Magic: The Gathering: Megathread: Sorin & Sarkhan's Excellent Adventure

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GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

God dammit I'm so mad my new job didn't pay me this week so I could order like 20 Narsets at $2.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 02:40

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# ¿ Jun 2, 2024 09:35

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Sickening posted:

Shots fired!

Oh hey, this kid goes to my (closing) local shop.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 06:08

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Chorocojo posted:

Yeah that's basically it. The third act of Apocalypse is Yawgmoth himself personally entering Dominaria as a gigantic cloud of death and reanimating any dead thing it touched (Including the soil. This is why there are clay golems in some Apocalypse art. I know Smash shows Tahngarth smashing through some.) The Apocalypse novel is pretty bad

Yawgmoth is such a strange character. He's not a planeswalker but that was basically one of his ultimate desires and when he couldn't biologically do it he basically surpassed it with technology. Basically everything about Yawgmoth's power is all poo poo he did to himself. He was essentially a gently caress-off powerful techno-lich-god. The reason he's never depicted on card art, I believe, is he's a goofy looking fucker according to the Apocalypse style guide. Imagine a 40-foot-tall Dr. Robotnik that's turned himself inside out. Alternatively the novel says he's just a giant techno dragon now. Again, Apocalypse novel is pretty bad.

Alternatively,

Chorocojo posted:

It really takes a turn once J. Robert King introduced Scott-McGough-but-as-a-planeswalker. And then careened directly into the ground when Scott-McGough-but-as-a-planeswalker casually mentions he has knowledge of how the story will end and Phyrexia is only defeated because he just erases the parts where they win because he is literally Scott-McGough-but-as-a-planeswalker.

Reminder this is the man who wrote Onslaught block's books.

To be fair he also wrote Kamigawa and Legends Cycle II, which are pretty okay.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 14:22

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Chorocojo posted:

Yeah, human Yawgmoth before he created Phyrexia was just a Thran doctor.

Kamigawa and Legends Cycle II were written by Scott McGough. Fine reads.

J. Robert King wrote Invasion and Onslaught and they were awful. Onslaught far more awful.

EDIT: God, now I'm thinking about The Thran that he wrote and how Yawgmoth drops nukes on Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, Seattle, New York, etc. loving hell.

Oh, my bad, I thought Scott McGough wrote Onslaught too, but now I'm remembering that he wrote Torment.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 14:57

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Man, it's almost like Delve is actually as good as every person in this thread who experienced it in Time Spiral made it out to be.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 04:12

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

"Hey I'm home from work, got paid today, let's do a KTK Sea-"

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 04:38

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

DurdleDuck posted:

According to someone on Twitter:

Matteo Orsini Jones ‏@matteoOJ 37m37 minutes ago
@dieplstks he did it because the other guy took basics from the communal pile, then refused to give them back when greg said they were 'his'

Sounds like a nice guy.

Then he goes home and posts about how he "casually" threw them and they "barely touched" the player. What a giant loving tool.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 04:53

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Attorney at Funk posted:

Two notable stories that I've seen:

Martin Juza ‏@Juzam_
@dieplstks when he played against jaklovsky he tried a lot of things that ended in 2 warnings (sorcery as instant, unmorph 2wru with no w/r)

eric froehlich
‏@efropoker
@dieplstks @HAUMPH cast ascendancy with one in play, he snap negates, cheon says triggers, he tries to say he missed it cus negate.

That second one actually got LSV mad

Luis Scott-Vargas @lsv
@bmkibler @Juzam_ @dieplstks I got mad and berated him about trying to cheat @HAUMPH, which is pretty uncharacteristic of me.

Holy poo poo, I would pay to see LSV berating him. What a sight that must have been.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 20:07

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Toshimo posted:

No, but Tarfire did.

And Nameless Inversion. It even got a textless version because of how much it saw play!

# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 07:26

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Sickening posted:

http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/2jsuue/suspect_shuffling_at_worchester_scg_standard/

Turns out this guy has been doing this on camera since 2009.

Dude's literally using every basic Magician's shuffle in the book. I'm surprised more people don't get caught doing this, honestly. It's not hard to learn basic Magician shuffles.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 03:41

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

I will completely admit to drafting Spin Into Myth when it was bugged on purpose in order to file for reimbursement every time when I was younger. I feel pretty scummy about it now, but I was real bad at drafting and that let me do it the most at the time.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2014 03:26

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Just played the most tilting round of Magic I have ever played.

