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Went 2-4 officially in the PPTQ today with Living Twin. I conceded the last round and split as my opponent wanted the PWP for GP byes. Still got 5 packs out of it. Lost to the heavy permission decks: UR Twin twice and Esper Control. Beat Tarmo-twin twice very easily and then crushed what looked like Abzan Company.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6338, theelkspeaks wrote:planning to play draft or sealed Origins at a pre-release event the weekend of the 11th/12th. Anyone have any good resources to share, especially with a focus on Limited and/or Origins specifically?
The Limited Resources podcast is what I listen to. They talk a lot about Limited, and will have a full common/uncommon set review at some point the week leading up to prerelease.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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I'm traveling down to Chicago for the SCG Open this week. It's my fourth ever Competitive event after a PTQ, a PPTQ, and a GPT. Looking forward to it.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6385, Espeonage wrote:Is there any simple sideboard tech in mardu against rally decks?
Tormod's Crypt may be your best shot.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6397, PeregrineV wrote:Bought the Eldrazi v Zendkiar duel decks this Friday. Played 4 games. Eldrazi won all 4 pretty handily. They have this thing called removal that removes whatever Zendikar tries to put on the board. Will do more testing, but definitely not seeing the balance in the two decks.
hint: duel decks are never balanced, you just have to hope it's not a COMPLETE mismatch.
For instance, Elspeth waswaybetter than Kiorajdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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I'm currently running Raphael Levy's Loam Pox in Modern. It's incredibly difficult to play, but I always feel like it's my mistakes when I lose. The deck has a lot of play, and a lot of decisions to make every turn. It's great, it's probably the most fun deck I've ever played.
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So when you copy something, you copy the base card characteristics, not any effects on top of that. It's Layer 1 in the layer system, so nothing else that affects the card affects the copy. This includes P/T changing effects, type-changing effects, or abilities.
If you Supplant Form a Gideon in creature mode, you will have a Gideon planeswalker with 4 loyalty.
Source: I'm an L1 Judgejdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6473, Sudo_Nym wrote:I was pretty sure about the temporary effects not copying, but it was the loyalty counters I wasn't sure of, since that's different from a temporary effect. I guess that doesn't transfer to the copy, either.
That does mean that copying something like Spike Feeder is pointless, since you don't get the +1/+1 counters and it dies immediately.
How does that accord with copying a copy? If I Clone your Clone, then I get whatever your Clone was copying, not a copy of Clone itself. I assume this as something to with Timestamps, since I think they're both Layer 1 effects?
Planeswalkers are treated as having an ETB effect that says “This permanent enters the battlefield
with a number of loyalty counters on it equal to its printed loyalty number.”
A copy of a permanent still has to enter the battlefield and will still have any ETB effects work, whether it's a replacement effect or an ETB trigger. So you still get the counters if it's Clone specifically. If something is already on the battlefield and becomes a copy of Spike Feeder, it will just die immediately
As far as Cloning a Clone, you do get the copy of whatever the first Clone is Cloning, because it's never actually anything else. It has a particular set of copiable effects, and according to the CR, a copy's copiable values are whatever it has copied.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6480, Ythan wrote:Who plays Modern? I'm tired of rotations but I don't want to jump into a format nobody plays.
I play Modern when I find the time. That's currently: In between rounds or beforehand on Standard night, and occasionally on Fridays if I don't feel like doing Sealed.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6482, theelkspeaks wrote:I'm slowly building towards a modern deck by selling any money cards I get in draft/sealed - I want to play it but it's a bit pricey.
Which deck?jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6505, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:As a tier 3/casual deck it's probably fine; it has a coherent theme and can generate value. In any sort of competitive environment I'm having a hard time seeing what it matches up well against. Maybe the Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens and relatively non painful mana base would give you game against Burn. But it doesn't get any sort of pressure to force Twin into rushing into a mistake; Jund/Junk would just grind you out; Affinity largely doesn't care other than the two main deck wraths, not enough real interaction for Bloom Titan to be interested.
This is basically the non-budget version of that list and Yuuya took it to a 3-1 result at Worlds.
