A forwarning, I make fun of Asians and occasionally vomits the words of "Don't be a Jew." Then again, I'm dating a girl of 4+ ethnicities, so meh. I just try not to make those comments on the Internet, because Internet is serious business.
TC: Good luck with being a marine. Just watch out on the 50miles hike up the mountains, I heard a lot of trainees end up breaking their legs because of the stress.
CD: Bad boy for picking up D&T, you Finn lackey. *shifty eyes* message me when you and I are around and maybe I'll have someone decent to see the Red Death vs D&T match-up.
Wait, weren't you getting too bad marks before so that your parents brought you home to another uni?
Well, the cause of me being in another uni is different, but yeah, I transfered to Madison's technical college. I used to be UW-Milwaukee. I think I coulda been back in Milwaukee this semester, but seeing as how my original goal was to get into UW-Madison and my marks are better in the technical college, the parents figure it could be a way to show the admissions at UW-Madison my improved grades and such.
@Sappy: Alright.
@C_D: Um... :jam:? Sorry, I have another 5 essays lining up right after Spring break, so bleeeeeehhhhhhhh.
Actually I'll be coming up to Madison this weekend on the 30th and staying through Sunday. So PM me that number and I'll call ya holmes. And you're always welcome to interview me about my job. Stories like the guy that I recently evaluated that had sex with his dog or the lady that thought someone was controlling her body so she was going to buy a gun and shot him in the face. The usual
Sexy. Pm's on the way. As for the interview, it's pretty much the same stuff that I asked you last time, but I'm more than happy to include that story to make my teacher laugh. Although the catch of this interview is that I'd need to provide your number+e-mail since the teacher wants to check for validity :sweat:.
Story of the day, Had two exams. I think including the extra credit, I tapped more than 100points. Econ exam should be an A too. I came home, sat down on the computer, and proceed to be ready to start typing one of the 5 essays that is going to be due after my spring break. :cry:
Sappy: You were in Madison!?!?!?! You have to get my number and call me up the next time you get here!! In another news, I may need to interview you about your job for my next econ paper. You up for it?
Fu: I need to see that, I haven't had the time to, but I plan on seeing it this weekend.
Stahl: Yeah, I do that plenty too. The last period I was gone, I kept on typing up a post and then proceed to discard it.
And yeup... yesterday I turned 21, fun times. I went bar hopping with my brother and girlfriend, where at the end... I decided that I have to puke all over the outside and the inside of her car. Fun times.
Stahl&Evan: I feel for you two right now as well. Anyways, it's the middle of the semester, and I expect to receive no less than 3 A's and 1 C. The C is, needless to say, painful to accept, but I expect to raise it to an A- or something. As for temp leader, my vote's still for Sappy (Nemata) since well, he actually posted about the tempt leader! Otherwise, second vote would go to Evan or something. I don't really care, but vote for Sappy!
Eh.... Hello guys, how have you guys done without me?
Life's been... crazy. I've had to written 5essays, 2 tests, and 1 presentation. On top of that, I've become tangled in the world of Dofus (kinda a mini-WoW, but less expensive and less homosexual).
Sappy: I don't care if we have a tempt one, if we do get one, it'd be you that I'm voting for.
Evan: Clicking begin!
Sha: Play Red Death! It's gotten great tourny results, now you have nothing to refuse against the deck!
I'll be back with more life detail, stay tuned!
Oh, and consequently, I'm thinking about wiki-ing the [T]'s. Don't be afraid if you see Twinkee hovering over your window for more person-life information!
So add in Chrome Mox again (though bad with Glowrider out) or what do you think?
Which is what I suggested. But alas, it troubles the deck with that it comes to a card-advantage of -1, with the primary issue of the deck not focusing on generating virtual card-advantage, seems to be out of question.
I understand this isn't the place to pick a fight, but I think Affinity is generally a bad choice for a deck to play in Legacy, considering the trinitys' matchups and easy hate.
You are with your opinion, but generally, I've found that it has solid match-up against threshold and goblin through it's speed, and the solidarity match-up can be positive with SB (although pre-board isn't too bad either as it can race faster than goblin). The easy hate is near non-existent, though mid-west area seems to have learned their lesson. There's a reason why I used to pack the side-board with null rod. But we can move this discussion to the affinity thread no?
