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I have been trying to make a Wolf tribal deck work for the last two expansions and am really hoping someone smarter than me can crack it with the new ToE stuff. It should work!
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Ghostfire Blade saw some Standard play
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Sep 6, 2019 19:14
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CapnAndy posted:I have been trying to make a Wolf tribal deck work for the last two expansions and am really hoping someone smarter than me can crack it with the new ToE stuff. It should work! I had okay luck with my Tolmvir deck but yeah, gonna sic big bad wolves on everybody hopefully
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Sep 6, 2019 19:28
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Abzan Wolves can work. Tolsimir followed by the new Garruk can be very powerful.
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Sep 6, 2019 19:42
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You basically need Nissa to power out all the good wolf stuff and hey, she's Green!
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Sep 6, 2019 19:52
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Huxley posted:What was the last standard-prominent equipment? Besides the obvious ones (Swords, Batterskull, Jitte, Skullclamp etc.), Basilisk Collar and Runechanter's Pike are the only equipments I can think of that saw any amount of standard play.
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Sep 6, 2019 20:25
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Unless the Excalibur card gives haste and generates an overwhelming advantage while having a colossal hammer-esque CMC and equipcost, I don't think Ser Gwyn will be standard playable. Please subscribe to my news letter for more of my blistering hot takes.
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Sep 6, 2019 20:33
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MOAR posted:Profile page - you will find a "Pet Selection" ... That just gives me the option of a winged cat, there's no unwinged cat option!
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Sep 6, 2019 20:36
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CapnAndy posted:I have been trying to make a Wolf tribal deck work for the last two expansions and am really hoping someone smarter than me can crack it with the new ToE stuff. It should work! Tolsimir to throw wolves at creatures Nightpack Ambusher and Arlinn to generate wolves Vivien's Arkbow to put wolves on the board without casting them (to help ambusher make his wolves) One drops and two drops should be ramp to be able to get there Fill the rest of the deck with other wolves Maybe icon of ancestry to pump and/or find wolves That's basically my wolf deck and it's super fun, havent yet managed to make it very consistent though Simone Poodoin fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Sep 6, 2019 |
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Sep 6, 2019 20:58
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Besides the obvious ones (Swords, Batterskull, Jitte, Skullclamp etc.), Basilisk Collar and Runechanter's Pike are the only equipments I can think of that saw any amount of standard play. Cranial plating saw a ton of play and is still being played. And I think sunforger saw a decent amount of play when it was in standard, but yeah most equipment is pretty fringe.
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Sep 6, 2019 21:00
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Looks like if you have Tolsimir out already, you can ready Garruk's emblem with a single use of his 0 ability, then your wolves just eat face for the rest of the game. I'm looking forward to the new rainbow mana dork that can wash a single green for you even before you actually cast her. I have a home for her in my Naya Feather deck.
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Sep 6, 2019 21:07
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Bugsy posted:Cranial plating saw a ton of play and is still being played. And I think sunforger saw a decent amount of play when it was in standard, but yeah most equipment is pretty fringe. How soon people forget Loxodon Warhammer...
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Sep 6, 2019 22:06
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The decision to have each season dump you down two full divisions is nutters.
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Sep 6, 2019 22:07
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PJOmega posted:The decision to have each season dump you down two full divisions is nutters. should it be more?
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Sep 6, 2019 22:09
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PJOmega posted:The decision to have each season dump you down two full divisions is nutters. Why?
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Sep 6, 2019 22:15
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At the end of every season they should flip everyone like a mirror. Just switch places with the opposite rank. Up and down. Bronze/Mythic Silver/Diamond Gold/Platinum
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Sep 6, 2019 22:23
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PJOmega posted:The decision to have each season dump you down two full divisions is nutters. It barely takes any time to get back to where you were.
