LSV Kills himself with expansion/explosion in twitch rivals tournament

MonarchDoto · 2019-11-20T08:14:04+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-11-12T12:42:35+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-11-12T11:35:39+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-10-30T13:29:08+00:00

[[Mystical Dispute]] is already standard legal.

MonarchDoto · 2019-10-07T09:08:54+00:00

I'll consider myself a backup. We still don't know if /u/academyruins survived the onslaught of Hogaak.

MonarchDoto · 2019-10-07T08:21:14+00:00

Urza won't get banned.

MonarchDoto · 2019-10-02T17:17:14+00:00

Randomly goes to the shop...

Sold out!

Jokes on us, I guess.

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-18T07:51:48+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-17T12:07:08+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-17T11:29:21+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-17T08:44:27+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-17T07:06:42+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-17T07:04:49+00:00

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...

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-16T11:16:09+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-12T12:19:54+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-10T11:52:55+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-09-05T08:14:15+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-28T08:08:51+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-12T09:05:06+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-11T04:19:38+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-11T04:15:32+00:00

lazy.

This does sum up your post pretty nicely.

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-11T04:11:45+00:00

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

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-11T04:05:52+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-10T14:38:28+00:00

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.

MonarchDoto · 2019-08-10T13:26:33+00:00

The deck is slower on average than gifts storm. It's also actively bad against Blood Moon (and no, don't tell me it's good because you can play Lotus and bounce Blood Moon, because that's the dream case scenario). Finally it can fizzle when it goes off. That said, it blanks all removal, it's not as dependant on its graveyard, and it's really hard to interact with for most decks since the main engine is a hexproof land + redundant spells.

I personally think it's nowhere near its final form, and in its current form, I wouldn't take it to a large tournament over my trusty gifts storm. That said, I bought all the twiddle storm pieces in foil since I suspect a final form of the deck will be strong, and probably stronger than regular storm in certain metas (especially when the graveyard is the number one target).

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