He drew Blightning off the Dark Confidant bouncing the elves to block the Tarmogoyfs only gets them removed from my hand so even if I did draw the Glimpse I would be elfless to use it.
you could have survived another turn or two if you had blocked with the elves, and returned them with the symbiotes, gives you an out if you draw glimpse..
I have paid for 2 Tempest Sealed and played in 10.
But sadly, even though I have played guys who had 2 wastelands (1 Foiled), 2 guys with grindstones, 1 Meditation, Ensnaring Bridge, etc., and the most valuable card I have opened in what amounts to 60 packs in all, is a Lotus Petal and 1 Reflecting Pool.
And I have never gone 3-0, just 8 2-1's. Then I made the mistake of joining the 64 player Ravnica draft, but I have never played or seen the cards before, so I got knocked out in the first round.
But explain that. How can I not even get a single Wasteland?
Either way, I am more excited about the Saga drafts coming up. There are more money cards and I have wanted a Tolarian Academy since I stopped playing with them many moons ago. Also a Gaea's Cradle would be nice. But it seems like I can't open anything good.
good article, i just did my 1st isd tribal draft but it was a GW werewolf thing. i like the tribal approach and think the zombies could even make a good con deck. when i was drafting i watched the Ranks go by and thought about this article. the kessig alnd won 1/2 of my games, just like a std con.;)
Everyone should be doing tempest block sealed atm anyway lol, I just doubled my money in my first one and I didn't even open that well, its swiss, go 2-1 and get all your packs back to play again, 3-0 and get 10 packs for your 6 + what you opened. Awesomeness.
There is aggro in any format but the aggro in this one is a bit higher variance, like usually delver is pretty mediocre, sometimes its awful and sometimes its so insane it does 15 damage on its own, waif isnt as high variance but it goes from 0-9 damage pretty often.
In any case its not so high variance in just the aggro its all the stuff put together. Hitting all your components has never payed off so well and missing them has rarely been as punishing. You don't just get manascrewed in Inn, you get Enabler screwed and enabled screwed + God-draw screwed out of nowhere from your opponent.
Also as I said before the format is one of the least bomb impacted anyway, there are few unbeatable bombs because they get overshadowed by the archetype decks. The busted Mill deck, the infinite loop spider spawning deck, the burning veangeance deck, the black red blaggro deck, green white pwn u, ect.
Port seems bad in shops as you cant activate it with Workshop mana. Ghost quarter seems better. Although, if you are choosing between adding Mishra's Factories and Ports, then port MIGHT be a reasonable addition. Still seems janky/win-more to me though.
Thanks for coming back ANH (don't mind the acronym!)
Isn't that true for ANY format if you pick aggro? I understand the variations and synergies are different, but the ideas go cross-format. If you had a deck full of Welkin Tarns in ZZW limited you were probably going to win (not counting lucky marsh casualties) - but let's be real - that is aggro vs a slower deck. I have not been afraid of a Reckless Waif YET - so I think variance plays a large role too....
By the way, I am starting to really get over crying about power level in this format. Just the other night I got rid of a Liliana with an empty board and he had 3 crits in 2 turns. Tune into the first draft I post next week to see how (PRODUCT PLACEMENT!) hehe.
I truly respect both side of the fence you guys are referring to. I often try to come across as nice because I have gotten many opponents who start matches saying they have read (or seen) my articles. It is humbling and I make sure I don't come across as an asshat so I do not instantly offend them or give them wrong ideas about who I am or what I represent.
OTOH, when I don't know the guy, and he slams money money Runner (2 mythics in a topdeck war or some such) - my human REACTION is to say something. Even if it is only to the camera and the viewers, it is my way to vent. I try not to be 'immature' but I am only human :(
(Crazy I am sitting here responding on XMAS EVE at 9:45 - DEDICATION!)
Isn't trash talking mets players a meta-sport of the Game?
RE: Trash Talking. Yeah I get the idea, it's also called psychological warfare. (Also cf George Baxter, and Jedi Mind Tricks.) But though I am familiar with the techniques, I prefer not to be THAT guy.
