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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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Ihsan's Shade. That's basically it lol.
I've never been to a GP actually. I just don't have the means to travel really far and there's never been a Modern GP in a reachable distance.
Magic, worse than meth.
Magic, worse than meth.
A bunch of my friends are going. I'd love to go as well, but can't afford it since I want to hit GP Turin in September and the team GP in Madrid.
It's been 3 years since the last Grand Prix in/near Philadelphia, but Pittsburgh has gotten one each of the last 3 years....
I think that the closest place they hold GPs to me is either Baltimore or New York, which are about equal distance away from Philly. Pittsburgh is a 6ish hour drive from Philly!
I think that the closest place they hold GPs to me is either Baltimore or New York, which are about equal distance away from Philly. Pittsburgh is a 6ish hour drive from Philly!
Familienoberhauptvogel
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they'll never hold GPs in Austria/Germany again because they can't convince anyone that mtg isn't gambling
Sorry, but if you're on the East Coast, I don't have a ton of sympathy for your situation.
You guys get the SCG circuit AND way more WotC tourneys. I'm happy when I can get a sub 3-hour flight to a GP, nevermind a short drive.
No one should have to have sympathy or not for anyone. They should be reaching the whole of the country with events.
Infinite Stars
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Basically My sentiment, with the added bonus of being Canadian. Seattle/Vancouver are the two GP Cities I can reach easiest, but with the added bonus of being a mostly broke student.Sorry, but if you're on the East Coast, I don't have a ton of sympathy for your situation.
You guys get the SCG circuit AND way more WotC tourneys. I'm happy when I can get a sub 3-hour flight to a GP, nevermind a short drive.
Basically, if GP Van isn't a thing for 2018, I'll be not going to any events(unless I hit a windfall and get $2000 to dump on Legacy), which is just sucky.
The gambling thing is super stupid. I had all of my Pokemon cards- literally hundreds of dollars of stuff- confiscated off me during break in middle school when I had no clue what gambling even was, much less participated in it. Stuff was never returned either.
I have no tolerance for adults who lack the simple reasoning facilities necessary to comprehend that not all pieces of cardboard are used the same way.
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I have no tolerance for adults who lack the simple reasoning facilities necessary to comprehend that not all pieces of cardboard are used the same way.
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DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
How does that format work? Three people on a team and Standard/Modern/Legacy split between them? Are there rules about cards appearing in multiple decks? I'm in the area and could get a trio together pretty easily. The only hard part would be finishing my Legacy Lands deck (and convincing someone to play Standard).
charlequin
Banned
Three people, each builds a deck for one of the three formats. Not Unified, you can duplicate cards across them.
Pretty pleased about having 2 gps in Phoenix within a year.
Realistically it seems that they should be yearly here considering the huge population and lack of cities in the southwest region that can have them.
I don't care for ether format (limited in oct, standard in march) but it's good to see.
Haven't been to one so I am excited to go and jam some edh with new people or hit up some side events.
Realistically it seems that they should be yearly here considering the huge population and lack of cities in the southwest region that can have them.
I don't care for ether format (limited in oct, standard in march) but it's good to see.
Haven't been to one so I am excited to go and jam some edh with new people or hit up some side events.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
What Pro Tour starts next weekend? It continues to baffle me that Wizards just takes a month off of any mtg coverage.
Las Vegas? But they are also getting another one next year so maybe there's enough demand for both to be yearly.
Its the Hour of Devastation Pro Tour so it will be draft and standard. I think they only do 4 pro tours a year. Between the GPs and SCG events there is something almost every weekend though. They did take release week off.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
The last event streamed by Wizards was cleveland 3 weeks ago. They'll probably stream the limited GP that's the last chance to qualify for the PT starting saturday but limited GPs are the worst, especially day 1 sealed.
I mean, there hasn't been a GP since Cleveland. There is usually a 3ish week break for new sets coming out- it's an extra week longer for this set
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
So the sword of dungeons and dragons is straight from unstable if the hascon promos weren't lame enough already.
charlequin
Banned
I mean if you hate silver-bordered cards across the board this should have literally no bearing whatsoever on your feelings about the card??
