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Do you really expect me to believe that? He clearly has a body pillow of himself and not some attractive woman.
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No, you’re both wrong, he has one of Kaya. You can only have powerful Buhlack women on your body pillows stalker child, enjoy standard bans.
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I was willing to bet Oko or Doubling Season
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Nah his precious is definitely some shitty fucking pun from an unset.
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I'm about to spend the majority of my day off on a draft with a bunch of friends and no one has told me what draft it is. I'm actually having a nice lil gym sesh so I can be in a good mindset to stare at cardboard for the next 5 hours. I don't have the right type of autism to do this shit. Everyone else has been playing since I was still in grade school, but I'm not going to know any of these cards. I'm dreading this the same way you dread going on an amusement park ride. I'm so nervous I'm gonna fuck it up and just literally be able to do nothing in all my games and have a bad time. Wish me luck. Lmao.
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With most sets your best option is to find a signpost early(uncommon Two color card with a keyword), then grab it and build around it. That's always been my approach. Same works around a good uncommon with a keyword. If it's core just draft BREAD.
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Oh don't panic. Draft is a fun social event.the only way you could fuck it up is to not show.
Heck we had a friend who had never drafted before, thought he wouldn't like it, and we did baulder's gate he created a mean rakdos treasure deck and ran the whole table to victory.
Just have fun.
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Foundations sounds like it's a solid limited environment for beginners. Apparently, Jump Start Foundations occurred and was released simultaneously-ish because Wizards is Not Very Intelligent and accidentally printed all of the packaging material in a nigh-identical fashion for the two sets. It was otherwise supposed to be a separate set altogether, vis-a-vis Jumpstart or Jumpstart 2022.
I've started building commander decks around commanders that have sub-1000 or ideally sub-500 decks at this point. The new commanders build themselves and play on autopilot. Design's really in a bad spot, but they're also clearly overworked and understaffed to haul the gigantic, useless ass of the rest of WOTC (and hasbro).
I've started building commander decks around commanders that have sub-1000 or ideally sub-500 decks at this point. The new commanders build themselves and play on autopilot. Design's really in a bad spot, but they're also clearly overworked and understaffed to haul the gigantic, useless ass of the rest of WOTC (and hasbro).
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He's Jewish, not Muslim.
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What stupid terrible OC decks do you all have an inordinate affection for?
There was an awful deck in 2021 Standard that tried to give people a bunch of goats with Clackbridge Troll and kill them off with Massacre Worm to bean them in the head and make them sacrifice real cards to the troll. There was also a bad combo deck used Mystic Reflection, Tend the Pests, and Daemogoth Woe-Eater to make your opponent shit out their hand, refill your own and take a bunch of damage. At some point after Archfiend of the Dross came out I had the idea to make a deck along those lines in explorer. This is a Bo1 deck because it's a bad enough combo deck without letting someone sideboard you but it's entertaining when it does the thing.
The idea is accelerating with Lanowar elves into your Archfiend and then praying you get to untap with it because then you can surprise combat trick them with 6 untapped Archfiends that make them take 12 damage for every creature they lose. There's some interaction (Thoughtsneed and Go For the Throat instead of Push because you weren't doing anything turn 2 anyway) and some fall back combos like doing the thing with 8 Clackbridge Trolls and giving them 24 goats to sacrifice and draw you a bunch of cards and buy you time dig for the combo or just landing an archfiend and casting Crippling Fear to remove the goat herd or just find the one of Wurm.
It's been a while since I put it together and I'd probably redo most of the manabase. I've had some idea to give it a transformational sideboard to try to turn it into a Fight Rigging deck for game 2 but that seems too cute to work
There was an awful deck in 2021 Standard that tried to give people a bunch of goats with Clackbridge Troll and kill them off with Massacre Worm to bean them in the head and make them sacrifice real cards to the troll. There was also a bad combo deck used Mystic Reflection, Tend the Pests, and Daemogoth Woe-Eater to make your opponent shit out their hand, refill your own and take a bunch of damage. At some point after Archfiend of the Dross came out I had the idea to make a deck along those lines in explorer. This is a Bo1 deck because it's a bad enough combo deck without letting someone sideboard you but it's entertaining when it does the thing.
