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I'm pretty sick of Alrund's Epiphany at this point. It's not a broken card per se, but it clearly creates unfun game states and isn't healthy for the game.

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Brainstorm and Tibalt's Trickery banned in Historic, Memory Lapse Suspended.

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I've been enjoying U/W control. It takes longer to play a game than I'd normally like, but nothing beats that feeling of knowing you've won without putting down a creature or doing a point of damage and then just waiting for your opponent to figure it out.

It's doesn't matter too much, though, since we're a month and a half from a new set. By the time this format is solved it's going to be spoiler season for the next set.

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I ran Mono Red Madness to 4-3. I maybe could have done better with more practice, but by the time I was able to get into the event it was down to a lot of aggro players trying to squeak by and Arena hates letting me play first so my chances weren't going to be great. I probably should have known better than to try since it took 1.5 hours for the game to even load up since it wanted to recheck all my files for "stability" and couldn't seem to get more than 2% through before it stopped responding.

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I actually just started playing Historic again recently. Playing B/W Auras and maybe it's because it's best of one, but Jeskai doesn't seem all that bad. I do have main deck Claim//Fame for that early Lightning Helix which absolutely makes a difference, but there are cracks in that armor. I don't actually have the wildcards to try Humans or Jeskai for myself but I dunno if I need to. Historic seems like such a wacky, open field right now anyway.

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I've only seen the Vesperlark combo and it's as much bs as you'd expect.

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It depends on how you define OP. If you mean one singular strategy (like Mirrodin or Urza's Saga) it's not even close to either in terms of one-sided dominance that had to be banned out of existence. But, for over a year in the Eldraine era, every time one broken deck got banned there was another one just waiting in the wings. Field of the Dead, if you recall, had to be banned before Oko actually took over, but he took over so fast he got banned a month later. Then Fires and Agent of Treachery, then Wilderness Rec and Cat Combo, then Omnath and Lucky Clover. Also in this period we had the first Vintage card to be banned since 1996 (iirc) and the only errata I know of that just simply changed the way an entire mechanic played. I know they errata'd Time Vault a few times, but all of companion had to be changed.

That said, it was a much more fun time to play standard than it has been the last six months. Now we have the opposite of a dominant strategy in Standard, we don't have any consistent strategies at all. It's a crap shoot, and it's total luck of the draw whether you get opponents with decks you can beat or opponents with decks you can't beat. No 60(80)+15 gives any consistent results and the one thing less fun than being beaten down repeatedly by a broken deck is being beaten down repeatedly by a lame deck because you metagamed incorrectly. Good riddance to the remaining dregs of this standard, and by the gods I hope Alrund's Epiphany either gets banned or the metagame gets too fast for it because the card is far too present in both Standard and "Standard 2022"

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They want to make sure all players have some baseline ability to play the game, and since standard is "the game" for most players everytime rotation comes up they need to give players a bunch of cards.

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So Brandon Routh was just announced as playing Gideon Jura in the upcoming Netflix MTG series. This makes me happy.

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Had a 5-3 Ikoria draft with R/G that I'm certain could have gone 7-2 on another day. I got Kogla first pick and Mythros of Vadrok second pick followed by a lot of great green and plenty of good red. I even got an Obosh pick 2 pack 2. Added to that a lot of Trample synergy and plenty of removal and I coulda done better. One game I absolutely lost for myself with a misplay, though. That game literally ended with the opponent throwing down a lava serpent on an otherwise empty board, and had I played just a little bit tighter it didn't need to end that way. Another was just some piss poor mana. I had double Humble Naturalist and double Fertilid to, theoretically, make sure I wouldn't have mana issues. Oopsie. Still, not a terrible run.

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Last night I had an absolutely horrible draft experience with Kaladesh Remastered. I'm pretty sure I had a deck that deserved more than one win, but that's all I managed. I had a Cloudblazer, an Aerial Responder, 3 Revoke Privileges, multiple Fabricate creatures and pump all white spells, Baral's Expertise and Illusionists Stratagem... Felt pretty miserable losing so badly with a pile that seemed like it could or should have at least gone 3-3.

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Marvel Comics losing talent over "creative differences" is nothing new. The upside is that they have the ability to attract most of the new talent that comes into the business by the simple fact that they're Marvel. I'm sure they'll get some really good talent on the X-Men in like 5 years or so, about the time when they might actually have room in their lineup for X-Men movies.

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While I suspect this isn't what they were referring to, you all do know that QE2's mother was still alive during WWII right (she actually didn't die until like, 20 years ago)? England absolutely had a Queen, she just obviously wasn't the regent.

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

also my brief research suggests calamari was not really a thing yet during WW2

You're talking about fried calamari. The word calamari to refer to any squid as food has been in use in the English language since the 17th century.

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Well, okay, don't like it. But why call it misleading? I don't think it's misleading at all, the set seems pretty straight forward actually. That's really what I thought was ridiculous for you to say.

