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Welp.. barely missed top 8 at the Super IQ yesterday of 86 people. Went 5-2 and got 9th place, two guys I lost to were in top 8, one got 1st, other got 5-6th. GR monsters and Mono-u devotion. The GR monsters guy was just drawing absolutely perfectly in every match, it was ridiculous. He would...

Well, I made top 8 of my IQ, undefeated through 6 rounds of swiss (6th round ID), 1st seed in top 8. Lost in first round to my round 5 opponent that I had beat 2-0 but put in a draw for the results as I wanted him in top 8 over some of the U/W and mirror matchups. He is one of the best players...

We've got an IQ at my local game store this Saturday. I've been wrecking our FNMs (only lost one in last two months and we get 20-35 people each week) so that's gotten my confidence pumped a bit to try and take it to the next level. Always thought I could do it, just been too busy/broke to...

I don't give a crap about the rarity distribution, it happens in mtg too. Someone opens a mythic bomb that wins any game it's played (Elspeth) all the time. Nothing you can do about it except try to have a consistent deck and beat them before they cast it or when they don't draw it in time...

I'm getting a little frustrated at this game. It seems like if I go with an aggressive curve, everyone I play against has the perfect answers and then beats me in mid/late game. If I try to be more controlling, killing/trading everything off until I drop a bomb like Ysera, she gets mind...

haha.. wow, ok. I'm finally on the 'hate on the RNG' bandwagon. I'm playing paladin and have 6 minions out to his 1, Silver hand + squire, 2 recruits, silvermoon guardian w/shield and an almost dead yeti. Any one of which survives and he's dead next turn (he's at 4 life, blessing of kings in...

So, before I do the actual run, what do you guys think of this list? It's obviously a little heavy on 4s, but I couldn't pass up the fireballs, which all came after I had already picked up defender of argus, spellbreaker and polymorph early on (when they were far and away the best card of the 3).

Stuff like that, not necessarily that card (yeti is part of basic set, right?) common cards I see in every 'budget' decklist that I hadn't even seen 1 of after about 12 packs. edit: yea, was thinking of dark iron dwarf and silverhand knight. Plus ironbeak owl, loot hoarder, harvest golem and...

The guy was at 14, I had dropped lightspawn previous turn, with a PW:S and inner fire in hand. Then drew the 2nd inner fire, so I just had to do it for the lulz. I only have one lightspawn myself, and still missing a lot of common 'staple' cards. Have had to craft up stuff like loot hoarders...

hehe, same

Good cards stuck in your hand are worthless though. Having something, even a 'bad' card on turn 2 to help slow down/trade with their early cards keeps you from getting so far behind that your 'good' cards later on don't even come into play. Bloodfist Ogre is a good card, but you wouldn't want 5...

From what I've seen watching Trump videos, and my personal experience, you had the bare minimum. You needed either one more two and/or two more 3s. You said you lost a few games from not having plays before turn 3, so the evidence kind of supports that. It's not that 5 isn't technically enough...

Yea, it's the fact that damage doesn't heal at end of turn, makes higher toughness better in HS then in MTG. The water elemental is ridiculous for this main reason, can take out multiple creatures before he dies.

1/3rd removal with a bunch of good mid/late game cards seemed like a decent strategy. But, the polys were just too slow was the problem. Really, they are 6 mana removal spells, since I have to use fireblast as well, so that's too slow. I just had too high of a curve, simple as that. If I had 5...

So, I thought I drafted a good mage arena deck, but in retrospect I guess polymorph isn't actually that good in arena? I had 5I've been going under the mindset of 'removal = good' from limited magic, but I guess the tempo swing of poly is too big, especially in multiples so it's not as high...

So, I just started playing this last week after finding out it was open beta. A little background, I am pretty good at mtg. Trying not to sound arrogant, but I'm one of the best players at my LGS but haven't had much opportunity to go to the next level and hit up GPs or PTQs. I'm constantly...

It's made it's way onto my DVR list, which is only about 10 shows currently. I find it hilarious half the time and flat the other half, but that's better then most shows. I have a feeling it'll get old quick, though.

You had over 32 people at your draft? Or, are you counting game wins rather then match wins? Long as you win 2 out of 3 games, it's a match win. So, we normally just say 'I went 3-0' whether we won each match 2-0 or 2-1, since it's not quite as relevant. Either way, well done.

I don't disagree that the episode wasn't as good as others.. but where in the 'season' should they have put those normal cases? It's only a 3 episode season. The other cases being in the first 2/3rds of this one episode is the equivalent of two episodes in a normal half hour show. That wasn't...

