What are you even referring to? You said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that of course they are gonna win, no matter if they picked a group of monkeys. Both longtimegone and I said, actually, the community has lost before, and provided an article as evidence, and yet you still seem to think you are in the right? There is going to be a live feed. It's going to be pretty hard to mastermind the WOTC clan throwing the event for the community while it's live. I really don't think you have a leg to stand on in this argument, and before you go full salty troll on us, accept that you are mistaken.
If you really don't care whether they are good decks, many of my articles dating back about 5-6 years or so feature Tribal Wars decks. Feel free to lift them as you like and change them however your imagination allows.
Also AJ is one of my primary building partners on MTGO. I tend to ask him first when a new idea arises and I need some inspiration. (While you are reading my old articles check out my interview with him from a while back: http://puremtgo.com/articles/magical-legends-players-profile-ajimpy )
The "Community" team can consist of monkeys from nearby zoo and it will still win this, because WotC wants it to win. Me? I only care about cheap Thalias.
I mean, look at Vampire tokens to start. In the same block, we had 2/2 Vampire tokens with flying, along with 1/1 Vampire tokens with lifelink and no flying.
They had to change name to the Eldrazi tokens because they wanted them to be 1/1 instead of 0/1. It would've been confusing if some Spawn tokens were 0/1 and others 1/1, don't you think?
Both Helm and especially Top are useful cards in straightforward builds. I don't want to have honest cards removed from the pool only because of their possible association with combo pieces, unless it's absolutely necessary. Let's hope the Top decks will go out of fashion now that they'll have to find a different endgame (Altar was the most recently introduced card, after all. The other interactions have been around since before Tribal Apocalypse even existed).
(This said, I'm not a fan of the Top because of all the clicking it requires, so should it end up killed off, I won't despair).
I think that the idea is to give to the community, rather than just profit off of Hammy's collection. Likely after some set time, MTGOTraders will buy out the rest of the collection and forward the money to Eric's family
Oh, I wasn't doubting the cromulency of my Snakes - I think they've got cromulence dripping from their fangs - but the deck has a pretty bad matchup against aggro, which, as you have pointed out, is a big part of the metagame. I was fortunate to face two relatively slow decks in Worms and Chimeras and then got super lucky against Gonzalez_Roberto with him being stuck on 1 land for the entirety of game 1 and then me being at 1 life for multiple turns in the third game.
There's also a couple of Elementals that look powerful.
I have to say though, as someone with an Ally deck, an Eldrazi deck and a Drone deck I was really looking forward to this set, but the spoilers have left me pretty damn disapointed. I'm particularly annoyed that they made the Eldrazi mana tokens Scions instead of Spawn for, as far as I can see, no reason other than to make them synergise less with cards from Rise.
What Lontimegone and Paul said. The community has lost in the past. Don't take me for a fool, I'm not one. I've been playing since Alpha, and know enough to think anything WOTC does in large scale like this is part PR, part marketing, small part community-driven. Knowing this ahead of time is what makes slimming down the "cmmunity-driven" part to nil, that makes it so infuriating.
I understand the saying: those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
I cannot pine for older collection views, having never seen them.
I cannot fondly recall games with Hamtastic HammyBot.
I can say that I'm sad to have missed these elements of the game. I can have respect for those pieces, yet cannot ever fully appreciate their impact as a newer player. If anyone has some fun stories about Erik Friborg, older collection views, or even forums, please share.
What I can say is that I've found the Tribal Wars community very accepting. As a new player with some prideful intelligence, I can fully anticipate getting beat by veterans. Nobody walks into a chess tournament for their 1st time and expect to walk away with the championship title. I did not get into playing MTGO (an anniversary gift from my wife) for money or profits from wins.
I play to test fun ideas in different ways than merely netdecking the latest winning deck(s).
Tribal Wars offers this option to me. The community makes the experience great. Yesterday, I offered an open challenge and feedback about my new (1st!) tribal deck- warriors. Boy, did I get some feedback!
