You are right, I just got caught up in the drama. LIke I couldn't get through to people, and I guess I got frustrated. Which is easy for me because I tend to have a short fuse.
I got caught up in the moment, which is stupid, but my problem is, and being from NY you know this, if you have a problem with someone, you say it to their face. When I write for other websites like CNN or SI (I do mostly research or contributions) there is no flaming. There may be negative comments, but it's less personal, and people don't hide because they are on the net.
But thank you. You are obviously a lot less hot-headed than I am.
Normally I am not this angry, but I don't know. Maybe the subject matter hit me where there was grey, just black and white, and either way it was a lose lose for me.
In my experience with the pauper post decks, you need to make a meta decision. Am I going to run Blue/Black and be good against poison, or am I going to run Blue/Red and be good against Affinity?
Diabolic Edict absolutely blows poison out, is it the primary reason they can't beat mono black, and they have no card advantage so wrench mind is usually GG after that. Shattering Pulse and Gorilla Shaman are obviously all stars vs Affinity.
Post decks are tough to play, you really have to know all of your matchups and sideboarding.
It isn't the subject matter but how it is presented. 911 is a subject near to a lot of people's hearts and requires some sensitivity to talk about.
Also I don't think anyone writes from a purely neutral position so trying to do that might be part of the problem. Be biased but try to avoid the appearance of obnoxiousness with your statements. Instead of "Retard! Flame Flame Flame!" try "Man, that hurts. Here is what I dislike about what you said."
I know we NYers tend to be strongly opinionated because how else will anyone listen? Amiright? Fagedaboudit. But the thing is most magic players tend to be strongly opinionated in perhaps a more subtle way. (Bunch of smarty pants and wisenheimers.) They dislike the in-your-face approach. Instead they expect and desire things to be factually correct, and or assertions backed up with reasoning and then a discussion may ensue.
And maybe someone will say something ignorant and be flamed etc but that is just part of the rhythm of the internet. The thing here is...this article got so many comments as flames that the whole is ignored in favor of mass entertainment. ("Oh look! Fight! Fight!") You did yourself a disservice here and set yourself up to fail with prior comments in other's articles.
Use a little less acid/flame in your comments to your fellow writers/players and you may actually enjoy the process.
I want to apologize for the coughing/sniffling, I had very bad allergies at the time of these videos and although I know its not a good excuse.. I would still like to say sorry..
Your thoughts on the match: In game 1 I wouldn't have had enough mana to play teachings the next turn and use a bolt as the only lands I could play came into play tapped... I saw the line of play that you did... But I did not have enough lands... It's also the same with rolling thunder... I didn't have enough mana to play the prism and have 3 mana up to play thunder for 1... So I'm not sure what I didn't see that you saw..
In game 2.. I admit that being on the draw was probably better here as drawing a little deeper to my 1 mana removal is much better... But I was thinking let me also have a chance for counter mana up on turn 2 or I need to go quick with lands as well as control the game... I also figured mulldrifter was too slow...
Thank you for the advice on drawing though.. I will have to try that.
Edit: I shuffle cards to try and keep my mind from wondering so I can stay on point.. Sometimes I also do it to keep myself from frustration and going on tilt during a game... They are just casino playing cards and I don't do it often...
Thank you, but I tried to just write a neutral piece about 9/11 because it's important. But I can't make anyone happy.
I wish the other people did what you did, and actually read the article. But it's hard to not get caught up and get angry when you are being flamed for everything for no reason. I'm just getting caught up, and I should not have replied at all. But I did, and it just kept going.
If I knew writing about 9/11 would cause this, then I would have just taken it out. But I thought it was important.
Congrats, you are the biggest retard I have ever met. You didn't even read what I wrote. Do you know what, here is your open forum to write 3 paragraphs about 9/11 that is completely neutral and won't offend anyone.
Oh wait you can't. Chances are you cant even spell either. Just go back to World of Warcraft.
I actually could see the amount of work you put into this article (though it could still have used some polish) and while I disliked your Memorial thing it wasn't because I don't want to be reminded but as people have said "How could any American forget??". I think that was over the top and misrepresents your fellow NYers (Myself for example.) Good heart, right idea, wrong place and poor execution.
Also while I have been known to spout phrases sailors would blush at I don't generally do that online and in person only usually at my pc or other obstinate machinery. Again a misrepresentation of NYers. (I've lived all over NYC.)
I think you have potential to be a good contributor but you jump too quickly. This isn't a street bang with trash can lids and broken bottles. You don't have to defend yourself. You should be weeding through the words to find the ones that while perhaps critical are appropriate to your piece. As they say "if it don't apply let it fly."
