MTG Salvation

If it is Magic Online for Mac, the only reasons people would be talking about it would be the wrong reasons.

It is also another candidate to the growing list of "suggestions that are unlikely to be revealed in a Making Magic column".

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Quote from Northjayhawk »

Nope, wrong. This would qualify as a lie. Forget about your careful word-parsing, this would be directly, and obviously, a lie. Maro never does that, and the community would never forgive him for it.

Since a lot of people don't think it would be a lie, it probably isn't "directly and obviously" a lie.

His statement: "Man, I wish it was about Un-3 : ("

The falsehood of this statement is not dependent on the nature of his article, it is dependent on his wishes about it. I feel this is exactly the kind of joke he could have played on us. And as for "the commmunity" never forgiving him. How big of a percentage of the community would even be aware of this blogatog post?

Still, I don't believe it would be UN3. It has been stated before that any Un-set would take the place of the summer supplemental product (MM, Conspiracy), and it would likely not be announced right on top of the KTK previews. The way they delayed the announcement of KTK this year not to step on JOU's toes shows that they are being mindful of these things.

Also to everyone talking about standard rotation or new tournament formats: Mark Rosewater would as good as certainly not be the person to make such an announcement.

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If he pushed State of Design one week before, this article clearly needs to be read before KTK's previews and after State of Design, which (as always) announced next year's goals for R&D. I see a clear connection between these things.

I like this. I can easily see an article "Last week, I told you how one of our design goals for 2015 was BLAH, and now it is time to reveal how we will attempt that by BLAH".

Why move the State of Design article a week to announce GDS3 though?
Why not just announce it in his article two days ago, and then let the State of Design article fall in its usual slot?

I don't know, "Making Magic" doesn't strike me as the most natural place to make announcement about the movie. And the response to adamacus that I cited above seems to be implying that the article will have spoiler material related to the fall set somehow.

In his "State of Design"-artcile this week, mr. Rosewater closes with

Join me next week for an article I guarantee you everyone is going to be talking about.

He drops a couple of other hints on Blogatog:

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adamacus said: The articles after state of design 2013, 2012 and 2011 were all spoiler articles for the upcoming fall set. What is special about this year?
Check out next Monday’s column and see. : )

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Next week is not a Khans of Tarkir preview article. That’s in two weeks.

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I’ll say this. This time next week, Blogatog (and the rest of Magic social media) will be talking about my article. : )

So it seems as if he will be talking about the fall set, but there will not be previews? Will we get some details on the block structure? Announcing "Dragons of Tarkir" perhaps? Or is that too soon? We haven't really arrived yet, so haven't had the time to "miss" the dragons yet..

Thoughts?

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I'm guessing that since Orcs are returning, that a smattering of Orc-tribal will be present. Perhaps not as much as Minotaurs in Theros, but I guess that they will throw in at least a lord or two, like they did for centaurs with Pheres-Band Warchief.

They seem to acknowledge that there is a casual demand for tribal anything, and I think that if a kitchen-table orc-deck (vintage legal) is not thrown a bone or two, there will be a lot of disappointment.

Or you could just accept the fact that you're not as good as you think you are.

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However, I wonder whether the "correct" pick would be to read the Chainwalker as a signal that red aggro is open.

If that's the case, I would say you could equally use Wall of Roots as a signal that green is pretty open. It's a really strong card for any green deck that's not aggro.

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They will never change the sideboard numbers.

Honestly my hope is they just throw Force of Will into Modern Masters 17 and say 'Here, regulate your own format'.

Speaking of things they'll never do. Introducing cards to modern outside of standard is very likely to be outside their best interests. I'm absolutely certain that WotC is concerned that standard-based sales would tank way more than any increase in modern-based sales if they bypass standard. There is basically no upside to doing that from their perspective, so I think we should believe them when they say that cards get to modern though standard as a rule.

