Raziel Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 7 minutes ago, Craig H said: So weird that they only banned it in BO1. Yes, you can sideboard against it, but it's not a guarantee that it would be stopped. Reasoning is that they're trying to keep the lists between official formats in Paper, Online, and Arena consistent and since they're not touching it in Paper and Online, they're only doing it for BO1 Arena, so it doesn't show up in BO1 Ranked, Casual, or Drafts/Sealed/Events that run BO1. It doesn't meet WotC's "Too Powerful/Disruptive" criteria, so no overall ban, but they figured it was bad enough in BO1 that it needed the hit, mostly because people just won't stay in a match against it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 I just didn't read enough of the article. BTW, regarding BO1, that seems like it's Merfolk all day, every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Dear Nexus of Fate: Sincerely, Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbarrie Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Craig H said: BTW, regarding BO1, that seems like it's Merfolk all day, every day. I threw together a Merfolk deck and took it to a local weekly tournament two weeks ago. Went 3-0 despite it being a 75-card first draft of a deck. Maybe Merfolk are good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 There's a free event in Arena right now where you can build a deck with (aside from land) a limit of 1-per card. I like this, as it really rewards game knowledge and is a true ghetto deck experience. Also for some fucking reason you get to have Danny Trujillo as your avatar which I would actually pay money to make permanent. I am also very tilted I keep coming up one win short of getting the alternate dinosaur art card for winning enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireThunder Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 I'm just in it for a playset of Duress with Urza's Saga art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Like, seriously, how much money do I need to give WotC to make my Trejo avatar permenent, because I would pay it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 Seeing Danny Trejo and Day9 in an ad is fucking bizarre. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 28 minutes ago, Craig H said: Seeing Danny Trejo and Day9 in an ad is fucking bizarre. As a Rollplay watcher it gives me the 1% hope that someone will show Danny this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 If you play one of those mono-white weenie spam decks, this card is gonna be your new thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 4 hours ago, Death From Above said: If you play one of those mono-white weenie spam decks, this card is gonna be your new thing. What makes you think it wasn't already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireThunder Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 I'm not sure I've ever lost a game on ladder where I resolved an Unbreakable Formation. Card is gas. Pteramander is also gas. I've been playing Temur Drakes and Pteramander is almost always a huge threat. The card is so good that it's even seeing play in modern and legacy. BTW, if you play blue, make sure you keep a couple Entrancing Melody in your sideboard at the least. Stealing a 5/5 or better Hydroid Krasis for four mana is tasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 It's probably my shit luck, but I've played against nothing by the fog/mill deck lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Entrancing Melody is insanely underrated. That it actually catches people by surprise because it isn't played that often is crazy to me. It's definitely a very strong anti blue/green card now with all those Adapt +1/+1 counters flying around. The early game Ptermander doesn't actually scare me that much when I play mono-blue, because Merfolk Trickster just straight up shits on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireThunder Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Just when I started getting used to the scry mulligan rule, WotC is going to experiment with a new mulligan rule during Pro Tou... er... Mythic Championship London. When you take a mulligan, you shuffle your hand into your deck then draw seven cards. When you are finally satisfied with your hand, you put a number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your deck equal to the number of mulligans you took. So you if you take two mulligans, you'll draw seven, then choose two cards in your hand and put them on the bottom. I think it's an interesting idea. Most of the discussion I've seen is how it really benefits combo decks in eternal formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 I'm very much against the mulligan rule. There's no draw back to having to move a card or cards to the bottom of your deck when you can just mulligan into a god-hand. Your deck is randomized anyway. Whereas before you had to make a calculated decision of whether or not a hand was good enough to keep or try again with 6 cards, or then with 5, now you can just mulligan until you hit your perfect combo or mulligan into a Leyline or mulligan into anything amazing. And while your opponent has the opportunity to do the same, part of the way people can win mismatches is if their opponent is unlucky enough to draw. There's statistical evidence you can look at if you simply goldfish decks with perfect hands that one type of deck is going to win each time. Also, they've tested this before so this isn't a new thing. My friend who works for WotC and others have talked about this for awhile now and while this is perfect for limited, it's practically broken in constructed and eternal formats. They're at least running this as a pilot for a month to see how it goes, but my guess is that they revert back or at the least allow you to mulligan ONCE into another 7 card hand. There have just been way too many changes over the last few months. While I appreciate them trying new things or at least not doing it at a glacial pace, this is too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 It's an unsolvable fundamental issue with the game tying everything you do to land, forever. It cannot be solved. Infinite 7-card mulligans suck ass. I will insta-concede every single game against a blue/white deck under that format because there is no reason to ever play one ever again as long as I live if I want to have fun. Mulliganing to 5 cards also sucks ass and is basically a concession unless you are the luckiest top decker of all-time, or playing mono-red in which case you know if you've won or lost by turn 4 anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireThunder Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Top 8 of Pro Tou... dammit, Mythic Championship Cleveland: Bonde is playing Simic Nexus, not some spicy phoenix brew. Of note, this is LSV's fifth top eight in his last eight PT events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 Let's go Reid Duke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 Wow! Autumn Burchett wound up winning it all. That's really awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Every single time I have made a sideboard for a deck with red, I put in one Alpine Moon, even though I basically never use it. I just assume, someday, one time, it will become a 200 IQ play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 Alpine Moon is the most bootleg Blood Moon ever. It's the most recent example I think of when I think R&D is completely uninspired and uncreative. Just one shitty "functional reprint" after another. Just reprint Blood Moon. It's not like I even have a stake in a reprint since I already own about 6 of them and a reprint would just drive their value down further. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireThunder Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 We had our first pauper MCQ this last weekend, won by Bogles... because of course it was. But the top eight was filled with eight different decks, which is really cool. https://www.channelfireball.com/pauper-mcq-top-8-decklists/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I am kinda surprised none of those are mono-white which I think plays pretty well in Pauper as far as the Arena sets go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 6, 2019 Author Share Posted March 6, 2019 13 hours ago, FireThunder said: We had our first pauper MCQ this last weekend, won by Bogles... because of course it was. But the top eight was filled with eight different decks, which is really cool. https://www.channelfireball.com/pauper-mcq-top-8-decklists/ When I played Pauper on Magic Online, I'd always play Tron or Delver. Nice to see that those decklists are still the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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