If you think that comment was incorrect, look below where someone said "blah blah blah who cares about something that happened 10 years ago. I am not going to write about things I did when I was 17"
I know it is a life altering event, I live in NYC. But I also wanted to make it as neutral as possible so that nobody would be offended on either side.
And it is easy to forget. If it wasn't, then it would be a National Holiday.
You don't think I forget the 10 people I lost that day? Including my cousin?
God damn. I tried to make it a neutral statement. I tried to keep it simple. And yes, outside NY, people don't take it that seriously. I wrote about it, and that is more than most people since everyone here seems to have a problem with me writing about it.
I'm a fool? I have a military family. I have friends in the Marines. How dare you. Seriously how dare you.
It is a really sensitive subject, and I tried to keep it as neutral as possible, and that didn't even work.
Look, it was one of the most important days of my life. I could smell it weeks after it happened. But I tried to hold back and just make a simple tribute to 9/11.
So lets see:
In one corner, 9/11 has no place on an MTGO website.
In the other corner, I wrote a bad tribute to 9/11.
And you call me a fool? I love the internet. Idiots can say whatever they want and hide behind a computer. I wrote that because I thought it was important, but didn't want to offend anyone. You try to do that. But you can't can you. You aren't smart enough to understand how to write about such a sensitive subject.
I'll admit it, that morning when the names were read, I cried. I knew some of those names. I could have written 10 pages, but I just wanted a little thing to remind people of the importance. And the problem with 9/11 is that a lot of people in this country, actually 65% according to Quinnipiac polls, consider 9/11 only a "New York thing".
Did you not read the person who wrote on here, "I didn't even remember it was the 10th anniversary until I saw it on the news".
You are the fool, that is until you step away from the computer.
"I just wanted to make sure it was remembered, because it's easy to forget. I made it as neutral as possible"
Seriously? are you seriously THAT dense to believe that it's EASY to forget such an event? You know one of those life altering events that EVERY single American remembers exactly where they were,what was going on, and how they found out the news of that event that day?
Heath all imma say is that I asked you on twitter what the hell you were thinking letting this tool write for you and obviously he proves my point in his very next article.
The article was fine. My only beef is with your insistence that 9/11 was the first attack on American soil (what?).
If you paid attention in American history class (should have only been a few years ago for you), you would have learned the White House was burned by the British in the War of 1812. You don't consider that an attack on our soil?
Be a bit less arrogant, that is my only advise. I do like reading your take on speculation.
If you would like to have a conversation not involving text boxes, and you have a PS3, when I'm not at the gym, you can find me on PS3 online, username:
XxBy_DrugsxX
And no, it's not what you think. I don't sell drugs, nor am I an angry person. I do use a lot of profanity, but that is because it's part of the Brooklyn, NY vocabulary. If you didn't use profanity, people probably wouldn't understand what you are saying.
But I work very hard on vernacular, grammar, and vocabulary because naturally I have the "Jersey Shore" accent because that is the Brooklyn accent, and my family has been here for a very long time.
But I don't want to speak about drugs. Especially after my best friend just got out of rehab. Although I would need something to keep me awake if I wanted to play some tournaments. The big ones take a long long time, and at 24, I just get tired earlier. It happens with age.
Nice read.
I was gonna say what J said but he beat me to it, about the rotation being soon.
to note, I took out the Black splash.
As is the norm, it just not meant for me to finish 1st. lol
it was well played and lots of fun. Thanks to our Host for a great job too.
JB....... I liked both your articles. I found them informative and helpful. Only thing I find annoying is your saying that you don't want to get into the math or charts involved. I would LOVE to see any math and algorithms you are using. I'm less about speculating on emotion and would rather speculate on the underlying data. If you are getting feedback from the editors to "keep it simple", then that is unfortunate. Every reader is not a simpleton who finds words and numbers boring.
Also, I appreciated your 3, very short paragraphs on 9/11. If you are a person who read those paragraphs and felt it offended in some way........ well, I just don't have any words for you.......
I didn't want to flame anyone. But I got 90 comments at once, and comments that showed that people didn't read the article.
1) Whiffy Penguin. I said I had respect for what he did, and he somehow took that as me saying "He spends all his money on cards". I don't know how he got that from what I said.
2) Nobody understands the important part of the article. The process. That's what I wanted to talk about. The white weenie part was just talking about the past and how budget players can play a pretty good deck using cards that would cost maybe $2.
There were 2 parts to the article, and it's even in the headline.
