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Posted: **Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:26 pm**

Prerelease was a bust. Got sick at and dropped at 2-2. Oh well, got some cards

X-2 = The FOS standard

Posted: **Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:51 pm**

Generator servant is a pretty unfair card when com bones with any reasonable 5+ drops, especially if you have any other action going on.

He did work for me all day. Nothing quite like a turn 3 Thundering Giant or a turn 4 Doom Engine to make your opponent nervous.

My final game of the day my board state was:

2 [cards]Thundering Giant
Siege Dragon
Scuttling Doom Engine[/cards]

All things considered, it was a very fun prerelease.

Posted: **Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:08 pm**

Prerelease was a bust. Got sick at and dropped at 2-2. Oh well, got some cards
X-2 = The FOS standard

We train very hard to be able to achieve such a feat, thank you very much.

:scrump:

Posted: **Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:25 pm**

Green seems face ne to me? It has a lot of fine commons and with creatures being so small, the 2/3 convoke guy that makes countsrs actually seems like a premium spell.

Red seems way better then everything though.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:54 am**

@Z: Most likely not

Happy Birthday Kaitscralt, from future-land.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:18 am**

Boooooo.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:20 am**

GPT's are mostly a waste of time.

I only play them when I have nothing else going on, I REALLY want to play magic, or I need practice.

Also, Jelly that you get to attend multiple WMCQ. America too big.
Same. Canada has three, but only one in my area. The next closest is 4+ hours of driving away. Farthest would require a flight or several days of non-stop driving.

Isn't Australia most of the size of America though?

Yes it is. I have to fly hours for all interstate events. Again, lucky I am infinite.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:43 am**

Happy Birthday Kaits!

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:56 am**

A tad late but here is another animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2xxgJjnuPE

As usually support would be great

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:54 am**

@MDU - Sure that video isn't about the current standard? That's how I feel if I see a turn 2 pack rat without burn in hand.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:36 am**

Happy bday K8!

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:32 am**

Did another release event today, this time going Red green/blue. I was gruul for the first couple rounds, then went izzet for the final three to test Jace which I feel comfortable saying is mostly horrible in limited. It's basically a worse version of Thassa which is similarly terrible in limited.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:57 am**

I played blue in both of my prerelease 2HGs we played. I was Ru in one and UB in the other. Blue was okay, it has some good aggressive cards.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:53 pm**

Happy bday K8!

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:04 pm**

On this day many moons ago, the ground opened up and from its maw, 2 furry demonic hands burst forth cradling a young infant. Legend says this baby would grow up to Kait, but the real question is: was he kicked out of Hell or was he merely set loose here?

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:58 pm**

Happy birthday kait.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:03 pm**

I went red for the prerelease. My pool was very good and I could have actually gone mono red but decided to splash black for Ulcerate, Nightfire Giant, three Accursed Spirit, and a Stab Wound. Ended up 3-1 with my losses in my match loss (third round) being due to land screw in game one and mull to five in game three. I was lucky enough to pull the Soul of Shandalar in my seeded pack, and Hoarding Dragon and Goblin Rabblemaster in two of my boosters. With two Generator Servants in my pool I was able to do some busted things with my three 5+ drops which was tons of fun. Got second place which was good for eight boosters (I went to a small store and we had 10 at our prerelease).

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:49 pm**

Thing about Kait is, he's not stuck here with us. We're stuck here with him.

Happy spawn day Kait!

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:51 pm**

Am I correct in assuming that [mana]u[/mana] kinda got the shaft in this core set? At least in terms of constructed value?

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:04 pm**

What's fucked up is a bunch of Red Mages wondering if and why Blue got shafted in this set. Just go with it!

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:12 pm**

I had fun with blue in my prereleases, I had 4 Encrusts, 4 Frost Lynx, 2 [card]Tyrant's Machine[/card]s, and 2 Amphin Pathmage. Since it was 2HG, the Amphin Pathmages kind of got my partner a reservation in Valuetown.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:17 pm**

Thing about Kait is, he's not stuck here with us. We're stuck here with him.

Happy spawn day Kait!

But doctor, I am Pagliacci!

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:20 pm**

What's fucked up is a bunch of Red Mages wondering if and why Blue got shafted in this set. Just go with it!

I know. I'm enjoying it.

