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I really like the concepts and design for most of these. Who couldn't love Bunch of Punches and a surprise Tibalt? They are kinda complicated, though that's part of what makes them so cool. Thinking about it and the criteria they gave, it's kind of a catch-22. You gotta stand out but not too much.

Clearly the correct move was to submit 10 vanilla creatures as a power play.
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Nope, rare.

Also I lied, I'm also missing Demolisher but I'm not going to complain about that one. Really thought that was GvG, too.
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You guys, I did it!

After years of playing (since BRM), I finally opened a god damn MC Tech. I'm pretty sure that's the only Classic rare I was missing.
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Up it goes

Tomorrow is the first day in the brave new world of Jace and BBE being free in Modern
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trdl23 posted...

The worst part is that I absolutely hate modern-day Commander, so even that is off the table!

I'm a baby who didn't get into the format until the second set of precons (I still main Roon) so I'm probably part of the problem!
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Also that reminds me I need to get around to fixing my Commander decks. Ever since waaay back when they changed the mulligan rule, I realized that my decks are super greedy and slow and need more mana. So they've mostly been collecting dust or been cannibalized a bit since then.
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trdl23 posted...

Now I've moved to a place that does have a somewhat alive Legacy scene, but depression is kicking my ass, and I barely play any sanctioned events anymore. The self-imposed pressure is too much.

Oh man, this has been my experience with the game for the past 3 years or so. It sucked because I could tell playing Magic was helping, but between depression, life/work stress, and just the normal hassle of keeping up with the damn game, I'd be put off it for like 6 months at a time aside from random Commander matches. Even now that I'm in a better spot, I still had to "force" myself to get back into MTG this year even though it's something I enjoy.

So anyways, I hope you can find something that works for you!
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Ah, I see, Paladin can no longer play a 0 mana 5/5, so instead it plays a 0 mana 5/5. Makes sense.
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trdl23 posted...

Just realized that Abrupt Decay has become much worse with our new 4-drop overlords!

If only Fatal Push could target Planeswalkers...

(not really though that'd be broke as hell)
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Improve the translation and clarity of the plot
Graphical update for the models
Add more mechanical distinction between party members
Update the music quality without "remixing" it
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BetrayedTangy posted...

I'm with Scarlet, removing the main characters doesn't fix anything. Because there wouldn't be a plot, it's more of what about the Squall/Rinoa is bad and how do they need to be improved.

Well, for example, you could age them up, but since part of the defining characteristics of the story is the teenage high school element, you end up completely changing the group dynamic and probably alter the characters' personalities past recognition in the process.

Honestly so much of what is iconic about FFVIII is love/hate, so it's not any wonder that people respond in ways that would drastically alter the game.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Also, I don't think you get to say you're "fixing a game" if you are destroying the integrity of the plot and characters and world the creators built. You can make suggestions on how to alter pacing, flow, dialogue, etc. But you are going past "fixing" if you just remove characters altogether.

but what if the plot and characters are really bad

FFVIII is just a terrible romance with lame teens and a batshit insane storyline. If you try to retain and improve on those elements, you just get FFX!

So there's my answer, just make it FFX.
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Whenever Humans became a deck in Modern, so sometime last fall. Meddling Mage also blew up.
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Man, I'm pretty sure I traded my Thalias away at some point, and I don't even know what for! That's a bad feeling. I'm sure whatever I got was good but not $60 good. :\

Oh well. Maybe a good chance she'll be in A25? She and Lingering Souls are the best and most iconic cards from Dark Ascension, and Souls have been printed a bunch.
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trdl23 posted...

Thats complete news to me!

EDIT: To be fair, the best its ever been isnt a super high bar unless youre classifying Splinter Twin as control for some reason.

I wasn't, but Splinter Twin was totally a combo-control deck now that you bring it up! Especially towards the end, there was a lot of overlap between Twin and Control lists and you could just slam in the Twin package to have a wincon that sometimes won on turn 4 instead of durdling around with Sphinx's Rev or manlands or whatever. That's part of why it got banned, according to Wizards.

