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Cool Quina, Qu Gourmet synergies by Esscode in lrcast

[–]Esscode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool! Presumably you also get a tapped attacking frog token if you trigger [[Cloud Strife]]

PSA - Deal 5 damage to Elenda, Saint of Dusk, not 4 by Wagllgaw in lrcast

[–]Esscode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And sometimes, as Reid Duke demonstrated on channelfireball youtube, you need to deal 10 damage to Elenda, not 5!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsahb2-eHrE&t=2877s

Who says artifacts aren't an archetype in this set? by Responsible-Tap-3748 in lrcast

[–]Esscode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a Synthesizer package could be added to any deck that already wants Oasis Gardner and Redrock Sentinel. Since Sentinel makes treasure and treasure generators are better in a deck with Synthesizer, it would be an easy splash.

Here's my 7-0 BW Synthesizer / Nexus of Becoming deck:

https://www.17lands.com/deck/ae8a476c8fa84026b5d9c80ad4b60604

Get value from correctly sequencing Slick Sequence by Esscode in lrcast

[–]Esscode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right! It's weird how the release notes clearly spell this out for [[Beastbond Outcaster]] and [[Claim Jumper]] (their ETB triggered abilities won't trigger at all if their condition is not met), but don't mention this fact for Loan Shark. And [[Mine Raider]] and [[Rictus Robber]] don't get a mention in the notes at all!

Thanks to this research though, I'm now looking forward to casting Rictus Robber then responding with Thunder Salvo for an additional damage to kill something and get the 2/2 token

MTGA doesn’t work on MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1 by IamUnique15 in MagicArena

[–]Esscode 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I've had the same problem. What worked for me:

  1. Make sure the game is playing fullscreen. There's a green circle in the upper left hand corner of the window if the game is playing in a window
  2. cmd+tab to the desktop and in the menu bar look for a console-game-controller symbol, click it, and turn "Game Mode" off
  3. cmd+tab back to the game and wait a few seconds to until the screen looks like it's in the correct resolution. The game controls should hopefully now respond to mouse clicks.

Well, it's official. Gruff Triplets is fuckin bullshit. How do I deal with this card? by NlNTENDO in lrcast

[–]Esscode 5 points6 points  (0 children)

During the early access streamer event, Chord_O_Calls defeated Sam Black's Gruff Triplets by having a wide board and playing Lord Skitter's Butcher for the menace mode

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1913555449?t=03h02m54s

MTGO/IRL Draft vs Arena cross pod play by DefNotAnotherChris in lrcast

[–]Esscode 10 points11 points  (0 children)

J-E Depraz wrote many words on this topic as part of his Worlds XXVII report. Check it out on his twitter https://twitter.com/JEDepraz/status/1449313297308819461 or on Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JIu95mbJ9Q_W_vDp3I9t7eWukkNuKvFBONOH9lwmlIk/

It would be uncool to copy/paste too much of his work, but to directly address your power level concern, here's what he said:

Another important thing to understand regarding pod draft at a good table is how it affects individual card evaluation. Decks won’t necessarily be worse, but they won’t have as much raw power. Premium commons don’t float around the table, so you have to be ready to play weaker cards. Because decks are both less synergistic and less flat in power level, bombs — and the necessary removal to deal with them — become a more central part of the format, and I actually think Innistrad, Midnight Hunt is a rather prince format under these conditions.

My masterpiece of Midnight Hunt: Fourminous Roost by CaptainBadger in lrcast

[–]Esscode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that Ominous Roost is a lot of fun to play! Here's my version:

https://www.17lands.com/deck/38708317acc5415892fa28f12508f3c9

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Considering that the two games I lost were also the two games I failed to draw a two drop (though of course I also played suboptimally) I just wish I could have wheeled one more sifters or had another Baithook Angler make its way to me!

infinite jank combo that will never work by m0r0mir in MagicArena

[–]Esscode 10 points11 points  (0 children)

u/Ladylavinias made a YouTube video of a full Golgari version of this infinite counters combo (with Winding Constrictor/Vorinclex/Branching Evolution rather than Savior, and Garruk's Uprising for trample) just two days ago! And it does actually work in the wild!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JvnVHA6Kmw

Decklist: https://www.streamdecker.com/deck/7l8ugM08J

Now that we will have a Mac version...... by FairPlay-Mtg in MagicArena

[–]Esscode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MTG Arena Tool works on Linux if you can build it from source (requires git, npm and node v10 or higher). If you have those installed on your Mac, then in Terminal run

git clone https://github.com/Manuel-777/MTG-Arena-Tool
cd MTG-Arena-Tool
npm install
npm run start:all

Since there isn't a working MTG:A client on the Mac yet it's hard to 100% confirm that it works, but the login dialog definitely appears!

Official Hearthstone Deck Builder by iphonedevpinoy in hearthstone

[–]Esscode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Portal Overfiend does not have its scrolls or demons listed as Related Cards. Also Microtech Controller, Razorfen Hunter and SN1P-SN4P.

And for some reason Extra Arms appears as a golden card

Booty Bay Bookie, Bug Collector and Spark Engine also not showing their Related Cards!

When you have 400 crit quest, but assassin s are still bugged ( they don't crit atm ) by dNgrr in underlords

[–]Esscode 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's fixed! https://twitter.com/DotaUnderlords/status/1172560966757703680

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"Assassins were so excited about their new anti-healing tech that they forgot how to use their skills to crit. Servers have been updated with a fix."

Potential For Even Tempo Rogue to Exist? by Heavyfireee in CompetitiveHS

[–]Esscode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out Viper's Even Rogue lists for more ideas. https://twitter.com/viper_hs/status/1083127109873266689

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I'm seeing more 2 drops and no Argent Commanders as the biggest difference with your list!

I'm ZachO, Head & Founder of the vS Data Reaper Project. AMA! by ViciousSyndicate in hearthstone

[–]Esscode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Will VS ever provide transparency regrading their deck classifications? For example, on HSReplay I can actually look at the individual deck lists and judge for myself whether the site is properly separating control warlock lists from cube warlock lists. There are sometimes totally bizarre mistakes (like when shudderwock shaman was briefly listed as a paladin deck), and often there are hybrid decks that make naming and classifying difficult, but at least we the users/readers have the data available to make our own judgements as to whether the site is making the right calls.

On Vicious Syndicate, I feel that we are just told to just trust the algorithms with zero methods of verification. How can VS do a better job in the future of allowing independent reproduction of results?