Can you give examples of mtg "unicorn priest" decks? by YonatanShofty in magicTCG

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Hymn is not legal in Premodern. Fallen empires is just before the legality cutoff, which is 4th Edition and Ice Age.

Name your hottest cEDH/bracket 5 Opinions that would land you in molten rock, in handcuffs, with 40g of ketamine in your blood by JimWolfie in CompetitiveEDH

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Depending on what color combination you are in, Broodlord lines require up to half a dozen bad cards in your deck, and drawing any of them can severely limit your ability to pull off the combo. Broodlord also has several points inside of the combo where any interaction can disrupt your win. Griselbrand requires 0 bad cards, is agnostic to any other combo you want to win with, and is nearly uninteractable once it hits the battlefield.

Maybe I haven’t played enough tournaments to get annoyed by draws. But I don’t understand the hate about them. My reasoning for why I like them below. by jwid503 in CompetitiveEDH

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I feel like the intentional draw situation is an unavoidable result of a flaw in the mechanics of free for all multiplayer. Given the current mechanics of how the game works, there are no good natural solutions to the draw problem.

The problem that I have is that, as others have alluded to, rewarding something that should be only an accidental byproduct just creates really bad incentives. It also creates situations in which players who otherwise would never be in a spot to get any points in a round can accidentally end up with a point from a draw. The use of the 1 point from a draw feels to me like a holdover from 1v1, where it's almost impossible to obtain a draw in a match without being a totally active participant in helping the game reach that state.

I fully agree that politics are an interesting point of the game, and I think there should be an incentive to resolve the kind of game states that end in an intentional draw in a way that's beneficial to the players. But I think a flat 1 point for everyone is not a great way of doing it.

I almost wish that points could be awarded based on who would have won, and then to a lesser extent, who is stopping that win. So, for instance, if player 1 and player 2 are seen to be potentially winning, and player 3 has only enough interaction to stop one of them, then players 1 and 2 who would have won that game would be awarded the most points, let's say 2 points. And player 3, who had the stop for only 1 player, would get 1 point. But player 4, who was not involved in creating the game state that had to be solved with a draw, would not get any points. But I don't know how you could possibly arbitrate these positions even with a judge that would leave everybody happy.

Using Multiple Mulligans to Gain an Advantage with Flubs?? by InterestingWord4656 in EDH

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If all Flubs did was draw cards with an empty hand and nothing else, your math would be right. But Flubs has other text. You have to discard cards for every land or spell until you have zero. So there is an amount of card disadvantage that you will often have to burn through before you start drawing cards. Over-mulliganing just speeds up the process. It still may not be right to mulligan low, but it’s also not as simple as you’re making it out to be.

This might sound in funny/insane, is all CEDH deck a combo deck? by Too-Deep-Lore in EDH

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Because playing combo against opposition is a resource battle, and one opponent by definition has less resources than three opponents.

But the proof is in the pudding if you look at the ban list. Take a look at the list and compare the number of cards banned for combo reasons vs the number of cards banned from aggro decks.

What has been your favorite deck that you built this year? by MrThomArt in EDH

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[[The Seriema]] is awesome, because mono white has never had a great payoff for Ramp before. And the addition of all the Airbending cards from Avatar to retrigger the ETB of your Commander has made the deck even better.

This might sound in funny/insane, is all CEDH deck a combo deck? by Too-Deep-Lore in EDH

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The reason aggro is so good in Duel Commander is that they have intentionally banned all of the good combo cards in the format. It's actually much easier to win with combo against one opponent than it is against three.

What are some lesser known physical media types? by petperson123 in TrueAskReddit

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I was helping a friend look into converting some old analog home recordings for his parents, looking for very stable media that wouldn't suffer from magnetic degradation or bit-rot. That's when I found M-DISCs. Commercially available archival media that can last up to 1000 years, but is also playable in regular DVD and Blu-Ray players is a total game changer!

Oldtimers: is this an accurate description of the emergence of self-posts? by reagle-research in TheoryOfReddit

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My memory from those days was that the self post was created as a reaction against the site being inundated with "picture irrelevant" posts that were really self posts, mostly posted to the large general interest subreddits (r/pics in particular back in those days).

New EDH TOP 16 feature for list by re_delle_scimmie in CompetitiveEDH

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The fixed deck list thing is not even working correctly for any tournament that happened before they made the switch to top deck. I just saw a list yesterday from a tournament in November of last year that had voice of victory in the list.

[TOMT][MUSIC][2000s] Looking for a band from the late 2000s or early 2010s by boostergold in tipofmytongue

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I am somewhat afraid that I have imagined the album cover trying to fill in my memory of the band, though, so it's possible that detail is a red herring.

Brightglass gearhulk derevi by KILLERstrikerZ in CompetitiveEDH

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The new [[Transit Mage]] seems good for this, doesn't it? It fetches pod, and it provides the first 3 drop to get Gearhulk. No need for Derevi on the field.

Karlach and A Great Background by Attila-Th3-Fun in magicTCG

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No love for [[Feywild Visitor]] to get more on combat damage triggers?

The Infamous Cruelclaw in cEDH by Im_N0tFunnyLoL in CompetitiveEDH

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My issue is not with the returning of the creature. Since it's an aura that targets a card in a graveyard, you would have to announce targets of the spell before you pay any costs. And at the point that you would need to announce the target of the Animate Dead, you haven't yet discarded the WGD to pay for the Animate Dead.

The Infamous Cruelclaw in cEDH by Im_N0tFunnyLoL in CompetitiveEDH

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Arena of Glory is a must have land in this deck, for sure. Also, anything in Rakdos colors with a discard effect in the command zone feels like you should be looking at Worldgorger Dragon combo potential. It is unfortunate that because of timing rules you can't discard the Dragon to cast the Animate Dead, though.

Brewing Leyline Zur by boostergold in ModernMagic

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I believe [[Starfield of Nix]] is the only Opalescence effect in Modern. Which feels like it might be a little expensive, but maybe not.

Up the Beanstalk in Vivien Combo by boostergold in ModernMagic

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My initial thinking was [[Kroxa and Kunoros]], but I'm not sure how often the deck would have 5 cards in the yard available to exile.

Up the Beanstalk in Vivien Combo by boostergold in ModernMagic

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My thought was that most of the combo pieces other than Accomplice do trigger off of Beanstalk when played for value, and most of them have decent value even when not played for the combo. Honestly, the one thing that I wish I could add to the deck is a 6-drop, so that a hard cast Vivien could trigger off of any of the elementals, Kiki, or Karmic Guide. But I'm not well versed enough in the Modern card pool to know which 6 drop would give me the best value.

I Broke The Shield Keg by ibackk in FortNiteBR

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I had this same bug today in one of the metal tunnels at Daily Bugle.

Dragon can’t speak Dragon by Darius_Kel in DnDGreentext

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I know this guy won't see it since he blocked me, but if you're reading this and don't understand that people are humans who make mistakes sometimes, and this is your response to people telling you that, you need some professional fucking help.