I thought about that, but sadly that combo doesn't work anymore. I'm not playing with 1996 rules (I have no idea how resolving spells in batches worked)
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Latley I've been getting back into doing alters. I've been doing some alters for UW miracles (top two rows) and some commissions for some friends.
My LGS is a huge Aquaman fan (someone has to be I guess) and he plays merfolk in modern. Another person has a Holy Grail themed Commander deck so his Trinket Mage fetching a holy hand grendae of agranok seemed appropriate. And who doesn't want a Van Gogh Ponder?
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edit - and we're finished. Not a bad draft and a solid deck with a bunch of cool synergy. Went 2-1 with a white/black midrange deck. Loved the combo with Bone Shredder and Sun Titan to just machine gun blockers out of the way. That match was the one loss though. Too much fat to deal with.
I find it super annoying that the mouse-over function for card tags always uses the newest printing of the card for its image, even if it is a hard to read promo version like the new expedition lands or the black planeswalkers. I wish it would just use the newest non-promo version.
I like how the recent SI cover with Brock Osweiler has Easely in the background getting his neck murdered. It's really indicative of the great job the refs did during that game.
Officiating has been soundly bad across the NFL this season. It's made some games hard to watch. This year, I've learned that I don't know what a catch is anymore, and I also don't know what constitutes pass interference (on either side) anymore.
It's better than any Star Wars up until this point. You will not be disappointed. I did an all day marathon of all seven movies yesterday and it was definitely the most exciting, action packed, character driven movie I watched all day.
It's better than any Star Wars up until this point. You will not be disappointed. I did an all day marathon of all seven movies yesterday and it was definitely the most exciting, action packed, character driven movie I watched all day.
Was it your first time seeing the original six or had you seen them before? I would assume a brand new Star Wars is going to be much more exciting than movies I've been watching since I was a child.
No, I've seen them all before. I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan. For reference, see sig pic and (even though you can't see it) the 3 foot Darth Vader that stands behind my computer monitor and the original Star Wars movie poster that's hanging on the opposite wall. However, I had only attempted to binge watch them all one time and my friend and I got a late start and only made it through four movies before I tapped out.
Watching them all in order on the big screen made me realize a few things, though. First of all, the base story of Star Wars is fantastic. I love the story of Anakin's journey and all the things that happen that drive him down a path of evil. Jedi light saber force battles are awesome and action packed. There's a mild touch of several love stories underlying all of the movies with Anakin and Padme in the prequels and Han and Leia in the originals, but they're surrounded with enough buddy comedy and action movie that it doesn't feel sappy. With all of that said, though, George Lucas is a terrible writer and not a great film maker. He had a great idea that was just poorly executed, especially in comparison to The Force Awakens and what other writers have done with the Star Wars mythos in books and TV (see The Clone Wars and Rebels cartoons). The prequels are full of boring political nonsense that's often hard to follow and keep my interest, not to mention Jar Jar Binks being mostly unnecessary and annoying. Anakin mostly comes off as a whiny unappreciative brat in episodes II and III instead of the conflicted hero who thinks he's doing the right thing even if that thing is taking him down a dark path. And almost all of the dialog is quite cheesy. The one thing the prequels have going for them that the originals do not have are the ability for updated CGI graphics. This helps make the scenery, the ships, and battles more vibrant. The light saber battles are all more exciting in those movies than the originals and it's really cool to see all the different worlds of the Star Wars universe. For the originals the continuity is broken several times and it almost seems like Lucas intended to make one movie - Star Wars - and then after finding success, decided to expand and had to work off the story he'd laid out in that first movie. There's no mention of Qui-Gon Jinn by Obi-Wan in the originals and he even says that Yoda was his master. There's the obvious Luke and Leia dynamic which seems like they would have done differently had they intended on making them brother and sister later on. The Vader/Obi-Wan battle in A New Hope pales in comparison to their previous battle from Revenge of the Sith. It felt less like a battle between two master Jedis and more like two old guys knocking sticks together. And there's the whole thing with Leia saying she knew her mother when she was small and that she died when she was very young. Obviously that's not the case if Padme died during child birth. These little continuity things annoy me, but all in all, the movies are entertaining and I had a good time sitting through them all yesterday. But with all that said about the old ones, I have no similar complaints about the new one. The dialog is great and the jokes are funny and make sense in the moment. They do a good job of introducing the old characters that come back for this one that make you just want to applause when they appear on screen. The action is great. The storm troopers feel more human and less like mindless robots that go down with one shot to the arm. The story line is entertaining and easy to follow. You never get lost and you're never bored. I loved everything about it.
