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Azrael

Sen Triplets? Seems like a pretty good middle ground. Good at evening out the game, and in multi, it's pretty good at keeping you fueled up.

Azrael

Like you said, there's a number of things that just don't seem to do much aside from activate Krond (spirit mantle, savage hunger, trollhide, savage silhouette), and a bunch of things that don't seem to do much at all (celestial ancient, dreampod druid, aura gnarlid, quiet disrepair). In the interim...

Azrael

Is 1/4 of the deck too much ramp? Even if you are making this deck to rumble with the best of them... that seems like way too much. (Admittedly, your general does cost 7... but still) CC of eight, in fact. I wrote a treatise in the other Maelstrom thread on it being very hard to over-ramp in this f...

Azrael

I've never seen a mono-white deck do anything reasonably good in EDH before - there's just so few sources of card advantage available, and aggro-weenies are no good. If you do decide to run Stax, though, do Possessed Portal. Probably the most unfair stax lockout ever - you can't use card draw to squ...

Azrael

Updated Build: 1 Maelstrom Wanderer 39 Land 4 Forest 4 Island 1 Mountain 1 Rootbound Crag 1 Hinterland Harbor 1 Sulfur Falls 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Flooded Strand 1 Arid Mesa 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Wooded Foothills 1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Windswept Heath 1 Polluted Delta ...

Azrael

I've retooled my own build quite a bit since last I posted. You really can't afford to be afraid of "over-ramping" in Commander, in my experience, so long as each of your acceleration spells pushes you forward at least two mana-drops. Your worst case scenario should be Maelstrom Wanderer f...

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*pops back into thread, looks around, frowns* At this juncture I still believe that the facts that the leak warned me were true, and I would wish to firstly thank you again for your honesty, whoever you are. You did the right thing and allowed us to fight back and expose the whole facts of this sord...

Azrael

We need to put this stuff on the front page, when we can.

Azrael

Did some digging around to see if I could come up with anything constructive and not end on such a critical note. The approach I'd recommend is finding as much good, cheap equipment that provides a minimum of a +4 to your front end. That way, a Plague Stinger or an Inkmoth Nexus or whatever the case...

Azrael

Needs more evasion/breakthrough potential. I've toyed with infect in standard before, and the biggest problem is that your guys can't win combat with anything. So, they die, or you waste pump spells making them not die, and run out of gas and lose. Card advantage is also a problematic issue. Like, t...

Azrael

Well, I never expected to see Imperial Seal and Jar of Eyeballs appear in the same decklist together. $700...whew. Worn Powerstone, Thran Dynamo, Phyrexian Metamorph, Necrologia, Necropotence, Swiftfoot Boots, Doubling Cube, Fabricate, Animate Dead, Necromancy, probably more basic swamps and fewer n...

Azrael

Yeah, that's in.

Azrael

What you're suggesting is a very, very different way of doing things than we've done for probably the better part of the past year. Indeed. Perhaps I should remind you that one of the reasons we've gone to this 'democratic voting' method is because the upper staff decided, without the lower staff, ...

Azrael

I can think of three... It really doesn't go the way that some irrelevant local mod with an ignorant opinion sways the whole process for a decision. It does come down to reasoned arguments. The random guy that just says yes or no without a good reason doesn't really get heard much or they are easil...

Azrael

@Blackhound- I'd also note that Kijin wasn't alone in bringing the potential malicious attack to MTGS's attention. I believe the chief person to thank for gathering the information was actually N S, although it was universally supported by our entire staff and admin team to warn MTGS ASAP.

Azrael

In terms of what next practical steps to take forward, to resolve the appeals issue, it seems like we have to decide the ideal venue and participants. The constraints we seem to be working under are: 1. The unwillingness of some staff members to hold the discussion in place where they feel vulnerabl...

Azrael

I get that and far as I am concerned, the "subordinates" are not running rampant. The information gathering is a little slower than I would like, but keep in mind that we are trying to solve a problem that started 7 years ago. I'm not going to rush it. I'm not planning on going anywhere a...

Azrael

Guys, if you ever go for the appeal process, just say "Scumbag made me do it" in case people call you out on something. You have my blessing. That happened to me and the Process that Nai is proclaiming lead to me being screwed. For God's sake Nai you guys didn't even have the courtesy to ...

