Ack.. That's a bad miss on my part. Never noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out. That saves me the shock from playing it out. (My biggest shock from playing out a card comes from Midnight Banshee which I always thought had flying because no one ever seemed to block it and also because I had it at the back of my head that banshees fly. I had to be told in the face that it didn't fly before I had realised it and that was quite some time after it was released.)
With the difference in interpretation in mind, spell contortion kinda becomes either a rune snag at 3 mana, or a cantrip type of card which would only get to counter relatively large spells. It's not too difficult to have 2 extra mana up unless you're playing out dragons. My valuation of the card drops quite significantly after knowing that there is a huge possibility that the spell might not be countered since counterspells are meant to counter spells and not draw cards. Although it might be useful against a slow meta, I highly doubt that the aggressive decks would shy away enough for this card to become wicked good.
do you complain about everything- here is a guy basically trying to make your life easier and spending hours researching and all you can do is b**** get a life
"However I also believe the MTGO programming team is too apathetic to make even this small constructive change, as they'd had months to do so since the 2009 MOCS."
i am surprised of the place of qasali, this creature being really amazingly useful. and yes, trinket is a house.
about spells, i wont be surprised to find a duress/seize in top 3 because these T1 spells are incredibly useful in aggro, combo or control deck. and black is a very often played color.
Swords to plowshare could also compet because it was the best removal until path came around.
Sensei will clearly enter in so many decks that it seems really difficult not to see it in the top 3. But there are also the SB choices, and in this case, i guess Needle would have a great place in the top.
I guessed Dark Confidant right! Woo-hoo! I'm not so sure that Goyf will ever drop to $20, but he isn't redeemable anymore either. I'll guess 34 tix in June. We'll see.
So while I'm guessing, how about this top 5:
1) Force of Will, given
2) Brainstorm
3) Dark Ritual
4) Engineered Explosives?
5) Sensei's Divining Top
Honorable Mention or tied for 5th again: Lightning Bolt
Notably Absent: tutors of the instant and sorcery type? (absent only from the top 5, of course)
I think that the one that really bothers me the most is people who concede because you're playing expensive cards regardless of how you're actually using them, specifically people who complain about you running an expensive mana base even when your deck isn't overpowered
I feel like if I have the lands I should run them because I have more fun playing my deck when it's consistent and I obviously don't have fun when I'm color screwed or I just can't play anything
I think what your viewpoint lacks is sufficient complexity to mirror what is actually happening. Oversimplification only works if everyone agrees to it. What is actually happening is that people enter games with certain expectations. When their expectations aren't met for whatever reason sometimes they concede. Sometimes this creates a bitter feeling. Bitterness being an emotion isn't subject to simple logic.
I think the thing the person who has been conceded against has to grasp (or not) is that the negativity they are hearing is a result of disappointment over a failed expectation. This doesn't mean that the person who concedes shouldn't feel the way they do and it doesn't mean you should be affected by it. Unless to you it is important to please them for some reason.
It may be that your deck just gets under their skin. Or it may be they did a lookahead and decided they couldn't win. Or it may be your failure to say hello led them to believe you were unkind and they blocked you before conceding. Or they may want to play you again after they adjust their deck. Or they may rage quit for awhile and forget why they quit and run into the same problem again with someone else.
All of the above have happened and will continue to happen. I had someone concede the other day to a Deathspore Thallid the turn after it came out. Like they suddenly realized this one card could maybe blow out their whole deck. (But in actuality what happened was the person inconsiderately started playing me when they had a draft about to start and then bailed without a word when it did. (I asked because I was curious.)
So you never know unless someone tells you why they quit. And even then you have to weight the answer with the likelihood of it's veracity. I think defensive replies occur most often when people feel they are being criticized. Offensive replies happen when they feel offended. But whatever the cause is, if you keep your head you will come out a head. And if you give them slack for being emotional in a game you will lose nothing.
doing all the random html coding is a pain compared to wrapping a card name in (___) so it is hard and tedious. Especially when html is not a strong suit of someone's. And just because they are on mtgotraders, does not mean they are yet linked to pure. I know on my last article they were not linked yeet so i had to use other codes...total pain.
