Well GP Lille turned out to be uneventful, lost my 3rd ever semi-fake feature match in a die-roll matchup to the eventual winner Rich Parker, and didn't make day 2 playing RG Aggro. Other than that, a Chaos Team draft I did with the british guys was really fun. I had New Phyrexia, Time Spiral, Mirrodin as my boosters, and drafted the following monstrosity:
Went easy 3-0. Chaos drafts are just too much fun. They were being offered officially for 20 EUR per person, including one Revised booster per pod, but we decided to get our own packs.
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What's good these days? I haven't paid any attention to comics since the 90s. Between the web and graphic novels, little floppy magazines just seem too much like hard work!
I call graphic novels comics too, so that is mainly what I read. For floppies I read a couple Marvel superhero series (FF, Fantastic Four, Avenger's Academy, and Winter Soldier) plus some Image series (Invincible, Fatale and am looking forward to the upcoming Saga and Manhattan Projects). For graphic novels, I'm loving Walking Dead, Unwritten, and Empowered the most. Don't buy any DC, but my local library seems to get most of their stuff so I get to read a bunch of that for free. If I had to recommend only one series it would be Walking Dead, if I you were more into superheros then it would be Invincible. Both Robert Kirkman books and both awesome.
I am also all over quarter bins (or 5 for a dollar as is the case in my local shop) and currently have over 20 long boxes worth of stuff I have not even read yet. At that price I usually buy anything I have a remote interest in. I have compiled almost a complete run of all Superman comics from Crisis up to end of the 90's at that price (that's all 4 series Action, Adventure, Superman and Man of Steel). That will take me a while to get through when I get to the point of actually reading them :).
What were you into in the 90's? At that time I read mostly Image Comics and X-Men.
What were you into in the 90's? At that time I read mostly Image Comics and X-Men.
The 90s was the end rather than the beginning.
I started reading comics in 1983 when my uncle gave me his entire collection (!!!) which included some incredible stuff like New Gods #1 (yes, the one on the Wikipedia page), and large quantities of Rom, Micronauts and Nick Fury. There was also a nearly complete set of Starblazer, quite a bit of X-Men and bits of a dozen or so other series. Not as valuable as it sounds though, since none of it was in great condition.
In the late 80s I was very into Nemesis the Warlock, particularly the earlier stuff drawn by Kevin O'Neill. I wanted to be a comic book artist at the time - as a career that is - and he was my favourite pen and ink artist. Likewise Marshal Law, which remains one of my all-time favourite comics in many ways.
In the 90s I was very interested in the apparent renaissance in comics involving stuff like Watchmen, V-for-Vendetta, Give Me Liberty and to some extent Sandman and various things like The Invisibles (which I didn't read end-to-end but borrowed bits of from friends - I was a student then).
Then I got a bit bored of it all and stopped buying anything much. I still love comics as a medium, but the last two graphic novels I read were Logicomix and Habibi, which should tell you something about what I find lacking in Marvel and DC.
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Hmm, comics are a bit not my thing. I have read a few graphic novels which I really appreciated though, notably watchmen and 300 *puts on hipster glasses* before the movies came out.
I had a hilarious draft the other night where I had 9(!) flashback spells and 7 (!) removal spells (including 2x dead weight 1x tragic slip 1x fires of undeath) and didn't see a burning vengeance. It would have been sweet. I lost match two while digging for an out while we both had lethal on board for our next turns during my second main phase. I drew and promptly discarded my runic repetition to desperate ravings while I had 7 cards in hand. Felt bad, but I had a blast playing the deck so I didn't really mind.
In the 90s I was very interested in the apparent renaissance in comics involving stuff like Watchmen, V-for-Vendetta, Give Me Liberty and to some extent Sandman and various things like The Invisibles (which I didn't read end-to-end but borrowed bits of from friends - I was a student then).
Then I got a bit bored of it all and stopped buying anything much. I still love comics as a medium, but the last two graphic novels I read were Logicomix and Habibi, which should tell you something about what I find lacking in Marvel and DC.
