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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
Food wars pretty good name. Still in love with the fact that his name is Soma. | ||
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On October 26 2015 07:23 Ketara wrote: Well isn't the direct translation something like "somas wars"? "Shokugeki" is a term that the author made up, I believe. It refers to the cooking duels in the series, but IIRC the literal meaning is also a wordplay that has some non-trivial meaning for the series, but I don't remember the specifics. On second thought, there probably isn't a good way to really localize the wordplay though, so it's probably fine. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On October 26 2015 07:03 Numy wrote: Well he's sitting in semi-finals and there's only 1 abzan deck in top 8 which already lost I think. Seems he's running Ugin and Red removal. Important to note that ulamog exiles on cast and not on resolving so he always gets that off. Also he can keep bouncing ulamog back it looks like. Oh I forgot I saw a hangarback last game. edit: He lost 1-2 in the semis vs Dark Jeksai. Looks like it's 3 Dark Jeksai in the top 4 Can't bounce him back if he's exiled. I'll check it out though. Any deck that uses ulamog is tier 1 in my heart. | ||
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
On October 26 2015 06:53 WaveofShadow wrote: That just seems so suboptimal in a world where stasis snares and abzan charms exist. dude no, that deck is crazyyy you play JADDI MOTHERFUCKING OFFSHOOT and tons of ramp then you play the eldrazi that steals lands, Dragonlord Atarka, Ulamog the Ceaseless hunger and the dragon planeswalker. Like you get to 10 mana, you play whatever big thing you have, trigger the lib search land, get your Ulamog and then you fucking roll because even if it gets counterspelled it's still a fucking Desolation Grip++ LOL. Like Abzan charm and stasis snare doesn't even matter at all. The only thing that beats it is if you kill them before they get like 7-8 mana, otherwise you get fkked. It's a sick, sick deck. I mean he can bounce ulamog, but he doesn't need to, he's got multiples of them LOL. Like what does that deck even lose to? Like maybe some aggro kind of Abzan or Jeskai Black idk, maybe you can roll them over with Anafeza, Siege Rhinos and stuff. But I imagine that this deck vs Esper Control is like the most one sided MU ever lol (edit or maybe not? silumgar p good). And jaddi offshoot is like the sickest anti atarka red card ever. How the heck does atarka red beat a jaddi motherfucking offshoot? | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On October 26 2015 08:11 Scip wrote: dude no, that deck is crazyyy you play JADDI MOTHERFUCKING OFFSHOOT and tons of ramp then you play the eldrazi that steals lands, Dragonlord Atarka, Ulamog the Ceaseless hunger and the dragon planeswalker. Like you get to 10 mana, you play whatever big thing you have, trigger the lib search land, get your Ulamog and then you fucking roll because even if it gets counterspelled it's still a fucking Desolation Grip++ LOL. Like Abzan charm and stasis snare doesn't even matter at all. The only thing that beats it is if you kill them before they get like 7-8 mana, otherwise you get fkked. It's a sick, sick deck. I mean he can bounce ulamog, but he doesn't need to, he's got multiples of them LOL. Like what does that deck even lose to? Like maybe some aggro kind of Abzan or Jeskai Black idk, maybe you can roll them over with Anafeza, Siege Rhinos and stuff. But I imagine that this deck vs Esper Control is like the most one sided MU ever lol (edit or maybe not? silumgar p good). And jaddi offshoot is like the sickest anti atarka red card ever. How the heck does atarka red beat a jaddi motherfucking offshoot? This deck seems similar to a ramp deck my friend tried recently. It gets pretty crushed by a lot of match ups tbh so I'm wondering specifically what makes this different. And atarka red can absolutely beat jaddi offshoot lol. Fiery impulse, swiftspear + atarkas command, temur battle rage. | ||
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
On October 26 2015 08:45 WaveofShadow wrote: This deck seems similar to a ramp deck my friend tried recently. It gets pretty crushed by a lot of match ups tbh so I'm wondering specifically what makes this different. And atarka red can absolutely beat jaddi offshoot lol. Fiery impulse, swiftspear + atarkas command, temur battle rage. How does Fiery Impulse or Swiftspear Atarka's command kill Jaddi offshoot when he gets bolstered by Map the Wastes? CHECKMATE okay yeah maybe it's the worst. But the deck is so beast "worst" MU doesn't say much. That dude had the best record in the swiss portion yo it's a good deck. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
I guess it's not as exciting as other formats. | ||
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On October 26 2015 08:52 Ketara wrote: It makes me sad that more tournaments don't use swiss pairing. I guess it's not as exciting as other formats. Swiss also requires the largest number of actual games be played and more or less demands off-stage matches. At the later stages of a tournament, TOs usually want most or all games to be broadcast. | ||
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
I mean I guess it isn't good, it's just very situational and I was looking at that kind of lifegain/stall niche while people were evaluating it in a vacuum. Does he really play Map the Wastes on top of it though? You need more than one or two offshoots to deal with aggressive boards, and bolster always targets the least thoughness creatures. | ||
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
For most decks, it'd be a sideboard card at best, but the Atarka matchup's probably just so much worse than the others that he can devote 4 MD slots to a card solely for his worst matchup. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
On October 26 2015 08:56 TheYango wrote: Swiss also requires the largest number of actual games be played and more or less demands off-stage matches. At the later stages of a tournament, TOs usually want most or all games to be broadcast. I thought swiss required fewer games than round robin while achieving similar accuracy? Like, for worlds wouldn't it be less games + more accurate to have 1 group and swiss rather than 4 groups and round robin? | ||
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On October 26 2015 09:34 Ketara wrote: I thought swiss required fewer games than round robin while achieving similar accuracy? Like, for worlds wouldn't it be less games + more accurate to have 1 group and swiss rather than 4 groups and round robin? Oh I thought you meant instead of bracket play. IDK why I thought that. If you meant instead of round robin, then yeah I agree. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
Anyone ever read Shin Angyo Oshi? It's by the guy who did Defense Devil (which got cut off sadly). Ugh, now I'm thinking of all the manga I've read that either ended or got cut off early. So many feels.  | ||
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