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Magic: the Gathering |OT8| Eldritch Moon - It's only a paper (and digital) moon
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SigmasonicX
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Kozilek's Return -> Return is Spell Quellered -> Languish -> Spell Queller dies, Return kills a Sylvan Advocate with a +1/+1 counter
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
40 CoCo mirrors
Didn't matter, because of the Lumbering Falls on board, but it was cool nonetheless.
Also, am I imagining things or is the video quality worse than normal?
charlequin
Banned
lawl PVDDR asking how emrakul interacts with extra turns
SigmasonicX
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*comes back to stream*
Creeper cam! Long time no see!
Creeper cam! Long time no see!
hahaha in your face commentary
charlequin
Banned
Only 20% Bant Coco? O RLY
Infinite Stars
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I love that they're trying to spin it as "Only 23%". I'm fairly certain Abzan didn't reach that level even when you slapped together each variant in THS-KTK, so trying to frame it as not an issue is a failure.
charlequin
Banned
Nah, 20% is fine on its own. For a deck to be an issue it either needs to be quite a bit higher than that in metagame percentage (definitely 35% plus) or it needs to win against the field at some huge rate. If BCC is still in the 20% range of the Day 2 field it will have pretty much failed at it bogeyman role.
EDIT: lol Randy is on the same tip right now on the coverage
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Transhuman
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Lupine Prototype survives Languish everyone in this thread should buy 10 playsets.
So I went to my first draft after not playing for years.
I went 2-1-1 and it felt pretty good. I'm still not a great drafter though, I had to read every card in every game.
On the plus side, I opened a Spell Queller in my packs. Also since I got 7 points I got to pick one booster. I picked a Japanese Eldritch Moon pack.........oh baby.
I went 2-1-1 and it felt pretty good. I'm still not a great drafter though, I had to read every card in every game.
On the plus side, I opened a Spell Queller in my packs. Also since I got 7 points I got to pick one booster. I picked a Japanese Eldritch Moon pack.........oh baby.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It seems everyone brought Bant CoCo hate though even going so far as splashing red for it.
SigmasonicX
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The problem with these feature matches so far is that I don't have a deck to root against.
SigmasonicX
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Wow, Ulvenwald Hydra was the last card I expected to see.
SigmasonicX
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Matt Sperling tutors for Emrakul, but then Reid Duke topdecks his own Emrakul and casts it faster. After attacking with Dragonlord Atarka.
Is this the Pro Tour or is it just Emrakul Tour
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Praying for no Tamiyo so her price further tanks.
Took long enough for people to pick up on pick the brain.
Took long enough for people to pick up on pick the brain.
SigmasonicX
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Oh hey, Pick the Brain!
EDIT: Oh hey, Bant Company!
EDIT: Pitch two Prized Amalgams to recur Haunted Dead -> trigger Prized Amalgams with Haunted Dead entering the battlefield from the graveyard, so both return to the battlefield
EDIT: Oh hey, Bant Company!
EDIT: Pitch two Prized Amalgams to recur Haunted Dead -> trigger Prized Amalgams with Haunted Dead entering the battlefield from the graveyard, so both return to the battlefield
charlequin
Banned
Prized Amalgams!
blindrocket
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I'm sleepy. I wonder if anything exciting is going to happen lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
No way Voldaren Pariah is a good card but a deck like Zombies is about the only deck I can imagine undoing the downside.
SigmasonicX
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One thing about Abolisher of Bloodlines is that when it's Reflector Mage'd, it has a different name in hand so it can be cast next turn.
EDIT: Wait, but you CoCo in response to the transformation trigger, not the "on transform" trigger, never mind.
EDIT: Wait, but you CoCo in response to the transformation trigger, not the "on transform" trigger, never mind.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Did Calcano have the dromoka's command when the voldaren pariah flipped?
SigmasonicX
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Glad to see blue/black zombies + Voldaren Pariah doing well.
It's a shame life means I'll have to go to sleep soon.
It's a shame life means I'll have to go to sleep soon.
Etrian Oddity
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Is this a rebroadcast, or is this shit live? They're playing well past 2am CST XD
Infinite Stars
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Tamiyo has been a no show, so I'm really hoping that she's the secret LSV Tech, since he made a joke about playing Bant on Twitter.
They're in Australia, so live
blindrocket
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I'm CST and I think I've hit my limit lol
Our 8 day old baby will be getting us up soon anyway.