I discovered Watchmen, Sandman, Vendetta, etc in the late 90's and of course loved all of them. I guess I have a soft spot for superheroes though as I enjoyed Alan Moore's Wildcats and Top10 just as much (and in some ways more (Travis Charest and Gene Ha art mmmm)) as Vendetta and From Hell.
For small press books I mostly read them from the library as well. Craig Thompson's Blankets was excellent, but haven't gotten around to Habibi yet. I'll have to look up Logicomix if they have it. Wiki makes it sound interesting.
Basically I'll read anything. Comics to me are the perfect story telling medium. They are a much more singular voice then anything in the movies or TV and yet they have the exciting visual element that books are missing. My wife and building a new house and I have half the basement already claimed as my "comics area" :).
Comics to me are the perfect story telling medium. They are a much more singular voice then anything in the movies or TV and yet they have the exciting visual element that books are missing.
Interesting. For me, their main strength over books is the level of control over the reader's experience. In a book I could write "the building was a crumbling art deco sprawl set in half an acre of poorly kept gardens" and some readers would get completely the wrong sense of the place. In a comic a panel or two will evoke the scene pretty much exactly.
Same with facial expressions. I love the way that in comics a good artist can convey a lot of complexity to a character's reactions, whereas in a book you either have to give everything away ("Bob read the letter and looked nervous") or deny the reader the freedom to observe anything ("Bob read the letter").
My wife and I are building a new house and I have half the basement already claimed as my "comics area" :).
Building? That's quite awesome... I hope someone's already told you the construction will overrun by a year from the longest estimate anyone gives you? (I've just watched another friend of mine emerging from this process. The house is great, but the cost and time overruns were a bit scary!)
Unless you're in the building industry yourself, are you - an architect or something?
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Ooh, I'd never heard of Top 10 before - must take a look.
Mmm indeed! And in fact I haven't seen Gene Ha's work before either. Really excellent!
Moore's ABC line was very good (incl Tome Strong and Promethea), but Top 10 was easily the best of the group. Definitely check it out. And while you are at it try Ed Brubaker's Sleeper. During the early 2000's Wildstorm was putting out some very good mature readers stuff.
Interesting. For me, their main strength over books is the level of control over the reader's experience. In a book I could write "the building was a crumbling art deco sprawl set in half an acre of poorly kept gardens" and some readers would get completely the wrong sense of the place. In a comic a panel or two will evoke the scene pretty much exactly.
Same with facial expressions. I love the way that in comics a good artist can convey a lot of complexity to a character's reactions, whereas in a book you either have to give everything away ("Bob read the letter and looked nervous") or deny the reader the freedom to observe anything ("Bob read the letter").
That's a good way of looking at it too. A good artist really does make it so you can feel what the characters do without having to be told.
Building? That's quite awesome... I hope someone's already told you the construction will overrun by a year from the longest estimate anyone gives you? (I've just watched another friend of mine emerging from this process. The house is great, but the cost and time overruns were a bit scary!)
Unless you're in the building industry yourself, are you - an architect or something?
Ya we've been given lots of warning about the delays. Fortunately we are comfortable in our current house, it is just a little small and poorly proportioned. Hopefully the new house will be finished before a kid or two show up. Right now they are telling us next Christmas, so will likely be next Summer at the earliest :).
I wish I was an architect some days. Stuck behind a desk drawing buildings instead or programming (as I do now).
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Whenever you beat someone with Havengul Lich:
"If you've Havengul problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a Lich ain't one"
This also works if you kill an opposing Lich with removal.
I wish I was an architect some days. Stuck behind a desk drawing buildings instead or programming (as I do now).
Ooh no, I wouldn't swap programming for anything.
In other news, I'm in the worst draft at the moment. My first round opponent had a good U/W deck and crushed me with all the flyers in the world (even the game I won he was doing insanely well but somehow let me win by gambling on his Delvers flipping instead of working out how to win if they didn't). But still, fair enough, he'll probably win the draft. Round two - this was Swiss - my opponent opens on Invisible Stalker into Inquisitor's Flail into Lumberknot when I have a hand with three removal spells in it. He kills me with Artful Dodge on the Lumberknot the turn after I make insane number of zombies with Undead Alchemist into Evil Twin copying Alchemist. Game two, this happens (see attachment)...
