Dies to Removal

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[deck=Rakdos Midrange] Creatures 4 Boros Reckoner 4 Chandra's Phoenix 4 Stormbreath Dragon 4 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch Planeswalkers 2 Chandra, Pyromaster Instants 4 Hero's Downfall 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 4 Searing Blood Sorceries 1 Rakdos's Return Lands 4 Blood Crypt 4 Godless Shrine 4 Mut...

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[QUOTE1=cryogen]redthirst, There is occasionally some friendly jabs that are aimed at "casual" players, but there is a fine line between good-natured joking and flaming. Calling people "damn dirty casuals" is certainly borderline, so in the future I and the other mods would appr...

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Thanks for the clarification, JS...it's a pain not being able to access stuff from here.

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Alex just tagged this online (FB)...I can't get to the twitter feed, but the point makes itself:

Return to Kamigawa confirmed.

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http://www.starcitygames.com/article/27765_The-Industry-Standard-Big-Boros-At-SCGCOL.html Is it just me, or does he come across as a douche on the level of Todd Anderson? I just about stopped reading when he blamed his wife for the fact that he had a cold...we're in the midst of one of the worst re...

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Tokens are making me wonder at what's to come...artifacts turning into colored mana?

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Green CA...rather expensive and risky, but huge in Limited I would expect: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=151490&stc=1&d=1390367188 Regardless of card quality, I LOVE the art on both of these: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=151487&d...

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Yeah I never understood why people thought Zombies were good against Delver, I always won that. I miss Delver days. I don't miss Delver (as someone who was always across the table), but I agree with you 100% about the Zombie matchup. I generally felt at least even on Br Zombies against UW G1, but a...

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What redthirst and strider said, Kait...Dos Rakis (RtR set Standard) may not have been breaking big on the tournament circuit, but it was a damn strong deck and those of us who were brewing it were winning with it. After Gatecrash hit, it was substantially weaker within the meta, and even more so af...

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Man, Phenax sucks.

Wizards is all but screaming "we printed this to create a reason to play Lazav", but...bleh.

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Green card is actually not horrible if a bit narrow...I love the concept that your 1-drops don't have to be useless draws in the late game, but the damned Heroic trigger requirement is one too many hoops to line up for anything but an enchantment deck. http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attachment.php?a...

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Phenax's mill ability requires you to have creatures in play:

Massive synergy with Consuming Aberration, even if only for casual play.

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Also, I was talking about decks that would actually be good, if that helps you. Evidentiary example? Or are you just being a churlish, contrary twit as a matter of habit? Glad to bring a smile, red leader! I have no tolerance for arguing for the sake of being a dick...I can respect anyone's reasone...

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I was talking about decks that would actually be good, if that helps you.

Evidentiary example? Or are you just being a churlish, contrary twit as a matter of habit?

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My temptation is to load up on 4/5 drop creatures and then run a lot of kill, but then the deck get criticized for being too slow. But if I fit in more creature that are faster,it feels like it'll fold to mono-black and it's sweeper, which I can't do... Blargle. No, if you run 4-and 5-drop creature...

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Photo: Oh look, now you have to kill it again

Need more caffeine...forgot that Bestow is an exception to the stack rule on enchantments (I haven't played with them enough to question it). You are in the right, friend Helios--my bad.

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I'm still having problems figuring out how I wanna play it come born. It's looking like the current style of aggro might not be enough, with black having that sweeper... I'm liking the idea of a rakdos midrange, but everything I try seems to have one issue or another e.e As it should be...a format ...

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Re: Manticore not having hexproof - Hey look it has bestow so you have to kill it twice!

Re: Bestowing the manticore--shoot the target out from under the Bestow...problem solved.

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Re: Manticore not having hexproof - Hey look it has bestow so you have to kill it twice! :D Yeah, WW getting lots of love... RDW getting... ? ...one of the other 106 cards maybe? Let's at least see the whole set before we cry foul. I'm with Helios...given the quality of the Uncommons we've seen thu...

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I just want to make this work once. Just once.

No hexproof...click click boom.

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I seriously cannot understand the continued arguments for Fanatic of Mogis over Flame-Wreathed Phoenix . First off, in most cases people are trying to compare apples and hand grenades. If you happen to be talking about playing Mono Red Devotion, then and only then is FoM possibly worthy of considera...

