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Play sealed against the Suntail Hawk encounter. as long as you have like one reach creature or x/2 flier, you'll win it pretty easily.
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So I opened my first sealed slot and I'm struggling to make something good with it. Any thoughts? 2x War Priest of Thune 1x White Knight 2x Sentinel Sliver 1x Mighty Leap 1x Master of Diversion 1x Griffin Sentinel 2x Safe Passage 1x Day of Judgement 1x Charging Griffin 2x Serra Angel 2x Dawnstrike Paladin 1x Angelic Arbiter 2x Unsummon 1x Void Stalker 1x Fog Bank 1x Turn to Frog 2x Maritime Guard 2x Scroll Thief 3x Trained Condor 1x Divination 1x Phantasmal Dragon 2x Archaeomancer 1x Tricks of the Trade 2x Disorient 1x Djinn of Wishes 1x Belltower Sphinx 2x Harbor Serpent 2x Tormented Soul 2x Ravenous Rats 3x Distress 1x Hypnotic Specter 1x Vampire Nighthawk 3x Giant Scorpion 1x Assassinate 1x Mark of the Vampire 1x Sengir Vampire 1x Rotting Legion 1x Grave Titan 1x Striking Sliver 1x Volcanic Geyser 1x Goblin Shortcutter 1x Goblin Warpaint 1x Regathan Firecat 1x Blur Sliver 1x Slaughter Cry 1x Act of Treason 1x Marauding Maulhorn 1x Tectonic Rift 1x Bonebreaker Giant 1x Turn to Slag 1x Fog 1x Predatory Sliver 2x Advocate of the Beast 1x Brindle Boar 1x Oakenform 2x Acidic Slime 2x Yavimaya Wurm 1x Duskdale Wurm 1x Terramorphic Expanse 1x Staff of the Death Magus 1x Staff of the Mind Magus 1x Phyrexian Hulk I'm not pleased with any of it, really. I tried at first a Blue/Black build, in an attempt to combine Grave Titan and the Trained Condors, but wasn't able to work it into something I was able to beat Liliana with. Anyone better at me than deckbuilding got any suggestions? For all I know this is an amazing pool and I'm just not looking at it the right way.
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Jun 29, 2013 09:31
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Jun 29, 2013 10:38
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... So does sealed ignore normal deck construction rules (specifically, no more than four of a single card), or did you just hack them in there? I'm assuming some manipulation was involved in the first place because there's no way you pulled that.
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Jun 29, 2013 10:40
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The four-of-a-kind rule is only for Constructed decks - for Limited formats like Sealed you can play anything you open.
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Jun 29, 2013 10:43
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Jabor posted:The four-of-a-kind rule is only for Constructed decks - for Limited formats like Sealed you can play anything you open. That sounds terrible. I've never liked the idea of sealed play in the first place (can you tell I'm not into non-casual magic?), this just makes it more annoying. I mean obviously nobody's going to pull something like that but it feels like that just makes the whole format even more about luck and less about skill.
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Jun 29, 2013 10:53
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Funkmaster General posted:That sounds terrible. I've never liked the idea of sealed play in the first place (can you tell I'm not into non-casual magic?), this just makes it more annoying. I mean obviously nobody's going to pull something like that but it feels like that just makes the whole format even more about luck and less about skill. Sealed is about as casual as you can play Magic while still having rules, it's literally just "open a bunch of packs and play with whatever cards you get". If you're put off by feeling that Sealed is just all luck, I have to wonder why you'd play a game where you draw cards from a deck at random and getting unlucky draws can basically mean you lose.
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Jun 29, 2013 11:12
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Funkmaster General posted:So I opened my first sealed slot and I'm struggling to make something good with it. Any thoughts? So I managed to build something with this that I'm having some mild success with. I'm sure it could be improved. 2x Unsummon 1x Void Stalker 1x Fog Bank 2x Maritime Guard 2x Turn to Frog 3x Trained Condor 1x Divination 1x Tricks of the Trade 2x Disorient 1x Fog 1x Oakenform 2x Acidic Slime 2x Yavimaya Wurm 1x Duskdale Wurm 9x Island 8x Forest The basic idea is to use the condors to make my beefy green creatures fly over enemies, while using the Acidic Slimes, Fog, and various blue spells to stall the enemy long enough to get said creatures out and flying. I've won a handful of online matches with it.
