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not surprising. that card is going to make jeskai tokens out of control amazing.
grandmaster, rabblemaster, 2 tokens up (or 3 tokens from a hordeling outburst)
tap four lands to activate the spell recycle
convoke your creatures to cast stoke the flames for 4 damage/+4 life
jeskai ascendancy triggers, untap everything, add +1/+1 counters across the board, draw/discard if desired
repeat that cycle one more time
and then attack
fuuuuuuck that's good. i've got a decent chunk of the parts to put that deck together, i might work on getting the rest as outside of the manabase (which i've got about half of just through opening packs) it's a reasonably cheap deck to build right now.
grandmaster, rabblemaster, 2 tokens up (or 3 tokens from a hordeling outburst)
tap four lands to activate the spell recycle
convoke your creatures to cast stoke the flames for 4 damage/+4 life
jeskai ascendancy triggers, untap everything, add +1/+1 counters across the board, draw/discard if desired
repeat that cycle one more time
and then attack
fuuuuuuck that's good. i've got a decent chunk of the parts to put that deck together, i might work on getting the rest as outside of the manabase (which i've got about half of just through opening packs) it's a reasonably cheap deck to build right now.
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Thats a lot of moving parts that require a lot of mana. Its likely shit will get blown up before you could ever pull it off.
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Few new spoilers in the last couple of hours.
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yeah this set looks like it'll have a lot of delicious additions for dragon decks. silumgar is pretty costly to put up but by the time you can play him i can't imagine most boards would survive a single attack if you've got 2-3 others up already.
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He ain't costly if you plan on using elvish pipers or belbes portal
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i forgot about elvish pipers. fuck elvish pipers
also i found a free netplay client with rules automation http://xmage.info/
also i found a free netplay client with rules automation http://xmage.info/
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Elvish piper and birds of paradise almost never stay on the board for a full turn. I'd go the sneak attack route with it but at like $60 piece that's not gonna happen.
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aye. you'd best believe if i've got a doomblade in hand or anything else that can take out a piper, that shit is going out as soon as it hits the board
i play birds in my infect deck, but my group figured out pretty quick not to blow removal on it. it worked out to my advantage once, i actually won a game with them. my infect stuff kept getting blown up before i could do anything with it, so i had accumulated 4 groundswells and a mutagenic growth and some other random pump spell. i threw my hands up in faux-frustration and said 'FINE, i'm attacking with my stupid shitfucking 0/1 mana birds. are you going to block?"
they said no
i play birds in my infect deck, but my group figured out pretty quick not to blow removal on it. it worked out to my advantage once, i actually won a game with them. my infect stuff kept getting blown up before i could do anything with it, so i had accumulated 4 groundswells and a mutagenic growth and some other random pump spell. i threw my hands up in faux-frustration and said 'FINE, i'm attacking with my stupid shitfucking 0/1 mana birds. are you going to block?"
they said no
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[quote="Hitoshura"]
also i found a free netplay client with rules automation http://xmage.info/
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getting ready to check this shit out now
also i found a free netplay client with rules automation http://xmage.info/
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getting ready to check this shit out now
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[quote="Nick"]
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Hitoshura" data-cid="523933" data-time="1420077820">
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also i found a free netplay client with rules automation http://xmage.info/
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getting ready to check this shit out now
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i messed around with it a bit yesterday, all in all very functional. it's a bit of a resource hog but other than that i didn't have any serious complaints. it's great for playtesting since there's an AI that can use a premade deck you assign it, or it can generate one randomly according to whatever parameters you specify. the lack of card art kinda sucks but i assume that's largely to avoid lawsuits and whatnot.
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Hitoshura" data-cid="523933" data-time="1420077820">
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also i found a free netplay client with rules automation http://xmage.info/
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getting ready to check this shit out now
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i messed around with it a bit yesterday, all in all very functional. it's a bit of a resource hog but other than that i didn't have any serious complaints. it's great for playtesting since there's an AI that can use a premade deck you assign it, or it can generate one randomly according to whatever parameters you specify. the lack of card art kinda sucks but i assume that's largely to avoid lawsuits and whatnot.
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pretty sure i read something that you can download the card art in the program itself. my internet was being a fat fucking cunt last night so the download kept cutting out.
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well i'll be damned, downloading them all now
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Its a fuck ton of card art
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holy crap xmage is pretty much the best thing i've discovered since picking this game up again. i've been toying with some discard/rack deck ideas but i've been hesitant to commit to any builds for budgetary reasons. being able to playtest different configurations (against any matchup i can think of, no less) without having to actually buy anything is a fucking godsend.