So now I've got to play to avoid 0-3 with a very good deck. This could be the most unfair match ever.
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Whenever you beat someone with Havengul Lich:
"If you've Havengul problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a Lich ain't one"
This also works if you kill an opposing Lich with removal.
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Edit: and now that song is stuck in my head and it is awesome
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Turns out Havengul Lich is completely unfair. Who knew. Had a board position of my 3 flyers versus his superior 2, and could be swinging in each turn without losing any board presence.
EDIT: One of the best decks I ever played. The synergies were through the roof. Never got to cast the P1P1 Devotion, but the P3P2(!) Geist showed up quite frequently.
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I think I had a most unfair board position yesterday. I had Bloodline Keeper and Mayor of Avabruck, and both equipped with a Mask of Avacyn. Was a really bizarre RBwg deck - almost made it to the finals of the 8-4, if not for a misplay in the final game, where I fetched the wrong land, and sat on 8 lands and a Kessig Wolf Run for ages.
I won one game pretty much solely off the back of a turn 3 Markov Patrician that got equipped with both of my Mask of Avacyn. Extremely weird game. Somehow the dual Mask of Avacyn I had to put in because I was scarily low on playables just came out as pivotal cards in almost every game. It's a card I normally rate extremely low as I find the +1/+2 doesn't really impact that much. But I am starting to reconsider. Maybe it was just a fluke.
EDIT: Wow, yeah - that's an awesome deck. A bit low on removal, but it looks it can be a really furious beatdown. Interesting that you sided out Smite the Monstrous, that's almost always a maindeck card for me, since I can't ever remember a time it's been a dead card for me.
So the store where I used to play had a policy wherein members had to pay $50+ a month (which was all returned as store credit, so it worked out alright) to be able to use credit earned in tournaments to enter future events. This was fine, as I didn't mind paying to play Magic, and the prizes were good, but I became more strapped for money these past few months, so I had to cancel my account and stop playing there.
Apparently, within the last couple of months, they changed that policy, so now I can draft there and use my winnings to enter future events. A friend bought me into a draft a few weeks ago in exchange for some cards, and I haven't lost a match there since, going undefeated in a sealed and 3-0-1 in the last 2 FNM drafts. Looks like I'll be able to start playing more regularly now, which is super exciting for me. I really feel like I've been losing a bit of edge recently, but I've drafted and played reasonably well these past two Fridays, so hopefully I'll be able to contribute more constructively here.
PhanTom, I absolutely love that deck! Did you ever get to use the Stitcher's Apprentice for the 8,346 uses it had in there? I would love to see someone sacrifice St. Traft's angel to make a homunculus during combat, especially with an Unruly Mob in play.
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Looks like I'll be able to start playing more regularly now, which is super exciting for me.
Hurrah!
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Yup, that's is really quite absurd. Was that an 8-4?
No, just a 4-3-2-2. I don't tend to play 8-4s, not good enough for them. When I have time, it's Swiss, if not really, I go for 4322s.
Semantics: plenty of times. Stitcher's Apprentice did everything and more in the games.
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And that's in the top 8 draft of a MOCS. Double Deranged Outcast, 3(!) Brimstone Volley, Devil's Play, Gutter Grime... the deck is just really really nasty. 1024 player event. Pretty crazy.
Nice triple Volley, but generally I far prefer PhanTom's deck. Both have their crazy draws, but the W/U aggro deck looks far more consistent to me even though the GRw one has more inevitability.
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And that's in the top 8 draft of a MOCS. Double Deranged Outcast, 3(!) Brimstone Volley, Devil's Play, Gutter Grime... the deck is just really really nasty. 1024 player event. Pretty crazy.
Keep in mind that there is a bug in top-8 drafts on magic online, so players will often miss the first several picks or a draft or a pack. This tends to explain the general weirdness you sometimes see in the draft viewer and decklists in T8 drafts.