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Another interesting card, though too expensive likely to be Standard fare. Not really relevant to our usual suspects, but fun all the same.

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Sooooo...someone is undoubtedly going to try GW or Bant Heroic. Blech. Impressive card, though...I'm glad Wizards is at least doing something with the mechanic.

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So I just got a letter from the VA, and apparently I am crazier than I thought. 70% crazy in fact. By that do you mean that we gave you 70% Service Connection? If so, good for you...getting assigned >50% is max benefits (good for you now, that is...bro hugs for whatever you went through that result...

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I think I read a review for those gummy bears where the guy was on a flight with the CEO of his company. The toilet was more or less another seat in the back of the plane. To use it, you simply removed the cushion that you would sit on. There was a privacy screen, no door. So the guy basically erup...

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Eat a bunch of sugarless gummi bears...youll def miss your audit... probably miss Atlanta too

That's just your sorbitol defense...

And yes, he would miss the tourney as well...sorbitol works on the gut for a while. Excellent osmotic laxative.

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WOW! Sweet sigs abound! You gents are looking mighty spiffy...I feel like I'm wearing yesterday's underwear around here. Am I missing something, or is RG Monsters looking really strong as the creature deck of choice? Xenagos + GCR or any of the creature-churning cards seems pretty strong. Xenagos PW...

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Just FYI, you can find C/UC 4x sets on ebay for just over $30 at present. The UC's seem to be shaping up pretty well, enough so that I gabbed an extra set just now for all the casual building that will be going on around here (my lady's son is also trying to learn magic...he loves all the BGM's and ...

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I like that. I saw that card (Satyr) before bed and said "Mana sink...VCA...James is gonna like this". The blue card in the cycle is going to be strong in Limited...a 2/4 that can churn out 2/2 flyers for 3 is pretty sweet. OTOH, it's a card you would want to be keeping back on defense ag...

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One more share before bed...check out the outrageously sweet art on the Game Day Top 8 Promo:

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Ben Bleiweiss's comments on the new Phoenix...he read it as he expected it to be power-wise, hence the $1 steal at the start: "Initially mispriced by me at $1 since I read this as a rare. It's a mythic, but this is a card that sure looks like it should have been a rare effect to me. You end up ...

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You do have access to 12 dual lands though; I have UU and BB at 3; admittedly I usually don't need BB on 3 so I can afford to skimp on black slightly (in the UB shell). Just don't be a puss and run all 8 taplands. Whatever tempo you lose with the taplands you'll make up by hitting your sweepers. Oh...

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Small aggro is the worst matchup, so that's a very powerful gift.

Obviously will find a home in MBC as well.

Regrettably BR will be twitchy color-wise...Drown + Anger make a great sweeper suite in a vacuum, but

and

will need help to get any measure of consistency.

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I was referring to the hint that was dropped--that we were getting a "strictly better" Infest, which it is as Infest+Scry 1 for the same cost at the same speed.

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Better Infest; will see play. And beautiful card.

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my reading comprehension is doubleplusbad

don't look at me

don't look at my shame

It's okay, Kaze...I couldn't possibly stay cross towards you with Inigo staring back at me...your good taste in movies gives you a lot of latitude.

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Asahi is a good call, but anyone else prefer Kirin? In that sort of price range I think it's my favourite beer. That's right, I remember now you saying you prefer Kirin. I like both as far as that beer style goes, but I'm much more into craft brews personally. The import costs make those mass-produ...

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Wife having contractions at 31 weeks. Going to hospital. Let's go! Make that babystrider! Wrong papa, Kaze...strider is on the other end of things as Dude 2.0 has evidently imported a widescreen and a milk fridge and decided to wait out the winter in utero. Val, prayers and good vibes to you and yo...

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Jesus God, zeman...just saw details from the Open in Melbourne...108F degrees on the court?! That's insane! We get temps like that here in high summer, but it's hard to imagine as we're going to be seeing temps below 20F tonight. It's the coolest day this week. It's like hell on earth. Sending cool...

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Jesus God, zeman...just saw details from the Open in Melbourne...108F degrees on the court?! That's insane! We get temps like that here in high summer, but it's hard to imagine as we're going to be seeing temps below 20F tonight.

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