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Had a gamecasted tonightas part of the tournament that Riot is sponsoring at my work. The match runs between 18 minutes and 60 minutes in the video. It's the A-Division so each team consists of Gold/Platinum/Diamond/Challenger level players. I was the Varus and my goal the entire time was to not...

You can already "queue" for specific positions in other sports so why not LoL?

My friends have lots of success with Thresh + Alistair. Early game their damage output is pretty good and they have ridiculous CC. Once they get ahead the enemy ADC can't do anything.

Yep, I like that it's actually hard to splash many of the bombs due to the lack of mana fixing which opens up some interesting choices in terms of deck construction. Also slivers is a trap unless you can get the right slivers. Note: My experience is sealed onry, I won't have draft experience...

Yeah the vulnerability of Ratchet Bomb is really narrow since you'll be tapping it during their endstep (or right before) anyway when usually their mana will be tapped.

The only reason Wizards doesn't get rid of the public reserved list is because they are afraid of being sued by collectors if they reprint anything on it. They very much want to get rid of it because unless Wizards can reprint dual lands legacy is a dead format long term. Also gameplaywise, a...

The mythics are largely EDH cards, which imo is a good thing. As much fun as $50 Voice of Resurgence is I'd prefer not to have a repeat. In other news I played against my first "SERIOUS BUSINESS ONRY" player last night at FNM. No one was allowed talking to us during the game, not even to just...

True, and worst case you can ask your game store to do side drafts of Ravnica or Modern Masters. I know a few game stores in Seattle do this.

I never said that new champions made them the most money, I said their current business model requires releasing new champions. There is a difference

The problem is that right now Riot's business model requires releasing new champs. This is one of the biggest reasons why they are pushing e-sports so heavily, because if they can establish themselves they can use that as their primary revenue stream (advertising, sponsorships, ticket sales, etc.).

But still has to learn the other 100+ to play well. It is a problem that is only going to get worse as LoL goes on, and the way LoL is set up it could still be going 25 years from now.

This is true but he has potential in the right deck. In terms of drafting this set has potential at least. Also there is Ratchet Bomb which will put some of the token heavy decks on notice but yes this set is relatively underwhelming.

What I wouldn't mind in LoL 2014 is a ranked queue with a limited pool of champions. Makes it easier for the newbies and you can do some interesting things with it. Keep the current ranked queue with all champs of course. Basically I am thinking something similar to how Magic the Gathering...

Garruk?

Have they even confirmed it's at PAX? There were some issues with having it at PAX this past year. I think Riot should go with Valve's solution which is to hold the event off-site so people who attend PAX can come by and people who want to just watch LoL all weekend can attend without having to...

I meant to say three of my RL friends. I was typing it on a bus,deal with it.

I think the craziest matching that happened was when I was playing normals with four of my RL friends and we got matched against another four of our RL friends. Hilarity ensued much to the confusion of the two randoms that were on each team.

Wizards recently posted a bit article about mana fixing in standard:http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazin...g/daily/ld/254Short answer is: Don't expect mana fixing to be this good in standard for a long time, if ever. The pre-release went ok for me. Didn't win big but managed to pull a whole...

Prospects of a sequel are looking dim. The movie cost $190 million but only pulled in $38 million at the box office to debut at #3. On the bright side, it pulled in $50 million internationally so hopefully the buzz will give it a strong second weekend. I just hope this doesn't become another...

In this particular case I was playing with a bunch of Gold/Platinum/Diamond players in my company's League of Legends tournament being run in association with Riot. I may be in Silver but apparently my MMR is high enough that I'm in the A league where all the Gold and above players are. There's...

At higher levels people are not nearly as afraid of Nunu as at lower levels. The primary reason being people know how to actually play. For example, the people in lanes generally know to collapse on Nunu when he invades.

Speaking of advice and taking objectives. I had quite possibly my best game as an ADC last night. My score? 2/2/14 with the total kills being around 25 for the team. Why was it my best game? Because I took all of the towers and made some pretty tight plays with Varus's ult.

With regards to counter picking, I love it when someone counter picks me mid. It means I get to play hard mode and have to step up my game and improve my mechanics. Actually, more often than not where I am in silver, it means they were just blindly looking at LoLKing and picked a champion they...

Dandain, you might want to pick a better example than Teemo/Darius since it's my experience that a good Darius will rock a good Teemo

Are you using the same promo code? I was under the impression each shop entered the code into Wizard's system when you redeemed it to prevent those kinds of shenanigans.

Thanks for the advice. I ended up going 6-3 at the PTQ. Lost first round to an Act Two deck, but I at least was smart enough to sideboard in my Boros Reckoners for game two wherein I got Blood Artist'd to death instead of Blasphemous Act'd to death. Then I later lost two matches I probably...

Speaking of which, can I redeem my promo code now or do I have to wait until M14 is out?

As said earlier I'm going naya blitz and I have a Voice of Resurgence. My friend didn't get any of them since they're expensive. Does Voice of Resurgence actually go well with this kind of deck?

Gonna try standard for the first time at the PTQ in Seattle this weekend using a borrowed naya blitz deck. Figure it'll be good practice, and unlike the last time, when I tried modern, I'll at least know what most of the cards do because I've drafted them.

Are any of the Dragon's Maze cards in this? I haven't seen any so far.

Is it sad that it is refreshing to hear a DJ play music that's not his when hearing them live at a festival or otherwise? Currently at Paradiso Festival and while Porter Robinson played a fun set it was basically all his own music whereas Tiesto, who came on after him, has been mixing in a...

Man I am in a biiiig slump right now heh. O have so many losses lately. Ah well, I suppose this makes it a good time to practice TF and Virus.

The problem is that Wizards of the Coasts refuses to pay for good quality software developers so anything they develop is going to be low quality. Case in point MTGO and D&D Virtual Table. Average entry level salary for a software developer in the Seattle area is in the 100k range. Last I heard...

According to the dev doing the rework he said it will be on the small side.

Stuck in Silver III ATM so I decided to move back to normals for a bit and learn Twisted Fate, Varus, and Pantheon. Anivia and Kayle just aren't giving the same mileage as before. Though that is probably because I have fallen off a bit in my practice. Anyway, the rework I am looking forward...

Shrug I am only saying what I heard.

I doubt that Thoughtseize is being reprinted based on what I overheard at a local game shop with someone who would be in the know. Based on what I heard the card is considered borderline ban worthy and it isn't banned now because it is relatively rare, which it wouldn't be were it reprinted...

Of course the keyboard and mouse is supported. The PS4 uses USB so long as the game is set up to correctly read input from a kbm attached to the USB ports you're good to go. Hell I even used keyboard and mouse way back on the PS2 for Dirge of Cerberus. Most games just don't support it for...

Would it alienate stores though if Wizards went out of its way to stabilize prices on the mana base in a bid to keep the customer base? I say this because Magic is apparently at an all time popularity high which doesn't seem to be abating. By having the barrier of entry so high for Modern it...

Yeah I don't know. I know Wizards doesn't like pissing collectors off but the prices on fetch lands is insane.