1) How to speculate. I wasn't saying Norn's annex was a speculation card, I just watch a lot of videos online, and I look at the decks that win and think of ways to stop them. Like last night I was watching a guy who must have been a top player, and he was playing a Modern deck with Ajani and Elspeth based around Torbor Orb. He played someone that could use storm to make a ton of creatures. He wouldn't be able to attack with Norn's annex out because he would automatically lose. I just think when it comes to white weenie, it doesn't hurt to get in direct damage, and if you play, for example, vampires in STD, you will lose creatures, but they need to attack fast and a lot to win. Norn's Annex shuts down vampire decks. Especially if you have elspeth or a blocker that has Hexproof, or things like that.
2) The deck itself, wasn't a deck. I was just talking about how white weenie was, and how it has been improved. I wasn't talking about speculating on white weenie, which had most people read, would have noticed. I was just talking about how, coming from the white weenie decks of my past, White Weenie can make a comeback. I like the white cards in Innistrad, and I like white weenie. I like it as a possible deck on September 30th, or whenever it is that STD cycles.
What people don't get is that I like to speculate. I like to make money on cards. And that is my idea of fun. But I also like to build random decks and play public games. Just for fun. I hate going into a daily and seeing the first card and knowing what deck they are playing. I like being surprised.
And also if you read my first article, you would know I quit about 10 year ago, well it might have been 11. Whenever Mercadian Masques came out. The reason I don't play Modern is because it seems to me, and that is based on the THIS WEBSITE, that there are only a few decks, but also because I missed years of cards and other things. I have no idea about Tampgryph, or whatever it's called. I know it looks cool, but I had to read it 4 times to figure out what it was.
I missed a ton of stuff that makes no sense to me.
That's why when it comes to me playing and speculation, I only deal in standard. I don't know many things in the "meta-game". Hell, I quit before there was a word "meta-game". I even quit before there was a MTGO. I had Dial-up.
And to the person on the bottom who had no respect for 9/11 at all? There is an old saying.
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Sometimes it is good to respect things that happened in your past, so that they don't occur again in the future.
And for the final time.
NOBODY FORCED YOU TO READ IT!. You could have just scrolled down. But it is still 9/11. If you don't want to read it, then don't, but there is no need to be disrespectful about it. The editor could have taken it out, he didn't, so I guess it was fine since I wrote this article 3 days ago.
I didn't take your face and rub it up against the screen and force you to read. Scroll past it and move on.
I didn't want an argument with anyone. This was based on understanding reading things incorrectly. It also has to do with this being a process. Speculation for most people isn't easy, and this article was about the process. If you know how to do it, that's fine, if you don't, then you are not in the minority.
I just wanted to write my second article. Then all I got was complaints. I am sorry. I cannot make everyone happy. It's impossible. But also you guys do a ton of crying. I am not crying, there are worse things in life, but I will defend my ideas.
I didn't watch all the games because I couldn't take anymore coughing and sniffling, but here is what I did gather. You conceded Round 1 when you certainly were not out of the game. You had the Prism with mana open to cast Flame Slash when you conceded. Teachings would have found an answer for the other elf and your 2nd Prism would have eventually turned on your Rolling Thunder. You should have probably won this match.
The second game was a disaster. You want to be on the draw against infect here. There are a couple lines of thinking to this strategy, but basically you want to give youself the best chance to open with one of your 1cc removal spells on his 1cc drop. You have Bolts/Slash, hell you even brought in Shamans which seemed reasonable, although I love Mulldrifters in this MU and would not have boarded out any. If you're drawing first you'll see that extra card, and you'll increase your chances to find a removal spell, even if it's just by a small percentage. Play-wise, ditching the second Glimmerpost seemed terrible. You should have left your Capsize up at the end instead of casting the Research, and then just dieing. I'm not sure why you had Negate in, but that card seems awful here. The 2nd Rolling Thunder would have probably been ideal because although it is slower, it's still removal.
I hate modern. You know why? Because all Modern is is an excuse for people with old cards to use them again because they get bored of Standard and need something new to play with.
So it’s a bad thing that people want to play with sweet older cards?
I'm not writing this for you. You have your cards. I'm writing this for people that you want to compete with you, because to be honest, watching a video of you playing classic is so boring. It's not you that's boring, it's just classic.
Here is classic:
Dual lands
Fetch lands
Force of WIll
Mental Misstep
'Whoever draws their unlimited combo first wins"
So it’s a bad thing to play the most powerful cards in magic? Plus, many of the top decks don’t have “Unlimited combos.” In fact, there are few infinite combos (even Time Vault + Voltaic Key ends at some point or you deck yourself!).