We watched the original trilogy last weekend as preparation for the new movie. Nobody wanted to watch the prequel trilogy. That was partially because we didn't know if we had time to meet for a second evening like this before watching The Force Awakens and we thought the original movies were definitely more important to rewatch before that. And six hours of movies in one eveneing was enough. We finished Return of the Jedi around 2am.
I saw TFA yesterday. It was very good... a definite 8/10, and that number might creep up on a second viewing.
What I'd like to do before I see it again is watch the originals in "Machete order." That's IV, V, II, III, and VI. You skip I, not only because it sucks but because it's ultimately irrelevant in the grand scheme. After Empire and the Vader/Luke reveal, you then get Anakin's backstory and how Vader came to be, charting similarities to Luke along the way. Then you go back to Jedi and see the resolution of the whole story.
I finished my 1996 era gauntlet. I thought I would share it here.
I decided to build a gauntlet of decks from black summer. I'm using 4th/Ice Age/Alliances/Chronicals/Homelands/Fallen Empires as my sets with the following ban list.
Restricted
Balance
Black Vise
Land Tax
Ivory Tower
Zuran Orb
Banned
Mind Twist
Ante Cards
Sadly this is the first box like this that they made to my knowledge. I would have liked something a little older. If someone has the ability to print boxes on cardboard I would be interested in getting a more Ice Age-y one built. I still need to get two more Ice age starter decks to finish this off.
This is the deck I was most excited about, it has been a dud in most of our games.
So I hope you enjoyed this blast from the past.
Man this brings me back! I first started playing competitively during this era. Ehrnageddon, Turbo Stasis and Winter Orb lock.dec were my favorites. Could never get my hands on four necro otherwise I am sure I would have played that too.
Now that I know there is a dedicated thread for random stuff...what do you guys do outside of obsessing about cube?
I live in Minneapolis, am an actuary and a dad. I have a 5 year old daughter and a 1.75 year old son. When I am gaming but not cubing I play boardgames. My current favorites are Puerto Rico and Race for the Galaxy.
I help people who have trouble paying for their medical bills find ways to afford those medications and services. It's actually a pretty cool thing to be doing, as we tend to help a lot of people out who sometimes have to choose between medications or meals because their insurances won't cover the costs. (Pharmaceutical companies are ******* horrendous.) If you know anyone who needs help with their medications or medical costs, check us out at NeedyMeds.org! In addition to our database listings of these programs and sites, we offer a drug discount card that is completely anonymous and can save people up to 80% on their medications. (Note: We are only based in the US, so if you're out of country then this prob won't help you or people you know.)
I do a lot of research into Hepatitis C medications as part of my job too. We're in a really weird period of time right now where there is a cure for hepatitis c, but the cure is EXTREMELY expensive at ~$90,000 for the whole procedure. Insurance companies typically won't cover any of it until you are at stage 3/4 with the liver damage/hepatitis, and in stage 4 is when you start developing cancer. So the options a lot of people have are 1) wait until it's extremely bad 2) do nothing, which isn't the worst as hepatitis c can lie dormant for years with no effect or 3) head to a country where the medicines are affordable at a fraction of the cost such as india where you can get the same entire procedure for $900. So I try to always do research into new ways or programs that help people pay for these medications, I try and "lobby" (i.e. I send whiny e-mails) to the big pharmaceutical reps I've reached out to, and I try to direct people who need the medicine but are getting no coverage for it to the programs or try to plant the medical tourism bug in their ear.
Otherwise I'm either spending time playing/watching/reading about magic or playing games like the criminally underrated Duck Game. Seriously, that ***** is ******* legit and pretty cheap too for an amazingly online multiplayer experience.
I'm currently an editor of a business-to-business pet industry magazine, but I'm 7 months away from finishing acupuncture school and starting a new career. I have a job with my acupuncturists lined up for when I get out of school, which soooooooooooooo awesome. I can't wait to be done with publishing and fully transitioned into my new career.
I love board games too, but I don't get time to play them anymore. I was obsessed with Avalon Hill's Titan in high school and wish I could find people to play that. I also loved Risk and Talisman.
My main hobby other than Magic and reading is keeping and breeding reptiles. I have four snakes and three tarantulas now, and I'm planning a natural terrarium (a.k.a. vivarium) for the near future. Not sure what animals are going in it yet. Once I get my new career going and I'm making decent money, I want to try out keeping a reef tank.
And now I should go finish my scalp acupuncture project. I have to draw and label all the points on a Styrofoam head.
