Oh, I thought he was talking about playing a spell that is countering a spell with counters on it as it comes into play, but I see you guys were just discussing whether he was flashing a creature with flash in order to flash a flashback or just flashing a creature with flash but not needing flash in order to flashback a spell without flash.
Take your monoblack deck, then set aside 14 swamps. Add 4 Creeping Tar Pits, 4 Darkslick Shores, 4 Drowned Catacombs, and 2 Jwar isle Refuge and add 4 Jace, the Mindsculptors. Your monoblack deck is instantly better. Better yet, drop those refuges, throw in some islands and some mana leaks, and lo and behold, you're now playing a real deck. Congratulations. Welcome to the world of competitive M:TG.
Shoulda put True Believer and some other answers in M13 IMO. All you can do now is dedicate SB slots to Outwit or Redirect if you're running blue and want to waste slots for a single OP card
Everyone knows that good luck and good game are such insincere terms that any man who does not connect his right hook with the offender's jaw on the very utterance of such a phrase is no man I would consider as such.
I fail to see why people are getting so mad at this, yet Nassif managing to survive the ignite memories in the quarter finals of whichever pro tour that was; that other guy, who's name I've forgotten, top-decking a lightening helix; and Nassif top-decking his singleton cruel ultimatum at PT ?Paris? is just fine. Magic has always been a game of skill, and being able to read the probabilities is one of those. With 4 bonfires in a deck, that game-winning top-deck is going to happen, it's just that a lot of the time when it does, it's effects aren't as noticeabley game winning
ONE of the problems is, its the only card in t2 right now that is this swingy. its not a skill based card either, its "derp i drew it lol i win"
I fail to see why people are getting so mad at this, yet Nassif managing to survive the ignite memories in the quarter finals of whichever pro tour that was; that other guy, who's name I've forgotten, top-decking a lightening helix; and Nassif top-decking his singleton cruel ultimatum at PT ?Paris? is just fine. Magic has always been a game of skill, and being able to read the probabilities is one of those. With 4 bonfires in a deck, that game-winning top-deck is going to happen, it's just that a lot of the time when it does, it's effects aren't as noticeabley game winning
I think if Bonfire cost 7 mana, all colored, of 3 different colors, then no one would complain too much when people rip it to win the game.
But instead, it costs an amount of mana that scales with how much you have, with only one of it colored.
Bonfire is just bad design and makes the game too luck dependant, before if you're in a rough spot 4 or 5 turns in a game topdecking a Day will buy you a turn or topdecking a Fireball may be the crucial game decider but Bonfire is both and gets better as the game drags on. It also sucks being on the receiving end of a luck draw like that because you know the game was just stolen from you in the cheapest way possible.
that other guy, who's name I've forgotten, top-decking a lightening helix; and Nassif top-decking his singleton cruel ultimatum at PT ?Paris? is just fine.
Lightning Helix off the top doesn't always win games, since your opponent is usually at more than 3 life.
Cruel Ultimatum is sketchier, but the fact that the card is blank unless you have at least seven mana on the board balances out the fact that it is very hard to lose after it resolves.
Bonfire of the Damned might not win the game 100% of the time off the top, but is usually massive card/board advantage whenever it is drawn, and is not completely useless in your hand before you get to seven mana.
The other cards you mentioned are situationally unfair, but Bonfire is always unfair.
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now im pretty mad right now cus i hate carrying games in LoL and still losing cus 1 person on my team weighs a ton.
but just the look of disgust on everybodies faces is hilarious. honestly thats how i feel about magic right now.
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Chinese Taipei team, the team that eventually took it down.
What an epic bonfire it was, too. I love Kibler's reaction
Edit: I didn't know Chinese Taipei and Taiwan where the same. I'm dumb. Either was sick Bonfire
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Personally I see it being on the short list for Standard banning in October.
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ONE of the problems is, its the only card in t2 right now that is this swingy. its not a skill based card either, its "derp i drew it lol i win"
But instead, it costs an amount of mana that scales with how much you have, with only one of it colored.
Lightning Helix off the top doesn't always win games, since your opponent is usually at more than 3 life.
Cruel Ultimatum is sketchier, but the fact that the card is blank unless you have at least seven mana on the board balances out the fact that it is very hard to lose after it resolves.
Bonfire of the Damned might not win the game 100% of the time off the top, but is usually massive card/board advantage whenever it is drawn, and is not completely useless in your hand before you get to seven mana.
The other cards you mentioned are situationally unfair, but Bonfire is always unfair.