I joined this site over 14 years ago, and it was a big part of my life for the majority of these 14 years. This was inevitable, but still sad. I hope to see the people of Sally around elsewhere.
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Jan 2, 2016Sene posted a message on Why Spoilers are ImportantPosted in: Articles
ChannelFireball does not publish a paper magazine, so they do not get access to a Godbook.Quote from Downdala »About "the Unfair Advantages", you did not mention the actual deception that Trick Jarrett made here, as leaks are not producing unfair advantages, but official spoilers do. When LSV is reviewing 10+ spoiler cards and possibly has also access to a godbook or something, that gives him and the Channel Fireball Team an unfair advantage by being able to know cards and playtest way ahead of time. -
Aug 10, 2015Sene posted a message on An Evaluation of the 2016 Grand Prix ChangesGood article! I am in full agreement, especially when it comes to coverage. Different formats during the same weekend increases the likelihood that someone tunes in; not everyone is interested in Standard. Or Limited. A fairly high number of players are only into Eternal formats. When you're only running GPs of the same format during the same weekend, you're limiting your audience. Besides, isn't it more interesting to watch a format evolve (i.e. regularly scheduled GPs) than to have 3 GPs at the same time, then wait months until the next one?Posted in: Articles
All-in-all, this change leaves me pretty confused. -
May 5, 2010Sene posted a message on Esper Control V 2.0World Queller is really underrated.Posted in: Promatim Blog
And no, the sideboard isn't particularly impressive - they're very generic answers (except for Malakir and Day, those are good) and won't turn any matchups. How about adding maindeck Spreading Seas, then have a board with some combination of Flashfreeze, Celestial Purge, Duress, Day of Judgment, Malakir Bloodwitch, Kor Firewalker, Consume the Meek, Luminarch Ascension, Deathmark. -
Nov 7, 2007Sene posted a message on 3 days till GP KRAKOW - cant sleep!How did you do?Posted in: t$yat$ya's Blog
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Oct 2, 2007Sene posted a message on GP Krakow - in 33 days!You're going to GP Krakow? Me too... we're a little group of Norwegian pros/"semi-pros" who are going. No idea what I'm gonna play yet, I'll probably decide it the week before or so...Posted in: t$yat$ya's Blog
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Sep 24, 2007Sene posted a message on New Blog Postage FTW!Welcome back to blogging and MtGO!Posted in: Sephiroth Owa's Blog
You bought a set of Goyfs? Ooh, the mere thought frightens me, aren't they like $20? Much easier to get them offline, when you can exploit people who don't know how good they are -
Sep 19, 2007Sene posted a message on Standard and Norwegian NationalsAh ok... tror ikke jeg har spilt mot deg... Hvis du er fra Bergen betyr det vel at du bare kommer til Oslo når det er NM.Posted in: Tussius' MTG-Blog
Jeg hadde tenkt å skrive en artikkel om NM, jeg hadde et par venner som skrev coverage av topp 8 og greier, men jeg vet ikke om jeg gidder. Det blir vel bare en blogg som vanlig (link). -
Sep 6, 2007Sene posted a message on Standard and Norwegian NationalsDu spilte i NM? Hva heter du?Posted in: Tussius' MTG-Blog
Jeg likte decket til Lars, mye mer basert rundt Tarmogoyf enn det som er vanlig for slike Blink-decker.
Selv spilte jeg Gruul, og kom i topp 8 etter å ha vært på delt førsteplass med Wefald hele turneringa... Tapte deretter første matchen i topp 8 mot en god venn, Andreas Nordahl. -
Apr 18, 2007Sene posted a message on My favorite all time RPGsEver tried Seiken Densetsu 2 & 3? True RPG classics for the SNES that I'm sure you'd likePosted in: Cecilia's Blog
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Take care, y'all
Yuuya Watanabe has been known to hit the 2000s regularly (I know this from screenshots posted to Twitter on occasion). My personal best is 1993, which I hit during the previous round of TPF flashback drafts:I was already around 1900, and when TPF drafts began, I won 33 matches in a row.
Building the deck was really hard; there were so many good cards I had access to. I wanted to play the tricks, I wanted to play all the 3-drops, I wanted to play the Hope Against Hope, but I had to try to have a semblance of a curve and a sufficient number of creatures. I only ran 13 guys, but I figured that the two Devil spells and Skin Invasion all kinda counted too. I boarded in the 5/4 in a couple of matches as another big dumb guy at the top of my curve.
