Dies to Removal

However, I did not play a shitty red deck and instead opted for the poorly-positoned Mono blue tron sans chalices (because I'm a budg cadj like that). Somehow beat bogles, my absolute worst match-up, as well as Delver, which is also very much in my opponent's favor.

Went to my first FNM in over 3 months last night. For my triumphant return, I went 2-2 and lost out of prize support because of bad tiebreakers. Did I make FoS proud?

How about that new totally active tiny leaders section of the forums?

I didn't see the card, but the only way that sounds like it could be anything but absolutely fucking terrible is if Skullclamp was in FRF as well.

zem is that basically tiny leaders format? it seems pretty cool

It looks like some kind of highlander with a point system that I probably don't eat enough vegemite with kangaroo steak to understand.

http://www.reddit.com/r/spikes/comments ... episode_3/

Got interviewed by r/Spikes.

I saw that!

The "closeted Francophile" bit made me laugh.

It's also not even relevant in the meta right now, and Ugin won't change that. Its delver matchup is atrocious, and the only reason it was a popular deck before was because it completely shellacked the (now dead) Jund midrange decks. Still, even before Khans release, I'd put gifts tron>blue tron>rg tron.

Good point. Maybe he'll make a splash in standard after rotation. A lot of these types of cards do.

I do think he will be very good in standard, though.

You can't cast Ugin off of Tron alone.

No

Merry Christmas bros

Truth

Happy b-day, khaos!

HS arena has kinda gone to shit. Even more so than before, luck during the drafting stage influences your performance more than anything else. The extent of power creep is insane for a game this new.

Having never played hunter before, I only had to spend 300 dust to build it.

There's a really good new hunter deck for about 800 dust. It's mostly naxx cards and a few commons from the new set.

I'm still a huge scrub at that game. I haven't put any money into it aside from naxx and have had terrible luck with opening legends, limiting me to >1000 dust decks.

Mage has definitely been my favorite class for a while. It's so damn easy to get wins.

Yeah. It wasn't fun.

Are you planning on going to uni? I remember writing 10-15 50-100 page papers a year lol.

It wasn't too terrible; it just wasn't how I was planning on spending yesterday afternoon.
I'm fully aware that it only gets harder.

Yeah. It wasn't fun.

Spent my afternoon and evening writing a 9 page paper. Feels bad man.

How? Subjective, maybe, but not relative.

Well said.

Yeah, what kait said

If you win, but hate the deck you're playing and don't enjoy yourself, you also fail.

Which is why it's so sad that some people can't enjoy blue.

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Command tower seems like a card that demands more than 30 minutes to get the border extension right. You were also a little heavy on paint. Not that I have any right to be a critic, but that's just what stood out.

Mining and bad football, respectively.

Nope; Steelers suck.

There's not much of anything around Pittsburgh or Buffalo

Red's the weakest color, but it mono red decks are better than mono white or mono green decks.

Yes!

Blue doesn't have bad creatures (snappy, Venser, ixidron, consecrated sphinx, phyrexian metamorph & other clone variants, deadeye)
It also has good tutors (mystical tutor, personal tutor, merchant scroll, tolaria west, muddle the mixture)

Really, though, it's the best color because of Arcum and Azami.

Blue has good creatures, but on the whole, they're worse than the other colours.

Blue Tutors are still worse than the other colours, save red. Will adjust though.

It depends on how we decide to evaluate creatures.
Obviously, you can't just look at average card quality, since 95% of creatures never see play. You're really only playing a select few in your deck. But while blue decks play good creatures, the decks are still mostly noncreature spells, and there still has to be a way for blue to lose points for being unable to build a good creature-centered deck.
However, if we judge a deck based upon strength if the deck is centered around creatures, than red clearly wins because goblins, followed by green with elves and other big stuff, followed by everything else.

And somehow Back to Basics is a legal card.

Blue doesn't have bad creatures (snappy, Venser, ixidron, consecrated sphinx, phyrexian metamorph & other clone variants, deadeye)
It also has good tutors (mystical tutor, personal tutor, merchant scroll, tolaria west, muddle the mixture)

Really, though, it's the best color because of Arcum and Azami.

No no no. You all have it wrong.

Red is the best mono color in EDH. Next comes blue and black, which are tied. Then White.

Red has a lot of good options for generals, but is also the color with the narrowest design which excludes a lot of effects that are really strong in commander. I think blue is better because it has counterspells and tutors and has a few good combo generals (Arcum and Azami, mostly). Black would be better if counterspells weren't so brutal against it. Green needs strong generals that don't lend themselves to easily disruptable strategies. White is just bad.

http://www.mtgcanada.com/commander/tras ... nder-play/

Platinum Angel? Really?

Really?

Really?

PS: White is the worst colour in Commander.

For Mono-Coloured EDH, I rank them:

Black > White > Blue > Red > Green

Blue>Red>Black>Green>White

Plus a fantastic toolbox off of Imperial Recruiter.

You get a combo win con, a stompy mana base, Leyline of Blood Moon, and even Jaya Ballard as a viable option if you want to kill blue extra hard.