Wit's End is the PERFECT answer to your opponent's Monomania however.
Just hold on to your Wit's End when they Monomania, so you can Wit's End them on your next turn!!!
I think this is fairly reminiscent of the "Jace Battles" we have seen in past standards.. My guess is we will soon witness the great Monomania-Wit's End battles.
And I've 3-0'd over half of my Cube drafts so THIS CAN NOT BE RANDOM.
Although actually I do think Cube (taking unpowered and powered together) is by far the most skill intensive draft format MtGO has ever seen. Sure, there are occasional random crazy things, but the strategy is deep and non-obvious and strategic considerations determine a very high proportion of match outcomes. Literally every Cube draft I come out of I'm aware of multiple major errors I made and it feels like there are many times that number that I didn't even spot.
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You really just need to embrace the rage. I keep a small colony of hamsters next to my computer and every time I lose a match to mana screw I throw one against the wall.
That takes a little more setting up, because drawing too many makes you lose.
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That takes a little more setting up, because drawing too many makes you lose.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you would still win the game if you had lab maniac out and cast this - regardless of how many cards are in your library. Once you get down to zero cards in your library, the maniac's replacement effect would kick in and you would win the game instead of losing it.
I don't have much direct experience with cube, but I do read about the format a lot and have been in the process of building my own for the past year so I do have a base of knowledge. I wonder how many people jump into cube drafts with absolutely NO CLUE what the format is about. Yesterday I had my first 3-0 (only done two drafts this holiday season) with this deck:
Yes, I played 41 cards. Couldn't decide on my last cut!
With this deck I learned that Stoneforge Mystic is crazy good with a couple of good equipment targets. Also that Sun Titan + Strip Mine + Sword of L&S (when they kill your Titan) makes the opponent very sad.
I post the deck not to show how awesome it is, (seems average to me) but merely to be able to say this:
Ancestral Recall : pack 1 pick 3
Mana Vault: pack 2 pick 4
Library of Alexandria: pack 3 pick 7
Oh, and I also had a Mind Twist in the sideboard. Pack 2 pick 6.
It's more that people always overvalue removal. Really, if they make a card ":symb:: Sorcery: As an additional cost, get F'd in the A. Destroy target creature." people will say "removal is removal" and first-pick it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you would still win the game if you had lab maniac out and cast this - regardless of how many cards are in your library.
Wow - all those drafts in Innistrad block and I'd never even noticed that it isn't templated like all the other alt-wins ("At the beginning of your upkeep, if <something>, you win")!
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Oh come on, you've got a Marsh Flats, splash the Mind Twist!
Wow - all those drafts in Innistrad block and I'd never even noticed that it isn't templated like all the other alt-wins ("At the beginning of your upkeep, if <something>, you win")!
Yep, in Commander, I count on mulldrifter and other triggers to win with it (In my all permanents primal surge deck.)
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Wow - all those drafts in Innistrad block and I'd never even noticed that it isn't templated like all the other alt-wins ("At the beginning of your upkeep, if <something>, you win")!
You mean you never actually won with that? You missed out there.
You really just need to embrace the rage. I keep a small colony of hamsters next to my computer and every time I lose a match to mana screw I throw one against the wall.
You mean you never actually won with that? You missed out there.
I did, several times, but in 99% of games winning with it looks exactly like the way I thought it worked. Because you get to your turn with zero cards in your library and then you win before your first stop.
Leveler and Laboratory Maniac now seems kinda broken...
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I did, several times, but in 99% of games winning with it looks exactly like the way I thought it worked. Because you get to your turn with zero cards in your library and then you win before your first stop.
Leveler and Laboratory Maniac now seems kinda broken...
The day the card was spoiled, Leveler enjoyed a brief price tag of like 10-15 bucks.
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The day the card was spoiled, Leveler enjoyed a brief price tag of like 10-15 bucks.
Please tell me that was paper magic not MtGO! Otherwise I missed my chance to make 40-60 tix!
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You mean you never actually won with that? You missed out there.
