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| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/27/21 8:23:02 PM #314 | Ranked game where our zerasora just didn't jungle ok then --- |
| Topic | I just got married under a year ago and I'm already getting a divorce :( |
| masterplum 07/27/21 7:52:38 PM #9 | _stingers_ posted... no kids thank god I guess that part would probably be harder after 15 years Yes Yes it is --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 7:32:13 PM #112 | 16. Archangel  LOOK HOW MASSIVE THIS THING IS. 5/5 Flier! Attacking doesn't cause it to tap! Archangel was my favorite card when I first started playing magic. I was wowed by how huge it was. I couldn't imagine losing a game where it hit the batlefield. Archangel was my favorite card for the first few months I played... untill a different card totally blew my mind foreshadowing foreshadowing --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 5:22:09 PM #108 | ChaosTonyV4 posted... Love love love Crystaline giant, its one of those cards I feel comfortable dropping in basically any deck. Huh, this is a good question. I don't play enough commander to really have a good answer for a format where doing that makes sense. Honestly this is a hot take, but probably sneak attack. I'm like "Sure I have 8 creatures in my deck. BUT ONE OF THEM IS AN ELDRAZI. IT MUST BE GOOD" It usually is not good --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 4:33:59 PM #105 | A weird one 17. Crystaline Giant  So this one is weird, in that it is this high up because I am fairly certain it is my most drafted Arena Cube card. Arena cube is a lot lower power level level so I value really highly a colorless card that can win on its own, and this card does just that. If you roll hexproof the turn you play it you are almost certainly winning that game if your opponent isn't beating you badly already or your opponent isn't playing white for the wrath effects. Even if you don't get that lucky, this is a 3 mana absolute must kill. Did I mention I would play it in every single deck I have ever drafted? I think I might have passed this card like once ever. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 1:43:12 PM #104 | Team Rocket Elite posted... Out of interest, which cards did you buy? Were there any banned cards you already had and also planned to use? Artifact basics and jitte are the ones I remember off the top of my head. I think there was another finisher but can't remember Oh, I think it was necropotence? The triple black card draw one? I think I remember having another good banned card on me but I can't remember --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 11:06:04 AM #98 | 18. Spike, Tournament Grinder  This card is the highest card on the list that scores entirerly on how much I love the design. I had this in one deck once and proceeded to never draw it (after I spent $40 on banned cards just in case) which means my play experience is actually a detracting factor from this card. But I'm going all in that this is the best designed magic card ever printed. (And printing it in a joke set is what let them do it) To understand why this card is so great I want to point out that this is the third in a cycle of cards that came out in Un-sets. The cycle is types of magic players that Wizards of the Coast keeps in mind when designing cards. They try to make sure they print cards that appeal to different audiences. You have  Which represents Timmy who likes playing his giant monsters or playing spells with giant cool effects. You have  Who represents players who want to build cool decks and pull off cool combos that aren't necessarly viable. And then you have Spikes: Players who want to win more than anything else. I'm definitely a spike, (But enough of a Timmy that tie always goes to the deck that does cool stuff over combo decks) Here are all the ways Spike Tournament Grinder is amazingly designed
I would go all in that Spike Tournament Grinder is the most flavorful and best designed card of all time. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 10:52:58 AM #96 | Last potentially controversial one. Hooray 19. Ugin the Spirit Dragon  Emberassing fact. I -10'd Ugin once while playing R/G tron and shouted out my actions like I was in the Yugioh anime I DRAW 7 CARDS AND PROCEED TO PUT 7 PERMANENTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD I then put a karn and a ulamog onto the battlefield or something and my opponent immediately scooped, but it was hillarious and emberessing Ugin's - ability is at times the only thing that can possibly get you out of a jam in some cube situations, which makes it potentially extremely strong, but at the same time it isn't like other busted cards such as oko, Jace, or Dack, in that the deck that would theoretically have the easiest time casting it, a green ramp strategy, would also be a terrible deck for ugin as it would immedietly disentigrate all of your mana dorks. That confines Ugin to artificat ramp decks or maybe some weird channel decks without elves (Though that deck sounds horrible) Ugin is defintely a card I play too often in cube decks that shouldn't be playing it. --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/27/21 8:06:42 AM #279 | IfGodCouldDie posted... So what is the consensus on Unite