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FireSA
Australia555 Posts
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On October 03 2013 12:10 DEN1ED wrote: "Cleaner" just seems like a different way to say "simpler" to me. Sure it is counter-intuitive but tons of stuff in magic is. It just added another layer of depth to combat. It's like if they were to take away declare attackers step in present day. Also, I wouldn't say it made some strategy's too strong. Almost all decks could abuse it. Goblins/affinity had lots of sac. Slide could block and slide out their guy. Ravenous baloth was awesome in green decks. The depth argument wasn't that significant, you just played differently. | ||
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Pooshlmer
United States1001 Posts
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Yes, I am that tired. And a cookie to anyone who gets my reference. | ||
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DEN1ED
United States1087 Posts
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
On October 03 2013 11:14 eluv wrote: Combat damage on the stack just makes cards like Experiment One even more broke than they already are, and mana burn creates actual gameplay in such a tiny range of circumstances, it's the kind of effect that should have been on a card, not built into the base rules. That would've been infinitely more sensible. On October 03 2013 13:45 Judicator wrote: It basically punished players who didn't know any better. Like the first time you had someone do that to you at a FMN or in casual play, you just feel like you were mugged and pissed on then got riverdanced on your head. Afterwards, you knew better than to be out buying your kid's Christmas gift at 5 in the morning the day of. + Show Spoiler + Yes, I am that tired. And a cookie to anyone who gets my reference. Thought that'd be an Unhinged card's flavor text, but a quick Gatherer search for relevant terms didn't turn up anything. Then I Googled "magic the gathering riverdance" and got a bunch of hits for Ireland's "Riverdance: The Gathering." Lol? X-D | ||
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Pooshlmer
United States1001 Posts
On October 03 2013 13:49 DEN1ED wrote: It made the math of combat much more difficult, which I liked. Cards like arcbound ravager and mogg fanatic meant there was so many ways for damage to resolve that it really rewarded you for carefully considering every block. Now you just stick the 3/3 in front of the 2/2 and that's that most of the time. Sure you still have to think about tricks in their hand but there was still that too on top of all the on-board tricks. Mogg fanatic was not a decision at all. It was just block, do damage, then sac. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Now it actually would be a decision. | ||
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On October 03 2013 13:45 Judicator wrote: It basically punished players who didn't know any better. Like the first time you had someone do that to you at a FMN or in casual play, you just feel like you were mugged and pissed on then got riverdanced on your head. Afterwards, you knew better than to be out buying your kid's Christmas gift at 5 in the morning the day of. + Show Spoiler + Yes, I am that tired. And a cookie to anyone who gets my reference. All that and you were still just short of your N-word privilege  . | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
Text my brother and he's like lol it's been awhile. | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On October 03 2013 13:54 cLAN.Anax wrote: Thought that'd be an Unhinged card's flavor text, but a quick Gatherer search for relevant terms didn't turn up anything. Then I Googled "magic the gathering riverdance" and got a bunch of hits for Ireland's "Riverdance: The Gathering." Lol? X-D Its a Chris Rock reference, basically when white people can use the N-word. | ||
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Shotcoder
United States2316 Posts
Elspeth, Ashiok, Purphoros, Stormbreath, Thassa, Hythonia, 2 Thoughtseize, Hero's downfall, 2x Spear of Heliod, Whip of Erebos, foil Nykthos, foil Sylvan Caryatid, 2 anger of the gods.... Edit: Thankfully this box got me the cards I need to play in SCG Cleveland this weekend and states next weekend. | ||
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MCMcEmcee
United States1609 Posts
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
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Shotcoder
United States2316 Posts
On October 04 2013 08:33 Judicator wrote: More reason that States no longer matters. I never really understood the appeal, I'm only going because it's now at my LGS | ||
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caelym
United States6429 Posts
On October 04 2013 08:51 Shotcoder wrote: I never really understood the appeal, I'm only going because it's now at my LGS State Champion, then possibly National Champion is a pretty big appeal... States has always been about who is the first to figure out the new Standard format | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
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DEN1ED
United States1087 Posts
Also, Cali "states" is next weekend for me. | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
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slOosh
3291 Posts
I want my friend to get into magic, and from what I've shown him he likes artifacts (cause he likes the color grey or something). I'm thinking of buying a fat pack from the scars of mirrodin set, because from what I recall those guys had lots of artifacts. Is this a good / cheap way to get artifacts? Which of the three in the block would be best, or is there another set that I might not know about? | ||
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el_dawg
United States164 Posts
On October 04 2013 13:19 slOosh wrote: Hello, I want my friend to get into magic, and from what I've shown him he likes artifacts (cause he likes the color grey or something). I'm thinking of buying a fat pack from the scars of mirrodin set, because from what I recall those guys had lots of artifacts. Is this a good / cheap way to get artifacts? Which of the three in the block would be best, or is there another set that I might not know about? You could try to find the elspeth v tezzeret dual deck if that is still around. Or maybe some of the scars block intro packs. I'm not sure how easy either of those are to find now though. | ||
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