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imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 02, 2014 6:36 pm

I think you missed the eidolon of countless battles. the best card in the format after elspeth

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 02, 2014 6:39 pm

also, akroan skyguard, gods willing, and 2 drops are good. the black is quite good too, but the curve isn't the best and although whip is a great card, it isn't that great in this pool. my creatures just aren't that big

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 02, 2014 6:40 pm

idk, I could have gone either way. I destroyed my round 1 opp with EoCB and then flooded both games in round 2

Kaitscralt · Postby **Kaitscralt** » Fri May 02, 2014 7:02 pm

I think you have to play UB there

your UW pool doesn't support the bomby white cards enough except for 2 gods willing

Kaitscralt · Postby **Kaitscralt** » Fri May 02, 2014 7:03 pm

I'm not sure that UB pool loses a match

Pedros · Postby **Pedros** » Fri May 02, 2014 10:40 pm

Ham can you think of a good splinter twin hoser in Red , Green or White? I am sick of loosing to twin (upkeep tap your mana guy). Maybe it is just that I got perfect drawed 10 times (turn 1 bolt my mana dork, turn 2 remand my 2nd dork, turn 3 tap mana, turn 4 twin)

LP, of the Fires · Postby **LP, of the Fires** » Fri May 02, 2014 10:51 pm

Just the temporary stuff like torpor orb.

hamfactorial · Postby **hamfactorial** » Fri May 02, 2014 11:01 pm

Ham can you think of a good splinter twin hoser in Red , Green or White? I am sick of loosing to twin (upkeep tap your mana guy). Maybe it is just that I got perfect drawed 10 times (turn 1 bolt my mana dork, turn 2 remand my 2nd dork, turn 3 tap mana, turn 4 twin)

Instants:
Vines of Vastwood
Path to Exile
Combust

Enchantments:
Ghostly Prison
Suppression Field

And colorless solutions like:
Torpor Orb
Spellskite
Pithing Needle (name the creature, not Splinter Twin)

Pedros · Postby **Pedros** » Fri May 02, 2014 11:58 pm

Ham can you think of a good splinter twin hoser in Red , Green or White? I am sick of loosing to twin (upkeep tap your mana guy). Maybe it is just that I got perfect drawed 10 times (turn 1 bolt my mana dork, turn 2 remand my 2nd dork, turn 3 tap mana, turn 4 twin)
Instants:
Vines of Vastwood
Path to Exile
Combust
Enchantments:
Ghostly Prison
Suppression Field

And colorless solutions like:
Torpor Orb
Spellskite
Pithing Needle (name the creature, not Splinter Twin)

I will send you a decklist tommorow, however it is basicly green based nykthos and big mana
primal command deck. It started as genesis wave however command is strictly better as a cheaper option. If u have any ideas just send me msg.

To all of you that played a lot with lotus cobra - how much lands and fetches you need to make lotus cobra good? I want my deck to have as consistent as possible 5-6 mana at turn 3 to cast command and titan' and cobra allows it quote easily with fetches.

Kaitscralt · Postby **Kaitscralt** » Sat May 03, 2014 12:01 am

Black so hard it's not even funny. Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing compelling about the white while black has literally everything you want; removal, pseudo bombs, CA.

Shipwreck singer, gray merchant, whip, bile blight, asphyxiate, thoughtseize, siren of silent song? Sounds like the nut black pool to me.

also a ub temple

Rhyno · Postby **Rhyno** » Sat May 03, 2014 4:43 pm

So I looked up some articles on Shadowmoor sealed.
This is going to be a train wreck.

montu · Postby **montu** » Sun May 04, 2014 2:00 am

Finally got a QP for this season.

I started with some 8-P's and went 1-1 for FIVE in a row. (Nothing like being exactly average.) At least it (almost) breaks even.

I jumped on a DE tonight, lost my first round to stupid Junk Reanimator (the last game I was stuck on 3 lands, all red, for the entire game, with two WLH and a Charm in hand, and still got him down to 7). But then I won the last 3 matches of the DE, all in 2 games each. (Felt sorry for the last guy, playing Bx Devo. He mulls to 5, and then plays: Thoughtseize, Duress, Duress, Thoughtseize. He had no hand left . . . lol)

I'm going to have to up my game if I'm going to get 35 this month.

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Sun May 04, 2014 4:44 am

3-1'd two sealed dailies today

Kaitscralt · Postby **Kaitscralt** » Sun May 04, 2014 4:14 pm

Jonnymagic · Postby **Jonnymagic** » Sun May 04, 2014 10:14 pm

Lost in the finals for GPT Atlanta, got 8 land and never drew my 2nd color in game 3. Would've loved the 2 byes, but oh well! Drafted a sweet G/B deck with pharika, courser, and eater of hope.

Elricity · Postby **Elricity** » Mon May 05, 2014 2:19 am

2-2 my daily event after winning the first two. Had a really difficult time against UW control although I think I played badly game 2.

Last match was mono blue which I was doing quite well until I land flooded.

Game 3, he had only 1 island but he had Nykthos keep casting him spells as I never could sweep his board or see my sideboard cards.

Through truth is I misplayed one turn where I should have alpha striked but I played around a cyclonic rift on my chains that he didn't have (he cast 2 game 1 back to back to win that one). Oh well, that's why I record.

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Tue May 06, 2014 5:19 pm

My limited rating is almost back to 1800 and I haven't had to buy product in nearly 2 weeks

I'm actually sad that JiN is coming out because I'm finally getting really good at THS THS BNG

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Thu May 08, 2014 6:54 am

I didn't get to play today cause of the downtime

I prob won't play actually until sunday cause of GP Minneapolis (assuming I don't day 2)

magicdownunder · Postby **magicdownunder** » Fri May 09, 2014 2:59 am

Any JOU draft stories?

