Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

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Demonic Pact + Daring Thief/Shifting Loyalties

am I garbage at magic

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This is gonna get a lot less playable in a few days with the rotating out of enchantment creatures, and Pharika specifically, unless the new one has something fun.

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"what do you call that deck"

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I've heard good things about Cockatrice that gave me the impression it might be what you're looking for.

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I'm

pretty sure

but not certain Sudo's right.

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Your copy spike feeder still gets etb effects when it es tb.

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Although I believe if you used clone in particular on a spike feeder it would die yes, since it already entered as a creature.

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Scratch what I said about Clone, it

enters the battlefield as

a copy and therefore etb triggers.

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Who plays Modern? I'm tired of rotations but I don't want to jump into a format nobody plays.

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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.

Less pricey than legacy and vintage at least.

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It's not just standard. Yeah it hurts though.

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I wonder if there's somewhere left in the world where I can play with people who don't netdeck.

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Johnnsylvania

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It's pretty bad.

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I mean it just creates a really lame environment, it's not like a bad thing to do. Unless I mean if you think contributing just a little bit to a lame environment is bad.

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I just don't see the appeal of buying card-for-card someone else's deck and using that.

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I knew in my heart that's probably what you were doing. There's still good in you.

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To the best of what abilities, though? What are you actually contributing, or are you just channeling another player like a lame medium?

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If a deck isn't shit it shouldn't take all that much thought to play? That's my take.

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I mean isn't that why people netdeck in the first place?

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I guess I don't see what those people are doing playing a tcg then when there are so many other hobbies in the world. But anyway different strokes.

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It's one thing to see cards you like or interactions between cards you like and use those. I'm talking about copying and pasting, if that was unclear. Buying a deck from a tournament.

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Please and thank you.

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This is more of a literally every single person at my spot netdecks complaint. I've made my disappointment in netdeckers clear but I get that it's bound to happen. But on that scale? It's pathetic.

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In an obligatory multiplayer game this kind of atmosphere decreases the actual quality of the game as a whole.

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I feel I've spent a sufficient amount of time now looking at your post trying to determine what being a tryhard has to do with this.

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It's also a pretty shitty attitude, if you read it as netdeck.

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I just want to see the sad conversation someone has with themselves that ends in "Okay I'll just copy someone else's."

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It's starting to feel odd how often I have to reiterate the difference between that and copying a deck card for card and just using it as is like a scrub. That's a thing that an enormous number of players do and you ought not to defend something other than what's being criticized.

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I mean if you're being an unoriginal scrub I don't really need to split hairs, that's the question.

edit: @ddp

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Just ego search me I'm pretty sure the thread won't break.

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If you're asking you're a scrub. Thus says Ythan.

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Dude if you think I'm angry you're delusional.

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Nat I'm sorry if you get personally offended when I criticize unoriginality. You shouldn't, you're pretty creative with defining the words I use.

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A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly and is also known as a buster.

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RIP a unique soul.

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Pie playing mill? Love it.

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Still fiddling around with the deck a bit, but it's a lot of fun so far and super cheap!

Mill's cheap because it's shit but it's also the most fun. This is a blessing.

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Oh hell yeah next block is Innistrad 2. Apart from the reversible cards that was my favorite block in a long time.

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Calling Kamigawa 2 next.

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Now that core sets are out that's not unlikely to happen eventually I think.

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yay lore

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Zombies!

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Or maybe I'll have switched to some sort of blue deck at that point. Idrk.

Best Blue Block B'ever

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in modern*

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What win conditions have everyone ever achieved, other than opponent defeat due to life loss?

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Prototype portal + timesifter is the next big thing.

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Can anyone confirm that a spell copy cast by isochron scepter triggers spellweaver helix?

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Yes? Thanks.

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I thought about the art on Walk the Aeons today. Anyone got a favorite bit of Magic artwork?

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Man she does a lot of pretty girls and pretty landscapes.

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Seems pointless to try to pick one out but her Channel sure is nice.

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Rite of bezelnok

Whoa sweet.

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Wow I've never seen it, certainly better than the one I have.

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Any chance that Rite of Bezelnok higher up the page is the same artist?

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Does anyone else have a jank problem. I make janky decks. I particularly enjoy alternate win conditions.

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Historic

I'm sorry what.

That's rhetorical I'm just Google it don't worry.

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Okay I had already just heard about pioneer or whatever but this is online.

