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    posted a message on Dimir continues to get hosed
    Quote from Kingrames
    Ahh, yes, like back in the ancient times, with delver and snapcaster...


    And where is Delver now... I lvoe ow people keep bring up Delver like he was some sort of powerhouse Nacatl, but seem to constantly forget that Delver was only good becasue of a perfect storm of cards. Because of Ponder (library manipulation), Snapcaster, Vapor Snag (that extra life loss helps alot), and free spells, Delver was able to get where it was. Don't believe me? just look what happened when everything rolled away? I mean we still have decent spells but delver is gone now.
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    posted a message on Dimir continues to get hosed
    Quote from driftwood
    Dimir doesnt need good cards to win. It needs good pilots. Right now the majority of mtg players lack the sublety to run U/B effectively. Dont blame the cards, blame your lack of creativity.

    Are people really gonna claim U/B is underpowered, when we have snapcaster, liliana, the best spot removal we've had in a while (black spells killing black critters without a dozen mana) half a dozen mediorce counters, and a fistful of decent finishers. Solar flare is usually 2-3 of the top 8's. While a big part of that deck is W (azo charm, sphinx's, supreme) u/b is still its underpinnings


    Such a cop out...

    Ok lets break your arguement into pieces:

    Best Spot Removal: Really? Searing Spear is considered good now... and it is a strictly worse Lightning Bolt. Ultimate Price and Victim of the Night miss too many big targets (Olivia, Huntmaster, the zombie bunch, ect.). Additionally, creatures now a days have stupid levels of resilence or backing. Between Thragtusk with his double lives and boros charm and more and more things having regen, the spot removal is not cutting it very much.

    Counters: half a dozen??? We have Cancel and Dissipate (essentially the same with the exception of the exile clause), Psychic Strike, and Syncopate. Just about ever other counter is horrible (in UB colors).

    Decent Finishers: What decent Finishers? Consuming Aberattion? lazav? The only reason Esper can use Drownyard is because they have Revelation to help them stall the game out.

    Solar Flare: The last time Solar Flare was a thing was back in Innistrad/Mirrodin. If you are talking about Esper Control, then you would be wrong. The basis of Esper control is UW with b as a splash for Nephalia Drownyards, Lingering Souls, Sorin (for certain builds), and some more spot removal. But they are side things. The things that really let Esper be a deck are in UW (Revelation, Supreme Verdict, Detention Sphere, angel of flashiness, AoS.) Don't believe me? Try and look at say Grixis vs Esper Control. Or BUG vs Esper Control. There is a reason why only UWx control decks are viable right now (and, conviently all 3 UWx varients are viable).

    Dimir is just bad. Plain and simple. They are just not good and of all the guilds, they have the worst "deck." As in, if you were to build a deck using only 2 colors and based on each of the guilds, Dimir's would probably do the worst of them all.
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    posted a message on [[DGM]] Artwork (pics from Uncharted Realms added)
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    Dude, I completely see your context. After all, as we all know, there's absolutely no people of colour in all of Eastern-Europe, now or ever.

    Furthermore, the fact that this is fantasy and that WotC is in complete control of their IP means that they have the unique opportunity to do things differently... especially since so many people of colour play the game and especially especially since WotC and people like MaRo constantly remind us that while they draw their influence from popular culture or popular mythology, it's always their interpretations of it. With more and more people of all races, genders and orientations playing the game, why not have more representation within the game?

    Having more people of colour in Ravnica would NOT detract from Ravnica's Eastern-European. Correct me if I'm wrong, but how many merfolk have you seen in Hungary? You see a lot of Thrulls in Bulgaria? How about giant Cyclops in Romania? The point being, if it's okay to see these creatures in Ravnica, I can't see why we can't have more people of colour in Ravnica... or all of Magic for that matter.

    I, for one, love seeing characters like Echo Mage, Frontline Medic, Snapcaster Mage and Koth of the Hammer. And I stand by the fact that I'm disappointed that out of all the Champions, they couldn't depict a single non-creature humanoid as a person of colour. It just made me think of Rock's "It's all right, 'cause it's all White."


    But you are just feeding what he also said. Shoe-horning people of color into a block just seems weird. For instance, Snapcaster Mage. Granted, that card was based on Taigo-chan but still, an asian in Innistrad is....odd. Or seeing a typical Caucasian in Kamigawa. It is just.... odd. There is no need to randomly shoe horn a general black guy into everything. If your feelings are that pathetic you have otehr issues.
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    posted a message on BW Token Help Needed
    Giest Honored Monk... She helps ALOT. Just saying.

    Oh and, suprisingly, Mikaeus the Lunarch helps alot. Acts like a mini Gavony Township for you.
    Posted in: Standard Archives
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    posted a message on Turn Two Kill - Ways to streamline?
    This is magical christmasland if there ever was one...
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    posted a message on I want a competitive deck
    Sadly you are going to be dropping a good deal of dough to make a competitive deck. The cheapest deck right now is RDW but you are pretty much missing EVERYTHING for that deck.
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    posted a message on Five-Alarm Fire
    Quote from W0lf90
    I feel any deck built around it would be improved by replacing it with something good.

    Utter junk.




    I feel that your lack of any good argument besides your personal opinion would be better improved if replaced by actual, meaningful discussion.

    Utter Junk.


    Ok, now back on topic, this card could do pretty well in something like BWR tokens since it, as mentioned before, gives inevitability. Also could work in American Midrange since it gives them reach against things like Jund.
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