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CountFosco posted:Pack 1 pick 2: windswept heath. I think I hate you, but congratulations on sitting to the left of probably literally the only person on MODO who is actually more concerned with making the right pick than drafting for value in this format! You should do some current set drafts and see if your 'get passed the most expensive card in the entire block' luck is still there. 
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Jul 21, 2012 00:10
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Jeez, I just had Zero fun in this OLS format due to someone wellwishing their way to a million life. Seriously, I could beat their Akroma and Cat Giant Legend and Elf Mutants but no, this little common elf was just unbeatable. Ugh.
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Jul 21, 2012 13:12
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2-1 in M13 last night. Not liking the set. The wins feel boring and automatic and the losses feel ridiculous. (Guy cracks the rare land-fetcher to hit 14, fireballs the next turn for 12 while sitting dead on board with 1 life).
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Jul 21, 2012 22:14
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Nehru the Damaja posted:(Guy cracks the rare land-fetcher to hit 14, fireballs the next turn for 12 while sitting dead on board with 1 life). I feel bad for your(?) loss but this is hilarious.
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Jul 21, 2012 22:21
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Nehru the Damaja posted:2-1 in M13 last night. yeah this owns, actually.
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Jul 21, 2012 22:57
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Friends M11 bad beat story still takes the cake for me: his pretty unlucky MTGO night when that set was live was crowned by losing a match to Pyretic Ritual - Pyretic Ritual - Fireball for exact.
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Jul 21, 2012 22:59
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My last two drafts have been a blast, drafting a weird B/R deck every time loaded with removal, burn, and bloodhunter bats.
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Jul 21, 2012 23:45
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Snacksmaniac posted:My last two drafts have been a blast, drafting a weird B/R deck every time loaded with removal, burn, and bloodhunter bats.
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Jul 22, 2012 03:02
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Best limited beats story happened in M12. I'm having the worst draft I'd ever had at that point and losing to a kid playing mono-red. But I've got a few outs and think I might get there since he's doing weird durdle crap. Wall of Torches lands. Whatever, no big deal. He puts Firebreathing on it. I'm not saying anything but this seems really really dumb. I'm still just gonna crash weenies through until you have to block. His next turn, he dumps all his mana but two into the wall making it like 16/1 or something, and flings it. He MacGuvyered together a three-for-one fireball out of spit and duct tape and beat me with it.
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Jul 22, 2012 05:32
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I think M13 seems pretty great. Plenty of room for control and aggressive strategies, my main complaint would be inclusion of cards like Battle of Wits. Apparently I am just not as thrilled about that card as other people.
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an skeleton posted:I think M13 seems pretty great. Plenty of room for control and aggressive strategies, my main complaint would be inclusion of cards like Battle of Wits. Apparently I am just not as thrilled about that card as other people. This is you admitting you are a terrible human being. Who the gently caress doesn't like the best card ever printed forever?
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Jul 22, 2012 06:36
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an skeleton posted:I think M13 seems pretty great. Plenty of room for control and aggressive strategies, my main complaint would be inclusion of cards like Battle of Wits. Apparently I am just not as thrilled about that card as other people. Yeah, Battle of Wits owns, and every single Magic set has rares that are just straight-up blanks in Limited, so I dunno why you're picking on Battle of Wits specifically. Were you really that much happier about opening Arcane Melee in Avacyn Restored, or Stony Silence in Innistrad?
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Jul 22, 2012 07:03
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I have opened two battle of wits in m13, one in sealed and one on an eleven man draft pod. I got it on the wheel. Also, 11 man pods suck.
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taladel posted:I have opened two battle of wits in m13, one in sealed and one on an eleven man draft pod. I got it on the wheel. THEY'RE THE loving WORST and last night at FNM my store arranged our 35 person turnout into 11/12/12.
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Jul 22, 2012 07:56
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So far in all 3 M13 drafts I've done, we've had Battle of Wits and Door to Nothingness just circling around the table forever. Nothing like a couple of stone blank rares every draft.
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Jul 22, 2012 09:42
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A person in our draft last night won a game with Door, but it was definitely the exception. Most of the time it contributed to the plain old clockwork "drop some dudes, swing with dudes, trick/bounce/remove dudes to advance the race, win."
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Jul 22, 2012 09:59
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Friend of mine won 2 games with door this past Friday. He had 2x doors, 2x gem of becoming, and a boundless realms, also 2x sands of delirium as an alt win condition. He basically just rare drafted a bunch of crap rares and actually managed to win a couple of games with it.
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Jul 22, 2012 15:34
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Yeah sorry, I just hate to listen to people sperg out over a dead card every time it starts circling the table. Arcane Melee can theoretically fit into a (normal) deck, if someone makes Battle of Wits that means a very annoying first round for someone.
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Jul 22, 2012 20:04
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Drafting some OLS, because I just can't get rid of these stupid packs. Let's try to have a very fun time.
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Jul 23, 2012 02:29
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At an AVR draft earlier this summer, a guy opened a Descent Into Madness in his first pack. It kept going around the table until the second-to-last guy had a choice of it or some crappy common. He took the common  I just keep in mind that some cards are only decent in constructed, some cards are only decent for limited, some are ok for both, and that freaking over a rare in a single draft isn't terribly worthwhile.
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Pyrolocutus posted:At an AVR draft earlier this summer, a guy opened a Descent Into Madness in his first pack. It kept going around the table until the second-to-last guy had a choice of it or some crappy common. He took the common in my last-ever AVR draft on mtgo (I hope!!!) I snapped off a descent into madness p3p1, and wasn't even in black. it was foil and worth like 10tix apparently, lmao.