It actually out-grinds Jund/Abzan very well.
Someone at my LGS has run it for Modern night a couple times, and it's very, VERY successful. The grindy decks basically can't win once Emeria gets online, and Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens are great to help you get there.
Heck, it won the Modern Premier IQ at SCG Milwaukee a month ago. The deck is surprisingly strong compared to how it looks, and is definitely competitively-viable.
I also wouldn't really compare it to Yuuya's worlds deck. It has some similarities, but they're very different decks.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6509, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:In post 6506, hasdgfas wrote:In post 6505, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:As a tier 3/casual deck it's probably fine; it has a coherent theme and can generate value. In any sort of competitive environment I'm having a hard time seeing what it matches up well against. Maybe the Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens and relatively non painful mana base would give you game against Burn. But it doesn't get any sort of pressure to force Twin into rushing into a mistake; Jund/Junk would just grind you out; Affinity largely doesn't care other than the two main deck wraths, not enough real interaction for Bloom Titan to be interested.
This is basically the non-budget version of that list and Yuuya took it to a 3-1 result at Worlds.
It actually out-grinds Jund/Abzan very well.
Someone at my LGS has run it for Modern night a couple times, and it's very, VERY successful. The grindy decks basically can't win once Emeria gets online, and Lone Missionary and Wall of Omens are great to help you get there.
Heck, it won the Modern Premier IQ at SCG Milwaukee a month ago. The deck is surprisingly strong compared to how it looks, and is definitely competitively-viable.
I also wouldn't really compare it to Yuuya's worlds deck. It has some similarities, but they're very different decks.
I guess I have a hard time seeing a nonfetchable land that requires seven other lands to trigger to be a consistent engine; especially when finding that out the Jund/Junk decks should be boarding in their Fulminator Mages. But hey, I could be wrong but I can tell you as a Bogles player I would delight in seeing that across the table from me and I don't think it's got enough disruption maindeck to regularly beat Bloom Titan either. Gonna take more than a single mid-size SCG toruney where he got a dream Top 8 (Living End, Burn, Burn) to convince me to pay attention to the deck.
It'll have bad matchups, as every deck does. For what it's worth, I did feel similarly to you when I first saw the deck, but its resiliency and power has impressed me more every time I've seen it played. I definitely think it's worth trying out a bit, although I'd suggest proxying it up and playing with it a while to see if it's your jam.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6517, Ythan wrote:I just don't see the appeal of buying card-for-card someone else's deck and using that.
Some people prefer taking something that's known to be good and then playing it to the best of their abilities because trying to make a competitive deck of their own is a skill they just don't have.
In post 6515, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:Hascow (or chamber), either you coming down to GP Indy next weekend?
Nope. It's a bit too far for me to want to travel down there.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6522, Ythan wrote:To the best of what abilities, though? What are you actually contributing, or are you just channeling another player like a lame medium?
Playing a deck and building a deck are VERY different skills. You're contributing your playskill.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6524, Ythan wrote:If a deck isn't shit it shouldn't take all that much thought to play? That's my take.
What? Decks still take a ton of thought to play, whether it's a well-known and well-developed archetype, or something you brewed up for fun and brought to FNM.
In post 6525, Ythan wrote:I mean isn't that why people netdeck in the first place?
People netdeck in order to play powerful, tuned decks and try to use their playskill to get the best performance they can out of the deck, not to "not think".
I mean, I'm a brewer. I love bringing ridiculous decks to Standard nights at my LGS. I brought a Heroes' Podium deck once. But I still can completely understand why people would netdeck. Magic has a lot of different skills, and some people know their strengths aren't "coming up with a deck from scratch"jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6581, DeathNote wrote:Ok so then colorless doesn't work is what you're saying ^.^ I wanted to try and make a colorless deck work but it seems hard.
I think you can do it, but Hedron Archive and Reality Shift are not good cards, especially for an aggro deck like what you're working on.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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Got to see my opponent play the sad post-attack land online tonight. He attacks with his Cliffside Lookout into my 3 open mana on turn 3, I cast Grave Birthing and block to kill his Lookout, he then plays Sandstone Bridge second main phase. I could feel his sadness.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6614, Ythan wrote:Calling Kamigawa 2 next.
nah, they're not doing 3 returns in a row. If anything, I think they'll do a new plane, THEN return to Kamigawa.
