ahhh I gotta googleproof that
but yeah that time works great for me
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'm excited I haven't played magic irl since jr high
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
where are you guys playing?
― Mordy, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
there is this big weekly event that happens in one of those midtown indoor sorta-public spaces
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
citigroup center iirc.sorry for lack of g-proof.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah 53rd and lex
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
oh, i hated in NYC that there was no good place to game. Jim Henley's was blah, and all the other gaming/collectibles places were way too small to do anything (like Forbidden Planet, that other place in midtown, Midtown Comics, etc).
― Mordy, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
the 20 Sided Storw in williamsburg was PACKED with teens playing when i hit it up a few weeks ago.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ magic events there are p well attended ime (which is admittedly limited)
i laughed when i saw that they remade castle in the latest set since its one of my favorite magic cards
― Lamp, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
I think u guys should make a short documentary film abt this experince and post it here
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
i hated going to brooklyn. too much travel time from washington heights
― Mordy, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
if you're limiting your new york experience based on things like "too much travel time from washington heights" then i just don't know what to say.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
okay, i can't find my decks where i thought they were. gonna continue looking. might be at work, in which case i will stop over there later. i cld swear i moved them from my last apt directly to here tho, so i am gonna keep digging in the closets.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
!! okay here's hoping
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
this is why i should have made sure to find them after last time i couldn't find them before the day of the eventi am a big procrastinator/lazy.BUT i do feel in my gut that they are here somewhere, and the closet is very overfull.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Lol my NY experience. I lived there for ~13 years.
― Mordy, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
but what % of that time was spent playing magic in a citibank building
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
is the real question
it's cute tho. the whole "make sure to get as much out of NYC before you have to leave" sentiment :)
― Mordy, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
i wasn't trying to insinuate anything! i just mean that you know, any neighborhood is gonna have its own particularities re: travel to other boroughs or neighborhoods, but that's no reason not to take a book on the train for 45 minutes imo.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
also, iatee, i think i may have to bail on u tonight. i cannot find my cards anywhere & it is making me crazy. gonna keep looking and will let u know if i succeed. if NOT, i will 100% absolutely make sure to have found them by next week.
the real question i have, is: what is the possbility I accidentally threw them away while moving? idk. i DID find part of a "rebel" deck in a tote bag though, so that gives me hope. also wonder where my binder with raers is
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
if only it was 45 minutes. more like an hour to an hour and a half. and esp since a lot of these MTG events went until late at night it wasn't practical getting home so late
― Mordy, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
sux alright keep me updated
― iatee, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
cards still not located.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
really annoying!!! worried that i threw them out while moving??
but i also feel like they cld be in a tote bag somewhere buried within another bag or box or under a pile of stuff .
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
so i entered a deck in one of their weekly deck-making competitions
― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
what competition? something on the website?
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
going to midnight prerelease tonight, because 3 months is just long enough for me to forget how awful it is to be at the game store until 6am
― ciderpress, Friday, 27 April 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone play in this thing? I did and went 2-2; suspected I got a pretty crappy card pool, as I didn't have any playable rares nor any of the real swingy uncommons that dominated me in the matches I lost. That's the impression I got from this set - lots of haymakers, possibly more degenerate things than I've ever seen in limited, and a surprisingly small amount of removal (believe it or not, blue seems like it'll have the easiest time dealing with creatures this time around)
It looks like Gx Soulbound, W/U flickering, and W/R aggro are all going to be the top limited decks, though Black has some very good aggro cards as well (and you can play Angels if you get the right stuff). IMO this set is pretty terrible for Sealed (as you will likely wind up with 15-16 cards towards all those decks and really have to stretch if you don't get the right card pool), but draft should be really fun.
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i went 4-1 with a U/R tempo deck that had good commons/uncommons but no 'haymakers', so i think i had the opposite impression of the set. Except for the one match I lost to Dark Impostor (had no way to deal with a card that wins the game outside of combat) I felt pretty invincible, since I think about 90% of the room completely misjudged the format as slow when it's actually very fast.
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
i played on sat. i was up 3-1 but i badly misplayed during my final match to finish 3-2. i had 4-5 really solid cards in each color but also lots of total jank so i had a hard time putting together a really solid deck, i ended up going W/R/u humans splashing blue for ghostly flicker, bruna and the 1U unblockable spell. flicker effects and all the excellent etb red cards is really powerful and i probably shouldve gone 3-0 with that deck. my first attempt was with W/U control ft. bruna, a bunch of enchantments and some really good UU cards but i just didnt have enough creatures/removal to make it work and switched after going 1-1.
idk i thought this was a really fun sealed environment - might try to play the actual release next sunday.
― Lamp, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
well Soulbond is by nature a very swingy mechanic. since my deck had virtually no removal (as I opened almost none) some of the green ones would just destroy me, especially the +4/+4 one which essentially added 12 extra power for five mana. in general I think this set is designed to do very powerful things in Limited. the flickering + 2/2 flying bounce guy gets out of hand quick (the four mana "bounce two creatures" sorcery is also insanely good), and R/W can deal a ton of damage quick as a big % of those commons and uncommons are designed to be played together. add to this the miracles and abundance of huge flying Angels and things get a bit unhinged.
