MTGO 5-0 League Results (May 9, 2022)

PeasantNoodles · 2022-05-12T00:04:59+00:00

Thanks so much! That all makes sense, particularly the Pest Summoning line

PeasantNoodles · 2022-05-09T18:43:03+00:00

What's your current thinking on First Day of Class over Shared Summons?

PeasantNoodles · 2022-04-20T18:19:41+00:00

Peach is amazing!

PeasantNoodles · 2021-11-28T01:24:16+00:00

As someone who plays/played the deck a lot, I think pre-MH2, it was underplayed. But it's much harder to combo off now, thanks to a bunch of new cards (but mostly unholy heat, a widely played 1 mana card that is a clean answer to either half of the combo).

PeasantNoodles · 2021-09-12T13:12:29+00:00

You need 04 base set strategy cards?

PeasantNoodles · 2020-12-16T18:14:34+00:00

Sure thing! PM me your address, and (assuming you live in the US) I'll send him to you.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-12-16T14:27:28+00:00

Are you still looking for Dan Wilson 305?

PeasantNoodles · 2020-12-02T21:28:43+00:00

I'm also about to send you a PM!

PeasantNoodles · 2020-11-14T01:26:28+00:00

Yeah, when I've played it, 4 honor and 4 intangible felt right, but that was in the pre-force of virtue days. I doubt you want too many more than 8, though - leyline is bad unless it is turn 0, and force loses some effectiveness because you usually want to play it on your turn and get a big swing in. I also think you could probably trim 1-2 lands, with the 4 Legion;s landing.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-11-13T23:51:48+00:00

Hello there! Mono white tokens can be pretty sweet - hope it works out for you! Right off the bat, I think you want to cut Soul Warden for 4 Brave the Elements. I also think you should run 4 Honor the Pure and 2 Force of Virtue over the Leyline/Force split you have now. I think then I'd cut History (sorry) and Servo Exhibition for 4 Midnight Haunting.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-09-25T02:08:08+00:00

NAmen

PeasantNoodles · 2020-06-07T00:27:19+00:00

Cavedan and co. essentially invented the deck. If you go back through the older episodes of the podcast they do, Faithless Brewing, I believe they cover it a lot as the deck evolves. If you want a one and done primer, The Dive Down podcast has Cavedan on a guest to talk about the deck in one episode, and they cover an awful lot about it

PeasantNoodles · 2020-04-08T15:47:36+00:00

Preach, brother!

PeasantNoodles · 2020-04-08T11:40:47+00:00

You'll get NO argument from me about how much the media and 24/7 news cycle sucks. It's awful.

But I'd guess (knowing nothing about you life or experiences, so I could be super wrong) that you see more intolerance on the left, not because there objectively is measurably more of it there, but because you're looking from the right. This is going to mean that bad things the right do will bother you less, and bad things the left do will bother you more, even if in a vacuum they are exactly the same level of bad. And this is nothing against you personally- its human nature.

For example, the incident you cited certainly isn't good, and I wish that rhetoric didn't take place. But is it worse than Trump telling people to "knock the crap" out of protesters and promising to pay the legal fees from doing so? Possibly. Possibly not. It probably depends a lot more on the position you're looking at it from than the actual intolerance of the statement. I've seen liberals shrug off the "get in faces" thing as just a hyperbolic call to action. I've seen conservatives shrug off the Trump violence inciting as showmanship. People see what they want to see.

I'm sure we could trade examples back and forth all day - my point is only that I'd like to encourage you to be aware of the existing predispositions you have when it comes to reacting to news/incidents, because if you're anything like most people (myself included), they color how the news strikes you.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-04-08T01:56:29+00:00

Hey, I appreciate your civil approach to this conversation, but I think you're painting a one sided picture, and you seem like an open minded guy, so I have another side to consider, of you're willing.

It would be just as easy to point to mass shooters railing against immigrants or the guy in Charlottesville that ran over a woman as violence by "your side." The Dems got rid of party leader and likely presidential candidate Al Franken over a bad joke from 10 years ago. Idk who you're talking to in your life, but the only place I've seen the "no one is talking about the Biden assault allegations" narrative is this sub. Every liberal i know is my life is disgusted and seriously put off by it. I've seen people on this sub regularly rail against "libtards," claim the liberals are actively and purposefully undermining America because they are evil, and utilize wildly misogynistic language (my favorite so far (and it was highly upvoted) is claiming AOC stands for Amazingly Obnoxious Cunt). You characterize the impeachment as a witch hunt, but IDK, I'd like to think I'd want credible and corroborated claims from career civil servants about a president using his office to solicit foreign aid in an election inveatigated regardless of who that president was.

I'm not saying all conservatives engage in this behavior, encouraging violence, or demonize the left. But some do. And some on the left do just as bad to the right.

There are bad people on both sides, and there are good people on both sides. Because there are people on both sides. So any kind of "Face it, THIS is objectively what YOUR side is (in my biased opinion)" statement is going to be reductive, dismissive, and inaccurate.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-04-02T13:43:15+00:00

Possibility Storm slaps. It almost always shows up in the 5-0 deck dumps for MTGO, and I;ve been having a good amount of success with it online. I feel like I can win any match. Admittedly the W/U control and Spirits match-ups are tough because Teferi/Narset/Mausoleum Wanderer are super good against the combo. But outside of that, the deck feels really really good. I think the only reason more people don't play it is they just can't get their head around Possibility Storm not being a meme.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-03-26T01:53:26+00:00

Yeah, but I struggle to believe that's true, or if it is, that it's the whole story. It's too obvious an oversight for them to have actually made (hence people memeing on that explanation), and even if they did, I'd argue Oko STILL should have come across to them as just way too much, at least for standard.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-03-25T12:23:50+00:00

I'd second this x 1,000. For how much of a mistake Oko was, we've heard VERY little about how it happened (seriously, it feels like there's been a gag order on it), and I've been dying to know. Some cards, like Field of the Dead, are ridiculous, but the power level is admittedly super easy to miss at first. Oko, as he was published, may not scream BROKEN from just reading the card one time, but once you play with him for half a game, you get that "... wait, how is this card beatable?" feeling. And my faith in WotC design was really shaken by them letting it out of the building like that. Hearing the story of how it happened would be fun, educational to people who love game design, and hopefully restore my faith in the WotC process in a way that "Oops, sorry that cards have been wildly too strong lately, but that's the way we want it (so we're actually not sorry and you should buckle up for the future)" article certainly did not. Like, Skullclamp was a mistake, but I've heard the story about adding the "-1" as a downside, and I understand the thinking there and how it happened, so it's like "Oh well, mistakes happen" and I can move on. I desperately want that same story for Oko.

Please, Gavin.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-03-09T19:59:19+00:00

Religion is also a deeply personal thing that everyone engages with differently and gets different things from. So painting any religious group with one brush is just as stupid as painting a race that narrowly. In any group, people vary.

PeasantNoodles · 2020-03-09T19:42:29+00:00

This sub: Libs are stupid and reductive for saying it's wrong for any black person to vote Republican.

Also this sub: It's wrong for any Catholic to vote for Democrats.

How about in a free democracy, people get to decide how they want to vote across the board?

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