EPTI, on the other hand, end up with Captain's Claws.as my promo and then open up a second Captain's Claws in my first pack. Needless to say I was kinda bummed out. We didn't do that well overall though. Barring the fact that half of my rares were unplayable, we probably could've made a better combination with our pool. Colourless decks are fun though.
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Draconicfire
Canada2562 Posts
I, on the other hand, end up with Captain's Claws.as my promo and then open up a second Captain's Claws in my first pack. Needless to say I was kinda bummed out. We didn't do that well overall though. Barring the fact that half of my rares were unplayable, we probably could've made a better combination with our pool. Colourless decks are fun though. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On January 17 2016 21:39 Draconicfire wrote: Just got back from my prerelease. Went with a friend for 2HG and he opened up Kozilek as his promo and then opens up a Crush of Tentacles. I, on the other hand, end up with Captain's Claws.as my promo and then open up a second Captain's Claws in my first pack. Needless to say I was kinda bummed out. We didn't do that well overall though. Barring the fact that half of my rares were unplayable, we probably could've made a better combination with our pool. Colourless decks are fun though. Could have been worse. My friend opened up a full play set of Oath of Gideon. | ||
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deth2munkies
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micronesia
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On January 17 2016 18:25 TheYango wrote: The idea works in Standard where they can tune the power level of the card pool so that nobody's doing any super unfair things. Then the "control" decks just need to be slightly grindier midrange decks that have better top end than the midrange-ier midrange decks. I think that's fine for Standard and it works there. I don't see why WotC felt this would work for a nonrotating format. The card pool is too large. Without strong answers, you just have a lot of unfair decks doing unfair things, and you end up playing a lot of non-games of Magic when you don't have enough interaction points to stop their game. Unlike Standard, where you can exercise a lot of control over the card pool since it's so small and rotates quickly, you just simply can't exercise that level of control over what people are doing in Modern. You'd have to ban literally hundreds of cards to get Modern to play like that. Like you said, they have the crutch of a ban list. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
Got some decent cards though. I had Fall of the Titans and Oath of Nissa as pre-release promos; a Hissing Quagmire and foiled versions of Corrupted Crossroads and Quarantine Field | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
a) obviously nobody pays SCG prices b) I'm too much of a klepto to try and sell/trae anything I'm not likely to use even to build a deck I might want. | ||
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Sn0_Man
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On January 18 2016 05:27 Sn0_Man wrote: I don't think klepto is the term you were looking for (kleptomaniacs are compulsive thieves not hoarders) but grats on your opens. Valid point. I really should just unload a few of the things I'm unlikely to ever play because it's not like the deck I want to build is particularly expensive (some sort of Standard goblins) but the mentality of 'what if such-and-such rises in value? I'll kick myself!' holds me back. All this despite me opening a full playset of Pildrivers during Origins prerelease and not selling them when they were at $15. | ||
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micronesia
United States24735 Posts
Someone actually asked me to trade away my Ulamog when he saw it yesterday. I think I have more than four at this point, but nope. | ||
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Thermia
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Dess3650
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micronesia
United States24735 Posts
You can also play magic online (mtg online), but it's just as expensive as playing in real life but the cards you have are digital. However, I find playing online is a good way to learn the intricacies of the rules, and you often learn a lot by seeing other players hit you with properly executed turns. Other than that, reach out to people you know to see who else would be interested (gf was a start :p). | ||
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Dess3650
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micronesia
United States24735 Posts
Be warned: mtgo can be very addictive and a huge money sink if you aren't careful! | ||
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
MTGO is not a very good place to learn the game from scratch. I personally also wouldn't buy into MTGO without having a very clear idea of what I'm getting. It's much more well suited for an experienced player looking to get more chances to play Magic than it is for a new player just starting out. | ||
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BallinWitStalin
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I cobbled together a black/white removal-and-bears deck with a colourless splash, and ended up going 4-0 with it. MVPs: kozilek's pathfinder (opened two, used that as finishers), which got me out of tons of stalled out boards. Also, the combo of relief captain/expedition raptor and steppe glider is a fucking house. That also won me a few games. Card that turned out to be shitty: searing light. I had two, and almost never used them; they were mostly dead cards 90% of the time. Thought they'd be good tempo plays early, but turns out they just suck. people would just eat the damage if they were on the defence rather than try for a trade if I had mana open, and then by mid-game the card was useless. I swapped them out for the 1/4 vigilance dude (who was better, but still pretty crappy) and spatial contortion, which was much much better. I only had four colourless sources, so I was initially worried about being able to cast spatial contortion when I needed it but games always went pretty long so that never happened, I was always able to get a colourless source in time. It actually won me my 4-0 match when I topdecked it. Was a good card, would recommend. | ||
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Propelled
Denmark184 Posts
Additionally, me and a friend went 5-0-1 in 2HG, coming in at second due to tiebreakers. Me playing B/R devoid and my friend U/W goodstuff. Fall of the Titans with your partner triggering Surge while holding up countermagic is just absurd in 2HG. The only reason we got a draw, was that our opponents managed to discard my Fall with a Mindmelter activation. | ||
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RoieTRS
United States2569 Posts
On January 17 2016 21:39 Draconicfire wrote: Just got back from my prerelease. Went with a friend for 2HG and he opened up Kozilek as his promo and then opens up a Crush of Tentacles. I, on the other hand, end up with Captain's Claws.as my promo and then open up a second Captain's Claws in my first pack. Needless to say I was kinda bummed out. We didn't do that well overall though. Barring the fact that half of my rares were unplayable, we probably could've made a better combination with our pool. Colourless decks are fun though. What makes colorless decks fun? | ||
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