Even more fun is to use Chromatic Sphere's draw to win without giving your opponent a chance to respond. This interaction actually saw competitive play in Eggs.
For extra bonus points, do so while casting a spell which you wouldn't legally be able to finish casting.
Hey bateleur, I've noticed you playing a lot of Spelunky lately. Thought I'd share this link in case you hadn't seen any of the stories about this yet. It's a great read for any Spelunky players out there or gamers in general.
It's more that people always overvalue removal. Really, if they make a card ":symb:: Sorcery: As an additional cost, get F'd in the A. Destroy target creature." people will say "removal is removal" and first-pick it.
It has been so hot here lately. It hit 43 degrees today and it was very humid. Thank god my LGS has very good air-con.
Was going to draft Modern Masters and/or Shadowmoor today, but we couldn't get eight people and it didn't fire. Pretty bummed, but hopefully it will be busier tomorrow. I'm playing in a Legacy event tomorrow that has a first prize of an FNM Swords to Plowshares! I'm playing The Gate, something I have a lot of experience with (I 3-1'd with it at least ten times and 4-0'd twice, but the meta has shifted pretty drastically since then) so I'm feeling pretty confident. If I do scrub out I'm either going to MM/Shadowmoor draft or play Cube. It should be a fun day!
In other news, I broke my toe the other day. It's not that painful, though, so it hasn't been bothering me that much.
Hey bateleur, I've noticed you playing a lot of Spelunky lately.
Hehe - yeah, sort of. I always have some kind of short-play game to play in between coding sessions. Until recently it was Hearthstone, but until more content comes out for that I don't imagine I'll play much more of it. I picked up a copy of Spelunky in the Steam sale and I'm terrible enough at it that its play time is short enough!
Thought I'd share this link in case you hadn't seen any of the stories about this yet. It's a great read for any Spelunky players out there or gamers in general.
OMG! That guy is ridiculously good!
I'm glad it's not just me that runs everywhere, though. I wondered if I was being a bit reckless...
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Had an awesome win in the last Cube draft of the season. Thought I was done for when he played turn one Library, but it turns out Recurring Nightmare is stronger even than (some of) the power nine and I eventually decked him! Even survived through a Bribery since he had to use it to fetch Tidehollow Sculler just to (temporarily, as it turned out) stop the Recurring Nightmare!
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Well it's snowing here in St. Louis, MO. Which means that everyone freaked out and forgot how to drive and stayed inside and pretended that this is the end of the world. I walked over to the 7-11 on the corner and watched 3 different rear-wheel drive cars attempt to get up the hill by my apartment. Spoiler alert: It didn't go well for them.
In other news, I just watched Owen Turtenwald win another tournament. No big deal right? How good is he right now?
Well, I'm in the THS Sealed Daily waiting for round one. We'll see how this goes...
Well, I'm in the THS Sealed Daily waiting for round one. We'll see how this goes...
Good luck!
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Well it's snowing here in St. Louis, MO. Which means that everyone freaked out and forgot how to drive and stayed inside and pretended that this is the end of the world. I walked over to the 7-11 on the corner and watched 3 different rear-wheel drive cars attempt to get up the hill by my apartment. Spoiler alert: It didn't go well for them.
The US took all our cold this winter. This has been by FAR the warmest winter I've ever experienced (December was like 5-6 degrees above the norm, which is pretty insane), and meanwhile, all I'm hearing about is record low temperatures in the US.
Played against 5 Mistcutter decks out of 6 in Swiss matches today. With monoblue.
Reached the final.
Funny, the common complaint is for the Hydra to NEARLY go all the way, but the thing is it happens to often to simply be bad luck, right?
Well, I was the one who ended up with 42 packs. Not the extra bye for GP Paris though, ah well.
Yeah, I've been playing the deck for about a month or so now - mistcutter really isn't that good against it at all. I beat a guy at an SCG iq a couple of weeks ago whose board was double mistcutter double skylasher.
The real sideboard card we can't beat is anger of the gods. That card is just brutal to play against.
