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trdl23
09/19/19 11:18:25 AM
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Throne of Eldraine is the only set for which I have preordered two boxes in years. Adventure is such a great mechanic. Its making me put Crystal Shard back in my Cube.

In other news, Stoneforge Mystic is free from her shackles, WotC did the unthinkable and admitted the fucked up with Hogaak, and they murdered Faithless for good measure. Modern looks like it could be a playable format again. I wont make the plunge myself because my grinding days are over, but I hope this will be a rare time when all Constructed formats are decent-to-great.

What I have been playing is a lot of Pauper, and man is this format great. My brew even got featured on ChannelFireball recently! Its in a stage where the metagame is established but not so rigid that brewing is oppressed. If you get a chance to play it in paper, seriously, give it a whirl.

WotC is kinda crapping the bed when it comes to organized play, but the cards themselves are good. No more need to bribe people to play Standard. I will be judging my local Pauper $1k tournament in a couple weeks and the Professor from TCC will be playing, so if it ends up streaming, I will probably post it here.

Hows everyone else doing? I havent been here in quite a while so I dont know how many of us are still around.
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The Mana Sword
09/19/19 11:22:33 AM
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hello hi I am still here

Eldraine looks decent, though I'm not as into the flavor as I expected. Modern is good again finally (although Ancient Stirrings still needs to be banned), but I am happy I can finally play Stoneforge again even if I don't actually think she's that good.

Also I played at the MC in Barcelona over the summer and did really poorly, but rebounded by top 16ing the GP, so it evened out.
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trdl23
09/19/19 11:34:23 AM
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Damn dude, nice results! Im sold hook line and sinker on Eldraine flavor-wise. Feels way more like older MtG where the designs and world were the main focus, and while the story was certainly there, it wasnt forced into everything. Consider how almost all of Kaladesh and Amonkhet blocks were centered in one city each, albeit for very different reasons. And, of course, the alt art for most of the cards is lovely.

I do hope Stirrings gets stamped out to boot, but I understand why they couldnt kill it in this go-around because they didnt have the data to justify it lately. Even Stirrings decks were being snapped like twigs before Hogaak.
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BlackDra90n
09/19/19 11:36:11 AM
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I'm pretty excited for Eldraine, there seems to be a lot of solid cards this expansion. Fabled Passage seems kinda neat, especially since it's standard legal, and Drown in the Loch is gonna be so strong.
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The Mana Sword
09/19/19 11:38:15 AM
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Given all the incidental graveyard stuff in the past few sets, I'm expecting Theros to have some graveyard mechanics (in addition to the obvious inclusion of devotion). I'm a little more excited for that because any chance of flashback returning is a reason for me to get hyped.
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trdl23
09/19/19 11:42:24 AM
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Im expecting Theros to have graveyard mechanics just based on the Beyond Death in the set title.
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BlackDra90n
09/19/19 12:55:50 PM
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There's some graveyard stuff in Eldraine too so it would kinda flow well as well.
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Glenn_and_Toad
09/19/19 3:53:01 PM
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The completely unassuming card that will benefit from a favorable limited this time around is...

Shepard of the Flock.
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trdl23
09/20/19 4:09:32 PM
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Thats the Rescue dude, right? Getting to dodge a kill spell / wrath and rebuy your adventurer seems pretty gross. I love it.

Full spoiler dropped today, though we already knew most of the stuff already. Surprisingly few vanillas or French vanillas in here most of them have adventures attached.
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The Mana Sword
09/20/19 11:34:33 PM
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MCQ tomorrow to try and get back on the train.

Going to get wrecked because modern.
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pjbasis
09/21/19 9:06:00 AM
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I'm bummed a pretty great mono-green stompy deck is going away.


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Yankees
09/21/19 11:11:39 AM
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I played in the SCG Syracuse open this past weekend. I started off 10-1-1, but lost the last three to fall out of contention. I had an on camera feature match against the guy who eventually won the tournament in round 12, and was the only player to defeat him.

I just found out the person I planned to do Eternal Weekend with can't make it, and am now trying to make new plans. I'm really looking forward to that one.

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trdl23
09/21/19 2:34:22 PM
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Damn, you guys are all putting up better results than me.

I'm still trying to find out more about this Judge Academy thing, but according to a local judge who is always on top of this stuff, the doomsaying is unwarranted. This might be a boon long-term.
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The Mana Sword
09/21/19 8:36:28 PM
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Lost in top 8 of the MCQ rip

Got an LED for my cube with the winnings, so not bad.

And yeah, judge academy is a little weird, but honestly its way better than the exemplar program, and Im happy to pay the $100 to just have them send guaranteed foils to my house instead.
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trdl23
09/22/19 4:22:46 AM
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What's your cube list? Is it on CubeTutor or Cube Cobra?
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The Mana Sword
09/22/19 9:05:31 AM
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http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/27702

Still on Cubetutor, though Ive seen a lot of people moving to Cobra recently. Ill have to give it a look.

The LED isnt in here yet, Im updating to make storm an archetype, but I still need to pick up a few more cards.
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pjbasis
09/23/19 3:56:55 AM
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wow I bought the core set mastery pass thingy and it gave me 5 planeswalker deck mythics out of the 10 random ones

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trdl23
09/23/19 9:59:26 AM
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pjbasis posted...
wow I bought the core set mastery pass thingy and it gave me 5 planeswalker deck mythics out of the 10 random ones

Those werent in the random pools. 5 of those slots are dedicated to the pw deck mythics
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trdl23
09/23/19 10:02:12 AM
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The Mana Sword posted...
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/27702

Still on Cubetutor, though Ive seen a lot of people moving to Cobra recently. Ill have to give it a look.

