Search found 1406 matches

by windstrider
Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:25 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[Furiosas of Salvation] - Beta Max

So, Avaricious Dragon plus Dash creatures.
Stack so that the Dragon's ability triggers first and then return your Dash creature to your hand?
by windstrider
Wed May 20, 2015 4:54 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[Furiosas of Salvation] - Beta Max

Defeating Deathmist Raptor by Adam Yurchick
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=12558

*reads article*

Solution: Play Deathmist Raptor in your deck.

Five of the decks displayed in the article use the Deathmist Raptor / Den Protector pair. That's not defeating the card as much as it is just using the damn thing against itself.
by windstrider
Sun May 17, 2015 10:20 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

Ok, who broke the discussion?
by windstrider
Thu May 14, 2015 11:22 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

QR_BBPOST We now have glowing text options?

What madness is this?
We lost a lot of key features when we upgraded, but in return, we were graced with a decent amount of new forumfaggotry ^_^
Well, thank the gods for that. :D
by windstrider
Thu May 14, 2015 10:31 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

We now have glowing text options?

What madness is this?
by windstrider
Thu May 14, 2015 10:03 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

Bonestorm.
The sequel to Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.
by windstrider
Thu May 14, 2015 3:20 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

You punched your brother because he was doing too much drugs? That seems like a weird response to someone else doing something to themselves. Was he, like, doing the drugs at you somehow?
Have you ever tried to talk to someone doing something irrational? Sometimes, an irrational response is the only way to get through to them.
by windstrider
Wed May 13, 2015 10:07 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

why do you always piss on things
Pretty sure the response would be "why don't you piss on things?" :shrug:
by windstrider
Sun May 10, 2015 12:55 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

How many people have even seen some of the cards in MM2? I took a multi year break from Magic and then returned with Scars-Innistrad Standard. I have never seen some of the cards from MM2, and I imagine that many people playing or who are interested in Modern have never seen some of them either. I feel like the internet has stifled a lot of the formats since many people play just the cards that they see in deck lists online.
by windstrider
Sat May 09, 2015 4:46 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

MM2 looks like it is trying to push the Modern environment into different directions and give it new toys. It looks like it could be fun in limited, but the cost is too much for the cards that are available.
by windstrider
Thu May 07, 2015 8:06 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

[4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

btw deck tags are only working on prosilver. Once we agree on which skins to keep I'll port it to the other ones
I like the look of the prosilver Special Edition.
by windstrider
Wed May 06, 2015 5:05 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Re: [4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

Update: The deck tags do not work with the prosilver Special Edition skin.
by windstrider
Wed May 06, 2015 1:06 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Re: [4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

Who run Bartertown?
by windstrider
Tue May 05, 2015 6:08 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Re: [4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

Tire Aficionado? :\
by windstrider
Tue May 05, 2015 4:47 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Re: [4/5's of Siegevation], Rhino Town

The deck tags appear to be broken. Otherwise, the site does look a lot better on mobile devices.
by windstrider
Mon May 04, 2015 3:05 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

And PV wins his local GP, because a deck he's a master with is finally good again.
What tournament, and what deck?
Grand Prix Sao Paulo with Esper Dragons.

http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gpsao15
by windstrider
Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:49 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Haven't had a Newport in 3 days. May compensate by eating this whole box of Cocoa Krispies.
I don't know why, but this is the funniest thing I've read all day.
by windstrider
Mon Apr 27, 2015 1:07 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Actually, I'm finding it a rather interesting comment on how players within an MMO interact with each other. The part with Yui, the sentient caregiver program, reminded me a lot of Final Fantasy VII and Aerith and how players reacted to her death in the game. It's certainly not what I expected it to be, and that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
by windstrider
Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:34 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Top 4 at RPTQ Kansas City: Soulflayer Chromanticore, Abzan Megamorph, UB Dragons, and Esper Dragons in that order. Guess the format isn't solved after all.
by windstrider
Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:34 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Spending the afternoon with my boys, doing laundry, and watching Sword Art Online.
by windstrider
Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:33 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Magic is a constantly changing game. Adapt to the changing metagame or lose to it. It's how the game develops every new Standard. Aggro decks tend to dominate until Midrange decks come along at which point Control takes advantage of the slowed game state. Rinse, repeat. And then players whine about it until it changes again.

It's the circle of Magic.
Like it was constantly changing in RTR-THS Standard, when it was solved within a month and didn't change for a year?