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Jun 29, 2013 11:27
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Funkmaster General posted:So I opened my first sealed slot and I'm struggling to make something good with it. Any thoughts? Your white and black creatures at the top of the curve are absolutely busted. Only think missing really is good removal. 2 War Priest of Thune 1 White Knight 1 Griffin Sentinel 1 Master of Diversion 1 Hypnotic Specter 1 Vampire Nighthawk 3 Giant Scorpion 1 Charging Griffin 2 Serra Angel 1 Dawnstrike Paladin 1 Sengir Vampire 1 Grave Titan 1 Angelic Arbiter -- 17 creatures 1 Day of Judgment 1 Mighty Leap 1 Mark of the Vampire 1 Assassinate 1 Safe Passage -- 5 other spells 9 Swamp 8 Plains 1 Terramorphic Expanse -- 18 lands 18 lands because you really want to hit your 5cc slot reliably. Mighty Leap and Safe Passage bring some interactivity and cards you can actually outplay opponent with. Hypnotic Specter and Vampire Nighthawk are pretty solid early plays (Nighthawk holds up very late), the other early guys and triple Scorpion are there mostly to hold the fort, trade and have some board presence. Once you get to your three 5/5 for 5, Grave Titan an Arbiter at the top of the curve things get fairly ugly.
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Jun 29, 2013 11:52
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Heavy neutrino posted:Is there a cheesy way to get that achievement for mulliganning to 1 card and winning? The super cheesy way would be to collude in a private match to do it.
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Jun 29, 2013 12:37
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Emron posted:All y'all talking about how piss easy the challenges are is making me feel really idiotic for being stumped by the second one (with all the equipment). I found the equipment one to be the second most difficult challenge, for what it's worth. It's not super hard and given your mana pool you'll quickly realize there are only a few possible combinations of things to even play, so it gets easier if you just stop and think. That being said, as a whole the challenges in this game are easier by a long shot.
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Jun 29, 2013 13:14
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Lunsku posted:Your white and black creatures at the top of the curve are absolutely busted. Only think missing really is good removal. Echoing this: it is a really solid deck. Nighthawk is your best value card and those Scorpions fight way out of their weight class. Dropping Grave Titan is basically a removal check: if your opponent doesn't have any, you win. e: Meanwhile, that feeling when you're playing a sealed deck with significant ramp only to top-deck lands every turn anyway. Serisothikos fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Jun 29, 2013 |
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Jun 29, 2013 13:17
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I've played every DotP game, but something about this one on Android has me flubbing tutors a lot. I've probably missed 10 lands on Rampant Growths or Cultivates, I feel like I'm retarded.
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Jun 29, 2013 13:31
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The people who were complaining about the end of the campaign, you weren't wrong. Christ. In a lot of respects this game feels like a step back from 2013.
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Just faced (and beat  ) a guy with the "viral unlock" avatar, where's that from anyway?E: Oh hey, I have it unlocked too. Kanfy fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jun 29, 2013 |
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Jun 29, 2013 14:23
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Which colour is good against Jace? I'm just trying to beat him so I can get the first extra booster but nothing I try works 
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Jun 29, 2013 14:28
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Can anyone make a good deck out of this bunch of cards? http://pastebin.com/mPzKn2Xd It has quite a bit of Slivers but since the cards are everywhere I'm unsure of how I want to go about it. every color has good cards and since I only have one Terramorphic Expanse, it doesn't seem like having more than 3 colors is a good idea.
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Kanfy posted:Just faced (and beat A viral unlock means it unlocks when you face (it may be beat, not sure) someone who has it unlocked. Sultan Tarquin posted:Which colour is good against Jace? I'm just trying to beat him so I can get the first extra booster but nothing I try works I find White to be pretty good against Jace. Anything fast where a Counterspell/Unsummon doesn't set you back a huge amount works fine.
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Jun 29, 2013 14:30
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I'm trying white/green now but it's just trying to get a good mix between creatures and spells. White/Blue/Green are the only colours where I have enough combined creatures to fill a deck. Red has a lot of spells and 2 creatures and black barely has anything.
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Jun 29, 2013 14:38
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Umberger posted:A viral unlock means it unlocks when you face (it may be beat, not sure) someone who has it unlocked. Figured it might be something like that. That whole match against him was pretty crazy, we both got pretty much the perfect cards. Every time I removed one guy he got another that was even better, and then I got removal that removed that guy in turn. Sliver after sliver and removal after removal he ultimately almost turned the game around at the very end with a powered-up lifestealing sliver, but then I drew Doom Blade as my last card.
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Jun 29, 2013 14:39
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Jabor posted:Sealed is about as casual as you can play Magic while still having rules, it's literally just "open a bunch of packs and play with whatever cards you get". Seriously many more serious players hate sealed due to luck and prefer drafting which works towards reducing the luck factor. They release one of these with unlimited free drafting and I will pay a large sum of money for it.
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Jun 29, 2013 14:48
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Godamn finally got him with a taste of his own drat medicine  Also this is the best card art in the game and anyone who says otherwise is a crazy man. 