I can't tell you how many guys used to sit there and try and out psyche me during blitz chess games in WSP and the Village chess shop but the thing is we weren't even playing for stakes really (fees at the shop might add up to $5-$10 max) so ...what's the point of that?
The thing is some guys can't stop doing it once they start. Just habit for them. For me it was a lesson in how not to act. And I noticed something else. Whenever I saw someone stop doing that and start actually playing the game they got a lot better.
I had a guy front on me when I told him to stop kibitzing in a money game between friends of mine and he got up in my face until he saw how I reacted. I wasn't being nasty but I just looked at him and took off my shades and he flinched and backed down.
Then he recognized me as someone he knew and calmed down a bit. Then he sat down in my friend's place and lost a whole lot of games (and $s) in a row. All because he was so into that psychological stuff he got himself rattled. Kibitzing isn't quite on the same level as trash talking to an opponent but when you are doing it like he was doing it, it is so clearly akin to that. I can tell you the same guy when in the right mind space is a darned good player.
And the guy he lost his money to is a local champ who always smiles and has a kind word and is concerned if someone is hurt, sick or upset. He also does not do give backs.
Now Blitz isn't at all like magic on the surface but there is something similar going on. The games are enough about decision trees that working that angle into your game is adding a layer of complexity that is imho unnecessary.
RE: My reasonableness, you should go back a few hundred articles and see some of my responses. I've mellowed a bit. I used to be a lot more confrontational.
I know someone who saw the code for the shuffler and he knows mucho mucho more than I do because he wasn't supposed to see it in the first place.
I might have said this before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat.
The shuffler is broken. The issue with it is the lack of variables. They use 1 variable per 40 card limited deck while they should be using 2 1/2 variables for the limited shuffler. There should be a variable for the initial deck, the land, and the sideboard cards. If you haven't noticed, when you sideboard a card in, you have an over 75% chance of drawing it in your opening hand. But if you screw with the mana base from your sideboard, you will either get flooded or screwed.
My friend told me it looked like it was coded by a 12 year old trying to read a C++ book.
And looking at all my matches and using a program that has charted out certain parameters, over 65% of limited games I have played are lost by me, or my opponent loses due to mana issues, and that is with a constant 17 mana per deck.
So when 65% of decks depend on winning and losing based on mana, there is much more than just "luck" in MTGO or ISD to be more precise. The same 65% applies to M12 drafts and SOM Block, while a move to 18 mana leads to a 75% chance of flooding, and 16 mana leads to a 25% chance of getting mana screwed.
Now this is just my games, but the heat chart doesn't lie, and if you have seen my drafts, and some of you have, you know I don't drat bad decks or mana-intensive decks.
I found out that the percentage of getting mana screwed of logged actually goes down 15% to 50% if you play a 2 color deck in ISD with Travelers Amulet, and goes down another 5% with Amulet and Grotto.
I think if you want to not have to deal with mana issues, which if 65% of games are determined by it, the only way, and this is what my charts and math say, is to play 2-3 Colors with Travelers Amulet and Shimmering "Playboy" Grotto.
I think people need to look at ISD decks as 19 cards pre-determined cards, (Amulet/Grotto/17 lands) and only getting to run 21 playables compared to 23 normally. Or you can just take a bet on whether or not you will screwed over by mana. Either way, I am playing Grotto's in 2 color decks to much success. When I need that second color, or a double of one color, I find it more available.
Why do you have to come on here and be a voice of reason? If I wanted civility I would have called Al Sharpton, but no, you have to come on here with your logic and sense making, and surprising calmness.
DAMN YOU.
But I know that a lot of people that play sports don't understand the reason behind trash talking.
1) When you trash talk, you get someone angry. When they are angry, they play differently.
2) If a player isn't that good, trash talking can make you sound better and your noob-ish opponent might quit early.
Either way, if you can get under your opponents skin, you have already won a lot of games. This is true in all things people do, from Magic to Business.