What am I trolling? I saw that several of my replies, did not seem to come through as intended, because there was a misunderstanding, and stoped responding? I took an 'lol you don't get it', as a sign to stop bothering to explain. I am saying that the casual room would be better off if people didn't try to justify a concede and just took it as a win. I've been playing starting a few month before 8th launched, all drafting and casual. The only time conceding becomes a problem is when the person conceding justifies it beyond just a loss. The problem is not the deck or the card, but which ever sides decides to justify them selfs. If you just win or loose, there is no room to argue. If you decide it was because of garruk or combo, it creates a basis to argue. I am trying to show that the casual room card or decks, are irrelevent to the actual problem. I'm sorry if trying to show that the problem in casual does not have anything to do with cards, but people getting defensive. I guess a few defensive replies should have been expected.
I've also found that with the Persist/Conduit combo if you can find room for some Jinxed Idols (they turned out way better than I originally hoped!)and a Mycoloth they can be devastating. For more hi-jinks sac a Murderous Redcap to the Idol, add a counters to him on the persist with the Conduit to hit for 3 (to the dome or critter)and the idol does 2 on opponent's upkeep....what fun! If they try to give the Idol back, you will win the attrition battle with persist/conduit!
to be honest i understand your comment, but just now adding in pictures of a new set is a very long and tedious process...though breaking up walls of text is also beneficial
You sir or madame are arguing with a troll (possibly a trained one). If you'll notice the first post was ambiguous enough that they could read other comments and your reply and shape their inflammation accordingly. (Like that guy... John Edward)
2 Garruks in 60 means, that by the time you can cast it, you will have one in hand about 40% of the time.
To me, casual means "not serious/cutthroat play". I don't fault anyone for conceding, and I almost always will play out my games without conceding (even if lethal is on the stack, I might add), but I suppose that is because I am solidly a Johnny player...
Wow, I'm sorry but that's um, a pretty bad interview. You needed to ask more questions.
Ack.. That's a bad miss on my part. Never noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out. That saves me the shock from playing it out. (My biggest shock from playing out a card comes from Midnight Banshee which I always thought had flying because no one ever seemed to block it and also because I had it at the back of my head that banshees fly. I had to be told in the face that it didn't fly before I had realised it and that was quite some time after it was released.)
With the difference in interpretation in mind, spell contortion kinda becomes either a rune snag at 3 mana, or a cantrip type of card which would only get to counter relatively large spells. It's not too difficult to have 2 extra mana up unless you're playing out dragons. My valuation of the card drops quite significantly after knowing that there is a huge possibility that the spell might not be countered since counterspells are meant to counter spells and not draw cards. Although it might be useful against a slow meta, I highly doubt that the aggressive decks would shy away enough for this card to become wicked good.
do you complain about everything- here is a guy basically trying to make your life easier and spending hours researching and all you can do is b**** get a life
Sorry about the coloring, I had already written this article and didn't have time to change it. I swear the next article is much better.
I branched the next article out to the Top 10, top 5 seemed a little rough due to me grouping so many spells together.
Blue on a green background! Are you colour blind?
yup.
"However I also believe the MTGO programming team is too apathetic to make even this small constructive change, as they'd had months to do so since the 2009 MOCS."
There's a programming team? :)
i am surprised of the place of qasali, this creature being really amazingly useful. and yes, trinket is a house.
about spells, i wont be surprised to find a duress/seize in top 3 because these T1 spells are incredibly useful in aggro, combo or control deck. and black is a very often played color.
Swords to plowshare could also compet because it was the best removal until path came around.
Sensei will clearly enter in so many decks that it seems really difficult not to see it in the top 3. But there are also the SB choices, and in this case, i guess Needle would have a great place in the top.
I guessed Dark Confidant right! Woo-hoo! I'm not so sure that Goyf will ever drop to $20, but he isn't redeemable anymore either. I'll guess 34 tix in June. We'll see.
So while I'm guessing, how about this top 5:
1) Force of Will, given
2) Brainstorm
3) Dark Ritual
4) Engineered Explosives?
5) Sensei's Divining Top
Honorable Mention or tied for 5th again: Lightning Bolt
Notably Absent: tutors of the instant and sorcery type? (absent only from the top 5, of course)
Is that all? Jeez.Your intro is longer than the actual interview.
huh. gotyta say i was expecting a bit more outta this.
just a correction, spell contortion only draws a card for each time it was kicked, it doesn't increase the amount they have to pay.
other than that, good article! I prefer singleton to EDH, and it's nice to see people write about it.
