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Sedisp posted:Haven't seen a list that isn't running four of the fetch karns minimum The event deck does not have Karns in.
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Insurrectionist posted:I just finished some premier draft game and got a weird black card thing with 4 set symbols at the bottom as a reward together with my gold and xp, sadly didn't think to screenshot it. What is that thing? Hovering over it didn't tell me anything. That's the card sleeve you earn from level 31 of the Zendikar set mastery even if you didn't buy the pass.
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Oct 18, 2020 13:39
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Anyone playing standard Gruul right now watch out. Turn on full control if you intend to crack a fetch in combat with Brushfire Elementa. I just lost a game because the game didn't give me a chance to crack an Evolving Wilds before damage. File it away in the same mental space as holding priority with Skirk Prospector with nothing castable in hand.
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I’m not sure if they adjusted it in the last patch but I’ve lost three games of brawl in the last 24 hours because of the auto tapper going as far out of its way as possible to gently caress me over. it’s like it’s actively calculating the playable spells in my hand and how to keep me from casting them.
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Bust Rodd posted:I’m not sure if they adjusted it in the last patch but I’ve lost three games of brawl in the last 24 hours because of the auto tapper going as far out of its way as possible to gently caress me over. it’s like it’s actively calculating the playable spells in my hand and how to keep me from casting them.
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Oct 18, 2020 16:13
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They updated it a bit back to try to keep as many colors as possible open on top of the other stuff it tries to do so it probably just needs another whack of the hammer to consider phyrexian tower as a last resort
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Oct 18, 2020 16:29
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Bust Rodd posted:The most beautiful deck I have seen in like 3 years Is this... a fun standard deck that is good?!
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G/W tap-out control has been my favorite archetype since I was like a 9 year old opening up Portal boosters. It’s a really cool deck but I am obviously struggling against Embercleave. I feel like any red deck I play against either draws their cleave and beats me or they don’t and they never have a chance in hell.
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Oct 18, 2020 16:58
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Bust Rodd posted:I feel like any red deck I play against either draws their cleave and beats me or they don’t and they never have a chance in hell. yeah that sounds like embercleave
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Oct 18, 2020 17:32
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flatluigi posted:They updated it a bit back to try to keep as many colors as possible open on top of the other stuff it tries to do so it probably just needs another whack of the hammer to consider phyrexian tower as a last resort This makes sense given that I've had 3 or 4 games in the past few days where the autotapper would use GG to play a Scooze, leaving me with red mana open despite having no red spells in hand, when I was expecting it to use RG so that I could use the activation twice. Definitely feels like a step backwards from how reliable it was up until recently.
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Oct 18, 2020 17:41
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guys i hosed up i hosed up so bad  I got p1p1 and p1p2 Roil Eruption, so I assumed Red was open (it was) and was eyeing R/G landfall stuff.... then warriors was open super super late so I figured I'd pivot into R/G party/warriors. But now my deck is torn in two pieces. Which do I go with? Right now I'm running 7 mountain, 7 Forest, 1 plains (between the green Lay of the Land and the red 2-mana stone rain, I figure I'll be able to tutor it up when I draw one of the lords) Also cinderclasm seems good since most everything in my deck is big butts?
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Mat Cauthon posted:This makes sense given that I've had 3 or 4 games in the past few days where the autotapper would use GG to play a Scooze, leaving me with red mana open despite having no red spells in hand, when I was expecting it to use RG so that I could use the activation twice. I think it stemmed from the complaints people were having about it tapping the only color you had available and then you drawing into a card you would've been able to play if it hadn't obviously the game didn't know you were *going* to have that card (it could but that'd be leaky knowledge that people could probably hack out of the game), but there's nothing it can really do otherwise than try to preserve as many colors you have as possible
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Usually it feels like I have two sets of standard decks - real decks and the goofy decks I use in Play queue. Now it feels like it's just one pile. Like, my mono-green deck looks a lot more "real" than the thread-inspired Ageless Insight pile, or the GB Foodventures I'm messing with... but I think they all have similar win rates. I'm sure some more solid tiers will crop up over time, but standard feels more open than any standard I remember.