Regardless of how poorly it may have tested, I think lots of people want to go back, and I think they have a good chance of actually going back.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6644, Natirasha wrote:I've literally never had a good 2HG experience.
well, maybe it'll be better with them focusing on it a little bit more. I find it to be a fun diversion during prerelease time, and that's about it.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6697, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote: (including a foil Prism Array, be still my beating heart)
I'd ask you to send this to me if it were in paper, I'm missing a regular foil one for my collection. I have a prerelease promo foil, but not a regular foiljdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6719, bv310 wrote:Maybe pick up some of the Commander precons? Meren and Mizzix are pretty unique, and similar on power level (Just don't buy Kalemne, the deck is weakest)
I actually really like doing precon v precon matches as a neat little pickup way to play Commander. (I disagree about not buying Kalemne, I think that deck is still very good).jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6746, Thestatusquo wrote:Cow is also an l1
Correct. I got certified just after the DTK prerelease.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6843, Ythan wrote:Can anyone confirm that a spell copy cast by isochron scepter triggers spellweaver helix?
If you can somehow Spellweaver Helix an Instant or Isochron Scepter a Sorcery, which neither of the cards allow you to do.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6871, Klazam wrote:In post 6868, Thestatusquo wrote:Welp. Modern is broken.
In post 6869, hasdgfas wrote:Eye of Ugin is not surviving to another Modern PT. The question is how long it takes.
Based on what tournament?
Based on PT Oath of the Gatewatch. It's completely breaking everything. There are like 3 different Modern decks playing the same shell and Eye is allowing busted stuff to happen like casual turn 2 4/4s or two turn 1 2/1s that turn into attacking 4/4s on turn 2 and 5/5s on turn 3jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6873, Thestatusquo wrote:10 of the decks currently in the top 16 (going into round 16) are this eldrazi deck.
It's had like a 75% win rate, which is deceptive since, as there are so many people playing it at the top tables, most of those losses are the mirror match.
It has just ripped modern in half.
The UR guys who are playing a draft deck with better lands are something like 90% win rate with the deck, and I think their only losses are to other Eldrazi decks.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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Chris Pikula has compared this to blackjack, saying it's super exciting to watch, but not due to in-game decision making. Instead, it's due to seeing what comes off the top of the deck.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6882, InflatablePie wrote:the real question is, how would the eldrazi decks fair against twin
I'm pretty sure they'd crush Twin, actually. It just does such powerful things so quickly.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6905, DeathNote wrote:Super friends deck got me top 8 during gameday. Ended up losing the semi finals to Yore-Tiller midrange
FTFY.
Meanwhile, I was on Temur Company and made the semis of top 8. Lost to Temur Devoid Assault Formation.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6918, bv310 wrote:I'm excited to draft it. If it's anything like VMA was on MTGO, it'll be a ton of fun.
I liked VMA for a couple drafts, but Madness and Goblins were a bit too oppressive for any longer than that.
In post 6917, Thestatusquo wrote:I am a little bit skeptical that this will make legacy affordable for most players on, say, a modern budget.
The big elephant in the room is the duals. If they don't dissolve the reserved list and reprint them likely any lowered cost of staples like forces and wastelands will lead to increased cost of the format in the form of higher demand for duals.
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It's shitty, but this is the position wizards has put us in.