I think that the one that really bothers me the most is people who concede because you're playing expensive cards regardless of how you're actually using them, specifically people who complain about you running an expensive mana base even when your deck isn't overpowered
I feel like if I have the lands I should run them because I have more fun playing my deck when it's consistent and I obviously don't have fun when I'm color screwed or I just can't play anything
well put
I think what your viewpoint lacks is sufficient complexity to mirror what is actually happening. Oversimplification only works if everyone agrees to it. What is actually happening is that people enter games with certain expectations. When their expectations aren't met for whatever reason sometimes they concede. Sometimes this creates a bitter feeling. Bitterness being an emotion isn't subject to simple logic.
I think the thing the person who has been conceded against has to grasp (or not) is that the negativity they are hearing is a result of disappointment over a failed expectation. This doesn't mean that the person who concedes shouldn't feel the way they do and it doesn't mean you should be affected by it. Unless to you it is important to please them for some reason.
It may be that your deck just gets under their skin. Or it may be they did a lookahead and decided they couldn't win. Or it may be your failure to say hello led them to believe you were unkind and they blocked you before conceding. Or they may want to play you again after they adjust their deck. Or they may rage quit for awhile and forget why they quit and run into the same problem again with someone else.
All of the above have happened and will continue to happen. I had someone concede the other day to a Deathspore Thallid the turn after it came out. Like they suddenly realized this one card could maybe blow out their whole deck. (But in actuality what happened was the person inconsiderately started playing me when they had a draft about to start and then bailed without a word when it did. (I asked because I was curious.)
So you never know unless someone tells you why they quit. And even then you have to weight the answer with the likelihood of it's veracity. I think defensive replies occur most often when people feel they are being criticized. Offensive replies happen when they feel offended. But whatever the cause is, if you keep your head you will come out a head. And if you give them slack for being emotional in a game you will lose nothing.
doing all the random html coding is a pain compared to wrapping a card name in (___) so it is hard and tedious. Especially when html is not a strong suit of someone's. And just because they are on mtgotraders, does not mean they are yet linked to pure. I know on my last article they were not linked yeet so i had to use other codes...total pain.
What am I trolling? I saw that several of my replies, did not seem to come through as intended, because there was a misunderstanding, and stoped responding? I took an 'lol you don't get it', as a sign to stop bothering to explain. I am saying that the casual room would be better off if people didn't try to justify a concede and just took it as a win. I've been playing starting a few month before 8th launched, all drafting and casual. The only time conceding becomes a problem is when the person conceding justifies it beyond just a loss. The problem is not the deck or the card, but which ever sides decides to justify them selfs. If you just win or loose, there is no room to argue. If you decide it was because of garruk or combo, it creates a basis to argue. I am trying to show that the casual room card or decks, are irrelevent to the actual problem. I'm sorry if trying to show that the problem in casual does not have anything to do with cards, but people getting defensive. I guess a few defensive replies should have been expected.
I've also found that with the Persist/Conduit combo if you can find room for some Jinxed Idols (they turned out way better than I originally hoped!)and a Mycoloth they can be devastating. For more hi-jinks sac a Murderous Redcap to the Idol, add a counters to him on the persist with the Conduit to hit for 3 (to the dome or critter)and the idol does 2 on opponent's upkeep....what fun! If they try to give the Idol back, you will win the attrition battle with persist/conduit!
Enjoy
DrStrange
all is fair in love and war....casual=whatever u want to bring
people conceding is a compliment =D
The cards are already on mtgotraders.com so it is a matter of linking to them. Not a hard though tedious task.
to be honest i understand your comment, but just now adding in pictures of a new set is a very long and tedious process...though breaking up walls of text is also beneficial
Re pictures in the article: Pictures of the new cards would be great so i don't have to go look them all up...
You sir or madame are arguing with a troll (possibly a trained one). If you'll notice the first post was ambiguous enough that they could read other comments and your reply and shape their inflammation accordingly. (Like that guy... John Edward)
2 Garruks in 60 means, that by the time you can cast it, you will have one in hand about 40% of the time.
To me, casual means "not serious/cutthroat play". I don't fault anyone for conceding, and I almost always will play out my games without conceding (even if lethal is on the stack, I might add), but I suppose that is because I am solidly a Johnny player...
Is there a website where I can get a look at more price charts of other cards?