I help people who have trouble paying for their medical bills find ways to afford those medications and services. It's actually a pretty cool thing to be doing, as we tend to help a lot of people out who sometimes have to choose between medications or meals because their insurances won't cover the costs. (Pharmaceutical companies are ******* horrendous.) If you know anyone who needs help with their medications or medical costs, check us out at NeedyMeds.org! In addition to our database listings of these programs and sites, we offer a drug discount card that is completely anonymous and can save people up to 80% on their medications. (Note: We are only based in the US, so if you're out of country then this prob won't help you or people you know.)
I do a lot of research into Hepatitis C medications as part of my job too. We're in a really weird period of time right now where there is a cure for hepatitis c, but the cure is EXTREMELY expensive at ~$90,000 for the whole procedure. Insurance companies typically won't cover any of it until you are at stage 3/4 with the liver damage/hepatitis, and in stage 4 is when you start developing cancer. So the options a lot of people have are 1) wait until it's extremely bad 2) do nothing, which isn't the worst as hepatitis c can lie dormant for years with no effect or 3) head to a country where the medicines are affordable at a fraction of the cost such as india where you can get the same entire procedure for $900. So I try to always do research into new ways or programs that help people pay for these medications, I try and "lobby" (i.e. I send whiny e-mails) to the big pharmaceutical reps I've reached out to, and I try to direct people who need the medicine but are getting no coverage for it to the programs or try to plant the medical tourism bug in their ear.
Otherwise I'm either spending time playing/watching/reading about magic or playing games like the criminally underrated Duck Game. Seriously, that ***** is ******* legit and pretty cheap too for an amazingly online multiplayer experience.
Yeah, I downloaded Duck Game from a recommendation on this thread a while back. Must have been from you? We play it pretty regularly, and yes, it is pretty great. I'm really glad they opened up the workshop so that you can download more maps.
I'm an English teacher at a university in South Korea, about an hour south of Seoul. I came over from the US on a lark in 2001, and I liked it so much that I've made a career out of it. I do also play some board games like Settlers of Catan, Last Night on Earth, and Agricola, but Magic is by far my primary gaming interest. I play a lot of retail limited and some EDH in addition to cube. I shamelessly help promote my LGS and their Sunday English Magic events (feel free to check out our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/303915966473798/) to help keep the embers of Magic going in the expat community of this particular corner of Korea so I don't have to spend hours on the subway to Seoul every week just to play cards.
I'm married, we teach at the same school, and my wife also plays Magic, but mostly EDH. We have two cats. She actually started playing during Alpha when she was in middle school, and we started getting back into the game together. She's pretty talented at painting and drawing, so she occasionally does alters, including some of the alters that are in my cube.
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Cheers, this has been bugging me.
On spoiled card wishlisting and 'should-have-had'-isms:
My LGS is a huge Aquaman fan (someone has to be I guess) and he plays merfolk in modern. Another person has a Holy Grail themed Commander deck so his Trinket Mage fetching a holy hand grendae of agranok seemed appropriate. And who doesn't want a Van Gogh Ponder?
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edit - and we're finished. Not a bad draft and a solid deck with a bunch of cool synergy. Went 2-1 with a white/black midrange deck. Loved the combo with Bone Shredder and Sun Titan to just machine gun blockers out of the way. That match was the one loss though. Too much fat to deal with.
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I like how the recent SI cover with Brock Osweiler has Easely in the background getting his neck murdered. It's really indicative of the great job the refs did during that game.
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The only thing that I've heard so far is that it is indeed better than all three prequel trilogy movies. So, that is a good thing.
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Was it your first time seeing the original six or had you seen them before? I would assume a brand new Star Wars is going to be much more exciting than movies I've been watching since I was a child.