being p2w? Impossible to say so far, but it has some of that --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 7:35:52 AM #91 | The top 20 turned out to be an unintentional dividing line, where (barring nostalgia cards) everything in it becomes actively exciting, Everything from this point on are cards Im stoked to put into a cube/draft/constructed deck 20. Dack Fayden  This card is so busted in vintage cube (or really any heavy artifact cube) When all of your opponents are playing signets or moxen or whatever this card basically is a 3 mana artifact mind control that leaves a frantic search every turn. In vintage cube, Jace the mind sculptor, Oko thief of crowns and Dack all compete for the title of best planeswalker, and while Dack probably doesnt win that fight any more it certainly is the most fun to play. Solid first pickable cube card if there isnt any power 9 card etc. in the pack. --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/27/21 7:23:53 AM #279 | ChichiriMuyo posted... While I remember them saying they'd like to do this, I can't see it. There are I believe 16 sets missing from Arena that are part of Pioneer and that would take a long time to bring to Arena. Also, the way they handled Amonkhet and Kaladesh last year wasn't universally popular (to be kind). Unless they find a better way of bringing back those old cards/set I don't see how they get there. By the time they could do it the format will be too dead for anyone to care. I mean, all formats are pretty much dead until they support them. Wizards could announce a new format called expedition and if its on arena people would play it If they did want to move in that direction I would probably start with trying to get out khans of tarkir because thats a set people would want to draft. I think the issue with amonkhet and kaladesh is those were both meh draft formats --- |
| Topic | Y'all play any of them auto chess things? |
| masterplum 07/27/21 7:17:42 AM #4 | |
| Topic | Board 8, what are some good podcasts? |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:09:51 PM #39 | |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:01:18 PM #269 | |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/26/21 9:27:04 PM #260 | |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/26/21 9:09:44 PM #257 | |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/26/21 9:08:02 PM #256 | I need to buy another pokemon to carry but I am worried about spending currency prior to initial balance changes --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/26/21 9:02:24 PM #88 | MajinZidane posted... 7. Kiln Fiend Funny you should mention that! 21. Nivix Cyclops  The very first deck I built when I got back into magic was a UR instants deck with 4 nivix cyclops. I don't remember a single other card in the entire deck but crushing my ex-wife with a pair of 13/4 cyclops will always be a fond memory --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/26/21 6:35:35 PM #85 | TomNook posted... How much does flavor text and art factor into your love of a card? Chub toad has nice of both. Flavor text practically zero. I pretty much gloss over it unless someone points it out. Art not much unless its particularly memorable. All the random dragons meld together, but some stuff like chub toad or volcanic hammer stands out. Magic has some particularly ridiculous cards in terms of art but none of them made my list. Not really the thing I care about. In terms of why these bad cards made it, I suppose the art could have impacted me remembering them, but anything that sparked the memory could do that. Blaze for instance the only thing I remembered before looking it up was it was the X damage spell from portal. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/26/21 6:32:38 PM #333 | kateee posted... matter all of a sudden or dozens of made up monster effects that you dont have to reveal to your opponent. I ATTACK THE MOON --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/26/21 6:08:44 PM #82 | 22. Chub Toad  At work a couple years ago I was talking to someone who played magic 20 years prior and had quit 19 years prior. The only thing both of us remembered from that time was chub toad. He actually found one in his pile of old cards and gave it to me. Its currently on my desk. The card is horrible --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/26/21 3:44:53 PM #277 | ChaosTonyV4 posted... Anyone else on Arena running into constant matches where the other person runs down the timer in like every phase? That's reportable --- |
| Topic | Netflix making live-action Pokemon series |
