Eugene is the best way to say his name, because his splashy ridiculousness, the pursuit of which costing many players the game, reminds me fondly of Eugene T. Dudley (RIP, InQuest).
OP's free to scoop whenever. OP's locals are free to decide whether or not to play with "hair-trigger-scooper" in the future. Doesn't seem like something that particularly needed to be brought to the internet to resolve. Generally, if you go to the internet to justify your actions, you already have the idea that they were likely not the best.
Still, better than folks who scoop in Hour 4 of Twilight Imperium.
From watching it played through the weekend, its power seemed to scale inversely to the strength of the rest of the deck it was in. That is, I saw several extremely strong pools running it, where it underperformed, largely because the main play line of the deck got the job done before the grindyness mattered. The mediocre/weak pools I saw with it, it overpowerformed, and carried the players through some games they would have straight up lost if they'd just been relying on their actual cards in hand.
Unbanning Grave Troll will likely be *bad* for the Dredgevine decks. They had a hope to pop in some wins after the downpowering of Delver and Pod, but with GGT making people paranoid, the likelihood of them running Sideboard "game over" meta is higher. Whether Grave Troll makes the deck good or not, it puts the deck back in the collective consciousness of the tournament base, and you're less likely to get away with facing opponents with a miser's Grafdigger's Cage as their only GY hate in the board.
Also, no Blue Delve Stuff means UW/x control gets to entertain Rest in Peace as an option again. *shudder*
After a weekend of playing with and against Cloudform and Lightform; Screw those cards to hell.
60% chance of being a decent (Cloudform) or good (Lightform) rate body.
30% chance of being a good (Cloudform) or GOOD (Lightform) rate body and draw a card.
10% chance of ruining the game with ridiculous lucksacking.
Those two cards are responsible for my booster boxes this weekend, but it is neither fun nor skillful to just jam these things and flip jackpots off the top of your deck.
If I wanted to spend the entire day praying to RNGesus, I'd be playing Hearthstone Arena instead.
Mastery of the Unseen VS Mastery of the Unseen is one of the most dreadful board states I have had the pleasure of playing through. But I was luckier than him on what I manifested, so managed to win out.
Hero's Blade was amazing for me all tournament. I had 3 legends (G/W Dragon, Yasova, and Draghatar)and a Foil Hero's Blade so I figured "What the heck, I'll play it" as my 23rd card. Turns out Light Form and Cloud Form (and even an unblockable Jeskai Infiltrator for the killing blow once!) really enjoy some +3/+2, regardless of how pricey the equip cost was. Turn 2 Blade into turn 3 Yasova made some games end really quickly. Moved it around some to ensure Bolsters were landing on creatures I actually wanted to swing with, too, but that was in some super grindy games.
Attaching it to Jeskai Sage and trading with 4+ drops and drawing a card is a good feeling. Still probably not good enough of a card in general to go for, but it was definitely the MVP of my pool yesterday.
YOU CAN'T KILL IT.
Push them new card sales!
Still, better than folks who scoop in Hour 4 of Twilight Imperium.
Also, no Blue Delve Stuff means UW/x control gets to entertain Rest in Peace as an option again. *shudder*
60% chance of being a decent (Cloudform) or good (Lightform) rate body.
30% chance of being a good (Cloudform) or GOOD (Lightform) rate body and draw a card.
10% chance of ruining the game with ridiculous lucksacking.
Those two cards are responsible for my booster boxes this weekend, but it is neither fun nor skillful to just jam these things and flip jackpots off the top of your deck.
If I wanted to spend the entire day praying to RNGesus, I'd be playing Hearthstone Arena instead.
Attaching it to Jeskai Sage and trading with 4+ drops and drawing a card is a good feeling. Still probably not good enough of a card in general to go for, but it was definitely the MVP of my pool yesterday.