I'm totally loving all the new features the state of the program has now. I would love to see pro tour type events on MTGO once it's stable and though it seems like a pipe dream now it could be a reality if they made some of the changes hammy mentions. I also love the new price feature too.
I appreciate all the feedback. I'll be doing some more of these for sure. Unfortunately, I have 3 11 hour work days coming up, so it may be a few days, but rest assured they will be done.
Yes the article was fantastic, some of the best reporting I have seen in a long time. Very detailed, very informative, and hopefully we can see more of it like this soon.
You are right of course about the power levels of the attackers. Always the problem with speculation not backed by actually testing something slips through. Thanks for the catch.
I believe I will buy some actual paper cards at some point only it probably won't be boosters and such as I do with MTGO. When I first started up it seemed the best way to optimize my collection was chose one or the other considering my financial restrictions. Unfortunately, it means I miss a good deal of the social aspect with a pure Online collection but it is certainly the easiest access.
"Turn 4 – Plains, Tap four Plains to activate Mirror Entity and you have three attackers who are 5/5 rolling in for the kill."
I believe you would have two 5/5 and one 4/4 since the Cenn still doesn't effect itself.
Like you I have played some and taken a long layoff and have come back. I am not only online however as I really enjoy the face to face with friends aspect of play the most.
I like the article, keep up the good work. Discussing what the new set brings to each archetype is a nice way to start looking at things.
I love hearing game recaps like this, especially to this level of detail. It's entertaining and educational at the same time. It can get a little confusing sometimes, trying to remember who's who. I wonder if there's a better way to handle that...
Against Fetchlands, Equipment, manlands, Grim Lavamancers, etc, it's a powerful effect, especially if you're not running fetchlands yourself. I've seen it slow decks down to a crawl on turn 2 while you're still plugging away. Building a deck around this and other disruption is causing headaches in extended already (G/W Noobstax) and many of the same exploits can be found in Classic.
Hey, give Kiki-Jiki a spin with this deck and let me know how it works out. I used to play Magic years ago and dropped out around the time Exodus came out. I started playing again around the time of Coldsnap, so my knowledge of certain cards from the time in between (including Kamigawa) is a bit vague. I've heard of Kiki-Jiki, certainly, and seen him used a few times, but I've never owned one.
nice first article. i've been thinking of ways to break warpride since i first ran into it in a casual room game. forcemage is one of the first cards i thought of. But how about kiki jiki?
Darn it! It just happened again! I was on the second article (the Black/Green one) and clicked Save, and it saved over the other article. I was really careful to make sure that I was on the right page and the right article, too.
Yeah it's been an issue for a while now but somehow has been ignored. It is a user error but it's obviously confusing because it's happening so much. I'm not positive I can recover the article but i'm going to make sure this gets fixed. I've wasted lots of money on articles that just got overwritten and i'm sure it's very frustrating for the author's who's hard work get ignored. I'm very very sorry and i'll try to fix this today.
Thanks. I'm not sure how quirky I'll get with Nacatl War-Pride (the Black/Green deck isn't particularly quirky, I suppose). But I'll try to build something quirky soon.
If only it were so! Yes, she'll be a Barbarian, but her revised Oracle text says that she gives the +2/+2 bonus to Warrior, Berserker and other Barbarian creatures. So she won't reap the benefits of her own ability. That's the same kind of templating that Lord of Atlantis, Goblin King, and other "lord" creatures have now. I suppose that if you could change her creature type to Warrior or Berserker somehow (through Conspiracy or Runed Stalactite, maybe), she'd get the bonus, but that would be a lot of work.
Thanks for the link, I think it would have been safe to tell them they can use slang card names if they are willing to linkl it the "hard way" but its up to you in the end
I enjoyed reading your article. Keep pumping them out. I also had a lapse. But I got in around Unlimited and my dark ages started just after Mirage.
I also played a few tournaments in TSP Block. I am looking forward to your analysis of the metagame after it is realeased online.
I'm totally loving all the new features the state of the program has now. I would love to see pro tour type events on MTGO once it's stable and though it seems like a pipe dream now it could be a reality if they made some of the changes hammy mentions. I also love the new price feature too.
I appreciate all the feedback. I'll be doing some more of these for sure. Unfortunately, I have 3 11 hour work days coming up, so it may be a few days, but rest assured they will be done.