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The Mana Sword posted...

It triggers at end of turn, you get one the turn you play it.

Ah, my bad. You're right. That does make it better than my first reading. It still doesn't change the fact that plum dislikes the format because it doesn't play the way he wants it to, which is nonsense. Honestly I'm glad that the stupid "ramp up and play the ridiculoud rare you got lucky enough to draft" strategy isn't a winner. My 7-1 deck had zero rares in it. I didn't win because I got lucky and opened a stupid bomb, I won because I actually drafted to the format better than my opponents.

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It's not disingenuous at all. Both consistently put additional power on the table every turn, so they are similar. You're trying to argue Convergence is unbeatable, but Koma might actually be unbeatable. See how the connection gets made there? And trying to knock the comparison because Koma is the biggest draft bomb since Dream Trawler, a card that's recent enough to still be standard legal? Wow... that's like saying this years new car is the coolest thing since last year's new car.

But the problem is that the Convergence is still too damn slow, and would be in a lot of other draft formats. It doesn't actually get you a body on the table until your next turn, so it's not stopping the opponent from killing you in response. This is also a format with a preponderance of ways to directly damage the opponent, including inflict which can be in parts of the color pie that normally couldn't do that. The format also has a metric ton of ways to make creatures unable to block. There's nothing misleading about the format, you get to see both of those things on multiple commons and you also get to see the endless sea of aggressive 2 and 3 drop creatures.

If anything fooled you it was your preconceived notions, not the set. You assuming that a certain card or strategy has to be great in one format because it is in some others is akin to walking into a kosher deli and assuming they'll have ham because other delis have ham. And next to Ulti, who goes on endlessly about his mana problems, I'm pretty sure you're the person that complains the most when new draft formats come out. Oh, you didn't like Forgotten Realms either because it doesn't draft like you expected it to? Surprise surprise.

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Eh, I'm not sure how much ramp there actually is (I'm seeing about half a dozen green ramp cards, half of which cost 4 which is hella slow for ramp), but Sandworm Convergence just looks like super obviously jank non-goodness. I honestly wouldn't look at that card and automatically think "unbeatable bomb" in any draft format, it's just so slow. Compare it to Koma which is cheaper (in a format I'd argue has more ramp), gives you more power on the field, can protect itself and can stop more than just fliers from attacking you. Sandworm Convergence just isn't a good deal. That's not a sign of the set being misleading, if anything it's a sign of you badly missing the mark on evaluating that card.

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7-1 R/B in my first Amonkhet draft. I feel like this draft format was made for me. It's aggro heaven with some neat little combos.

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I dunno why some of y'all hate Amonkhet draft, I freaking love it.

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When I was really young I remember this one game that came out of nowhere for me...

Peek-a-boo!

I didn't see that shit coming when I was 2.

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TheRock1525 posted...
There was such a miss opportunity there, too.

I think you both failed to understand what you watched. That wasn't a missed opportunity, that was the moment. Don't you get that?


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It was good, but not "easily James Gunn's best" as Xiahou said. Definitely well worth watching, though.

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swordz9 posted...

Opponent, but half the time they seem to appear out of thin air without being visible on your map and then some of them stun you and steal the final blow. Cramorant and Snorlax are annoying like that.

If sniping wasn't possible a large majority of games would be decided before half the time was up. For the game to be fair and competitive there has to be a way to keep one side from just snowballing out of control.

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TomNook posted...

Now every set can have regular, foil, borderless, borderless foil, etched foil, borderless etched foil, showcase, showcase foil, B&W, and B&W foil!

Yeah... a lot of those could go. Any non-etched foil can go, they tend to be really poor quality anyway. Borderless could also come in non-foil only and showcase in etched foil only. B&W should totally be non-foil only since foil makes no sense there anyway. There, regular, etched foil, borderless (maybe foil), showcase (etched foil), and B&W. That's half as many options and they all make much more sense and are the best options for collectors.

Edit - you could even replace the borderless with B&W only so then you could have regular, (etched) foil, borderless, showcase (etched). Now we're talking.

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I didn't like them at first glance, but the more I look at them those full art lands look dope as hell. It'd be much cooler if you could pimp out an entire deck like that, though. Just everything in the deck all B&W except the one thin boarder indicating the color would be amazing.

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pyresword posted...

I'm definitely having a lot of trouble figuring out Standard right now. Don't know what I'm playing this weekend for the qualifier either. Feels like no matter what you're doing you have to make sacrifices against a particular popular deck and just hope you don't get matched against it.

That's the problem I'm seeing. Even if you're playing Bo3 you're still praying that you don't auto-lose game one too often or you're fucked. Pre-AFR was pretty boring, but it was better than the luck of the draw that standard is right now.

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This was the first Arena Open where I didn't even try, I think. Standard is a crap shoot right now and I'm really looking forward to rotation.

