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Arglebargle III posted:I like the knight that does the same thing as dusk legion zealot but for 4 mana. a 1/1 that trades for anything is a little different from a 1/1 that trades for nothing
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Squinky v2.0 posted:It'll be interesting, it seems like adventure decks will be trying to grind out incremental advantage and every card is built in card advantage, but there are some powerful aggro options in the other colors. except you can just play the adventure as a blocker!!! the mechanic is absurd for limited and about half of them would be first pickable in any other format. the ones where the sorcery half is just a combat trick are more meh, but they're still going to make attacking and blocking horrible.
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Sep 21, 2019 19:14
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What’s everyone’s day 1 craft? I’m on 4x Brazen Borrower, ride or die
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Sep 23, 2019 00:35
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i am extremely bored of m20 draft and ready for a new environment. just hit plat with a double Skeleton/double Murder/double Splinters deck with Blood for Bones and Scholar of the Ages. three of the seven wins were to opponents conceding after i demonstrated the Bones/Scholar loop. deck also had a Cavalier of Gales, sometimes you just have it
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Sep 23, 2019 03:40
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ardenvale tactician is an absolutely bonkers common for limited, lonesome unicorn is also great, white has not-unreasonable removal (trapped in the tower, glass casket, outflank in a pinch), it's a very good color
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Sep 30, 2019 16:25
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Lone Goat posted:I haven't played with or against unicorn but it seems extremely mediocre. Bone whatever necromancer in core 20 was the same two bodies without vigilance but didn't make you pay for it twice, and it was not a big deal I have played both with and against Unicorn and it’s phenomenal, both because creatures are a little smaller in this set than M20 (which had playable common 3/3s in several colors) and because you can cast the unicorn’s front half on turn 3 rather than having it sit in your hand until 5
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Sep 30, 2019 19:46
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this draft format is a bit slow, but not insanely so... except the GB food deck. Jesus Christ that deck is miserable. Putting sporecap spider in green was a mistake, since otherwise a tempo fliers type deck could punish GB’s molasses-paced development. I just beat it with WB with triple Ardenvale Tactician and triple Smitten Swordmaster, and I still had to utilize the Swordmaster drain and repeatedly recur them with Forever Young and Barrow Witches to do it.
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Sep 30, 2019 22:20
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zoux posted:Here's the lists for the 5-0s on Goldfish, much easier to import and look at, which is why I didn't notice the oven list Stax actually was originally called The Four Thousand Dollar Solution because it was a very expensive way to beat decks that were prevalent at the time— T4K$S, which became $TAKS
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Oct 1, 2019 00:49
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the food package is a lot less miserable than the explore package was, change my mind
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Oct 4, 2019 13:31
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all of the non-green Syrs are good in limited, that’s not a question. None are good enough for constructed
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Oct 9, 2019 15:11
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I have drafted BG twice in trad draft, both times it was bonkers and easily went to five wins. WB knights has gotten me to three wins reliably but can easily run out of steam against a real control deck. UB just seemed really bad, as did RB, the decks are just too clunky and unfocused against people casting 4 mana 4/4s and 5 mana 5/5s. Right now I’m on UG in ranked draft and the archetype looks like it’s supposed to be Ramp but in reality is just Draw A Million loving Cards, so I’m taking every 1 for 1 offered and grinding people out. I drew like 7 cards with an Edgewall Innkeeper in one game.
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Oct 12, 2019 05:08
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"legacy is too expensive" "that's because of the reserved list, we can't reprint staples" "can't you create a new format?" "ok, here's modern. it's all post-reserved list so we can reprint whatever we need to." *years go by* "sooooo, modern is getting really expensive. how about those reprints we talked about?" "...here's pioneer."
