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Toozler posted:2-2'd this. Rolled first 2 opp then ran into t4 Elspeth t5 Nylea guy and guy who dropped t4 Archon on me both games. Bummer, card quality seemed good, def realized gy size is pretty important. haven't looked at the draft yet, but Relentless Pursuit/Sweet Oblivion/Thassa's Oracle is a powerful engine. usually Oracle works best in black self mill since you can Omen of the Dead it back, but it could do work here, especially if you're short on win conditions. Also Pursuit helps you find your swamps.
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Did anyone who tried to cheat the champions email thing get multiple codes?
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Feb 20, 2020 16:52
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I made like 10 spare email accounts before I got bored to maximise my chances, but I've only gotten the reward code on the email tied to my MTG account, so I wouldn't be surprised if they only let emails that have mtg accounts on them get rewards. PVDDR was my 3rd choice but on my main email I picked Javier 
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Yeah it seems as though they only sent codes to emails with registered mtga accounts. Of course the code is usable on any account so next time we just have to make 15 accounts to go with the emails...
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Feb 20, 2020 18:00
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Magic Underwear posted:Yeah it seems as though they only sent codes to emails with registered mtga accounts. Of course the code is usable on any account so next time we just have to make 15 accounts to go with the emails... This is all sounding like more time than it's worth for a few rare ICRs.
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thespaceinvader posted:This is all sounding like more time than it's worth for a few rare ICRs. I will never not spend work hours at my 6 figure job trying to save 10 cents on this game.
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Feb 20, 2020 18:19
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I recommend simply picking the correct person to win, like I did When a dude's bio literally says he's "arguably the best Magic player of all time" why wouldn't you pick him (I know basically nothing about professional Magic, had never heard of most of the players, and legitimately used this exact reasoning)
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Veib posted:I recommend simply picking the correct person to win, like I did This is pretty solid reasoning. Paulo is generally considered to be one of the top 3 players of all time. The other two still play, but I wouldn't pick them to win anything now. But Paulo has been a top player for a long time, and might actually be in the midst of the best period of his career right now, so yeah, even without the benefit of hindsight he was a good choice. I went with Autumn Burchett, mainly because their Mono-Blue Devotion guide helped me to briefly hit Mythic a while back, the only time I ever came even close to doing so.
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Zero VGS posted:I will never not spend work hours at my 6 figure job trying to save 10 cents on this game. Epic brag
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rujasu posted:This is pretty solid reasoning. Paulo is generally considered to be one of the top 3 players of all time. The other two still play, but I wouldn't pick them to win anything now. But Paulo has been a top player for a long time, and might actually be in the midst of the best period of his career right now, so yeah, even without the benefit of hindsight he was a good choice. I went with Autumn because national pride, but mostly because I like their hair. I wonder if the stats will be made available to the players of how many people backed them.
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thespaceinvader posted:I went with Autumn because national pride, but mostly because I like their hair. There's no way on Earth WotC releases that data, it would lead to a pretty disgusting display on Twitter and other socials and lots of feel bads.
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Feb 20, 2020 20:23
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What benefit to literally anyone would releasing that information have
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Javier prob the most popular because he was on the top left
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I would just like to know how many people won, to more effectively lord it over the losers.
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Magic Underwear posted:I would just like to know how many people won, to more effectively lord it over the losers. we're all losers here buddy
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i picked nassif because he has a good stream and seems like a great guy i'd love to see him stream poker
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Well this is a disappointing P1P1. Some decent commons but no obvious (to me) first pick. Thoughts?
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Wow yeah there's really nothing outstanding there. The rare is only so-so, no major bombs, no removal. I'd probably go for Setessan Training, Oracle, or Lampad, but it's solidly meh overall. Probably Lampad, because black, but actually probably oracle because i personally love red/white. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Feb 21, 2020 10:40
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Thirst or Chimera for me there.