The LED isnt in here yet, Im updating to make storm an archetype, but I still need to pick up a few more cards.

Sorry for the double post. Cobra has a tool the auto-imports from CT; I havent worked with it much yet myself, just threw it out there. If youre interested I can PM you the Cube Discord I am a part of.

Mine: http://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/43801
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The Mana Sword
09/23/19 10:15:50 AM
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gah, you don't have the same number of cards in each color / guild. it burns.

And sure, I'm not on Discord a ton, but I'd be interested in a cube community.
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trdl23
09/23/19 10:20:50 AM
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I know, I know. A couple of the cards just didnt feel like I should throw away a spot on them (Ancient Grudge and Natures Chant being the most notable examples). Cutting is always the hardest part of any update.
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pjbasis
09/23/19 11:23:16 AM
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trdl23 posted...
Those werent in the random pools. 5 of those slots are dedicated to the pw deck mythics


Oh. Kinda lame still but at least I don't feel unlucky

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VintageGin
09/23/19 12:02:51 PM
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Eldraine seems interesting. I generally only play commander but my group has been excited to draft this set, so I'll probably join them

also can we talk about the lips fairy

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The Mana Sword
09/23/19 12:06:32 PM
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VintageGin posted...
also can we talk about the lips fairy


sorry, this is a PG-rated topic
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trdl23
09/23/19 12:41:03 PM
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter approves of that art
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VintageGin
09/23/19 7:22:28 PM
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The Mana Sword posted...
VintageGin posted...
also can we talk about the lips fairy


sorry, this is a PG-rated topic



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The Mana Sword
09/27/19 12:14:22 PM
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Played a couple Eldraine sealeds on Arena last night. A little lukewarm on the format currently. The set pushes you to be two colored because of adamant, but that's tough in sealed sometimes, and the fixing is really bad. Hopefully draft is a bit smoother.
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trdl23
09/27/19 12:33:25 PM
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Sealed usually sucks in formats without strong color-pair themes.
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The Mana Sword
09/27/19 12:35:38 PM
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trdl23 posted...
Sealed usually sucks


could have stopped there tbqh
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trdl23
09/27/19 12:40:02 PM
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I like Guilds sealed but that was a pretty rare exception
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BlackDra90n
09/28/19 8:57:24 AM
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Going to prerelease today and I haven't played much of Eldraine on Arena, anyone have any tips?
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Sceptilesolar
09/28/19 9:21:48 AM
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It's not an especially unique sealed format. Find your bombs and removal and try to play them, have a plan for the long game, don't get caught up trying to play a synergy deck or aggro deck.
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BlackDra90n
09/28/19 5:20:09 PM
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I ended up going 3:0 with a BW knights deck. Opened up a borderless Oko in my pool but had enough knight synergy (plus the bridge troll, MVP for sure) that I didn't think it was worth it.

Was fun.
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Sceptilesolar
09/28/19 9:01:46 PM
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I also had fun at mine Friday night. Played BG... midrange stuff, mostly. I had a bit of Food but nothing special. I managed a 4-0 still, off some good creature draws backed by a red splash for burn spells.

The format seemed fun and interesting though. The Adventure cards offer a lot of value. There was one spot where I made a block that looked normal to me, thinking 'well if they have a combat trick then I don't really care', but when that combat trick turns into a creature it's so much worse to do that.
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The Mana Sword
09/30/19 6:08:14 PM
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First draft of the set on Arena, first opponent goes Great Henge T4 into Garruk T5.

Must be nice.
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Sceptilesolar
09/30/19 6:29:08 PM
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Was that off of Lovestruck Beast? Just to throw in another rare for value.
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Mitochondriagon
09/30/19 6:50:28 PM
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VintageGin posted...
The Mana Sword posted...
VintageGin posted...
also can we talk about the lips fairy


sorry, this is a PG-rated topic




Lips scares me considering I play edh and it completely shuts down like two of my commanders.
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The Mana Sword
09/30/19 6:53:03 PM
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Next opponent played a T3 Oko against me.

Why me
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Mitochondriagon
09/30/19 6:55:03 PM
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I'm surprised how well some people have made the food theme work.
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Sceptilesolar
09/30/19 8:53:01 PM
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For Limited? It probably helps that black and green are not only very strong in general, but that their individual best commons produce it, so food synergies come together more easily.
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Mitochondriagon
09/30/19 9:01:20 PM
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Just in general. Didn't think there were enough synergies to make it viable. I was dead wrong.
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trdl23
10/01/19 1:55:27 AM
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It helps that there are plenty of incidental artifact synergies. Haven't gotten to draft it yet myself, but I'm sick, so maybe tomorrow?
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The Mana Sword
10/01/19 6:52:25 PM
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Pretty sure I hate every deck in Standard right now. If the current top crop of decks are what sticks, it's going to be a rough year.
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pjbasis
10/01/19 6:54:00 PM
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The Mana Sword
10/01/19 6:55:11 PM
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Mitochondriagon
10/01/19 7:15:44 PM
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Simic flash looks so unfun.
Don't see how people enjoy it
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ChichiriMuyo
10/02/19 2:00:04 AM
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Mitochondriagon posted...
Simic flash looks so unfun.
Don't see how people enjoy it


Some people like to be so oppressive it ruins the fun of it all. I built the deck, played it for a week and decided I was punishing myself just as much as my opponents.
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