Yeah, I've been playing the deck for about a month or so now - mistcutter really isn't that good against it at all. I beat a guy at an SCG iq a couple of weeks ago whose board was double mistcutter double skylasher.
The real sideboard card we can't beat is anger of the gods. That card is just brutal to play against.
Was the guy playing mana dorks? Andrew Shrout seems to be utilizing them pretty well.
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Hey bateleur, I've noticed you playing a lot of Spelunky lately. Thought I'd share this link in case you hadn't seen any of the stories about this yet. It's a great read for any Spelunky players out there or gamers in general.
Gosh I love Spelunky. I watch Bisnap, Baertaffy, and a few other people play it. I'm pretty terrible at the game, myself, but I love watching other people ghost!
Well it's snowing here in St. Louis, MO. Which means that everyone freaked out and forgot how to drive and stayed inside and pretended that this is the end of the world. I walked over to the 7-11 on the corner and watched 3 different rear-wheel drive cars attempt to get up the hill by my apartment. Spoiler alert: It didn't go well for them.
In other news, I just watched Owen Turtenwald win another tournament. No big deal right? How good is he right now?
Well, I'm in the THS Sealed Daily waiting for round one. We'll see how this goes...
I was just in STL for a couple weeks. Did it snow? I was busy playing Terraria on iOS.
Hehe - yeah, sort of. I always have some kind of short-play game to play in between coding sessions. Until recently it was Hearthstone, but until more content comes out for that I don't imagine I'll play much more of it. I picked up a copy of Spelunky in the Steam sale and I'm terrible enough at it that its play time is short enough!
OMG! That guy is ridiculously good!
I'm glad it's not just me that runs everywhere, though. I wondered if I was being a bit reckless...
Running everywhere is a good skill to have; you can mitigate the danger by whipping while you run. Some levels, if you want to get everything, you basically have to run or deal with the ghost.
In other news, between Rogue Legacy, Terraria, Spelunky, and Starbound, I really want to make a platformer. Ideally a sandbox platformer.
I can arts. Time to learn to code, I guess?
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Draw 61 cards.
Best card ever.
Although actually I do think Cube (taking unpowered and powered together) is by far the most skill intensive draft format MtGO has ever seen. Sure, there are occasional random crazy things, but the strategy is deep and non-obvious and strategic considerations determine a very high proportion of match outcomes. Literally every Cube draft I come out of I'm aware of multiple major errors I made and it feels like there are many times that number that I didn't even spot.
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Not to mention Laboratory Maniac.
That takes a little more setting up, because drawing too many makes you lose.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you would still win the game if you had lab maniac out and cast this - regardless of how many cards are in your library. Once you get down to zero cards in your library, the maniac's replacement effect would kick in and you would win the game instead of losing it.
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1 Student of Warfare
1 Knight of Glory
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Whipcorder
1 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Cloudgoat Ranger
1 Sun Titan
1 Firemane Angel
1 Izzet Charm
1 Lightning Helix
1 Mizzium Mortars
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Ajani Vengeant
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ral Zarek
1 Mox Opal
1 Mana Vault
1 Izzet Signet
1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Batterskull
1 Rishadan Port
1 Strip Mine
1 Azorius Chancery
1 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Steam Vents
1 Marsh Flats
4 Plains
3 Island
2 Mountain
Yes, I played 41 cards. Couldn't decide on my last cut!
With this deck I learned that Stoneforge Mystic is crazy good with a couple of good equipment targets. Also that Sun Titan + Strip Mine + Sword of L&S (when they kill your Titan) makes the opponent very sad.
I post the deck not to show how awesome it is, (seems average to me) but merely to be able to say this:
Ancestral Recall : pack 1 pick 3
Mana Vault: pack 2 pick 4
Library of Alexandria: pack 3 pick 7
Oh, and I also had a Mind Twist in the sideboard. Pack 2 pick 6.
Like I said, some people must have NO CLUE.