Heck, I just made it to at T8 draft of a 64 man once and had it happen
Keep in mind that there is a bug in top-8 drafts on magic online, so players will often miss the first several picks or a draft or a pack. This tends to explain the general weirdness you sometimes see in the draft viewer and decklists in T8 drafts.
Heck, I just made it to at T8 draft of a 64 man once and had it happen
MOCS was my 3rd top 8 of a big PE, but the last 2 times I don't remember missing any picks. This time as soon as the last match of round 11 finished MTGO froze. I waited for a minute hoping it would fix itself (and hoping that there was the customary 2 minutes between rounds, this was after playing almost 11 hours of very tough matches, so I forgot that there was not). I then started another session, killed the first one and logged into the second and instantly I was in the draft with 4 cards selected already and about 1 second on the clock. I didn't have time to pick anything and got an autopicked Curse of Thirst, so my first real pick was pick 6.
Very disappointing. I was 2 seats to the right of the eventual winner and looking at the draft viewer I passed him his 3rd Brimstone Volley in a row to start off pack 3. I picked a Slayer of the Wicked over it. Red did seem open from my seat but looking at the viewer now I believe I would have been WU. I would have started off White and would usually avoid WR at all costs.
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I'm not an expert on cubes so I'll see what the cube group is saying about the actual quality of the cube. It should be really sick fun to draft though, and I intend to draft a lot of it during that weekend. I'm a little dissapointed it's limited availability. If it wasn't I would have no intention of ever going back to real drafts. I wonder how much they will cost though? The queues will be 4-3-2-2, but since you don't get to keep the cards you open there really isn't a reason for the entry fee to be more than 2-4 tix since 2 is the typical amount that goes into "prize support" in an online draft, and I could see justifying another two tix because those packs you would have purchased are product they aren't moving. If it's like 8+ tix though I'm going to be rather disappointed.
Cube is great news. Always wanted to draft it online. The amount of prize packs amounts to ~44 tix per 8 players, so ~5.5. Entry therefore should be 5-6 tix.
I have a PTQ that weekend, so hopefully there will be enough time afterwards for a bunch of drafts.
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But on the other hand, did they have to pick the one week I'm on holiday?
Edit: Thinking about it, WotC won't want these to be a better way to acquire packs than the shop, so 6 tix seems like the absolute minimum they could charge. Given their attitude to anything in high demand, I'm expecting 8 tix.
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Hopefully the payout is equal to MSRP of tix put in, like the 2man constructed queues which reward a pack for 2 tix, that way they could put the draft at 6 tix. Unfortunately they will almost certainly reward core set packs for these drafts so you're going to need to win both your first rounds to be able to re-draft even at 6 tix entry. I'm assuming this will de-value core set packs even further to below the 3.0 tix per pack price point.
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I don't know for sure, but I imagine the fact you posted zero times after your signup/confirm posts may have led Promatim to conclude you were inactive?
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Hopefully the payout is equal to MSRP of tix put in, like the 2man constructed queues which reward a pack for 2 tix
I'd be very surprised. Constructed being cheap is great for MtGO since the players all need decks. There's no motivation for WotC to offer cheap drafts.
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4 Island
6 Swamp
5 Mountain
1 Electrostatic Bolt
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Merfolk Looter
1 Blind Creeper
1 Mourning Thrull
1 Dimir Signet
1 Moaning Spirit
1 Dross Prowler
1 Spikeshot Goblin
1 Prodigal Sorcerer
1 Shaper Parasite
1 Krovikan Rot
1 Phyrexian Totem
1 Dimir House Guard
1 Ogre Gatecrasher
1 Sulfurous Blast
1 Agonizing Demise
1 Batterskull
1 Exhumer Thrull
3 other spells
Went easy 3-0. Chaos drafts are just too much fun. They were being offered officially for 20 EUR per person, including one Revised booster per pod, but we decided to get our own packs.