A solved format is a solved format. DTK Standard is a solved format, and Esper Dragaons wins it.
That's the wisdom of ages right there, that is. :rolleyes:
by windstrider
Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:15 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Sweet or regular?
Regular IS sweet, silly goose. Bless your heart.
I like sweet tea, but the McDonald's sweet tea around here is basically sugar water. It's face-curdlingly sweet and mostly undrinkable.
by windstrider
Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:43 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Sweet or regular?
by windstrider
Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:09 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Had to pop in and say Dos Rakis was the funnest deck I've yet to say(with Boros Burn a close second).

Man, the thread was so booming then too, we would metagame every week. I think I won 65% of all the FNM's we had that season.

I pissed everyone the fuck off since they were running Tier 1 decks and would get smashed by Dos Rakis every week.

I'll never forget you Falkenwrath Aristocrat.
I have the Sally thread on Dos Rakis bookmarked. It was nuts. Of course, that was also back when z was still playing red and hadn't abandoned us for u/w. ;-)

Gods, I want Falkenrath Aristocrat and Dreadbore again. Ashcloud Phoenix, why u no have haste?
by windstrider
Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:05 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Dos Rakis was great. Thanks to those who wished me a happy birthday yesterday - you were right, I was still lurking somewhere.
I hope you had a happy birthday yesterday, 'thirst. Good to know you're lurking around. :)
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:43 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

I just died a little.
You'll go blind that way.
It's just little deaths all the way down
:D

I guess he failed the Ham Challenge.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:14 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

I just died a little.
You'll go blind that way.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:09 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Except Silumgar is going to block the Phoenixes all day while killing them, and with both Ojutai and Silumgar attacking, the Phoenixes die. Sure, they come back, but that's going to suck after a while.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:01 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Thanks, kait. I was expecting that.

The black surprised that guy because up until then, they hadn't seen anything but red from me. I also went Zurgo into Ire Shaman, which almost no one there had seen yet. If I had played Zurgo into Fodder or Denizen, then he would have known what I was playing. I kept doing things he wasn't expecting, like Ashcloud instead of Stormbreath, which almost everyone had prepared for in some way. I figured that Ashcloud was better than Stormbreath with Ultimate Price floating around, so I chose resiliency over haste. It paid off for me.

The look on his face when I unmorphed the Ashcloud to fly over his Rhino was priceless. That two damage from the morph also helped.

The splash surprised someone else because he thought I was using the Bloodstained Mire to thin the deck out. :rolleyes: I was careful to not give away that black splash until I needed it, so I usually fetched more mountains to fuel my Lightning Berserkers and Dragon Whisperers. I then fetched a swamp, cast Cut, and killed his Savage Knuckleblade, which allowed my two Shamans to swing right by his Caryatid.

There's an advantage to playing rogue decks.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:28 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Funny that this article came out today amidst our Standard discussion. http://www.starcitygames.com/article/30 ... -Time.html
He never explains why this is a good thing:
Different players will tell you different things, but if we're trying to capture the most common answer, I'd say diversity.
And why this isn't a bad thing:
When the cards in the format are this close together, if you show up and the field is different than you thought, you're probably dead in the water. If your matchups line up with your card choices, you can still make a good run, but I can safely say that to win a lot of matches with any regularity in this format, you have to have your 75 as good as it can possibly be for the decks you're against. This isn't a format with great matchups and bad matchups. This is a format where a single sideboard slot can cost you your entire tournament. The cardpool is that unbelievably tight.
He also doesn't seem to realize that these are completely contradictory:
Play Cards You Like to Play: I'd been playing with Abzan Control for two months, and I could not win a match to save my life. I started using a transformational sideboard with a bunch of aggro cards. I still wasn't winning, but it suddenly occurred to me that throwing down Fleecemane Lion after Fleecemane Lion and just trying to bludgeon people made me happy. So I put down the control deck and started attacking. Now, I'm winning.

Know the Decklists: People innovate (re: Brad), and sideboarding styles will vary, but it's a safe bet, especially at the local or regional level, that the players you'll be up against will be using decks almost card-for-card like the ones you've seen at the previous Open Series event or Pro Tour. How many Crater's Claws does the G/R Dragons deck have? How many Atarkas? How big can a Foundry Street Denizen get if your opponent has three cards in hand and four Mountains? How does them having a Monastery Swiftspear affect this? If you don't know the decklists, it's super easy to make some really bad decisions here. Know these things. If you don't, you're donating advantage to the field, and it's your fault.
The last two aren't contradictory. The first one says play to your personal strengths by playing in a style that suits you. If you try to play something that doesn't suit you, then you won't be comfortable playing it. If you like Aggro and attacking, but then pick up a Control deck, the games are going to play out very differently, and you'll lose. How many times have we heard that playing a deck that you're comfortable with is super important? That's what he's saying here.