First you say things like that in comments that are basically trolling your readers. But even before that, let’s look at other gold comments:
“There were a lot of creatures, but no artifact destruction. If you put out a Torbor Orb or anything like that, if it resolved, you would end up winning the game. I also noticed that having mana open was important. I think Norn's Annex has a place in Sideboards, and I think it is incredibly underrated. Sure it's no planeswalker, but it can stop Splinter Twin, I mean your opponent wont be able to attack you. I think it stops storm, if it is creature based, and because you can cost it for 3 mana, it has the potential to slow down ZOO decks.
I just think Norn's Annex is highly underrated, and should at least be in your sideboard alongside Torbor Orb. “
Torpor Orb SHUTS DOWN some archetypes while Annex comes out more slowly and you die anyway.
This isn’t to say your article was worthless. I didn’t really care about your take on 9/11, but I don’t begrudge you writing about it. At the same time, when viewers have complaints, you should take them into consideration instead of flaming them.
This article was somewhat rough, but your awful attitude in comments complete with whining and moaning about costs really sealed the deal. Good work!
Really? Look at the post above mine. It says "Cloudpost". That seems to be the big deal in Modern. Now go back to your "lose 2 life" dual lands, or your Rav drafts so you can get a few.
You must be an idiot. I mean you disregarded the article, and didn't even read the first one.
And for a person to get angry about me not liking a format? That is just sad. I pity you. I really do.
You just keep on going. You are not adding anything to the conversation, nor have you actually gotten the point of the article or the idea behind it. You are as useful to me as toilet paper... And you know what, I need to drop the kids off at the pool.
Blah, blah, blah, balh, im better than all of you, blah, blah, blah, im rich, blah, blah, blah etc...
Seriously your comments are nothing more than sad defenses of a boring troll. There is literally ntohing of value in this article. Norn's Annex? yeah that will JUMP in price im sure... .10 to .25 oh boy i got 5 tickets off it.
Modern is pretty fantastic actually. Certainly better than standard is at the moment.
Oh and 9/11 yeah didnt even realize the anniversary passed til i saw it on facebook. Seriously it was ten years ago. It sucked we understand, but move on. I'm not holding 10 year anniversaries for things I did at 17.
If you want to call it flaming, I flamed you for whiny blanket statements about formats you know nothing about. That would be like me flaming your article for "just being full of junk rares." It would be missing the point and pretty ignorant.
Learn to spell and read. Must be why you only make videos. Had you read what I wrote, you would have read "I know you worked hard for your collection". I in no way said you spent a million on buying everything. I said you worked hard. I F***ING COMPLIMENTED YOU on your work. And blood sweat and tears? Haha. No offense, but I do MMA training every morning from 7-10. That is blood sweat and tears unlike clicking on a mouse. There is a difference you know.
And I complimented you. All I said, and you can look back and read it, was that it's fine that you have the cards, but a lot of people don't even have enough to make a standard deck. That is what I am trying to accomplish with these articles. These articles aren't for you.
And to the people who read about Honor of the Pure, well then you cannot read either. I said it's cheap, I never said it's a speculative buy, I just said it's a very good overlooked card. Which in my opinion, is. And until someone from WotC comes on here and says something, my opinion has just as much weight as yours.
Just learn to read a compliment. I said you worked hard. I also said most people cannot do that.
Now idiot that likes to start fights online because it's a computer, I don't know the Meta-Game. Sigh. What I do know is that your opinion is as valuable as mine, if not less. I have money. Enough to buy every card WotC has ever released. But I don't like talking about money. You know why? I busted my ass to make money. Do you know what it takes to run a hedge fund? I was day trading from 9am to 4pm, and when I wasn't day trading stocks, I was trading Forex until about 3am, and woke up at 5am to do it all over again. I did this for 2 years. You wouldn't last 2 days.
And Whiffy, you might need to re-learn some of that grade school grammar. 9/11 was the first attack on American soil. Not the first war. 9/11 wasn't a war. A war is declared by congress and then agreed upon by the the President. I have read the constitution, you should try it. I guess my masters in Financial Engineering didn't teach me much.
And I would like you to find a Marine who plays MTGO to come on here and say this isn't a place for 9/11. I was paying respect, something you need to learn. Because I did have respect for you, I even said that in my reply to you, but after hearing you whine, now I know that your voice in the videos is more than just a bad mic. Don't even say I "have my panties in a bunch" again. Especially when my 10lb puppy Shaky can kick your ass bud.
But I guess people only read what they want to read, and see only what they want to see.
I'll leave you with this:
"Those who say money is the root of all evil, don't F***ing have any"
- Boiler Room.
You are right, I just got caught up in the drama. LIke I couldn't get through to people, and I guess I got frustrated. Which is easy for me because I tend to have a short fuse.