P1P1: Avacynian Missionaries
MVP: The Fiery Tempers. Had them at clutch moments all draft. Had I drawn it more often, I suspect Slayer's Plate would have been the MVP; that thing was really brutal in the one game I had it.
Underperformers: Skin Invasion was pretty derpy most of the time I drew it. My dudes were not good enough as blockers to eat their attackers. In one of the games, I thought it was going to be great, but my opponent played Gone Missing on it to slow me down quite significantly.
Game record: 6-0. One game was close; I thought I was going to lose game 1 in the finals to a white-black deck (life total was 13-1 in my opponent's favor and I was behind on board), but my Pious Evangel won the game back for me.
I haven't quite decided if I can maindeck this card or not. I think it might be a maindeck card (and I have maindecked it once or twice), but I'm not sure - it's often really good against white, as they tend to have small fliers and cards such as the 3/1 dog, but in some matchups it really doesn't do a whole lot. It does depend on your deck too, of course; I think it's probably better in decks where you have a number of high toughness creatures; for example, Dual Shot lets you attack with your 2/4 into an opposing 2/3 and kill it. What are your experiences with this card?
Oh, and for value:
When I first saw this card, I was reminded of Coastline Chimera from Theros, which was a decidedly mediocre card. So although I have a propensity for cards like this, I didn't have super high hopes for Silent Observer. But after playing it a number of times so far, I've been quite impressed; it seems to match up really well against the threats in the format. Not only are the creatures generally not five power, the fliers tend to be X/1s like spirit tokens, Nibilis of Dusk, or Crow of Dark Tidings; additionally, having just 1 power is actually key against one of the format's abilities (skulk). So I've been jamming these in all my non-aggro decks (i.e. all of them; let's not kid ourselves here), and been very happy with it.
Thoughts on the card? How high does it rank among the blue commons?
MVP: Tooth Collector. Nailed a card with it every time. Sometimes by sniping an X/1, sometimes by attacking my 2/4 or whatnot into their 2/3.
Underperformers: Stallion of Ashmouth. When I had delirium, I had better things to do with my mana than screwing around with this. It's probably decent usually, but in this deck, I had too much other stuff going on.
Game record: 6-2. Lost one to color screw, another to the six mana wrath (and he got an Angel).
MTGS also used to have a sprawling "outside Magic"-community many years ago; this has all but disappeared. On the other hand, some areas of the forum (like Commander and Modern) are possibly healthier than ever, from what I've heard - I don't visit those areas myself.
9 Mountain
8 Forest
1 Blighted Woodland
Creatures (15)
2 Snapping Gnarlid
1 Beastcaller Savant
1 Makindi Sliderunner
1 Sylvan Advocate
1 Zada's Commando
1 Valakut Predator
1 Akoum Flameseeker
3 Goblin Freerunner
1 Vestige of Emrakul
1 Embodiment of Fury
1 Tajuru Pathwarden
1 Cinder Hellion
1 Vines of the Recluse
1 Brute Strength
2 Reality Hemorrhage
1 Boulder Salvo
1 Nissa's Judgment
1 Stonefury
The deck seemed alright. Not sure if this is an actual archetype, though. I first-picked the Angel and went from there; I got tempted into blue with some reasonable mid-pack pickups like the 3/3 flash flier and Just the Wind (after flirting with black). Had a very tough match against a red-green Werewolf deck that played turn 3 Tireless Tracker each game, but I managed to burn him out in game three in the face of a very menacing Wolf of Devil's Breach.
MVP: The Wild-Field Scarecrows
Underperformers: Broken Concentration. Cancel did not seem well positioned at all. Boarded it out in round 1 and 2.
Game record: 6-2
9 Mountain
8 Forest
1 Blighted Woodland
Creatures (15)
2 Snapping Gnarlid
1 Beastcaller Savant
1 Makindi Sliderunner
1 Sylvan Advocate
1 Zada's Commando
1 Valakut Predator
1 Akoum Flameseeker
3 Goblin Freerunner
1 Vestige of Emrakul
1 Embodiment of Fury
1 Tajuru Pathwarden
1 Cinder Hellion
1 Vines of the Recluse
1 Brute Strength
2 Reality Hemorrhage
1 Boulder Salvo
1 Nissa's Judgment
1 Stonefury