Here's the glaring weakness I've had for this deck that I have had the pleasure to play against whenever I think of playing on MWS. (I was piloting Red death, B/R affinity, and Stax.) The general slowness of the deck as well as the desperate need for consistent drop of mana is what I noticed the most. Why I really call it slow is without the speed bumps of creatures you pack, the deck becomes an unimpressive white weenie. Yes you will have the speed bump creatures, but generally they are of cost 3 which proves to be rather sluggish in my experience playing against it.
Generally, as it seems, the deck tries to maximize it's mana curve by dropping the appropriate spell according to the turn (like Isamaru turn 1, something turn 2, glowrider turn3.. whatever), however, it's reliance on these 'synergy' you call it really isn't that impressive. While I am piloting Red death, many of these things don't even come into play because the general slowness of the deck is vulnerable to disruption like hymn to tourach and etc. Yes you could argue for that Aether vial could save you, I agree, but it doesn't hold the same potency like goblins do, as such, I don't normally care about it and focuses on beating than these 'annoying' cards.
Here's one of the problem that lies within the deck. The synergy it relies on surrounds around a number of combinations of cards that works well against it. I imagine a karakas and an active Aether vial in play can prove to be troubling against if left unchecked because it can completely ignore my disruptions and churning out disruptions. However, in cases like those, a synergy between Horoki, dust drinker and glowrider couldn't phase me one bit. While you can say that if you reach a karakas or w/e, it'd be a dangerous disruption. But so what? Then what are you getting into? 3, 4 cards synergy to lock me out? What are the chances? You are looking either luck or sensei's divining top to allow you to get there, but then what's the issue? You are not applying the necessary constant annoyance at slowing your opponent to buy you time, but at finding them instead. With the general smallness of the creatures and cost of the 'important' ones, the deck really becomes unimpressive.
The same can be seen constant throughout while I play Affinity, which can ignore your speed bumps with it's accelerate, and stax will grind you to a complete halt, and has the greater inevitable than you. (I got lazy, I was going to type out the arguments for those two, but then decided not to. Pardon the laziness.)
Take it for what you will. Someone can pm me for a match or whatever, I remember getting a challenge, but it never went through.
But I do argue for dark confidant's possible SB case though. Red Death is the aggressor, it forces your opponents to decide what they have to do. Dark confidant could easily be a better creature choice against decks that are filled with answers and overwhelm them with the awesomeness of it's card-advantage. But Red Death, as stated earlier, is an aggressive deck, a 2/1 body doesn't help it's game-plan. It advances the disruption for Red death, but drastically hinders its board-influence in creature fights. However, while dark confidant may not be spectacular in creature match-ups, it's has shined in the control match-ups for me. Especially against decks whose capable of generating enormous card-advantage via through draw or board-control, dark confidant has turned the tide in the match-up for me whether it is in using him as a removal/counter bait or drawing engine. Basically what I am saying is, if you expect control to be more relevant in your meta. dark confidant could be a powerful choice.
But the case is that, it doesn't improve it's match-up in cases such as Stompy decks, affinity, Gobbies (duh), and chalice of the void based decks.
It's long debated. Anwar and powergamer both have success with Red Death have different opinions about Dark confidant. But generally, most players rule that his 2/1 body doesn't help the goblin match-up despite his possibly game-breaking ability. Basically it comes down to that Red Death wants to have it's creatures tapped, a 2/1 body really doesn't let it survive long enough under that strategy. As for the late-game benefiters part of dark confidant, I don't think most red death wants to be in that part of the game anyways.
I came up with somewhat mixed result. It did strengthen control match-ups by sheer card-advantage alone. But the format is more Aggro-oriented that it just doesn't seem like a good choice.
Regarding Peter's Power: So he has telekenisis, what does that mean? Sylar's original power wasn't telekenisis, so that means Peter can absorb Sylar's stolen power.. so does that mean that he has also absorbed all the power of Sylar's victims? Or does he have to rely on interacting with the power first hand to absorb it?
serpent generator, again, another uber hoser for goblins. pumping out a chump blocker every turn, plus your opponent will have to leave blockers behind so they don't get killed by the poison counters.
