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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?

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Violet_0

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As these UR lists continue to be refined, I expect to see them rise up to contend with marvel fairly well.

control will remain fairly one-note as long as Torrential remains in standard. At this point, I'd say just get rid of Kaladesh block completely and let's never speak of it again
 
control will remain fairly one-note as long as Torrential remains in standard. At this point, I'd say just get rid of Kaladesh block completely and let's never speak of it again
Fumarole is the actual culprit here. Look at other U/x builds they have to actually play winconditions.
But how do they beat Gideon?
By hoping zombies and marvel keep Mardu numbers low.
As these UR lists continue to be refined, I expect to see them rise up to contend with marvel fairly well.
It's not like UR are the only ones tuning their lists. BG Snek resurfacing would be a big issue. UR can't deal well with Ishkanah or any of their fatties at all. It's counter everything or die.
 

Violet_0

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anyone watched the end of the Montreal Marvel vs RU match? Does flashing back glimmor instead of disallow with gearhulk in response to ulamog seem like mistake to anyone else?

the final game is Marvel vs Marvel, btw
 

El Topo

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anyone watched the end of the Montreal Marvel vs RU match? Does flashing back glimmor instead of disallow with gearhulk in response to ulamog seem like mistake to anyone else?

It seemed very risky. Even without the second Ulamog in hand he opens himself up to all sorts threats. I'd call it a clear mistake.
 

Murder

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3rd at Gameday today playing Mono-B zombies.

First round I lost to some stupid energy jank with Panharmonicon, Aether Geode Miner, and the "pay energy target source can't deal damage to you" which he used on my entire board turn after turn.

Then I like woke up out of my funk and went 2-0 v Mardu, 2-0 v Marvel, 2-0 v B/U/R control, then lost 2-1 v U/R control.

Overall mad fun.
 

y2dvd

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Did poorly both Gamedays. Tried control Marvel and stock Marvel and probably had the worst back to back performances ever lol. I think I'm done playing Marvel. Switching over to UR Control!
 

Wulfric

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Wasn't around for Theros standard. I take it Thoughtseize went over poorly?

Depends on which era you're talking about. Maybe during RTR-THS (Pack Rat/Desecration Demon) days, but it was pretty popular in THS-KTK standard. Abzan was constantly running it.
 
Most of my matches only lasted like 20-30 minutes so that helped lol. Even still the wheels were falling off at the end of Day 2 and I made a couple embarrassing misplays. No idea how some grinders can do that every week with decks that require a lot more thought. I played all my 13 rounds at a GP with affinity once and I was just mentally gone after that.
After Thomson won the PT there was an old reddit thread linked on magictcg that was Gerry talking about depression and the grinder lifestyle and how everything blurs together and stuff like that.
And LSV on the latest Limited Resources highly discouraged career magic citing similar though not quite as depressive issues.
Lastly you can hear Cheon's dreariness over his recent PT results throughout his complete coverage. It's just 1 sad story after another.
Sorry that I didn't say hello to you Vogel! I think I noticed you once, but I was too focused on my match and it ended up not mattering anyway.
No need to apologize I didn't want to interrupt your match with Raen for too long. RGu Energy aggro is tricky with their OHKOs, played against it friday and had to take 16 damage one turn.
 

HK-47

Oh, bitch bitch bitch.
control will remain fairly one-note as long as Torrential remains in standard. At this point, I'd say just get rid of Kaladesh block completely and let's never speak of it again
So kill control is what you are saying

What are people complaining about control when it's putting up mediocre results?
 
I still don't understand the GP grinding. It just sounds wholly unappealing, like I won't even be making the trip to amsterdam and that's just half a day by train.

Also why do Hall of Famers still get auto invites to PTs and, if that's acceptable, why do their results count for the team standings if they use their HoF invite.

Oh and that awkward moment for coverage where they IDd in the middle of the match was hilarious.
 

Violet_0

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We have had multiple spin to win standards, uninteractive graveyard strategies and an instawin combo.
yeah, but I don't count those as general deck strategies that they assign to the various colors in every block like blue counter control, white/red aggro, green ramp or black reanimator. Classic contol decks always feel so same-y to me
 
I suppose it is hard to think of a card template they've run into the ground harder than "counter target spell--now with CINNAMON!"

I'm consistently impressed with their ability to churn out new, trivial variations on Counterspell without moving the bar very far in either direction in terms of overall power and playability. It's like the Transformers sequel treadmill of Magic cards.
 

Ashodin

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3rd at Gameday today playing Mono-B zombies.

First round I lost to some stupid energy jank with Panharmonicon, Aether Geode Miner, and the "pay energy target source can't deal damage to you" which he used on my entire board turn after turn.

Then I like woke up out of my funk and went 2-0 v Mardu, 2-0 v Marvel, 2-0 v B/U/R control, then lost 2-1 v U/R control.

Overall mad fun.
I love random brew jank
 

G.ZZZ

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Portent is literally a ponder that allow you to cast miracles. Always been super good. It's just that when you can play ancestral recalls there's not much reason to play other cards.
 

Supast4r

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What are your guys' thoughts on the new Nissa, Steward of Elements? I really like the card but I don't have anything to do with it at the moment. I see copies for 9.99 USD and I am tempted but if the consensus is that it has nowhere to go but down, I would prefer to wait.

I just hate when stuff jumps. Not a ton of risk until the next set?
She won't go up much but she does have a home in modern. Elves has started to splash blue for her and coiling oracle so there is that.
 

Tunoku

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Since rk post is gonna be at GP Amsterdam I'm gonna get my Snake tokens directly from him:

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Rob Alexander is also gonna be there, I wish I owned any original Shocklands or Fetches. I guess I could have my Squadron Hawks signed.
 
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