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The game is good, but I am worried about how PUGable this game is. A lot of the solo quick play games I've been in have been very swingy, and when you're on the losing side in those matches I've found it is very hard to do much but die. Compared to Team Fortress 2 where, even when losing I could...

Also the BG control deck hilariously has a hard time against bant company because bant company operates at instant speed. I doubt we've seen the last of bant company.

The BG control deck is certainly something. I love it, however it gets hosed pretty hard by anything with counterspells to stop the loop. The interesting question is: Can the Dark Petition/Seasons Past Package be ported into other decks? Until it was banned, in modern nearly every deck running...

Seems like Standard is currently defined as "Do you have Avacyn and/or Declaration in Stone? If not fuck you." I really hope the pros figure something out in a week since I am not looking forward to standard as it is shaping up.

I ended up not liking Clutch of Currents and instead replaced it with Containment Membrane

Yep, and it seems that they tightened up the combat quite a bit for the Platinum Demo. The dogs are no longer a nightmare to hit.

I made some more changes to the deck, but to answer your questions. Baby Jace VP doesn't do too much, and big Jace is on the redundant side given all of the clues. I initially started with three Aether Grids but found I want one every single game, so I increased the count to four. Drawing...

Sounds about right. Speaking of clues I've been having fun testing this deck:Aethergrid Clue (Unknown MTG Deck)The big issue with it is the slightly awkward manabase and it can't beat Westvale Abbey game one. If you guys have ideas I am all ears. Otherwise if I can't fix those two problems I'll...

After last night's press conference, I am getting a strong FF: Spirits Within vibe from this game. Not in a "this game will be bad" kind of way, but in a "Square-Enix is betting the company on this game" kind of way.

Yeah, so I was wrongI'll have more thoughts later.

GR is bad, it'll either be jund or naya midrange. Friend has been doing a ton of analysis of the mana right now and the conclusion is: Wedge mana is great, shard mana sucks. So in the case of naya you'd be splashing red almost exclusively for Arlinn.

Yeah, my gut feeling is that this set will not have a cycle of dual lands. Fixing in standard is already pretty good, especially when you take the tribal lands (ally, eldrazi, and dragon) into account. With the new block structure, I don't think every block can accomodate a set of rare mana...

Sortof. The processor unit does *not* do anything additional to help the PS4 render pixels. So the PS4 itself still has to do all the heavy lifting. However, modern VR relies on a few pixel shaders to distort the image so that when it goes through the lens in the unit it looks normal. That kind...

I've managed to make 500 million Gil since the patch, but man making Eikon Leather is a PITA. It requires multiple two star mats. Sephirot has been fun but my group has people with lower awareness and reaction times, but they have gotten better. How has Wolves Den been? I hear it is really...

WW1 is kind of weird, it was basically just trench warfare. If anything I could see them going back to WWII.

Saw it on Friday with my fiance, who is a horror buff, and she liked it. Granted, she's into psychological horror so watching the family tear itself apart was right up her alley. The movie is also a bit of a period piece, yet at the same time has parallels to modern day society when itwhich I...

Someone telle why this deck is bad because I am seriously considering taking it to a PreTQ:Going Wide

I agree, GW megamorph featuring CoCo, Den Protector, Sylvan Advocate, and Deathmist Raptor will be a good place to be. I suspect the manabase could be stretched to include blue which then gives you the current bant CoCo deck.

Punko: Abzan is getting dismantled at rotation. It loses Rhino, Abzan Charm, Wingmate, Sorin, etc. Plus last time in standard Liliana of the Veil was fine. Things like CoCo, Ruinous Path, the prevalence of tokens, and the madness mechanic should keep her in check. Oh no, I have to discard a...

Shadows Over Innistrad block is probably the last time a Liliana of the Veil reprint makes sense story wise, she still has the veil and she is still Liliana. Now, she could end up keeping the veil after SoI but I doubt that's where the story will go. I do wonder how high up the leaks run...

WotC specifically said that the new rotation would allow them to reprint a bunch of cards they otherwise couldn't. So far BFZ has been a bust in that regard, but it was still being designed under the old system until half way through. Shadows Over Innistrad represents the perfect time for them...

Oh, and apparently Aether is the first vendor to get nailed for the leaks?

The problem is SCG was buying up duels before the set's announcement. A company doesn't go spending a few hundred thousand dollars based on a rumour. Beyond the drama though, the set is pretty meh to me. Due to the reserved list, it's not going to make legacy more affordable since all of the...

* Pack Rat wasn't the problem, it was the combination of Pack Rat, Mutavault, and Thoughtseize that made it a problem and is something I was told they should have caught, but didn't because they slacked on testing Theros compared to other sets. * I spoke to Mark Rosewater at PAX, he...

Oh yeah, I forgot, they missed 4-colour and 5-colour manabases too :P But yeah, Rally just has so many ways of getting ahead, it is the best deck in the format saved by the fact that most people who pilot it suck. Regarding mono-black devotion, what was missed was the Mutavault + Thoughtseize +...

It's not like WotC tests standard anyway. I occasionally talk to employees, being that I live in Seattle, and one of the things that always strikes me is how little they actually test constructed. The latest example is how Reflector Mage wasn't tested in standard, but I know through the...

The problem card is Eye of Ugin. Eldrazi at its core out tempos other decks due to its ability to generate 4+ mana on turn one.

I'd put good odds on Eye of Ugin getting banned at some point. It generates too much mana. Beyond that, I am loving these eldrazi decks.

If that's true, where are the screenshots?

Really, so long as the sluggishness in the combat gets fixed it'll probably be fine. I just hated how, in the demo, I'd constantly miss because the attack animations and characters were so damned slow. Unfortunately this is not really something you can tell from the videos. TLDR: Make the...

Live letter came out, lots of interesting changes. What I like is that they're adding a way for you to customize the background music in your FC house. That said, you'll have to collect the songs by doing content. Clever way of getting people to go back and do obsolete content.

Not sure if it is the same info as the podcast, but I recently got the whole story through a judge friend and... Holy shit WotC went overboard on this. Like, I know judges are all like "we don't want to hurt the players," but when your "employer" is treating your group like this you do actually...

Looking through the top lists from this weekend, the one that stands out the most to me is the mono-black Eldrazi deck. The amount of hand disruption and removal on a stick in the deck gives it game against Rally, UR Tempo, and ramp decks. The only thing I would try to make room for is Flaying...

The worst part is, Heavensward itself is awesome it's just everything after you hit 60 is meh.

If it weren't for the battlerage combo I'd say that Atarka Red is no longer tier 1 with kozilek's return around. Except since the combo is still around it isn't going anywhere.

WotC seems to be pushing a B/R devoid aggro deck, a lands deck, a big red deck, and ramp. Am I missing any archetypes?

At least Origin has a customer support team. Amazon would also love for Steam to fall over. Paid mods are an inevitability. It was only a shit show because Valve and Bethesda decided to make the monumental mistake of implementing a half baked version of it in Skyrim. Turns out changing the...

It's easy to predict load increases year over year on long running platforms like Steam, hardware would've been allocated months ago and they certainly would not have been adding any capacity on Christmas. So I doubt that's the problem. Either way I expect a serious announcement since this is...

Caching is hard but I still don't see how Steam could have fucked up this badly on such a sensitive part of their platform. This is the type of problem that sinks businesses. Imagine if it had happened to Amazon. Not that it's surprising or anything, but the issue points out that Valve has...

Just to make sure, the imgur leak of all the mythics and expeditions in Oath had nothing to do with the group of judges suspended, correct?