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motedek posted:MTG podcasts: arena decklists (formerly the GAM podcast) is the best constructed podcast by a mile
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suicidesteve posted:https://twitter.com/OwenTweetenwald/status/1166837429690494977?s=19 "For reasons completely unrelated to the failure of my rebranding attempt two days ago, I suddenly see the error of my past actions."
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Aug 29, 2019 00:22
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lol why wurmcoil and etheral armor like you have an opportunity to make a brand new eternal format that avoids all the mistakes that make people hate modern and you capitalize on it by investing significant resources into re-inserting those mistakes
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Aug 30, 2019 01:54
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turns out the solution to midrange decks being bad was not unbanning a card that preys specifically midrange decks
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Sep 2, 2019 01:21
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AlternateNu posted:Don't need to go mono-U, but it isn't unreasonable to just cut red from the deck. It was there almost entirely for Looting. The question is, is Cathartic Reunion enough to warrant keeping red? Do blue/green/black give you a CMC 2 or less looting effect (even if it isn't as big)? Or do you lean harder on straight mill like Tome Scour + discard effects like Brutality and the Innistrad Skabs that come back from the grave? anyone who's had a dredge player cast cathartic reunion against them knows that the card is 100% worth the red splash
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Sep 3, 2019 17:52
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looking forward to the new brawl format where your opponent starts at 30 life and will never not have teferi on turn 3
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Sep 5, 2019 06:31
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fadam posted:I get that there are different strokes for different folks, and I understand that Magic is a game that appeals to a broad spectrum of interests, but I will never understand why people like singleton lmfao. What is the appeal of Magic with the worst part (variance) cranked up? I guess I've only played it during arena events, so maybe its a lot better with a tuned deck. the appeal of singleton is similar to the experience of playing a board game. everyone gets to cast some spells, a bunch of wacky stuff happens, and in the end it's not that important who wins or who loses none of that appeal translates over to arena/mtgo. there's no social aspect and the zero-sum reward structure makes things inherently competitive
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Sep 5, 2019 19:13
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i too am really upset that they're not taking the name of a gingerbread person seriously
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Sep 6, 2019 21:37
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Elyv posted:To be fair the fetches and the karakases are nowhere near essential and that's probably more than half the price You want fetches for searing blaze as well
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Sep 8, 2019 22:49
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Plague Engineer is a persistent effect on a creature that can also attack or trade with whatever as needed thanks to the deathtouch, and it has an easier casting cost. It’s a lot less situational and maybe even a little more powerful than a one-shot wrath effect. the jund players i've talked to also like it against other midrange decks, the deathtouch gives you a reliable 1-for-1 to replace all the discard spells you're looking to take out
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Sep 10, 2019 02:42
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Count Bleck posted:
you don't use vanilla extract to make gingerbread, 0/10
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Sep 11, 2019 17:58
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InterrupterJones posted:How many times has Shaheen Soorani written an article with the title "Card X is the finisher control is looking for" over the years? scg deliberately has their writers do this style of article to drive sales
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Sep 13, 2019 19:16
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Tibalt posted:I think there's enough incidental mill in standard right now along with cards ending up in the graveyard through regular play. A 2-mana "Kill a 5 or less CMC creature OR counter a 5 or less CMC spell" that you can't cast on curve feels like it has a home in Dimir or Grixis control, and I don't think that's unrealistic. if my 2 mana removal spell cannot actually kill a creature on turn 2 then i'm not interested
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Sep 16, 2019 16:54
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Sampatrick posted:Just do something else on t2 lmao. Play a different removal spell or play a discard spell or so on. Play it alongside the 3 mana tribal sweeper. The card is super good and warping your deck a little bit to take advantage of it is totally acceptable. ok i cast a thought erasure on turn 2. gently caress yea my conditional removal spell can now kill a 1-drop, we did it boys
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Sep 16, 2019 17:41
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resistentialism posted:like right there, if you bin the surveiled card, you're at CMC 2 already it looks at your opponent's yard sit on my Facebook posted:That guy probably meets the bar for a beater with no combat abilities to actually be good in standard right it's super efficient but llanowar elves rotating out might be enough to kill mono green aggro
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Sep 16, 2019 17:44
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AlternateNu posted:The Cauldron isn't a four-of, but it is enough value in the late game that it will likely see play in some midrange creature strategy. why would they play that instead of command the dreadhorde?
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Sep 17, 2019 00:20
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Voyager I posted:Decks diversifying analogous cards to play around hate pieces - a thing that is most definitely not done in every format. that particular example is really nonsensical though. people aren't sideboarding in unmoored ego against the grindy control/midrange decks that run command.
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Sep 17, 2019 03:24
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me, a complete moron: cauldron sucks rear end you, a clever genuis: ah but these other poster that are not you thought a different card was bad, and were wrong. checkmate.
