Dies to Removal

MTGS has a strict Jimmie rustling policy.

Jimmie rustling is fine as long as it's done safely.

Yes'm--we even have a jimmie-rustling thread 'round here...we are a more edumacated and genteel sort of social order than those bunch of Sally dandies.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showpost ... count=1316

If he really has been playing 17 years; he may have a learning disability. That's unfortunate.

I just lol'd hard. Now everyone in the office is staring at me...

Who was making homophobic remarks? That person can fuck off.

http://hahgay.com/

And we don't want to hear any Australophobic remarks either!

What about Australian snakes and spiders? Is it okay to be askeered of the snakes and spiders?

MTGS has a strict Jimmie rustling policy.

Jimmie rustling is fine as long as it's done safely.

Brilliantly played. Virtuous even!

For redthirst...by Dan Dos Santos, who will be here in town next month at Spectrum Live. I just picked up my 3-day pass...

Z, you should add to your list of achievements that everyone in the R/x forum with an IQ over 60 left Sally for diestoremoval with you too.

Not bad, not bad sir.

There is a downside to ordering a bunch of cards all at once. I don't feel like organizing all this crap

There is a downside to ordering a bunch of cards all at once. I don't feel like organizing all this crap

Been there. So many times.

Lately I've been sanctioning off gaps in my boxes to make "fuck this, I'll do it later" piles.

Still haven't gotten around to organizing my non-standard cards properly. Last set I've organized was Urza's Destiny so...

I can't remember if it's day 74 or day 75, but I just put the 3rd notch in my bedpost since my breakup. There's something to this challenge...

I have a project, to sort out my modern legal cards from the rest. Only problem is, I have 10 binders. So far I've done lands, artifacts, multicolors, and blacks. It isn't helping that I have to check many of the pre-8th edition cards if they're legal in Modern or not.

There is a downside to ordering a bunch of cards all at once. I don't feel like organizing all this crap

Been there. So many times.

Lately I've been sanctioning off gaps in my boxes to make "fuck this, I'll do it later" piles.

The fuck it pile won out tonight

What RTR common do you guys think that would be worth a dollar or two in the next few years?

What RTR common do you guys think that would be worth a dollar or two in the next few years?

Dryad Militant, maybe. Pretty good hate bear. except you said common and I'm an idiot.

Ehh, Deputy of Acquittals?

Set or block?

What RTR common do you guys think that would be worth a dollar or two in the next few years?

The guildgates

Ethereal Armor

Goblin Electromancer

Keening Apparition

Except for Armor, which I'm pretty sure will go up, the rest are big maybes.

What RTR common do you guys think that would be worth a dollar or two in the next few years?

Dryad Militant, maybe. Pretty good hate bear. except you said common and I'm an idiot.

Ehh, Deputy of Acquittals?

Set or block?

Just the set. There are plenty of good uncommons in this set that will surely be worth some money after a few years.

It's official : ham is now a sexual Tyrannosaurus.

@Ham: Way to be amazing.

In other news, tonight was supposed to be standard night and I was going to unleash Dos Rakis on my gamestore, but nobody showed up so we drafted. It was my first draft in about a year and a half but I was able to win. We all had a good laugh because in our 4 person draft, we pulled 3 shocks, Gideon, Deathrite Shaman, and Boros Reckoner(mine). We also did double GTC and a middle pack of RTR. I ended up with a pretty nice dega deck. Boros Reckoner, double pit fight, 4 extort guys, mad cap skills, and some fliers. Game one, I definitely played used pit fight to have my reckoner wrath my opponents board.

Tomorrow I do job training to be a black jack dealer(cake), Friday it's my first gig and MAYBE FNM, and Saturday's the pre-release followed by hanging out with a lovely lady.

A homophobe would never survive in FoS.

Especially not as our official clan super gay.

It's official : ham is now a sexual Tyrannosaurus.

Two more notches and you get promoted to Goddamn Sexual Tyrannosaurus.

If you get 5 in one night - 2 at once and then 3 at once - you get promoted to redthirst.

In the voice of Jesse "The Body" Ventura :

Buncha slack-jawed faggots around here. The Ham Challenge will turn you into a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like ham.

Sadly, it would take a mountain of cocaine for me to reach redthirst levels of sexual deviance.

Better get to it then. That mountain of coke isn't going to snort itself off some hooker's ass.

And we start the day in fine debauched form! Mornin', gents...gods but I hate early mornings. Had you seen that portrait of Mal before, rt? Dos Santos does the covers of the Mercy Thompson books by Patricia Briggs, which I like. That is, the art and the books...man, I'm about as clear as mud this morning.

Never seen it, but it is pretty baller.

I saw a Firefly meme or something the other day that was pretty cool - it was the crew standing in front of Serenity and it said:

Firefly Addiction: 13 Hours of Euphoria

Followed by a Lifetime of Sorrow.