I got caught up in the moment, which is stupid, but my problem is, and being from NY you know this, if you have a problem with someone, you say it to their face. When I write for other websites like CNN or SI (I do mostly research or contributions) there is no flaming. There may be negative comments, but it's less personal, and people don't hide because they are on the net.
But thank you. You are obviously a lot less hot-headed than I am.
Normally I am not this angry, but I don't know. Maybe the subject matter hit me where there was grey, just black and white, and either way it was a lose lose for me.
In my experience with the pauper post decks, you need to make a meta decision. Am I going to run Blue/Black and be good against poison, or am I going to run Blue/Red and be good against Affinity?
Diabolic Edict absolutely blows poison out, is it the primary reason they can't beat mono black, and they have no card advantage so wrench mind is usually GG after that. Shattering Pulse and Gorilla Shaman are obviously all stars vs Affinity.
Post decks are tough to play, you really have to know all of your matchups and sideboarding.
It isn't the subject matter but how it is presented. 911 is a subject near to a lot of people's hearts and requires some sensitivity to talk about.
Also I don't think anyone writes from a purely neutral position so trying to do that might be part of the problem. Be biased but try to avoid the appearance of obnoxiousness with your statements. Instead of "Retard! Flame Flame Flame!" try "Man, that hurts. Here is what I dislike about what you said."
I know we NYers tend to be strongly opinionated because how else will anyone listen? Amiright? Fagedaboudit. But the thing is most magic players tend to be strongly opinionated in perhaps a more subtle way. (Bunch of smarty pants and wisenheimers.) They dislike the in-your-face approach. Instead they expect and desire things to be factually correct, and or assertions backed up with reasoning and then a discussion may ensue.
And maybe someone will say something ignorant and be flamed etc but that is just part of the rhythm of the internet. The thing here is...this article got so many comments as flames that the whole is ignored in favor of mass entertainment. ("Oh look! Fight! Fight!") You did yourself a disservice here and set yourself up to fail with prior comments in other's articles.
Use a little less acid/flame in your comments to your fellow writers/players and you may actually enjoy the process.
I want to apologize for the coughing/sniffling, I had very bad allergies at the time of these videos and although I know its not a good excuse.. I would still like to say sorry..
Your thoughts on the match: In game 1 I wouldn't have had enough mana to play teachings the next turn and use a bolt as the only lands I could play came into play tapped... I saw the line of play that you did... But I did not have enough lands... It's also the same with rolling thunder... I didn't have enough mana to play the prism and have 3 mana up to play thunder for 1... So I'm not sure what I didn't see that you saw..
In game 2.. I admit that being on the draw was probably better here as drawing a little deeper to my 1 mana removal is much better... But I was thinking let me also have a chance for counter mana up on turn 2 or I need to go quick with lands as well as control the game... I also figured mulldrifter was too slow...
Thank you for the advice on drawing though.. I will have to try that.
Edit: I shuffle cards to try and keep my mind from wondering so I can stay on point.. Sometimes I also do it to keep myself from frustration and going on tilt during a game... They are just casino playing cards and I don't do it often...
It sounds like you're shuffling cards while giving out the intro. May I recommend not doing that?
Wow that bw control deck looks awfully familiar :D
Thank you, but I tried to just write a neutral piece about 9/11 because it's important. But I can't make anyone happy.
I wish the other people did what you did, and actually read the article. But it's hard to not get caught up and get angry when you are being flamed for everything for no reason. I'm just getting caught up, and I should not have replied at all. But I did, and it just kept going.
If I knew writing about 9/11 would cause this, then I would have just taken it out. But I thought it was important.
Congrats, you are the biggest retard I have ever met. You didn't even read what I wrote. Do you know what, here is your open forum to write 3 paragraphs about 9/11 that is completely neutral and won't offend anyone.
Oh wait you can't. Chances are you cant even spell either. Just go back to World of Warcraft.
I actually could see the amount of work you put into this article (though it could still have used some polish) and while I disliked your Memorial thing it wasn't because I don't want to be reminded but as people have said "How could any American forget??". I think that was over the top and misrepresents your fellow NYers (Myself for example.) Good heart, right idea, wrong place and poor execution.
Also while I have been known to spout phrases sailors would blush at I don't generally do that online and in person only usually at my pc or other obstinate machinery. Again a misrepresentation of NYers. (I've lived all over NYC.)
I think you have potential to be a good contributor but you jump too quickly. This isn't a street bang with trash can lids and broken bottles. You don't have to defend yourself. You should be weeding through the words to find the ones that while perhaps critical are appropriate to your piece. As they say "if it don't apply let it fly."
Work on it and Good luck.
