Dies to Removal

Z, you're my Australian hero.

And that's not just the Jim Beam talking.

It's the Foster's talking, m8.

Oi, Tugga

Makin' movies, makin' music, foightin' 'round tha wourld.

Bravo.

I am soooo fucking excited that R/x has MULTIPLE forms this early in the season.

Just had say that. Like, I thought we lived in exciting times a year ago...Man, I was wrong!

I actually feel like I have a much stronger grasp of this early season than I did last year. It's a...confident feeling.

Agreed. It is a beautiful time to be a red mage.

A beautiful time to be beautiful people.

Which we are.

Turns out that when they print playable cards, red is good? Who woulda thought.

So....Grim Lavamancer reprint for my PyroDeck??

Mmmm...modern PyroRed....

This deck tech is so good.

It should be mandatory viewing for future clan members.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEK0cpZX9s

Fuck, mandatory 3xviewing.

Z: My brain just can't process how beautiful that would be.

Kaze: Sig looks sharp.

I'm not going to dinner tonight until I fix my stream. Pip can wait, the redbro signal is activated in the night sky. Somewhere, someone needs help setting someone else on fire.

The section of that video on Skullcrack contains so many gems of wisdom. Z, go take care of your lady:P we can wait.

Turns out that when they print playable cards, red is good? Who woulda thought.

So....Grim Lavamancer reprint for my PyroDeck??

All of my yes, lavaman sig bro.

For the record, I believe there's a special place in hell for UW players.

Don't hate what you ain't.

I really love Ragehammer deck that fate last posted, any chance you have a sideboard though?

My son fell asleep holding his book. He won't let go of it even when he tries rolling over. Too adorable.

I'm playing a mono green player in the practice room and he proceeds to tell me how skillful my deck is to play in a sarcastic tone.

I love trolls.

Your son's doin it right windstrider. I anticipate doing the same thing here shortly with Dune.

I'm playing a mono green player in the practice room and he proceeds to tell me how skillful my deck is to play in a sarcastic tone.

I love trolls.

Yeah big regenerating beaters are fun

For the record, I believe there's a special place in hell for UW players.

I hope you mean constructed UW players, I keep ending up in UW in draft because that's what keeps being open (because no respects it, and I keep winning with it). That and I was a dedicated MUC player until they failed to reprint counterspell in 8th, and my rage led me to the mountains.

I feel like being able to play an oldschool draw-go MUC should be something you can do, even if it's not your style.
You learn a lot playing that way

-play mistakes are punished brutally and swiftly, and in a way you can obviously see.
-threat evaluation is mandatory, and enforced by above.
-card advantage theory is drilled home as clearly as possible.
-your understanding
of the stack and stack tricks will become instinctual (though I still have to remind myself that priority no longer passes with "damage on the stack").
-finally as sun tzu said "know thy enemy as thou knows thyself.

What's with all of the states posts today? Isn't states Oct. 12/13th (i.e., this upcoming weekend)? In any case, anyone still on AIR/BAI for states? It seems like everyone's on PyroRed and Fanatical Red. I took BAI to two Magic tournaments so far and it performed very well; likely taking some devotion variant to the LGS tonight to see how it feels. I really like the idea of devotion red in the mirror and against midrange (mostly because of Boros Reckoner), but sideboarding doesn't seem intuitive to me. Dropping reckoner against control really suggests dropping Fanatic of Mogis as well, but then that's eight sideboard cards against control which is way too many. What's the orthodox sideboarding plan for the control match-up?

Aodh (and anyone
else who cares), look here if you want to know why there are states on different weekends. Quicky answer: There are two separate States programs as explained in the post linked above.

Guy at my local store claimed that "If you're not putting Boon Satyr on Frostburn Weird, you don't have a clear grasp of the format." Pretty sure he's talking out his ass, but I can't really read the guy. Is there anything behind his claim?

Your son's doin it right windstrider. I anticipate doing the same thing here shortly with Dune.

It's an awesome feeling.

The funny thing is that he rarely lets us read the books to him, yet he's fascinated with them. He sits and babbles to himself with the occasional word coming through.

I'm gonna have to put an addition on my house just for my T-shirt obsession...check out some highlights of this week's collection at PopUpTee...not too shabby for $12.99 with free US shipping.

Those are all varying degrees of awesome, Photo.

Poor Boromir.

I just picked up a fun rules snippet from an article...the damage generated by Burning Earth can be redirected to planeswalkers. So not only can you tie down UXx decks manawise, you can kill their Jace with their own spells. Too funny...

OMG! Those T-shirts!

I just picked up a fun rules snippet from an article...the damage generated by Burning Earth can be redirected to planeswalkers. So not only can you tie down UXx decks manawise, you can kill their Jace with their own spells. Too funny...

This is new information that makes me think better of burning earth. I'm still not going to run it in devo red, but I am interested in using it in commander.

I just picked up a fun rules snippet from an article...the damage generated by Burning Earth can be redirected to planeswalkers. So not only can you tie down UXx decks manawise, you can kill their Jace with their own spells. Too funny...

Wow, that's a good bit of info.

@Khaospawn, have you heard the new Trivium album yet? It's not out yet, but they stream the entire album at http://trivium.org/vengeancefalls/

Very solid stuff!

Showing just enough of my dick in the devotion thread to win.

Yeah, I think it's about time that someone revisit the finer points on dick-showing contests as well as dick-slapping etiquette. Ain't got no time for bitchin' 'bout who said what first about which pile of cards.

@photodyer, thanks for that t-shirt post! I just ordered three of those for myself and my wife...

Guy at my local store claimed that "If you're not putting Boon Satyr on Frostburn Weird, you don't have a clear grasp of the format." Pretty sure he's talking out his ass, but I can't really read the guy. Is there anything behind his claim?

Aside from him having an ambitious mana base? I'm not sure.

Sounds like some sort of weird rug agro control deck to me which actually sounds sweet. Manabase is probably unrealistic though and It's 230 in the morning so I'm in no mood to brew even reasonably bad decks at the moment.