Yesterday I picked up two Ultimate Masters packs along with some mid- and high-value singles (including a Mana Drain) and several boxes of Dragon Shield sleeves because the store was doing a 20% off sale. The packs netted me an Ancient Tomb and a Bridge From Below, plus foils of a couple of extra-crappy commons (Mark of the Vampire and something else so lame I can't even remember what it was). I guess the Tomb paid for the two packs, especially at 20% off? Unfortunately, pretty much everything else in the packs was forgettable crap.
Stayed up til midnight, but we had people over playing games so that's not tough.
I finally went off the deep end and bought a bunch of stuff so I can make decent coffee at work. Our break room coffee is terrible and it's been a problem for me. I think my office setup is going to be nicer than my home setup now.
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I lost my mind for a minute over the new Teysa I thought I could sacrifice Reveillark, have the ability trigger twice, and then in the middle of the triggers sacrifice Karmic Guide and have it come back with both triggers. Sadly, that is not how the stack works, and Lark needs you to declare targets as soon as it dies.
I lost my mind for a minute over the new Teysa I thought I could sacrifice Reveillark, have the ability trigger twice, and then in the middle of the triggers sacrifice Karmic Guide and have it come back with both triggers. Sadly, that is not how the stack works, and Lark needs you to declare targets as soon as it dies.
I'm still excited for that card and the brokenness it will bring me.
I lost my mind for a minute over the new Teysa I thought I could sacrifice Reveillark, have the ability trigger twice, and then in the middle of the triggers sacrifice Karmic Guide and have it come back with both triggers. Sadly, that is not how the stack works, and Lark needs you to declare targets as soon as it dies.
I'm still excited for that card and the brokenness it will bring me.
I'm still going to play it with the Karmic Guide loop in, but I'm also playing a Panharmonicon to have it work the way I want it to.
I'm thinking about building an Arcades defense deck geared towards 2HG play, but I haven't fully committed to the idea yet.
I like that Arcades exists..... I just feel that the deck is very cut and dry as to what makes the list. Its sort of like tribal defender but with also pushing on flicker effects. I guess to me there just isn't enough deckbuilding room left for tweaking and improving.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
I like that Arcades exists..... I just feel that the deck is very cut and dry as to what makes the list. Its sort of like tribal defender but with also pushing on flicker effects. I guess to me there just isn't enough deckbuilding room left for tweaking and improving.
Yeah, that is my hunch as well. JWK just made a thread that touches on this and I think the deck will be linear. That said, the primary goal is for a 2HG deck that shouldn't have much overlap with whatever random deck it pairs with and is meant fo he the control aspect via blockers and permission. So I'm not as worried about being bored with the deck.
The main issue I have with Arcades in general is that it incentivizes you to play subpar or mediocre cards. There have been a number of times where someone has been playing Arcades Defender tribal, only for Arcades to die multiple times. What they're left with is a bunch of bad creatures with defender. Meanwhile, everyone else is advancing their board states and generally doing things.
I've seen someone played an Arcades, the Strategist deck. He knows that the premise isn't good, but has fun with trying to send Tree of Redemption for lethal at his opponents.
The problem is when his commander eats an Act of Aggression on combat, gets his team fogged, and then dies on the swingback.
The main issue I have with Arcades in general is that it incentivizes you to play subpar or mediocre cards. There have been a number of times where someone has been playing Arcades Defender tribal, only for Arcades to die multiple times. What they're left with is a bunch of bad creatures with defender. Meanwhile, everyone else is advancing their board states and generally doing things.
Yeah, but since my partner's deck would be the primary one, it's not as if I would need to worry about being stuck with a bunch of walls.
The main issue I have with Arcades in general is that it incentivizes you to play subpar or mediocre cards. There have been a number of times where someone has been playing Arcades Defender tribal, only for Arcades to die multiple times. What they're left with is a bunch of bad creatures with defender. Meanwhile, everyone else is advancing their board states and generally doing things.
Yeah, but since my partner's deck would be the primary one, it's not as if I would need to worry about being stuck with a bunch of walls.
That's fair. I'm sure it'll work in a 2HG game. I was more thinking in terms of people that intend to play it in a regular multiplayer game.
That's fair. I'm sure it'll work in a 2HG game. I was more thinking in terms of people that intend to play it in a regular multiplayer game.
Ew, who would want to do that?
Just had an enjoyable league game with Mathas in which I was up against Ur-Dragon vomiting dragons. Master Warcraft convinced the dragons to alpha strike an opponent, and Rakdos Charm pinged the other opponent to death. And thenI died to dragons. It was still fun and probably the best the deck has performed so far.
Yep, enlisted out of high school in 1998. Most of that was in the National Guard, so I don't get to collect anything until I'm 60, and I still have a full time job. Still, it's nice to have it to look forward to some day.
I went to sleep at 10pm and made no attempt to stay up until midnight.
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I finally went off the deep end and bought a bunch of stuff so I can make decent coffee at work. Our break room coffee is terrible and it's been a problem for me. I think my office setup is going to be nicer than my home setup now.
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I'm still excited for that card and the brokenness it will bring me.
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I'm still going to play it with the Karmic Guide loop in, but I'm also playing a Panharmonicon to have it work the way I want it to.
Gonna Yosei lock people. Gonna be great.
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I like that Arcades exists..... I just feel that the deck is very cut and dry as to what makes the list. Its sort of like tribal defender but with also pushing on flicker effects. I guess to me there just isn't enough deckbuilding room left for tweaking and improving.
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Yeah, that is my hunch as well. JWK just made a thread that touches on this and I think the deck will be linear. That said, the primary goal is for a 2HG deck that shouldn't have much overlap with whatever random deck it pairs with and is meant fo he the control aspect via blockers and permission. So I'm not as worried about being bored with the deck.
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The problem is when his commander eats an Act of Aggression on combat, gets his team fogged, and then dies on the swingback.
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Missed this. Not very often.
Yeah, but since my partner's deck would be the primary one, it's not as if I would need to worry about being stuck with a bunch of walls.
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That's fair. I'm sure it'll work in a 2HG game. I was more thinking in terms of people that intend to play it in a regular multiplayer game.
Ew, who would want to do that?
Just had an enjoyable league game with Mathas in which I was up against Ur-Dragon vomiting dragons. Master Warcraft convinced the dragons to alpha strike an opponent, and Rakdos Charm pinged the other opponent to death. And thenI died to dragons. It was still fun and probably the best the deck has performed so far.
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Yep, enlisted out of high school in 1998. Most of that was in the National Guard, so I don't get to collect anything until I'm 60, and I still have a full time job. Still, it's nice to have it to look forward to some day.
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