I've done Kobolds several times: When Changelings first arrived I did a deck with Taskmaster, Crookshank, Kher keep and 3 ringers. When we got the rest of them, well, you can read about it here:
I've been saying it for lke a year.. Aisling Leprechaun as St. Patricks Day free promo. Similar to the Headless Horseman for Halloween in 2009. Of course, if they were going to do something like that again, they just missed Chinese New Year to give out the Zodiac creatures. Oh well.
Great podcast as usual. However, just for those of us listening on headphones, whomever is typing, can you please set up all the things you want to look at BEFORE the recording starts. That typing noise is VERY loud and extremely grating on the ears. And if you're like me and have OCD, that clicking noise just starts getting under my skin. So please please please, stop tying during your recordings.
I wrote it a while back to help new writers 'dress stuff up more' - please share it, as it is buried in the depths of puremtgo and is better kept as a bookmark for writing here.
Don't quit writing, just knock our socks off next time! :)
Nice deck. Interesting method of assembling it. I've done something similar int he past, but since I have no idea how to use excel I didn't actually put a spreadsheet together. Good luck on the judge certification!
I tend to comment on most Pauper articles, usually criticizing them for being bad. Surprisingly this article isn't as horrible as the comments make it out to be. But then I didn't see it with the screwed up HTML decklist either, but from the comments it sounds like that wasn't the author's fault. The original article that you were trying to pay homage to is about twice as long and a lot more interesting; he did 3 or 4 lines of description about each game and what happened, while you settled for one-liners. Also, his had flavor with some travel notes, food notes, and a comic-tragedy aspect to it.
Where you really screw up though, in my opinion, is in claiming that this deck is "just about perfect for this metagame." Now I'm all for innovation, and I don't play the "standard" goblin list myself, but if you (or anybody) wants to claim their deck is better than the standard, then you better do some careful comparisons. An article like this needs 2 decklists: yours and the standard one. Then you need to explain everything that's different, and why you chose different cards. Finally, you need 10-20 matches AT LEAST against EACH of the top decks if you want to start making any claims about being "perfect for this metagame."
You sound like one of the authors buddies, and kudos to you for backing him up. Sadly, to say this is one of the more entertaining reads on the site.... LOL@that
I'm not a troll but at least I don't say ambiguous things then hide behind "I'm a real world blah blah"
I give honest constructed opinions, and you, sir, sound like the adolescent. Don't start talking trash in the comments because you disagree with the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE POSTERS.
Unless the entire target audience for pure is immature children you should reconsider your "super-professional-real-world-millionaire-writer" stance.
P.S. - link us to one of your super pro bigtime $ articles, I'd love to see it.
This article was awesome and the comments section insightful. You should promptly produce an off-shoot of this one, but addressing it to all the comments in an article format. Team up with Ith since he ia amazing at this, although he will most likely take all the credit.
The off-shoot should mention everyone and describe and answer them at the same time.
Hammer- No, You.
Shard- Youre forcing us to read these articles because we know your trolling will be there.
Claytor- = Da Man.
Impin- You're right and it aint easy you just make it look so.
Paul- needs to troll GLIB more with hugantic(for oomph) wall of text
GLIB- has bad trolling material lately. Step it up.
MMogg- IDK how anyone would be mad with MMoggs.
Whiffy- can you please get a decent picture in your profile? Everytime you try a new one it becomes a freaky orange doo-rag on your head or a scene from Requim for a Dream where guy is strung out on his kitchen table.
Hoff- Go back to work.
I don't think anything here has 30 comments posted in under a day in a long time.
I did what? I haven't made any formats that I know about...must have been while I was sleeping. :) Thanks for the trolling GLB good to see you still around.
Paul, shuddup, you made up a format that relies on card values, however, if people buy cards, dealers raise the price...so all of a sudden those cards are taken out of the format based on their value....its like playing with a giant cacaroach and calling it awesome. This was an attrosiously poorly written article, short, well uninformed, vulgar to a pg audience with explicit language (blow the dice), and above all else home boy who wrote this is a mark. The concept was original, now you're just being an vanilla ice and stealing the base line and beat.