I win game 1 really really easily, but see he has two Arrow Storms. Uh oh.
Game 2, I keep a hand with Abzan Charm, two Abzan Guides (of which I have 4), plains, swamp, swamp, and the Outlast guy that costs B. Over 7 turns of surviving, I drew no other lands. Whatever, I can win game 3.
I stabilize early with a 6/6 Abzan Guide thanks to Dragonscale Boon, but then he plays the 5/4 Mardu guy so I lose an favorable attacks, so I just draw some other stuff, play Abzan Guide, etc. By this point I'm at 47 life or something ridiculous like that. Then he plays Butcher of the Horde. "Okay, I have Kill Shot, Abzan Charm, and Murderous Cut" in my deck, I say. 10 turns later, nothing but lands. I have a Parapet and a Mardu Hateblade against his Butcher. I draw Charm, kill it. I end up Parapet'ing him down to 2 life, swing in with Hateblade. He Mardu Charms, makes 2 1/1 guys, kills the hateblade. He attacks with both, I block and parapet him to 1, I go to 5. One card in his hand. Arrow Storm.

:suicide:

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 19:09

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

AnacondaHL posted:

Just FYI, the massage therapist is in fact in the VIP section at Eternal Weekend and is pulling up Magic nerds' shirts to give massages.

A braver man/woman than I.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 19:46

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

PleasantDirge posted:

Buy that wizard a goddamn beer!

You really going to skip the cocaine and naked broads party just because dudeski hit his grand slam off your pitch?

I did the Magic Online equivalent by chatting to him about how good of a round it was (it was, it just sucked I ended up on the losing end) after the game.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 20:02

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

So if you're not watching LSV's stream right now, you're missing this:

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 21:08

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

I don't care how I do in this 8-4, I got to do this game 1 and I love it :allears:

GonSmithe fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Oct 27, 2014

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 02:58

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

If you told 13 year old me reading the Magic books that Freyalise would one day have a card, I would have poo poo myself in joy of putting it in my Kamigawa snakes deck.

He's inside going nuts, even though I know I'll never play the card because I hate EDH.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 16:45

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Yeah, I think Maro said Fateseal is like a 9 or 10 on the Storm scale. It's never coming back.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2014 15:17

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Applebees posted:

The announcement that they made during the Vintage Super League yesterday was the Magic Online Holiday Festival. It's Vintage events, Holiday Cube drafts, and Flashback queues. There is also a chance to earn Power if you don't have any by going 4-0 in a Legacy Daily to qualify and then being one of the top three finishers without Power in the Vintage Championship.

Welp, guess it's time to bite the bullet an build dredge on MODO.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2014 18:29

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Froghammer posted:

HAVE I GOT A WEIRD MELTDOWN FOR YOU

https://twitter.com/Xander756/status/534456111110582274

BONUS ROUND: https://twitter.com/Xander756/status/534460167979814914

"Words aren't racist."
Wow. Just... just wow.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2014 04:27

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Count Bleck posted:

So why aren't we talking about Bertoncheaty's "Apology"?

He also deleted his twitter, I believe?

"Guys I'm actually really sorry that I got caught I swear I've actually changed now!!!"
He can gently caress himself.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2014 19:06

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Holy gently caress shut up

# ¿ Dec 5, 2014 23:42

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

I'm started playing in Champions. Me and my three friends all shared buying cards because we were young and that was the easiest way. For Christmas that year we had gotten 6 boxes between us (my friend's families are loaded). That's not even counting the number of tournament packs, fat packs, or random packs we wasted our money on. Eventually we all kinds took a break from buying Magic cards (two quit, one of whom just started playing again with Khans). We sold a whole bunch of our cards for money for other things in that period, and looking as prices of those cards just go up and up and up for various reasons (EDH, modern, etc.) makes me :smith:

every time.

So no, you don't have to have gotten rid of Moxen and Duals and FoWs to feel bad about selling your collection. All it takes is a few dozen Sensei's Divining Tops (we had to have had at least 30) or Glimpse of Natures.

Also holy gently caress Champions came out 10 years ago?! Jesus Christ.

GonSmithe fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Dec 11, 2014

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 02:22

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

I'm under NDA and haven't actually done it yet since I just checked my email, but apparently they are testing the new League system this weekend in the Closed Beta. So I guess that might actually be a thing soon.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2014 03:42

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

This was my casual turn 3 earlier:

I lost because he Null Rodded me g2 and Smash to Smithereens'd my Double-Striking Flying Myr Battlesphere for exactly lethal. :smith:

# ¿ Dec 18, 2014 01:57

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

When I first started playing Magic and used Savannah Lions in my White Weenie deck, seeing Isamaru made my 12 year-old brain explode.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2014 06:08

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

I remember playing on MWS with a reanimator deck during Kamigawa/Ravnica standard and specifically putting in a button that had the comp rules section for only finding 2 cards with Gifts because literally no one believed me.

