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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
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The return of Lightning Bolt...
I'm not not sure how I feel about that...
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 5228
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| Black Zarak wrote: |
| Well Jeebus, you'll be glad to know I caved and built an EDH deck |
You can't begin to understand how happy this makes me! Did Kevin and Wes trick you into it somehow or something? Of course, with my cards mostly gone I no longer have an EDH deck, but luckily I kept my foil sets which are perfect for EDH building.
If you built an EDH deck though, does that change your mind about the new FTV?
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| The three greatest heels in history...Andy Kaufman, Triple H, and Dr. Jeebus |
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
Posts: 4098
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Well, I don't know if I've got all the rules right, they told me some things but probably forgot more. And what the hell is FTV?
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
Posts: 4098
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No, I still don't care about a bunch of cards that are in no way related to each other other than being banned. I liked the dragon set because I HAVE a dragon deck and dragons are awesome.
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Yeah, but the FTV thing will be great for EDH. Also, go check out today's Magic Arcana, they have pictures of some of the planechase cards! I have two words for you:
BEYOND HIPPODROME.
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Having done the prerelease I will say this:
The new rules are still fucking stupid. FUCKING STUPID. But M10 is at least designed in such a way that they are largely unnoticeable. There are few, if any guys, will sacrifice abilities in the set, so you don't notice the stack damage thing. And I think there was maybe five occasions in ten games where an opponent or I choose to double block.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
Posts: 4098
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Hahahaha, Hippodrome!
It's cool that they're using locations from all over the planes as cards. The Fourth Sphere...of Phyrexia I'm assuming, Panopticon, the Maelstrom itself, Serra's Sanctum, Stronghold Furnace, awesome. Though I'll be damned if I know where the Hippodrome is...
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
Posts: 4098
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Hippos would have been way better than horses.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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| The new rules are still fucking stupid. FUCKING STUPID. |
Bring back Interrupts!
While I really don't care which rules I play with, I thought it was disingenuous to make statements like "Oh, we hardly noticed the new rules in playtesting!", when yeah, the new set was pretty much designed to play around the new rules
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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I want the promo foil, but I can't afford a booster box on Saturday. 
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
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The release wasn't bad; I went black white at first, won my first match, lost the next, then changed to white green and lost one more and won one more to go 2-2 and place seventh.
There seem to be almost no bad rares and mythics seem to pop up with more frequency.
I netted:
Dragonskull Summit
Shivan Dragon
Mana Barbs
Mind Shatter
Foil Indestructibility
And for the mythic, Master of the Wild Hunt
And from my prize pack, I opened a Protean Hydra. Which was awesome.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| Knyte wrote: |
| I want the promo foil, but I can't afford a booster box on Saturday. |
I have it. 
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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I'm building a soldier deck, so that would be perfect for it. Those plus Glorious Anthems + win.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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| Knyte wrote: |
| I'm building a soldier deck, so that would be perfect for it. Those plus Glorious Anthems + win. |
Ant Queens go good with soldiers?
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| Knyte wrote: |
| I'm building a soldier deck, so that would be perfect for it. Those plus Glorious Anthems + win. |
Ant Queens go good with soldiers? |
No, "Glorious Anthem" is a W(2) = All Creatures You Control get +1 /+1
Which means if you have 4 of each in your deck you can have +8 /+8, and that doesn't include the "Field Marshal" and "Captain of The Watch" creatures who also give +1/+1 to soldiers. THEN, add in a few Coat Of Arms and you have fast deck of cheap soldiers who quickly go from 1/1 useless to 5+/5+ monsters very quickly.
I have tested the crap out of it on my modded version of the PC game. It's a sick deck that stomps alot of others. At least it would in my circle. I haven't played any tourneys, so I am sure that Jeebus and others could find numerous weaknesses and problems with my deck. But, once I am done building it, I think I will like it almost as much as my "Infinate Elves" deck. (Which is feared and hated in my playing group.)
Well, good news, I scraped up enough to get a booster box. Bad news, missed out on the foil.
Not a bad box pull for my first box ever, though. 4 Mythics, 2 Foil Rares: Liliana*, Jace, Sphinx Ambassador, Master Of The Wild Hunt, Goblin Chieftan (Foil), Elvish Archdruid (Foil)
*My 5th one! Which is weird because I only seem to get her out of the Planeswalkers. In Lowyrn, I have never pulled Ajani, Jace, or a Garruk, I got 4 Lilis and one Chandra.
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Aqua Hedgehog
Joined: Nov 02 2008
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I don't have as many old cards as I used to as compared to my newer ones (I've been buying a lot of the newer cards lately, scattered across the Shadowmoor and Alara blocks, and even the Divine vs Demonic set, which I didn't bind). I might experiment with MicroProse MTG's deck builder against random decks and see if I can make anything good without being too cheap. As with some of the rule changes, some are just stupid while some are acceptable.
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