If you think that comment was incorrect, look below where someone said "blah blah blah who cares about something that happened 10 years ago. I am not going to write about things I did when I was 17"
I know it is a life altering event, I live in NYC. But I also wanted to make it as neutral as possible so that nobody would be offended on either side.
And it is easy to forget. If it wasn't, then it would be a National Holiday.
You don't think I forget the 10 people I lost that day? Including my cousin?
God damn. I tried to make it a neutral statement. I tried to keep it simple. And yes, outside NY, people don't take it that seriously. I wrote about it, and that is more than most people since everyone here seems to have a problem with me writing about it.
I'm a fool? I have a military family. I have friends in the Marines. How dare you. Seriously how dare you.
It is a really sensitive subject, and I tried to keep it as neutral as possible, and that didn't even work.
Look, it was one of the most important days of my life. I could smell it weeks after it happened. But I tried to hold back and just make a simple tribute to 9/11.
So lets see:
In one corner, 9/11 has no place on an MTGO website.
In the other corner, I wrote a bad tribute to 9/11.
And you call me a fool? I love the internet. Idiots can say whatever they want and hide behind a computer. I wrote that because I thought it was important, but didn't want to offend anyone. You try to do that. But you can't can you. You aren't smart enough to understand how to write about such a sensitive subject.
I'll admit it, that morning when the names were read, I cried. I knew some of those names. I could have written 10 pages, but I just wanted a little thing to remind people of the importance. And the problem with 9/11 is that a lot of people in this country, actually 65% according to Quinnipiac polls, consider 9/11 only a "New York thing".
Did you not read the person who wrote on here, "I didn't even remember it was the 10th anniversary until I saw it on the news".
You are the fool, that is until you step away from the computer.
congrats you have the first article i've ever rated
"I just wanted to make sure it was remembered, because it's easy to forget. I made it as neutral as possible"
Seriously? are you seriously THAT dense to believe that it's EASY to forget such an event? You know one of those life altering events that EVERY single American remembers exactly where they were,what was going on, and how they found out the news of that event that day?
Heath all imma say is that I asked you on twitter what the hell you were thinking letting this tool write for you and obviously he proves my point in his very next article.
The article was fine. My only beef is with your insistence that 9/11 was the first attack on American soil (what?).
If you paid attention in American history class (should have only been a few years ago for you), you would have learned the White House was burned by the British in the War of 1812. You don't consider that an attack on our soil?
Be a bit less arrogant, that is my only advise. I do like reading your take on speculation.
If you would like to have a conversation not involving text boxes, and you have a PS3, when I'm not at the gym, you can find me on PS3 online, username:
XxBy_DrugsxX
And no, it's not what you think. I don't sell drugs, nor am I an angry person. I do use a lot of profanity, but that is because it's part of the Brooklyn, NY vocabulary. If you didn't use profanity, people probably wouldn't understand what you are saying.
But I work very hard on vernacular, grammar, and vocabulary because naturally I have the "Jersey Shore" accent because that is the Brooklyn accent, and my family has been here for a very long time.
But I don't want to speak about drugs. Especially after my best friend just got out of rehab. Although I would need something to keep me awake if I wanted to play some tournaments. The big ones take a long long time, and at 24, I just get tired earlier. It happens with age.
I need a like button for this comment.
I think this article needs more rage and profanity. And drugs. Let's get some drug references in it next time.
Nice read.
I was gonna say what J said but he beat me to it, about the rotation being soon.
to note, I took out the Black splash.
As is the norm, it just not meant for me to finish 1st. lol
it was well played and lots of fun. Thanks to our Host for a great job too.
JB....... I liked both your articles. I found them informative and helpful. Only thing I find annoying is your saying that you don't want to get into the math or charts involved. I would LOVE to see any math and algorithms you are using. I'm less about speculating on emotion and would rather speculate on the underlying data. If you are getting feedback from the editors to "keep it simple", then that is unfortunate. Every reader is not a simpleton who finds words and numbers boring.
Also, I appreciated your 3, very short paragraphs on 9/11. If you are a person who read those paragraphs and felt it offended in some way........ well, I just don't have any words for you.......
I didn't want to flame anyone. But I got 90 comments at once, and comments that showed that people didn't read the article.
1) Whiffy Penguin. I said I had respect for what he did, and he somehow took that as me saying "He spends all his money on cards". I don't know how he got that from what I said.
2) Nobody understands the important part of the article. The process. That's what I wanted to talk about. The white weenie part was just talking about the past and how budget players can play a pretty good deck using cards that would cost maybe $2.
There were 2 parts to the article, and it's even in the headline.