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I call graphic novels comics too, so that is mainly what I read. For floppies I read a couple Marvel superhero series (FF, Fantastic Four, Avenger's Academy, and Winter Soldier) plus some Image series (Invincible, Fatale and am looking forward to the upcoming Saga and Manhattan Projects). For graphic novels, I'm loving Walking Dead, Unwritten, and Empowered the most. Don't buy any DC, but my local library seems to get most of their stuff so I get to read a bunch of that for free. If I had to recommend only one series it would be Walking Dead, if I you were more into superheros then it would be Invincible. Both Robert Kirkman books and both awesome.
I am also all over quarter bins (or 5 for a dollar as is the case in my local shop) and currently have over 20 long boxes worth of stuff I have not even read yet. At that price I usually buy anything I have a remote interest in. I have compiled almost a complete run of all Superman comics from Crisis up to end of the 90's at that price (that's all 4 series Action, Adventure, Superman and Man of Steel). That will take me a while to get through when I get to the point of actually reading them :).
What were you into in the 90's? At that time I read mostly Image Comics and X-Men.
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The 90s was the end rather than the beginning.
I started reading comics in 1983 when my uncle gave me his entire collection (!!!) which included some incredible stuff like New Gods #1 (yes, the one on the Wikipedia page), and large quantities of Rom, Micronauts and Nick Fury. There was also a nearly complete set of Starblazer, quite a bit of X-Men and bits of a dozen or so other series. Not as valuable as it sounds though, since none of it was in great condition.
In the late 80s I was very into Nemesis the Warlock, particularly the earlier stuff drawn by Kevin O'Neill. I wanted to be a comic book artist at the time - as a career that is - and he was my favourite pen and ink artist. Likewise Marshal Law, which remains one of my all-time favourite comics in many ways.
In the 90s I was very interested in the apparent renaissance in comics involving stuff like Watchmen, V-for-Vendetta, Give Me Liberty and to some extent Sandman and various things like The Invisibles (which I didn't read end-to-end but borrowed bits of from friends - I was a student then).
Then I got a bit bored of it all and stopped buying anything much. I still love comics as a medium, but the last two graphic novels I read were Logicomix and Habibi, which should tell you something about what I find lacking in Marvel and DC.
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I had a hilarious draft the other night where I had 9(!) flashback spells and 7 (!) removal spells (including 2x dead weight 1x tragic slip 1x fires of undeath) and didn't see a burning vengeance. It would have been sweet. I lost match two while digging for an out while we both had lethal on board for our next turns during my second main phase. I drew and promptly discarded my runic repetition to desperate ravings while I had 7 cards in hand. Felt bad, but I had a blast playing the deck so I didn't really mind.
I discovered Watchmen, Sandman, Vendetta, etc in the late 90's and of course loved all of them. I guess I have a soft spot for superheroes though as I enjoyed Alan Moore's Wildcats and Top10 just as much (and in some ways more (Travis Charest and Gene Ha art mmmm)) as Vendetta and From Hell.
For small press books I mostly read them from the library as well. Craig Thompson's Blankets was excellent, but haven't gotten around to Habibi yet. I'll have to look up Logicomix if they have it. Wiki makes it sound interesting.
Basically I'll read anything. Comics to me are the perfect story telling medium. They are a much more singular voice then anything in the movies or TV and yet they have the exciting visual element that books are missing. My wife and building a new house and I have half the basement already claimed as my "comics area" :).
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Ooh, I'd never heard of Top 10 before - must take a look.
Mmm indeed! And in fact I haven't seen Gene Ha's work before either. Really excellent!
Fair warning: it's really, really dark. Definitely not to everyone's tastes.
It's very interesting. Almost impossible for me to review, though, because I knew all the relevant maths already.
Interesting. For me, their main strength over books is the level of control over the reader's experience. In a book I could write "the building was a crumbling art deco sprawl set in half an acre of poorly kept gardens" and some readers would get completely the wrong sense of the place. In a comic a panel or two will evoke the scene pretty much exactly.
Same with facial expressions. I love the way that in comics a good artist can convey a lot of complexity to a character's reactions, whereas in a book you either have to give everything away ("Bob read the letter and looked nervous") or deny the reader the freedom to observe anything ("Bob read the letter").
Building? That's quite awesome... I hope someone's already told you the construction will overrun by a year from the longest estimate anyone gives you? (I've just watched another friend of mine emerging from this process. The house is great, but the cost and time overruns were a bit scary!)
