Dies to Removal

Alex

Anyone else have a Pauper cube of their own, or have drafted a friends? Cubetutor has a few "stock" Pauper lists that I have liked. They play some of the more broken commons but I think it's balanced out by the fact that removal is piss-poor. Pauper as a constructed format gets a little s...

Alex

I feel like I'm starting to hog the front page, you assholes need to make some content goddamnit. :( http://diestoremoval.com/ I appreciate the work mate (esp. anything limited related) We're currently working on a new animated series using techniques from my failed spite project and pencil animati...

Alex

I feel like I'm starting to hog the front page, you assholes need to make some content goddamnit.

http://diestoremoval.com/

Alex

Alex Scott Vargas

I'm not as good at limited.

Alex

I got that term from LSV, lol.

Alex

Yeah, that's why I urged people to play a lot of sealed before the set came out, battlecruiser Magic is very easy once you understand what keywords are most important. This format will probably be flying and trample, the unblockable guy is good but trample creatures are usually just better.

Alex

If you don't already have an FoS shirt, I would suggest screenprinting one immediately to rub it in his face. You should ask him if he wants one.

Alex

Update: I archived everything this evening and moved all threads regarding new Standard out into the main forum. As the format shakes down over the next few weeks I'll be appropriately moving threads to their corresponding subforums. If you had a thread that was in the wrong forum and ended up in th...

Alex

There's actually a video somewhere on James' Twitch channel where we chatted for like two hours about card theory. We disagreed a lot.

Alex

Jesus Man, I was just japing. DTR is the land of the feuds after all

I see what you did there. Well played.

Alex

Fanatic of Xenagos is a fantastic card and I'm looking forward to that one more than Stoke the Flames. The Brain Maggot art is also REALLY sick.

Alex

I hate the flock, not the shepard.

Alex

So there were some other guys there and we started talking about DTR, the guy told me he knew the site fairly well as a lurker and that we had some good semi-pro posters around, and mentioned James Fazzolari for his analysis on standard and Alex on his cubetutor posts and drafts, so I told him lol,...

Alex

On the flipside if my burn opponent has every single Rift and Lightning Bolt in their deck in game 1 the matchup is basically unwinnable unless I draw a pretty specific set of cards. (Basically has to be Master of Etherium and Ravager in combination with any Nexus.)

Alex

"Everything you play dies to abrupt," posted Alex on DTR. :sherlock: You know what deck doesn't lose to Abrupt Decay and is actually the best in the format? Affinity. :sherlock: Didn' t R/w Burn win the last GP, defeating Affinity in the finals? :scrump: Burn is such a miserable matchup.

Alex

"Everything you play dies to abrupt," posted Alex on DTR.

You know what deck doesn't lose to Abrupt Decay and is actually the best in the format? Affinity.

Alex

That and delver free rolls the pod and affinity matchups which jund Can't claim.

Junk is good in both of those matchups. Lingering Souls is a beating vs. Affinity and it has the sideboard hate for Pod.

It just loses to Storm.

Alex

Quite being illiterate. The matchup was in junds favor before, but delver had some trumps in keranos/batterskull to compete in the grind fest that was that matchup. Now you're playing the same attrition matchup, but with ancestral recall. Keranos being the only win condition that doesn't die misera...

Alex

Delver, the best deck in the format. You know, that deck that crumbles to Abrupt Decay, a card that some of the actual best decks in the format are playing as 4-ofs.

All hail Kamahl!

Alex

I was helping a friend make a budget Mono White Heroic when I came up with this list: [deck]Creatures 4 Soldier of the Pantheon 4 Favored Hoplite 4 Phalanx Leader 3 Ainok Bond-Kin 3 Fabled Hero 3 Abzan Falconer 2 High Sentinels of Arashin Spells 4 Gods Willing 4 Defiant Strike 4 Ajani's Presence 3 ...

Alex

That seems perfectly reasonable. Do pauper queues fire ever? Also, if serrated arrows is so good why not main some?

I played it in the main for a while, it was okay. Not great. I preferred to have Repeals for most matchups. It's a much better targetted hate card.

Alex

BRB, on my quest to become uber-trash.
But you know, we have Shrapnel Blast in format. And Darksteel Citadel. And Hammer of Purphoros.

And Aggressive Mining.

And Mountain.

And Master of Waves.

And other cards.

Alex

If we continue down this road, I think we'll just end up debating the philosophy of nothingness.
Ve believe in nossing!

Alex

It's like a thirty second Google search. I'm at work and can't pull links but you won't have trouble finding them.

Alex

ITT: We learn James doesn't know what Excel is.

Alex

Being an insurance adjuster is kind of a rad job though, my old room mate from college is a senior adjuster and he gets to see some gnarly wrecks.

Alex

I'm pretty sure if every DTR member had an invitational card, mine would probably be Midnight Haunting though. It was another card that I just looked at and was like "Whoa this card is really good..."

Alex

The more I think about it though, I don't think I really question anyone's actual testing/results. But I am starting to wonder how seriously they take it. Like, do some people just play a few games and then come back saying, "This card was fucking BONKERS and I LOVE it"? And then people j...

Alex

That's just your spurglord defense.

You should see how angry my girlfriend gets when things that upset her don't bother me at all.

"Oh my god the fish died!

"
"Oh, that sucks."
"You're not upset!?"
"No, it's just a fish."
"..."

Alex

MDU at least has video proof. :sherlock: Okay, so when I say that I spent the last 2 afternoon proxying up various Red decks and playing one of my friends against his proxied up decks for a few hours, do I need to take pics and post it so that you actually believe that someone is telling the truth?...

Alex

Oh, turns out that I am totally doing that.

Alex

Why does Purp not have a custom title? And why am I not abusing my admin powers to fix this?

Alex

Someone will post a bad list and people will circlejerk them and pretend like they've "tested" with it (we all know you didn't actually do that) and it just irritates the shit out of me because we're better than that. Are people really doing that? I believe LP, MDU, and even Kait when the...

Alex

MDU at least has video proof.

Alex

Someone will post a bad list and people will circlejerk them and pretend like they've "tested" with it (we all know you didn't actually do that) and it just irritates the shit out of me because we're better than that. Are people really doing that? I believe LP, MDU, and even Kait when the...

Alex

The only person I believe when they say they've tested something is LP.

Alex

It isn't an single person, it's when the collective jumps behind a blatantly dumb idea. (It happens often.) Someone will post a bad list and people will circlejerk them and pretend like they've "tested" with it (we all know you didn't actually do that) and it just irritates the shit out of...

Alex

Do you need a hug, Alex? :unibrow: Are you going to be able to give me a proper hug from your knees? You seem to spend most of your time there. :sherlock: You can do better than that. Let the hate floooooooow through you. Usually when you guys are being stupid enough to anger me I just don't post a...

Alex

I weigh 220 and I'm 6'2", but I am also built like a linebacker.

It's unfortunate.

Alex

Do you need a hug, Alex?

Are you going to be able to give me a proper hug from your knees? You seem to spend most of your time there.

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