Anyway yeah getting smashed is mostly my experience. Still more fun than playing with a boring deck though!

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I have always wished Gatherer would add collector numbers to pre-collector number cards for sorting purposes.

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Does anyone else have a jank problem. I make janky decks. I particularly enjoy alternate win conditions.

Did somebody say UB Zombie Mill?

Undead Alchemist is probably my favorite card I guess.

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AotSS absolutely counts. If I was gonna get pedantic (I am) I prefer alternate win conditions to the standard win condition triggered by alternate losing conditions but Approach is the former and mill is fun as hell too.

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Damage is passé.

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Does anyone else have a jank problem. I make janky decks. I particularly enjoy alternate win conditions.

Did somebody say UB Zombie Mill?

Undead Alchemist is probably my favorite card I guess.

I'm not saying this deck was good, but it was

fun

.

Also yeah I really feel this.

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Is there a funnier card than Crow Storm? I'm drawing a blank but I only just started thinking about it so help me out if you can.

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Lol nice. Would nearly have worked without the tae, pita seems super nasty in omniscience but I guess if it doesn't quite kill you in one shot who cares.

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I turn monored when drafting I feel u.

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Surprised to find that Jason Felix actually illustrated some cards I really like (lab maniac for one).

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I thought the whole point of dredge was to not play lands or spend mana. But I have not considered it in a modern context, or very recently.

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Good job though.

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Last time I played in an organized setting I only beat one person (it was Nuwen heheh)

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Hi Gamma!

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Time Spiral v cool.

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Those look pretty nice from what I can see there gj.

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Innistrad is possibly still my favorite block that was a fun time.

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Curse you

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But also high five.

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Psychic Spiral dropping before Innistrad rotated out was the high point of standard for me.

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I'm blue and also janky and wack.

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Without nightbound isn't much of a restriction in an eternal format imo.

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I've seen two life treated as roughly equivalent to one mana in a number of cases. Like those I think Lorwyn/Shadowmoor special casting costs. That was some time ago though.

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I've seen two life treated as roughly equivalent to one mana in a number of cases. Like those I think Lorwyn/Shadowmoor special casting costs. That was some time ago though.

new phyrexia, and they are like, all terribly broken.

Yeah for sure. I remember that one uh, street wraith, being valuable in dredge for that reason. Mana is worth way more than life in a fast game obv.

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I think that's the point! Versatile fun looking card.

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I've seen two life treated as roughly equivalent to one mana in a number of cases.

phyrexian mana

That's

exactly

the one I was thinking of~

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Also Modern just hasn't been fun to play lately.

Any relation to the introduction of Pioneer?

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That is good to know actually.

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Time Raveler seems to have crazy potential I hadn't looked at him yet.

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It would be an understatement to say I'm out of the loop on the current meta.

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I was out of the loop when I did actively play lol.

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i've been enjoying historic brawl lately, i like that i don't know the meta

Thought this was about Smash for a second.

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in response

Careful

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I know I just generally interpret "in response" with an instant to mean above on the stack.

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Neon Dynasty spoilers.

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"strictly" better basics

My mind went straight to those beautiful lands when I read this.

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Hybrid Phyrexian mana lol.

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I also kinda hate "compleated"

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Secluded Courtyard is like an auto include in a tribal deck.
https://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoile ... courtyard/

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Spoiler:

"Seb McKinnon"

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I guess I never really thought about the synergy of fetch lands and dual lands with basic land types and how you can get any color of mana you want from a fetch land by fetching a dual land that combines what you can fetch and what you need.

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Just learned of these absurd full text lands and got a chuckle.
https://cdn-prod.scalefast.com/public/a ... 920_KR.png

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Someone like me will play it because it's any mill card and has dope art.

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Dramatist's Puppet doubles counters on target permanent and is colorless rather than simic that's fun.

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Oh for each KIND of counter that's boring

Thanks

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Punny Street Fighter cards. The implementation of Hundred Hand Slap and Lightning Kick I find particularly funny.

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Oh and wur Guile lol.

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AI generated cards are interesting but you may have to scan a bit to find one that's coherent enough to judge as a card.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RoborosewaterM

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some of the art is so pretty

The flavor text on Nature's Skull is a bizarrely poignant reflection on death for a computer to spit out.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Roborosewate ... 8619904002

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How often does one have an opportunity to say phoenices?

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I agree x is a cool letter.

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"Betrayer"