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By: jake_antonetz, Jacob Antonetz
Aug 09 2011 9:28am
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Excellent Work by gamemaster32 at Tue, 08/09/2011 - 11:12
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Nice work man!

I love the format that you have come up with to provide quick bits of information about what is going on in competitive magic. You speak in a very clear and controlled manner, which makes it easy to follow you. In the future, I would try and pick up your level of enthusiasm. I feel like I can hear you reading from a script. I am sure as you continue to develop the project that you will find a comfortable groove.

You are a hardcore contributor to the site and I hope you keep it going.

You did not gush over by Gardevi at Tue, 08/09/2011 - 11:32
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You did not gush over Pyromancer Ascension _nearly_ enough. :P

Great episode, but was there really only US Nats this week and that's it? I'd like to see you expand into Legacy when you feel comfortable enough to; there's a lot of information on that format and it's still relevant to people's interests, thanks to SCG.

still watching by darksky602 at Tue, 08/09/2011 - 12:41
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If you had a daily show I would watch it. I look forward to these videos and your draft videos.

Good job. Again by apaulogy at Tue, 08/09/2011 - 12:59
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This is great. The episodes keep getting better. Agree with a little more enthusiasm.

@ Gardevi- Congrats on your top8. I love the deck. I have been playing it a bunch on MTGO. It doesn't feel like it has too many bad match ups. UB is winnable, as the early disruption game 1 actually can help get counters on Ascension and they have sooo many dead cards, and no one ever knows what you are going to do g2: Am I playing Sphinx or Twin combo? Am I even siding them in? etc... The thing I am most impressed about is the pure draw power of Preordain + Ponder + Fetch Lands. You can dig so deep with this deck, that it has the same kind of "oops, I win" clause as Valakut does.

Good work, both of you.

Least favorite mechanic: Has to be Dredge. I have played Dredge and it doesn't even feel like Magic. You play by a different subset of rules, where your graveyard is your hand and milling your self is good. I like abusing your graveyard (flashback) and discard (madness), but this archetype was a thorn in the side of tournament play for a while.

@Agur- Are you going to feature UB this week on Agur's View? The deck seems like your cup of tea. "This deck is a thing of pure beauty".

Yep by jake_antonetz at Tue, 08/09/2011 - 13:01
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Indeed UB it is this week

Goodie by apaulogy at Tue, 08/09/2011 - 15:29
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I love UB decks ever since Faeries.

Thanks! Yeah, I'm surprised by Gardevi at Tue, 08/09/2011 - 16:03
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Thanks! Yeah, I'm surprised more people haven't been playing Ascension; it's quite good for a deck so underrepresented. UB is actually one of the easier matchups, game 1 is so practically unwinnable for them that Ali and I just joked before the match that he should just scoop game 1 to save time. It gets harder games 2/3, but not so much to be unmanageable.

Awesome dude, but needs moar by Raddman at Wed, 08/10/2011 - 15:53
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Awesome dude, but needs moar Legacy!!!!!!!!!!

Bazzar Dredge is very fun, by menace13 at Wed, 08/10/2011 - 23:15
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Bazzar Dredge is very fun, it's all that other boring magic formats that aren't. Like, red zone is for losers unless you're playing Show and Tell, Tinker, Oath or Bridge from Below. Caw Blade.. lol....

UB vs. Ascension by RoninX at Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:58
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I've been playing a lot of UB lately (not Ali's exact list, but close based on the CF UB lists). The UB vs. Ascension matchup is not that bad at all from UB's perspective - especially if you know what you are playing against. The only games where it is a real blowout are when UB is on the draw w/o discard and Ascension is landed on T2 w/o an into the roil to answer from UB. Otherwise it is pretty easy to sit on counter and use discard to disrupt Ascension long enough to play a 6 drop before the Ascension is active.

...of course I also have 3 Memoricide in the board which makes the SB games a lot easier.

Looking forward to the UB vids this week. I've also had some success with UB Tezz varients, but you lose the darkslicks, Jaces and some of the edges in those. The upside being the ability to function on ~23 land but still play 27 mana sources and have a diversity of threats.