Board 8 > Magic the Gathering topic: How did that purge before Prerelease

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New lore bomb got dropped today: Bolas and Ugin are twins and were alongside the first Elder Dragons. I have no idea how this contradicts old lore but Im sure some people will be up in arms. We also get to see the first glimpses of Bolass ruthlessness and Ugins obsession with observation.

Also, I feel like twins with sparks are becoming a theme going forward. First Will and Rowan, now this revelation.
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First one was early anyway. I'll try to remember to save Will next hour if he needs it more than other characters.

At Vegas. GP is fun thus far, lost a beta draft qualifier very badly but split prizes in a chaos draft, which was cool. Sometimes you just wanna draft 2 drops and combat tricks and auras and kill people, and the draft cooperated.

I also learned the best and worst feelings in a single game of Magic. The best feeling is when your opponent, who is handily stomping you, unnecessarily swings out without doing the math and leaves themself dead to a removal spell on the crackback. The worst feeling is when they were sandbagging Vicious Offering to get out of it and don't get punished for it.
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oh hey, I finally got into the Arena beta

only took like 6 months
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Jakyl25 posted...

Fun Fact: That man is actually Vlado

Lmao. Completely legitimate.
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3-0'd draft at FNM since my deck had ALL 3 Wizards-matter legendaries. That was a stupidly hilarious draft. I even got to live the dream of having Naban out, casting Wizard's Lightning, then copying it TWICE with Naru Meha!
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Just threw together a Brawl deck with Muldrotha as my commander. It's probably pretty terrible since I just looked through the random cards I've picked up in prereleases and threw something together, but the format seems interesting and I figure it's good to start something and just improve it over time.
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beta draft hype
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Ben Stark is extremely lucky
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Beta draft was the hypest MTG has ever been
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Yeah, watching this got me wanting to go to gencon and try and qualify for the one there
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BANDING just won a game on screen.

Fucking legendary.
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God damn it, I missed it.
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Draft and R1 is over, but Time Walk R2 is coming up soon and Finals should be live.
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whoa, scapeshift in m19

edit: oh fuck, crucible of worlds too
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M19 looks really disappointing.
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Can someone link me to the Beta draft?
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2-mana elf lord wow
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Here's the Beta Draft VOD:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/274693453

Actual draft starts at around 32:00
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Thanks TMS! Ill watch while I judge Modern tonight.
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The Mana Sword posted...

Here's the Beta Draft VOD:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/274693453

Actual draft starts at around 32:00

@The_Mana_Sword Apparently this wont work on the mobile app?
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Never mind, I got to see the draft portion. Two pieces of power, one pseudo-piece, and 3 duals in 24 packs... wow.
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VOD no longer works :( I can't see the matches now...
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Videos are up on YouTube now.

Draft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rGoY4A4isg" data-time="
Finals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7DRN4B8fU" data-time="

They showed one QF and one SF match in pieces on stream, but I'm not seeing a video of it.

Also Omniscience is another neat M19 reprint.
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oh snap totes I would

need santa on board so we can finally get that plan done
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new sarkhan seems bad
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Thats because he is. I dont even know if I want him in Karrthus.
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Sure are a lot of multicolored cards in M19. Youd think were going back to Ravnica or something!
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Starting to work on building a Modern deck.

Slowly.
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Which one? If you dont care about getting Caverns, GB Elves is awesome and pretty cheap.
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Jeskai Control. I'm incapable of wanting to play cheap decks.
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RIP your wallet indeed. At least you dont need to pay for Jaces anymore!
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Yeah, I've got the Teferis and Search for Azcantas at least. Mostly just getting the cheap stuff right now. I'll worry about Snapcasters and Colonnades and Scalding Tarns later. Just need to start saving up store credit now that I'm playing local Standard events again.
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Ah, the benefits of having playsets of all fetches and shocks~

Though hopefully well get shocks with Ravnica 3. They put buddylands in IXA and DOM for a reason!
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Yeah, I can't imagine we don't get shocks reprinted, so I'm not too worried about getting those.

I used to have all this stuff, but sold out my collection like 5 years ago. My Legacy Stoneblade deck would have been worth twice as much now as it was back then!
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new Tezz would be very good in a world where chainwhirler didnt exist
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I really hope going into a multicolor block, plus losing Hazoret and Glorybringer, makes Chainwhirler less appealing so we don't need to ban it.
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Well see. I saw they did print all 10 taplands at common in M19, which is great. I like when my limited formats have good fixing.
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They better have good fixing with all the multicolor bonanza and three-color mythic cycle.
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Im ready for a year of multicolor nonsense.
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Hell yeah!
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Full M19 spoiler out today. Nothing exciting that wasnt there before, though the Ox Wand is pretty funny.

It is nice to know that Essence Scatter is going to be a perennial again.
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I'm pretty hyped for this set. Core sets have been pretty boring but this one seems like it's gonna be fun.
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They showed Sophie a lot this episode. And Coach has little to no chance at getting Brandon's vote, Cochran's vote, or Ozzy's votes. I say Ozzy's "votes" because his vote essentially counts as five unless the other Savaii's have decided to not possess a hivemind.

Sophie wins. That's cool with me. She's been awesome except for that one crazy Albert outburst which I'll just write off as an act of desperation.

90% full, you pessimistic monster.

Thoughts on Alpine Moon? I just have this nagging feeling that it's going to be lackluster in practice, even though it's 1 mana.
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I think itll be good. Its probably better than Blood Moon in most sideboards. It shuts off Tron just as well, and can stop other nuisance lands without hurting you.
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gtm told me he was like super nerdy