After the game I have no problem, and will be really nice. But during games I don't want to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I mean I'm a huge Mets fan and I have season tickets right by the dugout. Don't think I don't talk trash to the Mets players when they are playing like c**p. Now some people take it differently. I think one time I made Josh Thole sad when I quoted his numbers against lefties when he was going to face a left handed pitcher, while David Wright thought what I said about him wanting to strike out so the game would be over and he could bang anther model was funny and actually laughed. (I also said things to Jose Reyes, but I'm not sure if he Habla Espanol).
Oh and Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah/Hannukah/Channukah... Chanukah, and Exciting Kwanzaa to all.
thanks, It's fine man, I shouldn't get annoyed anyway. I like your content and am glad you offer it up. Merry Kwanzhanamas.
The issue I was having was with you and others saying that I had said that ISD was high variance becaue of it's bombs. What I actually said is below but I'll summarize: ISD is far more luck based than normal for a limited set because of it's high variance interactions, such as t1 delver or reckless waif flip turn 2, combos that are only good with both enablers and enabled cards drawn and spoiler cards.
"Well you probably did plenty wrong but mostly it's just that this is one of the worst limited formats for getting an edge with skill.
At first glance the format looks really skill based with all of the interactions and synergy being more important than individual card power. Well it turns out that all that synergy winds up creating a lot of high power and high variance.
I recently drafted a deck with 3 invisible stalkers and 3 butcher's cleavers, the nuts right? (wasn't bad otherwise either), yet went 1-2. Why? I only drew one of each in 2 games the whole draft. If I had drawn them 6 times I probably would have won the draft. There are a number of fairly high power cards that are insanely disrupted by other cards in the format. Like stitched drake or makeshift mauler or skaab goliath, the flashback unsummon just wrecks these cards, but without some way to stop them can easily run you over very quickly. Draw your enablers and not your enabled cards and you often just lose and vice versa.
The transformers are also super annoying at increasing shuffler variance. If you draw a bad curve and they land reckless waif, another dude and follow up with brimstone volley its just game over much more than a bad curve drawn in other limited formats. There is also the butcher's cleaver and I've found spectral flight to be insane when they dont have an answer for it since it tuns anything into a hasted dragon.
It's a fun format, people will think theyre great deckbuilders with all the synergy theyre using but in the end the format is awful awful awful if you want to do well consistently. Bad players will ranch you all day long."
Well there is being courteous and being an asshat. Hard to pull both off at the same time. I don't think you were very gangsta if that makes you feel any better. I thought you were being "real", for you. That doesn't mean I relate. I think even if you can't find it in your heart to wish your op luck so that the victory isn't cheapened by misfortune you can avoid saying that to your op.
After all it is no skin off your back to be nice (or to simply be not nasty) and someone whom you beat while being nice (or just not nasty) might just gain respect for you without thinking of you as an "asshat/jerkoff" etc.
Now I get what you mean about it being for money but that is business. Does business really mean more to you than being someone someone else might respect? Maybe so. You can't eat respect. On the other hand if you have respect people might just get your back when your chips are down. Imho that is priceless.
Either way I prefer a trash talking knuckle dragger to a dead mook any day if you know what I mean.
It's not about being a gangster, it's just about common sense.
If I go out of my way to say "GL bud" and they just right click, I think that is disrespect. But then again, this is a game of winning.
And does anyone really mean GL?
I played poker until they shut it down, and every time someone would have pockets and get's beat by nothing, they say NH, or Nice Hand. Do you mean it? No. You had pocket aces and a guy who had the Doyle Brunson (10-2 off-suit) and flopped 3 tens, you just lost to a retard. You aren't happy about it.
But be honest, when you say GL, do you mean it? I guess you never played sports did you.
I have played competitive sports my whole life, and when I was captain, you start with the handshakes and "Good Luck Man" and as soon as you go back to the team, you talk about fu**king them up. When the game is going on, you talk trash, you go out of your way to take players out (I did play Soccer, Football, Baseball, and Basketball), and you congratulate your players when they take out a member of the other team as soon after you go over to "check if he is ok".