1) How to speculate. I wasn't saying Norn's annex was a speculation card, I just watch a lot of videos online, and I look at the decks that win and think of ways to stop them. Like last night I was watching a guy who must have been a top player, and he was playing a Modern deck with Ajani and Elspeth based around Torbor Orb. He played someone that could use storm to make a ton of creatures. He wouldn't be able to attack with Norn's annex out because he would automatically lose. I just think when it comes to white weenie, it doesn't hurt to get in direct damage, and if you play, for example, vampires in STD, you will lose creatures, but they need to attack fast and a lot to win. Norn's Annex shuts down vampire decks. Especially if you have elspeth or a blocker that has Hexproof, or things like that.
2) The deck itself, wasn't a deck. I was just talking about how white weenie was, and how it has been improved. I wasn't talking about speculating on white weenie, which had most people read, would have noticed. I was just talking about how, coming from the white weenie decks of my past, White Weenie can make a comeback. I like the white cards in Innistrad, and I like white weenie. I like it as a possible deck on September 30th, or whenever it is that STD cycles.
What people don't get is that I like to speculate. I like to make money on cards. And that is my idea of fun. But I also like to build random decks and play public games. Just for fun. I hate going into a daily and seeing the first card and knowing what deck they are playing. I like being surprised.
And also if you read my first article, you would know I quit about 10 year ago, well it might have been 11. Whenever Mercadian Masques came out. The reason I don't play Modern is because it seems to me, and that is based on the THIS WEBSITE, that there are only a few decks, but also because I missed years of cards and other things. I have no idea about Tampgryph, or whatever it's called. I know it looks cool, but I had to read it 4 times to figure out what it was.
I missed a ton of stuff that makes no sense to me.
That's why when it comes to me playing and speculation, I only deal in standard. I don't know many things in the "meta-game". Hell, I quit before there was a word "meta-game". I even quit before there was a MTGO. I had Dial-up.
And to the person on the bottom who had no respect for 9/11 at all? There is an old saying.
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Sometimes it is good to respect things that happened in your past, so that they don't occur again in the future.
And for the final time.
NOBODY FORCED YOU TO READ IT!. You could have just scrolled down. But it is still 9/11. If you don't want to read it, then don't, but there is no need to be disrespectful about it. The editor could have taken it out, he didn't, so I guess it was fine since I wrote this article 3 days ago.
I didn't take your face and rub it up against the screen and force you to read. Scroll past it and move on.
I didn't want an argument with anyone. This was based on understanding reading things incorrectly. It also has to do with this being a process. Speculation for most people isn't easy, and this article was about the process. If you know how to do it, that's fine, if you don't, then you are not in the minority.
I just wanted to write my second article. Then all I got was complaints. I am sorry. I cannot make everyone happy. It's impossible. But also you guys do a ton of crying. I am not crying, there are worse things in life, but I will defend my ideas.
I didn't watch all the games because I couldn't take anymore coughing and sniffling, but here is what I did gather. You conceded Round 1 when you certainly were not out of the game. You had the Prism with mana open to cast Flame Slash when you conceded. Teachings would have found an answer for the other elf and your 2nd Prism would have eventually turned on your Rolling Thunder. You should have probably won this match.
The second game was a disaster. You want to be on the draw against infect here. There are a couple lines of thinking to this strategy, but basically you want to give youself the best chance to open with one of your 1cc removal spells on his 1cc drop. You have Bolts/Slash, hell you even brought in Shamans which seemed reasonable, although I love Mulldrifters in this MU and would not have boarded out any. If you're drawing first you'll see that extra card, and you'll increase your chances to find a removal spell, even if it's just by a small percentage. Play-wise, ditching the second Glimmerpost seemed terrible. You should have left your Capsize up at the end instead of casting the Research, and then just dieing. I'm not sure why you had Negate in, but that card seems awful here. The 2nd Rolling Thunder would have probably been ideal because although it is slower, it's still removal.
I hate modern. You know why? Because all Modern is is an excuse for people with old cards to use them again because they get bored of Standard and need something new to play with.
So it’s a bad thing that people want to play with sweet older cards?
I'm not writing this for you. You have your cards. I'm writing this for people that you want to compete with you, because to be honest, watching a video of you playing classic is so boring. It's not you that's boring, it's just classic.
Here is classic:
Dual lands
Fetch lands
Force of WIll
Mental Misstep
'Whoever draws their unlimited combo first wins"
So it’s a bad thing to play the most powerful cards in magic? Plus, many of the top decks don’t have “Unlimited combos.” In fact, there are few infinite combos (even Time Vault + Voltaic Key ends at some point or you deck yourself!).
