You're a troll, until you stop being a troll, I am going to continue removing all posts that you make. When you prove that you can add intelligent discussion to the thread, I'll stop removing your posts.
Ah! Yes I watch the series as it comes out on dvd and hits the library. Excellent remake imho though there are some serious plot holes in it. I especially like the characterizations particularly of the Pegasus crew.
here's the deal I think we need to all realize. We draft for 3 reasons. Some do it casually for fun, they take cards they need, rares they need, and hope they can get a win or two. Secondly, people draft a set to test for paper to become better. There are players like me who draft or profit. I'll rare draft only if it helps me with my deck, and I draft for profits. I felt it from this article that a lot of others don't do. He openned himself here to all three drafters. I know it sounds stupid to say but I'm just getting the vibe from this article.
Ok yes it can be done with some time to write it. But since it would be a 3rd party software simple thing. Would it make it correct?
The answer is no. But also would that make anything else correct that would give you in in area of MTGO correct in the same point?
I'm not exactly a Blightning hater. What I hate, to be honest, is cascade into blightning. Specifically lottery hasty elf cascading into the hell sorcery. WTF is that? 6 damage, 2 cards for 4 mana. I'm sick of that play.
Actually that's the secret of jund decks. Every card on the deck is either a "2-card" (cascaders, trinax, blightning, broodmate dragon, pulse, garruk) or a very efficient spell for its cost (bolt, leech, pulse). No other standard deck/strategy has access to so much card advantage and power-to-mana ratio. Make yourself something to control that and you will see it discarded by double blightning plays (which happen more commonly than not, at least online).
Shandalar is a fun game (Who doesn't like random stuff?). And the Microprose "AI" is playable but hardly worth talking about in a competitive sense. Anyone who has played magic for more than a week can beat it. Well maybe not a week but two at the very most. You can also get a million monkeys in a room with a million typewriters...well no that would be chaos but you get the point. We are talking about a real decision making AI capable of countering but choosing to not do so in order to catch the card you held back to play the bait instead. In otherwords actually making it intelligent. The way they wrote the Shandalar AI is to make the decisions random. That's why the game does crazy things like bolt its own guys or give your guys giant growths etc. This makes an interesting scenario but isn't truly playing the game.
The thing that bothers me about this kind of speculation is that it is day dreaming. I have nothing against that. In fact the best creations often start as day dreams but to bring them into the light you need to be able to solidify them beyond the simple generalizations into the nitty gritty details of problem solving. Yes it can be done because someone thought of it. But the likelihood of someone actually doing it is low for now. Particularly without a pay incentive.
What is BSG? I am in NYC myself so not even close, though my Dad grew up in Winnona which is about 30miles out (not sure of the direction) of the twin cities. Hammy I think is from Minn though farther north. Not sure who else from Pure is even close.
Good answer. I do consider that when adding Karakas. Is it a bad target? Is it likely to run into itself? Etc. But I also ask if it is going to take a slot from a plains for fetches, land tax and what not. I am agreeing with you that this isn't the case here but that is why I ask. Just seemed funny. Like the synergy is incidental. But that is the fine art of deck building. You never know when drawing cards what may be useful in circumstances. I guess when I see it I expect more heavy legends presence but there is no reason to not run it (and flagstones too) if you got it.
first please get my name right, if you cant get all ten letters maybe you can manage shard. And while i do contribute to this site i can honestly say i have never played a single round of 100cs. so that i missed something about the format from months back does not surprise me in the least.
The thing is that regardless of how useful it is or isn't, Karakas is so close to 'free' in this deck that there's no reason not to include one. It's not replacing an Island, it's replacing a Plains — and the only cases you're ever going to care that it's not Basic Plains are when your oppnent has absurd amounts of non-basic hate (it's certainly the last target in your deck for any Ruinblasters or the like), when it gets legend-rule'd by an opponent's Karakas (unlikely in this format, and even when it is you'll likely be happier to get rid of theirs than to have yours), or if you somehow have a Glacial Fortress/Karakas/white 1-drop hand. Why not play one?
ok i think people may infer the wrong thing with extinction i dont necessarily see it as a card that needs to be banned, it is probably the best removal spell in tribal, but this week was the first time i saw it, so i cant really have an honest opinion yet. I was just surprised seeing how they banned endemic plague and engineered plague.
@ fadew sorry bout that in my notes i just got the two allies decks jumbled a little at the point of having
allies def golems
allies def angels
im still working on my shorthand stuff lol
I really enjoyed reading this. You went on a very unique-to-MTGO deck-building journey and wrote a very high quality and humorous article to tell us the tale. Hope to see more from you in the future.
Why are you *only* playing single games? This article is god-awful.
You're a troll, until you stop being a troll, I am going to continue removing all posts that you make. When you prove that you can add intelligent discussion to the thread, I'll stop removing your posts.
Ah! Yes I watch the series as it comes out on dvd and hits the library. Excellent remake imho though there are some serious plot holes in it. I especially like the characterizations particularly of the Pegasus crew.
