Well, as sad as it sounds, it was going undeafeated in the Morningtide pre-release. I'm by no means a top-notch Magic player, competant at best, but finally taking home some prize packs reminded me that I'm not bottom of the barrel either. Or I stepped in some dog poop walking to the tourney site. Either way...
got in early on this one at mtgcast.com Thanks a lot to Chris and Bill for joining in lieu of Gavin and Derek, even if Bill is starting to sound a lot like Shill these days. The guest host I'd most like to see return would be bateleur, aka the other Dom, as he was exceptionally erudite and entertaining the last time he was on the show
Tom, I've run into guys like that before as well, and it always annoys the hell out of me. Fortunately attending prereleases with friends makes it a lot easier to laugh off. We do prizes in the "2 packs for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss" style which makes things more casual as well. I heard of several opponents in the first round at my prerelease taking an intentional draw in the first round so they - complete strangers! - could work together to build the best decks they could for the latter three rounds, and play a few friendly games. Over here in Australia though, we don't get many serious tournaments like PTQs and so on, so the competitive types have to take what they can get I suppose.
My favourite prerelease memory was a single misplay from the final flight, which was two headed giant sealed. My friend and I were 2-0 at this point which we were thrilled with, as we aren't the most stellar players.
Our opponents had a Deus of Calamity enchanted with Shield of the Oversoul, making it indestructible, a Grief Tyrant and a couple of little guys against our various x/3 creatures, some of whom had wither (which was dissuading the otherwise unstoppable Deus).
They attacked with the Tyrant, which we duly blocked with one of our witherers, putting a total of 7 -1/-1 counters on it, and then they cast Firespout in an attempt to kill everything but the Deus. They succeeded - except that my team mate pointed out the Grief Tyrants clause upon death, for which the only legal target was the Deus. Dejectedly they put Deus into the bin, dropped a blocker onto the now empty board and passed the turn.
We responded by dropping Augury Adept, burning their blockers and swinging with it unchallenged. It hit, we revealed Howl of the Night Pack and gained seven life, cast Howl for six wolves and won the game in short order. I felt a little bad that their misplay combined with our lucky topdeck decided the game, but I felt very good about winning (we eventually went 4-0!)
Well, that turned out a bit longer than it was supposed to! Thanks again for the show guys.
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My best pre-release memory is from the Future Sight event. It was a massive creature shootout in the third round. I had Spectral Force, Plague Sliver, Faceless Butcher, and Soul Collector; his Vesuvan Shapeshifter copied and traded with the Force, the Plague Sliver went down to Death Rattle, Faceless Butcher got hit by Fiery Temper, and the vampire traded with and stole a flashed-in Crookclaw Transmuter (which my opponent then killed). We were both down to no cards in hand, but the last creature standing was mine, and it went all the way.
The format for the 15th Anniversary Magic Tournmament was Lorwyn Sealed with one Lorwyn Tournament pack and 2 Morningtide boosters. On top of the variant foil Char, the participants got a 30 sided die. It was 5 rounds where the Top 8 got a Magic back pack and some packs of Morningtide. I won that tournament with a 5-0 record without any losses and got 8 packs of Morningtide with the back pack.
Cool podcast guy's, its good to see you off to a strong start. Its a little sad Derek and Gavin could get in on this interview, I'm sure their views would have been....interesting:rolleyes:.
My favorite pre-release moment was during the betrayer's of kamigawa PR. I had rare drafted like a champ since I was getting passed pretty good stuff by my neighbours. So after finishing the draft I had a pool of about 6 Rares and my draft deck. Needless to say I, got beaten pretty badly. But in one of my matches I had my Kami of tattered shoji out equipped with my umezawa's Jitte and it was actually going pretty well, until he dropped a final Judgement. What followed were some of the worst draw's ever for me (Multiple lands), and he drew into his big creatures. By the time I had gotten a creature it was too late, but its nice to know I was close.
I myself would like to have Dom come back (...not that anything is wrong with derek :sneaky:), simply because his accent gives him +4/+4 and super haste:D. But even without him, I guess we do have gavin to do his accent....:uhh:.
First I would like to say that I wish I would have been in New York. Must find those Chars and life die.