It's a competition. What is this with "lets all be nice and sing Imagine by John Lennon".
You are spending money, you are playing someone for the right to gain from that money, I don't care whether or not someone else doesn't like me, I want to win and that's it.
Before and after the game it's ok to be nice, but during any game, it's all about winning.
You can always cover the events that fired before the celebration started normally, and just skim over the later ones. And I'm totally not saying that just because I 4-0'd a pre-celebration event :P
We edited out all reference to those turnip farmers and their ridiculous facial hair :D (j/k)
Good to see you back and commenting on YSO again.
I am outta town but will be sure to catch up on all the DE results when I get back. YSO will be insane I think we need to summons Adrian aka Bactgudz to the mic of YSO he is good at this type of analysis and stats.
Hammer proud member of clan turnip masher
I disagree with Zach that Brainstorm is the hardest card to play. I find it much harder to know what to do regarding your opponent's deck and how you should play out your spells. For example, if you are playing Shops – a deck so many think is straightforward – and your opening hand has a Chalice, Thorn and Sphere, which do you play first? Chalice for how much, when you do play it? I find these questions agonize me and cost me games much more than when to Brainstorm and what to put back.
Glad you guys agree to what I was saying a long while ago: you were over-stating the influence Tangle Wire would have on the meta. =p
Great cast... I'm interested to see how you will tackle next week considering the crazy number of DEs. "What do we have next George" "Umm, we have tournament #58 and another Dredge deck going 4-0" >_< ;p Crazy amount of DEs firing... so lush.
I would be very surprised to see my opponent even try to use apostles blessing on my creature, since the card says target artifact or creature YOU control.
This seems like a huge task. Congrats on getting it done and out here. I wonder why the (cardname)s didn't link up?
He drew Blightning off the Dark Confidant bouncing the elves to block the Tarmogoyfs only gets them removed from my hand so even if I did draw the Glimpse I would be elfless to use it.
you could have survived another turn or two if you had blocked with the elves, and returned them with the symbiotes, gives you an out if you draw glimpse..
Wasteland is a mythic uncommon. True story.
I have paid for 2 Tempest Sealed and played in 10.
But sadly, even though I have played guys who had 2 wastelands (1 Foiled), 2 guys with grindstones, 1 Meditation, Ensnaring Bridge, etc., and the most valuable card I have opened in what amounts to 60 packs in all, is a Lotus Petal and 1 Reflecting Pool.
And I have never gone 3-0, just 8 2-1's. Then I made the mistake of joining the 64 player Ravnica draft, but I have never played or seen the cards before, so I got knocked out in the first round.
But explain that. How can I not even get a single Wasteland?
Either way, I am more excited about the Saga drafts coming up. There are more money cards and I have wanted a Tolarian Academy since I stopped playing with them many moons ago. Also a Gaea's Cradle would be nice. But it seems like I can't open anything good.
good article, i just did my 1st isd tribal draft but it was a GW werewolf thing. i like the tribal approach and think the zombies could even make a good con deck. when i was drafting i watched the Ranks go by and thought about this article. the kessig alnd won 1/2 of my games, just like a std con.;)
Everyone should be doing tempest block sealed atm anyway lol, I just doubled my money in my first one and I didn't even open that well, its swiss, go 2-1 and get all your packs back to play again, 3-0 and get 10 packs for your 6 + what you opened. Awesomeness.
There is aggro in any format but the aggro in this one is a bit higher variance, like usually delver is pretty mediocre, sometimes its awful and sometimes its so insane it does 15 damage on its own, waif isnt as high variance but it goes from 0-9 damage pretty often.
In any case its not so high variance in just the aggro its all the stuff put together. Hitting all your components has never payed off so well and missing them has rarely been as punishing. You don't just get manascrewed in Inn, you get Enabler screwed and enabled screwed + God-draw screwed out of nowhere from your opponent.
Also as I said before the format is one of the least bomb impacted anyway, there are few unbeatable bombs because they get overshadowed by the archetype decks. The busted Mill deck, the infinite loop spider spawning deck, the burning veangeance deck, the black red blaggro deck, green white pwn u, ect.
