Dude, you got to interview Randy Tobasco! That guy is great. I was watching him play Bombs over Baghdad once and he was going to lose game 1 but he waited for his turn, played Bazaar of Baghdad, THEN conceded. That was genius. His opponent thinking he was on Dredge and bringing in like 7 dead cards.
Doesn't announce pairings and I think it works fine. I will look to see if my opponent made a table before making my own. Duplicate tables have happened but it's not big deal.
I like the idea (and structure) of the casual dallies, but I can't imagine people being willing to pay $12 to play in them. You said yourself that $10 is the high end for what you would charge in paper.
I don't think anyone doubts whether Hasbro wants MTGO to perform well. The doubts stem from whether the people tasked with running MTGO are competent enough to do what Hasbro wants them to do.
Thanks, Joe! After I built this deck I realized I was well on my way in building Shops. I'm not sure if I will but it's always a plus when the cards you buy can fit into multiple decks, especially across multiple formats.
Thanks for the positive encouragement. I think the community could use some morale boosting at this point because none of this is readily apparent to us outside of your reporting here. Well to me anyway. I always continue to hope for the best but honestly communication between WOTC and us has been abysmal.
This is actually a good time for this story since we are close to the going back to Zendikar. It was the Rise of Eldrazi Pre-Release in the local store. It was round 3, maybe 4 and I had one loss already. I had won game 1 and was playing a grindy game 2. We each had one Eldrazi on the table. I'm not sure which one was mine maybe Artisan of Kozilek or Ulamog's Crusher and he had Pathrazer of Ulamog. The game was going very long. I had Linvala in play and he had several Eldrazi Spawn tokens and at least one mana producing creature, all shut down by my flier. At a certain point he plays a land and says "finally!" I didn't really know how much mana he had but I must have made a confused look. He tapped all his lands and played Emrakul. I counted his mana just to make sure and conceded the game. Just the typical tap 15 out of my 17/18 lands total to play Emrakul game. I ended up winning that match but after all these years, that's the only game I remember from that tournament.
I once won a Rejects Rares draft with numerous well known and pro players (Zvi was one) in it. My win cons were things like Magnetic Web and Seraph. My prize? A Mox Ruby. I won the last game of the finals by faking that I had no answer to my opps big creatures until he played out his hand and then cast Winds of Rath when I was at 4. My creature (a Sibilant Spirit) lived because I'd placed a aspect of wolf (+1/+2) on it. I realize this is a short story but I don't have any long winded variations on this theme since I don't do a lot of drafting.
I would pick up a set of Eidolons soonish, you can play them standard, and while you are playing them in standard you can branch out into modern with them. You can play four different burn decks (mono red, gruul, naya and jund.) and they all lean heavily on it and goblin guide.
Anyway, are you going to want to be good against the >30% deck or the deck that takes up 1% of the decks you'll face? I think it's an easy choice.
Now, if you've got a large paper event, then a different sideboard might be in order. I tested out a Slaughter Games for a while, but at four it's hard to cast quickly enough. It's pretty sweet when you nail all of the Oath targets though.
I've beaten Oath quite a bit actually. Also, there's not a ton of it on Magic Online at the moment.
Sometimes Oath resolves an Oath, that's true. Otherwise, people wouldn't play it. They don't always though.
Sometimes, I strip their oath, Show and Tell, or Griselbrand out of their hand with Cabal Therapy. Sometimes I draw more Forces than they draw Oaths, and sometimes I don't.
I don't think it's as dire as you're making it out, and the deck is as good against Oath as RUG Delver, or any deck that doesn't play white for that matter.
Frankly, I've been really enjoying the deck, and it has performed well for me for the most part. I don't think that there is a deck that has a highly-favored match against everything anyway.
The fact that they feel they have to lower the minimum number of players to 8 for events that have the same cost as current dailies proves that even WOTC knows how awful they are...
No reason, other than having to choose from a list of over 41,000 cards and so forth on MTGO and about 600 over $15 - I don't find everything. I hadn't realized how much Snappy had climbed. It does make me a bit happy. I don't speculate on cards, but I did buy two extra playsets a while back: Snapcaster Mages and Cavern of Souls, both at around $4.50 each.
As for Vintage and Legacy, I never played these formats for EV, just for the enjoyment. I agree much worse.
I'll have to go back and watch it, but I think that I cast Dig Through Time twice and Gushed once before I hit the Dack.
That night I was running Lejay's list, he had only 13 lands and I don't think that was enough.
I'm upset with the fact that the Vintage Daily didn't fire last night. Both Rich Shay and Andy Probasco were streaming it too! A lot of people quit mtgo over play points.
Randy Tobasco? Is that an inside joke I'm not privy to?
Dude, you got to interview Randy Tobasco! That guy is great. I was watching him play Bombs over Baghdad once and he was going to lose game 1 but he waited for his turn, played Bazaar of Baghdad, THEN conceded. That was genius. His opponent thinking he was on Dredge and bringing in like 7 dead cards.
My first thought was to pair this with Genesis Chamber, Young Pyromancer, or Monastery Mentor
Doesn't announce pairings and I think it works fine. I will look to see if my opponent made a table before making my own. Duplicate tables have happened but it's not big deal.