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also i decided to test out a really stupid deck. 4x shelldock isle, 4x surgical extraction, 2x emrakul, the aeons torn, 50x shadowborn apostle. T1 take the draw, discard shadowborn, extract. T2, shelldock, exile emrakul. T3, shelldock 2, exile another if possible. T4, emrakul #1 comes on the board, extra turn, attack wipes most of your opponent's board, T5 win.
if emrakul prices come down with the impending MM2 reprint i am absolutely building that
if emrakul prices come down with the impending MM2 reprint i am absolutely building that
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That'll piss so many people off
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So I finally sat down to build a deck and give this a go. The second card I go to add is missing ::::::
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missing from your collection or from that xmage thingy
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oh yeah there's definitely some random cards missing here and there. when i was putting the decklist for my mill deck together, it was missing memory sluice. i think i ended up slotting in glimpses in its place
in other news, unless some seriously crazy shit gets spoiled soon, i think i'm going to happily resist my natural urge to get a box for FRF. most of the interesting stuff in there can probably be had for <$3/per within a couple weeks of release, and even then i don't know that there's anything i'd wanna build around.
if i'm going to be stupid and blow money on lots of packs i'd rather save it for MM2 where there might actually be some payoff.
in other news, unless some seriously crazy shit gets spoiled soon, i think i'm going to happily resist my natural urge to get a box for FRF. most of the interesting stuff in there can probably be had for <$3/per within a couple weeks of release, and even then i don't know that there's anything i'd wanna build around.
if i'm going to be stupid and blow money on lots of packs i'd rather save it for MM2 where there might actually be some payoff.
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Yeah there's not really a substitution for shocker/barbed shocker that I'm aware of
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Full spoiler is out
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eh. nothing earth-shattering overall. there's a lot of cool dragons, but the overall flavor seems to be 'slivers that cost a fuckton and are pretty much unplayable together unless you have a solid and consistent engine to cheat all of them onto the board'. if i'd gotten into standard like i was planning i might have some things to be excited about, but at this point i'm planning on dumping all of my pricey standard stuff because i've realized pretty much all of it is going to tank once they rotate out.
rabblemasters and the like a seriously fun cards but as soon as they rotate out they'll be worthless. if i can trade them up for some eternal stuff that will hold its value now, i can rebuy all of that stuff for pennies on the dollar in a year or so.
also, are we bringing some decks to pittsburgh or what
rabblemasters and the like a seriously fun cards but as soon as they rotate out they'll be worthless. if i can trade them up for some eternal stuff that will hold its value now, i can rebuy all of that stuff for pennies on the dollar in a year or so.
also, are we bringing some decks to pittsburgh or what
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Type 1.5 for life
If theres a card I really want I just watch for the price to drop in a few months. I remember snatching up some big urza block cards for dirt cheap when that block rotated out. I'll bring mine up but you know its either gonna be super drunk or super hungover magic playery .
If theres a card I really want I just watch for the price to drop in a few months. I remember snatching up some big urza block cards for dirt cheap when that block rotated out. I'll bring mine up but you know its either gonna be super drunk or super hungover magic playery .
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i just realized that you are going to play magic at the meetup aren't you
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Well I wasn't till stormy brought it up
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75% of my games since starting up again have been while drinking or drunk, that is not a problem for me at all
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How did this thread reach 6 pages
All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom<br />
and a poom-poom - JUST SHAKE YA RUMP
and a poom-poom - JUST SHAKE YA RUMP
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lots of magic banter
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75% of my games since starting up again have been while drinking or drunk, that is not a problem for me at all </blockquote>
That has been more or less my experience since the alcool consumption began
75% of my games since starting up again have been while drinking or drunk, that is not a problem for me at all </blockquote>
That has been more or less my experience since the alcool consumption began
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after going back and forth between about 15 other ideas i finally decided my next deck will be a legacy reanimator. i've ordered the first few bits but it'll probably take a month or two to complete since a few key pieces are pretty goddamned pricey. i had to go for monoblack to not require a manabase that costs more than the rest of my collection combined
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You going recurring nightmare?