Port seems bad in shops as you cant activate it with Workshop mana. Ghost quarter seems better. Although, if you are choosing between adding Mishra's Factories and Ports, then port MIGHT be a reasonable addition. Still seems janky/win-more to me though.
RE: Shuffler
Your numbers HAVE to be off. I have played an S-ton of limited and nothing has a %75 average - screw or non-screw.
I'm not just calling you out though, I'd love to see your data. This may make for an interesting thing to revisit!
Best,
Z
Thanks for coming back ANH (don't mind the acronym!)
Isn't that true for ANY format if you pick aggro? I understand the variations and synergies are different, but the ideas go cross-format. If you had a deck full of Welkin Tarns in ZZW limited you were probably going to win (not counting lucky marsh casualties) - but let's be real - that is aggro vs a slower deck. I have not been afraid of a Reckless Waif YET - so I think variance plays a large role too....
By the way, I am starting to really get over crying about power level in this format. Just the other night I got rid of a Liliana with an empty board and he had 3 crits in 2 turns. Tune into the first draft I post next week to see how (PRODUCT PLACEMENT!) hehe.
Thanks again for coming back bro.
Zach
I truly respect both side of the fence you guys are referring to. I often try to come across as nice because I have gotten many opponents who start matches saying they have read (or seen) my articles. It is humbling and I make sure I don't come across as an asshat so I do not instantly offend them or give them wrong ideas about who I am or what I represent.
OTOH, when I don't know the guy, and he slams money money Runner (2 mythics in a topdeck war or some such) - my human REACTION is to say something. Even if it is only to the camera and the viewers, it is my way to vent. I try not to be 'immature' but I am only human :(
(Crazy I am sitting here responding on XMAS EVE at 9:45 - DEDICATION!)
<3,
Z
Isn't trash talking mets players a meta-sport of the Game?
RE: Trash Talking. Yeah I get the idea, it's also called psychological warfare. (Also cf George Baxter, and Jedi Mind Tricks.) But though I am familiar with the techniques, I prefer not to be THAT guy.
I can't tell you how many guys used to sit there and try and out psyche me during blitz chess games in WSP and the Village chess shop but the thing is we weren't even playing for stakes really (fees at the shop might add up to $5-$10 max) so ...what's the point of that?
The thing is some guys can't stop doing it once they start. Just habit for them. For me it was a lesson in how not to act. And I noticed something else. Whenever I saw someone stop doing that and start actually playing the game they got a lot better.
I had a guy front on me when I told him to stop kibitzing in a money game between friends of mine and he got up in my face until he saw how I reacted. I wasn't being nasty but I just looked at him and took off my shades and he flinched and backed down.
Then he recognized me as someone he knew and calmed down a bit. Then he sat down in my friend's place and lost a whole lot of games (and $s) in a row. All because he was so into that psychological stuff he got himself rattled. Kibitzing isn't quite on the same level as trash talking to an opponent but when you are doing it like he was doing it, it is so clearly akin to that. I can tell you the same guy when in the right mind space is a darned good player.
And the guy he lost his money to is a local champ who always smiles and has a kind word and is concerned if someone is hurt, sick or upset. He also does not do give backs.
Now Blitz isn't at all like magic on the surface but there is something similar going on. The games are enough about decision trees that working that angle into your game is adding a layer of complexity that is imho unnecessary.
RE: My reasonableness, you should go back a few hundred articles and see some of my responses. I've mellowed a bit. I used to be a lot more confrontational.
RE: Holiday stuff, you too.
I know someone who saw the code for the shuffler and he knows mucho mucho more than I do because he wasn't supposed to see it in the first place.
I might have said this before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat.
The shuffler is broken. The issue with it is the lack of variables. They use 1 variable per 40 card limited deck while they should be using 2 1/2 variables for the limited shuffler. There should be a variable for the initial deck, the land, and the sideboard cards. If you haven't noticed, when you sideboard a card in, you have an over 75% chance of drawing it in your opening hand. But if you screw with the mana base from your sideboard, you will either get flooded or screwed.
