Magic: The Gathering

[TheRealSpiders]

This is worthy of double post.

Wizards used their giant phallus to ban Stoneforge Mystic and Jace, The Mind Sculptor. Bawing was heard for hours by cawblade players everywhere.

In standard play? If so, that's fucking hilarious.

[Wyrm]

This is worthy of double post.

Wizards used their giant phallus to ban Stoneforge Mystic and Jace, The Mind Sculptor. Bawing was heard for hours by cawblade players everywhere.

All i can think of is: TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Gypsy]

In standard play? If so, that's fucking hilarious.

Yeah, I mean to specify that. They don't do this too often but there have been past mistakes (see: arcbound ravager).

Basically it boiled down to the fact that they were getting tons of complain mail/e-mail because you had to spend at minimum $350 for 4 copies each of 2 cards to compete in standard.

Oh and Phyrexian Obliterator is now entirely playable so the value is soaring.

[TheRealSpiders]

Yeah, I mean to specify that. They don't do this too often but there have been past mistakes (see: arcbound ravager).

Basically it boiled down to the fact that they were getting tons of complain mail/e-mail because you had to spend at minimum $350 for 4 copies each of 2 cards to compete in standard.

Oh and Phyrexian Obliterator is now entirely playable so the value is soaring.

Standard Magic has always been like that though, that's one of the reasons competitive level play is so off putting. If you don't have the scratch for the cards, you might as well just stay at FNMs.

Does Phyrexian Obliterator have any trick with other cards or is he just a big fatty who kicks in doors? I haven't been following the game in any capacity lately.

All i can think of is: TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

It doesn't matter how hard WotC trolls the player base, we will bitch a lot... but still pay and play.

[Gypsy]

Basically he just kicks down doors. You can 3rd turn him with sphere of the suns.

He's really strong in a mono-black with Abyssal Persecutor though. So fast.

[Wyrm]

Is MtG all you guys think about?

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Me too...

[TheRealSpiders]

Basically he just kicks down doors. You can 3rd turn him with sphere of the suns.

He's really strong in a mono-black with Abyssal Persecutor though. So fast.

Oh man, when I first saw Obliterator, I thought he was BBBBB for a 5/5, yeah, I can see why he's good now.

Is MtG all you guys think about?

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Me too...

No, I think about other stuff too. Like... uh... fuck.

But really, I'd like to start playing paper Magic again, I just don't have the fucking time for it.

[Gypsy]

Oh man, when I first saw Obliterator, I thought he was BBBBB for a 5/5, yeah, I can see why he's good now.



No, I think about other stuff too. Like... uh... fuck.

But really, I'd like to start playing paper Magic again, I just don't have the fucking time for it.

Yeah black is really strong now, lots of options. Splash blue or red or just go mono and balls out.

I like to have lots of fun though so I've been running Eldrazi Ramp or a wacko Immolating Soul Eater Death's Shadow deck.

[TheRealSpiders]

Yeah black is really strong now, lots of options. Splash blue or red or just go mono and balls out.

I like to have lots of fun though so I've been running Eldrazi Ramp or a wacko Immolating Soul Eater Death's Shadow deck.

Death's Shadow and Immolating Souleater, what's your work around for that deck? I guess you don't really intended to have much of a life total throughout the game so how exactly does it all come together besides having Souleater fuel Death's Shadow?

[Gypsy]

Death's Shadow and Immolating Souleater, what's your work around for that deck? I guess you don't really intended to have much of a life total throughout the game so how exactly does it all come together besides having Souleater fuel Death's Shadow?

The rest of the deck is low level control. It's not really meant to get into drawn out matches.

Here is the full list.

Creature

4x Death's Shadow
4x Immolating Souleater

Instant

2x Doom Blade
2x Go For The Throat
3x Mana Leak
3x Spell Pierce
4x Tainted Strike

Land

4x Creeping Tar Pit
4x Darkslick Shores
4x Drowned Catacomb
4x Island
4x Swamp
2x Tectonic Edge

Sorcery

2x Despise
4x Distortion Strike
4x Gitaxian Probe
4x Inquisition of Kozilek
3x Preordain

Board

2x Precursor Golem
3x Spellskite
2x Vampire Hexmage

3x Spreading Seas

2x Disfigure
3x Flashfreeze

[TheRealSpiders]

For fucks sake, so many cards and I have NO IDEA what they do, don't play for a year and everything is different.

Well, it's time to sell all of my revised duals and start playing again.

[Gypsy]

2x Doom Blade - Creature Kill
2x Go For The Throat - Creature Kill
3x Mana Leak - Soft Counter
3x Spell Pierce - Non-creature Soft Counter
4x Tainted Strike - +1/+0 and Infect (if you don't know about infect it changes damage to players to poison counters and -1/-1 counters to creature, basically it's a cheap way to win w/ and unblocked creature)

2x Despise Ostracize + hits Planeswalkers
4x Distortion Strike +1/+0 and Unblockable (casts for free again next upkeep if it resolves)
4x Gitaxian Probe - Look at opp hand and draw
4x Inquisition of Kozilek Pro shit
3x Preordain - Scry and Draw

I'm actually look to modify the sideboard now. I think it could use Surgical Extraction, Memoricide and maybe Sadistic Sacrement. All of which are combo breaker cards.

[TheRealSpiders]

Yeah, I pretty much looked all of the cards up as soon as I typed that. Why play Despise over Duress? Both of them hit planeswalkers, I have no idea what the meta game is, but it appears that you can deal with creatures efficiently. Any specific reason for needing the ostracize part of that effect or are you just using it as more creature hate?

[Gypsy]

It's good for hitting big creatures out. Kozilek takes care of a lot and slows the game down.

The top decks right now are Valakut and UB Control. Vs these decks I'll be taking out a Plainswalker or a 6 CMC Creature for the most part. Kozilek takes out all the lower tier non-creature cards.

Sooooo...people annoy me sometimes on Cockatrice. Everyone should know what they are getting into if they are playing a Legacy game. First guy I beat left right after I won game 1. Second guy I beat bitched about me getting a god hand after throwing down on his ass and winning the game turn 2 so I really didn't want to even bother with the match. I submit that the deck I was running really can't get too many bad hands w/o getting effed plus mulling to 5 w/ it is pretty doable.

Deck I was using for the lulz

Artifact

4x Lion's Eye Diamond
4x Lotus Petal

Instant

1x Ad Nauseum
4x Brainstorm
4x Cabal Ritual
4x Dark Ritual

Land

3x Island
4x Misty Rainforest
4x Polluted Delta
1x Swamp
2x Underground Sea

Sorcery
4x Duress
4x Gitaxian Probe
1x Ill-Gotten Gains
4x Infernal Tutor
4x Ponder
4x Preordain
1x Tendrils of Agony
3x Thoughtseize

Board

4x Tormod's Crypt

4x Dark Confidant

1x Ad Nauseum
3x Chain of Vapor
1x Echoing Truth

2x Tendrils of Agony

Basically Legacy is a really fun format, until you have to play annoying people. I much prefer the Germans and the Spanish on there that play Legacy.

[TheRealSpiders]

Yeah, I played a lot of legacy and vintage. Storm pretty much runs itself, the only thing you need to worry about is post board. I remember when they printed Ad Nauseam, it was a great day for all of TEPS and it's variants.