It's an alternate promo version with special art and a special token.
SigmasonicX
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Looks like we finally got a card for Edgar Markov.
SigmasonicX
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So 5 colour dragons, GW cats, RB Vampires and the last one mono U wizards would be cool (although that doesn't look monou).
I expect vampires will be Mardu, to tie in with Sorin, and to connect with Ixalan.
Wulfric
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It has to be, with those faces and the architecture. He loves those cathedral style backgrounds.
As for the others:
Cat - Jesper Ejsing (traditional)
Dragon - Tyler Jacobson? (definitely digital)
Cleric(?) - Another digital piece, considering the background. But looking at the face, I'm gonna guess Karla Ortiz. She looks a lot like Tesya to me.
charlequin
Banned
Not even a little bit psyched about Clerics as a choice here, but a card for Edgar Markov makes up for it.
If the last deck really is clerics @Vronos is gonna be giving away a foil Sacred Foundry, lol.
If the last deck really is clerics @Vronos is gonna be giving away a foil Sacred Foundry, lol.
FreedomFrisbee
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Still waiting for my bw human yawgmoth cleric legendary.
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Sweet, I love Clerics. I put together a 60 card casual Cleric deck and it's a lot of fun. Interesting to see where they take the tribe since normally the Clerics are doing non-combat damage, no? And normally to a single Player.
This has to mean either Dictate of Erebos or Grave Pact is in, right? Ideally both. I bought my Grave Pacts a couple years ago, but damn that card is good and I would buy more if the price went down lol.
EDIT: I guess the Clerics bring themselves back when the board is clear and swing pretty hard as a group. Not to mention, your opponents can't stick creatures for long with saccing, etc. so they do swing.
This has to mean either Dictate of Erebos or Grave Pact is in, right? Ideally both. I bought my Grave Pacts a couple years ago, but damn that card is good and I would buy more if the price went down lol.
EDIT: I guess the Clerics bring themselves back when the board is clear and swing pretty hard as a group. Not to mention, your opponents can't stick creatures for long with saccing, etc. so they do swing.
Imperfected
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I wouldn't be super surprised to see the vampire commander go all the way up to four colors to fold in the weird Ravnica vampires, but I'm not holding my breath.
I am proper excited, regardless.
I am proper excited, regardless.
charlequin
Banned
Pretty reasonable case on Twitter that the cleric legend is Vaylesh, the priestess of Tourach:
For that deck you're probably looking at Rakdos, or possibly Grixis or Mardu. Zero chance they'll do four colors after what it took to do that in C16, and it wouldn't fit Edgar Markov at all anyway.
For that deck you're probably looking at Rakdos, or possibly Grixis or Mardu. Zero chance they'll do four colors after what it took to do that in C16, and it wouldn't fit Edgar Markov at all anyway.
Imperfected
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I doubt they'd ship him as Rakdos when they have a White Vampires setting in the pipe and already had the Zendikar ones kind of putzing things up. They already printed Jelava at three colors in BRU anyway.
It's not esports because there is nothing electronic at all about the game. Even shuffling is still done manually. Just saying.....
charlequin
Banned
Innistrad vampires are Rakdos though and that's what Edgar is. The cat guy being green/white shows they're not feeling bound to cover every relevant color with these.
Imperfected
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I mean, Jelava's an Innistrad vampire too and she gets Blue anyway, because Commander as a product is more about giving players what they want than being needlessly rigid about the lore or whatever.
And I don't think players are going to be particularly impressed by (yet another) Rakdos Vampire Commander. Ain't nobody turning out for that, even easy marks for tribal decks like me.
Yeah, but by that logic then we wouldn't have missteps like Ludevic in C16. NOBODY thought he should be UR only, or that his abilities made any sense. There's no real guarantee here, is all I'm saying.
I'd guess Mardu for Edgar but I wouldn't be surprised for Grixis or Rakdos either.
Theoretically, they learned their lesson form Ludevic. What happened there was, they designed a bunch of faceless partner cards then pigeon-holed known characters in after the fact. That's why Ludevic feels so disconnected with what we knew about him beforehand. I have to imagine they've learned from that mistake and won't make it again going forward.
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