I had fun with blue in my prereleases, I had 4 Encrusts, 4 Frost Lynx, 2 Tyrant's Machines, and 2 Amphin Pathmage. Since it was 2HG, the Amphin Pathmages kind of got my partner a reservation in Valuetown.

Yeah, blue is much better in limited. I got matched up against an opponent playing U/B at my prerelease and I lost 0-2. It was disgusting.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:23 pm**

Thing about Kait is, he's not stuck here with us. We're stuck here with him.

Happy spawn day Kait!
But doctor, I am Pagliacci!

Give me back my face!

I just recently watched the directors cut of that movie, and it was fantastic. Every bit as good as the book.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:27 pm**

I didn't know there was a director's cut, but I'll queue it up on Netflix. I was disappointed with the theatrical cut.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:03 pm**

Then there is the executive cut...

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:16 pm**

Had fun at the 2HG prerelease. Did W/G convoke and U/R control. We finished 5/6 and got 6 packs. Not bad.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:02 pm**

Don't remember if I mentioned this or not, but I went 4-1 last night, good enough for first place.

Traded for a foil Soul of Shandalar and I have 2 jaces, a Lily, a bunch of duals, and double rabblemaster among my booty.

I also stuck around to watch some 2HG and my friends finished 3/4th with a pretty decent pool that included mono-red goblins with obelisk of urd and the red paragon, either of which makes goblin kaboomist immortal when challenged by his own mines. The support deck was UB control with double garruks wake which I don't think was particularly good(the first is barely playable imo) but they got 6 packs each which was nice.

Sickest thing I saw was Banisher priest sliver and the sliver legendary land in one deck and Hornet queen being bounced every turn in another deck.

Posted: **Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:04 pm**

Split top 4 out of 20 people. Chose red and pulled Burning Anger and Chandra

I had to choose between playing U/R or R/G . Blue had sick rares (Jalira, Leviathan, the one that puts all attacking creatures on top or bottom of library), but green had overall better 2-3 drops as well as three 5/5 tramplers with convoke and 2 ancient silverbacks. In the end i played gruul and it worked, i transformed the deck into izzet against a token strategy in game 3 and blew him out destroying all his attacking tokens.
Burning anger on 5/5 wurms is tasty. Chandra is insane, especially when combined with ping effects like forge devil or shock effects like inferno fist to kill bigger creatures. Also had 1 cone of flame wich is overpowered.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:50 am**

Burning Anger is a card in limited.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:50 am**

Burning Anger is a card in limited.

My round four opponent went off on me in game two with Xathrid Slyblade into Burning Anger into Feral Thirst. I was not happy.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:26 am**

Yes Burning Anger is one of the format's bombs.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:38 am**

Said opponent also had four Inferno Fist in his deck but I still managed to win the match. Goblin Roughrider into Goblin Roughrider into Accursed Spirit too stronk.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:40 am**

Not strong enough if your opponent is playing 3 Resolute Archangel... My only match loss was to that guy. Fighting through almost 60 life each game proved too much.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:45 am**

I found out garruk is literally unbeatable unless you are mono aggro beats

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:53 am**

Which you should be in this format.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:30 am**

Pretty sure pillar of light is unplayable trash game 1. It's good against exactly BG decks(in the late game) and as a sideboard card against opponents with souls.

This format seems super aggressive and when I finally got to play a red deck, I was VERY impressed by the quality of the 2 and 3 drops. The fact that lots of them trade up is a pretty big deal when you're the aggressor and most guys having 3 power makes it fairly trivial to wait a couple turns for an alpha strike and/or chump attack+plus quality red removal to kill big shit setting up future alphas.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:42 am**

It seems to me that red is just way better than any other color in m15. Besides having stupid good 2-3 drops (generator servant, borderland marauder, goblin roughrider, even krenko's oppressor is decent) it has a massive amount of good removal (lightning strike, inferno fist, heat ray, cone of flames, stoke the flames) while black just has a 5 mana removal and ulcerate (which is very good but probably worse than lightning strike) and white has pillar of light (super conditional) and the uncommon divine verdict with convoke that is decent. I'm happy i can force red in drafts.... last core set i had to force blue and i felt somewhat guilty

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:07 pm**

yeah but they're is something magical about first picking opportunity

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