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Sep 6, 2019 22:31
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what's nutters, what's absolutely mental, is three full one win - one pip tiers before mythic
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Sep 6, 2019 22:35
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Kashuno posted:It barely takes any time to get back to where you were. After I hit mythic and fell all the way back down to Silver I have not gotten above Gold
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Sep 6, 2019 22:53
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This would probably be less of issue if getting out of gold wasn't harder than getting out of platinum. Gold is an absolute bloodbath every month with a mix of tier one and almost tier one decks, but the sheer amount of diversity means you can get blind-sided by nonsense jank that just happens to hard counter your deck and drop rank or end up facing tier one decks piloted by good players that just don't have the time to grind. Last season it took me a week and a half to get from gold 1 to plat 4, but only three days to get from plat to diamond and that's a 'normal' month.
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Sep 6, 2019 23:27
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Ithle01 posted:This would probably be less of issue if getting out of gold wasn't harder than getting out of platinum. Gold is an absolute bloodbath every month with a mix of tier one and almost tier one decks, but the sheer amount of diversity means you can get blind-sided by nonsense jank that just happens to hard counter your deck and drop rank or end up facing tier one decks piloted by good players that just don't have the time to grind. Last season it took me a week and a half to get from gold 1 to plat 4, but only three days to get from plat to diamond and that's a 'normal' month. play best of 3
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Sep 6, 2019 23:34
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There should be a feature that if you submit an esper control deck the game just kills you IRL.
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Sep 6, 2019 23:52
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Lone Goat posted:play best of 3 This was bo3. I can't imagine doing this in Bo1.
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Sep 7, 2019 01:02
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Ok I'm probably late to the party here but I'ma bitch about the Syr Gwyn deck for a bit. (disclaimer: I'm probably making it out to be a little worse than it actually is) That deck is SO frustrating to play against the other decks. Making an equipment based commander then giving the precon nothing but poo poo equipment is intensely galling. Alila is better than that deck at pretty much everything; better card draw, better evasion, can go wider, cheaper commander, can use mace of the valiant better. The only chance Gwyn seems to have is keeping Alila off the battlefield but you need removal to do that and Single Combat ain't cutting it. The deck has a bunch of go-wide stuff (Smitten swordmaster, mace of the valiant, Syr Konrad, Knight's Charge, Gwyn himself) but no way of going wide enough to use them. Crap evasion. In an equipment deck. No way to give anybody trample that I am aware of, which means once Alila starts making GBS threads out fairies good luck ever doing damage again. A bunch of small creatures that can't get any bigger because again, the equipment sucks. Having the most expensive, most board state dependent commander. It gasses out every game. If you can get card draw with Gwyn going you were probably winning anyway. I'm not saying the deck is hopeless or completely outclassed, but I always feel like I'm the underdog in every game I play with that deck. The deck can come out strong and smash Culainne which is pretty great. And colossus hammer with 0 equip is a fun trick. Although this is partly coming from me being frustrated that WotC seem to be allergic to putting good equipment in standard. Like they go to a trauma survivors group every Thursday and talk about nothing but Caw-Blade. And there is going to be very little room to improve upon it since the one set that had the support for it is rotating (having blackblade reforged, sigiled sword of valeron, helm of the host, Aryel in the deck would have been nice). Ravnica block is a desolate wasteland IRT fixing that deck in the slightest. Sure there could be more support in TOE, but I doubt it. Since if there was better equipment in the set why isn't any of it in the deck? ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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Sep 7, 2019 04:43
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Maro apparently confirmed there are no rare duals in throne. Apparently a cycle of rare lands, and no word on other uncommon goofy trilands like the tournament land.ChrisBTY posted:Since if there was better equipment in the set why isn't any of it in the deck?
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Sep 7, 2019 05:17
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It would have to be a hell of an equipment in that case. But the idea that Mace of the Valiant is their idea of a rare equipment in this set isn't filling me with hope.
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Sep 7, 2019 05:43
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Spiderdrake posted:Maro apparently confirmed there are no rare duals in throne. Apparently a cycle of rare lands, and no word on other uncommon goofy trilands like the tournament land. Has there ever been a set without rare dual lands? That's a bold thing to do. Maybe they're just trying to get us hyped up for the OG duals getting removed from the reserved list and printed at ultra mythic legendary rare status.