Active volcano, now here's something threshold is gonna be afraid of. Now they have to leave counters behind or you can get some serious tempo from bouncing their tundra, tropical island, and even volcanic island (Lol). Not only that, they'll have to mage this card now since they'll be afraid that the card can remove the mage! How awesome is that?
Dregs of Sorrow. Okay, so MBC has crappy draws right? This card fixes that completely. It's a creature removal and draw spell all on its own. Pair it up with cabal coffer and watch you draw like 10 cards and kill 10 goblins all at the same time. That's like 10 + 10 - 1 = 19 card-advantage! That definitely pwns goblins.
Stir the grave. Yeah sure it costs a lot to revive something like Akroma, angel of vengence, but the key is that you can dedicate this spell to stuff that has low casting cost like blood pet. Yeah sure unearth can do that too, but it doesn't have the flexibility for creature like sengir vampire.
I'll come back when I find more cards that have potential
Duh.
Well, the class is discussing what makes a situation a moral situation. So I suppose they got caught up in all the definitions that people were throwing up. Still though, I loved it when I called one guy, or rather his idea, Hitler during class. :xd:
TC: Good luck with being a marine. Just watch out on the 50miles hike up the mountains, I heard a lot of trainees end up breaking their legs because of the stress.
CD: Bad boy for picking up D&T, you Finn lackey. *shifty eyes* message me when you and I are around and maybe I'll have someone decent to see the Red Death vs D&T match-up.
Monkey: Wah?
Well, the cause of me being in another uni is different, but yeah, I transfered to Madison's technical college. I used to be UW-Milwaukee. I think I coulda been back in Milwaukee this semester, but seeing as how my original goal was to get into UW-Madison and my marks are better in the technical college, the parents figure it could be a way to show the admissions at UW-Madison my improved grades and such.
@Sappy: Alright.
@C_D: Um... :jam:? Sorry, I have another 5 essays lining up right after Spring break, so bleeeeeehhhhhhhh.
Sexy. Pm's on the way. As for the interview, it's pretty much the same stuff that I asked you last time, but I'm more than happy to include that story to make my teacher laugh. Although the catch of this interview is that I'd need to provide your number+e-mail since the teacher wants to check for validity
Story of the day, Had two exams. I think including the extra credit, I tapped more than 100points. Econ exam should be an A too. I came home, sat down on the computer, and proceed to be ready to start typing one of the 5 essays that is going to be due after my spring break. :cry:
Fu: I need to see that, I haven't had the time to, but I plan on seeing it this weekend.
Jaede: :weird3:
Oni: Welcome back, what took you so long?
Stahl: Yeah, I do that plenty too. The last period I was gone, I kept on typing up a post and then proceed to discard it.
And yeup... yesterday I turned 21, fun times. I went bar hopping with my brother and girlfriend, where at the end... I decided that I have to puke all over the outside and the inside of her car. Fun times.
So now... would you make a new thread for the [t]'s Sappy?
Eh.... Hello guys, how have you guys done without me?
Life's been... crazy. I've had to written 5essays, 2 tests, and 1 presentation. On top of that, I've become tangled in the world of Dofus (kinda a mini-WoW, but less expensive and less homosexual).
Sappy: I don't care if we have a tempt one, if we do get one, it'd be you that I'm voting for.
Evan: Clicking begin!
Sha: Play Red Death! It's gotten great tourny results, now you have nothing to refuse against the deck!
I'll be back with more life detail, stay tuned!
Oh, and consequently, I'm thinking about wiki-ing the [T]'s. Don't be afraid if you see Twinkee hovering over your window for more person-life information!
You are with your opinion, but generally, I've found that it has solid match-up against threshold and goblin through it's speed, and the solidarity match-up can be positive with SB (although pre-board isn't too bad either as it can race faster than goblin). The easy hate is near non-existent, though mid-west area seems to have learned their lesson. There's a reason why I used to pack the side-board with null rod. But we can move this discussion to the affinity thread no?
Generally, as it seems, the deck tries to maximize it's mana curve by dropping the appropriate spell according to the turn (like Isamaru turn 1, something turn 2, glowrider turn3.. whatever), however, it's reliance on these 'synergy' you call it really isn't that impressive. While I am piloting Red death, many of these things don't even come into play because the general slowness of the deck is vulnerable to disruption like hymn to tourach and etc. Yes you could argue for that Aether vial could save you, I agree, but it doesn't hold the same potency like goblins do, as such, I don't normally care about it and focuses on beating than these 'annoying' cards.
