FireThunder
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As a player who's first favorite card when he started playing was Control Magic, I love the blue/black mechanic that Hostage Taker and Thief of Sanity have: "steal your stuff and cast it using any color of mana".
Especially Thief. I changed up my Sultai deck to play Thief main deck instead of out of the side and it's really strong against most decks. It helps put some early leverage on the field against control and midrange and gives you the ability to take their best cards from them. Plus there's the chance that you can deny them mana to do anything by milling lands off their deck.
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On her weekly vlog, Kris Wolf announced that she's retiring after her current tour is wrapped up due to concussion issues.
Really sad but if she's having the symptoms she talks about, it's a good thing she recognized them before it got out of hand (blackouts, etc).
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I started playing during Ice Age and took my first break when Urza's Saga came out (because fuuuuuuuck that block). I came back with Invasion and had the most fun playing in that meta. My second break was when Lorwyn came out because I didn't have time to play. Then mythic rares and planeswalkers were printed (ugh) and I said I'd probably never play again.
Never say never, I guess.
I was playing when Serra Angel was too good to print and then cards like Baneslayer Angel, Siege Rhino and Mantis Rider were printed years later. Quite a different game from back then. And of course, this is where I say Serra Angel was too good to print in the core set back then, but Necropotence was JUST FINE.
I've got a handful of stuff built but I'm mainly playing with Esper Control. Lots of good answers to tough threats (Cast Down, Moment of Craving, Kaya's Wrath, Mortify, Vraska's Contempt), get to play with the best card in the game in Teferi and have a choice of finishers. I'm currently playing two copies of Karn for the card draw and also as win conditions but there are a few other options.
Plus I get to play with Absorb again, one of my favorite cards from Invasion. It's kinda like getting to hang out with an old friend.
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Amber Nova gets another appearance! This time she's taking on the tag team of... oh. *scratches one in the loss column*
Io and Kairi are a heck of a tag team, I loved their assisted finishers.
I'm really digging the type of match that Lorcan and Burch are excelling at: the sprint where they get in, beat the hell out of their opponents and each other, and get out. Aichner's double-springboard moonsault was absolutely gorgeous. Just a fantastic match!
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Two match show, but two damn good matches.
Humberto Carrillo vs Gran Metalik started things off and it was a good lucha thing. I wasn't sure if Carrillo has a finsher but I guess he does. That was a beautiful move. Really good back and forth match that ends with both men showing each other respect. Sadly, as shown by the post match promo, Gulak and Gallagher do not approve of another high flyer being added to the division. I sense trouble in young Mr Carrillo's future.
The three way between Kalisto, Tozawa, and Itami was the main event. Yet another really good multi-man match on 205 Live. I thought Itami damn near kicked Kalisto's face off against the barricade. Buddy Murphy shows he's smarter than the average bear, interjecting himself into the match to try to get an advantage for Sunday until Tozawa and Kalisto team up to fend him off. Can Itami build on his momentum going into Royal Rumble?
Not to rag on Percy since he lost his spot on the show, but Aiden English was a breath of fresh air in the third seat. He added some very salient points and came across as quite knowledgeable.
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Welp, to my surprise, the Gates deck isn't a meme. The deck is competitive enough that a writer for Star City Games, Bryan Gottlieb, wrote an article about it today.
It's pretty inexpensive as well, depending on how you build the deck. Gates Ablaze is a really good mass removal spell that's an uncommon, Guild Summit is an uncommon that can draw you a lot of cards, Gatebreaker Ram and Gate Colossus can be decent finishers for the deck and are also uncommon, Circuitous Route ramps your mana up very quickly while drawing you two cards if you have Guild Summit in play and is uncommon. The guildgates themselves are all common as is Gift of Paradise and Growth Spiral.
I'm playing a version with Nexus of Fates to take many turns and two copies of Hydroid Krasis as the finisher. Counterspells are a major concern, but I haven't hit too many control decks on ladder thus far. My thanks to mono-red players for keeping them down!
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Magic Arena's newest patch has ranked traditional matches (yay!), duplicate protection for rares and mythics (YAY!) and Ravnica Allegiance. I'm not sure exactly what to build with the packs I opened, but I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Getting play sets of all the shock lands is going to take some time, though.
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Welcome to the party Humberto Carrillo! He gets a really good match in with Buddy Murphy. We all knew Murphy wasn't losing, but Carrillo gave him all he could handle. Everything Carrillo did looked terrific. Murphy goes so far as to pull out the Bret Hart Memorial Feigned Knee Injury in an attempt to catch him unaware, but Carrillo avoids the cheap loss and even seemed to get outraged that Murphy would pull a trick like that. After the match, Murphy stares back at the ring with respect.
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WWE announced another time change for 205 Live, this time moving back to it's original time slot on Tuesdays, 10PM/9 Central. All right then.
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First off, that crowd was nuts. I'd have watched Heroes of Wrestling and been entertained if they had been in the audience for that. Cheers, folks.
Really good first showing from the UK brand. My match of the night was the opener, Mustache Mountain vs Gibson and Drake. As soon as I saw Bate taking the Doomsday Device-like move on the outside, I said a silent prayer that he wouldn't land on his head. The double airplane spin was great. Really good back and forth action, but I wouldn't expect anything less, really. Bate and Seven are amazing and they'll get a great match out of anybody. Which is no offense intended to Gibson and Drake, they are damn good and they held up their end of the match quite well!
Balor/Devlin was... there, I guess. It wasn't terrible but it felt like a match I've seen Finn in many times over. The crowd came unglued for him, though.
