Magic: The Gathering C/D

i am never, ever getting these last two QPs huh? so bitter w/mtgo rn

yeah i already gave up on this season, i have too a hard time motivating myself to play now-obsolete formats during the spoiler weeks + paper release period

am i correct in thinking that there is no statistical information available on mtgo? like, if i want to know how i did in tournaments or one off games over a period i need to be keeping track of that myself right?

they keep track of a few things like # of boosters won, which they send you in the monthly email you can opt into in your options. most useful things like winrate you need to track yourself though.

ok thx

boy I really hope the rumors of the G/U Mana Drain are true

if it's four mana would it even be playable?

i kinda doubt it but you better believe i'd base some stupid Zegana deck around it

I would love if it were 1GU

counter a spell and generate 7 mana on turn 4? that may be a little too good

I'm all for overpowered counterspells

like, if i want to know how i did in tournaments or one off games over a period i need to be keeping track of that myself right?

yeah an detailed or even not so detailed stats have to be kept yourself, i use a pretty basic spreadsheet to track my limited play mostly to keep a general sense of my profitability and also because i like knowing what colors/archetypes have done well for me vs. the general impression of the format

i am still on the hunt for those last two elusive QPs. apologies for the updates but no one i know in real life has any idea of what that means when i complain about it

i won a gtc sealed with a 5 colour deck. primarily simic, with domri rade. i had good fixing and my playable creatures were totally spread out. crowned ceratok was my mvp, i closed out 3 games with trample. it felt like a rite of passage.

haha roberto! i remember when i was starting out and didn't have much idea of what i was doing. i drafted a 4-color ISD deck with relatively little fixing. i think i took that thing two rounds, and really p'd my round 2 opponent off. he was french or something and got upset that he lost to a noob.

not trying to knock your deck or anything. 5-color green is a viable strategy in most limited formats i think, even though it's hard to pull off. it's a great timmy strategy cuz it's just a delight when it does go off.

lamp, you should grind phantom sealeds for those QPs. it's so low budg that you can multiqueue relatively efficiently (if that kind of thing turns your crank that is)

oh man i've played... i dont really want to admit how many phantom sealed events over the last two weeks and haven't managed to 3-0. genuinely not sure why but i almost always go 2-1, like yesterday i played four of them and went 2-1 in three. the fourth i went 1-2 mostly because i forgot to submit my deck so i autolost every game 1.

yep i lolled

and i now have a better picture of exactly why you are venting here. that is too much

so all those spoilers outside of the new Mana Drain have been confirmed. which implies that new Mana Drain is likely in the set.

kinda hate the Boros guild leader. not really playable in Constructed but he'll be such a nightmare in Limited. maybe even worse than Firemane Avenger,

is it really not playable in standard?

I think in standard you're only ever going to profitably attack with 3 guys if they're all down by turn 3 at the latest (and preferably 2) - that's why boros elite could be a card, but I'd be really surprised if this could. I guess he's marginally ok as a blocker against some sort of ashzealot.dec, but less so than like, alms beast or deadbridge goliath would be, and those haven't exactly been taking down GPs.

it would be rather interesting with Aurelia. in fact just now I realized that Aurelia allows you to activate Batallion twice. could be an interesting block deck at least!

the Cluestones seem like a good sign for the slowing down of limited. granted a lot of commons have yet to be spoiled but like 1-2 common slots are going to be taken up by these things in every pack.

i think it's gonna be really slow! like 2/2s for 2 being unplayable slow

in which case card evaluations for gatecrash change a ton, RTR not quite as much

yeah in GTC stuff like Gutter Skulk or Sage's Row Denizen were very maindeckable (even if Sage's Row ability didn't help you at all). this is gonna be a complicated format.

in fact just now I realized that Aurelia allows you to activate Batallion twice

Heh, one of the best parts of Magic is little realizations like that. When I figured out that Harrow gave two instant-speed Landfall activations, I was very happy.

the ridiculous synergy between Ooze Flux and Evolve creatures is another good one

wow, the Boros mythic is yet another anti-Wrath card. doesn't feel like a Mythic at all. the Gruul one does however and is probably my favorite card spoiled so far.

sheesh I thought the card was good before I read 'double strike'

i'm a little confused as to why the Boros one exiles itself - unless there's a degenerate combo there it doesn't seem to do anything but confuse people as to whether or not the enchantment itself comes back (I'm pretty sure it doesn't, but it's kinda ambiguous)

it doesn't, it would be too strong if it did. I think it does mostly for flavor reasons.

like it's 'replacing' the exiled creatures

if it replaced itself it would be kinda unbeatable i think.

Yeah it would be worded differently if they wanted that effect. Seems worse than a Boros Charm to me honestly.

i think that depends on how many people start running terminus again.

boros card looks kind of like a bad boros charm at first and then you start thinking about it and it gets more and more ridiculous

it seems like getting the timing right on it could be tricky

i think you want to play it in a deck that can use it aggressively, not just reactively. rebuy your thragtusk and angel triggers, give your lategame play haste to get in for lethal, even blink your guys out EoT to wrath your opponent's board during your first main before they come back. plus it's a mediocre anthem until you want to use it, which is okay for 2 mana.

it also lets you attack 3 times in a turn with aurelia heh

that thing is disgusting with Thragtusk

rebuy your thragtusk and angel triggers

s0 boring though

yeah i mean i'm not gonna be playing it but i think it has a lot of potential in midrange decks

Eh, it's possible, but flicker effects have tended not to get used unless they do something good on their own (like Resto). Ghostway saw almost no play, for a slightly higher cost. Even pw Venser was barely played. The anthem effect doesn't really help the midrange decks that would want to blink their own creatures. Though I do think the environment for a mass flicker effect is better now than it was during Ghostway's time, with ridiculous shit like Thragtusk.

I like the card best in an aggro deck to dodge Wrath, but Boros Charm does that and more. If Terminus or Merciful Eviction raise in popularity, it looks better, and I guess if the aggro decks start adding more creatures with ETB effects, it gets even better.

boros charm also doesn't have to be in play annoucing that it's dodging the next wrath

announcment or no there's still no real substitute for a wrath effect

i really like the golgari mythic

Seance was my favorite card in Innistrad block so maybe this'll pull me back into Standard. I love how the "mill 10" effect both enables it and prevents it from being too degenerate.

Yeah Chant is my kind of card, love it. Has the possibility of getting broken, but it's just a really cool card on its own.

It definitely has the feeling of something that could be degenerate but I think in R&D's world if it costs 6 mana then it's not really a concern. In general cards like that have a clause like "whenever a card is put into your graveyard, exile it", but since this doesn't, something like Harvest Pyre + Time Warp would be an infinite combo. Oh wow I just realized that Harvest Pyre and Boros Reckoner are both legal in Standard right now.