Unless you're in the building industry yourself, are you - an architect or something?
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Moore's ABC line was very good (incl Tome Strong and Promethea), but Top 10 was easily the best of the group. Definitely check it out. And while you are at it try Ed Brubaker's Sleeper. During the early 2000's Wildstorm was putting out some very good mature readers stuff.
That's a good way of looking at it too. A good artist really does make it so you can feel what the characters do without having to be told.
Ya we've been given lots of warning about the delays. Fortunately we are comfortable in our current house, it is just a little small and poorly proportioned. Hopefully the new house will be finished before a kid or two show up. Right now they are telling us next Christmas, so will likely be next Summer at the earliest :).
I wish I was an architect some days. Stuck behind a desk drawing buildings instead or programming (as I do now).
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This also works if you kill an opposing Lich with removal.
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Ooh no, I wouldn't swap programming for anything.
In other news, I'm in the worst draft at the moment. My first round opponent had a good U/W deck and crushed me with all the flyers in the world (even the game I won he was doing insanely well but somehow let me win by gambling on his Delvers flipping instead of working out how to win if they didn't). But still, fair enough, he'll probably win the draft. Round two - this was Swiss - my opponent opens on Invisible Stalker into Inquisitor's Flail into Lumberknot when I have a hand with three removal spells in it. He kills me with Artful Dodge on the Lumberknot the turn after I make insane number of zombies with Undead Alchemist into Evil Twin copying Alchemist. Game two, this happens (see attachment)...
So now I've got to play to avoid 0-3 with a very good deck. This could be the most unfair match ever.
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Forum Awards: Best Writer 2005, Best Limited Strategist 2005-2012
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I like you
Edit: and now that song is stuck in my head and it is awesome
2nd place behind Paulo after round 3 of Pro Tour M15
(finished 8-8, but beat Alexander Hayne and Ben Stark)
EDIT: One of the best decks I ever played. The synergies were through the roof. Never got to cast the P1P1 Devotion, but the P3P2(!) Geist showed up quite frequently.
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GP:Madrid 2010 45th
GP:Amsterdam 2011 74th
GP:London 2013 67th
Bazaar of Moxen 2013 32nd
I won one game pretty much solely off the back of a turn 3 Markov Patrician that got equipped with both of my Mask of Avacyn. Extremely weird game. Somehow the dual Mask of Avacyn I had to put in because I was scarily low on playables just came out as pivotal cards in almost every game. It's a card I normally rate extremely low as I find the +1/+2 doesn't really impact that much. But I am starting to reconsider. Maybe it was just a fluke.
EDIT: Wow, yeah - that's an awesome deck. A bit low on removal, but it looks it can be a really furious beatdown. Interesting that you sided out Smite the Monstrous, that's almost always a maindeck card for me, since I can't ever remember a time it's been a dead card for me.
Apparently, within the last couple of months, they changed that policy, so now I can draft there and use my winnings to enter future events. A friend bought me into a draft a few weeks ago in exchange for some cards, and I haven't lost a match there since, going undefeated in a sealed and 3-0-1 in the last 2 FNM drafts. Looks like I'll be able to start playing more regularly now, which is super exciting for me. I really feel like I've been losing a bit of edge recently, but I've drafted and played reasonably well these past two Fridays, so hopefully I'll be able to contribute more constructively here.
PhanTom, I absolutely love that deck! Did you ever get to use the Stitcher's Apprentice for the 8,346 uses it had in there? I would love to see someone sacrifice St. Traft's angel to make a homunculus during combat, especially with an Unruly Mob in play.
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Yup, that's is really quite absurd. Was that an 8-4?
Hurrah!
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No, just a 4-3-2-2. I don't tend to play 8-4s, not good enough for them. When I have time, it's Swiss, if not really, I go for 4322s.
Semantics: plenty of times. Stitcher's Apprentice did everything and more in the games.