But anyways, it's no Twin but it did pretty well at the PT despite not making Top 8, and Jeskai got a Top 8 and some 32s at the GP over the weekend.
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Blue based control is actually the best it's ever been in Modern due to the rise of Humans and just got a whole lot better.
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I got blown up by 8 Drop Rogue a few weeks ago. It's such a crazy deck that I wasn't even mad.

...okay I was a little mad
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It's technically true that XB2 doesn't have the quests that instantly end when you kill 5 cows or pick up 3 of 5 different collectables, but there's also WAY less of those shitty grind side quests so overall it's a major improvement. The side quests still aren't great, but they're definitely better.
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article about sexism in magic on tcgplayer in which the author notes discussion rarely goes anywhere because of twitter brigades and locked threads on reddit

check reddit comments, thread is locked

really makes you think
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No Legendaries from my 30 packs, pretty small amount of epics too. RIP my luck

I dunno what I'm gonna spend dust on. I kinda want Rin, or I could make Aviana/Kun and meme on people in Wild.
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Junpei best boy

Yosuke is just an asshole

Ryuji is an ok bro but way too stupid
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davidponte posted...

So there's a wild brawl structured like arena coming out, and the first run is free. I can't wait to see how far I can get with a standard deck.

If you have Cubelock you can probably do alright. It's good in Wild, though I've seen people playing it with Mal'ganis and Voidcallers? Not sure if that's actually better, though it's definitely spicier
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Someone brought up Hex last thread and man, I still think that was a bad nerf. Not that Shaman wouldn't still be trash in Standard with old Hex but man. Imagine if Shaman had half decent cards AND could shit on Cubelock. It could be like...Tier 3!

Also tag and dust hype
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People were saying Mox Opal but then you end up blasting Affinity.

I dunno, it's probably fine and I doubt WotC will ban anything. But they might unban stuff and ruin everything on accident!
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So have they said if the new rank reset in March applies to the rank you get this month?
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I dunno if anyone else has been watching the Modern Pro Tour, but this Hollow One deck is hilarious. It's basically a Hearthstone deck. It uses Burning Inquiry and Goblin Lore to randomly discard cards and hopes to play 0 mana 4/4s. 5/6 of the people playing it made Day 2 and there's one in the Top 8 right now.
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Camden posted...

Not sure that will ever not feel good. After the Coldlight you think he would have been a little more careful with his hand size.

There's honestly not much counterplay you can do against mill decks as control since your cards are so expensive. Raza priest has it a bit better because of zero cost spells but also worse since most of their cards cycle in some way.
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Ulti, since you like to bring up the Borborygmos/Pithing Needle thing up, are you aware they actually changed that policy with Amonkhet? Under the new system, cards chosen have to be unambiguous and you don't have to actually know the name of the card as long as everyone agrees on the card that was picked.
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True, but because every aggro deck just got worse (except Secret Mage?) , it frees you up for more tech against those decks. I was thinking people would start doing Cube/Control hybrids but maybe going hard control is just better. I guess mainly I think Warlock is very well positioned.

Unrelated, but from a Wild perspective, while I'm glad this will do a lot to fix Wild's "dumpster format" reputation, I'm still doubtful people will care. Blizzard is actually doing a half decent job of supporting Wild, so hopefully they push it a little more this year. Also, I'm in the minority because I didn't quite mind Wild being high-power, but now I kind of want to see an "anything goes" format that reverts all cards to pre-nerf, just to see what happens. The Worlds Tavern Brawl showed they have the technology! Get on it Blizzard.
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So...cubelock far and away the best deck and probably not losing anything unless Doomguard goes to HoF? Wew
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Yeah I wanted to main 5th too but he's so god damn slow
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SMT for based Shoji Meguro

But it is pretty hard to disagree with Mega Man
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I can't even imagine the outrage there would be from Cubelock players who spent thousands of dust on epics and legendaries if they rotated Doomguard.
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I scrubbed out at 2-3. I think at least a few matches came down to bad sideboarding and greedy hands. I blame Hearthstone for the second one.