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Only where I work.

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Today was my first time eating out again.

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Indoor is a lot more interesting to me, especially as I've learned more about the different positions. I haven't really watched much if any since the women's NCAA 2019 tournament, though.

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

I really enjoy the concept, but have never really enjoyed playing them enough to buy them.

Same. They're good to tool around with, but I've never been enthralled enough by one to see fit to buy one. Then again, the last one I played was decades ago.

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Direction

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I am watching none of it.

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Raka_Putra posted...

The baby was released to the wild? Wtf

Probably better off fending for itself than with that family.

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I can see an argument for Companion being fine, but not with the companions we got. Most of them were just too powerful always have in your opening hand every game, even in spite of the deck building restrictions they come with. Let's not forget that Zirda also had to be banned in legacy along side Lurrus (banned in Legacy and Vintage) and the fact that Yorion was ever present in Standard (and kind of still is).

Before the rules change Companions were warping formats around them. It wasn't just Lurrus, which created a one deck meta in Vintage, it was every format they were playable in. Even after the rule change Keruga, Kaheera, and Obosh still got plenty of play, so really half of them (give or take) are perfectly playable cards at a cost much higher than printed on the cards.

That means the only fixes to Companion that there could be (without the rule change) are make them all universally more expensive (and thus unplayable if not a companion), make the deck building requirements significantly more restrictive (Lutri gives a good example of that), or water down their power level so much no one would want to play them anyway.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

why cant they just make the new permanent effects not permanent on Commanders? Seems like a pretty reasonable rule to me, Commanders are treated specially already.

In addition to being errata'd text not on the "card" it's probably difficult for the rules to handle. Commanders do have special rules attached to them, but while they are in play there are no different rules to handle them. That means they'd also have to change the game's rules in a very specific and weird way. That change would also result in more fun permanent effects from being applied to Commanders, so they'd be changing the game rules to decrease new, fun ways of playing because two cards are unfun.

And let's be honest, these guys break their game code with nearly every set they add to the game. The last thing they need is to add a bunch of potentially game breaking code just to accommodate two cards.

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Nanis23 posted...

If the movie being exclusive to theaters was really part of the contract I wonder how Disney is going to get away with this

That's why she is suing, because otherwise they will just get away with it.

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So two of the new digital only cards are already banned in Historic Brawl. The new Davriel and Davriel's Withering are pre-booted for reasons that seem obvious once you think about it. The possibility to permanently give a commander 0 toughness sucks.

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no

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This is how you treat your customers. I wish I had a Switch.

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It's about time cancel culture caught up to that raging misogynist.

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https://www.today.com/food/restaurant-says-it-will-only-serve-unvaccinated-customers-t226633

Basilico's Pasta Y Vino has fought covid restrictions since the start and now they say they will only serve those who can prove they're not vaccinated. No idea on how one proves that, but I imagine the vaccinated don't want to be there anyway. And yes, if you look up the owner and his other comments there is one hell of a rabbit hole to fall down.

Well, good luck to them. Let's see what gets them shut down first - being a source of spreading covid or getting sued into bankruptcy by someone whose anti-vax family died of covid after eating there.

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-hotdogturtle-- posted...

They weren't taking pre-orders before this? What else have they been talking about for the past... several years now?

Yeah, how dare they talk about a product they're making and not take your money with the possibility of never seeing it again. I mean, really, they want to actually have a product to sell before they start asking people for money? Fucking disgusting!

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TomNook posted...

Good, maybe Nintendo will release a real Dr. Mario game now.

True. But Dr. Goomba Tower might be the greatest character they've ever made.

I'm pretty sure the game is getting shut down because of all the malpractice suits against Dr Goomba Tower. But yeah, possibly the greatest character they've ever made.

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masterplum posted...

Yeah, pioneer is pretty dead. I wouldn't mind arena moving to support it over time

While I remember them saying they'd like to do this, I can't see it. There are I believe 16 sets missing from Arena that are part of Pioneer and that would take a long time to bring to Arena. Also, the way they handled Amonkhet and Kaladesh last year wasn't universally popular (to be kind). Unless they find a better way of bringing back those old cards/set I don't see how they get there. By the time they could do it the format will be too dead for anyone to care.

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Even though I just watched through the series for the first time a couple months ago I had to look this character up. Very torn because she's clearly a psychopath with no redeeming qualities, but that's usually a good fit for the villain of a children's show. So I guess I'll go with a slight...

Yes.

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Oh, uh for my answer... the episode of Transformers where Optimus Prime is brought back as a zombie. Four year old me was not prepared to process that information, especially when he looked like this:


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MoogleKupo141 posted...

should have made a carefully crafted dragon ball wish with the gauntlet for everyone Thanos killed to come back instead of just undoing the snap

The implication is that the people who got snapped weren't killed by Thanos.

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Whoever voted for Wilson should be taken out back and shot.

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