SigmasonicX
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Haha, they're recounting the Assembled Alphas thing.
Etrian Oddity
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I've been pronouncing Avacyn "ah-vuh-kin" this whole time and feel silly.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Immediately went and bought one
LSV played a bit too much into the Emrakul, I'm not sure if he just didn't have any other options but holding up ojutai's command would have maybe given him a couple more turns. He could also have activated the advocate + ojutai's command. And if his opponent cast the tamiyo and minus'd on Luis creature it wouldn't have done much for him.
"God's Beard!"
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Emrakul just killed two creatures, tapped two blockers, killed a planeswalker and made her opponent discard two cards for 8 mana, not counting the 13/13 flample.
And drew her opponent a card.
And drew her opponent a card.
Omgggggggggg Emrakul completely rekted LSV. D:
LSV had on board:
Sylvan Advocate, Duskwatch Recruiter, Reflector Mage (iirc), Tamiyo at 2, and just Spell Queller'ed a Dead Weight that targeted Duskwatch.
In hand: Otujai Command and Tireless Tracker
Opponent cast Emrakul.
Controls turn. Attacks with Spell Queller into Emrakul. Dies and gets Dead Weight back onto Duskwatch which dies. Cast Tireless Tracker. Counter with Otujai Command while paying a life with painland lol. Minus Tamiyo to finish it onto Sylvan Advocate and Reflector Mage and taps it down. Effectively mopped the board and hand in 1 turn.
LSV had on board:
Sylvan Advocate, Duskwatch Recruiter, Reflector Mage (iirc), Tamiyo at 2, and just Spell Queller'ed a Dead Weight that targeted Duskwatch.
In hand: Otujai Command and Tireless Tracker
Opponent cast Emrakul.
Controls turn. Attacks with Spell Queller into Emrakul. Dies and gets Dead Weight back onto Duskwatch which dies. Cast Tireless Tracker. Counter with Otujai Command while paying a life with painland lol. Minus Tamiyo to finish it onto Sylvan Advocate and Reflector Mage and taps it down. Effectively mopped the board and hand in 1 turn.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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I think that was a bit of a misplay by luis, he had 7 mana available and an ojutai's command as well as a spell queller and tamiyo.
His life wasn't particularly threatened but Steve Rubin had 2 PWs in Liliana and Nissa, killing both was an opportune moment but it left him way too wide open to emrakul when it was obvious he'd lose of Steve had it. That's just way too much of a gamble.
The worst that would have happened if he hadn't gone for that move was Steve playing the emrakul it getting countered, Lili getting minus'd and die to get her back and drawing a card off of nissa. He'd then run a couple creatures into his creatures and maybe play out tamiyo and minus 2 her for no value.
Without the nissa in the yard Steve wouldn't have had the mana to also cast dead weight.
OTOH he'd still be in a bad position with this line of play and his line of play would have gotten him much closer to winning if Rubin hadn't had Emrakul. Considering that it was probably the right play anyway.
I could see a lot more summary dismissal over ojutai's command going forward.
His life wasn't particularly threatened but Steve Rubin had 2 PWs in Liliana and Nissa, killing both was an opportune moment but it left him way too wide open to emrakul when it was obvious he'd lose of Steve had it. That's just way too much of a gamble.
The worst that would have happened if he hadn't gone for that move was Steve playing the emrakul it getting countered, Lili getting minus'd and die to get her back and drawing a card off of nissa. He'd then run a couple creatures into his creatures and maybe play out tamiyo and minus 2 her for no value.
Without the nissa in the yard Steve wouldn't have had the mana to also cast dead weight.
OTOH he'd still be in a bad position with this line of play and his line of play would have gotten him much closer to winning if Rubin hadn't had Emrakul. Considering that it was probably the right play anyway.
I could see a lot more summary dismissal over ojutai's command going forward.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Emrakul already doubled in price. I looked into ordering some after round 1 but didn't feel like making the effort.
Same, I went to bed right before the standard rounds and it seems like I missed all the fun.
I snapped up a foil last night. Hope it ships.
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Transhuman
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It's sad that it might not. Online vendors should have more shame.
It's always a risk, right? And it shouldn't be. It's a damn shame that we have to live with this uncertainty. But the seller I picked hat 100% feedback so my hopes are high.
charlequin
Banned
what the goddamn fuck
I'm gonna seal myself in the moon, BRB
Ice Age was crazy popular in my circles. Nobody gave a crap about Alliances back then.
what the goddamn fuck
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