Pascal Großmann

Playing some MTG again. IT Consulting - Product Information Management.

[Pascal Großmann @PascalGMTG]

@jenara19 See you soon

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@FetchAndShock Huh this buffs harbinger and nerfs urza's saga. What's your problem with the change?

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@IamActuallyLvL1 What's the "TEARS" / "STARE" of enchantwordle?
I usually start Mantis Rider because it's middling in most (number of colors, release year, p/t etc.), but maybe there's a better one

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@MickMadsen2 @unityleaguemtg @KeldecMTG @fireshoes Thank you and congrats to you, too. Great run and very worthy finalists. Gave us some great, close matches. See you next year! :D

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Winning decklists of the European Magic Cup 2026🇪🇺🏆

36 teams traveled to Bologna🇮🇹. After 8 rounds of Swiss and day 2 double elim, team Switzerland is the European Champion Team🇨🇭

Boros Energy (Modern) by Samuel Marti
Grixis Dogos (Standard) by Filipe Sousa
Mono Blue Terror (Pauper) by Pascal Grossman

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🇨🇭Switzerland wins the European Magic Cup🏆

Congratulations to @KeldecMTG @PascalGMTG & Samuel Marti!

[Pascal Großmann @PascalGMTG]

@CriticalEDH If information was public during discussion, its a failure on both parties to even discuss it.
Dont ask people to sell their right to win attempt.
But also dont sell away your right to win.
Breaking deals and letting people process information on their own are not the same...

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@CriticalEDH I think upholding deals and making them truthfully is an important part of the format, but it seems dumb to ask for statements about the VISIBLE gamestate from a player or force them to stick to such statements.
Where's the reciprocity that makes such statements binding?

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@itsJulian23 A "you dont block my ragavan and my bowmaster wont target your manadork" kind of deal is mutually benefitial and renegging on that deal is a greedy sellout of your player integrity for shortterm winrate and prize gain. Thats bad.
Letting them figure out the board alone is not...

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@itsJulian23 So while I think there are very real reasons not to lie even when legal and completely divorced from morality, winning the game against such non-cooperative attempts of verbal stax is perfectly fine and should be used to punish this "promise you wont win" behavior

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@Ryan_on_cEDH @_Bad_Dog__ A and B make a mutually benefitial, honest deal and keep it.
A and C make a deal
e.g. As winrate +5%, B +2.5%, C+2.5%, D -10%
No deceit necessary, everyone acting rationally in their own self interest, but A benefitted most by finding these deals and being trustworthy enough

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@_Bad_Dog__ @Ryan_on_cEDH Yes, lying can boost winrate short term.
Yes, if you feel unskilled in deal-making, forcing an antitrust environment, excluding deals, to test "different skills" may help.
If you have skills to make deals, its a higher agency metagame to support trust = higher winrate long term

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@_Bad_Dog__ @Ryan_on_cEDH If you view the game as non-iterative its probably always benefitial to break your last deal for short-term benefit.
Once its viewed as iterative (same people or your name being shamed online), even upholding your last deal can be +EV.
You can win by "being better" just as much

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@Ryan_on_cEDH @_Bad_Dog__ And yes theres probably short-term benefit to be gained from being an untrustworthy actor in a trust world.
But that's just a way of selling out your reputation for a certain, mostly small, set of financial benefits.
Many such opportunities, shortsighted and lacking integrity

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@Ryan_on_cEDH @_Bad_Dog__ Trust world opens up ways of using your cards that would otherwise not be available..
Rewards creativity in deal making and understanding of cross-deck synergies/interactions
More social experience overall
Higher winrates for stronger players
More interactive metagame

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@CardElk_ @IamActuallyLvL1 @RealPokemoki If you have an idea you are convinced by and want to keep secret, you will only play it tram-internally, where client doesnt matter.
Before arriving there you need to test a lot of ideas and playing MTGO leagues and dropping at 4-0 gives you the best mix of quality and secrecy

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@Schiaveto_mtg @fireshoes @PiemontiAndrea @TonyScapone You accept that cheating is okay as long as its not enforceable.
Theyre illegally looking at their opps cards and you claim its okay.
In paper you would get DQd for looking at their hand through mirrored sunglasses. "Their fault for wearing sunglasses/streaming" not a defense

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@Schiaveto_mtg @TonyScapone He's literally not playing for money at 2-3 anymore, right?
Also means that you (and the opponent in the screenshot) are willing to cheat and sell out your integrity for 175 play points.
If that's all it's worth, you probably needed it more, but you should reevaluate your lige