Random pics from the LA Auto Show. My work allows me to go during the press days: http://imgur.com/a/uxH3E
I'm not sure if the Ford Raptor is as stupid as it was a few years ago, but man did it look like a blast to put through it's paces. A glorious example of American excess that actually delivers on it's promise.
The site I ordered from didn't have Starlit, simple as that lol. Need to get her from another site.
I should specify though. I just want a copy, almost any version will do, of every angel printed. If it's foil, great. If not, no worries. I'm avoiding foreign though. I'm not going to go for a copy of like, every version from every set it was printed in, that would be way too tedious.
Ok, so we had a Commander 2015 FFA night, decks straight out the box. It was damn fun and now we're planning tohave another night event with tuned up versions of the decks.
Like a time-lopped nightmare, weaved in the fabric of reality itself, the ancient deckbuilder's Dilemma arises: how much do I tune it up?
Tuning too much will result in a dramatic loss of fun (and friends).
Not tuning enough will make me lose every chance of stealing a game.
Ah, the drama!
My philosophy has always been "tune until you see tears and start losing friends, then keep tuning"
I'm going to try and pick up the BG deck tonight and I am excited to make it a precon aimed for a $50 price tag, so just slightly more cohesive and more goodies for existing Commander players. It feels weird because this will be one of the weakest decks I've built in a long time.
Edit: I didn't preorder Blade of Selves and now I'm kicking myself because the stupid thing is sold out everywhere and tripled in price.
The Blade will calm down in a little while, unless it's caught on in Legacy or something while I wasn't looking.
What deck are we talking about tuning up? Some of them will need more help than others. for less than $15 I turned Eruzi into an infect/proliferate deck that's relatively low power but still able to steal some wins.
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EDH playing competitive Magic cast away
Current Decks GTitania midrange RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
Ok, so we had a Commander 2015 FFA night, decks straight out the box. It was damn fun and now we're planning tohave another night event with tuned up versions of the decks.
Like a time-lopped nightmare, weaved in the fabric of reality itself, the ancient deckbuilder's Dilemma arises: how much do I tune it up?
Tuning too much will result in a dramatic loss of fun (and friends).
Not tuning enough will make me lose every chance of stealing a game.
Ah, the drama!
I hate to be "that guy", but if they simply say "Tune it up" without actually specifying how much, and they stop being your friend because you win with said tuned up deck, they really weren't people you wanted to be friends with.
They gave no limit, so they should expect none.
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Oath of the Gatewatch; the set that caused the competitive community to freak out over Basic Lands.
Yeah in my experience storm decks don't make a lot of friends. The Izzet deck is pretty good. I don't know how many cuts it would take to make it really competitive, but I'll tell you for sure that you need to add some win conditions (Lab Maniac, Sphinx-Bone Wand, etc).
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I love storm decks. I'm not sure there are any spells I like casting more than Mind's Desire. Most of the people I know do not love playing against storm decks. They tend towards single big, time intensive turns that aren't guaranteed to be successful (if you're running the more traditional, critical mass kind of storm deck, not Sensei's Divining Top+Cloud Key+Future Sight kinds of storm decks). They're mostly successful, but there's always the chance that you're going to fizzle at 25 storm and die to an angry table a turn or two later so people really shouldn't scoop. There's not really a middle ground between the decks that take long turns full of powerful plays and decks that play more on a precon level by the nature of the mechanic either.
I still run them every once and a while, I just try not to play them so often that people get tired of me sitting down.
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[Pr]Jaya | Estrid | A rotating cast of decks built out of my box.
Yeah, Mind's Desire for like 10 is fun. Dedicated storm decks like mox's aren't because they are designed to always hit such a high (if not infinite) storm count that you always win.
Once we get the new game room up and running, I want to do a C2015 precon league. Each of the five of us start with one of them, then make some conditions by which we can slowly update them--like the first person to get killed each game gets to replace one card in the deck with a card of his choice (or somesuch). Maybe with some additional conditions (like you can't add a new card from a set you've already added from). I'd like to see how they evolve.
I got an envelope in the mail today from my mail carrier. It had 4 pennies in it and said "Changes for you."
I suspect that something happened at HQ and because of a language barrier I got 4 cents today.
EDIT: Sometimes I love the adbot/clickbait tactics here:
I didn't preorder Blade of Selves and now I'm kicking myself because the stupid thing is sold out everywhere and tripled in price.
I didn't even realize it had spiked so much until I went to watch some Commander 2015 product reviews on Youtube and they were commenting on the price of the card being the most expensive single of the set. Makes me glad I decided to go down on release day and grab most of the singles I wanted from the set, including the Blade.