I like the idea (and structure) of the casual dallies, but I can't imagine people being willing to pay $12 to play in them. You said yourself that $10 is the high end for what you would charge in paper.
The championships and qualifiers quite notably take in play points and pay out exclusively boosters.
I expect some if not all of the Constructed qualifiers to cap out.
I've harbored some doubts as to how much direction WOTC has been getting towards picking up the MTGO slack.
I don't think anyone doubts whether Hasbro wants MTGO to perform well. The doubts stem from whether the people tasked with running MTGO are competent enough to do what Hasbro wants them to do.
Thanks, Joe! After I built this deck I realized I was well on my way in building Shops. I'm not sure if I will but it's always a plus when the cards you buy can fit into multiple decks, especially across multiple formats.
Hey, came across this list that got 8th place at an SCG IQ. Lots of cool card choices in it, but still a Time Warp shell at heart: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=88322.
Thanks for the positive encouragement. I think the community could use some morale boosting at this point because none of this is readily apparent to us outside of your reporting here. Well to me anyway. I always continue to hope for the best but honestly communication between WOTC and us has been abysmal.
Nice job. Also, you have almost enough to build martello shops or a Vintage Metalworker combo Pretty sweet! I have always loved this deck.
This is actually a good time for this story since we are close to the going back to Zendikar. It was the Rise of Eldrazi Pre-Release in the local store. It was round 3, maybe 4 and I had one loss already. I had won game 1 and was playing a grindy game 2. We each had one Eldrazi on the table. I'm not sure which one was mine maybe Artisan of Kozilek or Ulamog's Crusher and he had Pathrazer of Ulamog. The game was going very long. I had Linvala in play and he had several Eldrazi Spawn tokens and at least one mana producing creature, all shut down by my flier. At a certain point he plays a land and says "finally!" I didn't really know how much mana he had but I must have made a confused look. He tapped all his lands and played Emrakul. I counted his mana just to make sure and conceded the game. Just the typical tap 15 out of my 17/18 lands total to play Emrakul game. I ended up winning that match but after all these years, that's the only game I remember from that tournament.
I once won a Rejects Rares draft with numerous well known and pro players (Zvi was one) in it. My win cons were things like Magnetic Web and Seraph. My prize? A Mox Ruby. I won the last game of the finals by faking that I had no answer to my opps big creatures until he played out his hand and then cast Winds of Rath when I was at 4. My creature (a Sibilant Spirit) lived because I'd placed a aspect of wolf (+1/+2) on it. I realize this is a short story but I don't have any long winded variations on this theme since I don't do a lot of drafting.
I would pick up a set of Eidolons soonish, you can play them standard, and while you are playing them in standard you can branch out into modern with them. You can play four different burn decks (mono red, gruul, naya and jund.) and they all lean heavily on it and goblin guide.
I'd be interested in Modern if Thopter Depths was a thing. That pesky banned list makes that difficult though :)
Great job, as always.
Anyway, are you going to want to be good against the >30% deck or the deck that takes up 1% of the decks you'll face? I think it's an easy choice.
Now, if you've got a large paper event, then a different sideboard might be in order. I tested out a Slaughter Games for a while, but at four it's hard to cast quickly enough. It's pretty sweet when you nail all of the Oath targets though.
I've beaten Oath quite a bit actually. Also, there's not a ton of it on Magic Online at the moment.
Sometimes Oath resolves an Oath, that's true. Otherwise, people wouldn't play it. They don't always though.
Sometimes, I strip their oath, Show and Tell, or Griselbrand out of their hand with Cabal Therapy. Sometimes I draw more Forces than they draw Oaths, and sometimes I don't.
I don't think it's as dire as you're making it out, and the deck is as good against Oath as RUG Delver, or any deck that doesn't play white for that matter.
Frankly, I've been really enjoying the deck, and it has performed well for me for the most part. I don't think that there is a deck that has a highly-favored match against everything anyway.
This deck is comically weak to Oath. It's plan against Oath is hoping enough other people are playing Containment Priest.
That was a killing if you'd cashed them out at their peaks. 4.5 is about as low as they got.
The fact that they feel they have to lower the minimum number of players to 8 for events that have the same cost as current dailies proves that even WOTC knows how awful they are...
No reason, other than having to choose from a list of over 41,000 cards and so forth on MTGO and about 600 over $15 - I don't find everything. I hadn't realized how much Snappy had climbed. It does make me a bit happy. I don't speculate on cards, but I did buy two extra playsets a while back: Snapcaster Mages and Cavern of Souls, both at around $4.50 each.
As for Vintage and Legacy, I never played these formats for EV, just for the enjoyment. I agree much worse.
I'll have to go back and watch it, but I think that I cast Dig Through Time twice and Gushed once before I hit the Dack.
That night I was running Lejay's list, he had only 13 lands and I don't think that was enough.
I'm upset with the fact that the Vintage Daily didn't fire last night. Both Rich Shay and Andy Probasco were streaming it too! A lot of people quit mtgo over play points.
I was groggy as I was reading it and didn't connect the two.
Sorry 'bout that. I just figured people would know what I was talking about. My bad.