Side event I managed to get some tix but it wasn't much. I kinda threw the last match against Affinity because I was so fried. I had fun but man I'm exhausted.
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At least include something like Which Wich so you can have a fair fight.
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SCG's in my area this weekend so I'm taking that as a sign I should dust off my Modern deck I've played once in the past 6 months and get back into the habit of playing MTG again. Probably going to jump into the Classic tomorrow or at least a side event. Hopefully I can remember what cards do!
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I should get back to this game. I took a break somewhere in Chapter 6 where you go to the snowy titan

Should probably just ignore sidequests so I don't lose momentum.
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Primalfin Champion is the most obvious snub.
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It's a really good sauce but it doesn't go on everything. It's good on rice, in soup, and occasionally on a burger (but everything is good on burgers).
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Cholula and Valentina
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Oh shit I got into the MTG Arena beta in December and didn't even notice

Hype, maybe.
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I wouldn't say I liked it or found it as hilarious as others seem to but it was a good movie. I love time loop concepts but I've seen so many that it's probably a "Seinfeld is unfunny" moment. Or maybe it was just overhyped to me. I dunno, I just feel pretty neutral on it.

Also they did too good a job on making Bill Murray into an unlikable asshole. It had the consequence of making me not actually care about him.
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The important question is if the Season Pass includes the three more extra episodes coming or if a year from now they're going to release the Royaler Edition.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

so again, ephebophilia is not a "subset" of anything. pedophilia = golden retrievers, ephebophilia = bulldogs.

fun fact: all domestic dogs are the same species
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It's not just that but you simply need so much more dust now. A lot of the power has shifted to the Epics and Legendaries and they don't have good budget replacements because the effects are so unique. Even aggro decks are 5k+ now. Rotation will help a bit but as long as that design philosophy continues it'll just be a dust treadmill.
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Wow I haven't followed Magic since Amonkhet (outside of Unstable of course) but another card ban in Standard is completely nuts to me. And four cards!
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davidponte posted...

I have no interest in Wild. I made the decision when they introduced Standard/Wild to focus on Standard because I started playing the game late enough that I had almost zero GvG/TGT cards and would never be able to catch up without spending large amounts of cash. I dusted all the LoE and Blackrock cards when they rotated out and don't regret it.

I don't see myself as losing anything here because I would never buy Nax otherwise (unless money spent is counted as a loss). Either I'm getting the dust or I'm not getting the cards at all.

You still lose value whether or not you care about the cards. You pay the $25 for 12000 dust worth of cards and using 3000. It's essentially finding a deal on something and reselling at the same price rather than caring about what the true value is. Not that I can blame you for not giving a shit about the full value of stuff like Maenexxa. But I still think you'd be better served buying packs of something you're missing a good amount of (or saving it for the new set) unless you desperately need dust now.

Also you say you don't want to play wild because you'd have to drop lots of money but you're trying to drop money on Standard. It isn't like dust costs are much different between the two at this point. Only diffetence between your 10k dust standard and wild deck is that one wont rotate. A lot of decks only have a few upgrades between formats too. I guarantee it ends up cheaper than keeping up with Standard as long as you can deal with playing against Patches forever.
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It's better in theory but it's also ignoring the chance to just open what you want from the packs, which is the most value.

Also if you're at the point where you're considering buying wild adventures for dust...why not just consider playing Wild? What you're talking about doing is spending money, losing 3/4 of the value to the dust system, then losing that value again in two years when all the cards you craft rotate.
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LiquidOshawott posted...

https://beerbrick.com/2018/01/10/news-2018011001/

so worlds has

Everybody bringing priest
almost all druids/warlocks/rogues
3 pallys
2 mages
1 hunters
no warriors/shaman

there's one decklist too but man the diversity just isn't there

Yeah but Priest is 2.5 decks (big, highlander, dragon highlander), Druid is 2 decks, Warlock is 2 decks. Only real surprise is lack of Paladin. 7.5 highly competitive decks isn't enough diversity?
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Super Paper Galaxy & Knuckles
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