Dies to Removal

That was not intended as a jab and was mostly me just reflecting on my weekend.

So i've been tinkering with the "mind seize" deck, and jevela just can't compare to nekusar. Underworld dreams + howling mime on a replayable stick is great, plus I can fireball the whole table with prosperity/skyscribing (with awesome new art on Skyscribing). Jevela has a super cute ability (that goes well with all the spell copying that comes in the deck). So going down the everyone draws cards hole. I've got howling mine, horn of greed, words of wisdom, underworld dreams and what came in the box, any other thoughts?

Friend recently bought the grixis deck and me and the buddies played 2HG commander tonight(me borrowing a khalia deck). His jeleva deck is comboey. Play her with lim duls vault to fix your turn. EOT, mystical tutor an extra turn spell. Go from there.

Anyone know how I can get some THS sealed practice online outside of DEs? For some reason 8 mans are phantom only and you get no packs for those events.

You can play 4-Booster Sealed, which is what I do sometimes for fun and random QPs (you can find them in the limited tab).

Johnny Spike,

The best advice I can give you is to just play the cards you want to play. Wanna play with some Dragons? Then play some muthafuckin' Dragons! Still love Ashley? Then jam with her. Ignore what's going on around DTR/SCG/CFB and play your favorite cards. Just play them as well as you can.

This may not sound like the best advice, but it's been working for me since States. My deck doesn't really look like anything you'll find around here, or pretty much anywhere, but it's mine. Every win I take is mine. Every loss I take is mine. And at the end of the day, I choose which direction to take it. I modify it in anticipation of my local meta. You'd laugh your ass off if you actually saw my sideboard. But the thing is, my method has been working. It's nothing to brag about, but it works and I'm having fun.

nAt the same time, I understand what it likes to be so burnt out from something that you have to step away in order for it to become fun again. If Magic is causing too many headaches, then by all means, take a break. It'll still be there when you want to come back......unlike filthy strippers....

Anyways, buddy, I hope that helps.

Hey James, if you're writing for CFB now, what are you going to name your channel? =o

Hoping for 'Red Mage Musings' but we'll see; the editor gets the final say.

Dat zem.

*swoon

Problem with four booster sealed is that it's not six booster sealed which is what the ptq will be. No use practicing an entirely different format.

One of the twins decided to take off his diaper and shit all over our bedroom carpet this morning. That was a nice start to the day.

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Listen, everyone that has a trade thread in the Restricted section with absolutely no cards on it (yes, people have made trade threads and not bothered to put a list of either "haves" or "wants"), it's time to do that. I need to get some random-ass shit for EDH and I don't want to have to buy these cards if I can just trade for them.

Also, if you don't have a trade thread at all. Make one. Unless you don't have anything I need. In which case you can do whatever.

That is all.

I think I did the best I could with what I had.

I mentioned this in another thread, but here it is again. Sometimes lady fate blesses you with her caresses, and sometimes she flips you the finger. The trick is knowing when it was variance and when it was your play skills. The trap is always blaming it on variance. It doesn't sound like you're doing that, but be careful of it all the same. That kind of thinking can become a habit.

As others have said, play what you know and play what you like. Above all, play to have fun. My thinking is that I'm 42 and playing a game based on monsters and magic. If I can't have fun with it, then what's
the point of playing?

Listen, everyone that has a trade thread in the Restricted section with absolutely no cards on it (yes, people have made trade threads and not bothered to put a list of either "haves" or "wants"), it's time to do that. I need to get some random-ass shit for EDH and I don't want to have to buy these cards if I can just trade for them.

Also, if you don't have a trade thread at all. Make one. Unless you don't have anything I need. In which case you can do whatever.

That is all.

What are you looking for in particular? I have several thousand cards sitting in binders. Most of it is older stuff.

If I can't have fun with it, then what's the point of playing?

I thought the point was to hit on the big-boobed gothy 16-year-old girls that come to watch their boyfriends play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Goddamn... I've wasted like a decade and a half of my life.

Listen, everyone that has a trade thread in the Restricted section with absolutely no cards on it (yes, people have made trade threads and not bothered to put a list of either "haves" or "wants"), it's time to do that. I need to get some random-ass shit for EDH and I don't want to have to buy these cards if I can just trade for them.

Also, if you don't have a trade thread at all. Make one. Unless you don't have anything I need. In which case you can do whatever.

That is all.

What are you looking for in particular? I have several thousand cards sitting in
binders. Most of it is older stuff.

[deck]
1 Skirk Prospector
1 Ruby Medallion
1 Goblin Warchief
1 Imperial Recruiter
x Shocklands
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Thragtusk
1 Genesis
1 Talisman of Impulse
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Chromatic Lantern
1 Coalition Relic
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Sylvan Library
1 Awakening Zone
1 Destructive Flow
1 Necropotence
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Corpse Dance
1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
[/deck]

Listen, everyone that has a trade thread in the Restricted section with absolutely no cards on it (yes, people have made trade threads and not bothered to put a list of either "haves" or "wants"), it's time to do that. I need to get some random-ass shit for EDH and I don't want to have to buy these cards if I can just trade for them.

Also, if you don't have a trade thread at all. Make one. Unless you don't have anything I need. In which case you can do whatever.

That is all.

