"(although nothing quite as big as Force of Will.)"
to reprint wasteland was a huge decision : it is a defining format card as FoW is. I guess that you were mentioning that especialy regarding prices though.
I cant believe in a promo FoW, even if I honestly think it would be a necessary evil. But maybe WotC could reserve us a big surprise.
About staling on mtgo : come on, mtgo is a plenty non-cheat environment . And there is no exception if we put apart some rare card bugs, often fastly fixed.
Especialy on timer : your time is decreased at each minute you spent to resolve an action. It is not a shared time system, it is a chess time system. At this point, there is absolutely no way to cheat especially when the first common known rule is ‘each player has 30 minutes to play’. If you feel yourself abused by staling on modo, I think we can argue you fell into the mind trick trap of your opponent. It could not be neither stylish nor fair-play but it still isn’t cheat to me. Recent examples showed us very well what is cheating . And definitely, my opinion will remain the same : there is no cheat possible on modo except to abuse of card bugs, and maybe some “team agreement”.
flynn not farve idk y i even brougtt up packers anyway, i hate them. bears fan here. 8-8 season nothing like mediocrity. Giants have a tough road ahead, but yea ez road bhind.
They don't have MOCS cards this month. MOCS is the end of the month championship series that need 15 QP to qualify for. Last year they gave out some big money cards like Wasteland and Deed (although nothing quite as big as Force of Will.)
because the game time is NOT just yours, it's your opponents as well, to do with what he chooses. If you don't have the full 3 hours and 6 minutes to play a draft, that is your fault, not your opponents(even if he is a jerkface loser) If you can't handle that you need to play solitaire the whole time. I pity people who try to "wait me out" and sit there for 10 mins then lose to me, I see no need to report these sad pathetic souls. As I mentioned, I am not saying no reports should be filed, etc. I just would hate for WotC to spend too much time on those type of situations as opposed to getting scam bots, trade thieves, hackers, etc out of the game.
But that can cost time. If you have a lagging computer even opening a new page like preferences could cause a stall and make your clock get lower.
Not to mention, with the whole "time management thing"....
Have you ever played someone who when your clock is low try to start a conversation with you? That is trying to manipulate the clock.
They will also never F6 and click on everything if you are lagging to get you into the red.
I don't like winning because of the clock. I like winning because I beat someone down. Even I have standards.
they cheated me out of my 10 minutes, and 6 other people out of theirs, I'd say that's a pretty bad deal for someone. Just because you win doesn't mean you weren't cheated. Cheating to actually win the match I haven't encountered.
I will report anyone who let's their timer run out for 10 minutes the moment before you win the match. I don't care if someone wants to spam some stupid insults, but my time is mine and you have no right to it just because you're a baby.
I have observed this behavior on at least one occasion on MTGO. Both players were in a hard fought game 3 of a draft. Both clocks were down under 2 minutes. The player that was in the worst board position, but had the better clock, began spamming Trade requests to his opponent whenever his opponent was on the clock. This eventually lead to a win for the spammer since on MTGO you can't do anything but respond to the trade request.
That to me isn't "Clock Management". It's cheating.
Noting for the archive readers that the since printed Sundial of the Infinite is amazingly good in this deck, making all the temporary dragons permanent and having a wicked synergy with mimic vat. It can be tutored up if hoarding dragon is the first dragon that your commander tutors, enormously smoothing the reliability of the plan. It follows you want to add the inexpensive Buried Ruin land to easily reacquire Sundial or Mimic Vat if blown up, and can revamp the build to decrease the redundancy of the sacrifice outlets, shoring up strengths and weaknesses with the freed up slots. Innistrad also added a couple fun and suitable new dragons, one of whom patches a deck weakness by providing sweeps.
Much thanks to the author for the overall commander series. So enjoyable.
Bro, have you gotten the MOCS cards for December? I really need the Chandra's Phoenix for my playset, and the Negate looks really nice. And it's a much better group of cards than the previous one with Myr Superion and other garbage.
And I want to see playables, any playables in any format, be mandated in the MOCS prizes. Like if they want to promote a format, make the tier 9 or 10 card (for Modern for Example) make the promo a Breeding Pool. Or for classic, make it the cards used in a dredge deck, but not Lions Eye Diamond. Like Bazaar of Baghdad. Or for Standard, give out... Oh man, I would love to see a full art Bloodline Keeper. A full art DFC? Insane.