The second one basically tells people to know what they're getting into. If you walk into a tournament scene cold, then you're likely to lose because you won't know what to expect. A little bit of preparation beforehand goes a long way. It goes with the first point by reminding people to have a strategy against the more popular decks. If you're bringing Aggro, then have a plan to get around the Midrange and Control decks. If you don't know what the other guy is playing, then you won't know how to maneuver around his deck, and you're putting yourself at a disadvantage.

I won a match on Sunday because my opponent didn't know what I was playing. I dropped a Zurgo, and he commented that this would be the third red Aggro deck he'd faced. He was shocked as hell when I used Self-Inflicted Wound on his Courser one turn, and then his Rhino the next. He over extended at five life thinking that he was safe from anything hasty I could throw at him, and I was dead the next turn to his attack. I dashed in Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury, flew over his ground stuff, and won. He had Hero's Downfall in hand but couldn't cast it. I did something similar to him when I morphed an Ashcloud instead of the Ire Shaman he had been expecting.

I had played the previous day and knew that Kolaghan was good since she had won me two games outright, so I kept her in. I knew the deck was weaker to big green creatures that not even Roast could handle, so I put in another Self-Inflicted Wound in the sideboard, moved Roast to the side since it sucked to have two Roast in hand while getting beat by flying things, and put two Murderous Cut in the main deck and another in the side. I also added Stoke for the direct damage, and it payed off. That black splash helped me deal with opposing creatures, and it took people by surprise. I knew my deck, and I recognized where it was weak, so I adapted.

Call me a filthy casual all you like ;-) , but I try to plan out strategies beforehand, and I usually learn from my mistakes.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:57 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Windstrider, I found these for you
Aww, I knew you cared.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:15 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

By the way, could one of the moderators please change the name of Red Sledgehammer to Big R/x in the Developing section?
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:14 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

I think Levy's list could be a good meta choice. Concerned with how it deals with Silumgar / Ojutai though.
I replied to your decklist, but I did it in the Red Sledgehammer thread in the Developing section. Wouldn't want to garbage up the clan thread with filthy casual talk about RB. ;-)

Levy's deck does some good things; it just needs a bit of tweaking.

As for Ojutai/Silumgar, we have access to discard (Thoughtseize/Despise) and sacrifice effects (Self-inflicted Wound, Foul-tongue Invocation, and even Merciless Executioner).

I'd be more concerned with getting around their removal and sweepers.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:53 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

There's nothing wrong with the way he has fun. But we were talking about one thing and he was talking about another.

If you're a non-competitive player who will play whatever they want regardless of the meta game, then a discussion about how "too open" the format it doesn't really apply to you.
Uh, what? I can't comment on the diversity of standard because I'm not playing a competitive deck? What kind of elitist shit is this? Especially in the clan thread.

Diversity, for me, means that I'm not playing the same matches over and over again. It means I'm seeing new decks. I played against a GW modular deck with Salt Road Quartermasters and Fleecemane Lions. That was awesome not seeing damn Siege Rhinos everywhere.

So again, yes, we're talking about different things, but a diverse Standard certainly applies to me too.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:50 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

The constant tirades against RB are a bit tiresome.
the constant forcing of RB just because it's the hot topic color combo is also a bit tiresome
No one's forcing you to play it. :)
I like this Standard for the diversity of decks being played, but I haven't yet become invested in a deck or even a particular card enough that I feel something for it yet.

Like Dos Rakis and Falkenrath Aristocrat. Damn, but that deck was fun to play. It was fast, powerful, and capable of degenerate plays. Nothing felt better than curving Aristocrat into Thundermaw. Can I please have Dreadbore back?

I don't have that feeling yet with this Standard season, but then again I haven't played much of this Standard. For all the hype, Theros was kinda boring. It wasn't epic enough for a set based around mythology.
You won't have that feeling because things change too quickly. That's the whole point.

Though you did mention Dos Rakis and that wasn't a real deck so maybe you'll be fine.
Aww, you're cute when you're trying so hard.

