Alessandro Ballini (ztm)

17lands source code gambler, MTG amateur on the retirement path

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@justlolaman This is a strictly worse Preening Champion and there is power creep.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Chord_O_Calls Paper products will be so expensive that the problem will be easily solved ignoring them.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@NEO_MTG Expecting Bo3 to be less soupy seems... unrealistic. Glad for you that it worked! I think it will not last long, at Quick Draft or at best 2 weeks mark I expect to be soup dominated.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Trumpetman__ @MTG_Arena It looks like it's been disabled because you started with 3 cards, but I played 2 events and I didn't have any issue with that. The same rule applies to both players :)

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz Giving me a title for the Arena event I liked the most, that was a lot of time ago and that a lot of people can't have or even know how to get, probably is the only way they could convince me to use a title. Surprisingly well done.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz Did you get max wins on the one that was Cube in the finals and you were winning the full set of cards? (that should be the first Decathlon) I got mine for winning the second one, when everybody got the same pool of cards in the finals.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz Now Alchemy cards are totally OP and the paper draft format with the injection of some broken Alchemy cards is awful.
Baldur's Gate and the rebalance of the draft format were great on the other hand.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@lordtupperware I had one opponent play that when I was playing 3 Briefcases :-\

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@rcsaxe I had Epic Games stop working a few times. Reinstalling it fixed the issue.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz No, it's never legal. This picture must be tagged as violent.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz @Chord_O_Calls I suspect that there are not usually enough cards for 8 people to all do that at the same table.

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[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@TaJoordan @Andre_MTG_ @jakeformayor I've had a 100% match winrate in Bo3 with UB, as I've started to play it in the late format and most of those decks had one Mutilator as finisher. I'm pretty sure this does not apply as well to Bo1 though.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@jakeformayor Mutilator is the only pick

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz https://t.co/MV3ayHvoxW

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Justre87 @Chord_O_Calls According to popular wisdom, you should have not cast Violent Urge because your Gremlin was going to survive the multi block anyway if you ordered the blockers correctly. That might have very likely been useful later.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz I'm always scared to splash when I have a lot of manifest (or self-mill/Beastie). Did you find a solution? In this case you're playing 3c, which is one but not universal. UtS and SiN can take lands back, but far from ideal. SiN can also be terrible for self-decking.

[Alessandro Ballini (ztm) @ale_ballini]

@Sierkovitz I would have cursed aplenty