AT NO TIME did anyone threaten, belittle, or otherwise make an uncomfortable comment or suggestion. I believe part of the Tribal Wars community's investment is seeing how we can recycle WotC's orphaned synergies outside of blocks and rotations. Sure, elves can be a strong tribe. What I've learned is that one elf deck can be completely different than another elf deck. Currently, I'm brewing an elf deck that makes more wolves than elves! I'm sure I could make a pure wolf deck, but elves offers some unique opportunities. Like my warriors, already a strong tribe, people just seemed to want me to have fun, seeing things similar to they see things. If I offer 1% of uniqueness, the community softly applauds. C'mon, in our heart-of-hearts, didn't we get into playing cardboard crack to visually represent those noggles (bow to AJ_Impy), orcs, and wizards just sitting in our brains weaving cobwebs? A good tribal deck for one enthusiastic player is a good deck for the community.
Thank you, all, for your patience and welcoming spirits. Let's have some fun this weekend!!!
Also, now that the whole list of new Zendikar is spoiled. I see clear upgrades for Eldrazi, Ally, Drone, maybe Kor, and like 1 playable Fungus, besides the new Processor tribe. It looks like Standard will slow down and that eternal formats otherwise got basically nothing. Did I miss anything?
LordPipas, with your deck, you probably want to add more cards either stopping or mitigating the impact of creature sweepers (Wrath of God, All is Dust, etc.). The equipment and Elspeth are a start. Since that is mostly played from control decks, you could also just look for cards that control might especially fear instead.
Let's just say I am 100% sure that the "community" team will win this year, because WotC wants it to win (this time). Past events don't matter.
There's also two different kinds of Elemental tokens in BFZ!
What are you even referring to? You said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that of course they are gonna win, no matter if they picked a group of monkeys. Both longtimegone and I said, actually, the community has lost before, and provided an article as evidence, and yet you still seem to think you are in the right? There is going to be a live feed. It's going to be pretty hard to mastermind the WOTC clan throwing the event for the community while it's live. I really don't think you have a leg to stand on in this argument, and before you go full salty troll on us, accept that you are mistaken.
It's best to learn to read before opening your mouth, try it.
this guy gets it
If you really don't care whether they are good decks, many of my articles dating back about 5-6 years or so feature Tribal Wars decks. Feel free to lift them as you like and change them however your imagination allows.
Also AJ is one of my primary building partners on MTGO. I tend to ask him first when a new idea arises and I need some inspiration. (While you are reading my old articles check out my interview with him from a while back: http://puremtgo.com/articles/magical-legends-players-profile-ajimpy )
It's best to know what you are talking about before you open your mouth.
http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/event...
The "Community" team can consist of monkeys from nearby zoo and it will still win this, because WotC wants it to win. Me? I only care about cheap Thalias.
To be fair, that never bothered them in the past.
I mean, look at Vampire tokens to start. In the same block, we had 2/2 Vampire tokens with flying, along with 1/1 Vampire tokens with lifelink and no flying.
They had to change name to the Eldrazi tokens because they wanted them to be 1/1 instead of 0/1. It would've been confusing if some Spawn tokens were 0/1 and others 1/1, don't you think?
Both Helm and especially Top are useful cards in straightforward builds. I don't want to have honest cards removed from the pool only because of their possible association with combo pieces, unless it's absolutely necessary. Let's hope the Top decks will go out of fashion now that they'll have to find a different endgame (Altar was the most recently introduced card, after all. The other interactions have been around since before Tribal Apocalypse even existed).
(This said, I'm not a fan of the Top because of all the clicking it requires, so should it end up killed off, I won't despair).
What about the Dredge dilemma?
Aside from playing changelings and calling them Scions, seems about right.
Dibs on Processor tribal.