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recurring seems a bit on the slow side so i haven't really looked too hard at that. my reanimation suite will likely wind up as reanimate/animate dead/exhume. graveyard fillers will be putrid imp, buried alive, and entomb (which is the really pricey part of the deck). it requires a good draw obviously, but with those choices, a swamp+ritual alone in your hand will allow you to get pretty fucking silly on turn 1.
creatures can get pretty expensive, but there's plenty of highly effective fuck-you type stuff that you can get for surprisingly little money. the only expensive creature i have slotted in is a jin-gitaxias which i think came up to about $7, everything else was $2 or less. if i have the extra money i might go nuts and throw a griselbrand in, but i think i can easily live without it.
creatures can get pretty expensive, but there's plenty of highly effective fuck-you type stuff that you can get for surprisingly little money. the only expensive creature i have slotted in is a jin-gitaxias which i think came up to about $7, everything else was $2 or less. if i have the extra money i might go nuts and throw a griselbrand in, but i think i can easily live without it.
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Recurring was a go to in reanimate decks for a long ass time.
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man i totally fucked up and didn't pay attention ordering my first batch of cards. i got stuck with five foils and despite sandwiching them between two heavy flat things for like three days, the arching will not cease. foil cards are fucking dumb and i honest to god cannot understand why anyone would actually pay a premium for these stupid fucking things
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I mean I'll take full advantage of some dumb fuck who wants them. Pretty sure the only foils I've ever used was myr servitor and some lands.
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my only regret in trading that foil delta for a hundo was devoting too much of the value into standard shit that wasn't going to hold up. still made money but i coulda stretched that shit much further like
meanwhile some asshole paid $100 for a fetchland that probably isn't even tournament legal because it naturally deforms into a 45-degree angle
meanwhile some asshole paid $100 for a fetchland that probably isn't even tournament legal because it naturally deforms into a 45-degree angle
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My lummo's cowtown Magic, after firing their horrible coach of the last 2 1/2 years yesterday, snapped a 10 game losing streak tonight against the lakers in ot
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enjoy it while it lasts, it'll take about two games for the opposition to adjust and sub in a yawgwill storm combo and sweep the whole series in the first fucking quarter
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That godamn yawgwill will touch the magic for a career high
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Yawgmoth's will
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i made that post and had a revelation and decided 'holy shit i'm gonna go buy one tomorrow and my new shit will be unstoppable' and thank goodness i thought to check the banlist before dropping cash on that 'cuz that shit ain't legal outside of vintage
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Type 1.5 for life
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i thought legacy was just what they called type 1.5 now vintage is type 1 where anything goes and if your deck isn't worth $20,000 you lose
additional sadness: demonic tutor is also banned in legacy
additional sadness: demonic tutor is also banned in legacy
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jorsh did you notice how george karl looks more and more like the old man from the garfield halloween special
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I always think john lithgow.
anyway, he REALLY wants to coach the magic. have you seen his tweets from yesterday? hes pretty much begging for it. unless hes using us as leverage to get the kings job.
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Hitoshura" data-cid="531061" data-time="1423330901">
i thought legacy was just what they called type 1.5 now vintage is type 1 where anything goes and if your deck isn't worth $20,000 you lose
additional sadness: demonic tutor is also banned in legacy</blockquote>
I ain't calling it shit but type 1.5
We follow the list pretty well except for a few house rules. Like some banned cards we just play as restricted.
i thought legacy was just what they called type 1.5 now vintage is type 1 where anything goes and if your deck isn't worth $20,000 you lose
additional sadness: demonic tutor is also banned in legacy</blockquote>
I ain't calling it shit but type 1.5
We follow the list pretty well except for a few house rules. Like some banned cards we just play as restricted.
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yeah we don't follow any actual format in my group so i guess it's not that much of a concern. honestly the will would be total overkill for my list anyway. it's already poised to curbstomp pretty much every deck that my friends are using right now, i'm considering leaving out the entombs as a cost-saving measure and to tone the deck down a bit, drawing into a ritual with that and any reanimation is pretty much a guaranteed win against anything they can throw at me. which is fun for me but will probably make everyone else not want to play
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[quote="jorsh"]
I always think john lithgow.
anyway, he REALLY wants to coach the magic. have you seen his tweets from yesterday? hes pretty much begging for it. unless hes using us as leverage to get the kings job.
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i would rather have the magic job. the west is fucking crowded and going to stay that way for awhile. the magic have a new arena and the allure of "florida," which free agents seem to give a shit about for some reason
sacramento has...the birthplace of joan didion. which is really interesting to me, but i am no longer a max-level NBA talent
I always think john lithgow.
anyway, he REALLY wants to coach the magic. have you seen his tweets from yesterday? hes pretty much begging for it. unless hes using us as leverage to get the kings job.
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i would rather have the magic job. the west is fucking crowded and going to stay that way for awhile. the magic have a new arena and the allure of "florida," which free agents seem to give a shit about for some reason
sacramento has...the birthplace of joan didion. which is really interesting to me, but i am no longer a max-level NBA talent