Adolescents? Really? You talk about childish bickering and then use age as a pejorative? It seems to me there is room for heated discussion in the average adult's life if they choose to live that way. Whether they should feel embarrassed by that is a matter of values. Some people find it embarrassing to be seen wearing certain colors in public. Some would be embarrassed to be seen as passive and easy going, etc.
Also maturity is relative to the people involved. You can make perceived-to-be factual statements about mature behavior with some impunity but until you have walked some distance in others' shoes I would not talk about their personal growth.
Given this is the internet I think this discourse was fairly mild. Aside from the name calling (childish? adolescents?) I didn't see it as being too far out of line. Though perhaps the criticisms need more balancing?
As much as I like Sadin and the guys at SCG, I do not read that site because it is a p2p site. I read this site. If the decklist wasn't the author's fault then my apologies to the author.
I get paid (a lot) to write in the real world. Whilst not exactly Chapin, this was one of the more entertaining reads I've come across on this website. The childish bickering that followed, however, was as tiresome as it always is. One day all these adolescents will have grown up and be embarrassed by their tantrums. Unfortunately we'll have a new cohort to deal with by then. Sigh...
I built and tested and finalized all the decks you see here, right after the release of the set. Especially the one Tezzeret deck you'll see next week.
I think part of the problem (apart from the whole misconception of a copy editor rather than a content manager) is that the article you are trying to emulate was from a multi-day, cross Atlantic Magic fest, a.k.a. Pro-Tour Amsterdam, not three rounds of a MODO daily. I mean, for Cedric, perhaps a full length standard report on a losing adventure would have been tedious, especially considering the fact that it was a three day affair. Three random MODO rounds of a daily, scaled down, means the content is nearly nonexistent. So, I don't think it's just that the people are unreceptive to the format/style as much as you chose the wrong subject matter. Also, Cedric actually began his report by setting the stage for the report, emotionally. His was far more personal and introspective and glimpsed a man on the line between comeback and tilt. Yours just didn't capture that kind of tension because, well, perhaps it doesn't exist for you.
Also, I think it's a misconception that a deck like Gobbos is autopilot. There are a heck of a lot of decisions in different situations and matchups that often get glossed over, but there are certainly factors why we play the spells we do in the order we do. Similarly, sideboarding is also not a no brainer, so you could explain why.
I do not feel as if the criticism is valid. If a report in this style is good to go on Starcity, why not here? Granted, I screwed up with decklist, it was showing up fine when I went over the article this morning, now it's fixed.
I refuse to publish more articles than you guys will ever know about. I do my work, and I am proud of my work. This was published because it paid homage to a very dear friend of mine, so there was a little more of a personal bias for me, I stand by my decision to run this article, I stand by the writer, and I stand by something that I thought was very unique.
Wow. Just wow. Normally comments like what Under The Hammer gave here, get me riled and ready to post a scathing response in the vein that Shard so ably tapped. However I find the way the deck list was just slapped in on top to be very offensive because it shows a lack of caring. (Whether or not that was your intent.) There are lots and lots of ways to prevent this from happening. As Mr UTH said it looks like you took 10mins to post this. At the very least when you found it to be technically dysfunctional you could have WAITED to submit until you found someone who could help you fix it.
"I hope that was as entertaining for you to read as it was for me to write. Unfortunately, games involving Goblin's aren't exactly the most interesting to read, so I'm hoping that by writing it in a different format spices it up a little." <- It was not. Do better. Take this criticism and learn.
I've done Kobolds several times: When Changelings first arrived I did a deck with Taskmaster, Crookshank, Kher keep and 3 ringers. When we got the rest of them, well, you can read about it here:
http://puremtgo.com/articles/art-tribal-wars-med3-madness
Complete with screenshot evidence.
Personal foul, on the kicking team, plugging ones article, that is a 1 credit removed, 5 yard penality, techniqual foul, repeat the first period.