I get more enjoyment out of re-watching scenes from Day of the Doctor for the 10th time then I did watching Time of the Doctor the first time.. The only halfway interesting scenes to me are the ones between Tasha Lem and the Doctor, especially when she explains how the whole River Song/Silence...

Stores will pay more than their normal 50% buylist price for cards like moxes/duals. They list that price on the buylist, but they are willing to negotiate on them. If they buy a $20 for $10, they profit $10 if it even sells. If it doesn't, they lost $10, risk vs reward is worse on those cards...

It was the papal mainframe helping to hold off all the races, not just the doctor btw. A handful would sneak through to attempt to assassinate the doctor, with no luck. Finally, the daleks had enough reinforcements to take out most of the papal mainframe by themselves. I agree they did...

Heylel responded with a more detailed explanation, but in short, yea, counterspell doesn't stop heroic from triggering either. Its already been cast when you counter the spell, so the heroic trigger is going on the stack regardless I was Kirrog in Avarice, and Zinke on the old boards, yea, and...

Btw: Didn't see it mentioned in response to AngryGerbil's question, but the Agent of Fates heroic trigger would still go off after you Unsummon him, btw. In the situation you mentioned, what SHOULD have happened was this He casts cutthroat manuever, which targets Insatiable Harpy and Agent of...

on my 24 hour limit again.. oh well!

I'm gonna start from the back and work my way forward! No, that 'list of who has posted in thread' idea sounds good.

Where are you guys located exactly? I'm in NW arkansas, and you've been talking about going to tournaments that aren't too far away from me.

I've seen people mention some pre-show clip for Day of the Doctor, that explained it was a dalek surprise attack. Anyone have a link to it? I missed this and can't seem to find it. Would help if I knew what it was called, would probably be easier to search for if I did heh.

'No sir, all thirteen' was delivered by Peter Capaldi. Not sure how that is being mis-interpreted. They were having each doctor say lines right before that, then the commander makes the comment and Marble Doctor interjects 'no, you missed me!' basically.. Plus, I recognize the timber of his...

I realize some part of it is simply budget constraints plus the inability to adequately visualize the abstract fighting they were actually doing (fighting the same fight over and over in time, causing ripples in reality, etc..). So, they show pewpewlazers and more traditional 'war' for us to...

Think you are reading a bit too much into it. From a time perspective, that commander was only aware of a certain number of regenerations. The 13th was one he had not been aware of, as it came from a future time period and that version never interacted with gallifrey at all (neither had 11 or 12...

I ordered a box of korean theros, showed up yesterday. Was planning to open about half the box then resell the other packs on ebay, got an elspeth, thoughtseize, nykthos, 3 temples and a hero's downfall in the first 18ish packs, pretty damn good overall. Then, I'm debating opening one more or...

I'm not saying it's wrong, but I see everyone throw around the 'it's a meta game deck' after every pro tour. What deck, exactly,crushes the mono-blue devotion deck that didn't show up to pro tour theros? It can only be a metagame deck if you think it'll beat a specific field, one that is low or...

Ahem.. The only card I hadn't put in my original idea, but it was on my 'to test' list, was master of waves. The rest of the mono-u devotion deck the starcity team showed up with was what I had been messing around with to play. There's a thread on mtgsalvation where a handful of us were...

go do the 5x vs 5x games! 10 blitzcranks hooking/knocking up each other is one of the most hilarious things ever. So pull of innuendos too!

I have this crazy idea to make a mono-blue (or close to it) fliers deck with thassa and bident of thassa as my top end. Maybe it's hopeless, but thassa being one of the cheapest/best gods makes me want to build a deck to break the card. Thassa into Bident is the majority of your devotion, if you...

Looks like you can't get thoughtseize in the black pack.. People are taking pictures, there's certain pre-made combinations you can get and one card is the same every time (a common). There's only 8 rare/mythics that can be in the pack, the Gods being the only mythic, so you have a 1 in 8 chance...

So.. through being extremely lucky (knowing the right person, being in right place and right time, etc..) I actually got to draft Theros last night with real cards. Went U/R aggro but learned quite a few things seeing the cards played out. Warning: incoming lengthy post. First of all, bestow...

What, no posts about the rest of the set got spoiled through the MTGO beta? Haven't had enough time to sit down and really evaluate each color for limited yet. White was looking very good for the prerelease, considering the promo card you get, but not completely sure now. Heroic and combat...