Battlestar Galactica. Its too cold here, man. Yeeshers!
here's the deal I think we need to all realize. We draft for 3 reasons. Some do it casually for fun, they take cards they need, rares they need, and hope they can get a win or two. Secondly, people draft a set to test for paper to become better. There are players like me who draft or profit. I'll rare draft only if it helps me with my deck, and I draft for profits. I felt it from this article that a lot of others don't do. He openned himself here to all three drafters. I know it sounds stupid to say but I'm just getting the vibe from this article.
I believe it would be a CoC violation to use a bot to play a game of magic online without WotC consent.
Ok yes it can be done with some time to write it. But since it would be a 3rd party software simple thing. Would it make it correct?
The answer is no. But also would that make anything else correct that would give you in in area of MTGO correct in the same point?
My balls were quite sensible to Cryptic Commands too! lol
I'm not exactly a Blightning hater. What I hate, to be honest, is cascade into blightning. Specifically lottery hasty elf cascading into the hell sorcery. WTF is that? 6 damage, 2 cards for 4 mana. I'm sick of that play.
Actually that's the secret of jund decks. Every card on the deck is either a "2-card" (cascaders, trinax, blightning, broodmate dragon, pulse, garruk) or a very efficient spell for its cost (bolt, leech, pulse). No other standard deck/strategy has access to so much card advantage and power-to-mana ratio. Make yourself something to control that and you will see it discarded by double blightning plays (which happen more commonly than not, at least online).
- end of rant -
You never know with Vampires ; )
The word you want is "rogue"
Shandalar is a fun game (Who doesn't like random stuff?). And the Microprose "AI" is playable but hardly worth talking about in a competitive sense. Anyone who has played magic for more than a week can beat it. Well maybe not a week but two at the very most. You can also get a million monkeys in a room with a million typewriters...well no that would be chaos but you get the point. We are talking about a real decision making AI capable of countering but choosing to not do so in order to catch the card you held back to play the bait instead. In otherwords actually making it intelligent. The way they wrote the Shandalar AI is to make the decisions random. That's why the game does crazy things like bolt its own guys or give your guys giant growths etc. This makes an interesting scenario but isn't truly playing the game.
The thing that bothers me about this kind of speculation is that it is day dreaming. I have nothing against that. In fact the best creations often start as day dreams but to bring them into the light you need to be able to solidify them beyond the simple generalizations into the nitty gritty details of problem solving. Yes it can be done because someone thought of it. But the likelihood of someone actually doing it is low for now. Particularly without a pay incentive.
Its a hard problem but its easy? Your choice I guess. Prove it?
Ugh Blightning, biggest kick in the balls since Plow Under.
What is BSG? I am in NYC myself so not even close, though my Dad grew up in Winnona which is about 30miles out (not sure of the direction) of the twin cities. Hammy I think is from Minn though farther north. Not sure who else from Pure is even close.
Good answer. I do consider that when adding Karakas. Is it a bad target? Is it likely to run into itself? Etc. But I also ask if it is going to take a slot from a plains for fetches, land tax and what not. I am agreeing with you that this isn't the case here but that is why I ask. Just seemed funny. Like the synergy is incidental. But that is the fine art of deck building. You never know when drawing cards what may be useful in circumstances. I guess when I see it I expect more heavy legends presence but there is no reason to not run it (and flagstones too) if you got it.
Yeah I think Piranah Marsh was a bad idea looking back now.
I'll keep an eye on those sentences as well for the next article.
Yeah I agree, 1 damage of ping doesn't seem worth it, especially when you have 1 drops in a deck like this one does.
This article was a fun read, but I could have done with some more periods and commas to break up some of those sentences.
first please get my name right, if you cant get all ten letters maybe you can manage shard. And while i do contribute to this site i can honestly say i have never played a single round of 100cs. so that i missed something about the format from months back does not surprise me in the least.
WTG Community Cup Team!!!!
I love reanimator!
The thing is that regardless of how useful it is or isn't, Karakas is so close to 'free' in this deck that there's no reason not to include one. It's not replacing an Island, it's replacing a Plains — and the only cases you're ever going to care that it's not Basic Plains are when your oppnent has absurd amounts of non-basic hate (it's certainly the last target in your deck for any Ruinblasters or the like), when it gets legend-rule'd by an opponent's Karakas (unlikely in this format, and even when it is you'll likely be happier to get rid of theirs than to have yours), or if you somehow have a Glacial Fortress/Karakas/white 1-drop hand. Why not play one?
ok i think people may infer the wrong thing with extinction i dont necessarily see it as a card that needs to be banned, it is probably the best removal spell in tribal, but this week was the first time i saw it, so i cant really have an honest opinion yet. I was just surprised seeing how they banned endemic plague and engineered plague.
@ fadew sorry bout that in my notes i just got the two allies decks jumbled a little at the point of having
allies def golems
allies def angels
im still working on my shorthand stuff lol
I really enjoyed reading this. You went on a very unique-to-MTGO deck-building journey and wrote a very high quality and humorous article to tell us the tale. Hope to see more from you in the future.
very good article , but then again its just nice to win a mtgo tournement for once :P.
PS... i took out golems not angels the other allie deck beat the angels.