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.
― iatee, Monday, 11 June 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
poker was accessibly lucrative for a minute in the mid 00s but now you have to be actually good at it again
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
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 :/
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
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
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
everyone i know whos played vs him at PTs/GPs says he's mildly unpleasant which definitely fits that profile
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
WOTC revoked WPN status for a shop with Kekistani flags and other bullshit, predictable meltdown has ensued.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 20 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
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
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 20 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
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!
― Mordy, Sunday, 29 July 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Sunday, 29 July 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0U13vCZ4U&feature=youtu.be
this looks like it should be p good
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0U13vCZ4U
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
despite complaining about the boringness of a whole year of ravnica I'm actually really feeling the first handful of preview cards
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 September 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
It looks good and I am so ready for rotation. Bailing on the shortened rotation schedule was an incredibly stupid move.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 3 September 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Monday, 3 September 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
http://mythicspoiler.com/grn/cards/assassinstrophy.jpg
this card is insane
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
is it the first 2cmc 'destroy target permanent'? i can't think of another.
what is the flavour of this card??
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
it's probably the first 2 cmc vindicate, and it's instant speed. this is the most pushed card since the delve stuff imo.
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
lmao
http://mythicspoiler.com/grn/cards/imperviousgreatwurm.html
― frogbs, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
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?
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
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?
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
in bigger formats abrupt decay hits a really high % of things so this might be relegated to sideboard
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
if I were building a jund deck I would start with this as a 4-of
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
being able to hit lands is no joke though
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
yeah, in legacy half the decks literally don't play basics
in modern, jund gets perpetually wrecked by stuff like tron-lands
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
I'm sure everyone's experienced dying to inkmoth nexus with an abrupt decay in hand
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
ah v good point, ghost quarter alternate mode is definitely relevant, hadn't considered that
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
This seems straight up better than Decay in Modern. How relevant is can't be countered at this point?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 10 September 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
death's shadow seems to be rapidly dying out in Modern
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 10 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
yeah I thought it was overrated even when it was good
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
a deck like jund in particular, with a resource denial element, suffers from giving the opponent a land
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 10 September 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
well that card plus deathrite shaman i should say
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
i forgot how cringey izzet spell names are
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
guild aesthetics tier list
A tier: selesnya, orzhov, rakdosB tier: golgari, simic, azorius, dimir, gruulC tier: izzet, boros
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
Trophy currently getting snapped up at $20 a pop
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 10 September 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
it's a large set rare cmon
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
2 color too
this isn't a bigger deal than abrupt decay which was like 5-8 bucks during its standard run iirc
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 September 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
stil sad about Mt. Gox
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 10 September 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
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.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
ionize is clean
district guide is a candidate for my favorite card in the set
art in this set is standing out a little more than usual too
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
3u draw 2 instant with jump-start - better than hiero illumination? is amonkhet even in standard anymore? probably overall better than glimmer was too, esp in a world without gearhulk
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
amonkhet was never in standard
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
but yeah that's obv the glimmer equivalent going forward
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
still hilarious to me that after rotation the standard ban list is going to consist of "the second best red 3/3 for 3"
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
based on the 2 spoiled so far, the new guildmages are a little sad compared to their predecessors
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link