Chris Botelho

He/Him | 2021-22 Magic Pro League |
General purveyor of the finest jank

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

Okay so Tablet of Discovery is one of the strongest cards I've ever gotten to play control with. So what if we made a control deck with it and made the deck good?
Exploring this revolutionary idea tonight.

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[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

Two final days of testing before the arena champs, so the grind continues

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streaming more honest work uw control Arena Champs prep

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Streaming some more dubious fair control times in historic

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[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

Gonna stream a little Arena Championship 12 prep.

Format's historic, deck submission is in like 2 days, and I don't know anything (Other than that I might as well play UW). Help?

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[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

The nature of Magic sets’ unified art direction creates some real odd dissonance in groups like Prismari.

The faction of people who wear vivid clashing colors to stand out somehow all blend together because their dress code leaves them indistinguishable from one another?

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

@OptimusTomTV Yeah, I live in the Portland outskirts and it’s pretty good for affordable quality sushi. But you gotta imagine there’s still the big city price bump being applied. Makes me wonder what places have small town prices but big fish output.

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Anybody got a list of places to live ranked by how affordable good quality sushi is?

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@GrimmKnight001 Yeah but like I’ll move to anchorage if I can get a good roll for half the price, I got priorities.

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

How do we explain to the kids how visceral it was to press the degauss button on a monitor?

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

@SaffronOlive I think a build of wilderness reclamation existed in each of those metas that would have been significantly better than the decks that got banned. But we hadn’t found them yet.

Though, we did find it before Fires got banned, it was just still under-the-radar at that point.

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

Y’know, it’s interesting how rarely (never) we hear in regards to problematic metagames: “we expected the player base to do a better job finding decks that beat the top decks, because we found them in internal testing”. Wonder how often it happens but goes unsaid.

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@SaffronOlive We spent months with field of the dead, then Oko, then fires of invention being the boogiemen of the format. Each eating bans one after the other.

And the entire time Wilderness Reclamation was the best deck by a *lot*. But nobody had figured out how to build it yet.

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

@SaffronOlive On average? Yeah, I’d mostly agree.

But the string of standard metagames from 2019 to late 2020 live rent free in my head forever as a visceral example of the community of millions failing to explore metagames well.

In retrospect those formats (and bans) are hilarious.

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@MartinJuza Always has been.

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

How come a date at a restaurant is normal, and a date at the mall is classic if a bit boomer, but when I suggest a date at costco *I'm* the weird one?

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

Love how Gwen Stacy Ghost Spider and Ghost Spider Gwen Stacy are two different cards.

[Chris Botelho @CBotelhoMagic]

@fireshoes @SaffronOlive Not having played the (player list event’s) format doesn’t surprise me, I would assume the employee filling out the day’s list is only making one event for all the casual play without taking the time to split it up by format.

But if they weren’t there, yeah, that’s pretty bad.