I agree. I'm excited to pick up Wastelands(and Karakas and Rishadan Port?). I'm just very concerned about new people actually being able to get into the format. It's why I'm thinking there might be a new format to replace Legacy which just bans the Legacy banned list as well as anything on the Reserved List. Now that they're showing support for older formats, the Reserved List is a clear handicap to play as opposed to just another obstacle.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6921, bv310 wrote:Honestly, you're not the first person I've seen say that. "Eternal" as a format name seems to be a rumour gaining traction (and a reason for me to finish my playsets of Shocklands before those spike hard on this rumour)
The main reason that I don't know why Wizards would show support for a format which is built around cards they can't reprint.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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Played this list at Standard tonight. It was a lot of fun, and I got to loop Dark-Dwellers with Kolaghan's Command a few times, which felt disgusting.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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I'm not a big fan of Epiphany at the Drownyard. It's too similar to Steam Augury, which was quite bad. It's possible that it being more flexible will help it, but when you choose the piles and your opponent gives you one of their choice...jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6953, DiamondSentinel wrote:there's just not enough of the rest of the Jacetice League.
Please don’t be disrespectful of the story. You might not care but others do. /Maro
In seriousness, I have to disagree. I love DFCs. They add so much flavor to the set. The set looks super fun to me, there seem to be a lot of interesting directions to go in draft.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 6956, DiamondSentinel wrote:Ok, I for one think that the Jacetuce league pseudonym is endearing. I like the turn the story is taking.
But anyway, my first sets were the Theros sets, so I started with cards that bounced off of each other (constellation was one of my favorite mechanics I've seen) so cards that just exist on their own like dual sided ones don't appeal to me.
I like the Jacetice League name too, was just quoting Maro.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how well the cards synergize, even without it being "just play a bunch of enchantments". It's a bit less obvious, but things like discard outlets enabling Delirium and Madness at the same time is a fun synergy. Then it's fun to just play with double-faced cards, since you have to balance wanting them to flip with making sure you're still developing your board, and your opponent has to balance not wanting them to flip with knowing that they can't necessarily stopyoufrom not playing a card and flipping them so they have to be able to play two spells in a turn.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 7010, Thestatusquo wrote:Pro tour in about an hour! My friend Gaby doing coverage again. Which is awesome. It's so surreal to watch her in the booth.
Got some friends playing to, so hope they get there.
She's been very good in the coverage I've seen her do. It's nice to get some fresh coverage folks in there. Her and Ian Duke have been great additions in the last year.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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In post 7019, Thestatusquo wrote:Also, for the first time in a long time standard seems more interesting than "4 different midrange decks slamming 4 drops into each other."
There are a lot of cool things going on. I'm pretty happy we're rid of "shove all the good cards together minus a random color"jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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I think Emrakul is super busted.In post 7072, TheButtonmen wrote:new emrakul seems fairly underwhelming compared to the past one but that is probably on purpose, that extra turn though really removes the haste aspect of mindslaving so im not really sold with its limited protection and somewhat lacking etb (for its cost).
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Have youIn post 7076, McMenno wrote:So, does anyone else think that with Hanweir Garrison rdw might be viable in standard again? Or is gw tokens still too dominant?seenThalia?
Also, I like most of this set, but Meld is...I don't know yet. My initial reaction was "What? Why?"jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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I wasn't expecting anything close to LotV, but she seems very powerful.In post 7105, Natirasha wrote:She's not as good as Liliana of the Veil, but yeah she's solid. I don't know how good she is in the current format because lmao coco and X/3s, but she'll def see play.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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This may be the best Friday Nights stinger yet. Alison is incredible here, especially since, if you watched her during the pre-prerelease, she seems to be a very sweet person.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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Just lost in the finals of a PPTQ. Was so close. Thought I had turned the corner in both games 1 and 3, but Kolaghan's Command is a heck of a card, and I was unable to keep up with it with my draws.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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I was at GP Louisville this weekend for Team Sealed. It was a fun weekend. I may give a fuller explanation when I am back in front of a computer and not on my phone.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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Fantastic. I wasn't paying that much attention to the tables around me round 1, due to our opponents being team East-West Bowl.In post 7169, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:HAHAHAHA. This is a small world. So I wanted to see how Cow did before he said anything so I pulled Cow's name off his fantasy football team and started going through the GP Louisville coverage page, while it's not as small as us playing each other our teams actually sat right next to each other in the first round. We were on the end of the row of tables and they were right next to us.
So:In post 7161, hasdgfas wrote:I was at GP Louisville this weekend for Team Sealed. It was a fun weekend. I may give a fuller explanation when I am back in front of a computer and not on my phone.