Why is it so difficult for some to understand that people play decks for many different reasons? Don't disparage someone else's choice of deck just because it's not something you would play. Players define fun in many different ways.

For the Dos Rakis deck, for me, that meant casting flying, hasty vampires and other big threats. Don't like it? Ok. Then don't play it.

I had fun with it and won a fair share of games with it, but I understood it wasn't a tier one deck. The constant tirades against RB are a bit tiresome.
So yeah, you'll be fine. We were talking about the state of competitive Standard.
I'll be fine regardless. I know where I sit in regards to competitive play. I'm not a tier one player. :shrug: That's why I usually don't post in the competitive threads much anymore. I'm ok doing my own thing.

I went to Game Day to have fun and get the promo Thunderbreak card. I ended up in two top eights and walked home with four promo cards. I went home very happy. That was my first Standard outing in almost a year.

For fuck's sake, I'm an adult playing a card game with monsters and magic spells. If I'm not having fun at it, if it becomes a chore to find the best deck to keep winning, then I might as well just walk away.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:32 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

I like this Standard for the diversity of decks being played, but I haven't yet become invested in a deck or even a particular card enough that I feel something for it yet.

Like Dos Rakis and Falkenrath Aristocrat. Damn, but that deck was fun to play. It was fast, powerful, and capable of degenerate plays. Nothing felt better than curving Aristocrat into Thundermaw. Can I please have Dreadbore back?

I don't have that feeling yet with this Standard season, but then again I haven't played much of this Standard. For all the hype, Theros was kinda boring. It wasn't epic enough for a set based around mythology.
You won't have that feeling because things change too quickly. That's the whole point.

Though you did mention Dos Rakis and that wasn't a real deck so maybe you'll be fine.
Aww, you're cute when you're trying so hard.

Why is it so difficult for some to understand that people play decks for many different reasons? Don't disparage someone else's choice of deck just because it's not something you would play. Players define fun in many different ways.

For the Dos Rakis deck, for me, that meant casting flying, hasty vampires and other big threats. Don't like it? Ok. Then don't play it.

I had fun with it and won a fair share of games with it, but I understood it wasn't a tier one deck. The constant tirades against RB are a bit tiresome.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:35 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

I like this Standard for the diversity of decks being played, but I haven't yet become invested in a deck or even a particular card enough that I feel something for it yet.

Like Dos Rakis and Falkenrath Aristocrat. Damn, but that deck was fun to play. It was fast, powerful, and capable of degenerate plays. Nothing felt better than curving Aristocrat into Thundermaw. Can I please have Dreadbore back?

I don't have that feeling yet with this Standard season, but then again I haven't played much of this Standard. For all the hype, Theros was kinda boring. It wasn't epic enough for a set based around mythology.
by windstrider
Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:29 am
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

Although I think 4x Murderous Cut is crazy.
Cut is an awesome spell but not four like that.

I ran removal in my version of Big Red splash Black (deck needs a better name) with this as my spell suite:

[deck]
Spells
3 Wild Slash
2 Draconic Roar
1 Lightning Strike
2 Murderous Cut
2 Stoke the Flames
[/deck]

That configuration let me deal with a variety of threats, and I felt pretty happy with it.

Going forward I may try something like this:

[deck]
Spells
3 Wild Slash
3 Lightning Strike
2 Murderous Cut
2 Stoke the Flames
[/deck]

Wild Slash wasn't quite as useful as the three damage from Draconic Roar and Lightning Strike, but it helped a lot vs. small aggro. Draconic Roar was good when I could kill something and burn to the face, but it was lackluster otherwise. Lightning Strike is unconditional burn when it needs to be, and there was at least one game where it would have won me that match and the round. And if Esper Dragons and its hexproof monstrosities are going to be dominant, then Draconic Roar is fairly well dead in hand.

I added the Stokes since I wanted more spells that could go to the face. Plus, it was unexpected. I could leave my smaller creatures back, let the evasive creatures attack, and then tap the smaller guys to convoke the Stoke.
by windstrider
Mon Apr 20, 2015 4:45 pm
Forum: Fires of Salvation
Topic: [Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT
Replies: 59962
Views: 8361839

You also need to ask yourself why you're unhappy playing the game. Managing expectations is very important in playing any game. You want to be confident that you can win, but you also need to realistically expect that you're not going to win every match.

And keep in mind that you're an adult playing a card game based around monsters and magic spells. You can't take it too seriously. ;)

Return to “[Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT”