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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Feb 5, 2010therestless 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
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Feb 3, 2010therestless 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, 2010therestless 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, 2009therestless 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, 2009therestless 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, 2009therestless 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, 2009therestless 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, 2009therestless 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, 2009therestless 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, 2009therestless 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).
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Jul 24, 2009therestless 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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I don't see how he'd build that deck with more than like 8 basic lands.
Go go Ihsan's Shade!
Interestingly, judging won't actually be done by the clans for this one. Just enjoy the novel pictures.
Encourages poor draft strategy? I really don't like the design of the card.
This is pretty surprising. They always seemed to be really active in the past. Wonder what happened?
Thinking about it, this thread has slowed down considerably.
Well, submitted some stuff for the clan contest before the deadline. Apparently only one other clan has submitted so far, so there's an extension. Didn't have any original work for bonus points, but I got to make an art swap for Ihsan's Shade as the legendary creature.
Nightmare doesn't jump you from 4 to 8 mana in a turn. He happens to be one of my favorite cards ever, but it's of note that he was in T2 with Grim Harvest.
It is a fancy draw spell, but it is good at what it does. To my mind, Jace Beleren shouldn't be competing with other planeswalkers. He should be competing with other draw spells.
To the previous, I'd keep Tamiyo over Jace, AoT.
I do still play Beast Within, and it is an okay card, while I do not play Creeping Mold. That was more the idea from my last post.
Beast Within is more significant for not being very green than it is significant for being a good card. I would simply add that green has a lot of great tools to fight aggro.
This post doesn't make sense to me.
Of course Vindicate is a better effect than Bramblecrush. How is that relevant? It's a WB gold card. Maelstrom Pulse is also better? Can't break a Maze of Ith, but sure. Except that it is also a gold card. Bramblecrush has a very good effect at a reasonable cost and no drawback.
As to your second point, you can't compare them in that manner without taking into account that one has a very real drawback and the other does not.
Not more than Bramblecrush, but I do play it over Creeping Mold. Bramblecrushing planeswalkers is very much a thing.
Easily Beast Within. Exarch just costs too much.
I used to do this in my Multani deck with Momentous Fall, Garruk, and Regal Force. Good times.
I've had this happen before, and I'm in the military...
In related news, there's construction being done on my apartment building to take down and rebuild each aparment's deck. The surface for all of these is, for some reason, a cement slab so they have to jackhammer it out.
The wiring in those buildings is not exactly robust.
Probably around 230. I kind of hate filling up fat pack boxes though. The inner trim of the lid can catch cards at the edges and fold them in when you close the box.
Use with care, or put cards into other boxes/containers before putting them in the fat pack box.
I would, but I'm still binging on Path of Exile.
Anyone have some originals that would fit? If not, I'll just get to scouring the internet.