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Having a lot of luck in Brawl with a Verazol, the Split Current, +1 counters, and kickers deck. Verazol scales infinitely and he is as big as the amount of mana you spend, so the cost of putting him in the command zone is meaningless. You essentially get free card draw and many decks can't handle Verazol coming back at 8/8. Occasionally you get to copy a kicked inscription, Skyclave Relic, or Vastwood Surge as well. Current deck: https://mtgazone.com/user-decks/w0dlbibzniixcnn2jgg7/
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A Moose posted:The combo itself is fine I think, its just what you do with it that is broken. Like what are other targets besides Agent? I believe Locust God + Sage of the Falls is the traditional Pioneer combo though and it ends the game on the spot. Sometimes when you can pop off with Creativity there's nothing game winning to steal and then you just get bolted to the face and die anyway.
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Eej posted:I believe Locust God + Sage of the Falls is the traditional Pioneer combo though and it ends the game on the spot. Sometimes when you can pop off with Creativity there's nothing game winning to steal and then you just get bolted to the face and die anyway. You'd be surprised how good stealing lands can be with agent on a dry board.
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Jul 15, 2022 22:14
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I've been playing Creativity too! Lots of games where I steal a land and I proceed to draw duds and lose.
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Eej posted:I believe Locust God + Sage of the Falls is the traditional Pioneer combo though and it ends the game on the spot. Sometimes when you can pop off with Creativity there's nothing game winning to steal and then you just get bolted to the face and die anyway. I tried locust god and sage, but 5/5 games I ended up drawing half the combo and losing because of it. I don't think that combo is reliable enough with Creativity. Literally never drew one of the 8 cards that put them back on the bottom of the deck though. I don't think that deck can work unless you can pull the combo pieces from your sideboard, since that's the only way to avoid drawing them. A Moose fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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Jul 16, 2022 03:37
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Anyone else keep seeing the new loading screen and going brown rectangles -> magic cards? Yes I know it's supposed to be leather straps but it really does look like the right general size and shape to me.
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Man I had to basically abandon this draft format less than a week in because I just cant stop eating poo poo. I just feel totally outclassed in most games. I have never felt this helpless when playing limited TBH the format seems pretty crappy so no big loss but yeah I just have no idea how to reliably win babypolis fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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Jul 16, 2022 05:39
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there are way too many variables and words with these loving cards in my experience with this set alchemy bullshit is ruining the game
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Jul 16, 2022 06:23
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From an aesthetic perspective they are ugly and bad but they are not that difficult to play with in practice. I dunno, I'm kinda lining up with Jim Davis, alchemy is trash for constructed but in limited it seems fine
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I would try alchemized snc limited tbhAlgid posted:Anyone else keep seeing the new loading screen and going brown rectangles -> magic cards? Yes I know it's supposed to be leather straps but it really does look like the right general size and shape to me. I see the new loading screen and think "wow Tasha is super hot"
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Jul 16, 2022 11:01
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I wouldn't generally recommend drafting dragon tribal in this format. But if you do, Breath Weapon is pretty good in this format. Luckily I drafted 3 of them! This way even YOU can beat most aggressive white starts!* * strategy may not be very viable above plat
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Jul 16, 2022 13:07
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In the phantom draft I found Specialise very stressful to play against on the phone, at least; rapidly scrolling through all these options to work out which ones could show up, whether the P/T of the Specialising creature was variable, all the permutations as a timer ticked down or my opponent kept doing things I couldn’t see. And the draft bit only wasn’t like that because it was against bots, and wasn’t timed. Obviously people’s mileage vary around these things. For me they kind of remove the fun of playing Limited entirely, and replace it with something overwhelming and anxiety-inducing. Apparently it’s fun once you push through that barrier? But I think for me it’s probably more fun not to bother, and to go and do something else instead
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Jul 16, 2022 13:11
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kalel posted:I would try alchemized snc limited tbh The fingers on her left hand are hosed up tho
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How do the emojis work if you disable them in the options? I use the raccoon waving emoji a lot when I know the opponent is about to land a killing blow, but they respond with "Hello". I think the emote I'm using is being mapped to one of the text emotes.