Lots of rage quits.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2014 19:26

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Niton posted:

And it's going under the CFB banner, so presumably it'll show up on their main page. That sounds pretty fantastic.

That's pretty awesome.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2015 23:41

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Email wizards about the FNM promos. I had an issue like that when I was younger and Wizards puts the hammer down HARD on them.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 17:18

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

whydirt posted:

Why do the commons and uncommons have the hologram?

Because they belong to those clans?

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 17:10

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

tirinal posted:

Meh. Conditional 7 drops aren't the greatest thing, but it will be alright in limited.

I'm going to open this every draft and cry.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Jan 9, 2015

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 17:22

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Boco_T posted:

Paul Cheon's stream is going wild, he's been donated into doing a 24 hour stream and people have now donated enough to send him to Vancouver in like the last 30 minutes. It's pretty great, Paul Cheon is great. Haumph.

Update: He just broke $1000 in donations, and has had 371 subscribers.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 01:44

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Applebees posted:

Was there something specific that prompted all these people to throw money at him.

Edit: I just watched two people each give him $100.

Nope, just people being chain generous.

Also LSV just opened trade with him to show off his Power and foil Power collection, then cancelled trade.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 02:57

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

I have gone to every pre-release since Betrayers of Kamigawa (minus Shadowmoor-Zendikar block when I stopped for a little). I always manage to do terrible, even though I'm not a bad player by any means.

Got to the pre-release late last night, so the only choices left were Mardu and Sultai, so I obviously went with Mardu. I ended up going 4-0 because my pool was absolutely sick. I had a pre-release promo Mardu Strike-Leader (whoever said before they didn't play him in Mardu is insane, he's absolutely incredible), a normal Mardu Strike-Leader, the 5/4 for 5 that makes them sac down to 2 creatures at the end of turn (which is AWESOME with your opponents Dashing creatures thanks to APNAP order of triggers), and Monastery Mentor.

MVP was Raider's Spoils, though. I managed to draw my single copy in most of the games I played and it just made them completely unfair. Strike-Leader plus Spoils is just broken, I drew 7 extra cards in one of the games I played because of it.

Best match of the whole night was in round 3, game 3. I played an Alabaster Kirin relatively early, and was doing a bit of damage to him when he was at 22. A few turns later he has Ponyback and a few other things out, swings with everything. I forget to block with Kirin, he Trumpet Blasts me for 17, putting me to 4. I keep drawing enough chump blockers to block his things to stop myself from dying (including his 5/5 fish thing), and swinging in every turn for 3 with Kirin (thanks to Spoils). I end up winning at 1 life with every single point of damage done to him coming from Alabaster Kirin. Felt good, man. Thank God I didn't block with it.

I also apparently beat the two best players in the store last night, when I reported my winning for round 3 they were asking me "Wow you beat [x]?!" and asking him "Are you okay, man?" in a "he's-definitely-not-used-to-losing" way, then when I won in round 4 they said something like "Are you going to come to FNM next week so you can destroy our champs again?" :smug:

GonSmithe fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jan 17, 2015

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 17:21

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Oldsrocket_27 posted:

Went Jeskai, pulled a very solid pool. Went 4-0 for first place. Got 4 packs in prizes and pulled trash. Life's a roller coaster.

How many people played in your pool that you only got 4 loving packs for going 4-0? Jesus. I went 4-0 and got 12 with around 50~ people.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 01:41

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

MySwan posted:

*raises hand*

I have some questions about let legality.

If I'm making a modern deck, and I want to use Tectonic Edge, can i use the 'Commander 2014 ' edition in it, or do i require the 'Worldwake one'?

And If i wanted to use Treetop Village, do i need the 'Tenth Edition' print or can I use one from the various 'Duel decks'? Can i use the 'Urza's legacy' printing?

You can use any (non-silver/gold bordered) version of any card in any format.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 22:59

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

wildfire1 posted:

Stoneforge unbanned lol yeah ok

# ¿ Jan 19, 2015 02:57

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Deckit posted:

Considering the salt that was in the thread lately, here's some good news.

My girlfriend sent these links to me. The FEELS.

http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/2rfvty/gpdenver_a_success_story_for_my_daughter/

Which led to..

http://imgur.com/gallery/wmQbd

D'aw. Someone submit this to Buzzfeed so I can see "Man takes his 8 year old daughter to a card game tournament. What the makers of the game did next will warm your heart..." appear on my Facebook wall.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 17:31

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Stormageddon posted:

You will find no banned list in Valhalla, my brother.

May you

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 17:41

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# ¿ Jun 2, 2024 09:35

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Angry Grimace posted:

In case someone missed it (several on other forums didn't seem to get it, yes, Alesha is transgender.

Great move on WotC's part. She's a badass.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2015 22:36

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