Would be nice to have a creature version of Ghost Quarter. Something like:
Mine Stripper 1R
Creature - Goblin
Sacrifice Mine Stripper: destroy target land. Its controller may search his/her library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield. That player then shuffles his/her library.
1/1
Unlike Ghost Quarter, it doesn't set your land drop back a turn. And unlike Field of Ruin, you can activate it starting turn 2 before they can set up Tron on turn 3
Again, just printing more safety valves is a good idea period
A creature version of Ghost Quarter would be pretty cool, but I'd change the name since I guess I'm not into naked goblins.
They've needed to do the same thing for over a decade now:
GET THEIR GODDAMN ***** TOGETHER
garbage card quality
bad communication
***** online products
ignoring older formats
overpriced premium crap
weak flavor
turd promos
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cheating in high-level play
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general ******* around
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Slightly off-topic: I would like to take a moment to thank user Tyrannosaursstomp for the well reasoned, essay-length post. Especially for someone with a grand total of 4 posts on this forum (as of my reading his post), it's really encouraging to see how much thought they put into this discussion. I think this kind of intelligent discourse promotes a healthy community, and I will be more likely to stick around here the more posts of this kind I see. +1
This, That was a very well-articulated post and he made the great point that Modern staples like Tarn should be reprinted fairly regularly to promote churn of Modern player base. Some leave, some enter and hopefully more stay.
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Seriously though ****in great, well thought-out, detailed post by a newer user.
Do you think that RG or GW Tron is well positioned or better positioned than GB in the new meta with the unbannings? What is the upside of playing red instead of black or white? Are mono green Tron and GB Tron the most popular versions for some reason instead of GR or GW? What are you altering in your maindeck or sideboards to combat the effects of the unbannings? Are Pyroclasms used anymore or just K-Return and Lightning Bolt in GR Tron? In GW Tron what is a good amount of Paths and Blessed Alliance to play? I was trying to find a recent GR and GW list from tournaments but have been unsuccessful, only finding GB, Eldrazi, and mono green lists which seem to be the most popular for some reason. Does anyone know of a GR or GW list that has done well recently?
So, the embargo in Twin talk has stopped and cfusionpm, despite his apparent antipathy to Modern, more work, and moving to playing Commander, has started posting about five times as regularly as he did when the embargo was active. Hm. I wonder if this indicates anything.
hellfire is also making a bunch of posts about how "modern sucks" and anyone who disagrees is apparently a drooling idiot rather than making any interesting and constructive points.
Jesus I need to stop reading this thread, it's giving me an aneurysm.
Maybe instead of killing you in a horrible fashion it will give you superpowers like Spider-Man and you'll be able to predict bans with 100% accuracy!
It's a *****ty superpower and I wouldn't count on it but at least then something good would have come from this thread! Never lose hope!
So, while Storm is an unfair deck, I don't think it breaks any rules, and I don't think it makes the format specifically worse off. So why would we want it to get hit with a ban? Unless it turns out that it is so completely busted and consistent (which we would need stats on to argue) that even interactive decks can't handle it, but that would make for an obvious ban to take it down a notch.
Wizards has shown that they do not need to follow any specific criteria for banning pretty much anything (especially if it represents something they don't like). If whatever they feel like banning does not follow explicit patterns of past bannings, they will just pull some explanation out of thin air and ban it anyway. What are we going to do about it? Stop them?
I don't think Storm deserves a ban, but I would no be surprised in the least bit to see something like a card from Storm banned before the next PT, as part of their "totally not a shake up" shake up. Until that announcement though, I think we can just expect "No Changes."
Gee, this post is so subtly worded that I "totally can't tell" what you're alluding to...
Seething song wouldn't be a problem and would even enable some tier2-3 deck like dragonstorm or all in red.
I've rewatched a game from yesterday against storm, I was testing my jeskai geist deck.