Azrael

Some of these are decent points. But there's also the reason we actually make it democratic: having a number of minds on the situation gives us multiple viewpoints and helps to ensure that we're getting it right. There's five admins. If we are the ones dealing with the unbannings, not only is it go...

Azrael

I think admin's current approach to lower staff putting you in a fairly awkward and impractical position. Democracy, input, dialogue, back-and-forth - all of these are good things, from an idealistic stand point and a practical one. Giving lower staff a voice in the site's affairs, is a good thing b...

Azrael

The six mana mythic dragon that steals artifacts, for sure.

Zegana, possibly. Probably not Urban Evolution or the blue Primordial, but keeping an eye on 'em.

Azrael

*happy sigh*

*wanders back to mafia forum and snuggles in*

Azrael

I've said it once and I've said it again. There should be no solutions, summits, etc. If they are going to unban us then they need to unban us. It's the fastest way for them to see if we meet their reforms/protocol and give us another chance on the site. It might happen, but the odds aren't good. L...

Azrael

I think they're genuinely tired of the fighting and looking for a more permanent solution.

EDs:

Define on edge.

Ready to bite their heads off at any opportunity.

Azrael

The more I talk to them, the more it sounds like they're really serious about letting you guys back, if you didn't seem so much on edge.

Azrael

Mmm. A lot of the stuff you've posted here directed at the gutter here sounds quite similar to things I've posted at the staff in the inbox, Harkius.

Azrael

:/ I don't think Gals and Nai are cowards. But they don't seem to be gluttons for punishment, either. If you guys call down for a minute, I don't think you'll find TCM is being unreasonable here, at all. If you're a mod on a forum, you don't punish people for behavior that took place elsewhere, but ...

Azrael

My read on the staff right now is that aside from the people who just never got along with the gutter, there's a lot of them who are just plain psychologically traumatized by how badly things have gone for them lately. And they're afraid that if the gutterites come back, you'll continue mind-raping ...

Azrael

For the record, Kpaca, I rebumped the appeals thread I made for you in the staff inbox recently.

Last time I heard, end of November, I was supposed to stay tuned for further updates.

Azrael

Deep breaths, guys? Suspension Evasion The penalty for evading one's suspension has been reduced from a ban to a one-week extension to the previous suspension for first-time offenders, and a ban for repeat evaders. The reason for this change is that we would like to avoid having to ban users who are...

Azrael

Sure, sure.

Azrael

:love: this deck, one of my more recent builds. The cascade off Maelstrom Wanderer is ridiculously good/fun, even without the library manipulation, and the "Fervor" effect is just a complete beating. Worst case scenario is usually that you wind up ramping yourself into the next one or two ...

Azrael

Gotcha. I could scratch my brain for some appropriate place-holding text, but there won't be too much point in it until we have some of our features up and running.

Azrael

An update would certainly be helpful. I've got a bad feeling that Boubs decided that the cluster that would result amongst the staff from unbanning gutterites en masse isn't worth it, right now. Hopefully I'm wrong, but he said the next step would be talking it over with the staff, and we know how t...

Azrael

I'll try to quickly explain what's up, mmkay. The reason why the thread was closed (I talked with Galspanic) was because it was a question that was answered. Had it not been full of vitriol and passive aggressiveness, having it as a thread discussing that rule might have been useful, but it was dro...

Azrael

They should sticky your posts ITT in the ML, Kijin.

Azrael

Do you have a point to make, Azreal? If you're interested in having a conversation, feel free to read the last few pages of the thread, TCM. I would be happy to discuss it with you. I don't have any particular bones to pick with Teia as a person, if that's what you're implying. However, I also didn...

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Az, I know you've been rooting for this, so if you are on prosilver skin (didn't had the time with the others yet) you can browse here: http://community.ist.utl.pt/frontpage/ Mind you some links are not working yet (about and below) but all the forum links are fully functional Excellent, glad to se...

Azrael

@Azrael: Yes, I too seek compassion in my dealings with other people, and it does me well. The problem with that strategy when applied to a business model, however, is that there is no central figurehead, no one person who can speak for the group. The problem then becomes a dichotomy: remove the au...

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I don't believe in those sort of coincidences... *nods* And that's hardly a solitary example. There have been good mods all over the forum who were able to defuse, quell, or altogether prevent drama on their watches, while others caused repeated incidents in the same subs. Same people, but differen...

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