Magic: The Gathering C/D

Running uw control at a PPTQ in the morning. The build I have has been feeling pretty good lately, but I have a feeling it's going to be tough going.

Good luck!

Thanks!

We top 8'd our rptq but couldn't convert. I played Lyra main instead of approach as an rptq meta-call and it was quite good.

Nice work nonetheless. Yeah Lyra basically forces BR to have a Disintegration or lose. That and Hazoret were the cards I least wanted to see

the lyra thing is interesting - our control seat played a slow esper deck and didnt finish that many of his matches and his one loss was our match for the invite to b/r. pretty disappointed. we played esper/snake/scrounger red and the two aggro decks felt pretty good

that's really disappointing lamp. we were green splash black/red/uw. we lost to red/esper/green, I was on route to beat the green player and our green seat would have beat his opponent g3 if he had a half decent hand.

anyone gonna be in vegas? I'm going but skipping modern and just playing limited.

Anyone else following EFro's WSOP run. Dude is sitting on $10M in chips, which should put him very close to the top of the pack. The field has already narrowed to under 100 people from around 8000.

He's currently in 5th. I don't recognize any of the other names in there so I'm gonna pull hard for him. Always loved to see Magic dudes achieve success in the poker world. My Dad pushed me hard in that direction when I was a kid..."it's like that shit you play, except you can actually make money at it!!" ...in retrospect he was absolutely right

poker was accessibly lucrative for a minute in the mid 00s but now you have to be actually good at it again

honestly feel like my life would be significantly different had I ran good back in '04 when I had my first go at it, instead of losing my fifty bucks and swearing it off for over a year. back then you could crush $2/$4 NL without being any good. not only that but you could clear like $1k in bonuses every month pretty easily if you knew what you were doing. sadly I figured that out only a few months before it all went downhill :/

efro is like the pro version of the guy I hate at every lgs, I refuse to ever root for anyone with a literal neckbeard

everyone i know whos played vs him at PTs/GPs says he's mildly unpleasant which definitely fits that profile

WOTC revoked WPN status for a shop with Kekistani flags and other bullshit, predictable meltdown has ensued.

yeah keep coming across random complaints about it in various inappropriate places, but gratifyingly always being shouted down in volume. wotc seems to be sincerely, and effectively, taking responsibility for the overall experience of its player community

just gave two fat boxes worth of cards to 4 kids in the neighborhood who wanted to get into the game. didn't give them any of my epics of anything, just a decent selection of cards from when i was playing (eldrazi/mirodan sets). felt really good to get 2 fat boxes out of my house and into the hands of ppl who will actually use them!

i have a giant box of cards i dont need sitting around hoping i'll have a chance to do that at some point but haven't run into an opportunity yet. feels weird to put them in the recycling even if they've already been picked clean of cards that are worth more than the cardboard they're printed on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0U13vCZ4U&feature=youtu.be

this looks like it should be p good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0U13vCZ4U

I once gave all my cards (incl. the good ones) to the neighbor kid circa '99, now I regret it.

I will however take free crappy cards if anyone is going to throw them away! My partner & I have enjoyed playing again, but not enough to justify spending money on it.

despite complaining about the boringness of a whole year of ravnica I'm actually really feeling the first handful of preview cards

It looks good and I am so ready for rotation. Bailing on the shortened rotation schedule was an incredibly stupid move.

the core set looked really boring, and I more than got my fill of Dominaria, so I'm also looking forward to a new set. the new mechanics and revealed cards look fine, nothing earth-shattering, but I generally prefer multicolor blocks. also, I keep forgetting the name of the set because Guilds of Ravnica is basically the same as Ravnica: City of Guilds

http://mythicspoiler.com/grn/cards/assassinstrophy.jpg

this card is insane

is it the first 2cmc 'destroy target permanent'? i can't think of another.

what is the flavour of this card??

it's probably the first 2 cmc vindicate, and it's instant speed. this is the most pushed card since the delve stuff imo.

nice card

it's weird to call these efficient removal spells pushed though, they're never going to break the game like the delve draw spells or whatever. i don't think this is a bigger deal than fatal push

lmao

http://mythicspoiler.com/grn/cards/imperviousgreatwurm.html

it's funny, obv it is a powerful card but i wonder if there is a modern deck that even wants this? e.g. jund, would you swap any number of terminates or abrupt decays for this?

the big convoke beefer that had me rolling my eyes was the 7/5 hexproof uncommon. why does every set have to have a variation on a large hexproof dork now?

in bigger formats abrupt decay hits a really high % of things so this might be relegated to sideboard

if I were building a jund deck I would start with this as a 4-of

being able to hit lands is no joke though

yeah, in legacy half the decks literally don't play basics

in modern, jund gets perpetually wrecked by stuff like tron-lands

I'm sure everyone's experienced dying to inkmoth nexus with an abrupt decay in hand

ah v good point, ghost quarter alternate mode is definitely relevant, hadn't considered that

This seems straight up better than Decay in Modern. How relevant is can't be countered at this point?

in modern, vs death's shadow + stubborn denial (but this also has the upside of hitting angler) or maybe like, goblin electromancer + remand type situations. it's pretty low-relevance, there aren't any real delver decks at the moment. the get-a-basic drawback matters a little more, since your opponent is probably doing something stupid and you're ramping them.

in legacy counterbalance is still around (and was the reason abrupt decay was printed) and daze is never going away, so it matters more, but the card is also more powerful in legacy.

death's shadow seems to be rapidly dying out in Modern

yeah I thought it was overrated even when it was good

a deck like jund in particular, with a resource denial element, suffers from giving the opponent a land

the can't be countered text on abrupt decay was a pretty big deal vs delver, before RTR uwr delver was a major modern deck and it pretty much vanished because that card swung the midrange matchups away from it too hard

well that card plus deathrite shaman i should say

i forgot how cringey izzet spell names are

guild aesthetics tier list

A tier: selesnya, orzhov, rakdos
B tier: golgari, simic, azorius, dimir, gruul
C tier: izzet, boros

Trophy currently getting snapped up at $20 a pop

it's a large set rare cmon

2 color too

this isn't a bigger deal than abrupt decay which was like 5-8 bucks during its standard run iirc

stil sad about Mt. Gox

http://mythicspoiler.com/grn/cards/guildsummit.jpg

i hope this is a fun card to build around in draft, but it looks like it might be a clunky trap. maybe a sideboard card for a control match up when your deck already wants gates.