I was conflicted because I really like Mastiff but Dennis has never really impressed me when I've seen him. Good match between the two of them, though. Dennis doing his power moves to Mastiff is a lot more impressive than when it's poor Sid Scala getting thrown around like a paper airplane.
I agree with a bunch of posters here, I think Rhea is money. She's lookin' real jacked and comes across as a total badass. With that said, it's good to see Toni get the win with the BS she's been going through recently.
Main event started off great (and everyone knows I love Pete Dunne), but they could have trimmed 10 minutes off of it. We didn't need eighteen finisher kickouts to establish that Coffey was a huge threat to Dunne's title reign. And that top rope spot, ugh. When they finally did the move, it looked terrible.
Extremely glad to see that they pulled the trigger on signing Jazzy Gabert when she healed up from her surgery and I am SO ready for Dunne vs Walter. Walter kicking Coffey in the face when he was all "hey guys, don't forget about me" and then basically telling Dunne to keep the belt shined up for him before heading to the back was badass.
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Alien Weaponry is a band of New Zealand teenagers with Maori heritage who mix thrash and groove metal with lyrics in English and te reo, the Maori language. I listened to three of their songs on YouTube and bought their album, Tū.
My favorite song of theirs is Raupatu but the video for Kai Tangata is too damn good not to share. Hit the captions button for an English translation of Raupatu. The translation for Kai Tangata isn't in the video but somebody helpfully posted it in the comments section on YouTube.
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It might still be Carrillo. Buddy Murphy sent out an open challenge at the end of this week's episode of 205 Live to "anybody who can make the 205 pound weight limit".
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Whoop, didn't see the Axxess tourney has it's own thread.
So... any interesting surprises in mind for this years Rumble? I'd like to see Velveteen Dream get the NXT slot in the match, especially if he wins the tournament.
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"Oh, this is gonna hurt."
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I'm in the "ranked Magic ladder shouldn't be best-of-one" camp. That's really soured me on playing Arena to the point that I've found myself playing Hearthstone more often if I want to play cards. If I'm going to play a game of extreme variance for ranking, I might as well play the one designed to be such an experience. Either that or play in classic competitive, whatever they call the best-of-three mode, to get my daily quests done.
That's not to say I'm not excited for the release of Ravnica Allegiance in the next few weeks. Frilled Mystic, in particular. Mystic Snake helped carry me to some of my best successes in Magic back in the day, so I'm totally hyped for a new version of that card.
And I'll just add that FF6 is my favorite game of all time. My son got an SNES Classic for Christmas and I've been trying to convince him to play it, but he's trying out all of the games on the thing a few minutes at a time and bouncing around between Earthbound, Secret of Mana and SFII: Turbo. At this pace, I'll wind up playing it and beating it before he gets around to it.
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Clone Hero. Last week, I watched a bunch of YouTube videos from a guy who streams the game and it looked like fun. So I downloaded it, dusted off my RB1 wired guitar controller, and now I'm totally hooked. The last plastic instrument game I played was Rock Band 3 and, having played CH for a week, I'm already doing song charts on hard mode instead of normal. I'll never be as good a player as the players who stream the game (because holy crap) but I'm having a ton of fun fudging my way through songs again.
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My unscientific list:
1. Gargano/Almas - Takeover: New Orleans
2. Gargano/Ciampa, Unsanctioned Match - Takeover: Chicago II
3. Cole/Ricochet/Sullivan/Dream/Dain/EC3, Ladder Match for the NXT North American championship, Takeover: New Orleans
4. Moustache Mountain/Undisputed Era, NXT Tag Title Match, NXT aired 7/11/18
5. Ricochet/Dunne, Title vs Title - NXT aired 9/19/18
6. Ali/Murphy, No DQ - 205 Live 7/3/18
7. Mercedes Martinez/Meiko Satomura - Mae Young Classic aired 10/3/18
8. Strong/Itami, Cruiserweight Title Tournament - 205 Live 2/6/18
9. Charlotte/Lynch/Asuka, TLC - TLC 2018
10. Lorcan & Burch/Undisputed Era, NXT Tag Title Match - Takeover: Chicago IIMy top two spots on the list could probably be 1A and 1B. Lots of great wrestling on NXT this year, which overshadowed the rest of the WWE in my preferences. Not as many cruiserweight matches on the list as I expected when I sat down to hammer it out. As a fan of the purple brand I have to say rebooting 205 Live worked wonders in terms of match quality and gave us Buddy Murphy, who is no longer the best kept secret in WWE, and Mustafa Ali being the best babyface in the company.
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Fashion Files returns to WWE Network in Fashion Files: Cold Case Unit. In the first episode, airing on the network at 11 PM Eastern on Christmas Eve, the boys in blue will attempt to discover who threw the pie in Kevin Owens' face.
Also coming next week is a show with Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows called Botch Club which... well, is exactly what it sounds like.
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Oh hell yeah.
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I swear, I was looking for Paul London after Spanky came out. That was a fun match with some pretty innovative spots. I especially liked the use of Nigel's chair. But NO TABLES per Gulak.
I haven't mentioned it in the past few weeks but I like the idea of making Daivari a disciple of Itami. Daivari "borrowing" some moves from Itami like the repeated palm strikes is a great addition to his offense.
Gulak/Gallagher, Tozawa/Kendrick, Itami/Daivari, Nese/Murphy... when are we getting the cruiserweight tag titles?
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Damn, Murphy/Metalik ruled.
"Hey man. Thank you for your time. But you lost the tag team titles. So... YOU'RE FIRED." *grin*
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We all have THAT friend.
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FEBRUARY 2019 WRESTLING PHOTOS.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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