Once we get the new game room up and running, I want to do a C2015 precon league. Each of the five of us start with one of them, then make some conditions by which we can slowly update them--like the first person to get killed each game gets to replace one card in the deck with a card of his choice (or somesuch). Maybe with some additional conditions (like you can't add a new card from a set you've already added from). I'd like to see how they evolve.
I'm down. First card I add to the BG deck is Recurring Nightmare.
Once we get the new game room up and running, I want to do a C2015 precon league. Each of the five of us start with one of them, then make some conditions by which we can slowly update them--like the first person to get killed each game gets to replace one card in the deck with a card of his choice (or somesuch). Maybe with some additional conditions (like you can't add a new card from a set you've already added from). I'd like to see how they evolve.
I'm down. First card I add to the BG deck is Recurring Nightmare.
You're the reason we can't have nice things.
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I'm not sure if the Ford Raptor is as stupid as it was a few years ago, but man did it look like a blast to put through it's paces. A glorious example of American excess that actually delivers on it's promise.
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!
--- Meren of Clan Nel Toth --- Jhoira of the Ghitu --- Prime Speaker Zegana ---
--- Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief --- Ghoulcaller Gisa --- Akroma, Angel of Fury --- Titania, Protector of Argoth ---
Does this include Foreign / Foils?
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
The site I ordered from didn't have Starlit, simple as that lol. Need to get her from another site.
I should specify though. I just want a copy, almost any version will do, of every angel printed. If it's foil, great. If not, no worries. I'm avoiding foreign though. I'm not going to go for a copy of like, every version from every set it was printed in, that would be way too tedious.
--- Meren of Clan Nel Toth --- Jhoira of the Ghitu --- Prime Speaker Zegana ---
--- Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief --- Ghoulcaller Gisa --- Akroma, Angel of Fury --- Titania, Protector of Argoth ---
My philosophy has always been "tune until you see tears and start losing friends, then keep tuning"
I'm going to try and pick up the BG deck tonight and I am excited to make it a precon aimed for a $50 price tag, so just slightly more cohesive and more goodies for existing Commander players. It feels weird because this will be one of the weakest decks I've built in a long time.
Edit: I didn't preorder Blade of Selves and now I'm kicking myself because the stupid thing is sold out everywhere and tripled in price.
Misc. EDH Stuff: Commander Cube | Zombies (Horde)
Resources:Commander Rulings FAQ | Commander Deckbuilding Guide
Follow me on Twitter! @cryogen_mtg
What deck are we talking about tuning up? Some of them will need more help than others. for less than $15 I turned Eruzi into an infect/proliferate deck that's relatively low power but still able to steal some wins.
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
I hate to be "that guy", but if they simply say "Tune it up" without actually specifying how much, and they stop being your friend because you win with said tuned up deck, they really weren't people you wanted to be friends with.
They gave no limit, so they should expect none.
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
no ur rong
Misc. EDH Stuff: Commander Cube | Zombies (Horde)
Resources:Commander Rulings FAQ | Commander Deckbuilding Guide
Follow me on Twitter! @cryogen_mtg
But that's what storm is. A non interactive pile of cardboard.
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Resources:Commander Rulings FAQ | Commander Deckbuilding Guide
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It just doesn't let anyone else interact with it.
It's a very one-way type of thing.
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
Misc. EDH Stuff: Commander Cube | Zombies (Horde)
Resources:Commander Rulings FAQ | Commander Deckbuilding Guide
Follow me on Twitter! @cryogen_mtg
I still run them every once and a while, I just try not to play them so often that people get tired of me sitting down.
Misc. EDH Stuff: Commander Cube | Zombies (Horde)
Resources:Commander Rulings FAQ | Commander Deckbuilding Guide
Follow me on Twitter! @cryogen_mtg
I suspect that something happened at HQ and because of a language barrier I got 4 cents today.
EDIT: Sometimes I love the adbot/clickbait tactics here:
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
Necromantic Team Building
The Care Bear Stare
The Strange Investigations of Dr. Circu (WIP)
I didn't even realize it had spiked so much until I went to watch some Commander 2015 product reviews on Youtube and they were commenting on the price of the card being the most expensive single of the set. Makes me glad I decided to go down on release day and grab most of the singles I wanted from the set, including the Blade.
I'm down. First card I add to the BG deck is Recurring Nightmare.
Misc. EDH Stuff: Commander Cube | Zombies (Horde)
Resources:Commander Rulings FAQ | Commander Deckbuilding Guide
Follow me on Twitter! @cryogen_mtg
You're the reason we can't have nice things.