I've been saying it for lke a year.. Aisling Leprechaun as St. Patricks Day free promo. Similar to the Headless Horseman for Halloween in 2009. Of course, if they were going to do something like that again, they just missed Chinese New Year to give out the Zodiac creatures. Oh well.
AJ, How did you win your game with Kobolds?
Great podcast as usual. However, just for those of us listening on headphones, whomever is typing, can you please set up all the things you want to look at BEFORE the recording starts. That typing noise is VERY loud and extremely grating on the ears. And if you're like me and have OCD, that clicking noise just starts getting under my skin. So please please please, stop tying during your recordings.
I'm siding with 'under the hammer' - I know it's not popular to be so blunt, but maybe this will help the author:
http://puremtgo.com/articles/playwright
I wrote it a while back to help new writers 'dress stuff up more' - please share it, as it is buried in the depths of puremtgo and is better kept as a bookmark for writing here.
Don't quit writing, just knock our socks off next time! :)
Fecundity will help with your card draw as well.
Nice deck. Interesting method of assembling it. I've done something similar int he past, but since I have no idea how to use excel I didn't actually put a spreadsheet together. Good luck on the judge certification!
I tend to comment on most Pauper articles, usually criticizing them for being bad. Surprisingly this article isn't as horrible as the comments make it out to be. But then I didn't see it with the screwed up HTML decklist either, but from the comments it sounds like that wasn't the author's fault. The original article that you were trying to pay homage to is about twice as long and a lot more interesting; he did 3 or 4 lines of description about each game and what happened, while you settled for one-liners. Also, his had flavor with some travel notes, food notes, and a comic-tragedy aspect to it.
Where you really screw up though, in my opinion, is in claiming that this deck is "just about perfect for this metagame." Now I'm all for innovation, and I don't play the "standard" goblin list myself, but if you (or anybody) wants to claim their deck is better than the standard, then you better do some careful comparisons. An article like this needs 2 decklists: yours and the standard one. Then you need to explain everything that's different, and why you chose different cards. Finally, you need 10-20 matches AT LEAST against EACH of the top decks if you want to start making any claims about being "perfect for this metagame."
You sound like one of the authors buddies, and kudos to you for backing him up. Sadly, to say this is one of the more entertaining reads on the site.... LOL@that
I'm not a troll but at least I don't say ambiguous things then hide behind "I'm a real world blah blah"
I give honest constructed opinions, and you, sir, sound like the adolescent. Don't start talking trash in the comments because you disagree with the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE POSTERS.
Unless the entire target audience for pure is immature children you should reconsider your "super-professional-real-world-millionaire-writer" stance.
P.S. - link us to one of your super pro bigtime $ articles, I'd love to see it.
It was not his fault, I made a mistake in the code deleted a very very tiny section of it while I was reviewing the article.
If my trolling ups the readability of anything I am humbled by your appreciation of my unintentional assistance.
This article was awesome and the comments section insightful. You should promptly produce an off-shoot of this one, but addressing it to all the comments in an article format. Team up with Ith since he ia amazing at this, although he will most likely take all the credit.
The off-shoot should mention everyone and describe and answer them at the same time.
Hammer- No, You.
Shard- Youre forcing us to read these articles because we know your trolling will be there.
Claytor- = Da Man.
Impin- You're right and it aint easy you just make it look so.
Paul- needs to troll GLIB more with hugantic(for oomph) wall of text
GLIB- has bad trolling material lately. Step it up.
MMogg- IDK how anyone would be mad with MMoggs.
Whiffy- can you please get a decent picture in your profile? Everytime you try a new one it becomes a freaky orange doo-rag on your head or a scene from Requim for a Dream where guy is strung out on his kitchen table.
Hoff- Go back to work.
I don't think anything here has 30 comments posted in under a day in a long time.
I did what? I haven't made any formats that I know about...must have been while I was sleeping. :) Thanks for the trolling GLB good to see you still around.
Paul, shuddup, you made up a format that relies on card values, however, if people buy cards, dealers raise the price...so all of a sudden those cards are taken out of the format based on their value....its like playing with a giant cacaroach and calling it awesome. This was an attrosiously poorly written article, short, well uninformed, vulgar to a pg audience with explicit language (blow the dice), and above all else home boy who wrote this is a mark. The concept was original, now you're just being an vanilla ice and stealing the base line and beat.