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Beartaco posted:How do the emojis work if you disable them in the options? I use the raccoon waving emoji a lot when I know the opponent is about to land a killing blow, but they respond with "Hello". I think the emote I'm using is being mapped to one of the text emotes. they think you're being salty so they're being salty back
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Jul 16, 2022 14:31
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precision posted:they think you're being salty so they're being salty back How would they be acting salty by saying "Hello" to me as they're landing the finishing blow?
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Jul 16, 2022 14:46
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Beartaco posted:How would they be acting salty by saying "Hello" to me as they're landing the finishing blow? hey, i don't understand these people, i'm just playing the odds
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Jul 16, 2022 14:52
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Went 2-2 in the qualifier play-in, felt poo poo because the main reason was just going second in 3/4 games. Literally every game was aggro vs aggro where going second felt like a death sentence for me/my opponent, although my opponent in game 2 stumbled enough for me to win despite that, they didn't seem very experienced. I'm confident it would have been 1-2 against plat+ level players. Oh well!
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Jul 16, 2022 14:57
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Honestly, I find the weird passive aggressive game played through MTG:A emotes way more fun than the actual cards we're playing. All I want to do is provide the most milquetoast "I'm having a good time" commentary possible, but I find myself in a battle of wits where I have to convince the other player that I'm not an insufferable sourpuss.
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Beartaco posted:Honestly, I find the weird passive aggressive game played through MTG:A emotes way more fun than the actual cards we're playing. All I want to do is provide the most milquetoast "I'm having a good time" commentary possible, but I find myself in a battle of wits where I have to convince the other player that I'm not an insufferable sourpuss. i hate to break it to you, but in my experience MTG is full of "fun is a zero sum game" types i'm with you on just wanting to have fun but you gotta know that's the minority view, unless you're playing Commander
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flatluigi posted:i wouldn't run 16 lands unless you have a good amount of draw and/or your curve barely gets past 4 and even that's a stretch Thanks, that makes sense. 1. W vs BR aggro. They spammed Genasi Rabble-Rousers, I almost lost because I forgot how their pump works, but I blew them out with You Hear Something on Watch 2. L vs RG aggro. I kept a mismatched hand of plains and black spells so of course for 5 turns i draw nothing but plains and black spells lol  3. L vs BW. Enemy played the indestructible spell into patriar's humiliation, which I only learned about from limited level ups lol. Thought I had the win when I got them down to 4 but I ran out of gas, they hit me with multiple removal spells, and I went hellbent. Flooded out hard. Steadfast unicorn pumping twice for 11 vigilance damage a turn lol  4. L vs UR, which LLU says in this format is literally the worst color pair in MTGA history. So of course they have snowborn simulacra lol. Flooded out hard. Managed to stay alive longer than I expected because of lifelinking but they used goggles of night and Alora for card advantage while I drew nothing but lands lol   I never saw La'zael except when she got binned by Sarevok's specialize lol 1-3, after 5 events I am 12-12 (50%). If I don't count the fake games from the phantom event it's actually a 42% win rate. So uh I guess I do this again next week CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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i realzied this morning that i don't have an Izzet deck for Standard since Epiphany got banned, so i was looking through my Mythics and Rares to see what kind of silly deck i could put together, and, welp. this is a very silly deck, but it's super fun and does great in ranked 3 x Ascendant Spirit 3 x Frost Bite 3 x Make Your Mark 3 x Covetous Castaway 3 x Essence Capture 2 x Mischievous Catgeist 2 x Reject 2 x The Modern Age 2 x Cemetery Illuminator 3 x Geistlight Snare 1 x Jace, Mirror Mage 4 x Patrician Geist 2 x Alchemist's Gambit 1 x Mirrorhall Mimic 2 x Atsushi, the Blazing Sky 2 x Thundering Raiju 1 x Jwari Disruption 1 x Kazuul's Fury 9 x Snow-covered Island 7 x Snow-covered Mountain 4 x Riverglide Pathway 1 x Stormcarved Coast
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Thanks, that makes sense. g1 honestly you should have lost this if they attack with all 4 genasi instead of just 3 g2 you absolutely can not keep that hand g3 you didn't kill the prowler on turn 2 when they're tapped out, and then try killing it on turn 5 and get honked big time by deadly dispute g4 you can't keep this hand either
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git gud (at mulliganning)
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wolfman101 posted:Having a lot of luck in Brawl with a Verazol, the Split Current, +1 counters, and kickers deck. Verazol scales infinitely and he is as big as the amount of mana you spend, so the cost of putting him in the command zone is meaningless. You essentially get free card draw and many decks can't handle Verazol coming back at 8/8. Occasionally you get to copy a kicked inscription, Skyclave Relic, or Vastwood Surge as well. No Ozolith?