Yes the article was fantastic, some of the best reporting I have seen in a long time. Very detailed, very informative, and hopefully we can see more of it like this soon.
This was an enjoyable and well detailed summary. I wish Wizards hadcoverage this good at the PTs.
You are right of course about the power levels of the attackers. Always the problem with speculation not backed by actually testing something slips through. Thanks for the catch.
I believe I will buy some actual paper cards at some point only it probably won't be boosters and such as I do with MTGO. When I first started up it seemed the best way to optimize my collection was chose one or the other considering my financial restrictions. Unfortunately, it means I miss a good deal of the social aspect with a pure Online collection but it is certainly the easiest access.
"Turn 4 – Plains, Tap four Plains to activate Mirror Entity and you have three attackers who are 5/5 rolling in for the kill."
I believe you would have two 5/5 and one 4/4 since the Cenn still doesn't effect itself.
Like you I have played some and taken a long layoff and have come back. I am not only online however as I really enjoy the face to face with friends aspect of play the most.
I like the article, keep up the good work. Discussing what the new set brings to each archetype is a nice way to start looking at things.
I love hearing game recaps like this, especially to this level of detail. It's entertaining and educational at the same time. It can get a little confusing sometimes, trying to remember who's who. I wonder if there's a better way to handle that...
... is Suppression Field.
Against Fetchlands, Equipment, manlands, Grim Lavamancers, etc, it's a powerful effect, especially if you're not running fetchlands yourself. I've seen it slow decks down to a crawl on turn 2 while you're still plugging away. Building a deck around this and other disruption is causing headaches in extended already (G/W Noobstax) and many of the same exploits can be found in Classic.
Nice article and series though, thanks!
Hey, give Kiki-Jiki a spin with this deck and let me know how it works out. I used to play Magic years ago and dropped out around the time Exodus came out. I started playing again around the time of Coldsnap, so my knowledge of certain cards from the time in between (including Kamigawa) is a bit vague. I've heard of Kiki-Jiki, certainly, and seen him used a few times, but I've never owned one.
nice first article. i've been thinking of ways to break warpride since i first ran into it in a casual room game. forcemage is one of the first cards i thought of. But how about kiki jiki?
Oh, didn't hear about her revised text
Darn it! It just happened again! I was on the second article (the Black/Green one) and clicked Save, and it saved over the other article. I was really careful to make sure that I was on the right page and the right article, too.
Yeah it's been an issue for a while now but somehow has been ignored. It is a user error but it's obviously confusing because it's happening so much. I'm not positive I can recover the article but i'm going to make sure this gets fixed. I've wasted lots of money on articles that just got overwritten and i'm sure it's very frustrating for the author's who's hard work get ignored. I'm very very sorry and i'll try to fix this today.
Thanks. I'm not sure how I managed to do that. I didn't think I even had the first story open.
I'm working on it. I'm beyond annoyed at this piece of crap system right now.
Thanks. I'm not sure how quirky I'll get with Nacatl War-Pride (the Black/Green deck isn't particularly quirky, I suppose). But I'll try to build something quirky soon.
Thanks. I'm working on it.
If only it were so! Yes, she'll be a Barbarian, but her revised Oracle text says that she gives the +2/+2 bonus to Warrior, Berserker and other Barbarian creatures. So she won't reap the benefits of her own ability. That's the same kind of templating that Lord of Atlantis, Goblin King, and other "lord" creatures have now. I suppose that if you could change her creature type to Warrior or Berserker somehow (through Conspiracy or Runed Stalactite, maybe), she'd get the bonus, but that would be a lot of work.
I should probably mention that with oracle updates Lovisa Cold Eyes becomes a barbarian and therefore she will be a 5/5 with haste from then on =)
Thanks for the link, I think it would have been safe to tell them they can use slang card names if they are willing to linkl it the "hard way" but its up to you in the end
I hope we get an article on the other deck as well.
Just wanted to point out that this isn't an offbeat rare but an offbeat uncommon ;)
I'm interested to read an article on an offbeat rare. War-Pride is a fun card. But let's see a quirky combo.
Fun article, keep up the good work. I also like the formatting of your article.
Thanks. I appreciate it. I guess I need to get started on the next one, then!