My friend told me it looked like it was coded by a 12 year old trying to read a C++ book.
And looking at all my matches and using a program that has charted out certain parameters, over 65% of limited games I have played are lost by me, or my opponent loses due to mana issues, and that is with a constant 17 mana per deck.
So when 65% of decks depend on winning and losing based on mana, there is much more than just "luck" in MTGO or ISD to be more precise. The same 65% applies to M12 drafts and SOM Block, while a move to 18 mana leads to a 75% chance of flooding, and 16 mana leads to a 25% chance of getting mana screwed.
Now this is just my games, but the heat chart doesn't lie, and if you have seen my drafts, and some of you have, you know I don't drat bad decks or mana-intensive decks.
I found out that the percentage of getting mana screwed of logged actually goes down 15% to 50% if you play a 2 color deck in ISD with Travelers Amulet, and goes down another 5% with Amulet and Grotto.
I think if you want to not have to deal with mana issues, which if 65% of games are determined by it, the only way, and this is what my charts and math say, is to play 2-3 Colors with Travelers Amulet and Shimmering "Playboy" Grotto.
I think people need to look at ISD decks as 19 cards pre-determined cards, (Amulet/Grotto/17 lands) and only getting to run 21 playables compared to 23 normally. Or you can just take a bet on whether or not you will screwed over by mana. Either way, I am playing Grotto's in 2 color decks to much success. When I need that second color, or a double of one color, I find it more available.
Why do you have to come on here and be a voice of reason? If I wanted civility I would have called Al Sharpton, but no, you have to come on here with your logic and sense making, and surprising calmness.
DAMN YOU.
But I know that a lot of people that play sports don't understand the reason behind trash talking.
1) When you trash talk, you get someone angry. When they are angry, they play differently.
2) If a player isn't that good, trash talking can make you sound better and your noob-ish opponent might quit early.
Either way, if you can get under your opponents skin, you have already won a lot of games. This is true in all things people do, from Magic to Business.
After the game I have no problem, and will be really nice. But during games I don't want to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I mean I'm a huge Mets fan and I have season tickets right by the dugout. Don't think I don't talk trash to the Mets players when they are playing like c**p. Now some people take it differently. I think one time I made Josh Thole sad when I quoted his numbers against lefties when he was going to face a left handed pitcher, while David Wright thought what I said about him wanting to strike out so the game would be over and he could bang anther model was funny and actually laughed. (I also said things to Jose Reyes, but I'm not sure if he Habla Espanol).
Oh and Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah/Hannukah/Channukah... Chanukah, and Exciting Kwanzaa to all.
Yup, it was Stave Off I was thinking of, good catch.
thanks, It's fine man, I shouldn't get annoyed anyway. I like your content and am glad you offer it up. Merry Kwanzhanamas.
The issue I was having was with you and others saying that I had said that ISD was high variance becaue of it's bombs. What I actually said is below but I'll summarize: ISD is far more luck based than normal for a limited set because of it's high variance interactions, such as t1 delver or reckless waif flip turn 2, combos that are only good with both enablers and enabled cards drawn and spoiler cards.
"Well you probably did plenty wrong but mostly it's just that this is one of the worst limited formats for getting an edge with skill.
At first glance the format looks really skill based with all of the interactions and synergy being more important than individual card power. Well it turns out that all that synergy winds up creating a lot of high power and high variance.
I recently drafted a deck with 3 invisible stalkers and 3 butcher's cleavers, the nuts right? (wasn't bad otherwise either), yet went 1-2. Why? I only drew one of each in 2 games the whole draft. If I had drawn them 6 times I probably would have won the draft. There are a number of fairly high power cards that are insanely disrupted by other cards in the format. Like stitched drake or makeshift mauler or skaab goliath, the flashback unsummon just wrecks these cards, but without some way to stop them can easily run you over very quickly. Draw your enablers and not your enabled cards and you often just lose and vice versa.
