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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    I just tried sealed deck and that was a mistake.

    This set is way too complicated for me.

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I'm very lucky that my sealed pool had decent Azorius support, because Mass Manipulation is a stuuuupid card in sealed.

  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I'm very lucky that my sealed pool had decent Azorius support, because Mass Manipulation is a stuuuupid card in sealed.

    For XXUUUU it better be stupid.

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I'm very lucky that my sealed pool had decent Azorius support, because Mass Manipulation is a stuuuupid card in sealed.

    I played a guy that got 2 in his sealed pool and it was the stupidest shit

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Almost all my rares in this sealed pool are Orzovh!

    All of my good uncommons are in gruul.

    Guess I'm going Gruul.

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    God Banefire Elves is fun. I gotta get me some of these new ramp boys for it.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I'm very lucky that my sealed pool had decent Azorius support, because Mass Manipulation is a stuuuupid card in sealed.

    I played a guy that got 2 in his sealed pool and it was the stupidest shit

    Only got to cast it twice, but it swung the game easily both times; first for X=2 to snag a Guildmage and a 4/4 flying/vigilant Sphinx token, second for X=1 to get a 5/5 hydra flampler. Made it to 7-1. Now for a new pool, Orzhov with Ethereal Absolution + creatures (what more do you need, really), splashing for Rakdos and some Get the Points.

    I also opened Rakdos + Mirror March; are they paired or something?

  • ArmorocArmoroc Registered User regular
    I paid and got the $5 welcome bundle. I went straight for the sealed event and got 2 Kaya's Wrath's, a Domri, Biogenic Ooze, an End-Raze Forerunner, and another rare I don't care about. Cool stuff.

    What's really got my mind going is that I got 2 Gate's Ablaze and 7 gates to play with. This is probably not the format to really get these things going, but I'm really tempted into going with a controly build.

    I could just go Gruul with a splash of blue easily too. Hmm....

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    went 7-1 with my orzhov sealed pool

    spawn of mayhem and pitiless pontiff are both exactly as good as they look

  • astrobstrdastrobstrd So full of mercy... Registered User regular
    Rhythm of the Wild is bonkers as fuck.

    Did a Ixalan draft today that involved me getting 3 Huatli emblems. It was quite silly.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    gold drafts start next week right?

  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    So when does Arena go live? (And what is the difference once it leaves open beta? )

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    who knows

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    PlayAllegiance code gets you 3 packs

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  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    milski wrote: »
    turtleant wrote: »
    I'm starting to get confused why this janky ass Antiquity War deck is doing so well in ranked for me.

    I went the whole way through silver last night and my only losses were to a mana screw and an aggro deck that curved out perfectly.

    Until you hit Gold it's literally impossible not to gain rank, so anything you're playing against in Bronze and Silver is probably an untested deck. Not to say there can't be some sweet Antiquities War list that can shark the meta, but pre-gold is jank paradise

    This is ranked ladder?
    Because I ran into proper-Teferi deck whilst in Copper, and that was very much disappointingly not jank.
    Need to play more there though.

    discrider on
  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    So that new enchantment that untaps all your lands at the end of your turn works extremely well with dream eater.

    It's carried a U/G control deck to a win/loss record that it absolutely doesn't deserve.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    3-0 with this, gotta go to bed, but have a helluva good feeling about this deck, ( I pulled some absolute nuts)
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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Ill gotten gains is a really fuckin good card in sealed, holy shit.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Ill gotten gains is a really fuckin good card in sealed, holy shit.

    i won a game with basically nothing but this, the crocodile and the split card that doubles your life total

    we were both still at 20 when revenge came out. i really wish i'd been able to see the other guy's face

    Crimson King on
  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    discrider wrote: »
    milski wrote: »
    turtleant wrote: »
    I'm starting to get confused why this janky ass Antiquity War deck is doing so well in ranked for me.

    I went the whole way through silver last night and my only losses were to a mana screw and an aggro deck that curved out perfectly.