Game1 he comboes turn8 after trying to cast at the end of his last turns a gifts which I always remanded or tried to counter which he remanded to himself. I didn't put pressure on the field since I can't just tap out on my turn and he had all that time to sculpt his hand.
Game 2 I'm on the play, end of his turn2 he plays 2 opts. I untap T3, play geist to put some pressure before he can combo and pass the turn. Turn3 he plays an electromancer and proceeds to put 18 goblins in play after playing a Wipe Away on one of my 3 lands. So even if I had had a hate card in play he would have comboed anyways. Turn 3. And it's not something special. Happens very often. Yes. Needs a ban. A big one.
Another point is: storm plays a turn 2 bear. If you don't kill the bear before turn 3, storm is going off turn3 with what, a 90% chance? Some will say: of course storm is gonna kill you if you don't kill his bear. And I say, really?? Is a deck that consistently wins turn3 if you don't have removal for his bear on turn2 fair?
I enjoy reading the discussion in this thread. I like evidence even more. One isolated match in which the Storm player got a nut draw is not necessarily representative of the Storm deck's strength in the larger metagame.
Could you share with us the statistics that demonstrate Storm with T2 cost bear can go off T3 90% of the time?
Please and thank you.
Personally, Nyzzeh, I'm of the opinion that you're monumentally biased. But that's just based on a couple posts (and the "Storm needs a ban" under your name, damn!), so with no substantial data collected, I could be wrong...
I'd suggest something like 3-4x Nihil Spellbomb in the sideboard for Dredge/graveyard strategies since you're playing Black.
Also I have zero experience against Bogles but I'd probably go with something like Back To Nature or Cruel Edict. 2 Black for Smallpox seems like it might be hard to do given your manabase. On that note, Llanowar Wastes is less than a dollar on TCGplayer if you want to get some cheap duals.
So if it was just an MTGS login it wouldn't be a problem, but since our MTGS login applies to the whole Curse Network and Curse is becoming part of Twitch, Twitch is avoiding any potential future security issues by forcing us to create/merge accounts now?
This is why I always promote the practicing of the dice roll in this format, it is one of the FEW things you can actually control the outcome of a match with. Going second in Modern is a death sentence more often than not.
Uh what? Explain what you mean, because this (as written) just sounds like blatant cheating :S.
How do you even "practice" rolling dice? Wtf?
If you're genuinely suggesting that people try to manipulate the die roll to hit a certain number or range then I'm afraid I just lost all respect for you.
I doubt sisicat will be responding since he got banned.
Looks pretty legit but I don't know how to utilize him. What do you think?
A creature version of Ghost Quarter would be pretty cool, but I'd change the name since I guess I'm not into naked goblins.
garbage card quality
bad communication
***** online products
ignoring older formats
overpriced premium crap
weak flavor
turd promos
pooping on judges
cheating in high-level play
reserved list nonsense
general ******* around
etc
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Seriously though ****in great, well thought-out, detailed post by a newer user.
I'm putting together a GR list and I started with purk's list from a couple weeks ago, tweaked a bit towards the expected meta post-unbans:
here's the list I started with and some context
Maybe instead of killing you in a horrible fashion it will give you superpowers like Spider-Man and you'll be able to predict bans with 100% accuracy!
It's a *****ty superpower and I wouldn't count on it but at least then something good would have come from this thread! Never lose hope!
Gee, this post is so subtly worded that I "totally can't tell" what you're alluding to...
Well, keep it up. You're doing a hell of a job.
So why are you still here?
Please and thank you.
Personally, Nyzzeh, I'm of the opinion that you're monumentally biased. But that's just based on a couple posts (and the "Storm needs a ban" under your name, damn!), so with no substantial data collected, I could be wrong...
Also I have zero experience against Bogles but I'd probably go with something like Back To Nature or Cruel Edict. 2 Black for Smallpox seems like it might be hard to do given your manabase. On that note, Llanowar Wastes is less than a dollar on TCGplayer if you want to get some cheap duals.
Turn 2: Pyroclasm
I doubt sisicat will be responding since he got banned.