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Jun 29, 2013 14:58
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Godamn finally got him with a taste of his own drat medicine Of the new ones, I think Grim Return is pretty great. 
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socialsecurity posted:Seriously many more serious players hate sealed due to luck and prefer drafting which works towards reducing the luck factor. They release one of these with unlimited free drafting and I will pay a large sum of money for it. They'll never release a dotp with unlimited free drafting though. They would be crazy if they did. The goal of the games is to try to get you into playing paper or MTGO. The last thing they want is to have those players satisfied with DotP instead of spending big bucks. I know DotP always make me want to go back and play more MTGO. Will have to see when their next cube draft is scheduled. Those have been my favorite MTGO games.
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Sealed has been fun so far but would love to play with more goons. Was there a steam group created for previous versions? Someone hit me up! http://steamcommunity.com/id/sp14
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Jun 29, 2013 15:22
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I remember when they were beta testing the new MTGO client and you could do unlimited free RAV-block drafts. That was pretty cool.
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Kanfy posted:Of the new ones, I think Grim Return is pretty great. I got a white/black deck in sealed right now, is Grim Return playable? The only thing that bugs me is the "this turn" caveat, I feel like I wouldn't get to use it that often, but maybe as an insurance policy for bomb-y late game creatures who get tagged with removal? Dunno. I feel like the computer doesn't use too much hard removal (in my experience so far), I'm probably way overvaluing things like Tormented Soul + auras/enchants.
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I've been putting it to good use in my terrible sealed deck. Its a pretty decent card and cheap enough to be playable. Note that it can take creatures from both graveyards!
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Jun 29, 2013 15:34
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And it combos well off murder/assassinate/doom blade if you're lucky.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Godamn finally got him with a taste of his own drat medicine Nope, it's this:  Endless Ranks of the Dead is the best artistic effort of Wizards to date. e: better version Serisothikos fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jun 29, 2013 |
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PS3 glitch: I tried to purchase to full game after completing the tutorial. I had to update my billing information via the Accounts Management screen (and thus having to quit the game). Apparently it doesn't save your progression in this instance and I now have to redo the tutorial.
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Dr. Stab posted:It's not so much that they are completely without difficulty, but that they aren't as hard as before. Have you seen the challenges in the previous games? Most of them are absolutely insane, and generally involve making very unintuitive plays, and dealing with a very large number of options. In this game, the first half of them are about teaching you basic mechanics, while there are only two challenges in the second half that involve anything other than just making the only play that is available to you. So this guilted me into trying again, and when I did I solved every one of them (except the last one) in one try each. You were right, most of them equate to "use removal or pump an unblocked dude." Even the last one wasn't that hard.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:And it combos well off murder/assassinate/doom blade if you're lucky. READ THE CARDS! ~ me to myself. I didn't notice it was target creature from *A* graveyard. That definitely changes things.
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Man, they should call it "Brainslayer Angel," because even the clinically braindead stand a chance with that thing. I just beat a guy who made a billion or so of the worst decisions in the world and having Baneslayer + Mikaeus drat near got him there anyway. Maybe my build is bad or something but Mind Maze is not performing to expectations right now. Loving Life Partner posted:I got a white/black deck in sealed right now, is Grim Return playable? Against decks that are just plain better, Grim Return gives you a chance to win if you can outplay them, so that's pretty awesome. Every dickbag who opens all the black bomb rares likes to walk right into it.
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Is the Dimir deck as poo poo as it seems to me, or am I just terrible at the slow, steady, be a complete loving arsehole game?
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Man Sealed has me bummed out. I made a B/W deck and realized there was no card I'd ever proactively want to Tutor for and felt sad.
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Captain Pissweak posted:Is the Dimir deck as poo poo as it seems to me, or am I just terrible at the slow, steady, be a complete loving arsehole game? I'd say it's mostly just you, that deck can be really effective from my experience. Also the most frustrating to play against.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Maybe my build is bad or something but Mind Maze is not performing to expectations right now. It seems really goddamned strong to me. If you can sneak through a Lord + Phantasmal image without answer, you'll have the enemy on the ropes as they now have to find a way to deal with your hexproof lord who makes all illusions hexproof.
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Okay, I have a sealed deck with tutor, two runescarred demons, and Rise from the Grave. It's incredible - I play one demon, use its ability to grab the other; the enemy burns their removal on the first demon. I play the second, use its ability to grab RFTG, then revive the other demon and tutor for murder or something.
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Heavy neutrino posted:It seems really goddamned strong to me. If you can sneak through a Lord + Phantasmal image without answer, you'll have the enemy on the ropes as they now have to find a way to deal with your hexproof lord who makes all illusions hexproof. At that point it really depends on how quickly you can wipe the board.
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