Lurker > The Mana Sword

Yeah, Im usually okay with the alternate border treatments they do for each set now, but this is a little too much for me.

Thankfully its just a variant.

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Got my collector box in for MH2 today.

Retro foil Scalding Tarn, etched foil retro Arid Mesa, non-foil extended art Scalding Tarn, Arid Mesa, Misty Rainforest and Marsh Flats, foil retro Force of Negation.

not punished for gambling lol

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I figured most people had gotten over that by now, especially after WaW.

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I just saw that Kaoh Rong came in at #17 on the RHAP countdown. This is the first time I thought they were wildly off. Thats like 12 spots too low.

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Went 3-0-1 with a pretty mediocre BW reanimator deck. Got a foil Verdant, nonfoil Verdant, Mesa, Cabal Coffers and Yavimaya in my pool. Foil retro Ignoble Hierarch and a regular Solitude in my prize packs.

p good

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Yeah, the mana fixing seems really good in general, which usually leads to good limited formats. Being able to actually play all your good cards is fun, turns out.

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Going to one this afternoon. Ive heard a lot of good things about this sealed format so Im pretty excited.

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Its definitely situational, but yeah that could be a beating against certain decks.

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UR is still going to be a disproportionately large part of the meta, but I'm glad they decided to go this route first and see how it goes.

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Ban Steam Vents

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I do hope they at least give the meta time to fix itself before doing an immediate reactionary ban, but thats not really how things tend to go these days.

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Im not trying to downplay how good Brainstorm is. I play legacy, I know how good it is. Im personally of the opinion that its not necessarily too good for historic.

I am admittedly biased because it helps the kind of decks I like to play and hurts what I think is the actual most unfun card in the format to play against (Thoughtseize). A lot of the blame can be leveled at Wizards for completely unbalancing the Archive cards though. Like, yeah, no shit Izzet decks are going to be good when you juice up blue with Brainstorm, Memory Lapse, Faithless Looting, Time Warp, and the other colors barely get anything.

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Im not really convinced Brainstorm is the problem, but I think its likely to die for other cards sins, as Wizards is often wont to do.

I dont think Phoenix and Jeskai control are problem decks, theyre just good decks that happen to play Brainstorm. Jeskai turns is an issue. Maybe killing Brainstorm makes the deck too inconsistent to function, but I suspect thats not going to be the case.

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Damn

That card is...almost strictly better than Wrath of God? Unless the color of the card matters, which isn't often.

I guess this does get hit by Inquisition and Spell Snare. Still, great card.

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I love it! Actually, it's almost not even weird enough for me. After they previewed Urza's Saga weeks ago, I was expecting even more off the wall stuff than we've gotten so far.

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wizards got jokes

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This is a pretty big reprint into modern. Also the art on the borderless version is spectacular.

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I think we might get one or two, but I don't expect them to be a theme this time around.

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That one is sort of a headache to read.

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garth most certainly cannot be found with CC

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black lotus reprint !!

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I know Ephemerate is better, I'm just saying for the purposes of doing the turn 1 blink Grief combo, they're essentially the same.

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If something needs to get banned, I doubt its Ephemerate. You still have Cloudshift in that case, which essentially serves the same purpose.

Well see. Its a cute combo, but filling your deck with mostly do-nothing cards like Ephemerate doesnt seem like something you want to do, even for a nice payoff like that. Plus its a 4-card combo to pull off turn 1, so Im not particularly concerned about the implications.

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Yeah, the Dragon is a cute callback, but I dont think itll see much play outside of Commander.

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Very happy with the Horizons stuff shown today. Very excited for the set, hopefully the draft format will be as good as the original.

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I tested a Jace list this morning a bit and it's not great. The slow down from needing 6 mana from 4 is pretty detrimental against a lot of decks. Maybe someone will come up with a more solid list at some point, but I don't really think the deck is worth playing at this point.

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RIP Thassas Oracle

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I hope they dont, its my favorite deck to play in a long time. But a URL for a ban announcement today exists in the Wizards website (though its not live yet), and I cant imagine what else would warrant a ban right now.

