EPTDon't worry Risen, at least your mistakes were not on camera before thousands of people.
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DCLXVI
United States729 Posts
Don't worry Risen, at least your mistakes were not on camera before thousands of people. | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On December 10 2012 11:06 DCLXVI wrote: I opened the SCG legacy stream for a minute and saw the most painful punt. Player A was at 6 life with jace, elspeth, jitte and a few creatures facing a U/R delver deck with just snapcaster on the field and one card in hand. After thinking for a minute (last game, in extra turns), Player A bounces snapcaster with jace, then equips and jumps one of his creatures to attack for lethal. Player B plays bolt, snap, bolt and wins.. Don't worry Risen, at least your mistakes were not on camera before thousands of people. It's ok Risen, I tripled blocked a 3/1 first striker with 3 total toughness. Sadly my opponent didn't assign combat damage like I thought he would. | ||
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TheChronicler
Macedonia260 Posts
And that's a bummer Judi :/ Edit: God damn mafia smurfs!!! This is Risen T_T | ||
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Wegandi
United States2455 Posts
I was at 2 life with a commanding board state, and instead of playing Thragtusk to put me back up to 7 I play Rhox Faithmender (greedy) not realizing that my opponent had a Gravecrawler in the 'yard, and Lich Lord being a Zombie. So he taps floats 2 mana, sacs lands gets back Lich Lord, casts him, then casts gravecrawler and flings him at me for lethal. :/ (I also made a horrible play mistake the turn before that cost me 12 life). Ugh, so frustrating to make dumb dumb mistakes that I shouldn't ever make. That was a win and in for top 8...ended up going 2-2-1 when I should have been 3-1-1. | ||
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AirbladeOrange
United States2574 Posts
I always found MTG to be interesting but it lost its appeal when to be competitive everyone pretty much had to have a deck list that you didn't come up with yourself and cost you over $100. | ||
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NeonFlare
Finland1307 Posts
If you don't want to play competitive constructed (well you could try with some cheap meta deck that aims to snipe a lot of more popular decks, but I don't know if that's even possible right now), go for drafts or sealed. While they have some extra luck factor in opening something amazing compared to others (especially in sealed) you can usually increase your chances a lot in draft just by picking smartly and all that signaling stuff. Not sure about your local scene, but there's pretty decent bunch of all skill levels online for casual play too, you could always try pauper and other formats too. | ||
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LuckoftheIrish
United States4791 Posts
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rd
United States2586 Posts
On December 10 2012 15:59 AirbladeOrange wrote: How hard would it be to pick up magic now if I haven't really played since 2001? I always found MTG to be interesting but it lost its appeal when to be competitive everyone pretty much had to have a deck list that you didn't come up with yourself and cost you over $100. Investing $100 to be competitive -- even in FNM, is pretty unavoidable. Sometimes a set can hand you an extremely competitive deck list for <$100 (RIP bw tokens), but it's not often, and your options are fairly limited in this regard. You don't NEED a $100 deck to win -- you can still take games off the best decks, but they'll usually always be more consistent and win more games in the long run. It doesn't mean you won't ever win, you'll just win 10-15% less often (made up statistic for general idea). You will still see success replacing expensive cards with similar role-serving cards that aren't $20, (like angel of jub: $2-3 instead of sublime angel: $15-20). It's pretty hard to avoid pre-made lists too, as they generally encompass the viable themes in standard. A lot of them are specific and tailored to preference though. There are TONS of variations of any given deck, and they each have their own pros and cons, but they always follow a certain theme and set of key cards. If you understand the fundamentals of how a deck curves and what each cards purpose is, you can take any idea and make your own personal decklist out of it. Just playtest thoroughly before you commit to buying it. ;p | ||
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iGrok
United States5142 Posts
There is nothing more fun than winning with a deck of the following: 16 Forest 4 Island 16 Ulvenwald Bear 4 Druid's Familiar 4 Cobbled Wings 4 Divination 4 Farseek 4 Elvish Visionary 4 Triumph of the Hordes Its surprisingly better than it should be - and no one complains about the obvious illegality because losing to flying trample infect bears is hilarious. And when I lose, I don't mind at all, again because the flying trample infect bears are hilarious! | ||
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NeonFlare
