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But smuggler's copter made planeswalkers less viable, and planeswalkers are marquee cards that sell sets. They even had to print a Heart of Kiran to block it for Planeswalker decks, also mythic, of course :D I do think we'll probably see a significantly more diverse standard. I doubt "jeskai...

Banning out the only standard deck that plays Chandra should drop her a couple of bucks for a little while. Also, amused by Gideon making it through this unscathed when he has frequently been half the field.

Feels weird to ban Copter when Fatal Push is literally 2 weeks away. The Reflector Mage ban is just making sure the grenade gets as much splash damage as possible, since it hits U/W Flash, Panharmonicon, and the new Saheeli Rai+Felidar Guardian deck.

I doubt you'll ever see a JTMS unban, for purely PR reasons. Regardless of its strength or lack thereof. They also just re-banned Golgari Grave Troll, so they got burned pretty hard by at least one unban :)

No unbannings. Standard: Smuggler's Copter Banned (Lame, it's high prevalence, but rewards good magic play) Reflector Mage Banned (This ban is so 2016 I was surprised CoCo wasn't on the banlist too!) Emrakul Banned (Bye bye Mindslaver) Modern Gitaxian Probe (BEST BAN. Fuck combo decks having...

Banned and Restricted List moved up a week out of nowhere, speculators going nuts.

All I remember was people sucking the story bricks guy off when he dropped by to say they tried to buy SOE.

Nah, but you can totally buy his next project, in VIRTUAL REALITY. It probably even has SOEmote compatibility!

The "U-Unblockable and draw a card" and "R-Haste and draw a card" spells are both still legal if folks want to get super jank :D

Amusingly, the other infinite damage attack combo (Crackdown Construct+Wandering Fumarole) is also in Jeskai colors. Will probably be a pretty fun FNM deck using both.

Saheeli Rai price spike due to Felidar Guardian. Feels optimistic.

The necromancer getting to gear up their pet appealed to me. But then, I loved Anarchy Online, the game of 48 Gear Slots and absolutely autistic gearing planning spreadsheet bullshit.

I wonder if anyone's broke the news to ponytail.

I like the 'No emulators, we want to try to salvage this shitstorm by selling the tools and methods you-er-I-mean-we've developed.'

Des loaths good cards, and netdeckers, and everything involved with magic. He has like 20 rant videos about how Cryptolith Rite will completely destroy magic forever. And somehow, despite lacking any understanding of the game or competition, he's one of the higher subbed/viewed magic youtubers.

Desolator Magic is threatening to quit magic and youtube over this set. This would make it one of the best sets ever.

Bats have over a billion HP and still only attack for 1-5 damage? That'll feel like EQ. ;)

Seems pretty amazeballs for Modern (Especially for the color combos that lack Bolt). Crack a fetch, pay one black mana, kill basically anything but Tasigur. Even without the fetch, it still kills the shit you want dead early. Kinda mediocre against Eldrazi, but it at least kills TKS and Noble...

There's apparently a 75% off sale on the Shadowfell and MotU expansions. Would it be a good idea to pick those up now if one wanted to try the game, or are they superfluous?

Shoulda been clicky SoW boots.

Have they created interesting loot yet?

Chapin was talking about how between Prophetic Prism, Cultivator's Caravan, Aether Hub, and Tezzeret there's a pretty good shot at making 5-Color, Base B/U, a thing next set. If there's enough worthwhile stuff to make 5C valuable. Also, more silly combo cards to make me smile (Although Bridge...

Brad is just so high that now other people are hallucinating the game.

After months of mythics, my second legendary finally dropped today from a WQ box: Shield Neck. Well, at least both of my legendaries are getting nearly 100% buffs in 7.1.5 WTB cauldron where I can melt down legendaries for a flat % damage boost.

Will be interesting to see if the Fabricate mechanic continues to Aether Revolt and has some better buttressing at the rare slot. Could be a good source of critical mass for Tezz's artifact requirements. Master of Marionettes is rather expensive, mana-cost-wise, but he runs a pretty big game...

They'll make a movie about this game some day. 12 Years a Backer.

Alchemists Expansion came in this week, time to spend 6 hours tonight figuring out the best way to balance one's approach to the victory roads :D

Getting my Student Loans forgiven will be okay. Will likely use the extra money on stupid things. And more pencils, since the kids never put them back in the jar.

If this goes under will he bring a peace offering of mozzarella stix to Brad?

Tezzeret spoiled, not super exciting. Poops Lotus Petals.

I'm waiting for the fresh server to go all in, but I'mma durdle around on PVE until then. PVP is probably going to be unplayable for the next few weeks.

I leave sound on when I'm not in a VOIP channel, but I toggle it off when I am.

Also, first set of singles sales finally arrived at their destinations. Apparently people would prefer if the dice were just left to roll around and get cracked in the padded envelope, vs taping them to a piece of cardboard. Removing Tape is apparently vietnam levels of PTSD.

WTB a cauldron I can use to just melt legendaries down into +2.5% DPS buffs.

God, I remember Shadowbane's website before release. So much 100% fabricated bullshit "facts" about what's "in-game." Still had some friends who loved it despite its warts.

The haircut on that dude in the front row makes it look like he lost half his skull in a mining accident.

Been playing some "No Legendaries" decks against folks at the shop because they were complaining that the legendary-heavy decks were "too strong." They now agree that they'd rather play against Poe or Rey+Han than Grievous or JangoVeers :D

To be fair to the craigslist guys, they're the ones people are trying to scam half the time. "here's my totally unsifted collection" *10,000 Commons Later...* It's largely just hoping for every 10 guys knowingly selling you garbage, there'll be one old person whose son moved out or died and...

Every time this thread is bumped I just assume it's the Shutting Down Announcement.

Amusement. "Hey kids, how do you like a format where half of the (4) competitive decks play mindslaver attached to a 13/13 Flample?" The replies are fun.