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 09, 2014 5:50 am

only had time for 1 release event tonight. went white (because why would you ever go anything else) and opened a dictate of heliod so I went 4-0

:5rupee:

magicdownunder · Postby **magicdownunder** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:36 am

only had time for 1 release event tonight. went white (because why would you ever go anything else) and opened a dictate of heliod so I went 4-0

you almost have 15 QP and its nowhere near the end of the season, heck you
may even get 35 for this one (thought he format is Block Construsted

)

I only have :1rupee:

for this season, hopefully I can earn at LEAST 15 once I can get time to play again.

EDIT:

Does anyone know how the 0 Tickets event go? Did they crash or was it smooth sailing? I can't find any information on the mother ship and all MOCS events are still on ETA mode....

Rhyno · Postby **Rhyno** » Fri May 09, 2014 7:29 am

Any JOU draft stories?

Yeah, decided to do a 9-4 despite the bad value. Drafted practically mono white and went 3-0. 2nd round opponent Monstrous'd an Arbor Colossus all 3 games, scary.
No good pulls but I am pleased.

:5rupee:

Does anyone know how the 0 Tickets event go? Did they crash or was it smooth sailing? I can't find any information on the mother ship and all MOCS events are still on ETA mode....[/
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I played in the Shadowmoor events. A lot of people were no-shows (25%?)
The first round somehow took nearly 2 hours but after that it went Ok.

magicdownunder · Postby **magicdownunder** » Fri May 09, 2014 1:58 pm

Why did they have a 2-Hour delay was it a crash or because it was a non-show issue?

Also it seem like they're forcing Beta on us once it hits July.... not sure if I should try and get use to beta now or just stick with V3 and enjoy it while it last....

Here is a nice article about the Beta vs V3

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 09, 2014 3:29 pm

I used the beta last night fr the spotlight and it didn't seem as bad as last time I used it. I still prefer v3 but I guess I'm less worried than I was

Elricity · Postby **Elricity** » Fri May 09, 2014 4:29 pm

Random question about OBS. I couldn't get my in game cursor to display this time. I probably had to mess with settings due to something else and forgot what I did. I can give more info when I'm home on what the settings are currently although I think it's in Window mode. Oddly, I have to choose my browser to show instead of MTGO for it to show up

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:02 pm

So the people that were supposed to bring the other half of my twin list brought the wrong deckbox x_x

My options:
Buy the $150 worth of cards I'm missing and play UR twin
Borrow a full affinity list
Borrow a full burn list
Build something random?

Kaitscralt · Postby **Kaitscralt** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:03 pm

I was off yesterday, was actually gonna do an event, then saw the beta spotlight and logged out.

hamfactorial · Postby **hamfactorial** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:14 pm

So the people that were supposed to bring the other half of my twin list brought the wrong deckbox x_x

My options:
Buy the $150 worth of cards I'm missing and play UR twin
Borrow a full affinity list
Borrow a full burn list
Build something random?

What's the event? You're more likely to win with Twin, maybe buying the other half will get you higher EV.

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:24 pm

It's GP Minneapolis

hamfactorial · Postby **hamfactorial** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:39 pm

In a big tourney like a GP, the top tables will have dedicated hate for Affinity (Stony Silence says you're screwed), whereas Twin doesn't just fall over and die if it sees a Torpor Orb. Playing Island means never having to say you're sorry.

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:43 pm

What about burn? It has been doing well online. I'm just struggling to justify spending that much more for a probable scrub out when a tier 1/2 deck is free...

DroppinSuga · Postby **DroppinSuga** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:45 pm

I'd play Twin. No doubt about it. Affinity is too much of a risk with all the dedicated hate towards it and Burn is not something I'd be willing to hedge my bets on for a good showing.

hamfactorial · Postby **hamfactorial** » Fri May 09, 2014 7:06 pm

Burn is powerful, but suffers from a lack of scale relative to your play skill. Even if you're amazing, you lose if you don't draw your burn quickly enough.

Jonnymagic · Postby **Jonnymagic** » Fri May 09, 2014 8:34 pm

I've done very well with affinity despite not being great at the format yet. I've dedicated my s/b instead of hate to cards that protect from hate -- IE spell pierce, thoughtseize, and apostle's blessing (BLOWOUTVILLE). But if you don't draw any and they do you're just dead, lol.

hamfactorial · Postby **hamfactorial** » Fri May 09, 2014 8:36 pm

Plus you're more handsome than the typical Robots player.

Jonnymagic · Postby **Jonnymagic** » Fri May 09, 2014 8:50 pm

That's the X factor people don't realize I bring to the table. I'm doing a Sealed PTQ this Sunday. Hopefully I pull some sweet stuffz. If I fail terribly I have the chance to do well in Atlanta 2 weeks after. Sealed Errday!

BlakLanner · Postby **BlakLanner** » Sat May 10, 2014 6:44 am

Now that the new cards are available on MODO, I might start streaming again. This is assuming that I can make my deck not suck.

imopen2 · Postby **imopen2** » Sat May 10, 2014 1:26 pm

I managed to pull twin together but I only got to play about 10 games with it so this is most likely going to be a short-lived GP

magicdownunder · Postby **magicdownunder** » Sat May 10, 2014 1:41 pm

WIN IT IO2

@Kait: As a standard control player are you ever concerned about Burning Earth or is that card just wasted SB slots?

Kaitscralt · Postby **Kaitscralt** » Sat May 10, 2014 4:39 pm

Probably wasted, so much enchantment removal now

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