But sadly they can't give out big time cards for MOCS. Although it might get people interested in the format, 99% of people would sell them off to bots, or they would release a big-timer, like FOW, and people who paid like $100 for it would s**t a chicken as the price of theirs from ME1 would plummet. Like why did I buy 4 when everyone is getting 1 for free. The same goes for Tarmoygf (however you spell it) or Primeval Titan in STD.
But the Chandra's Phoenix is playable, and that is a great start, but I want more playables. Like maybe a full art Delver of Secrets, give out some full art ZEN's, a full art Sword of Body and Mind... Stuff like that. Oh and I really like shiny and full art.
I'm not saying it is right, I'm just saying that me and my friends can do it very easily. And I am sure that some judges are "hip" to this, but it's very simple to do. I mean just allowing your opponent to shuffle your deck means you can put cards in a certain order during the sideboard where you know his shuffle and can figure out what a player has.
I am very glad they have seminars about this, but when I showed a friend of mine that is a big time card shark, like lives in an Atlantic City hotel shark, he saw the single biggest problem. The cards are forced to be in sleeves. That right there is the biggest and easiest problem with the cards.
When you have sleeves, you can manipulate the deck that much easier.
Either way, I was just pointing out that Judges should know, like all card games, that rigging the deck is always and has always been around. Whether it was poker or MtG.
But if I was you, I would look out for a certain player I used to know because he used to run the store I played at a long time ago, and he emailed me that he is back playing Magic on paper.
He used to cheat like a MoFo, and he would use a really simple trick. He would use invisible ink on the back of the cards and would wear really high UV sunglasses to see the cards. This is now even easier with sleeves on the back since you can get a pen that holds better on plastic than paper, and the glasses are less conspicuous.
It's just a heads up, but also the reason I don't play paper Magic, although I am glad you are able to spot amateurs.
**Oh and for JTMS, Harry Potter was fantastic, but for the future, there was a X-Files CCG.....Bazooka Joe used to have small baseball cards in the packs... Just a thought.
I seriously thought though that WotC should hire you for creative. When they base ISD on Supernatural (Friday's at 9pm on the CW), and Dark Ascension is clearly based on Gossip Girls since Sorin and Liliana are mad at each other or something, but will end up having a sexy love scene, they need new creative talent.
MW3 is nice, I wish I was better, I get so angry! Now onto mtgo. the drafting of rares is somthing I try to do myself, being a card collector first and competitive player 2nd. I have drafted 8-4 a few times and see no real diff in me getting passed rares. I have almost the set of isd from drafting, that is the goal. After reading the reply from huck the other nite i thought 8-4 would def give some cards. nope. not only did i not get any new rares I lost in first round, and the guy that beat me said he rare drafted a skaab, which of course happens to be a card i need. Anyway i just finished my 2nd round of swiss both matches won because of a 6th turn army of the damned that was passed to me. Funny thing about that card, none of my zombies even untap because they concede. GOOD NITE AMERICA!
MOCS reward seems like a fine way to do it to me. I imagine a lot more people would try for it that month and put another 400-500 (maybe even more) into the system. Have no idea how many FOW's are out now, but that would give it a little boost atleast.
I suppose you'd say having police is a "joke" too, since they can't catch Professor Moriarty. It turns out, though, that 99% of criminals are a lot worse at it than Moriarty, and police can catch them just fine, so there's plenty of value in having police.
Likewise, most players who cheat at Magic don't have the deck manipulation skills of Penn & Teller or of a professional poker cheat. Judges can and do catch a lot of the existing cheaters, therefore they are worth having. Regardless of what kind of drunken nonsense you want to spout on new year's eve.
Even if, one day, there is a promo Force of Will, the MTGO follow-up will likely be a championship prize, not a player reward. Such is the way it goes.
so you're admitting that you're a cheating scumbag? or you would be if you played paper just because you could be? You are a really low human being
it doesnt show the raredraft thing
"(although nothing quite as big as Force of Will.)"
to reprint wasteland was a huge decision : it is a defining format card as FoW is. I guess that you were mentioning that especialy regarding prices though.
I cant believe in a promo FoW, even if I honestly think it would be a necessary evil. But maybe WotC could reserve us a big surprise.