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
just did my first AVN draft yesterday, as expected it was really fun, and maybe the most complex draft format yet.
first pick was Vexing Devil (which I thought kind of sucked in draft, but it's worth $15 so I'm not passing it) and was able to go mono-red. dunno how much detail I want to go into here but it really feels like there is so much synergy with the Red humans here. Thatcher Revolt is the deck's bread and butter - kind of terrible on its own, but it interacts with SO MUCH in this set. I managed a turn 4 kill with two of them, which I've never done in a draft before.
drafting a fast deck seems like a good strategy - flicker is slow and soulbound is very susceptible to removal. put a premium on 1 and 2 drops (trust me. there aren't many).
― guess it's Honker Burger tonight...#fml (frogbs), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
okay, here's another observation - this is one of the most removal-lite draft sets I've ever seen. very little "straight" removal at common. I sorted by commons and found everything that can deal with a creature - it's not pretty
White:Defang - kinda crappy, essentially just reduces a creature's power to 0, but doesn't stop any abilities and can be flickered awayRighteous Blow - great card, but it only does 2 damage
Blue:Mist Raven - great card but it only bouncesCrippling Chill - only stalls a creature for a turnPeel from Reality - more bounce, kinda have to build around cards like thisSpectral Prison - this one actually seems okay, but would need to be sided out a lot
Black:Bone Splinters - this is the ONLY common that actually says "destroy target creature" on it, so it's very good, even if it's card disadvantageDeath Wind - can kill anything, but you almost always pay more for it than the creature you're destroyingGhoulflesh - sideboard at bestUndead Executioner - pseudo-removal, definitely good but -2/-2 doesn't take care of the good soulbounders, plus it takes some work
Red:Guise of Fire - sideboard at bestPillar of Flame - good, but only works on small guysThunderbolt - only kills flyers
Green:nothing
So yeah, there are plenty of playables there, but few of the removal spells actually give you mana advantage or card advantage, and of the decent ones, only two are instants! (Righteous Blow and Death Wind)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
i think you're really selling Mist Raven and Crippling Chill short, those seem like great cards. Chill stalls a creature for 2 turns, not 1, since you use it on your opponent's turn before they can attack with it, and it's a freeroll card-wise which is always more powerful than it looks/feels. it played very strong for me at the prerelease.
also, Ghoulflesh and Guise of Fire are perfectly maindeckable. -1/-1 removal has been playable in formats with far more removal options than this one
the lack of instant removal is obviously intentional to make sure that the soulbond guys are good and aren't just constantly setting you up to get blown out
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
err meant peel, not raven
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
raven is the best common in the set though i'm pretty sure
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
agreed, but that 2/4 lifelink angel is a very close second. Raven just has more synergy w/ everything.
Crippling Chill okay, the problem is it doesn't really help much vs. Soulbound (since there are usually two scary creatures out) nor Humans (as they will often have a bunch of critters). Feeling of Dread would be way better. But it does seem very good vs. Angels and the Black "loner" architype. And Peel is one of the best commons in the set, I know that - didn't mean to sell that one short, it's obviously great in this format. But I'm not convinced on the -1 toughness effects - Guise of Fire I like a little better since you can get a few other minor uses out of it, these cards *are* maindeckable but IMO they'd get cut fast if I had too many playables.
Basically it seems like the lack of instant removal is making the Soulbounders a little too good, especially the green +X/+X guys. I don't think this is a problem, just keep in mind that A) Druid's Familiar is really a windmill slam first pick, and B) instant removal is at a premium, and hell I think Peel from Reality may even be first pickable.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
is human frailty an uncommon?
ive maindecked guise of fire in two sealed tournaments and not really regretted it, its good as early removal and really anything you can use to disrupt soulbond is v v worthwhile
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
it only disrupts Wingcrafter, the Lookout, and the Peddler though. IMO the +1/+1 guy is the one you have to worry about (in common at least)
Human Frality is uncommon, but super maindeckable
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
well i meant 'disrupt' in the sense of forcing them into bad trades or 2 for 1s that will break up bonded pairs and not just using it as straight removal
i feel like there are a lot of really good commons and uncommons in this set and a lot of kinda terrible rares (in limited). should be fun to draft
― Lamp, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
wait till you randomly lose to a Bonfire of the Damned, that'll change your mind
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
someone passed me Entreat the Angels at FNM last week, which is a $20 card on top of being an insane bomb. was pretty clear from the other good stuff he passed me that he was pretty much oblivious so i felt kinda bad but if you don't even know enough to know what the chase cards in the set are then i dunno
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i've had that happen with a Snapcaster, I had to tell the guy "hey uhhh, back up, this thing is worth money" (I'd feel like shit otherwise)one of the great things about the first couple weeks of a set's release is that some people really just don't read all the cards, I got an Ulvenwald Tracker Pack 1 as a 7th pick, which is insane, the guy's even better than Daybreak Ranger
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
someone passed me Entreat the Angels at FNM last week
i would feel so bad but also so good about this
haha i pulled a vexing devil in my sealed pool last saturday and was really surprised to find out it was worth decent money for some reason i thought it was still like a $4 rare...
i was really bummed though cuz i left the cards i wasnt playing with behind on the table after a match and by the time i realized what had happened someone had scooped them up :// nothing supervaluable but it sucked nonetheless
― Lamp, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah i love the few weeks between the set release and when the top players start putting up their draft videos, at which point everyone suddenly starts drafting much better
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't played since Ice Age, but downloaded the Magic 2013 Duel of the Planeswalkers for ipad and it's slowly coming back to me, even though the cards are all new. Has anyone else tried the app? Or are you all physical cards only? I haven't paid to unlock it yet but would do so if there were people that played.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
wow there is an ipad app? how much is it
I would be into that and also would play with you 4 sure
― iatee, Saturday, 23 June 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link