Stan

Hardened Scales player from The Netherlands

[Stan @Arcbounded]

@allgood122172 @marionumber4 @Thiss_Youu What decisions did biden make in 2022 that caused gas prices to spike? His personal creation of the covid virus? or perhaps his mind control beam to make putin invade ukraine?

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@Mengu09 do we really want to still be playing cling to dust with phlage gone? I thought that card was an embarassing but necessary concession not to lose to it.

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@Mengu09 the promos are genuinely only good when they luck into doing a commander staple that happens to be good in an rcq format(nykthos) or it's a UB set, and we get cloud/aerith/gandalf which are actually worth your time.

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@SaffronOlive game 1 fires has not a single piece of interaction for the combo, while having a glacially slow clock. deck kills turn 5 at the earliest with cavalier of flame. Then postboard there's 4 disputes and 1 disenchant as interaction. I don't see this being anything but a stomp for jar.

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@OtherFish_ @SaffronOlive errata its mana value to 1 so you can get it off saga, that'd be about the power level increase needed for jitte to be good in modern.

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@Mengu09 ''cringe pushed cards''

Looks inside

the only good black removal spell, and a counterspell from 20 years ago.

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@elnicodegonne @SaffronOlive cards being too accessible is not even close to being one of the problems with magic atm, in fact I'd say it's one of the things they're doing way better, no more 100$ mythics in every set.

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@TrevorAllenMD the bottom two are probably less known overall than shivan dragon. And this moreso seems like an argument that magic should have had a kids tv show in the 90s, which i guess? charizard was already from the massively popular pokemon IP and blue eyes popularity is entirely the show

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@_whenisleep @lsv restrictions breeding creativity is like the number one rule of creating anything, let alone decks lol. There needs to be something constraining what you can play in your deck, and I vastly prefer ''can i make this mana work'' over ''you are only allowed to play 2 colours''

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@WickedFridge @lsv you are significantly more likely to just say ''fuck this'' and stop playing the game. you need to be able to ramp up the complexity of the game, and with that system it's all completely frontloaded. You can't play the game without engaging with that complexity.

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@WickedFridge @lsv getting mana screwed/flooded is frustrating, but the frustration shows that you care about the game you're playing. if you start playing a game and you look at your opening 7, and immediately need to decide which of these cards to turn into mana over the next couple of turns-

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@lsv @RyanEffinMiles the way magic deals with powercreep has felt worse lately, so that might be outdone by another game(although I couldn't tell you which one, certainly not yugioh) at this point.

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@out_sall @lsv @Cybren what about the abject fury a casual player feels when they lose every single game in the exact same manner because they're either much worse than their opponent, or their deck is much worse. Magic has a great balance of variance and skill, and lands are a huge part of that.

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@out_sall @lsv @Cybren There's also a reason the vast majority of those games have crashed and burned. How many of the tens of games using that system have stuck around for more than a couple of years? I'll give big credit to FaB for figuring out a system that's actually different, but still good.

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@Rosiedog77 @ChefGreginald I'm a huge fan of his work, less so when I'm a direct participant

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@tirentu @psamms Does mine count? I'm mad that there's 2 PT's back to back in the US so I have to skip

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@dhdfggxp11524 @1piecekun @Mortdog Wukong is indeed more tanky than swain and will survive a lot longer than him, taking this into consideration, maybe read eternal pact one more time.

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@PiemontiAndrea if blink variants are gone, broodscale feels like a great deck again. Shame it's hated out so easily since jeskai gets to feast on it if it gets popular enough.

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Great time for there to be two US pro tours back to back, making it impossible for me to defer and actually play. Ah well, maybe it's time to update policy? @PlayMTG

[Team Lingering Souls MTG @TLSMTG]

After 5 rounds against the thoughest competition in mtgo, we have put 2 players in the Modern Showcase Qualifier Top8!

Let's go @Arcbounded and @toondoslav !!

Nice run with the top16 @BertramTimo ❤️

Let's get this bread 😎