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GP:Madrid 2010 45th
GP:Amsterdam 2011 74th
GP:London 2013 67th
Bazaar of Moxen 2013 32nd
And that's in the top 8 draft of a MOCS. Double Deranged Outcast, 3(!) Brimstone Volley, Devil's Play, Gutter Grime... the deck is just really really nasty. 1024 player event. Pretty crazy.
Nice triple Volley, but generally I far prefer PhanTom's deck. Both have their crazy draws, but the W/U aggro deck looks far more consistent to me even though the GRw one has more inevitability.
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Forum Awards: Best Writer 2005, Best Limited Strategist 2005-2012
5CB PotM - June 2005, November 2005, February 2006, April 2008, May 2008, Feb 2009
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Keep in mind that there is a bug in top-8 drafts on magic online, so players will often miss the first several picks or a draft or a pack. This tends to explain the general weirdness you sometimes see in the draft viewer and decklists in T8 drafts.
Heck, I just made it to at T8 draft of a 64 man once and had it happen
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MOCS was my 3rd top 8 of a big PE, but the last 2 times I don't remember missing any picks. This time as soon as the last match of round 11 finished MTGO froze. I waited for a minute hoping it would fix itself (and hoping that there was the customary 2 minutes between rounds, this was after playing almost 11 hours of very tough matches, so I forgot that there was not). I then started another session, killed the first one and logged into the second and instantly I was in the draft with 4 cards selected already and about 1 second on the clock. I didn't have time to pick anything and got an autopicked Curse of Thirst, so my first real pick was pick 6.
Very disappointing. I was 2 seats to the right of the eventual winner and looking at the draft viewer I passed him his 3rd Brimstone Volley in a row to start off pack 3. I picked a Slayer of the Wicked over it. Red did seem open from my seat but looking at the viewer now I believe I would have been WU. I would have started off White and would usually avoid WR at all costs.
2nd place behind Paulo after round 3 of Pro Tour M15
(finished 8-8, but beat Alexander Hayne and Ben Stark)
Great news everybody, official confirmation of the start date for cube phantom drafts on magic online!
Wizards Site Link
I'm not an expert on cubes so I'll see what the cube group is saying about the actual quality of the cube. It should be really sick fun to draft though, and I intend to draft a lot of it during that weekend. I'm a little dissapointed it's limited availability. If it wasn't I would have no intention of ever going back to real drafts. I wonder how much they will cost though? The queues will be 4-3-2-2, but since you don't get to keep the cards you open there really isn't a reason for the entry fee to be more than 2-4 tix since 2 is the typical amount that goes into "prize support" in an online draft, and I could see justifying another two tix because those packs you would have purchased are product they aren't moving. If it's like 8+ tix though I'm going to be rather disappointed.
I have a PTQ that weekend, so hopefully there will be enough time afterwards for a bunch of drafts.
DCI L2 Judge
GP:Madrid 2010 45th
GP:Amsterdam 2011 74th
GP:London 2013 67th
Bazaar of Moxen 2013 32nd
On the one hand: Yay! Cube!
But on the other hand, did they have to pick the one week I'm on holiday?
Edit: Thinking about it, WotC won't want these to be a better way to acquire packs than the shop, so 6 tix seems like the absolute minimum they could charge. Given their attitude to anything in high demand, I'm expecting 8 tix.
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Forum Awards: Best Writer 2005, Best Limited Strategist 2005-2012
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Doesn't look like I'm on the member list though, did something happen?
~W
No money for Magic at the moment. Still on here for the community.
I don't know for sure, but I imagine the fact you posted zero times after your signup/confirm posts may have led Promatim to conclude you were inactive?
You can read Clan threads without being a member, so there's no point in signing up unless you're going to post!
I'd be very surprised. Constructed being cheap is great for MtGO since the players all need decks. There's no motivation for WotC to offer cheap drafts.
(I'm on on this site much anymore. If you want to get in touch it's probably best to email me: dom@heffalumps.org)
Forum Awards: Best Writer 2005, Best Limited Strategist 2005-2012
5CB PotM - June 2005, November 2005, February 2006, April 2008, May 2008, Feb 2009
MTGSalvation Articles: 1-20, plus guest appearance on MTGCast #86!
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