My favorite Pre-release story:
It was my first Pre-release ever. The person who had gotten me into magic, and one of my best friends, had driven me there. I am sitting across from him at the beginning of flight three. The mood is light and we are making small talk with the people around us as we register the decks. The person to my left looks at me and says "I pity whoever gets this fool of a sealed deck." I ask the obvious 'why?' He flashes me Biomantic Mastery, Bronze Bombshell and Psychic Possession. I nearly laughed out loud. I knew that there had to be better stuff in the commons and uncommons, but not one playable rare?
Then we get to the suspenseful part, the pass. The announcers make us trade sealed pools around like Etrade deals with stocks and bonds. When everything was said and done I had a pretty simic packed sealed deck and I look at my friend, the one who drove me, and he has this look on his face. He had gotten the worst sealed pool ever. The guy who passed it to him even apologized. I figured that was it, he had wasted thirty bucks on a bronze bombshell.
I check back with him after each round expecting the worst, but to my surprise there is no worst. He wins each round, goes 4-0 and wins the whole thing. He takes the worst and turns it into the best. He is one of the best magic players I know, so it was not a huge surprise from that aspect. Who thought you could ride a bronze bombshell to victory?
once opon a time long long ago, i went to Stronghold prerelease. i went with a good friend of mine who no longer plays, and my teacher along with a few other people in the teachers group. it was a blast, the only thing that sucked was that was the last set to be printed without rarities. other then that if i had the money i would so go to any prerelease i could humanly get to
as for co-hosts i miss dom... he always provided his own flavor. but ya.
This goes back to the Planar Chaos Prerelease, It was really late before me pod started, so a bunch of people dropped out, and I was left with only the serious players. I had fought hard with my Red-Green aggro deck, Jaya and my greater Gargadon had led me to victory in the first round.
Yet I was struggling against this opponent, he had been casting some pretty big creatures and I was having problems keeping up, I thought It was over when he threw down Vorosh, the Hunter. I looked at my cards, my Gargadon had four counters on it, and everything else I had on the field wouldn't be able to stop this final obsticale. I passed my turn. Of course he declared attackers I only had five life left, and this was his final strike, but while tapping his massive beast I caught a look at the coverted mana cost of the creature 3GUB, Vorosh was a blue permenant, I looked down at my Jaya, instead of using her for her final bomb and tying the game, I just tapped one mountain and blew up the giant flying beatstick. I almost declared defeat if I hadn't notice that Vorosh was blue I would have lost the round, I went on to thrash him with my beast and I went 4-0 in the Planar Chaos Prerelease. Good bless burn.
Wow, feeling the love here, thanks guys! If Tom and the team invite me back sometime (and the episode's actually recording early enough for me to make) I'd love to do it.
My vote for guest host has to go for Dom #1. Him playing no Magic was never half as much of an impediment as he made out it was.
(I've never been to a prerelease!)
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I'm not shocked that Tom made it to a prerelease, I don't believe him.
I love the way Bill says "Don't quote me on that" whilst talking on the podcast. Dude, we can all hear you!
Re: "Is untap aggressive/defensive?" - I think that's one of those questions where you're asking the wrong thing, so either answer is misleading. Untap is a pro-tempo mechanic. So if you're ahead, it's aggressive. But if you're behind, it's defensive.
Re: MtGO v3 - There are some bad things about the new design which are completely objective. For example, the dark visual style makes the interface hard to use in places. Such as in the deckbuilder you can't see which colour is which on some monitors. A lot of the things you need to click to navigate are physically smaller. Some things are hard to find (sufficiently hard that I'd literally been using it for several hours before working them out) and whilst that will wear off in time there was no need to do it badly. Also the total time to start up has roughly quadrupled. All that said, I'll still be a fan of it if the server-side problems of v2.5 have been solved. That remains to be seen. (I have faith they'll get there one day, but not necessarily soon.)
