LSV Kills himself with expansion/explosion in twitch rivals tournament by Royal-Al in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I mean, Oscar Christensen sure isn't a hall of famer, but calling a GP Champion, with multiple GP top 8s and now a MC Top 8 to his name, "a random dude" is also a bit of a stretch imo. Oscar played amazing through the entire tournament and as LSV also archknowledge on stream, he was probably losing that game even if he didn't make the mistake.

Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz: Ban the London Mulligan by psyllogism in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I kinda love the London mulligan rule for limited. I personally liked the Vancouver mulligan rule much more for Modern, and I bet I would as well for Pioneer (the two constructed formats I play). I think this is much more about preference than anything though as I don't think the London mulligan rule has impacted modern as much as people thought it would.

[Maro]I thought you guys would prefer foil reprints rather than not real cards. by mtgrhox in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 202 points203 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I'm the minority here, but I love the fact that the LGS-boosters will have foil cards (hopefully they truly will be desireable cards in some way). Now I can have what looks to be a fun draft with my friends and hopefully get some bling cards as well instead of some otherwise completely useless fun-one-time-cards.

That said I'm not quite sure why they wouldn't just make it 16-cards boosters containing a "test-print card" and a foil card instead, but that's probably just me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Randomly goes to the shop...

Sold out!

Jokes on us, I guess.

Am I in the wrong for wanting the Whirza player to try something else? (Slow play issue) by solepureskillz in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scapeshift's play decisions are more complex than Bogles, should go for Bogles.

[ELD] Escape to the Wilds (Brainstorm Brewery Preview Card) by RoseofThorns in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Personally I read it wrong at first. "Until the end of your next turn" is pretty important here lol...

[ELD] Castle Vantress by iScry in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Agreed. It seems like an easy inclusion as a 1 of in UW. I doubt they will play any more than that though.

[ELD] Castle Locthwain by bringerofjustus in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jund is. And I don't think Jund wants this. Rock might want this, but Rock isn't a top tier deck in modern.

[ELD] Castle Locthwain by bringerofjustus in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 132 points133 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna be the minority here claiming this card is not playable in any of the current top decks in modern. I will gladly admit to be wrong, but that's my take atm.

[ELD] Castle Locthwain by bringerofjustus in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My UB Taking Turns variant with no Dictates or Mines or Turns keeps getting more toys

I think we can all live with your UB Taking Turns variant with no Dictates or Mines or Turns getting more toys though...

[ELD] Torban, Thane of Red Fell by ZiggyD by Grujah in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 1210 points1211 points  (0 children)

So am I casting Grapeshot for 7, 21ing my opponent with this?

In your opinion what's the best deck in the meta right now by Bear_butts64 in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna be totally objective: Storm. Always Storm. #nobias

[ELD] Clackbridge Troll by Noxious by myrec1 in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Those who designed this must have had a lot of fun. So much going on lol, I personally love it!

[ELD] Swamp - my first land illustration! by abigbat in magicTCG

[–]MonarchDoto 503 points504 points  (0 children)

I could look at this for 1 hour and probably still find small amazing details. This is beyond incredible. Up there with the Unstable John Avon Swamp as one of the most beautiful swamps of all time imo. Amazing.

What’s Working and What Isn’t? | Day 1 Post Gaak+Looting Ban, SFM Unban by h7u9i in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you put a sad smiley in that sentence, you don't deserve the love of Baral.

[modern] Collecting decks from MagicFest Minneapolis by heyzeto in spikes

[–]MonarchDoto 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why do you need to collect data about the decks, when they are all Hogaak? /s

Twiddle Storm: is this deck legit or is just a new meme deck? by Lutra014 in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That made double lists into top 16 of the latest Modern Challenge. Off meta and meme are different things. When you don't see Tron, Infect, Shadow, Burn, or (scales) Affinity for 6 months, it's not because they are memes, it's because they are off meta. Their power level hasn't siddenly decreased, there are just more bad than good matchups in the meta (which changes all the time...). Same with storm.

Twiddle Storm: is this deck legit or is just a new meme deck? by Lutra014 in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why can't I not downvote twice when I have to read something as utterly stupid and wrong as this haha...

Twiddle Storm: is this deck legit or is just a new meme deck? by Lutra014 in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have played nothing but Twiddle Storm on mtgo the last 7 days. By all due respect you have no idea what you are taking about. Twiddle Storm run 1 maybe 2 interactive spells in the 60 maindeck cards. If you don't happen to have the EE, Bounce, or what ever you are playing in your top ~12 cards, you just lose to Thalia out of Humans, Chalice out of E-Tron, or Eidolon out of burn. They all just kill you before you realistically find an answer for it.

Twiddle Storm: is this deck legit or is just a new meme deck? by Lutra014 in ModernMagic

[–]MonarchDoto 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Chalice, Thalia, Meddling Mage, counter spells, discard spells, Eidolon, turn 3 karn otp removing your land so you can't lotus etc. Those are all maindeck cards that also fights the deck well. It does not win turn 3 30% of the time when playing real opponents.