Finland1307 Posts
Edit:Why did I dig it up, I feel my IQ dropping everytime. | ||
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iGrok
United States5142 Posts
The next one I'm going to do is a Lions, Tigers, and Bears - Oh My! deck. | ||
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fifasnipe2224
United States243 Posts
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
On December 11 2012 04:11 fifasnipe2224 wrote: How would you build a Jund deck for a 2 Headed Giant match with ONLY M13 and RtR cards and NO mythic rares? 60 card deck with a 15 card sideboard. Probably no point in playing red, or traditional Jund in general if you can't play any planeswalkers or good top end besides Thragtusk. You should probably build it straight G/B zombie-ish style with Dryad Militant/Rakdos Cackler/Deathrite Shaman as your 1-drops, Knight of Infamy, Lotleth Troll, Rancor, etc. Maybe splash red for Searing Spear and Crimson Muckwader? It won't be optimal, but you're definitely better off taking the aggressive route. If you need to be the control deck because it's 2hg, I guess you can just run 12 spot removal spells, Arbor Elves, Farseeks, Thragtusks, and Thundermaw Hellkites. Lotleth Troll and Deathrite Shaman fine here also. What else...Deadbridge Goliath? lol. | ||
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SigmaoctanusIV
United States3313 Posts
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Kinie
United States3106 Posts
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/junkblade-2/ Also, the reason for the miser's fast land over the third Savannah is mostly for cost concerns; most of the cost of the deck is in the manabase, and I've only been burned by the land in very specific circumstances (mainly needing a land to hardcast a Batterskull to possibly stabilize the board). | ||
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
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Kinie
United States3106 Posts
On December 16 2012 16:02 slyboogie wrote: The matchup against combo has been fine for you? I can see that it's too greedy to play Thalia and Wastelands but it's really just Teeg out of the sideboard against Storm and Belcher? Well, I guess by combo, I mean Reanimator and the Sneak & Show decks. I think I can fit Thalia into the sideboard (probably go -1 Angel, -1 Smiter for 2 Thalia) but I haven't actually tested vs. Storm and Belcher. I did try Wastelands maindeck but this deck is color hungry and needs as many colored sources as it can get. I've had playtesting games where Wasteland won me it, and I've had games where drawing a Wasteland has cost me the game. I would suspect that the deck has a poor Storm and Belcher matchup, but if I do make room for the Thalia's I think my sideboard is decent enough vs. Storm that I can probably manage. Probably the craziest thing I'm thinking of doing actually is cutting Liliana entirely and going to a second Elspeth and 2 Thoughtsieze. Every game that I draw an Elspeth and get her to land, I feel like I just hard-cast Emrakul. Plus, nothing freaks opponents out more than a flying Batterskull. Edit: yeah, definitely need Thalia in the sideboard for vs. Storm and Belcher. List has been updated, the changes are -1 Angel of Despair, -1 Loxodon Smiter, +2 Thalia. | ||
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bobbob
United States368 Posts
I don't think you want to cut Liliana entirely, you might consider playing a mix of Thoughtsieze and Inquisition, though. You could consider playing some o-rings out of the board instead of Pulse if S+T becomes a worse matchup. | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
On December 16 2012 17:27 Kinie wrote: Well, I guess by combo, I mean Reanimator and the Sneak & Show decks. I think I can fit Thalia into the sideboard (probably go -1 Angel, -1 Smiter for 2 Thalia) but I haven't actually tested vs. Storm and Belcher. I did try Wastelands maindeck but this deck is color hungry and needs as many colored sources as it can get. I've had playtesting games where Wasteland won me it, and I've had games where drawing a Wasteland has cost me the game. I would suspect that the deck has a poor Storm and Belcher matchup, but if I do make room for the Thalia's I think my sideboard is decent enough vs. Storm that I can probably manage. Probably the craziest thing I'm thinking of doing actually is cutting Liliana entirely and going to a second Elspeth and 2 Thoughtsieze. Every game that I draw an Elspeth and get her to land, I feel like I just hard-cast Emrakul. Plus, nothing freaks opponents out more than a flying Batterskull. Edit: yeah, definitely need Thalia in the sideboard for vs. Storm and Belcher. List has been updated, the changes are -1 Angel of Despair, -1 Loxodon Smiter, +2 Thalia. Also, not sure if you need Top and Sylvan Library. You're doing a lot with your mana to begin with and Top isn't going to be anything special in Junk colors. Library is redundant with Dark Confidant, though there's a synergy there. I dunno, I like Goyf over Top and maybe a miser Vindicate. Dunno, I never play Legacy without Blue. | ||
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