Dies to Removal

Yup.

Article pushed forward to tomorrow with the podcast, I *think* the videos are being held for Monday though.

There's a member here called Rockman, that's fucking awesome.

There's a member here called Rockman, that's fucking awesome.

His avatar better be Megaman.

It's gotten to the point where I just hate jace as a character. He is so overused I am surprised more people aren't sick of his ass.

Re: playing in Japan

Magic players as a demographic have better English skills than any other demographic I'm aware of. More players own at least sone English cards (typically 30yen less a pack) and are familiar with English keywords. Magic has been a good way for me to make English speaking friends / meet people interested in learning English.

Also, because the game is an English based game, the phases are Englush with katakana accent.

Untapu
Upkeepu
Mainu
Sento fasu (attack)
Damaju
Dai ni mainu (second main)
Endo

Our game typically play out half in English, half in Japanese. Most players are kind and accomodating, but you get dickheads on occasion.

Cheating is generaly a non-issue, but it does happen sometimes (shadowborn demon issue at recent fnm, free timewalk issue at the GP, there was an issue at a PTQ with Solemn10 and someone trying to pull a quick one).

Some people do try to abuse the
language barrier.

Just found out one of my local breweries makes a Belgo-American Black IPA called Monkey High Five.

Today my morning banana had an insect in it and I ate part of it by mistake.

Excuse me while I perfirm seppuku.

It's been an honour gentlemen.

the new Jace art looks meh

Snape, Architect of Thought

perfirm

I don't know why this has me laughing so hard.

perfirm

I don't know why this has me laughing so hard.

Er mer gerd, serperku

Going to Santa Clara PTQ this weekend.

Any of you nerds gonna be there? Ham? SM?

I won't be there, since I lack Standard cards like a total scrub

Unless Modern side events?

No. I've never had the opportunity to go to CFB for a PTQ. Shit, I think I've only gone to one PTQ ever and that was at my LGS. I'll probably be attending to family stuff. I told Ham I would try to make it up to Sac next time they had a PTQ or GPT.

Fucking smartphones. Curse my fat fingers!

Johnny, you're in Japan right now? I'm looking at my weekend options, and it looks like I can get to Fukuoka pretty easily.

Yeah, Fukuoka is a few hours flight from me though. I flew to Fukuoka for GP Kitakyushu.

I'd love some Japanese cards. Counterspell, Preordain, Ponder etc

One of the guys here was telling me how from Fukuoka I could basically take the bullet train anywhere else.

Yeah, but it's expensive. For me it was cheaper to fly. Although if you're on a tourist visa you can get a special rail pass.

I'd love some Japanese cards. Counterspell, Preordain, Ponder etc

I can check if you like, but foils will be expensive.

I'm already sending some cards to NBW. I cpuld potentially send cards to others if you're willing to pay for them / shipping, but I don't know how you'd pay me since I closed (ragequit) my paypal account.

It's gotten to the point where I just hate jace as a character. He is so overused I am surprised more people aren't sick of his ass.

Despite being overused, he was well-written up until the Ravnica novellas. Don't get me wrong, he had a lot of depth there too, but his choices were very subservient to the plot (rather than his rationale) and it was too obvious.

I'd love some Japanese cards. Counterspell, Preordain, Ponder etc

I can check if you like, but foils will be expensive.

I'm already sending some cards to NBW. I cpuld potentially send cards to others if you're willing to pay for them / shipping, but I don't know how you'd pay me since I closed (ragequit) my paypal account.

Don't need to be foils, just normal Japanese cards. I'd be willing to pay for them plus postage somehow if we could work something out.

Which editions / arts are you looking for? I'll check next time I'm at the store with decent selection of older stuff.

I'd love some Japanese cards. Counterspell, Preordain, Ponder etc

I can check if you like, but foils will be expensive.

I'm already sending some cards to NBW. I cpuld potentially send cards to others if you're willing to pay for them / shipping, but I don't know how you'd pay me since I closed (ragequit) my paypal account.

Sending my mailing address in a PM now. Moving into the nee place this weekend.

Ponder - Magic 2010
Preordain - Duel Deck Venser vs Koth
Counterspell - 7th Edition art
Brainstorm - 5th Edition art

Sweet. I can mail it when I go to the post office to send money to my mom. Probably early next week.

Will get back to you Suga.

I appreciate it.

Zem, your decklist seems to be extremally anti-aggro in terms of main. Searing Blood and Firedancers - aren't these an overkill? I mean, when you face control, you're kind of screwed.

Zem, your decklist seems to be extremally anti-aggro in terms of main. Searing Blood and Firedancers - aren't these an overkill? I mean, when you face control, you're kind of screwed.

So let me clue you in on the big secret here.

The plan is to give up some G1 vs your favourable matches to have a better G1vs your harder matches.

Deck is much better post board. It's ok to lose G1 if you win 2+3.

Or that. That makes sense, too.

He's done a lot of testing. He's got a good team helping him. He knows what he's doing.

If I was a betting man, I'd bet dollars to pesos on him doing well.

I am a betting man. I'd bet dollars to Korean Won that Zem's a dick.

Where is this hate coming from?

Did Z tell you your deck was bad once without sugar coating it?

It's because Dechs is Korean now.

The plan is to give up some G1 vs your favourable matches to have a better G1vs your harder matches.

When was control a more favorable MU for burn then Aggro? Its more like Z has given up on the harder MU to make the favorable MU even more favorable (which is pretty much what the SCG Burn articles have been suggesting).

I think it should be ok for Australia's GP though - Aussies seem to love aggro and midrange, its not the approach I'll take if I expect a huge UW presence or an unknown meta since I prefer balance in my MUs.