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Great show guys. My favorite prerelease moment happened at the Lorwyn prerelease. I opened Mirror Entity, but other than that it was a mediocre sealed pool. I was 2 and 1 going into round 4 against one of the guys that I play with at the local store. Game one stalls out on the ground with both of us above 15 life. I drop the entity and pass. He drops some guy and passes. On my turn I untap, draw, and turn my team sideways. He spends 3 or 4 minutes blocking and then I tap all my mana and say all of my guys are 7/7, take 21. He says "Oh, so that's what that guy does?". The next game played out exactly the same way, except that I hit him for 30+ damage in one turn. The other funny thing about that Prerelease was that at the end of it we still didn't know if planeswalkers were any good because nobody had gotten one into play.
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“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
My all time favorite PreRelease moment had to be at the Planar Chaos prerelease when I had one of the craziest sealed decks ever. In short it was a GRUb storm deck. And it was a certain turn 4 that made my opponent gawk, and it went something like this. Suspended search for tomorrow resolves pumping me to 4 land, draw, play a land for the turn, play a Prismatic lens, play timebender, and then Empty the Warrens for 8 guys. The craziest part was that I did that quite a few times that. Another time that springs to mind is when my two headed giant teammate and I survived Skeletal Vampire/Debtor's Knell.... :shrugs:
I would like to comment on 3.0 thus far. It's been out less then a week and I'm actually impressed. For starters what mmorpg has ever had a flawless first week? I've able to log in and play without a hitch for the most part. It should be noted that different gameplay layouts are available in the setting menu. You can set it to compact and get a layout that is very similar to 2.5, plus the cards in the gy are larger and it's scrollable.
My largest gripe is the that they took out my Desolation Angel background art.. BOO!!!
Is it just me or was the Shadowmoor Prerelease boatloads of fun? For some reason I found that it was much more fun to play than Morningtide and Lorwyn, though I don't know why that would be so. Same people, same faces, maybe the dark theme of the set appeals to me more, I dunno.
Favourite prerelease story: it was the Champions of Kamigawa prerelease, and I had just opened an awesome pool of blue cards and from it made a potent fliers/control deck (I had a copy of Meloku and Keiga). In the first round, I absolutely crushed my opponent playing some janky red deck that never got off the ground. Because I won the first round with so much time to spare, I decided to grab a bite to eat. Because of where the fast food place was, and how many people were in front of me, I made it back in time with less than a minute to spare. I'm running around trying to find my opponent, and getting anxious because I can seem to find them, when this really(!) cute girl a table away raises her arm and waves. At first I assumed she was waving at someone else, but I can see her looking directly at me, so I head over and low and behold she's my opponent for the next round. I'm a bit shy, but I introduce myself and sit down to shuffle my deck. I win the toss and I'm about to play my first land when we're chosen by a judge to have our decks checked. Genius that I am, I hadn't un-sideboarded after the first round. Game 1 loss :sweat:. Game 2, I pick up my hand and see 7 lands. I toss them back for 6 more. No lands. Grr. I mulligan again (5 cards). No lands. I mulligan a third time, and open up another landless hand. I decide to keep rather than going to 3, and pray that my karma lets me draw out of it. 6 turns later I haven't found a single land. Then she kills me with a glacial ray :gonk:. I was so bummed I showed her my awesome deck, and told her how well round 1 went. She felt really sorry for me and tried to cheer me up, but I was just crushed. I asked her to watch my cards so I could use the washroom (the stress and medium Pepsi had teamed up). When I came back she again said how sorry she was, but by this time I was able to joke about it, and we talked briefly before she went to hand in the slip and find her friends. On the drive back from the prerelease (I didn't end up winning anything, but none one else in the car did, either) I took apart my deck. I was sifting out the good rares and sorting anything constructed-worthy, when I found, on the very last card of the deck (an island) the words: "Sorry about the missing lands. Call me!" and a phone number.
Two years later we got married :embarrass:.
I have been to almost every pre-release from Tempest through Shadowmoor, only missing Mercadian Masques and the 3 Kamigawa block sets. i have had a lot of memorable moments and a lot of fun. For the last 2 years I have been Judging the Saturday release and playing on Sunday.
The most recent memorable moment is the winning streak my 2HG team, Fat man and Little Boy, have been on. Going 2-0-1, 3-0, 3-0, 2-0-1 in our last 4 releases. At the Shadowmoor release we opened an avg. card pool, I played a U/B control deck and my partner played a G/W/R aggro deck. The moment of the event was when our opponents cast a Puncture Bolt on one of our dudes, killing it. We had Blowfly Infestation in play and what happened next was unreal.
