I like the idea of these posts but the Mutavault pick is kind of flaky, everything drops when it rotates out of standard. Necrogenesis is a cool card but there's a guy dumping over 100 of them at $0.50ea, I picked up a playset because it's a cool card and I love suspend but I have to wonder if he knows something we don't.
Card speculation seems like a cool hobby though. Especially considering how volatile the online card market is.
I can't count how many times people outplay themselves when playing all sorts of control.. Make the right play at the right time, if they have it, then let them spend it and re-assess.
MUC like any deck can hit the perfect hand and own the game from the beginning. Everyone please follow his advice and assume the MUC player has every card in hand that could stop you. I can't count how many times I have been playing MUC and watched people pass turns when I have 4 lands in hand and 6 untapped islands.
I'm not surprised if you haven't seen it in the past week, since we switched rules.
However, I have seen this play done quite a few times, so I'm genuinely surprised you haven't seen it.
ive played at least 20 games w/ and against mono blue... no one ever does that fathom seer play. thats such a specific situation that i see no point for the writer of this article to address it. cmon alex i expect better from you, you're the pauper originator on here!
I guess you really wanted to get comments on your article, huh...? (My username is my name on here)
I quite liked the article, but then my exposure to serious pauper play is quite limited.
I never found muc to be an extremely tough deck, it has a lot of weaknesses. Full out aggro and discard and affinity can all take it out. Before ala block though, it was much stronger.
I haven't done too many sealed tournies on modo, but I have done a few. I really look forward to the day when leagues come back, it is getting pretty shocking how long they have gone without them at this point.
Your technique is really cool for getting snapshots of potential deck builds, I will use that next time I do a sealed. I understood what you said about the skill needed to build a deck and navigate the waters of accessing a large random pool, but I also still feel like there is a bit too much luck in these events.
Good players will show an edge over time just like in all forms of Magic, but if the players are all at about an even skill level, then the one with the best pool/bombs will have a pretty significant edge it seems. In draft this is far less reduced in my experience.
I am really looking forward to seeing your M10 drafts, and doing some myself!
I have to disagree with your point that nobody's playing MUC, maybe nobody's playing it in weekend challenges but I play in the 2 mans quite alot and have seen it there very often.
(My name is Max115 on MTGO in case I win the raffle)
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Not at all. You guys can tell me how bad I suck and how you'd rather rub racoon urine in your eyes than read another one of my crappy articles or you can just post up to enter. Enjoy guys, and thanks again.
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I like the idea of these posts but the Mutavault pick is kind of flaky, everything drops when it rotates out of standard. Necrogenesis is a cool card but there's a guy dumping over 100 of them at $0.50ea, I picked up a playset because it's a cool card and I love suspend but I have to wonder if he knows something we don't.
Card speculation seems like a cool hobby though. Especially considering how volatile the online card market is.
I can't count how many times people outplay themselves when playing all sorts of control.. Make the right play at the right time, if they have it, then let them spend it and re-assess.
MUC like any deck can hit the perfect hand and own the game from the beginning. Everyone please follow his advice and assume the MUC player has every card in hand that could stop you. I can't count how many times I have been playing MUC and watched people pass turns when I have 4 lands in hand and 6 untapped islands.
I'm not surprised if you haven't seen it in the past week, since we switched rules.
However, I have seen this play done quite a few times, so I'm genuinely surprised you haven't seen it.
-Alex
ive played at least 20 games w/ and against mono blue... no one ever does that fathom seer play. thats such a specific situation that i see no point for the writer of this article to address it. cmon alex i expect better from you, you're the pauper originator on here!
I guess you really wanted to get comments on your article, huh...? (My username is my name on here)
I quite liked the article, but then my exposure to serious pauper play is quite limited.
i have a feeling this might become the most popular article on this site
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I never found muc to be an extremely tough deck, it has a lot of weaknesses. Full out aggro and discard and affinity can all take it out. Before ala block though, it was much stronger.
I haven't done too many sealed tournies on modo, but I have done a few. I really look forward to the day when leagues come back, it is getting pretty shocking how long they have gone without them at this point.
Your technique is really cool for getting snapshots of potential deck builds, I will use that next time I do a sealed. I understood what you said about the skill needed to build a deck and navigate the waters of accessing a large random pool, but I also still feel like there is a bit too much luck in these events.
Good players will show an edge over time just like in all forms of Magic, but if the players are all at about an even skill level, then the one with the best pool/bombs will have a pretty significant edge it seems. In draft this is far less reduced in my experience.
I am really looking forward to seeing your M10 drafts, and doing some myself!
I have to disagree with your point that nobody's playing MUC, maybe nobody's playing it in weekend challenges but I play in the 2 mans quite alot and have seen it there very often.
(My name is Max115 on MTGO in case I win the raffle)
but i'll still try
this is a dumb idea btw
my username is numdiar on mtgo
I will have to do an update guys. I submitted this awhile back. Thanks for the imput though.
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I would like to hear about this with a more relevant post M2010 decklist if there is one. Free pulse sounds fun.
When does the raffle end?
Not at all. You guys can tell me how bad I suck and how you'd rather rub racoon urine in your eyes than read another one of my crappy articles or you can just post up to enter. Enjoy guys, and thanks again.
does the comment have to related to the contents of your article?
so i think i also hate MUC, beat it down, yay!
Free Raffle. As thanks to all of you for reading and posting, I'm having a free raffle. A free Maelstrom Pulse goes to the winner. All you have to do is post a comment on my article. No limit on the amount entries per person. The more you post, the more your odds increase. Keep checking back to see who the winner is.