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Sep 17, 2019 04:12
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ShaneB posted:Have literally had this happen to me same but restoration angel
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Sep 17, 2019 14:46
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Voyager I posted:People have some really high expectations for how much power they're supposed to jam into colored lands with a very easy ETB Untapped clause. yea by design they're only supposed to be relevant in a small % of games. that's seems fair considering how free the deckbuilding cost is in a mono-color deck. it's like flagstones of trokair or eiganjo castle
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Sep 17, 2019 18:39
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TheKingofSprings posted:Doesn’t die to Bolt hell, just cast it and then cycle a street wraith
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Sep 18, 2019 17:22
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Why? What makes you think they'd drop one for the other rather than include both and drop something like Darksteel Ingot instead? "take out the bad cards and replace them with ones that an optimized deck would actually want" is not at all consistent with the design philosophy of commander precons
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Sep 23, 2019 21:31
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sit on my Facebook posted:That is literally exactly the deck that wants a Cauldron of Eternity right maybe in the sideboard but its pretty conditional when you're trying to use it fairly. a lot of decks won't care if you're reanimating medium beatdown creatures also the mana curve + heavy removal suite of that deck is real bad
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Sep 24, 2019 01:13
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Retromancer posted:can someone with better knowledge of the rules explain something to me? someone told me that the comma in the middle of Urza, Lord High Artificer's 3rd ability means that abilities can be activated in the middle of it. For instance, you could spend five to activate him, shuffle your library, then activate a scroll rack to put something on top before flipping the top card of your deck. A judge friend of mine confirmed this is how it works, but it seems counterintuitive to everything I know about the stack. Can someone explain this? they're wrong. i know a bunch of recent cards have a "you may do x. when you do, ..." clause where the stuff after the comma goes on the stack separately, but that is not the case with urza
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Sep 24, 2019 16:18
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A Moose posted:Here's my first draft of temur elementals fires is awful, it makes it so your mana dorks and krasis do not function as cards. Escape to the Wilds also seems bad when you could just be maxing out on krasis instead, or any other of the u/g ramp payoff that actually affect the board. i had a similar idea but with Oko and The Great Henge. Oko is insane, any u/g deck should probably be starting out with 4x goose 4x Oko.
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Sep 27, 2019 03:47
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Jabor posted:Mana dorks sure, but the whole point of fires is that you get to play two high-cost cards a turn (one through fires and one normally), so Krasis is still A+. with fires in play you can only cast krasis for 0 https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=473087
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Sep 27, 2019 04:33
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after carefully re-reading the card, i realize the error of my ways and would like to apologize.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:38
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Count Bleck posted:Yes, Giant Hand was once, an 800 some dollar card, because it was tournament legal and also good in the meta it was relevant in. drat, pretty hosed up that they made the card affordable. glad my game of choice doesn't do that, haha
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Sep 27, 2019 18:10
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Sampatrick posted:they will probably institute a no politics rule rather than anything else. a lot of magic players are chuds and the owner is going to want to tiptoe around alienating their clientele. "small business owner" is and always has been a code word for rich people
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Sep 29, 2019 04:57
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ilmucche posted:I thought it was 50/50 between people who were rich and people on the edge of bankruptcy you're thinking of actual small business owners when politicians talk about policies or tax reforms that benefit the "small business owner", they mean ceos and oil tycoons
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Sep 29, 2019 14:08
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:I love that there is an entire subreddit just for Modern Jund there's one for almost every modern deck
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Sep 30, 2019 15:11
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Drewjitsu posted:"Stax" was a deck that featured Smokestack and centered around resource denial in a prison style deck. Legions End is probably better than cry in the maindeck. Are you using fae of wishes primarily as a turn 2 blocker or something because otherwise it seems far too slow for a deck that already has tempo problems and is trying to play catch-up in the mid game. If you really want to use them i'd trim a copy and replace some of your top-end wishboard stuff with discard spells or countermagic that you can actually sideboard in for games 2 and 3. The main engine of the deck is good enough that you don't really need dedicated win conditions, you just want to make sure you're the one that snowballs an early advantage and not your opponent. Also I see that 1 of dovin's veto in every decklist but after playing the deck a bunch, i refuse to believe that anyone has actually cast it in game one. I swapped it out for a duress which is good against all the same cards and is much easier to find a window to cast. Why everyone only runs 3 doom fortolds is another thing i don't understand.
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Oct 1, 2019 17:08
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suicidesteve posted:Got 4 Field of Ruins ready to go! every single answer to field of the dead rotated out lol
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Oct 4, 2019 03:27
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GoutPatrol posted:Trophy I guess. Trophy doesn't really solve the problem, there's 3 more copies of field and 4 copies of golos to help find them, so they're still present a late game that you can't possibly compete with.
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Oct 4, 2019 04:35
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Sickening posted:Vista was a card I got right and most of you got wrong. congrats, we all respect you a whole lot now and have moved you up to only the third worst poster in this thread
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Oct 4, 2019 15:59
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Mat Cauthon posted:What is the best deck to power through this Standard challenge on Arena? Please don't say Esper Manse. manse is dead because the golos matchup is like 10-90. if you can find a good mono black or mono red list that might get the job done but it's probably just bant golos
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Oct 6, 2019 02:16
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Carl Killer Miller posted:Are there any decent hate cards to counter the Golos-Field decks that are looking to make up like 75% of the win-a-set thing that's going on? it's a stupid broken deck and any attempt to interact or disrupt will end in catastrophe when you fail to account for krasis, agent of treachery, etc. etc. the only way to attack it is to do your own linear thing. the only strategy beyond 1-drop aggro that I've seen be problematic for it is the jeskai fires deck killing with either sarkan or the cavalier of flame + cavalier of gales combo little munchkin fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 02:48
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berenzen posted:Golos field mirror matches are horrendously unfun. Just played one where it came down to my opponent milling out because they were on the draw. i just played the mirror and my opponent lucksacked into turn 3 unmoored ego nabbing all four of my fields, but they still ended up losing to turn 2 oko + beanstalk giant beatdowns. cast off killing all non-giants means that you can get your giant in for damage through a big army of zombies. owned bitch little munchkin fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 03:57
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Drewjitsu posted:Counterpoint: I, as golos fields, Fae of wishes + unmoored ego on T7 to get rid of their dance of the manse (and to check if they had a wishboard, they did not), and then a few turns later plane wide celebration for 12 life + getting a krasis back.
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Katana Gomai posted:Modern Horizons was a mistake and has negatively affected all formats it has touched. There are zero healthy contructed formats right now. turns out deliberately designing cards to impact eternal formats leads to a lot of mistakes.
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