About staling on mtgo : come on, mtgo is a plenty non-cheat environment . And there is no exception if we put apart some rare card bugs, often fastly fixed.
Especialy on timer : your time is decreased at each minute you spent to resolve an action. It is not a shared time system, it is a chess time system. At this point, there is absolutely no way to cheat especially when the first common known rule is ‘each player has 30 minutes to play’. If you feel yourself abused by staling on modo, I think we can argue you fell into the mind trick trap of your opponent. It could not be neither stylish nor fair-play but it still isn’t cheat to me. Recent examples showed us very well what is cheating . And definitely, my opinion will remain the same : there is no cheat possible on modo except to abuse of card bugs, and maybe some “team agreement”.
flynn not farve idk y i even brougtt up packers anyway, i hate them. bears fan here. 8-8 season nothing like mediocrity. Giants have a tough road ahead, but yea ez road bhind.
I don't think getting Brett Farve to return for one game would have helped them. They just looked like garbage.
But Texas boy, at least the Mavs got their first win of the season!
Let me just tell you now bro, I told you the Giants would destroy the Cowboys. America's Team my @$$.
did u see his hand b4 the game it was huge! they shoulda gone w/ 2nd string look how it worked for the packers
rigth click his name -> "block user"
They don't have MOCS cards this month. MOCS is the end of the month championship series that need 15 QP to qualify for. Last year they gave out some big money cards like Wasteland and Deed (although nothing quite as big as Force of Will.)
Nice videos. There's not enough constructed content around, especially for legacy.
Was that Tony Romo getting sacked? Ouch. It looked like it hurt.
because the game time is NOT just yours, it's your opponents as well, to do with what he chooses. If you don't have the full 3 hours and 6 minutes to play a draft, that is your fault, not your opponents(even if he is a jerkface loser) If you can't handle that you need to play solitaire the whole time. I pity people who try to "wait me out" and sit there for 10 mins then lose to me, I see no need to report these sad pathetic souls. As I mentioned, I am not saying no reports should be filed, etc. I just would hate for WotC to spend too much time on those type of situations as opposed to getting scam bots, trade thieves, hackers, etc out of the game.
But that can cost time. If you have a lagging computer even opening a new page like preferences could cause a stall and make your clock get lower.
Not to mention, with the whole "time management thing"....
Have you ever played someone who when your clock is low try to start a conversation with you? That is trying to manipulate the clock.
They will also never F6 and click on everything if you are lagging to get you into the red.
I don't like winning because of the clock. I like winning because I beat someone down. Even I have standards.
just block him - shuts down trade requests as well.
You can however turn off the ability to be sent trade requests in the settings.
they cheated me out of my 10 minutes, and 6 other people out of theirs, I'd say that's a pretty bad deal for someone. Just because you win doesn't mean you weren't cheated. Cheating to actually win the match I haven't encountered.
I will report anyone who let's their timer run out for 10 minutes the moment before you win the match. I don't care if someone wants to spam some stupid insults, but my time is mine and you have no right to it just because you're a baby.
I have observed this behavior on at least one occasion on MTGO. Both players were in a hard fought game 3 of a draft. Both clocks were down under 2 minutes. The player that was in the worst board position, but had the better clock, began spamming Trade requests to his opponent whenever his opponent was on the clock. This eventually lead to a win for the spammer since on MTGO you can't do anything but respond to the trade request.
That to me isn't "Clock Management". It's cheating.
Also mentioning that Incendiary Command solves the Maze of Ith problem neatly, plus it's card draw.
Noting for the archive readers that the since printed Sundial of the Infinite is amazingly good in this deck, making all the temporary dragons permanent and having a wicked synergy with mimic vat. It can be tutored up if hoarding dragon is the first dragon that your commander tutors, enormously smoothing the reliability of the plan. It follows you want to add the inexpensive Buried Ruin land to easily reacquire Sundial or Mimic Vat if blown up, and can revamp the build to decrease the redundancy of the sacrifice outlets, shoring up strengths and weaknesses with the freed up slots. Innistrad also added a couple fun and suitable new dragons, one of whom patches a deck weakness by providing sweeps.
Much thanks to the author for the overall commander series. So enjoyable.