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Wow - all those drafts in Innistrad block and I'd never even noticed that it isn't templated like all the other alt-wins ("At the beginning of your upkeep, if <something>, you win")!
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Yep, in Commander, I count on mulldrifter and other triggers to win with it (In my all permanents primal surge deck.)
You mean you never actually won with that? You missed out there.
I did, several times, but in 99% of games winning with it looks exactly like the way I thought it worked. Because you get to your turn with zero cards in your library and then you win before your first stop.
Leveler and Laboratory Maniac now seems kinda broken...
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Yeah, I've won with Lab Maniac at instant speed with Think Twice a few times... and lost to it too.
The day the card was spoiled, Leveler enjoyed a brief price tag of like 10-15 bucks.
Please tell me that was paper magic not MtGO! Otherwise I missed my chance to make 40-60 tix!
In other news, the cards needed to make the cuboid up to 400 cards have now shipped...
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Even more fun is to use Chromatic Sphere's draw to win without giving your opponent a chance to respond. This interaction actually saw competitive play in Eggs.
For extra bonus points, do so while casting a spell which you wouldn't legally be able to finish casting.
Practice for Khans of Tarkir Limited:
Draft: (#1) (#2) (#3) (#4) (#5)
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It has been so hot here lately. It hit 43 degrees today and it was very humid. Thank god my LGS has very good air-con.
Was going to draft Modern Masters and/or Shadowmoor today, but we couldn't get eight people and it didn't fire. Pretty bummed, but hopefully it will be busier tomorrow. I'm playing in a Legacy event tomorrow that has a first prize of an FNM Swords to Plowshares! I'm playing The Gate, something I have a lot of experience with (I 3-1'd with it at least ten times and 4-0'd twice, but the meta has shifted pretty drastically since then) so I'm feeling pretty confident. If I do scrub out I'm either going to MM/Shadowmoor draft or play Cube. It should be a fun day!
In other news, I broke my toe the other day. It's not that painful, though, so it hasn't been bothering me that much.
Hehe - yeah, sort of. I always have some kind of short-play game to play in between coding sessions. Until recently it was Hearthstone, but until more content comes out for that I don't imagine I'll play much more of it. I picked up a copy of Spelunky in the Steam sale and I'm terrible enough at it that its play time is short enough!
OMG! That guy is ridiculously good!
I'm glad it's not just me that runs everywhere, though. I wondered if I was being a bit reckless...
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Today I (re)learned that Fleecemane Lion gets hexproof. A brutal, brutal lesson.
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In other news, I just watched Owen Turtenwald win another tournament. No big deal right? How good is he right now?
Well, I'm in the THS Sealed Daily waiting for round one. We'll see how this goes...
Should've grabbed a quick video for YouTube!
Really quite good.
Good luck!
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The US took all our cold this winter. This has been by FAR the warmest winter I've ever experienced (December was like 5-6 degrees above the norm, which is pretty insane), and meanwhile, all I'm hearing about is record low temperatures in the US.
Yeah, I've been playing the deck for about a month or so now - mistcutter really isn't that good against it at all. I beat a guy at an SCG iq a couple of weeks ago whose board was double mistcutter double skylasher.
The real sideboard card we can't beat is anger of the gods. That card is just brutal to play against.
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Was the guy playing mana dorks? Andrew Shrout seems to be utilizing them pretty well.
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Paper magic! I have no idea what MTGO card prices do, in general. I imagine there was a bit of an opportunity, though.
Gosh I love Spelunky. I watch Bisnap, Baertaffy, and a few other people play it. I'm pretty terrible at the game, myself, but I love watching other people ghost!
I was just in STL for a couple weeks. Did it snow? I was busy playing Terraria on iOS.
Running everywhere is a good skill to have; you can mitigate the danger by whipping while you run. Some levels, if you want to get everything, you basically have to run or deal with the ghost.
In other news, between Rogue Legacy, Terraria, Spelunky, and Starbound, I really want to make a platformer. Ideally a sandbox platformer.
I can arts. Time to learn to code, I guess?