The Infestation triggered and we killed one of there dudes, Infestation triggers again and we drop the counter on a 2/2 guy. I cast Fate Transfer to to move a -1/-1 counter off of one of our creatures and to the 2/2 guy with the counter form Infestation, it died and triggered the Infestation yet again, we the killed another 1/1 guy and a 2/1 guy droping the final -1/-1 counter on one of our dudes.
We were way down on life at this point and our opponents just kept dropping more creatures. The light totals were 26 to 4 and our opponents had 7 creature on the table to our 3. I drew the answer,
I cast Incremental Blight, killing 3 of there guys and triggering the Infestation 3 times, we killed 2 more creatures off the triggers and the final creature died to the last two triggers. We would have killed all 7 but one there last creature was a Tatterkite...
o well. So a 6 for one seemed good to me, we drew Corrupt next turn and ended up winning the match a few turns later. Good times!
I would like to share a story about my favorite prerelease experience. I was at the Timespiral prerelease getting ready to play two-headed giant with a friend of mine (we were called the mighty fighty shushbugs after a flash animation on watermanstudios.com). We sat at the edge of the table and oppened up our product to register. The pool we got was AMAZING! Among a diverse, well balanced set of cards were some huge bombs; a psionic blast a pardic dragon and two Jaya Ballards. The whole time we were opening it, my partner and I were groaning about the fact that we were going to have to pass the pack. Sure enough, after we registered it, the judge called out "PASS ACROSS". The people across from us looked happy, as they had heard us discussing the pool. Then the judge yelled "PASS RIGHT, THIS WILL BE YOUR POOL, YOU HAVE 45 MINUTES FOR DECK BUILDING". Since we were at the end of the table, the amazing pool of awesomeness was passed right back to us. My friend and I turned and looked at each other with a simultaneous "YEAH". We ended up going 4-1 on the day with our amazing decks. This was definitely my favorite moment at a prerelease.
Hrmmm... the best pre-release memory would have to be this last one on saturday. My girlfriend and I were in a two headed giant flight and in our second game she had out the Wilt Leaf Liege and a Safehold Sentry enchanted by Power of Fire. Now the Sentry had been busy killing off creatures with the Tap, Untap, repeat cycle, so the opponent cast Mercy Killing on it. In response she played and conspired a Barkshell Blessing on the Sentry. The result? Six tokens... Six green and white elf tokens that are now 3/3 thanks to the Liege.
We ended up taking Second in that event, which was really cool because she hadn't won anything in a tournament before, but she still ragged on me for a bad play that probably could have gotten us first place. But oh well, good times!
no joke, ninja vault already wins this week (sniff) Im a helpless romantic
But seriously awesome story
I have not listened long enough to know much about guest speakers, but i did miss gavin this week.
I have been to Morningtide and Shadowmoor prerelease and Shadowmoor was awesome. Pulled Godhead of Awe, Tyrannize, Glen-Endra Liege out of my box, next pack is Grim poppet, next is Demigod of Revenge. only problem is that all of my commons and uncommons sucked. So I throw together a blue black little white deck that ends up going 2-1-1. Best combo ever Torture + Grim Poppet, soft locked two kids doing that. and Godhead is rediculous in draft. (had to leave out demigod) sad face
Down here in Georgia we play more competitivly with large pack payouts to the top winners. And I am happy to say that we dont have alot of pricks running around. Most of the people there are really nice folks. i did know one guy, but my friend beat him one game with a sage of eiptyr for 20 and I think he quit after that. LOLZ
Cant wait for decks to come out of shadowmoor, my friend and I have come up with infinite lifegain/damage deck already Whoot
I was all set to regale you guys with a tale of unintentionally screwing over a cheater in the final round of 2HG this pre-release (as the only teams left in the X-0 bracket) when I saw VaultNinja's post. How in the world do you top that?
Is it just me or was the Shadowmoor Prerelease boatloads of fun? For some reason I found that it was much more fun to play than Morningtide and Lorwyn, though I don't know why that would be so. Same people, same faces, maybe the dark theme of the set appeals to me more, I dunno.