4 Clackbridge Troll
1 Island
4 Tend the Pests
3 Swamp
3 Mystic Reflection
1 Forest
4 Archfiend of the Dross
1 Massacre Wurm
2 Crippling Fear
4 Thoughtseize
3 Elvish Mystic
3 Llanowar Elves
1 Castle Locthwain
2 Darkbore Pathway
2 Necroblossom Snarl
4 Watery Grave
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Llanowar Wastes
4 Go for the Throat
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 The Great Henge
1 Island
4 Tend the Pests
3 Swamp
3 Mystic Reflection
1 Forest
4 Archfiend of the Dross
1 Massacre Wurm
2 Crippling Fear
4 Thoughtseize
3 Elvish Mystic
3 Llanowar Elves
1 Castle Locthwain
2 Darkbore Pathway
2 Necroblossom Snarl
4 Watery Grave
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Llanowar Wastes
4 Go for the Throat
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 The Great Henge
The idea is accelerating with Lanowar elves into your Archfiend and then praying you get to untap with it because then you can surprise combat trick them with 6 untapped Archfiends that make them take 12 damage for every creature they lose. There's some interaction (Thoughtsneed and Go For the Throat instead of Push because you weren't doing anything turn 2 anyway) and some fall back combos like doing the thing with 8 Clackbridge Trolls and giving them 24 goats to sacrifice and draw you a bunch of cards and buy you time dig for the combo or just landing an archfiend and casting Crippling Fear to remove the goat herd or just find the one of Wurm.
It's been a while since I put it together and I'd probably redo most of the manabase. I've had some idea to give it a transformational sideboard to try to turn it into a Fight Rigging deck for game 2 but that seems too cute to work
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Honka Honka Burning Love
In Clown World, the only god is the one who Honks.
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My first Mythic run was with a Dimir Midrange deck using Hostage Taker, Gonti, Lord of Luxury and the Scarab God.
Eating Uros with the Scarab God was top tier memes.
Edit : Also the Massacre/Troll deck was like 2 cards off being great.
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@Oddjob OTP I can’t quote your post, but a buddy and I brewed up a pioneer list when Streets of New Cappena dropped that tried to power out Blast of Genius to discard Shadow of Mortality and dome people for 15 after some early burn via shocks and lightning strike. I even took it to a pioneer showdown and got dumpstered by bant spirits and UW yorion control. If they ever print Blast of Genius on arena, I intend to play the fuck out of the deck in any and all formats.
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There is a version of that sort of thing in Modern with Calibrated Blast.
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I know, and it’s definitely way better in modern, i just desperately wanted to play treasure cruse and temporal trespass and dig through time.
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Got 4 jumpstart packs yesterday. Tried them out today.
Actually not too bad. My buddy hadn't touched magic in a few years and managed to pull a comeback in game 2 from 1 life to win. The zealotry pack had an interesting combo in it. This set seems to really be pushing the line of newbie vs depth.
It is... interesting that every JS pack now comes with 1 legendary creature, and in this set that legendary creature is the "anime art" style card. I'm curious how more of it will play, but it's one of those I would definitely recommend newbies play with experienced players and not have 2 newbies try to learn on their own.
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It's by far the best way to onboard new players, so you can just have them square off and then referee them. You can explain both different options available and why they would want to take them. Modern commander decks have way, way, way too complicated of mechanics to keep track of for a new player .
Granted, I think the original JumpStart set is far better for this than the new one - the new one has too many commander card designs, same as 2022, that are just like... they're complicated for no particularly good reason, really. But that's the case for everything these days. Foundations was desperately needed after a long, long year of horrendously unintuitive mechanics.
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Ok I ended up reading the JD Vance/MTG article.
The "Hannah Sparks" who wrote this deserves to be bullied by other journalists.
Hannah Sparks
Published Oct. 27, 2024, 3:31 p.m. ET
JD Vance may have revealed his cards too early in the race.
Fans of the fantasy card game “Magic: The Gathering” have discovered Vance’s favorite card, which they believe reveals everything voters need to know about the vice presidential candidate’s values.
In a recent interview with Semafor, the Ohio revealed his adolescent obsession with the game.
“The big problem with transitioning from being a 13-year-old who likes ‘Magic: The Gathering’ to being a 15-year-old who likes ‘Magic: The Gathering’ is that 15-year-old girls do not like ‘Magic: The Gathering’,” he confessed. “So I dropped it like a bad habit.”
Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate then named his “embarrassing” favorite card to play, called Yawgmoth’s Bargain.
The illustrious card depicts a monstrous, clawed machine’s interaction with a robed skeletal entity whose, bearing a warning in the caption: “He craves only one commodity.”
The card was introduced in 1999 but has since been banned in most competitive “Magic” tournaments due to its reputation as the ultimate trump card — which simply wasn’t as much fun.
The Independent spoke to avid players.
“At the time, it was probably the most powerful deck you could play,” one player from San Francisco told the outlet. “I infer from that that he’s ruthless and wants to win at all costs.”
Pitting wizard against wizard, the game is played in a series of spells, where Yawgmoth’s Bargain renders one player defenseless to the other’s onslaught of magic defenses.
“Essentially, you’re not playing an interactive game anymore. You’re just sort of playing Solitaire… while the other person sits there and waits for the game to end,” said lifelong Missour-based player Lucas Kunce, 42 — a Democratic politician running to unseat Republican senator Josh Hawley.
“If JD Vance was playing that at the kitchen table against his buddies, then people probably thought he was kind of a jerk,” Kunce continued, describing its “reputation for being a ‘broken’ card.”
“Magic” fans online are known for comparing their favorite decks, which are said to reveal key characteristics about a player’s personality, according to the Independent’s report.
On Reddit, a subgroup for “Magic” players concluded that any deck built around Yawgmoth’s Bargain would be associated with “greed, ambition, dominance, wickedness, the dead and undead, vampires, demons, blood magic.”
“The idea of it is a deal with the devil, right? You’re selling your soul for power… It’s power at any cost, and that seems to be what he’s into,” Kunce added.
The "Hannah Sparks" who wrote this deserves to be bullied by other journalists.
JD Vance plays ‘Magic: ‘The Gathering’ — and his favorite card could reveal GOP candidate’s dark political ambitions
ByHannah Sparks
Published Oct. 27, 2024, 3:31 p.m. ET
JD Vance may have revealed his cards too early in the race.
Fans of the fantasy card game “Magic: The Gathering” have discovered Vance’s favorite card, which they believe reveals everything voters need to know about the vice presidential candidate’s values.
In a recent interview with Semafor, the Ohio revealed his adolescent obsession with the game.
“The big problem with transitioning from being a 13-year-old who likes ‘Magic: The Gathering’ to being a 15-year-old who likes ‘Magic: The Gathering’ is that 15-year-old girls do not like ‘Magic: The Gathering’,” he confessed. “So I dropped it like a bad habit.”
Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate then named his “embarrassing” favorite card to play, called Yawgmoth’s Bargain.
The illustrious card depicts a monstrous, clawed machine’s interaction with a robed skeletal entity whose, bearing a warning in the caption: “He craves only one commodity.”
The card was introduced in 1999 but has since been banned in most competitive “Magic” tournaments due to its reputation as the ultimate trump card — which simply wasn’t as much fun.
The Independent spoke to avid players.
“At the time, it was probably the most powerful deck you could play,” one player from San Francisco told the outlet. “I infer from that that he’s ruthless and wants to win at all costs.”
Pitting wizard against wizard, the game is played in a series of spells, where Yawgmoth’s Bargain renders one player defenseless to the other’s onslaught of magic defenses.
“Essentially, you’re not playing an interactive game anymore. You’re just sort of playing Solitaire… while the other person sits there and waits for the game to end,” said lifelong Missour-based player Lucas Kunce, 42 — a Democratic politician running to unseat Republican senator Josh Hawley.
“If JD Vance was playing that at the kitchen table against his buddies, then people probably thought he was kind of a jerk,” Kunce continued, describing its “reputation for being a ‘broken’ card.”
“Magic” fans online are known for comparing their favorite decks, which are said to reveal key characteristics about a player’s personality, according to the Independent’s report.
On Reddit, a subgroup for “Magic” players concluded that any deck built around Yawgmoth’s Bargain would be associated with “greed, ambition, dominance, wickedness, the dead and undead, vampires, demons, blood magic.”
“The idea of it is a deal with the devil, right? You’re selling your soul for power… It’s power at any cost, and that seems to be what he’s into,” Kunce added.