Hah, good times. I'm reminded of my first card and driving in the winters of Washington. Ice on the ground, and I'm in a RWD 1.5 ton automatic V8 ford car.
That'll quickly teach you either how to drive in inclement weather or how durable the frame on an '84 cougar is. (Hint: On two separate occaisions I had solid hits on deer at highway speeds. No body damage!)
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- therestless
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Feb 5, 2010
therestless posted a message on new edh helpThere's a solid thread on him over in the EDH forums (http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=216167) that has a lot of good stuff. General bit seems to be Spreading Seas, Tainted Well, Mind Funeral, Glimpse the Unthinkable, Traumatize, and the U/B stuff of w/e flavor you care for (I'm going to build mine with a Grave Pact subtheme).Posted in: Card Ace Blog -
Feb 3, 2010
therestless posted a message on Once Again I HATE MWS!!!I suddenly recall when I was goldfishing a deck yesterday drawing 8 lands in a row playing a 19 land deck... Yep, sometimes you just have to wonder. I do wonder how much is MWS error and how much is human tendency to only note the outliers.Posted in: PhyreMynd Blog
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Jan 24, 2010
therestless posted a message on Johnny is wrong, or why R&D's player demographics are not equally valid viewpointsYou mention the misconception about Timmy ("the little kid who plays crap mega-beasts and thinks they're good"). You now bring attribute a misconception about Johnny ("They deliberatly set out to choose non-optimal cards and try to find ways to fit them together to build a Rube Goldbergian contraption that will get them a win.") What about the misconceptions about Spikes (i.e. will never play a card till someone else proves its merits first)? I'm actually a Johnny/Spike. To your mind that's irreconcilable but it seems to me you've only dealt with scrubby Johnny players. I like to build my own thing or make innovations with established decks. This can give me a competitive edge as not all good cards are expected in a given meta forcing my opponent to play on unfamiliar ground. If my attempted innovation does not work I'll throw it out with the trash. If it does work, I win. How is this so terribly wrong? Your take on discovery versus creation may be semantically accurate but it does rather gloss over the issue. You seem to have setup a logical fallacy with "Johnnies try to be 'creative'. There is not truly creativity in Magic deck design. Therefore, Johnnies are wrong." Johnnies do try to innovate, i.e. make previously untried combinations succeed. It is very easy to be a scrubby johnny player and have 'pet' cards that are bad or, even if good, are used ineffectively. It is not the rule.Posted in: Let them hate me, as long as they fear me
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Oct 22, 2009
therestless posted a message on re-discovering thornling.I had it in G/W ramp pre-Zen and it was remarkably solid, but I was building off of Behemoth Sledge. In Jund it's a matter of having the Deathmarks or whatnot to kill turn 2 Leeches or a 6 mana way to kill them blocking. I wouldn't discount it, but I don't think it's really amazing.Posted in: SoFresh Blog
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Oct 22, 2009
therestless posted a message on New To MTGI think you can build a good R/W control deck. I don't think you can do it without Baneslayer Angel. Maybe try a Grixis control deck?Posted in: brianthib43 Blog
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Oct 20, 2009
therestless posted a message on Cards that should be banned in EDH!!!!I dislike Obliterate as an EDH card because it does not progress the game (i.e. outside of Jhoira decks, it won't leave the caster in a better position than everyone else, it's simply being vindictive). If Armageddon is being used as a stall tactic, that's... dissapointing (and you can help yourself out a lot by stocking a lot of artifact mana, most of which is simply C/UC). I really doubt banning Armageddon would help though. What about Ruination? It's arguably a LOT more devastating because it can easily wipe the majority of everyone's land-base except for the red mage's. Then there's Catastrophe, Cataclysm, Decree of Annihilation (not even counterable), Devastation, and several others.Posted in: rickskies Blog
Dig up some artifact accel, Crucible of Worlds, Sacred Ground, Karmic Justice, Planar Birth... or just play Terravore.