Bro, have you gotten the MOCS cards for December? I really need the Chandra's Phoenix for my playset, and the Negate looks really nice. And it's a much better group of cards than the previous one with Myr Superion and other garbage.
And I want to see playables, any playables in any format, be mandated in the MOCS prizes. Like if they want to promote a format, make the tier 9 or 10 card (for Modern for Example) make the promo a Breeding Pool. Or for classic, make it the cards used in a dredge deck, but not Lions Eye Diamond. Like Bazaar of Baghdad. Or for Standard, give out... Oh man, I would love to see a full art Bloodline Keeper. A full art DFC? Insane.
But sadly they can't give out big time cards for MOCS. Although it might get people interested in the format, 99% of people would sell them off to bots, or they would release a big-timer, like FOW, and people who paid like $100 for it would s**t a chicken as the price of theirs from ME1 would plummet. Like why did I buy 4 when everyone is getting 1 for free. The same goes for Tarmoygf (however you spell it) or Primeval Titan in STD.
But the Chandra's Phoenix is playable, and that is a great start, but I want more playables. Like maybe a full art Delver of Secrets, give out some full art ZEN's, a full art Sword of Body and Mind... Stuff like that. Oh and I really like shiny and full art.
I'm not saying it is right, I'm just saying that me and my friends can do it very easily. And I am sure that some judges are "hip" to this, but it's very simple to do. I mean just allowing your opponent to shuffle your deck means you can put cards in a certain order during the sideboard where you know his shuffle and can figure out what a player has.
I am very glad they have seminars about this, but when I showed a friend of mine that is a big time card shark, like lives in an Atlantic City hotel shark, he saw the single biggest problem. The cards are forced to be in sleeves. That right there is the biggest and easiest problem with the cards.
When you have sleeves, you can manipulate the deck that much easier.
Either way, I was just pointing out that Judges should know, like all card games, that rigging the deck is always and has always been around. Whether it was poker or MtG.
But if I was you, I would look out for a certain player I used to know because he used to run the store I played at a long time ago, and he emailed me that he is back playing Magic on paper.
He used to cheat like a MoFo, and he would use a really simple trick. He would use invisible ink on the back of the cards and would wear really high UV sunglasses to see the cards. This is now even easier with sleeves on the back since you can get a pen that holds better on plastic than paper, and the glasses are less conspicuous.
It's just a heads up, but also the reason I don't play paper Magic, although I am glad you are able to spot amateurs.
**Oh and for JTMS, Harry Potter was fantastic, but for the future, there was a X-Files CCG.....Bazooka Joe used to have small baseball cards in the packs... Just a thought.
I seriously thought though that WotC should hire you for creative. When they base ISD on Supernatural (Friday's at 9pm on the CW), and Dark Ascension is clearly based on Gossip Girls since Sorin and Liliana are mad at each other or something, but will end up having a sexy love scene, they need new creative talent.
MW3 is nice, I wish I was better, I get so angry! Now onto mtgo. the drafting of rares is somthing I try to do myself, being a card collector first and competitive player 2nd. I have drafted 8-4 a few times and see no real diff in me getting passed rares. I have almost the set of isd from drafting, that is the goal. After reading the reply from huck the other nite i thought 8-4 would def give some cards. nope. not only did i not get any new rares I lost in first round, and the guy that beat me said he rare drafted a skaab, which of course happens to be a card i need. Anyway i just finished my 2nd round of swiss both matches won because of a 6th turn army of the damned that was passed to me. Funny thing about that card, none of my zombies even untap because they concede. GOOD NITE AMERICA!
MOCS reward seems like a fine way to do it to me. I imagine a lot more people would try for it that month and put another 400-500 (maybe even more) into the system. Have no idea how many FOW's are out now, but that would give it a little boost atleast.
I suppose you'd say having police is a "joke" too, since they can't catch Professor Moriarty. It turns out, though, that 99% of criminals are a lot worse at it than Moriarty, and police can catch them just fine, so there's plenty of value in having police.
Likewise, most players who cheat at Magic don't have the deck manipulation skills of Penn & Teller or of a professional poker cheat. Judges can and do catch a lot of the existing cheaters, therefore they are worth having. Regardless of what kind of drunken nonsense you want to spout on new year's eve.
Even if, one day, there is a promo Force of Will, the MTGO follow-up will likely be a championship prize, not a player reward. Such is the way it goes.