Which is pretty spot-on, so it's basically meth.

Not exactly how I remember it, but here it is.

Not exactly how I remember it, but here it is.

Ain't that the truth.

That Gruul Sligh thread... I don't even...

Words escape me.

The R/x forum is where I go to make myself feel better when I start doubting myself as a magic player because I know I could never be as bad as those scrubs. Plus Z's rants/insults/cold, hard truths make me laugh.

Never seen it, but it is pretty baller.

I saw a Firefly meme or something the other day that was pretty cool - it was the crew standing in front of Serenity and it said:

Firefly Addiction: 13 Hours of Euphoria

Followed by a Lifetime of Sorrow.

Which is pretty spot-on, so it's basically meth.

Truer words, my friend...my kids complain about it ever more vociferously that I do, asking in typical teenage naivete why the cast doesn't "just get back together and start the show up again".

Yeah, this art show is going to be a very, very dangerous thing...I need to hide the credit cards from myself before I go. The Friday night party with the artists should be interesting...

Yeah, I was just browsing around and was like: "Z is going hard today, what pissed him off?" And then I see posts like this:

Yeah, LeoninKha, what are you talking about? This guy has no ego at all!


In a nutshell, can someone explain to me why Vexing Devil is bad? I don't think he can be that bad....

The R/x forum is where I go to make myself feel better when I start doubting myself as a magic player because I know I could never be as bad as those scrubs. Plus Z's rants/insults/cold, hard truths make me laugh.

My head gets bent both ways...part of me wants to look at the game with the seriousness of chess and learn to play the best cards and the tightest game. But there's another side of me that really likes trying to make janky, off-the-wall stuff work using some of the more flavorful cards. The word "game" has this whole continuum of meaning and I often am at odds with myself over where I want to be on that curve.

I used to love that R/G Sligh thread. Now I'm sad

That R/G sligh thread...man, what a cesspool.

I actually played a guy running Vexing Devil in his R/G deck at my LGS yesterday. I was telling him how bad it was and that he needed to replace it with Cacklers and/or Stromkirk Noble, but he kept saying "He did damage to you! That's all I want." He literally could not wrap his head around the concept of him being a bad choice for an aggro deck, but also admitted that he rarely plays red. After durdling with my UB deck a bit, I decided to pull out my mono red deck and pound him in the face a few times to show him how red is really played. The guy seemed to think the only thing you can do with red is attack, and I made him pay DEARLY for that mindset.

I'm still having a hard time convincing my LGS owner that he's bad, but this is the same guy that thinks red is so easy to play. It's not easy to play, I just make it look easy, which is sad because I'm nowhere near
the skill level that the top red mages are.

The R/x forum is where I go to make myself feel better when I start doubting myself as a magic player because I know I could never be as bad as those scrubs. Plus Z's rants/insults/cold, hard truths make me laugh.

My head gets bent both ways...part of me wants to look at the game with the seriousness of chess and learn to play the best cards and the tightest game. But there's another side of me that really likes trying to make janky, off-the-wall stuff work using some of the more flavorful cards. The word "game" has this whole continuum of meaning and I often am at odds with myself
over where I want to be on that curve.

The difference is that you wouldn't go into the Proven Competitive sub to create a thread about your new janky fun cards just like I wouldn't go into someone's thread about their "fun" theme deck to tell them how uncompetitive it'd be in a tournament.

These guys do exactly that.

Either they don't know that their jank-ass ideas don't belong in that sub - which means they're idiots - or they don't know that their ideas are uncompetitive jank - which means they're idiots - or they know both and they do it anyway - which means they're idiots. Either way, they deserve nothing but our scorn until they can do better.

Regarding VD in the 18 land Gruul Sligh deck: if it's going to be good in Aggro, that's where it'll see play - a deck that cares about nothing past a turn 3-4 win.

Yeah, I was just browsing around and was like: "Z is going hard today, what pissed him off?" And then I see posts like this:

Yeah, LeoninKha, what are you talking about? This guy has no ego at all!


In a nutshell, can someone explain to me why Vexing Devil is bad? I don't think he can be that bad....

The thing that bends a lot of people's heads (mine for sure) I think is that many cards have a (my word of the day) continuum of potential. In a given meta, they can be fantastic, but then as the meta changes they are unplayable. That's hard to swallow sometimes, especially with cards/archetypes in
which someone has a significant financial and/or emotional investment. Hell, zeman won a TNMO last year playing VD in a burn deck...but it's hard for people to conceptualize that in the current Standard that same concept is not viable. I know I get that kind of tunnel vision...it drives me nuts that Dos Rakis isn't viable since GTC because I LIKE the deck. And I get flat-out pissed when there are cards I like that I just can't make work competitively...it's hard not to take personally.

VD is going to be good in a Varolz deck!