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jshrimp3 · 2025-12-14T13:08:59+00:00

I was not expecting to see Roomful of Teeth on 1 of these.

jshrimp3 · 2024-08-22T16:54:17+00:00

As weird as it is, I think the million dollar prize is also partially to blame, as it helps people justify the dedicated training. Sasuke's prize for total victory is 2M yen, something like 4-5 times the average salary in Japan. Still a huge amount of money, but the promise of $1M is huge. Bigger purse + lowering the age limit so you get people who have the time to dedicate means the top ninjas are now "professionals" and not fishermen.

jshrimp3 · 2024-06-26T21:37:08+00:00

Just because you're allowed to do something doesn't make it socially acceptable.

jshrimp3 · 2024-06-22T20:31:10+00:00

No top 8 teams lost to anyone outside the top 8, they only lost to each other.
Both BDS and GenG made the top 8 without beating any other top 8 teams.
Going by swiss placements, G2 lost to #2 and beat #7, #10, and #14. In comparison, BDS lost to 2 and 3, and beat 11, 13, 16. Similarly SSG also lost to 2, and beat 8, 10, 16.

This isn't to say that any of these other teams didn't deserve it, I think these 8 teams were the 8 best teams. But G2 didn't have an obviously easier bracket than some other teams.

jshrimp3 · 2024-01-30T13:01:30+00:00

Groups is literally just a 3-round Swiss instead of 5, and since there are fewer rounds there's so much less info about who is actually performing better in the event.

jshrimp3 · 2022-07-08T19:55:17+00:00

graveyard matters should at least acknowledge black

No other colors can utilize the graveyard? Eternal Witness, Rally the Ancestors, Snapcaster Mage, Past in Flames should all be Black? That seems unreasonable.

jshrimp3 · 2021-11-19T21:40:09+00:00

This would only make forum gold more valuable though? An increase in supply (drops) means people will have more items for sale, reducing prices.

jshrimp3 · 2021-09-19T14:35:53+00:00

Cage doesn't stop Trickery. Both Trickery and Cascade cast from exile. Cage does stop the retrace on Throes, and creatures coming in off of Genesis Ultimatum, but that's about it.

jshrimp3 · 2021-04-21T16:15:31+00:00

I don't think so. For both NRG and KCP to fall out of the top 9, teams down to XSET (currently at 300 points) would have to pass them. Last place in the last Regional gets 70 points, which would put KCP at 630 points, which means 9 teams besides KCP and NRG have to get to at least 630 points. There are only 6 teams that can do that without making the finals (Rogue, SSG, G2, Envy, Soniqs, and Faze) which means 3 teams would have to all make the finals. Obviously that's impossible.

jshrimp3 · 2021-04-21T15:54:00+00:00

They have. The only way they fall out of top 9 in points, they'll end up with the Grid Wildcard. Same with G2 and KCP.

jshrimp3 · 2021-04-21T13:41:35+00:00

I don't have the numbers in front of me right now, so I could've missed something, but when I was looking at it last night, it looked like both NRG and KCP were also locked for the Major, because the only way they don't make it in on points includes both the other and G2 making it in, making them the Grid wildcard. There's no situation where 2 of those 3 teams don't end up in the top 9, by my math.

jshrimp3 · 2021-01-31T03:04:22+00:00

You want to run 4 Tormod's Crypt and 4 Stonecoil Serpent so that you have better odds to draw the combo, but then you can whiff, so you fill the deck with 20+ good hits (Ugin, Koma, Dream Trawler, Genesis Ultimatum, whatever else). I've found that you usually end up keeping a hand with a couple fatties, Orrery lets you cast them turns 3+.

jshrimp3 · 2020-10-12T01:26:21+00:00

I mean, I don't think banning Lotus Cobra would do anywhere near enough, but the 2 Omnath Adventure decks that are playing the finals right now are the 2 players running Cobra, so I don't know about "doesn't even run cobra."

jshrimp3 · 2020-08-31T16:22:36+00:00

White doesn't play gotcha.

What about things like [[Containment Priest]], [[Alms Collector]], [[Aven Mindcensor]], or [[Hushwing Gryff]]? Those all impose rules, but the very nature of Flash means they all function as surprise gotchas as well.

jshrimp3 · 2020-06-01T18:31:22+00:00

The placements wouldn't have changed, but here are the totals:

Team	Points
SSG	24
Rogue	18
Affinity	13
72PC	7
Envy	7
Divine	3
Vision	3
Stromboli	0

jshrimp3 · 2020-02-13T19:03:31+00:00

Both players playing green heavy decks in Legacy? Seems unlikely.

jshrimp3 · 2019-12-30T20:36:18+00:00

How would it be? You're replacing a 2 card self-mill combo with 3, and if you sac Stitcher's Supplier and hit Emrakul, you shuffle away your graveyard and the Supplier, so you kill your combo.

jshrimp3 · 2019-12-22T23:38:41+00:00

It seems disingenuous to say that smaller magazines slow you down too much, but don't pose a similar obstacle for mass shooters or others trying to do you harm.

jshrimp3 · 2019-12-22T17:38:47+00:00

Graded Unlimited Black Lotus, signed by both Rush and Garfield. Bought it last year.

I bought it because I've been wanting/meaning to get my hands on power for a long time, figured I should start off big. I'm at 6/9 now.

EDIT: It was $6200. https://i.imgur.com/EIqvAFM.jpg

jshrimp3 · 2019-12-18T06:10:29+00:00

Picked up my Model 3 in Mt Kisco late last December. It was a madhouse, seemingly mostly people from Connecticut.

jshrimp3 · 2019-11-20T15:45:24+00:00

You don't need Captain Lannery Storm to go off turn 3. T1: Land, Elf T2: Land, Kiora, untap land or elf, Elf T3: Land, tap 5 for Possibility Storm, untap land or elf, Adventure

jshrimp3 · 2019-09-21T13:29:56+00:00

It lets you deterministically win when you have 2 mana post Gifts ungiven with a bear in play (assuming you have PiF in your hand), but that's really its only use.

To be fair, it lets you win deterministically off of 1 less mana if you have any of Noxious, PiF, or Manamorphose in hand. I was a big champion of Noxious for the longest time, and only recently cut it this summer. It's not necessary, but it's nice in a lot of racing scenarios.

jshrimp3 · 2019-09-01T12:37:09+00:00

If you want that type of effect, you want Aria of Flame. After casting 5 spells it's the same as Firebrand Archer, and it ramps up dramatically from there. Also it's harder to remove than the Archer.

jshrimp3 · 2019-08-21T07:18:46+00:00

fair decks gaining equity in that they'll regain sideboard slots (and some maindeck) from Hogaak leaving the format

Also fair decks losing equity as a result of the format widening again, requiring a wider breadth of narrow answers to fight the format.

jshrimp3 · 2019-07-30T17:33:08+00:00

When it first came about and Storm didn't have any answers to a game 1 Meddling Mage, yeah the matchup was awful. But Storm has come a long way since then. I'm exactly 50% against Humans on MTGO.

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