The transformers are also super annoying at increasing shuffler variance. If you draw a bad curve and they land reckless waif, another dude and follow up with brimstone volley its just game over much more than a bad curve drawn in other limited formats. There is also the butcher's cleaver and I've found spectral flight to be insane when they dont have an answer for it since it tuns anything into a hasted dragon.
It's a fun format, people will think theyre great deckbuilders with all the synergy theyre using but in the end the format is awful awful awful if you want to do well consistently. Bad players will ranch you all day long."
Well there is being courteous and being an asshat. Hard to pull both off at the same time. I don't think you were very gangsta if that makes you feel any better. I thought you were being "real", for you. That doesn't mean I relate. I think even if you can't find it in your heart to wish your op luck so that the victory isn't cheapened by misfortune you can avoid saying that to your op.
After all it is no skin off your back to be nice (or to simply be not nasty) and someone whom you beat while being nice (or just not nasty) might just gain respect for you without thinking of you as an "asshat/jerkoff" etc.
Now I get what you mean about it being for money but that is business. Does business really mean more to you than being someone someone else might respect? Maybe so. You can't eat respect. On the other hand if you have respect people might just get your back when your chips are down. Imho that is priceless.
Either way I prefer a trash talking knuckle dragger to a dead mook any day if you know what I mean.
It's not about being a gangster, it's just about common sense.
If I go out of my way to say "GL bud" and they just right click, I think that is disrespect. But then again, this is a game of winning.
And does anyone really mean GL?
I played poker until they shut it down, and every time someone would have pockets and get's beat by nothing, they say NH, or Nice Hand. Do you mean it? No. You had pocket aces and a guy who had the Doyle Brunson (10-2 off-suit) and flopped 3 tens, you just lost to a retard. You aren't happy about it.
But be honest, when you say GL, do you mean it? I guess you never played sports did you.
I have played competitive sports my whole life, and when I was captain, you start with the handshakes and "Good Luck Man" and as soon as you go back to the team, you talk about fu**king them up. When the game is going on, you talk trash, you go out of your way to take players out (I did play Soccer, Football, Baseball, and Basketball), and you congratulate your players when they take out a member of the other team as soon after you go over to "check if he is ok".
It's a competition. What is this with "lets all be nice and sing Imagine by John Lennon".
You are spending money, you are playing someone for the right to gain from that money, I don't care whether or not someone else doesn't like me, I want to win and that's it.
Before and after the game it's ok to be nice, but during any game, it's all about winning.
You can always cover the events that fired before the celebration started normally, and just skim over the later ones. And I'm totally not saying that just because I 4-0'd a pre-celebration event :P
We edited out all reference to those turnip farmers and their ridiculous facial hair :D (j/k)
Good to see you back and commenting on YSO again.
I am outta town but will be sure to catch up on all the DE results when I get back. YSO will be insane I think we need to summons Adrian aka Bactgudz to the mic of YSO he is good at this type of analysis and stats.
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Goat - No shout out to the Farmers... booo. =p
I disagree with Zach that Brainstorm is the hardest card to play. I find it much harder to know what to do regarding your opponent's deck and how you should play out your spells. For example, if you are playing Shops – a deck so many think is straightforward – and your opening hand has a Chalice, Thorn and Sphere, which do you play first? Chalice for how much, when you do play it? I find these questions agonize me and cost me games much more than when to Brainstorm and what to put back.
Glad you guys agree to what I was saying a long while ago: you were over-stating the influence Tangle Wire would have on the meta. =p
Great cast... I'm interested to see how you will tackle next week considering the crazy number of DEs. "What do we have next George" "Umm, we have tournament #58 and another Dredge deck going 4-0" >_< ;p Crazy amount of DEs firing... so lush.
I would be very surprised to see my opponent even try to use apostles blessing on my creature, since the card says target artifact or creature YOU control.
Sure hit me up in client sometime and we can try breaking it.
You wouldn't be the first person to do something like this. I remember awhile back someone doing this with the precon deck running Sterling Groves.