And by the way, you've just been trolled.
In that vein, no ideas are really new :p.
Adolescents? Really? You talk about childish bickering and then use age as a pejorative? It seems to me there is room for heated discussion in the average adult's life if they choose to live that way. Whether they should feel embarrassed by that is a matter of values. Some people find it embarrassing to be seen wearing certain colors in public. Some would be embarrassed to be seen as passive and easy going, etc.
Also maturity is relative to the people involved. You can make perceived-to-be factual statements about mature behavior with some impunity but until you have walked some distance in others' shoes I would not talk about their personal growth.
Given this is the internet I think this discourse was fairly mild. Aside from the name calling (childish? adolescents?) I didn't see it as being too far out of line. Though perhaps the criticisms need more balancing?
As much as I like Sadin and the guys at SCG, I do not read that site because it is a p2p site. I read this site. If the decklist wasn't the author's fault then my apologies to the author.
I get paid (a lot) to write in the real world. Whilst not exactly Chapin, this was one of the more entertaining reads I've come across on this website. The childish bickering that followed, however, was as tiresome as it always is. One day all these adolescents will have grown up and be embarrassed by their tantrums. Unfortunately we'll have a new cohort to deal with by then. Sigh...
I built and tested and finalized all the decks you see here, right after the release of the set. Especially the one Tezzeret deck you'll see next week.
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I think part of the problem (apart from the whole misconception of a copy editor rather than a content manager) is that the article you are trying to emulate was from a multi-day, cross Atlantic Magic fest, a.k.a. Pro-Tour Amsterdam, not three rounds of a MODO daily. I mean, for Cedric, perhaps a full length standard report on a losing adventure would have been tedious, especially considering the fact that it was a three day affair. Three random MODO rounds of a daily, scaled down, means the content is nearly nonexistent. So, I don't think it's just that the people are unreceptive to the format/style as much as you chose the wrong subject matter. Also, Cedric actually began his report by setting the stage for the report, emotionally. His was far more personal and introspective and glimpsed a man on the line between comeback and tilt. Yours just didn't capture that kind of tension because, well, perhaps it doesn't exist for you.
Also, I think it's a misconception that a deck like Gobbos is autopilot. There are a heck of a lot of decisions in different situations and matchups that often get glossed over, but there are certainly factors why we play the spells we do in the order we do. Similarly, sideboarding is also not a no brainer, so you could explain why.
I do not feel as if the criticism is valid. If a report in this style is good to go on Starcity, why not here? Granted, I screwed up with decklist, it was showing up fine when I went over the article this morning, now it's fixed.
Again I reject more than I publish.
Please read cedrics report, and put up the same thing on his forum.
Did you enjoy the article? Yes I did.
Did you feel the time spent reading was worthwhile, do you feel enlightened about the world of pauper goblins? No, goblins are teh suck
Does this inspire you to play the format? Yes, because it shows a creative side to the format in my mind.
I refuse to publish more articles than you guys will ever know about. I do my work, and I am proud of my work. This was published because it paid homage to a very dear friend of mine, so there was a little more of a personal bias for me, I stand by my decision to run this article, I stand by the writer, and I stand by something that I thought was very unique.
Wow. Just wow. Normally comments like what Under The Hammer gave here, get me riled and ready to post a scathing response in the vein that Shard so ably tapped. However I find the way the deck list was just slapped in on top to be very offensive because it shows a lack of caring. (Whether or not that was your intent.) There are lots and lots of ways to prevent this from happening. As Mr UTH said it looks like you took 10mins to post this. At the very least when you found it to be technically dysfunctional you could have WAITED to submit until you found someone who could help you fix it.
"I hope that was as entertaining for you to read as it was for me to write. Unfortunately, games involving Goblin's aren't exactly the most interesting to read, so I'm hoping that by writing it in a different format spices it up a little." <- It was not. Do better. Take this criticism and learn.