All yes would do is make bgx die. You need to play jace yo ein anything ressembling a fair game of magic but he eill do absolutely nothing against the problems for control. Izzetmage had it correct when he said you have to be doing something unfair with your control decks. There is a reason why almost all successful control decks outside of standard where combocontrol or some kind of prison deck.

It's actually really interesting how some posters on here will try every possible angle to downplay a success that goes against their agenda lol. Nobody wins/top 8s a GP without running hot and getting lucky.

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To be more exact: Control players need to find a deck, which fits for them and than get good with it ^^

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Kathal

And hope to dodge bad matchups. That's really helpful!

That's kind of every decks game plan tho isn't it? Jund hopes to dodge Tron and TitanShift, Tron hopes to dodge Burn and Infect, Infect hopes to dodge decks with removal, Dredge hopes to dodge Rest in Peace.

I dunno, I feel like that is the nature of the game.

T64

http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gpdfw16/9-64-decklists-2016-11-06

Kaladesh cards:
- Obvious ones: Blossoming Defense and Cathartic Reunion in Infect and Dredge. 1 Suicide Zoo with SBed Defense, 1 Temur Prowess with main Defense.
- 1 Jeskai Control with Torrential Gearhulk (T8)
- 1 Skred Red (winner), 2 Jund, 1 Mardu with Chandra, Torch of Defiance
- 1 Lantern with Glint-Nest Crane, Inventors' Fair and Aether Hub
- 1 Ponza, 1 Blue Moon with Madcap Experiment + Platinum Emperion
- 1 Bant Eldrazi with SBed Ceremonious Rejection
- 1 Bant Knightfall with Fairgrounds Warden (linking to card b/c nobody knows about it unless they play Limited. It's basically Fiend Hunter.)

Lots of UR decks with Spirebluff Canal: Grixis Control (T8), Jeskai Delver, 3 Temur Prowess aka Suicide Bloo, Blue Moon, 1 Grixis Delver.

Surprisingly NO AFFINITY .

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It seems very unlikely that both Jeskai and Grixis independently dodged the 2nd and 3rd most-played decks in the Day 2 Top 100. Anyone who is seriously suggesting that better actually have the matchups to prove it.

All the rounds I could find info on:

Burkhart (Grixis):
R7 vs Lantern, 2-0
R8 vs Eldrazi & Taxes, 2-1
R10 vs Abzan, 2-1
R11 vs Lantern, 2-0
R12 vs Titanshift, 2-0
R13 vs Infect, 2-0
R14 vs Knightfall, 2-1
R15 ID with Dredge

Mitas (Jeskai):
R7 vs Grishoalbrand 1-2
R10 vs Lantern: 2-1
R11 vs Merfolk? 2-0
R12 vs RG Tron 1-2
R13 vs Bant Eldrazi 2-1
R14 vs Thing/PA 2-1

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cfusionpm will continue with his "control is bad this is just an anomaly" narrative because this damages his "must unban twin" sentiments... even though we've got more control in a top 8 than we've seen in ages.

I'm just curious if he dodged Eldrazi and Dredge all day. Those are horrible matchups, and I don't remember seeing that on camera yesterday or today. And with BBD out in the Quarters, neither Jeskai nor Grixis would face it in T8. I will happily admit these guys are having a great day.

To be fair BBD got paired against the one guy with 4 maindeck Relic of Progenitus, that skews the numbers really hard as I think Dredge might have been quite a favorite to win the event otherwise. Just shows that matchup lottery is real and is definitely on full display here.

Yet earlier in coverage, Dredge beat Relic and everyone was talking about how it is busted. Was that match up lottery too? I'm pretty sure you are just trying to reach for any excuse you can to justify your "modern sucks as a format" view that you feel the need to post at every chance you can.

This GP just threw all we said into our faces. matches are lasting longer than 3 turns, control reigns, dredge and infect are out, and no eldrazi. Flash in the pan?