Magic: The Gathering (Spoiler-free)

Just realised how hard Krenko goes in Changeling EDH.

edited 19th Jul '12 4:51:37 PM by Exelixi

So someone on Salvation pointed out that Magical Hacker is insane with planeswalkers.

Holy shit.

Ah, un-sets.

They're fun BECAUSE they're broken.

I still want those Un planeswalkers mentioned.

The easiest way to get banned from an EDH playgroup forever: use Jace's ultimate on every player in the game, turn after turn, and laugh and laugh and laugh even as everyone slowly begins to leave you, never to return...

Alternatively, get yourself a Venser emblem every turn.

In 1v1 the best 'walker to abuse with it is definitely Sorin Markov.

Whoa, new thread. I suppose that means I won't have to catch up on our beloved massive Magic thread. Hullo to everyone again.

Hello Yuan.

You must read ALL THE THREADS!

But seriously, hello again and welcome back.

Hiya, Yuan. You were missed.

Anyone want a game?

Sure!

Room up.

Damn, I'm having card problems. I need to redo Oracle. Hang on a second.

Same here, actually. I keep forgetting that individually downloading a new set tends to screw things up.

I hate it when I lose the game partially just because I made a tiny play mistake within the first couple turns.

>>Short on lands

>>Play Brainstorm

>>Draw two fetchlands and a burn spell

>>Put the burnspell and one of the fetchlands on top of my library in such a way that I'd draw the second fetchland next turn

>>Play the fetchland I kept

>>Activate it and fetch a mountain

>>Shuffle Library

>>Commence facepalm over own stupidity and proceed to be manascrewed royally

edited 20th Jul '12 1:30:23 PM by LeChuck4

I got quite lucky there - if I hadn't drawn an additional land on my very last turn I'd probably have lost manascrew notwithstanding.

edited 20th Jul '12 1:31:13 PM by Idler20

Today, I learned that there exists a Legacy deck called ''Balls''. The only thing worse than facing it is the inevitable storm of bad jokes that comes with it.

I'd be interested in seeing a decklist for Balls.

...-snerk-

Found your Balls.

edited 20th Jul '12 3:40:15 PM by Lovecrafter

Interesting. Wonder if it's any good.

If anybody's interested, my favorite strategic commentator(he's where I learned TF 2 Spy from, and does a lot of Assassin's Creed as well) has gotten into Duels lately. He recently participated in a best-of-three tournament organized by the Wizards Forums, and posted his run on his site. So without further ado, if anybody cares, here's Wingpantt's Ancient Wilds tourney run.

Very interesting, since he's playing my favorite Dot P deck. However, two points (so far, haven't watched the whole thing): First, he talks about using Wood Elves for deck thinning, decreasing the odds of drawing another Forest "by, like 2%", which is a ridiculous overstatement. I can't remember where to find the article that ran the numbers on "deck thinning", but the real odds lie around less than a hundredth of a percent, if I remember correctly.
Second: He talks a bit too fast for my liking.

Seriously, do we need to call the Mythbusters to debunk deck thinning before people get it? It's almost like the Loch Ness monster of Magic at this point. (Obviously, something like a massive Collective Voyage, Boundless Realms or a Mana Severance does have a noticeable effect. I'm only talking about "one time, one land" deals.)

Yeah, that does get a bit old. But as per the talking, he's trying to commentate while he plays. So if he talks too long his opponent has to wait for him.

As for favorite deck, I've yet to unlock them all, but crosswinds and Chandra's fire one are pretty cool so far. Might have to do with really liking haste and fliers.

edited 21st Jul '12 10:33:03 AM by Xiphoniii

Deck thinning in my opinion is not something that should be taken into account when building decks because its impact is so minimal, but while actually playing it is perfectly acceptable for fight for every tiny marginal advantage you can get.