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precision posted:git gud (at mulliganning) It's absolutely a skill that you need to develop.
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Drewjitsu posted:It's absolutely a skill that you need to develop. i know, i wasn't disagreeing!
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I wish I could get the galaxy brain emote, but I bowed out during strixhaven's time on arena  edit: lol this one, it's so good  if I could get it like you can overpay for card styles, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but there's just no way to outright buy it which sucks Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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Beartaco posted:Honestly, I find the weird passive aggressive game played through MTG:A emotes way more fun than the actual cards we're playing. All I want to do is provide the most milquetoast "I'm having a good time" commentary possible, but I find myself in a battle of wits where I have to convince the other player that I'm not an insufferable sourpuss. Just say what you mean and don’t worry about the possibility of your opponent whipping themselves into a frenzy by convincing themselves that “good game” actually means “gently caress you.” If they do that, that’s on them.
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I've never seen a special emote, just the occasional "Hello" or "gg". Are they only active in higher tiers, or what?
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speaking of cosmetics, I would recommend against buying any of the skins in the daily deals today. you'll just be shedding them soon anyway
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I have emotes disabled. I'd said about half of opponents say "Hello!", and then occasionally I get BM "Oops" when they think they're winning and BM "You're Go" when they're losing
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Calibanibal posted:I have emotes disabled. I'd said about half of opponents say "Hello!", and then occasionally I get BM "Oops" when they think they're winning and BM "You're Go" when they're losing Your Go Your Go Your Go Your Go Your Go
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Only emote I want in arena is a sticker of Thrall from hearthstone who pops up to say "That's incredible!" with the voice line because that's easily the greatest. it had so many applications
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Calibanibal posted:I have emotes disabled. I'd said about half of opponents say "Hello!", and then occasionally I get BM "Oops" when they think they're winning and BM "You're Go" when they're losing The only two I use with any regularity are "Oops" when I make an obvious fuckup and "Thinking..." when I'm actually thinking. If I remember to keep the Zendikar ones on, I'll use those just because they make no sense.
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Jul 16, 2022 19:57
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I don't have emotes disabled because about 60% of the time when the opponent uses emotes at all the conversation mostly consists of mutual "nice"es whenever someone pulls off a good move.
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Shooting Blanks posted:The only two I use with any regularity are "Oops" when I make an obvious fuckup and "Thinking..." when I'm actually thinking. If I remember to keep the Zendikar ones on, I'll use those just because they make no sense.
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I have emotes off, but only because of pet noises Let us disable pet animations separately from emotes, TIA
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Shooting Blanks posted:The only two I use with any regularity are "Oops" when I make an obvious fuckup and "Thinking..." when I'm actually thinking. If I remember to keep the Zendikar ones on, I'll use those just because they make no sense. I get a lot of mileage out of "Serves you right for rushing ahead" when my opponent is spamming Your Go and then loses
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megane posted:I have emotes off, but only because of pet noises I wish I could keep opponent's pets on while keeping emotes disabled
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