    Until you hit Gold it's literally impossible not to gain rank, so anything you're playing against in Bronze and Silver is probably an untested deck. Not to say there can't be some sweet Antiquities War list that can shark the meta, but pre-gold is jank paradise

    This is ranked ladder?
    Because I ran into proper-Teferi deck whilst in Copper, and that was very much disappointingly jank.
    Need to play more there though.

    I actually ran into a few meta decs while I was in bronze. I guess they were late starters or something.

    Also btw you can lose ranks in silver, I dropped from s2 back to s3 once. You just can't fall back to bronze, I think.

    I hit gold last night and that's good enough for me. Back to doing dumb shit in unranked.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Ill gotten gains is a really fuckin good card in sealed, holy shit.

    i won a game with basically nothing but this, the crocodile and the split card that doubles your life total

    we were both still at 20 when revenge came out. i really wish i'd been able to see the other guy's face

    It activates fucking spectacle.

    Oh man I think I will just go ahead and cast all my spectacle cards for free now, thanks bro.

    Oh hey now you're at 4 life, INSTANT BURN.

    I went 7-2 with an Orz splash Rakdos deck that had ill gotten gains in it and it smoked.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • astrobstrdastrobstrd So full of mercy... Registered User regular
    7-1 with removal-less RGu (for the counters =flying dude). Probably about as aggro as sealed will let you run.

    5-3 with Simic jank. The classic sealed problem of great cards spread evenly across every guild. Only saw Zegana once...in a hand I mulliganed.

    5-0 so far with a spicy Orzhov stall deck splashing for two of the 2/5 unblockable vigilance dudes. Have other good Azorius choices like the arrest variant, but my base removal is already great and I need ways to win.

    2 of my losses came from Mass Manipulation, X=2.

    1 came from Biogenic Ooze (my first deck that had only 1 scorch mark for removal).

    Only 1 was just straight up curve out w/ tempo.

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  • KayKay What we need... Is a little bit of PANIC.Registered User regular
    Ill gotten gains is a really fuckin good card in sealed, holy shit.

    i won a game with basically nothing but this, the crocodile and the split card that doubles your life total

    we were both still at 20 when revenge came out. i really wish i'd been able to see the other guy's face

    It activates fucking spectacle.

    Oh man I think I will just go ahead and cast all my spectacle cards for free now, thanks bro.

    Oh hey now you're at 4 life, INSTANT BURN.

    I went 7-2 with an Orz splash Rakdos deck that had ill gotten gains in it and it smoked.

    I think the card is called Ill-Gotten Inheritance? Ill-Gotten Gains is a Conspiracy card.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Kay wrote: »
    Ill gotten gains is a really fuckin good card in sealed, holy shit.

    i won a game with basically nothing but this, the crocodile and the split card that doubles your life total

    we were both still at 20 when revenge came out. i really wish i'd been able to see the other guy's face

    It activates fucking spectacle.

    Oh man I think I will just go ahead and cast all my spectacle cards for free now, thanks bro.

    Oh hey now you're at 4 life, INSTANT BURN.

    I went 7-2 with an Orz splash Rakdos deck that had ill gotten gains in it and it smoked.

    I think the card is called Ill-Gotten Inheritance? Ill-Gotten Gains is a Conspiracy card.

    ill gotten moneys

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  • KayKay What we need... Is a little bit of PANIC.Registered User regular
    Schtollen Geld

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Oh lovely. I have my opponent at one life and dead to rights and now he's burning all his timeouts.

    Fuckin. Seriously?

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • astrobstrdastrobstrd So full of mercy... Registered User regular
    Ill-gotten inheritence is weird in that I think super aggro and super controlling decks want one, but I think its mostly filler in typical limited midrange strategies.

    You'd usually rather just have a dude. Its hard to interact with, but also can't block and doesn't put the pressure on the opponent as hard as a 3/4.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    astrobstrd wrote: »
    Ill-gotten inheritence is weird in that I think super aggro and super controlling decks want one, but I think its mostly filler in typical limited midrange strategies.