I think that the idea is to give to the community, rather than just profit off of Hammy's collection. Likely after some set time, MTGOTraders will buy out the rest of the collection and forward the money to Eric's family
Oh, I wasn't doubting the cromulency of my Snakes - I think they've got cromulence dripping from their fangs - but the deck has a pretty bad matchup against aggro, which, as you have pointed out, is a big part of the metagame. I was fortunate to face two relatively slow decks in Worms and Chimeras and then got super lucky against Gonzalez_Roberto with him being stuck on 1 land for the entirety of game 1 and then me being at 1 life for multiple turns in the third game.
There's also a couple of Elementals that look powerful.
I have to say though, as someone with an Ally deck, an Eldrazi deck and a Drone deck I was really looking forward to this set, but the spoilers have left me pretty damn disapointed. I'm particularly annoyed that they made the Eldrazi mana tokens Scions instead of Spawn for, as far as I can see, no reason other than to make them synergise less with cards from Rise.
What Lontimegone and Paul said. The community has lost in the past. Don't take me for a fool, I'm not one. I've been playing since Alpha, and know enough to think anything WOTC does in large scale like this is part PR, part marketing, small part community-driven. Knowing this ahead of time is what makes slimming down the "cmmunity-driven" part to nil, that makes it so infuriating.
Indeed and if I recall correctly that was a stacked invite too with very little input from the community heeded.
Thanks for the shout-out!
I understand the saying: those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
I cannot pine for older collection views, having never seen them.
I cannot fondly recall games with Hamtastic HammyBot.
I can say that I'm sad to have missed these elements of the game. I can have respect for those pieces, yet cannot ever fully appreciate their impact as a newer player. If anyone has some fun stories about Erik Friborg, older collection views, or even forums, please share.
What I can say is that I've found the Tribal Wars community very accepting. As a new player with some prideful intelligence, I can fully anticipate getting beat by veterans. Nobody walks into a chess tournament for their 1st time and expect to walk away with the championship title. I did not get into playing MTGO (an anniversary gift from my wife) for money or profits from wins.
I play to test fun ideas in different ways than merely netdecking the latest winning deck(s).
Tribal Wars offers this option to me. The community makes the experience great. Yesterday, I offered an open challenge and feedback about my new (1st!) tribal deck- warriors. Boy, did I get some feedback!
AT NO TIME did anyone threaten, belittle, or otherwise make an uncomfortable comment or suggestion. I believe part of the Tribal Wars community's investment is seeing how we can recycle WotC's orphaned synergies outside of blocks and rotations. Sure, elves can be a strong tribe. What I've learned is that one elf deck can be completely different than another elf deck. Currently, I'm brewing an elf deck that makes more wolves than elves! I'm sure I could make a pure wolf deck, but elves offers some unique opportunities. Like my warriors, already a strong tribe, people just seemed to want me to have fun, seeing things similar to they see things. If I offer 1% of uniqueness, the community softly applauds. C'mon, in our heart-of-hearts, didn't we get into playing cardboard crack to visually represent those noggles (bow to AJ_Impy), orcs, and wizards just sitting in our brains weaving cobwebs? A good tribal deck for one enthusiastic player is a good deck for the community.
Thank you, all, for your patience and welcoming spirits. Let's have some fun this weekend!!!
You do know the community team has lost in the past, right? We got a Sorrow's Path.
Also, now that the whole list of new Zendikar is spoiled. I see clear upgrades for Eldrazi, Ally, Drone, maybe Kor, and like 1 playable Fungus, besides the new Processor tribe. It looks like Standard will slow down and that eternal formats otherwise got basically nothing. Did I miss anything?
Can we get an eulogy in next week's opinion section talking about the end of the forums?
LordPipas, with your deck, you probably want to add more cards either stopping or mitigating the impact of creature sweepers (Wrath of God, All is Dust, etc.). The equipment and Elspeth are a start. Since that is mostly played from control decks, you could also just look for cards that control might especially fear instead.
Sounds right. Very nice theme cards. I like this part of the podcast (... I also like the rest of the podcast).
the first one should be, +1 thanks for pointing it out
this gets asked every couple of weeks. Seems logical at this point.