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Oct 22, 2019 13:53
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they could have printed snapcaster mage and all ten fetches at rare in a set with $3.50 boosters if they wanted to. they didn't want to. ironically the biggest actual reason to not like fetches is that they make rounds take longer because of all the shuffling, which, fair, but with the transition to digital that entirely ceases to be a problem.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:55
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i think of all the mainstream large nerd IPs, magic probably has the worst story, but at the bottom of the ladder the rungs are reallllllly close together
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Oct 22, 2019 21:16
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banning goose doesn’t kill the deck. the problem isn’t that you can play your broken card a turn early sometimes, it’s that your broken card is broken. Without Oko the food deck is just a cool engine deck that invests resources and then gets to pay them off with Wicked Wolf and stuff. With Oko it’s just a shell that allows a broken value engine to negate every play your opponent makes.
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Oct 28, 2019 18:35
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the reason the numbers on her are so conservative is that you can cast her out of the yard again and again and again as long as you’ve got enough cards to enable escape. not saying that means she’s powerful, especially with questing beast as an aggressive threat she can’t protect herself against, but it’s a consideration
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Oct 30, 2019 15:10
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fadam posted:Lmfao Jesus Christ absolute thermonuclear take
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Oct 30, 2019 21:43
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Paul Zuvella posted:When you really think about it, committing sexual assault seems pretty meta these days and thus all us non-sex pests are the real home brewers. i brewed my own sex life. i had to cut consent from the 75 but you should check out the transformational sideboard.
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Oct 31, 2019 05:02
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the biggest """skill""" pro players have that others don't is putting their opponent on a specific card, that is, figuring out what they're holding based on their play pattern. even that is much more meta familiarity than some kind of secret magic jutsu. like, i'm nowhere near pro, and the other day i figured out pretty early on that my WB draft opponent was holding a silverflame squire. from then on i just never presented any opportunity for him to get value from it until he was forced to use it in a bad situation to 2-for-1 himself. had i just played into it like a dope i would have lost valuable early tempo and possibly fallen behind in the game, but because i didn't, he was the one who lost tempo by holding it up.
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Nov 1, 2019 20:52
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Veil is absolutely beyond broken, it’s a 1-mana cantripping answer to 1) any counterspell 2) most kill spells 3) any discard spell in a color that’s not supposed to be able to interact with those things very well. If it didn’t have the draw a card clause it would still see tons of play, that’s how good it is. Think of all the 1-mana cards with “draw a card” on them and then think about how many of them would still be playable if they didn’t say draw a card.
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Nov 6, 2019 22:38
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it's much stronger in non-rotating formats because it's a hate card that's not effective against the best color in standard right now, that part is easy the problem with veil is that it hits a MASSIVE variety of threats. hate cards are historically narrow and strong (teferi's response) or broad and weaker (ghost quarter). veil is both super broad-- it interacts with three different types of spells-- and super strong, since it's a 1-mana instant speed 2-for-1. it's doing gruesome things in legacy. people hate having their spells countered, fair, but since blue hasn't been able to do much against resolved permanents since 1995 or so they kind of have to be able to counter. like, yeah, it's green elemental blast, but way way way better, and the elemental blasts are way too strong to print today.
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AngryBooch posted:Mentor of the Meek, Inspiring Commander, Puresteel Paladin, Acclaimed Contender? Mentor is a card that Maro repeatedly says was a mistake and should not have been printed or reprinted
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Nov 11, 2019 18:47
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AngryBooch posted:...it was reprinted last loving year yeah and maro is not happy about that. I’m just offering this as an explanation for why edgewall innkeeper is green and not white; maro would pitch a fit
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Nov 11, 2019 19:16
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the last time Magic’s story was any good was original Ravnica if not before, but usually it’s just boring and poorly written instead of boring, poorly written and offensive
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zoux posted:
either it happens or it doesn't, 50%
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It hasn’t been long since the bans but it feels like rakdos knights just dumpsters fires. drill bit being able to take out giant and other adventure creatures makes it a pretty huge upgrade over duress.