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Jul 23, 2012 05:23
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scribe jones posted:it was foil and worth like 10tix apparently, lmao. Set redemption keeps mythics and foil mythics high, I'm told.
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Snacksmaniac posted:Set redemption keeps mythics and foil mythics high, I'm told. Yeah, basically any foil Mythic is going to score you a few tickets at the very least. I'm actually really enjoying M13 in draft. Friday night I drafted what I thought was a pretty nuts BW Exalted deck, had I think 13 exalted dudes. What this deck taught me was that vomiting exalted dudes on to the table isn't really enough of a gameplan. I didn't have enough enablers in the form of evasive dudes or Tormented Souls so I just had a big dumb guy on the ground that could get chumped for a few turns. Then they could crack back at my team since exalted guys are not great on defense. I passed a couple Tormented Souls and over good evasive guys like Bloodhunter Bats or I guess War Falcon. Aven Squire seems like a super high pick for this deck, I think I grabbed the only one I saw, though. Saturday night I went 2-1 in both drafts with a weird controlly GU deck in the first set and then a solid mid-rangey RG deck for the second deck. I had Krenko in the second draft and he is absolutely a bomb if unanswered. Doubling is crazy and saying "End of turn krenko for... 8 more goblins?" was super awesome and I loved it. The uncommon creature cycle continues to impress with the Fire Pig being just a loving beating. Turn 2 Timberpack Wolf in to turn 3 hasty pig hit you for 5 is loving brutal. For my first deck, though, I have a question: How do you go about building a ramp deck in limited? I got Stormtide Leviathan P1P4 which I scooped up on the assumption that blue would be open and I wanted to see if I could get it to work. After that I was picking up Kraken Hatchlings and Fog Banks and as many Arbor Elfs and Far Seeks as I could. The green fatties were easy to pick up late, seems like if you want a Duskdale Wurm you can probably get one no problem. Anyway, when it came to deckbuilding I felt like I had all the right pieces but didn't know what the hell to do with it. I had some Elves, some Farseeks and some Ranger's Path but had really no idea how much ramp compared to how many fatties I should include. I'm pretty sure I did it wrong because it never really worked out and I felt like I was still just Wind Draking them or stealing games with a Primal Huntbeast suited up with Tricks of the Trade.
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Ive gotta say, Im a HUGE fan of trampling and Exalted mix together in draft. It's absolutely gross. I played a Bg draft deck with a trampler and some exalted and boy was it good. Honestly if Im playing a dedicated BW exalted deck I would probably play the trample ring, even if I had with no green creatures.
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Jul 23, 2012 20:39
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Any idea when Cube will be back on MTGO?
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Jet Set Jettison posted:Ive gotta say, Im a HUGE fan of trampling and Exalted mix together in draft. It's absolutely gross. I played a Bg draft deck with a trampler and some exalted and boy was it good.
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Gyshall posted:Any idea when Cube will be back on MTGO? And maybe some other times, I bet it'll show up during the holidays etc.
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Jet Set Jettison posted:Ive gotta say, Im a HUGE fan of trampling and Exalted mix together in draft. It's absolutely gross. I played a Bg draft deck with a trampler and some exalted and boy was it good.
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Puzzle time! AVR Sealed. Pretty tense racing situation, and my opponent appears to have dealt me the final blow with this play. With no cards in hand, I saw the writing on the wall and F6-ed. And sure enough, Banners Raised resolved, his Dragon became a 6/5, took me to 1, and the Goldnight Commander pinged me for my last point of life. ...and then, about 30 seconds later, I was very angry with myself. 5 tix to the first person who can tell me exactly why.
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Sac the ghoul and connoisseur, soulbound the ghoul off the undying trigger to block the dragon?
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Jul 24, 2012 21:30
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Wow, that was fast. Collect your tix at your convenience 
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Jul 24, 2012 21:31
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It's all good, I bet I would've done the exact same thing and then hit myself after the fact.
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Jul 24, 2012 21:33
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Give me about an hour and a half and I can take those tickets instead
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Decided to get in another OLS draft before it goes away, naturally so far I've opened a foil Polluted Delta and a foil Stifle 
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JerryLee posted:Decided to get in another OLS draft before it goes away, naturally so far I've opened a foil Polluted Delta and a foil Stifle You lucky jerk! I've done 7 or 8 and have opened nothing of any value. On the upside I have 3-0'd or 2-1'd every single in which I have forced bird soldiers. U/W bird soldiers is the tits.
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LeafHouse posted:You lucky jerk! I've done 7 or 8 and have opened nothing of any value. On the upside I have 3-0'd or 2-1'd every single in which I have forced bird soldiers. U/W bird soldiers is the tits. I tried bird soldiers in the next draft with my last onslaught pack (did not make the finals of the one where I opened all the money) and despite what I thought was an okay deck, lost in the first round to R/G beasts... which has ended up being a trap for me whenever I've tried it. Oh well, not complaining.
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JerryLee posted:I tried bird soldiers in the next draft with my last onslaught pack (did not make the finals of the one where I opened all the money) and despite what I thought was an okay deck, lost in the first round to R/G beasts... which has ended up being a trap for me whenever I've tried it. Yeah I tried RG beasts and got crushed by bird soldiers. I didn't make that mistake again!
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I've tried drafting a ton of different strategies in Onslaught (well, the ones that seemed viable) and I always scrub out in the first round against some nuts mono black deck
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Anyone get anything good in their prerelease pools? I got a talrand!...and 2 duals
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