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witchy posted:Put battle of wits in Jumpstart 2 cowards "Why is one of these booster packs eight times the size of the others?"
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My poor loving opponent just now attacked with an unblocked Windrobber but then accidentally played Zareth San normally  Then they kept hovering over the Elspeth I had in my graveyard while spamming "Oops" before exploding.
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Oct 18, 2020 18:51
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Insurrectionist posted:I just finished some premier draft game and got a weird black card thing with 4 set symbols at the bottom as a reward together with my gold and xp, sadly didn't think to screenshot it. What is that thing? Hovering over it didn't tell me anything. It's a sleeve.
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Kite Pride Worldwide posted:My poor loving opponent just now attacked with an unblocked Windrobber but then accidentally played Zareth San normally Can I just say how demoralizing those UB standard decks are though? They usually have a Drown in the Loch online by turn 2 from knocking a couple cards into your grave turn 1, then a couple turns later they're drawing 4 from Into the Story. It feels like a more bonkers mono-u except it's in standard. I even did an ultimate with Liliana to animate one of their creatures on each of my turns but they still decked me with that loving crab.
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Oct 18, 2020 21:36
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The deck variety in that tournament the selesnya yorion deck is from is great: https://mtgdecks.net/Standard/cfb-pro-showdown-october-channelfireball-tournament-67471
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Insurrectionist posted:I just finished some premier draft game and got a weird black card thing with 4 set symbols at the bottom as a reward together with my gold and xp, sadly didn't think to screenshot it. What is that thing? Hovering over it didn't tell me anything.
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Oct 19, 2020 00:50
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Could someone explain to me how my opponent has more than 4 dualcaster mages? Tutored for them with neoform. In a previous game they pulled 8 from their deck.
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TipTow posted:Could someone explain to me how my opponent has more than 4 dualcaster mages? Tutored for them with neoform. In a previous game they pulled 8 from their deck. Neostorm runs 4 glasspool mimics.
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Oct 19, 2020 01:19
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TipTow posted:Could someone explain to me how my opponent has more than 4 dualcaster mages? Tutored for them with neoform. In a previous game they pulled 8 from their deck. Some of them are glasspool mimics. If you right click on the card, and then click underneath it when it pops up - the thing that says "show original card" or something similar, you'd see them as the glasspool mimics. You're playing against Neoform. https://strategy.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/mtg/channelmagic-articles/deck-highlight-stiggys-historic-neoform-combo/ Weird how you didn't see the mimic come into play as the mimic, but maybe it does that to re-enforce that the mimic gets to copy etb triggers too. (also the card says it enters the battlefield as a copy of a card, so that's that. RTCETC.)
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Drewjitsu posted:Some of them are glasspool mimics. If you right click on the card, and then click underneath it when it pops up - the thing that says "show original card" or something similar, you'd see them as the glasspool mimics. Thanks, that makes sense. I know my opponent wasn't cheating, one of the virtues of Arena, but yeah, it never showed them as mimics, and was wondering "what the gently caress!?" as I rage conceded.
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Oct 19, 2020 01:25
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This might have not been the best deck (6-3) but man it just went crazy sometimes. Highlight was picking off four Scute Swarms in one turn, leaving my opponent with one in hand and I have two charged amulets left in case that one comes back. They scooped.
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Welp after climbing as high as #28 a few days ago I am now back in the 1400s. Basically haven't won since I lost to Nassif on his stream. Cool while it lasted, guess it's time to go back to loving around with jank in the percentages
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God I hate the mana base in standard. It's incredibly frustrating to play a two color aggressive deck when your odds of curving out 1-2-3 with untapped lands are so low. Plus getting two pips of both colors before 4 is impossible without cipt lands, defeating the purpose, and if your colors even have access to the dfc lands you still have so much less flexibility than when we had even one of checks and shocks. Can we get fast lands or something next set? Every time I have a horrible curve due to cipt lands I feel I'm being pushed into playing boring monocolor aggro or boring three color control.