Favourite prerelease story: it was the Champions of Kamigawa prerelease, and I had just opened an awesome pool of blue cards and from it made a potent fliers/control deck (I had a copy of Meloku and Keiga). In the first round, I absolutely crushed my opponent playing some janky red deck that never got off the ground. Because I won the first round with so much time to spare, I decided to grab a bite to eat. Because of where the fast food place was, and how many people were in front of me, I made it back in time with less than a minute to spare. I'm running around trying to find my opponent, and getting anxious because I can seem to find them, when this really(!) cute girl a table away raises her arm and waves. At first I assumed she was waving at someone else, but I can see her looking directly at me, so I head over and low and behold she's my opponent for the next round. I'm a bit shy, but I introduce myself and sit down to shuffle my deck. I win the toss and I'm about to play my first land when we're chosen by a judge to have our decks checked. Genius that I am, I hadn't un-sideboarded after the first round. Game 1 loss :sweat:. Game 2, I pick up my hand and see 7 lands. I toss them back for 6 more. No lands. Grr. I mulligan again (5 cards). No lands. I mulligan a third time, and open up another landless hand. I decide to keep rather than going to 3, and pray that my karma lets me draw out of it. 6 turns later I haven't found a single land. Then she kills me with a glacial ray :gonk:. I was so bummed I showed her my awesome deck, and told her how well round 1 went. She felt really sorry for me and tried to cheer me up, but I was just crushed. I asked her to watch my cards so I could use the washroom (the stress and medium Pepsi had teamed up). When I came back she again said how sorry she was, but by this time I was able to joke about it, and we talked briefly before she went to hand in the slip and find her friends. On the drive back from the prerelease (I didn't end up winning anything, but none one else in the car did, either) I took apart my deck. I was sifting out the good rares and sorting anything constructed-worthy, when I found, on the very last card of the deck (an island) the words: "Sorry about the missing lands. Call me!" and a phone number.
Two years later we got married :embarrass:.
OH mah GAWD that's insane awesome. What a way to put a cute guy's character to the test, making him lose to horrible manascrew and watching how he takes it.
I was all set to regale you guys with a tale of unintentionally screwing over a cheater in the final round of 2HG this pre-release (as the only teams left in the X-0 bracket) when I saw VaultNinja's post. How in the world do you top that?
Still post your stories! Given the quality of the posts (and that we just won some money from the March AoTM contest), I will give out a second prize.
when I found, on the very last card of the deck (an island) the words: "Sorry about the missing lands. Call me!" and a phone number.
Two years later we got married :embarrass:.
This is adorable.
The show is sounding good so far, I've had to listen to it increments. I will better reply later, when I have listened to the entire Podcast.
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Tom, I've run into guys like that before as well, and it always annoys the hell out of me. Fortunately attending prereleases with friends makes it a lot easier to laugh off. We do prizes in the "2 packs for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss" style which makes things more casual as well. I heard of several opponents in the first round at my prerelease taking an intentional draw in the first round so they - complete strangers! - could work together to build the best decks they could for the latter three rounds, and play a few friendly games. Over here in Australia though, we don't get many serious tournaments like PTQs and so on, so the competitive types have to take what they can get I suppose.
My favourite prerelease memory was a single misplay from the final flight, which was two headed giant sealed. My friend and I were 2-0 at this point which we were thrilled with, as we aren't the most stellar players.
Our opponents had a Deus of Calamity enchanted with Shield of the Oversoul, making it indestructible, a Grief Tyrant and a couple of little guys against our various x/3 creatures, some of whom had wither (which was dissuading the otherwise unstoppable Deus).
They attacked with the Tyrant, which we duly blocked with one of our witherers, putting a total of 7 -1/-1 counters on it, and then they cast Firespout in an attempt to kill everything but the Deus. They succeeded - except that my team mate pointed out the Grief Tyrants clause upon death, for which the only legal target was the Deus. Dejectedly they put Deus into the bin, dropped a blocker onto the now empty board and passed the turn.
We responded by dropping Augury Adept, burning their blockers and swinging with it unchallenged. It hit, we revealed Howl of the Night Pack and gained seven life, cast Howl for six wolves and won the game in short order. I felt a little bad that their misplay combined with our lucky topdeck decided the game, but I felt very good about winning (we eventually went 4-0!)
