MTG thread

Xalara_sl said:

Common sense? Poker tournaments have similar rules for people throwing matches. It's easy to call someone out on bullshit.

Click to expand...

First problem with this is that you'd have to do this with essentially every match at the start of each game for every player in the tournament. And then you'd be asking for judges to make judgments on strategy decisions that can be unclear.

I am going to GP SD this weekend and was planning on playing mono red. Now that it won the pro tour should I stay away from it? Will it just be hated out?

Radikus_sl said:

I am going to GP SD this weekend and was planning on playing mono red. Now that it won the pro tour should I stay away from it? Will it just be hated out?

Click to expand...

If it's what you're comfortable with just play it. I doubt it will be totally hated out it's not like it's going to be 40 percent of the field or anything.

With all these individual big chunks of damage it might be time for some Deflecting Palm.

As long as standard is full of lands that enter play tapped, I wouldn't feel bad about playing Red. Especially now that you get 8 spells that deal 4.

Mist_sl said:

Well, on the plus side for mono red, you can put 4x Smash to Smithereens in the board and have a decent game against those artifact decks that will also be popular.

But seriously, I think I would play something with Siege Rhinos and Tasigur's and 4x Feed the Clans in the board.

Click to expand...

Did you see the g/w aggro deck Kibler played? I guess he had the right idea, ate up the Standard portion.

They'll readjust, or everything else will readjust to them. Same as last time.

I'm almost hoping they stay high so I can watch dual lands creep up again.

Sterling_sl said:

With all these individual big chunks of damage it might be time for some Deflecting Palm.

Click to expand...

I forgot about that card. Loved it early on, but infinite abzan made it so bleh. Yeah, I need to give it another shot.

Mist_sl said:

They're going to double from where they are, at least.

Click to expand...

Temporarily, maybe. There's no way a Tarn will stay over $100. That just doesn't make any sense.

If they do, you can be damn sure reserved list cards will rise to compensate. They always do.

Heylel_sl said:

Temporarily, maybe. There's no way a Tarn will stay over $100. That just doesn't make any sense.

If they do, you can be damn sure reserved list cards will rise to compensate. They always do.

Click to expand...

Yeah people will dump fetches for reserve list cards, duals always get a nice bump when this sort of thing happens.

Sterling_sl said:

Yeah people will dump fetches for reserve list cards, duals always get a nice bump when this sort of thing happens.

Click to expand...

It usually goes something like "oh sweet I can get a Force of Will for a fetch land!" followed by "lol no."

Won game day and got me a snazzy new play mat. I was running U/R Thopters.

Same here. Deck is really fun, as long as you mulligan properly. Seems like it would benefit greatly from the improved mulligan rule since it mulls to 6 frequently. Will play the shit out of it for the 2 months it exists. Last round opponent was super salty about not getting the playmat, despite him being the "ringer" from another store trying to get an easy playmat.

Finished second at my stores gameday. Played blue/white heroic, lost only 2 games total, both in final match.

I cost myself the match by trying to push an extra 2 damage though by pinging myself for 1 with mana confluence when I was at 12, put myself to 11, to cast aqueous form on my favorite hoplite. My opponent was at 7 after the attack, but I already had a 6/6 battlewise hoplite that I could have made 9 power the following turn to win. My opponent had 1 card in hand, stoke the flames and a mantis rider on board and me with no flyers. So me now at 11 he stokes me at end of turn, top decks another stoke and finishes me with mantis rider.

Anyway that was my first loss in three weeks with the deck, and since it was my own fault I did not feel bad. 11-1 over three standard events with folks gunning for the deck still feels good. Too bad the deck cannot keep chugging after rotation in Oct. Then again a lot of decks lose a lot in Oct.

In addition to being solid decks, both the U/R Thopter and U/W Heroic decks are extremely punishing on new or just bad players. It's a good deck choice for trying to win a Game day. I played in neither this weekend. I lost in the finals of a Sealed PPTQ on Saturday and got completely ranched in a Modern PPTQ today.