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Sep 7, 2019 05:51
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ChrisBTY posted:It would have to be a hell of an equipment in that case. Steelclaw Lance is the only actual real card in the deck and it was obvious when playing it how much better it is than the other pieces of poo poo. I wouldn't worry? Like nothing in these decks is meant for standard and the rarity is hyper triple meaningless.
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Sep 7, 2019 05:55
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A cycle of rare lands, but they're not duals? Trilands perhaps? Could be mono lands with unique abilities, but that seems to overlap with the common cycle a lot. Comedy option: fetches technically aren't duals
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Sep 7, 2019 05:57
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There's an uncommon triland already spoiled though I guess they could do that? Kinda think he means a cycle of legendary rare lands, it's been a little while on that. I think? Or maybe just ISD style. I'm gonna be making angry posts about not reprinting filters for years to come. Grand. axeil posted:Has there ever been a set without rare dual lands? That's a bold thing to do. Mirage has uncommon fetch lands, no duals. Tempest does have rare duals though most people won't remember them Urza's saga has a cycle of rare single color lands. Masques is a dumpster fire. Invasion doesn't, in spite of being a multicolor set. R&D back then had weird issues. Odyssey does, filters. Mirrodin doesn't. Champs doesn't. OG Rav does. Time Spiral has uncommon ones (a lot of sets have meh uncommon cycles) Lorwyn has a tribal cycle Shards doesn't. I think every set does since then. Has been a while without though, yeah.
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Sep 7, 2019 06:04
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kater posted:Steelclaw Lance is the only actual real card in the deck and it was obvious when playing it how much better it is than the other pieces of poo poo. I wouldn't worry? Like nothing in these decks is meant for standard and the rarity is hyper triple meaningless. Despite its problems the Mace has put in the most work for me but I won't disparage the Lance comparably. But that's just it; when your best tool is a lateral move from Vulshok Morningstar things will probably not go well for you. Also I would argue that never mind standard; none of those equipment are meant for brawl, it's all draft fodder. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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Sep 7, 2019 06:26
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The Temples were originally in the Theros block. I imagine they're just going to finish that cycle in the Return to Theros set which comes after Eldraine.
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Sep 7, 2019 06:29
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ChrisBTY posted:Ok I'm probably late to the party here but I'ma bitch about the Syr Gwyn deck for a bit. The sir Gwynn deck is nearly unplayable. 6 cost brawl commander with almost no ramp? Check. Mediocre do nothing cards (2/1 for 2)? Check. Support cards that fit the commander's theme that do almost nothing when everything comes together (all of the equipment)? Check.
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Sep 7, 2019 06:34
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the knight deck is easily the worst of the four
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Sep 7, 2019 11:52
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axeil posted:Has there ever been a set without rare dual lands? That's a bold thing to do. War of the Spark was a set that didn't have rare duals. We just got a set of duals in M20 (M19 last year didn't have any).
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Sep 7, 2019 12:00
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I like the knight that does the same thing as dusk legion zealot but for 4 mana.
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Sep 7, 2019 12:01
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axeil posted:Has there ever been a set without rare dual lands? That's a bold thing to do. Literally 5 months ago, yes
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Sep 7, 2019 12:36
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The only way we’d ever see WotC reprint anything on the reserved list is if they gave us a multiple year heads up. Like in 2020 they announced “were dissolving the reserved list and were gonna reprint duals... starting in 2022” or something. Anything short of that would cause digital rioting and the secondary market would be so annihilated so completely that everything would get way, way worse.
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Sep 7, 2019 12:50
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Paul Zuvella posted:Literally 5 months ago, yes Oh right 
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Are all the built-in tells Arena has good or bad? I don't play counterspells so its not like I've seen them many times, but they just added visuals to check lands this last patch and I unno it seems a bit much. Not that I haven't been not paying attention before and screwed up.
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