    You'd usually rather just have a dude. Its hard to interact with, but also can't block and doesn't put the pressure on the opponent as hard as a 3/4.

    It's minus one to them and plus one to you and gives the reach once they get to 4 life. It keeps you alive, activates spectacle, and it kills your opponent.

    It's pretty good in limited.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Kay wrote: »
    Ill gotten gains is a really fuckin good card in sealed, holy shit.

    i won a game with basically nothing but this, the crocodile and the split card that doubles your life total

    we were both still at 20 when revenge came out. i really wish i'd been able to see the other guy's face

    It activates fucking spectacle.

    Oh man I think I will just go ahead and cast all my spectacle cards for free now, thanks bro.

    Oh hey now you're at 4 life, INSTANT BURN.

    I went 7-2 with an Orz splash Rakdos deck that had ill gotten gains in it and it smoked.

    I think the card is called Ill-Gotten Inheritance? Ill-Gotten Gains is a Conspiracy card.

    Originally from Urza's Saga, but yes.

    Vyolynce on
  • ElbasunuElbasunu Registered User regular
    My pool had Hydroid, Familiar, two sharktocrabs and 3 of the 2/2 adapt-to-wurms. It was glorious. I activated a Sharktocrab twice in one turn mmm so sweet.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Ill gotten gains is a really fuckin good card in sealed, holy shit.

    i won a game with basically nothing but this, the crocodile and the split card that doubles your life total

    we were both still at 20 when revenge came out. i really wish i'd been able to see the other guy's face

    It activates fucking spectacle.

    Oh man I think I will just go ahead and cast all my spectacle cards for free now, thanks bro.

    Oh hey now you're at 4 life, INSTANT BURN.

    I went 7-2 with an Orz splash Rakdos deck that had ill gotten gains in it and it smoked.

    I had exactly this happen my last game; I was off to a slow start and getting beaten down by flyers but managed to attrition at bit and slow the bleeding with Inheritance and other incidental lifegain. I don't think my opponent realized we were racing until they were at 5 life during their turn and couldn't get the kill; passed the turn, upkeep trigger, POW drain for 4.

  • astrobstrdastrobstrd So full of mercy... Registered User regular
    astrobstrd wrote: »
    Ill-gotten inheritence is weird in that I think super aggro and super controlling decks want one, but I think its mostly filler in typical limited midrange strategies.

    You'd usually rather just have a dude. Its hard to interact with, but also can't block and doesn't put the pressure on the opponent as hard as a 3/4.

    It's minus one to them and plus one to you and gives the reach once they get to 4 life. It keeps you alive, activates spectacle, and it kills your opponent.

    It's pretty good in limited.

    Don't get me wrong, the decks that want it, do really want it. It is also much better in sealed as games stall out more often. I would love one in my current Orzhov build of all removal, lifelinkers, and big butts. In most draft style mid-range decks though?

    Gonna feel real bad when they play t4 4/4 with evasion and you play this.

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    I definitely died to inheritance once in like nine games last night but I would not go so far to call it "bonkers good"

    It seems Fine

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I'd be hesitant to take Inheritance in draft, depending on positioning. Having it in a sealed pool is a much better prospect though.

  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    The investigation into Rei Sato's cheating at GP Prague has concluded and while he will not be given a ban, the DCI is issuing an official warning and his invitation to the $1mil Mythic Invitational at PAX East has been revoked.

    https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/competitive-gaming/statement-regarding-rei-sato-2019-01-18

  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    Haha the invite revoke

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  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Went 3-0 in pack wars and won a not-that-competitive commander pod at PAX! I am lord of jank!

    I ate an engineer
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    I wish the keywords were more straightforward.

    Like undergrowth.

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Undergrowth isn't a keyword, it's an ability word :P

    I ate an engineer
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