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Nov 19, 2019 16:49
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NOT_A_VIRUS.EXE posted:I've only played a few games with it but this deck is both good and fun. if you don’t call this deck Junk Food, what is wrong with you
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thespaceinvader posted:in a colour which has relatively easy access to pumps  blue is by far the worst color at creature pump
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Nov 27, 2019 23:52
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also Merfolk Secretkeeper is, like all other mill cards, wildly unplayable in constructed despite the fondest hopes of many kitchen table brewers any simic deck with secretkeeper in it has handicapped itself by putting in a bad creature
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Nov 28, 2019 00:18
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the most interesting thing about cauldron is it’s a 12CMC artifact that can be cast for BB. that’s not really a standard thing though
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Nov 28, 2019 04:21
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Jinnigan posted:How much land do you run in a draft deck? 17, 16 if you have a really low curve (like topping out at 4 and mostly 1-3)
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i just had a 500 IQ moment that made me feel really good so you all get to hear about it. Throne draft, Mono-R vs. UB. I have out Rampart Smasher, Fireborn Knight, and a 1/1 Dwarf token. Oppo has been having a rough time of it and has just Revenge of Ravens out. He's at 2 life but with a full grip. He goes land, Rage of Winter my Rampart Smasher, pass with BB UUUU up. I immediately put him on Bake Into a Pie. So on my turn, I swing with just the dwarf token, putting him to 3, and Boulder Rush it for lethal. He tanks for a moment. Does he burn his premium kill spell on the 1/1 to save himself, leaving behind two incredibly dangerous threats? Eventually, he Bakes the Fireborn Knight, leaving UU untapped. In response, I Scorching Dragonfire my own Knight to fizzle his Bake. He snap concedes.
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Jinnigan posted:Is blue as a color relatively weak in ELD draft? i think this is broadly true since the bots were fixed to take secretkeepers, so tiny and didn't say please higher. blue has some reasonable but not exceptionally exciting uncommons, one common removal spell that's just ok, and then it's like tome raider and... what else? vantress paladin and steelgaze griffin are both super unexciting, faerie vandal is good but the "draw two cards" deck is worse than it looks. i think blue pairs well with black in a controlling non-mill deck (or at least i've had success with that combo) and if you get the cards for it UR can be good (but you really, really have to hit critical mass, and if you don't the deck sucks rear end). uw is kind of a flop and ug leans very very heavily on G (I think thunderous snapper is just straight-up better in mono-G). edit: to be clear here blue in throne isn't like green in Battle for Zendikar, it's more like... blue in kaladesh, if you played then, or selesnya in Guilds of Ravnica DAD LOST MY IPOD fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 10, 2019 |
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devotion is a cool mechanic with the caveat that it scales infinitely, so very good devotion decks tend to be snowbally (the better you’re doing, the better all your cards are)
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the flip side is it seems like ashiok just straight up can't beat a resolved sword of fire and ice if they're not super, super ahead, and every elspeth player i've faced has had it turn 3
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every single game I lost as ashiok was to a resolved sword when I ran out of removal before he ran out of creatures and every game I won as ashiok was when that didn’t happen.
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two 5-0s in a row running mono red, i really don't know why i bother trying to run anything else.
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clover is for decks that want to draw a billion cards off innkeeper and grind you out with value, adventure knights is not that
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Propaganda Hour posted:That's fine. It's a BR variant of Fact or Fiction then which is still amazing. fact or fiction is a four-cost, one-color instant that puts the unused cards in your yard. this is a five-cost, two-color sorcery that gives the unused card to your opponent and lets them cast it immediately for free, also they pick what they get instead of you. this card is so much worse than FoF that it's actually kind of offensive to me that you made that comparison.
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in standard breach doesn’t do much that experimental frenzy doesn’t do but in eternal formats it is an arguably better version of one of the best cards ever printed in the history of the game, lol. with lion’s eye diamond and brain freeze in your hand it’s a 100% kill
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