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thespaceinvader posted:Wow yeah there's really nothing outstanding there. The rare is only so-so, no major bombs, no removal. I know black is good but I'm actually thinking Lampad is one I can rule out, because there are no other black cards in the pack for the wheel. Sure I'll probably have an idea of another colour by then but it still seems more optimal to pick a colour I have a chance of following up on. The two commons in each of blue, red, and green are all playable so I think it should be one of those. I'm open to counterarguments though Wafflecopper fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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That's legit. it's not like you're going to struggle for Lampads later if you need one, most likely.
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I'm not blown away by that pack but I'm hardly upset at the prospect of playing Thirst for Meaning
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Oof. After playing against 6 counterspell decks over 10 matches today, I'm going to have to take a break until the weekly reset. I really, really hate counterspells.
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Feb 21, 2020 16:26
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The festival of the gods starts tomorrow so you can just play that on the weekend.
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Spiderdrake posted:The festival of the gods starts tomorrow so you can just play that on the weekend. drat, I somehow missed this announcement. Looks like 5 events, 3 days per event, each one on a weekend. Here's the specific decks people will be playing for each event: Fires of Purphoros: Standard Artisan Nylea's Call of the Wild: Giant Monsters Emblem Heliod's Glory: Immortal Sun Emblem Erebos's Memoir of Death: Historic Brawl Thassa's Briny Bounty: 150-card Preconstructed Singleton Anyone want to start taking a crack at these deck lists?
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In case anyone wants a reminder of what the Immortal Sun does:
With PW passives still working, Narset stands to be even more annoying than usual since she would shut down the free card draw, and her controller can't use her minus ability so she sticks around that much longer. Assuming Narset isn't banned from the event; I haven't seen any ban lists for these.
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What is giant monsters? E: found it, whenever you cast a 4-cost creature, draw a card. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Feb 21, 2020 17:46
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IMJack posted:In case anyone wants a reminder of what the Immortal Sun does: Wonder if they're going to keep all the "when you draw your second card each turn" cards. Pyromancer in particular seems a bit broken in this format.
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thespaceinvader posted:What is giant monsters? I imagine it’s like “every creature is a 7/7” or we all get like a passive Kiora/Elemental Bond emblem Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Feb 21, 2020 18:01
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If it's the same one as before, it's draw a card if you cast a 4 mana or greater creature.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Getting a 2/2 flier every turn with Improbable Alliance seems pretty strong Maybe maybe the Purphy feat combo deck around that even (since feat on three will then make purphy into drak)
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Common/uncommon only seems to be asking for anax shenanigans I think? Maybe heroes go wide? I've been fiddling with it in the play queue and it's fine there but tends not to be quite fast enough against normal decks, but given that there are literally no rare+ components in it it might do well in Fires of Purphuros. Not sure it's worth the buy-in when the reward is only cosmetics though 
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My shifting ceratops, whose sole purpose is to give me something against counter heavy blue decks, got countered by a blue enchantment (Ashiok's Erasure)  gently caress Magic Forever
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Spudalicious posted:My shifting ceratops, whose sole purpose is to give me something against counter heavy blue decks, got countered by a blue enchantment (Ashiok's Erasure) Elspeth Conquers Death is also like the perfect counter to it as well, Ol’ Shifty has been my shining beacon for a long time but I think the answer now is to just win the counter war and lean in on Mystical Dispute.
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Wafflecopper posted:Well this is a disappointing P1P1. Some decent commons but no obvious (to me) first pick. Thoughts? It's a weak pack but I think p1p1 there's a clear best pick, Incendiary Oracle. Chimera and Thirst would be my next choices, but I hate being in blue without a bomb or a clear finisher, and Chimera is good but gets progressively worse in multiples, while you would happily run 5+ oracles. I think the fourth card in this pack is Karametra's Blessing. One of the best white strategies is just suiting up a pegaus and Karametra's protects it while also just being a valuable combat trick the rest of the time.
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Spudalicious posted:My shifting ceratops, whose sole purpose is to give me something against counter heavy blue decks, got countered by a blue enchantment (Ashiok's Erasure) I can't remember what card it was but in really early MTGA there was one blue card that could "counter" Banefire somehow.
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Giving yourself shroud/hexproof, redirecting it or exiling it from the stack all do so. Welcome to Blue.
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