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Oct 20, 2009
therestless posted a message on Stupid parents might kill us all...I'm reminded of a bit I ran across some months ago (http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/02/autism_and_the_mmr_vaccine.html, interesting site, generally). I did not, until this, know who the figurehead is. I need to find a "Jenny McCarthy kills babies" bumber sticker or something.Posted in: Random Rants
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Oct 16, 2009
therestless posted a message on Great Sable Stag in Jund.It's not inefficient. Vamps are a popular tier 2 at the moment, and opposing leeches have always been a problem. Throw in it being immune to Terminate and Bituminous Blast and it's a very reasonable creature for the mirror, which is very important right now.Posted in: SoFresh Blog
I never would've considered it MD until a local Jund player started it. Having seen it in action, it's not a bad idea. -
Sep 8, 2009
therestless posted a message on play or draw (M10 Draft)M10 is an aggressive enough draft environment that you should default to playing, but if you're really worried about your mana than taking the draw is justifiable. In Alara/Conflux draft I think everyone defaulted to draw, but once Alara Reborn hit you had to play.Posted in: Kburts Blog
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Aug 3, 2009
therestless posted a message on I hate being new!If your friend lives out-of-state you can still play them using Magic Workstation, but that program takes a bit to set up and is prone to crashing (hate when it does that in the middle of a game!). Honestly, I use the blog bit here mostly to link decklists for friends... There's no restriction on uses for itPosted in: lilianna Blog
I guess one thing that's worth pointing out as a person who started out playing casually and moved to competetive play much later, we originally had an extremely poor understanding of the actual rules which led to us stumbling around trying to work out how things should happen. If you know someone you can play against who is a veteran of the game that will help you out a lot (although I do know some people who have been playing continuously since the games release 16 years ago who still don't know the current rules very well).
At any rate, hope you have fun! It's a great game that can be played at many different levels. -
Jul 24, 2009
therestless posted a message on I need help and sugestions for my Blue-White splash Black Legacy DeckOnly playing 19 lands seems a little low, though Brainstorm et al does help a lot with that. Still, by the time you'd get mana to play quickshop the game would probably be over, and you don't have a way to 'cheat' him into play. Deep-Sea Kraken might be cool if you can find one. White Knight is a little off as well. By the time you're likely to have double white you could probably play something bigger. Howling Mine seems to help your opponents more than you cause they draw first, and blue is good at card draw anyway.Posted in: jonnyboybohle Blog
Diviner's Wand seems cool with Brainstorm, and Vedalken Æthermage can find it or your Teferi (or other cool wizards you might get).
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My Smallpox v RUG Delver. It's a very good matchup for me but he does win game 2. Game 3, he hits Cursed Scroll and Mishra's Factory with Surgical Extraction, leaving me with zero cards left that can deal damage and excising 5 cards from my library. However, I destroyed every land in his deck that could produce colored mana. At game's end, I have a Liliana with over 20 counters, there are no cards in either library, and I win the match because he was on the draw and drew as many extra cards as he had removed from my library.
I like that art as well.
Must have missed ya. Had a lot of fun playing in the opens for T2 (BW Zombies) and Legacy (Smallpox).
I had Diabolic Tutor in a life-centric EDH deck so I had the barest justification for it.
I've had my fetchlands forever, sans a small break when they started messing with Extended's rotation. When Onslaught's rotation out of extended was approaching I sold all my fetches, then they changed their mind and I bought them back at a small loss. Some time after that I started looking at EDH or Legacy (can't recall which) and figured I'd hold onto them.
I loved opening ONS packs. ONS/MIR was T2 when I started playing, and they had such cool cards in them.
Grim Tutor was the last item on my list. Was a good feeling to finally complete it.
So then I had to make a new list of cards I have the wrong version of...
On that note, I really need to upgrade my Ravages of War to English.
Edit: I should really be studying for my Security+ cert this afternoon... Anyone take that test recently?
He doesn't have a release date at the moment, and is similarly keeping a lot of mechanics and whatnot under wraps.
Also similarly, the lack of release date is primarily due to cost of art assets.
Always good to get some new ideas out there.
I don't have any actual study or anything to back this up, but it seems like the biggest problem is that people already involved in one TCG are loathe to pickup another one. This would be a huge problem from a market-share standpoint.
At any rate, try to avoid releasing it at the same time as Codex.
There were a lot of good moments but the overall behavior of most characters was just pitiable.
Never made it through the second season.
For T2 purposes, it's of note that Obzedat's exile trigger trumps the Whip's exile clause.
Hero's Downfall is great.
Double-sleeving is a great way to protect your cards. I've heard of people having problems bending the cards when using the Ultra-Pro perfect fits, but I've heard of no such problems with the KMC ones.
Double-sleeving will not appreciably protect against damage from riffle shuffling.
I doubt I'll ever cut Vengevine, and I don't have much green aggro support either. I'll grant a lot of the times I've seen him resurrect involved Eternal Witness, but even without that ability he's very useful. Especially against planeswalkers.
If it's Spike Jester v Terminate, I went with Spike Jester.
www.potomacdist.com will do 10 packs shipped for $63.
I'm batman.
I would say that the next commander product is close enough that I'm putting off a few decisions until that's all spoiled.