Here's one of the problem that lies within the deck. The synergy it relies on surrounds around a number of combinations of cards that works well against it. I imagine a karakas and an active Aether vial in play can prove to be troubling against if left unchecked because it can completely ignore my disruptions and churning out disruptions. However, in cases like those, a synergy between Horoki, dust drinker and glowrider couldn't phase me one bit. While you can say that if you reach a karakas or w/e, it'd be a dangerous disruption. But so what? Then what are you getting into? 3, 4 cards synergy to lock me out? What are the chances? You are looking either luck or sensei's divining top to allow you to get there, but then what's the issue? You are not applying the necessary constant annoyance at slowing your opponent to buy you time, but at finding them instead. With the general smallness of the creatures and cost of the 'important' ones, the deck really becomes unimpressive.
The same can be seen constant throughout while I play Affinity, which can ignore your speed bumps with it's accelerate, and stax will grind you to a complete halt, and has the greater inevitable than you. (I got lazy, I was going to type out the arguments for those two, but then decided not to. Pardon the laziness.)
Take it for what you will. Someone can pm me for a match or whatever, I remember getting a challenge, but it never went through.
But I do argue for dark confidant's possible SB case though. Red Death is the aggressor, it forces your opponents to decide what they have to do. Dark confidant could easily be a better creature choice against decks that are filled with answers and overwhelm them with the awesomeness of it's card-advantage. But Red Death, as stated earlier, is an aggressive deck, a 2/1 body doesn't help it's game-plan. It advances the disruption for Red death, but drastically hinders its board-influence in creature fights. However, while dark confidant may not be spectacular in creature match-ups, it's has shined in the control match-ups for me. Especially against decks whose capable of generating enormous card-advantage via through draw or board-control, dark confidant has turned the tide in the match-up for me whether it is in using him as a removal/counter bait or drawing engine. Basically what I am saying is, if you expect control to be more relevant in your meta. dark confidant could be a powerful choice.
But the case is that, it doesn't improve it's match-up in cases such as Stompy decks, affinity, Gobbies (duh), and chalice of the void based decks.
Blar.
I have tested him in (difference from Anarky): MD: -1 Wretched Anurid +1 Dark confidant. SB: -3 cabal therapy, +3 Dark confidant.
I came up with somewhat mixed result. It did strengthen control match-ups by sheer card-advantage alone. But the format is more Aggro-oriented that it just doesn't seem like a good choice.
My school didn't have off on Presidents day... so blah.
Anthropology test didn't come back so hot so I'm feeling bleh. I need some lovin. :cry:
Ala-bara's Cluster for some ultra goblin hate. Sure it has a horrible activation cost. But come on, Goblin is totally a control deck... it uses goblin ringleader (aka fact or fiction for all you nubers) and Goblin matron (Aka. demonic tutor), so you can totally survive until the late game.
Knowledge vault, total hoser of uba mask.
serpent generator, again, another uber hoser for goblins. pumping out a chump blocker every turn, plus your opponent will have to leave blockers behind so they don't get killed by the poison counters.
Active volcano, now here's something threshold is gonna be afraid of. Now they have to leave counters behind or you can get some serious tempo from bouncing their tundra, tropical island, and even volcanic island (Lol). Not only that, they'll have to mage this card now since they'll be afraid that the card can remove the mage! How awesome is that?
Bountry hunter, another excellent creature removal. So broken with pemmin's aura on it. Speaking of which, Pemmin's aura makes all your creature a morphing, Lols that's tech.
Dregs of Sorrow. Okay, so MBC has crappy draws right? This card fixes that completely. It's a creature removal and draw spell all on its own. Pair it up with cabal coffer and watch you draw like 10 cards and kill 10 goblins all at the same time. That's like 10 + 10 - 1 = 19 card-advantage! That definitely pwns goblins.
Stir the grave. Yeah sure it costs a lot to revive something like Akroma, angel of vengence, but the key is that you can dedicate this spell to stuff that has low casting cost like blood pet. Yeah sure unearth can do that too, but it doesn't have the flexibility for creature like sengir vampire.
I'll come back when I find more cards that have potential
Duh.
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