List your random ass shit and I'll list my random ass shit and maybe we can make random ass shit babies

Listen, everyone that has a trade thread in the Restricted section with absolutely no cards on it (yes, people have made trade threads and not bothered to put a list of either "haves" or "wants"), it's time to do that. I need to get some random-ass shit for EDH and I don't want to have to buy these cards if I can just trade for them.

Also, if you don't have a trade thread at all. Make one. Unless you don't have anything I need. In which case you can do whatever.

That is all.

List your random ass shit and I'll list my random ass shit and maybe
we can make random ass shit babies

That's kind of the point of the trade thread and pretty much what I was asking people to do.

Right now your particular "trade" thread is:
1. Space reserved.
2. Oh yeah, I want these 3-4 cards.

Z, I wholeheartedly approve of "Red Mage Musings." I hope you're not kidding. Fingers crossed that the editor goes for it.

On another note, I'm completely exhausted. I'm on my 9th day straight at work and ready to just give out. I get my day off tomorrow. I can't wait. Maybe I'll actually get to finish my Storm primer....

Listen, everyone that has a trade thread in the Restricted section with absolutely no cards on it (yes, people have made trade threads and not bothered to put a list of either "haves" or "wants"), it's time to do that. I need to get some random-ass shit for EDH and I don't want to have to buy these cards if I can just trade for them.

Also, if you don't have a trade thread at all. Make one. Unless
you don't have anything I need. In which case you can do whatever.

That is all.

List your random ass shit and I'll list my random ass shit and maybe we can make random ass shit babies

That's kind of the point of the trade thread and pretty much what I was asking people to do.

Right now your particular "trade" thread is:
1. Space reserved.
2. Oh yeah, I want these 3-4 cards.

I realized that now. I thought I had put up my haves. I'll do that later. I have to get ready for a job interview in a few minutes.

Suga, good luck. Hopefully you don't have to swallow too much semen while on the casting couch.

He'll be fine. Suga can swallow a lot of semen.

I have a special talent.

It's a gift, really.

Semen: better to give than to receive.

Amen.

I really wanted a clever play on 'Red Deck Wins' but I couldn't think of anything that didn't end in 'weekly' and I'm not going to be making weekly submissions (probably monthly).

If I can't have fun with it, then what's the point of playing?

I thought the point was to hit on the big-boobed gothy 16-year-old girls that come to watch their boyfriends play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Goddamn... I've wasted like a decade and a half of my life.

If they're younger than my daughter, then no. There's that conscience thing getting in the way again. I like being the dirty old man, not the creepy old dude.

I'll look through my binders to see what I have.

Yeah, if they take Red Mage Musings, I'm sure I can find another title for my random Red articles, should I feel the need to ever write more.

It's a good title.

[deck]Pile of OP Cards[/deck]

That's a legal deck in legacy.

>:)

Because fuck fair Magic, that's why.

[deck] 4 Veteran Explorer
2 Sakura-tribe Elder
2 Wood Elves
1 Eternal Witness
3 Huntmaster Of The Fells
2 Thragtusk
1 Primeval Titan

3 Pernicious Deed

3 Sensei’s Divining Top

4 Cabal Therapy
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
4 Burning Wish
2 Scapeshift
2 Slaughter Games

3 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
3 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
4 Taiga
3 Badlands
2 Bayou
2 Stomping Ground
2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

SB:
3 Carpet of Flowers
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Thoughtseize
1 Rakdos's Return
1 Slaughter Games
1 Pyroclasm
1 Scapeshift
1 Reverent Silence
1 Innocent Blood
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Maelstrom Pulse

[/deck]

this is also a legal deck

Yes, but it's a pile.

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It's a shame they have Kirk where Picard should be.

Yes, but it's a pile.

I'll take on your uwr delver with it anytime

It took me a few glances before I realized it was a Scapeshift deck.

Pretty much the only thing that makes it so is that it runs Scapeshift.

I like UWR Delver. Then again I like a lot of Legacy decks. Just wish there was a Legacy scene here.

I like UWR Delver. Then again I like a lot of Legacy decks. Just wish there was a Legacy scene here.

Yeah, most legacy decks are a blast to play at least once. Even Belcher is awesome to mow through people for a while.

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It's a shame they have Kirk where Picard should be.

Amen. Picard>
Kirk lost my attention with all the crappy commercials.

@Windstrider- Have you checked out the Catalytic Conversters? The corn ethynal is really hard on the cats which creates a nasty gum that
causes stalling (air can't pass through the little beads). I have a Nissan Titan that had that issue and was going to replace them for $2,000 or more. Tried other fixes such as a pinch of AV gas, Firing the cats (poking a whole and heating them up to drain the gum), using high test with gum out, and finally Marbal Mystery oil every fuel up. It works fine now but I had to pull the check engine light as it would not go away due to low cat effiency code. The cats read perfect with the sniffer though, and think the cause is not using Nissan spark plugs replacements. I am not a mechanic, but trying not to spend $2,000 or more will motivate you learn. Also, try and call in on a radio car show for some advice and get diagnoses from multiple repair guys for better answers. You can have an honest car repairman convention in a gas station restroom, thus be careful on exploritory repair.

I replaced the catalytic on my old 87 honda accord, and I didn't know shit about cars.

The desire to save money really does help out with a learning curve.

I found myself REALLY wanting a playset of Scalding Tarn and Arid Mesa, but OMG at the pricetag. Then I remembered that I had over 6000 points of Dark Angels that have been sitting in my closet for the past two years. That ought to be enough to cover the cost...