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Magic Underwear posted:God I hate the mana base in standard. It's incredibly frustrating to play a two color aggressive deck when your odds of curving out 1-2-3 with untapped lands are so low. Plus getting two pips of both colors before 4 is impossible without cipt lands, defeating the purpose, and if your colors even have access to the dfc lands you still have so much less flexibility than when we had even one of checks and shocks. Can we get fast lands or something next set? You can play two colour aggro, you just have to be very careful about double pip cards, because the pathways are really good at single pip colour spells, but they are horrible for double pip cards.
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Feels like everybody is pre-boarding against Rakdos right now. Wish I had another deck to play that felt strong. I'd move to bo3 but I feel like other people can hate out Rakdos easier than it can hate out the world.
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I kinda want to see a list I saw earlier on in that tournament, it didn't make top 16 but it was doing some really interesting things with Vivien, like down-ticking to cast beanstalk giant and searching for terror of the peaks to immediately dome the opponent for 8-10 damage Its a pretty great to see a top 8 with 7 different decks in it though edit: 1 rogue deck in the top 32, 2 rakdos midrange. Some really out-there deck choices. Also single elimination and open registration to CFB customers, so it might not be the most competitive tournament. Weirdly enough a guy in the top 64 somehow had an Omnath deck, and there were 267 people in the tournament to start with, so he made it a couple rounds. A Moose fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Magic Underwear posted:God I hate the mana base in standard. It's incredibly frustrating to play a two color aggressive deck when your odds of curving out 1-2-3 with untapped lands are so low. Plus getting two pips of both colors before 4 is impossible without cipt lands, defeating the purpose, and if your colors even have access to the dfc lands you still have so much less flexibility than when we had even one of checks and shocks. Can we get fast lands or something next set? Be nice if the full cycle of painlands was in every core set but I'm sure they have some contrived reason for not reprinting those into Standard.
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Sounds like ya'll should play Historic
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I got two separate shame concedes from two different opponents who both made the same exact play... mutating a Gemrazer onto one of their creatures that I hit with Heliod's Punishment, trying to remove the Heliod's Punishment: Heliod's Punishment removes all abilities so there's no mutate to mutate with Eej posted:Sounds like ya'll should play Historic Yes, yes I should. Also "Play" is real good for getting Turn 3 daily wins wins with Kiln Fiend.
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Is there a decent humans deck in historic?
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I'm probably just done with Rakdos for now. I'm not sure if it's possible to improve its matchup vs Yorion decks any further, it's just so lopsided when W have so much efficient answers vs Rakdos with Glass Casket/Skyclave Apparition exiling almost everything in your deck if you try to go under, and Elspeth Conquers Death for everything else if you try to go over. And that doesn't count the Bant Variant in which they run 4x Trail of Crumbs as well. Hell I don't think U is even needed for these Yorion piles, they hardly run counters & maybe only really need Omen of the Sea. Dream Trawlers too I guess.
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srulz posted:I'm probably just done with Rakdos for now. I'm not sure if it's possible to improve its matchup vs Yorion decks any further, it's just so lopsided when W have so much efficient answers vs Rakdos with Glass Casket/Skyclave Apparition exiling almost everything in your deck if you try to go under, and Elspeth Conquers Death for everything else if you try to go over. Been having the same problem. I'm trying to see if I can get Doom Foretold and Mazemind Tome to merge with the shell but man the mana is baaaaad
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:Been having the same problem. I'm trying to see if I can get Doom Foretold and Mazemind Tome to merge with the shell but man the mana is baaaaad https://mtgdecks.net/Standard/mardu-yorion-decklist-by-akio-matsuzaki-1048038 This Mardu yorion pile runs both, had a couple of games with it this morning and its a lot of fun.
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Where's the 'no, opponent, please don't break my 9-win streak' emoji? Especially not with rogue-mill 
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Yorion and Kroxa def. seem like the strongest build-arounds atm, but the format keeps changing.
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The strongest build around in standard is extinction event
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