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Watching them all in order on the big screen made me realize a few things, though. First of all, the base story of Star Wars is fantastic. I love the story of Anakin's journey and all the things that happen that drive him down a path of evil. Jedi light saber force battles are awesome and action packed. There's a mild touch of several love stories underlying all of the movies with Anakin and Padme in the prequels and Han and Leia in the originals, but they're surrounded with enough buddy comedy and action movie that it doesn't feel sappy. With all of that said, though, George Lucas is a terrible writer and not a great film maker. He had a great idea that was just poorly executed, especially in comparison to The Force Awakens and what other writers have done with the Star Wars mythos in books and TV (see The Clone Wars and Rebels cartoons). The prequels are full of boring political nonsense that's often hard to follow and keep my interest, not to mention Jar Jar Binks being mostly unnecessary and annoying. Anakin mostly comes off as a whiny unappreciative brat in episodes II and III instead of the conflicted hero who thinks he's doing the right thing even if that thing is taking him down a dark path. And almost all of the dialog is quite cheesy. The one thing the prequels have going for them that the originals do not have are the ability for updated CGI graphics. This helps make the scenery, the ships, and battles more vibrant. The light saber battles are all more exciting in those movies than the originals and it's really cool to see all the different worlds of the Star Wars universe. For the originals the continuity is broken several times and it almost seems like Lucas intended to make one movie - Star Wars - and then after finding success, decided to expand and had to work off the story he'd laid out in that first movie. There's no mention of Qui-Gon Jinn by Obi-Wan in the originals and he even says that Yoda was his master. There's the obvious Luke and Leia dynamic which seems like they would have done differently had they intended on making them brother and sister later on. The Vader/Obi-Wan battle in A New Hope pales in comparison to their previous battle from Revenge of the Sith. It felt less like a battle between two master Jedis and more like two old guys knocking sticks together. And there's the whole thing with Leia saying she knew her mother when she was small and that she died when she was very young. Obviously that's not the case if Padme died during child birth. These little continuity things annoy me, but all in all, the movies are entertaining and I had a good time sitting through them all yesterday. But with all that said about the old ones, I have no similar complaints about the new one. The dialog is great and the jokes are funny and make sense in the moment. They do a good job of introducing the old characters that come back for this one that make you just want to applause when they appear on screen. The action is great. The storm troopers feel more human and less like mindless robots that go down with one shot to the arm. The story line is entertaining and easy to follow. You never get lost and you're never bored. I loved everything about it.
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Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker R -- Maga, Traitor to Mortals B -- Ghave, Guru of Spores BGW -- Sliver Hivelord WUBRG
What I'd like to do before I see it again is watch the originals in "Machete order." That's IV, V, II, III, and VI. You skip I, not only because it sucks but because it's ultimately irrelevant in the grand scheme. After Empire and the Vader/Luke reveal, you then get Anakin's backstory and how Vader came to be, charting similarities to Luke along the way. Then you go back to Jedi and see the resolution of the whole story.
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Man this brings me back! I first started playing competitively during this era. Ehrnageddon, Turbo Stasis and Winter Orb lock.dec were my favorites. Could never get my hands on four necro otherwise I am sure I would have played that too.
I live in Minneapolis, am an actuary and a dad. I have a 5 year old daughter and a 1.75 year old son. When I am gaming but not cubing I play boardgames. My current favorites are Puerto Rico and Race for the Galaxy.
I do a lot of research into Hepatitis C medications as part of my job too. We're in a really weird period of time right now where there is a cure for hepatitis c, but the cure is EXTREMELY expensive at ~$90,000 for the whole procedure. Insurance companies typically won't cover any of it until you are at stage 3/4 with the liver damage/hepatitis, and in stage 4 is when you start developing cancer. So the options a lot of people have are 1) wait until it's extremely bad 2) do nothing, which isn't the worst as hepatitis c can lie dormant for years with no effect or 3) head to a country where the medicines are affordable at a fraction of the cost such as india where you can get the same entire procedure for $900. So I try to always do research into new ways or programs that help people pay for these medications, I try and "lobby" (i.e. I send whiny e-mails) to the big pharmaceutical reps I've reached out to, and I try to direct people who need the medicine but are getting no coverage for it to the programs or try to plant the medical tourism bug in their ear.
Otherwise I'm either spending time playing/watching/reading about magic or playing games like the criminally underrated Duck Game. Seriously, that ***** is ******* legit and pretty cheap too for an amazingly online multiplayer experience.
Also, follow us on twitter! @TurnOneMagic
I love board games too, but I don't get time to play them anymore. I was obsessed with Avalon Hill's Titan in high school and wish I could find people to play that. I also loved Risk and Talisman.
My main hobby other than Magic and reading is keeping and breeding reptiles. I have four snakes and three tarantulas now, and I'm planning a natural terrarium (a.k.a. vivarium) for the near future. Not sure what animals are going in it yet. Once I get my new career going and I'm making decent money, I want to try out keeping a reef tank.
And now I should go finish my scalp acupuncture project. I have to draw and label all the points on a Styrofoam head.
Cheers,
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Yeah, I downloaded Duck Game from a recommendation on this thread a while back. Must have been from you? We play it pretty regularly, and yes, it is pretty great. I'm really glad they opened up the workshop so that you can download more maps.
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I'm married, we teach at the same school, and my wife also plays Magic, but mostly EDH. We have two cats. She actually started playing during Alpha when she was in middle school, and we started getting back into the game together. She's pretty talented at painting and drawing, so she occasionally does alters, including some of the alters that are in my cube.
450 card Peasant cube thread. Draft it here.