| masterplum 07/26/21 2:19:25 PM #6 | Is this going to be detective Pikachu or more like an agents of shield. The latter sounds amazing. The former ehhhhhhh --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/26/21 1:39:31 PM #247 | I impulse leveled up my float stone to 10. I was kind of dismayed how big the stay boost was. A bit more p2w than I was hoping --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/26/21 1:38:21 PM #275 | Yeah, pioneer is pretty dead. I wouldn't mind arena moving to support it over time --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:47:36 AM #271 | I want to see more digital exclusives in magic tbh. A remake of Shandalar would be amazing. As long as they are cognizant that pro games being decided by pure chance is a really bad look, which so far they seem very aware of that, I am all for crazy online only formats like Momir. --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:42:14 AM #269 | I also want to point out this exact concern existed with the forgotten realms dice rolling, and they stated they purposefully avoided putting dice rolling on constructed level cards because they didn't want pro matches decided by a dice roll I imagine this will be exactly the same --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:40:12 AM #268 | The Mana Sword posted... https://www.ign.com/articles/jumpstart-historic-horizons-spoilers-mtg-arena-digital-only-card-reveal-details None of the cards seem that great. Randomnization of jank is fun for players who want to play jank. As long as we don't get stuff like piloted shreder (which was probably one of the best cards in hearthstone for a while?) then I don't think its a big deal. Like the moment we get a questing beast where one of the things it has it dies into a random effect then we can start panicking, but none of the cards revealed so far seem to fit into tier one decks (except maybe the 1/4 taxer in a blink deck, but that effect is minor enough that I don't think the randomness matters too much) --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:14:38 AM #78 | Was going to stop there for now but I have a lot to say about 23. Brazen Borrower  I know this is going to be another controversial one. I wish this card came out in a modern horizons set because it is 100% too good for standard. It and its buddy  have undoubtably made standard worse for the last 2 years and that's pretty disappointing, because as a cube or modern card it's amazing. a 1U bounce spell is bad. a 1UU 3/1 flash flier that can't block non-fliers is bad. And somehow the combination is.... excellent? I think Brazen Borrower is an easily first pickable card in lower powered cubes, and a solid 3rd pick or so in higher powered cubes. It works extremely well with counter spells as it bounces anything. It disrupts combos by bouncing your opponents reanimation or splinter twin target, and it attacks planeswalkers so well. Whenever I see a bunch of bad cards stapled together into something that is excellent I have to give credit. Brazen Borrower is just a fun card versatile card that makes you feel secure against a host of potential upcoming problems. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:06:15 AM #77 | 24. BitterBlossom  In line with the theme of loving cards that are harbringers of slow inevitable defeat comes bitterblossom. Unfortunately the card just isn't good enough for most decks. It doesn't do anything until the next turn, if you are losing then the life loss is going to hurt too much, 1/1 fliers just aren't impactful enough against many strategies etc. But the games when you play a bitterblossom on turn 2 and your opponent is playing a deck that can't deal with it well or you have ninja synergies like  it just feels so good. --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/26/21 11:00:34 AM #369 | I kind of agree with Gravy. The bid-ask spread on options is high enough that if you don't know what you are doing, never close them. If you sell options just ride them to expiration and don't worry about it. Sunroof posted... So $5.20 * 38 contracts is nearly $20,000. Thats way more than the $6200 in premium I got. Not worth. That's not how.... never mind --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/26/21 10:58:59 AM #242 | Forceful_Dragon posted... Public Service Announcement: Oh gross. That has to be a bug because in theory Exp share seems awesome for pure supports --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/26/21 9:39:31 AM #355 | Sunroof posted... I thought its a zero sum game meaning if I close the option Id have to pay back whatever the gain from the strike price is? If you dont sell your shares --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/26/21 9:23:59 AM #353 | Sunroof posted... Well since the current price is well above the strike price, its a hefty commission. That's not a commission, that's the value of the option. Assuming you are holding the stock as well your stock also went up in value so you can sell the stock at the same time --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/26/21 9:09:34 AM #351 | It depends on how much time value is left. If there isn't any theta decay left you can just close them and open new positions --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/26/21 8:57:56 AM #349 | Sunroof posted... I have 38 contacts of RIOT expiring 8/6 with a strike of $29.50. At what point am I better off just closing it? Its currently at $33.50 You bought the options or sold them? --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/26/21 8:33:08 AM #76 | 25. Damn  Tied with Kaldra Compleat as most recent card on this list. I love everything about this card. This card is extremely similar to smiting helix in that it plays around with what colors can do. Black traditionally kills single targets, but white as the color of equality traditionally has the best destroy all creature effects.  