Friday: I did terribly in side drafts, but was able to turn it around and actually win a match in the Foiled Again sealed event, which made me feel better for the main event the next day.
Saturday - Main Event: We ended up building a sweet UG Emerge deck with double Elder Deep Fiend and double Lashweed Lurker, as well as a Drownyard Behemoth and a Wretched Gryff. We also put together a fairly aggressive GW Humans deck that had a Decimator of the Provinces to finish games off with. Our third deck was an awkward RB, low-synergy deck that all we hoped we needed from it was for it to steal a couple wins.
Then we got paired up against Andrew Brown, JC Tao, and Eugene Hwang round 1. Which was awesome, because that's why you go to GPs, right? They were a pleasure to play against, even though each of us lost(and Andrew's deck that I played against had JaceandTamiyo). I got a couple Prism Arrays signed by Andrew and JC, which was neat.
Next we won two straight, then we lost one due to a bunch of mulligans in game 3s. We won in R5 to go to 3-2 and were feeling pretty good. Then in the next two rounds, we lost to mulliganing unkeepable hands into unkeepable hands, or not drawing a 3rd land and getting run over. It felt like we hit a really bad run of variance in the main event, although it's hard to fully analyze when you're not watching every match in the match. I was playing the Emerge deck, so things felt good on my end, but it felt like every time I went to go watch my teammates play after I finished, they were mulliganing to 6 or 5.
We played one more round as another friend from Madison was judging, and had to debrief, but we wanted to have dinner all together. We ate at a delicious German-inspired bar and craft beer restaurant.
Sunday: Super Sunday Series. All of us decided to play in this. My pool felt really awkward to me, like I could make about 80% of a couple decks, and about 60% of a couple more, but couldn't quite get to a full deck I was happy with. Here is my pool if you want to try to put something together with it. I went 0-3, then dropped to go draft, even though 4-3 was guaranteed prizes, because I didn't want to spend 4 hours playing for minimum prizes when I could go draft a couple more times. One of my teammates went 1-3 drop, but the other one made top 8! Sadly he lost to the eventual winner in the quarters, whose deck had Liliana, Avacyn, and Thalia's Lancers, plus an Anguished Unmaking. Even with that, my friend could have won if he had thought about the hidden mode of Boon of Emrakul, to pump his own creature's power. Still, it was a fantastic performance that he was very happy with.
After I dropped, I drafted a couple times, split in the finals of one and scrubbed out from the other.(It really wasn't my weekend for side events). I also got to have a nice conversation with Howard Lyon, bought some prints and an artist proof from him, and he put a great sketch on the back of the proof. I also bought a prerelease Tamiyo from a vendor because Tamiyo's the best. It was some fun browsing of everything with a much emptier hall.
Overall, it was a very fun weekend and I'm very happy we went, even though we didn't have as good of a main event performance as we wanted. I'm looking forward to GP Milwaukee in December, which should be the next one I'll be attending.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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I did the WB + splash for Alphas plan(registered this), and it just didn't end up matching up well against anything I faced. I got to play against Seasons Past + Nahiri's Wrath, for instance, which blows my late game out of the water.In post 7175, Natirasha wrote:Slightly weak pool yeah, I think I'd have gone WB with a slight splash for Alphas off the Scarecrow. I could see WG too, the crossroads dude is decent.
It looked pretty good when I was opening the packs, but it ended up just feeling like every build I put together was missing something when I laid them out. Most of the builds were basically just sitting on their hands until turn 3 every game, which I'm not a big fan of, even in Sealed.In post 7176, chamber wrote:That pool doesn't seem weak to me. I agree with DDD otherwise.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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So Yaw and I watch Vintage Super League and watched Community Super League. We thought that there might be some interest in an "MS Super League" in the vein of some of the older MS Magic Tournaments, but with more flexible scheduling. We were intending the format to be Modern. We would be using one of the unofficial Magic programs, probably OCTGN, so you don't have to own a bunch of expensive cards on MTGO or anything. I wanted to gauge interest in that from the Magic thread. Who would be interested in something like this?jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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