That red pauper deck that won the whole tournament seems so high variance. 16 Mountains and 4 Probes, and 4 Fireblasts, yikes. To me it represents the dark side of Magic the Gathering.
For the red player, it's basically just cross your fingers and hope to see a second land in time, with no deck manipulation at all to assist (the git probe doesn't really count because it's already factored into the choice to run 16 mountains). And pray you don't see more than 1 copy of a Fireblast. Mulligans would feel cripplingly bad I'd imagine.
Yes there are many bolts for 1 mana of course, but the tempo loss when faced with an opponent who is curving out would quickly outmatch the 1-bolt-per-turn.
Anyone have experience playing with/against this deck?
As a non-native speaker, I tend to be more rigid with my English rules, because otherwise I'll end up making a mess. So I strictly follow a few sources (and yeah, Wizards of the Coast is one of them! Easy to do it with something I have in front of my eyes daily).
I checked this specific case, Wikipedia has a couple pages/sections devoted to the argument: this one and this one. In short, I'm with The Chicago Manual of Style, The Guardian, and the majority of the Supreme Court. The sources that differ do it mostly for phonetic reasons, which are more likely to be outside of my direct experience. (Also, etymologically, what we're doing is not adding an "s" at the end; the apostrophe marks the absence of a letter that was part of the Proto-English's Latin-based genitive case. Like, "of James" => "Jamesis" => "James's". So it makes more sense to me to put an apostrophe in place of a single letter, not two).
The way that rule was described to me back in my copyediting days was, either formation can be considered correct, as long as you're consistent. I looked it up just now to confirm, and I saw multiple sites insisting on either side.
Magic cards are a good way to remember that the Saxon genitive always requires to follow the apostrophe with an "s" for singular nouns, even if they end in "s" themselves. Mons's Goblin Raiders, Tawnos's Coffin, Rakdos's Return, Rhonas's Monument, In Bolas's Clutches.
it runs on my computer. that comment wasn't supposed to offend anyone, I keep the script on since there are only very rare cases in which I should turn it off. I still had fun with these puzzles though. It doesn't changed the fact that 'destroy all enchantments' card is one of the cards I wouldn't have guessed, etc.
Unfortunately my autocarding thingy revealed the correct answers to me already and I couldn't unsee that but I tried and it was fun^_^. I didn't know why the only not counterfeit painting felt right, only after I read the solution I had to go back and check.
Participate without checking if one can partake in main event yes. But darn, its really bad that wotc hasnt made it so one can get "paid" 75 percent in tix/playpoints or whatever long ago for such qualifiers.
That red pauper deck that won the whole tournament seems so high variance. 16 Mountains and 4 Probes, and 4 Fireblasts, yikes. To me it represents the dark side of Magic the Gathering.
For the red player, it's basically just cross your fingers and hope to see a second land in time, with no deck manipulation at all to assist (the git probe doesn't really count because it's already factored into the choice to run 16 mountains). And pray you don't see more than 1 copy of a Fireblast. Mulligans would feel cripplingly bad I'd imagine.
Yes there are many bolts for 1 mana of course, but the tempo loss when faced with an opponent who is curving out would quickly outmatch the 1-bolt-per-turn.
Anyone have experience playing with/against this deck?
Re: Eric Fletcher
Clever!!
I think I would start with Growth spiral and Star.
I want to know what you'd take out for it.
oh is it?
That is better than nothing I suppose
Counterargument, you empower your writers by providing them with choice.
Toronto is text-only.
I know I am a fraud, you all don't have to show it off for everyone else :(
Fair!
But if you ever get hired by a newspaper or magazine etc., double check what their particular style guide asks for, haha.
As a non-native speaker, I tend to be more rigid with my English rules, because otherwise I'll end up making a mess. So I strictly follow a few sources (and yeah, Wizards of the Coast is one of them! Easy to do it with something I have in front of my eyes daily).
I checked this specific case, Wikipedia has a couple pages/sections devoted to the argument: this one and this one. In short, I'm with The Chicago Manual of Style, The Guardian, and the majority of the Supreme Court. The sources that differ do it mostly for phonetic reasons, which are more likely to be outside of my direct experience. (Also, etymologically, what we're doing is not adding an "s" at the end; the apostrophe marks the absence of a letter that was part of the Proto-English's Latin-based genitive case. Like, "of James" => "Jamesis" => "James's". So it makes more sense to me to put an apostrophe in place of a single letter, not two).
The way that rule was described to me back in my copyediting days was, either formation can be considered correct, as long as you're consistent. I looked it up just now to confirm, and I saw multiple sites insisting on either side.
Magic cards are a good way to remember that the Saxon genitive always requires to follow the apostrophe with an "s" for singular nouns, even if they end in "s" themselves. Mons's Goblin Raiders, Tawnos's Coffin, Rakdos's Return, Rhonas's Monument, In Bolas's Clutches.
lol, of course, I was just like, oh crap, I didn't run it, why is it happening for you :D
it runs on my computer. that comment wasn't supposed to offend anyone, I keep the script on since there are only very rare cases in which I should turn it off. I still had fun with these puzzles though. It doesn't changed the fact that 'destroy all enchantments' card is one of the cards I wouldn't have guessed, etc.
i didn't run the autocard tool on this :/
Unfortunately my autocarding thingy revealed the correct answers to me already and I couldn't unsee that but I tried and it was fun^_^. I didn't know why the only not counterfeit painting felt right, only after I read the solution I had to go back and check.
Good job on these!
These puzzles are works of art. Not at all counterfeit.
Participate without checking if one can partake in main event yes. But darn, its really bad that wotc hasnt made it so one can get "paid" 75 percent in tix/playpoints or whatever long ago for such qualifiers.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/competitive-magic
some are live, some are on arena.
And that is a live tournament ? With which prizes ? Link ?
Mythic Championships.
MCQ is a qualifier for .... what ?
thank you, friend, hopefully I'll do better this weekend
Actually, that might be worth looking in to... I like the idea of instead speed star
I have it in Oath :D