This card plays with the keyword overload, by effectively using it to turn a black card into a white card. The name also is great as its a play on the slightly color pie bendy card  --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/26/21 7:27:46 AM #240 | KamikazePotato posted... Problem with this is when friends group and start rotating disconnects so that not everyone loses points when a match goes south I mean do you have a solution that cant be abused? They ban people from playing who disconnect too much. That seems like a pretty solid solution. Anything farther than that just seems so easy to abuse by creating alts and such --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 9:25:00 PM #74 | 26. Basilica Bell-Haunt  Back to good ol fashioned limited uncommons. While I wasn't a big fan of the Return to Return to Ravnica sets, there were a few things I really did like, and the AABB costed uncommons were one of them. I really liked the idea of powerful uncommons that rewarded you for having good mana and were completely unsplashable. Orzhov has always been my favorite guild so this was my favorite of the cycle. Doesn't hurt that it was good, but not obnoxiously good (Looking at you  )--- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 8:14:13 PM #73 | The Mana Sword posted... I love control more than anything and I actively hate that Teferi exists My guess is a lot of people who like Counterspell control hate teferi. My guess is I don't really like counterspell control so I like the card that shuts down counterspells --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 7:03:20 PM #70 | 27. Teferi, Time Raveler  So I suspect this is going to be the first card in my list that is actively hated by a lot of people, but honestly playing WU control with Teferi might be the only time in my life I have actively enjoyed playing standard. I've always been more of a W based conrol player rather than a U based control player so being able to not have to worry about other counter spells or instants while you wrath the board over and over again was so gratifying. The card is obviously too good for standard, but I really like it and still love playing it in WU or Esper cube decks. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 6:57:57 PM #69 | 28. Draco  I was so stoked when I was in middle school opening up a planeshift booster and opening the character on the booster pack. At the time I thought that meant I won the lottery. As I mentioned before in my previous post I was a Timmy, so I was just stunned by how huge this thing was, and it fit right into my 5 color all my cards deck. --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/25/21 12:37:35 PM #214 | |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/25/21 11:58:21 AM #212 | Is there a list of whats unlockable vs what I need to buy --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 11:24:58 AM #66 | 29. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn  I thought this card was so cool. As I mentioned earlier the first real constructed deck I built was R/G Tron, and honestly part of the reason is Im kind of a Timmy at heart. When I was a kid I loved huge creatures, so being able to play a tier 1 modern deck built around casting the most powerful biggest creature ever printed was awesome. Its sad modern is too fast now for Tron. I still have most of the deck in a drawer somewhere. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 9:24:08 AM #63 | 30. Grizzly Bears  Ive always thought it was kind of hilarious that magic decided to just have normal old bears in their game. Future sets tried to remedy this by making the bears magical by making them runeclaw bears or whatnot, but the original grizzlies still exist. A few years ago I had some work friends who were very casually into magic so I tried to lower the chance of me winning against them by building a  commander deck with every bear in magic history. It was funny. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/25/21 8:42:27 AM #263 | kateee posted... #18: Marshmallon How does this card die? --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 7:45:59 AM #61 | Back to back ice age rares! 31. Glacial Chasm  I think there is one booster pack I remember actually opening as a kid, and it was the one where I opened this card. This was still in the play all my cards I own as a deck stage of magic and I stopped and looked at this card and went WTF. I knew there was probably some reason I would want this card, but I could not think of a single way I could ever win the game realistically without attacking. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/25/21 7:41:43 AM #59 | 32. Time bomb  When I was a kid, I wildly misunderstood what this card did. I thought I could put any number of time counters on it during my upkeep, and thus forcing draws by putting 100 counters on it. During one game in middle school I tried to do that and my opponent told me thats not how it works and I was really sad. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 7:34:31 PM #54 | 33. Bolt  I was going to stop after the last one, but I thought it was funny back to back the worst card on the list with arguably the best card on the list. I dont like burn decks, but bolt was always such a great pickup in UR cube decks. You really feel like you shore up your early game by having a bolt. --- |
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