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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1606 on: July 15, 2018, 08:56:29 PM »
Match 1, game 1 in this video. :lol :lol :lol


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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #1607 on: July 15, 2018, 11:55:06 PM »
Sparktongue Dragon is an awesome red common (in draft). Wow. :whew

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« Reply #1608 on: July 16, 2018, 12:05:48 PM »


Time to sell.
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« Reply #1609 on: July 17, 2018, 12:24:40 AM »
Starting to suspect draft on Arena is even faker than drafting against computer opponents without a time limit already is. :doge



(This opponent also had a Lathliss, Dragon Queen because sure, why not?)

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« Reply #1610 on: July 17, 2018, 03:54:33 AM »
Sparktongue Dragon is an awesome red common (in draft). Wow. :whew

Too expensive IMO. 3RR for a plain 3/3 flyer is a bit steep, the lightning strike effect should be way cheaper than 2R. Like, just as much as good old bolt IMO.

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« Reply #1611 on: July 17, 2018, 08:31:22 AM »
I'm getting tired of all the bugs in Arena. Last update I lost 3000 gems to black screens. The new build it no longer holds priority, even though I have untapped lands and creatures with activated abilities. I'll probably stop playing after I've tried M19 a few more times. I hope they can get a stable release out before the end of summer.

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« Reply #1612 on: July 17, 2018, 12:54:16 PM »
Too expensive IMO. 3RR for a plain 3/3 flyer is a bit steep, the lightning strike effect should be way cheaper than 2R. Like, just as much as good old bolt IMO.

It's a common.
It's a common flyer in a color that doesn't get flyers at common.
It's a common with a mana sink ability for late game board stalls that hits any target.

You're designing a constructed card Mark would never let go out the door.

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« Reply #1614 on: July 18, 2018, 07:24:01 AM »
I've got a spare key. If anyone's interested, PM me.

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« Reply #1615 on: July 18, 2018, 08:09:24 PM »
I've got 5. If nobody pipes up before Saturday, I'm going to give them out on 4chan I guess. :doge

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« Reply #1616 on: July 18, 2018, 08:41:56 PM »
i messaged triumph a bunch, but bore doesnt save your outgoing msgs and i cant be fucked finding them again so if he doesn't repost they're lost 4eva (note: you can use the extra codes for gems and a chance at free boostas)
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« Reply #1617 on: July 18, 2018, 10:28:43 PM »
Won a game where I mulled to 4, then lost the next game because I forgot to play my land.  :mueller
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« Reply #1618 on: July 19, 2018, 01:38:03 AM »
Hey brehwalkers, remember my "Why did you counter this?" running gag? It's back, in Core Set 2019 form.



Essence Scatter trades up SO MUCH why why why why why.

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« Reply #1619 on: July 19, 2018, 04:46:46 AM »
I have five beta keys for tomorrow's stress test. Anyone interested?