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Yeah, I would always cast Oracle, hold priority, then cast Pact in response so everything was already on the stack.

Again, not that it mattered because Ive never actually timed out, but still. And it extra wont matter because theres a B&R announcement coming tomorrow to take the deck out back behind the woodshed.

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Unless youre really slow I dont think theres any way to realistically rope out during the combo. Ive gotten close once or twice but even then I had at least 1 time extension available after rifling through 40+ cards.

Ill be interested to see how they handle it.

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I started playing the Tainted Pact deck in historic for a bit. I actually think it's fairly fun to pilot, it's not a braindead combo deck like Tibalt's Trickery where you just mull to the combo and faceroll. It's more of a control deck with a combo wincon.

That being said, I fully expect either Oracle or Pact to get banned in the very near future just because of the logistics of the win taking too long. I wish people would just scoop more often, but about 75% of games the opponent makes me click decline 40 times.

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Tendrils + Mizzix is kinda hilarious

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Deck looks pretty good, shame it didn't work out.

I keep thinking about taking a shot at it, but 4.5k gems is a lot and I don't really like sealed all that much, so ehhhh.

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Pics of your pool?

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I'm very happy with that teaser, weird shit like that land are exactly what I want from the set

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counterspell in modern, baby, get hyped!!!

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in before you get cut out of Prismari in pack 2 and 3

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You should 100% be playing Tendrils if you have one.

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I think Crackle is worth stretching your mana a bit, but probably not to this degree. If those Quandrix Campuses were Prismari Id be more hopeful about it. Spectacle Mage should definitely not be in here, and as plum said Reject is actively bad. I think Soothsayer sucks too.

I think youre probably better served just playing two colors because that mana base is -really- stretched to accommodate Crackle, even if the card is extremely good.

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There are definitely a lot of decision points, but I haven't found it excessively difficult the times I have played (my play rate is probably similar to yours).

But I also have a natural inclination towards more controlling decks and personally have harder time piloting aggro, so YMMV.

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I don't bother too much with Standard these days, but it seems like Sultai is still probably the "best" deck right now.

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Its worse in this format. You can get obliterated by decks that never play a flier too easily

Yeah, Kaldheim specifically had a lot of targets for something like Broken Wings with all the sagas and viable equipment running around. In best of 1 you were definitely able to make a case for running a narrow card like that in the main.

This set has almost zero artifacts worth mentioning, so that half of the card is entirely worthless in 98% of your games. There are a few good fliers even at common in the format, but it's still too narrow for my tastes to spend a slot in the 40 in a best of 1 match.

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Just lost to someone playing 3 mainboard Tangletraps.

Deleting my Arena account.

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Drafted a pretty silly deck with 2x Returned Pastcaller, Time Warp, Lorehold Command and Prismari Command. The mana base was jacked up, so I only got 3 wins, but looping Pastcallers forever is fun.

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Love to finally get a break after a week from my least favorite game mode to participate in my second least favorite game mode.

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this is the dumbest thing in the world and I kinda love

https://twitter.com/MTGSecretLair/status/1385310016593272832?s=20

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I maxed out at 62 mil this time lol

literally do not even care

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Almost up to 400 medals on the prime battle grind. Lot of 5 medal runs. Was hoping to have this done before WT starts but that doesnt look like itll happen.

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I once got voted off the island by peridiam in the least legitimate game of survivor ever

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After 31 I made tiers where I thought the remaining would land. These arent ordered.

21-30
Caramoan
South Pacific
All Stars
Gabon
Guatemala
Fiji
Samoa
Africa
Vanuatu
Cook Islands

11-20
Australia
Borneo
Winners at War
Palau
Panama
Blood vs Water
MvGX
Tocantins
Marquesas
SJDS

1-10
HvV
China
Cagayan
Micronesia
Pearl Islands
Amazon
DvG
Cambodia
Kaoh Rong
Philippines

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