First you say things like that in comments that are basically trolling your readers. But even before that, let’s look at other gold comments:
“There were a lot of creatures, but no artifact destruction. If you put out a Torbor Orb or anything like that, if it resolved, you would end up winning the game. I also noticed that having mana open was important. I think Norn's Annex has a place in Sideboards, and I think it is incredibly underrated. Sure it's no planeswalker, but it can stop Splinter Twin, I mean your opponent wont be able to attack you. I think it stops storm, if it is creature based, and because you can cost it for 3 mana, it has the potential to slow down ZOO decks.
I just think Norn's Annex is highly underrated, and should at least be in your sideboard alongside Torbor Orb. “
Torpor Orb SHUTS DOWN some archetypes while Annex comes out more slowly and you die anyway.
This isn’t to say your article was worthless. I didn’t really care about your take on 9/11, but I don’t begrudge you writing about it. At the same time, when viewers have complaints, you should take them into consideration instead of flaming them.
This article was somewhat rough, but your awful attitude in comments complete with whining and moaning about costs really sealed the deal. Good work!
Really? Look at the post above mine. It says "Cloudpost". That seems to be the big deal in Modern. Now go back to your "lose 2 life" dual lands, or your Rav drafts so you can get a few.
You must be an idiot. I mean you disregarded the article, and didn't even read the first one.
And for a person to get angry about me not liking a format? That is just sad. I pity you. I really do.
You just keep on going. You are not adding anything to the conversation, nor have you actually gotten the point of the article or the idea behind it. You are as useful to me as toilet paper... And you know what, I need to drop the kids off at the pool.
Peace
Blah, blah, blah, balh, im better than all of you, blah, blah, blah, im rich, blah, blah, blah etc...
Seriously your comments are nothing more than sad defenses of a boring troll. There is literally ntohing of value in this article. Norn's Annex? yeah that will JUMP in price im sure... .10 to .25 oh boy i got 5 tickets off it.
Modern is pretty fantastic actually. Certainly better than standard is at the moment.
Oh and 9/11 yeah didnt even realize the anniversary passed til i saw it on facebook. Seriously it was ten years ago. It sucked we understand, but move on. I'm not holding 10 year anniversaries for things I did at 17.
If you want to call it flaming, I flamed you for whiny blanket statements about formats you know nothing about. That would be like me flaming your article for "just being full of junk rares." It would be missing the point and pretty ignorant.
Learn to spell and read. Must be why you only make videos. Had you read what I wrote, you would have read "I know you worked hard for your collection". I in no way said you spent a million on buying everything. I said you worked hard. I F***ING COMPLIMENTED YOU on your work. And blood sweat and tears? Haha. No offense, but I do MMA training every morning from 7-10. That is blood sweat and tears unlike clicking on a mouse. There is a difference you know.
And I complimented you. All I said, and you can look back and read it, was that it's fine that you have the cards, but a lot of people don't even have enough to make a standard deck. That is what I am trying to accomplish with these articles. These articles aren't for you.
And to the people who read about Honor of the Pure, well then you cannot read either. I said it's cheap, I never said it's a speculative buy, I just said it's a very good overlooked card. Which in my opinion, is. And until someone from WotC comes on here and says something, my opinion has just as much weight as yours.
Just learn to read a compliment. I said you worked hard. I also said most people cannot do that.
Now idiot that likes to start fights online because it's a computer, I don't know the Meta-Game. Sigh. What I do know is that your opinion is as valuable as mine, if not less. I have money. Enough to buy every card WotC has ever released. But I don't like talking about money. You know why? I busted my ass to make money. Do you know what it takes to run a hedge fund? I was day trading from 9am to 4pm, and when I wasn't day trading stocks, I was trading Forex until about 3am, and woke up at 5am to do it all over again. I did this for 2 years. You wouldn't last 2 days.
And Whiffy, you might need to re-learn some of that grade school grammar. 9/11 was the first attack on American soil. Not the first war. 9/11 wasn't a war. A war is declared by congress and then agreed upon by the the President. I have read the constitution, you should try it. I guess my masters in Financial Engineering didn't teach me much.
And I would like you to find a Marine who plays MTGO to come on here and say this isn't a place for 9/11. I was paying respect, something you need to learn. Because I did have respect for you, I even said that in my reply to you, but after hearing you whine, now I know that your voice in the videos is more than just a bad mic. Don't even say I "have my panties in a bunch" again. Especially when my 10lb puppy Shaky can kick your ass bud.
But I guess people only read what they want to read, and see only what they want to see.
I'll leave you with this:
"Those who say money is the root of all evil, don't F***ing have any"
- Boiler Room.