Well, that turned out a bit longer than it was supposed to! Thanks again for the show guys.
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My favorite pre-release moment was during the betrayer's of kamigawa PR. I had rare drafted like a champ since I was getting passed pretty good stuff by my neighbours. So after finishing the draft I had a pool of about 6 Rares and my draft deck. Needless to say I, got beaten pretty badly. But in one of my matches I had my Kami of tattered shoji out equipped with my umezawa's Jitte and it was actually going pretty well, until he dropped a final Judgement. What followed were some of the worst draw's ever for me (Multiple lands), and he drew into his big creatures. By the time I had gotten a creature it was too late, but its nice to know I was close.
I myself would like to have Dom come back (...not that anything is wrong with derek :sneaky:), simply because his accent gives him +4/+4 and super haste:D. But even without him, I guess we do have gavin to do his accent....:uhh:.
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My favorite Pre-release story:
It was my first Pre-release ever. The person who had gotten me into magic, and one of my best friends, had driven me there. I am sitting across from him at the beginning of flight three. The mood is light and we are making small talk with the people around us as we register the decks. The person to my left looks at me and says "I pity whoever gets this fool of a sealed deck." I ask the obvious 'why?' He flashes me Biomantic Mastery, Bronze Bombshell and Psychic Possession. I nearly laughed out loud. I knew that there had to be better stuff in the commons and uncommons, but not one playable rare?
Then we get to the suspenseful part, the pass. The announcers make us trade sealed pools around like Etrade deals with stocks and bonds. When everything was said and done I had a pretty simic packed sealed deck and I look at my friend, the one who drove me, and he has this look on his face. He had gotten the worst sealed pool ever. The guy who passed it to him even apologized. I figured that was it, he had wasted thirty bucks on a bronze bombshell.
I check back with him after each round expecting the worst, but to my surprise there is no worst. He wins each round, goes 4-0 and wins the whole thing. He takes the worst and turns it into the best. He is one of the best magic players I know, so it was not a huge surprise from that aspect. Who thought you could ride a bronze bombshell to victory?
(and dom v1 of course)
the best prerelease experience i had though was at shadowmoor.
me and my friend had finished our draft and were walking around the dealer tables.
all of a sudden, my friend runs up and fans four Enchanted evening in front and proclaims "and only for $20!!"
Dude.....you paid twenty dollars to make everything you own an enchantment? smooooth.
he kind of went "you're right, that doesn't sound very good at all....."
elohel.
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as for co-hosts i miss dom... he always provided his own flavor. but ya.
Yet I was struggling against this opponent, he had been casting some pretty big creatures and I was having problems keeping up, I thought It was over when he threw down Vorosh, the Hunter. I looked at my cards, my Gargadon had four counters on it, and everything else I had on the field wouldn't be able to stop this final obsticale. I passed my turn. Of course he declared attackers I only had five life left, and this was his final strike, but while tapping his massive beast I caught a look at the coverted mana cost of the creature 3GUB, Vorosh was a blue permenant, I looked down at my Jaya, instead of using her for her final bomb and tying the game, I just tapped one mountain and blew up the giant flying beatstick. I almost declared defeat if I hadn't notice that Vorosh was blue I would have lost the round, I went on to thrash him with my beast and I went 4-0 in the Planar Chaos Prerelease. Good bless burn.
As for co host- Dom no question.
My vote for guest host has to go for Dom #1. Him playing no Magic was never half as much of an impediment as he made out it was.
(I've never been to a prerelease!)
Other stuff from the show...
I'm not shocked that Tom made it to a prerelease, I don't believe him.
I love the way Bill says "Don't quote me on that" whilst talking on the podcast. Dude, we can all hear you!
Re: "Is untap aggressive/defensive?" - I think that's one of those questions where you're asking the wrong thing, so either answer is misleading. Untap is a pro-tempo mechanic. So if you're ahead, it's aggressive. But if you're behind, it's defensive.
Re: MtGO v3 - There are some bad things about the new design which are completely objective. For example, the dark visual style makes the interface hard to use in places. Such as in the deckbuilder you can't see which colour is which on some monitors. A lot of the things you need to click to navigate are physically smaller. Some things are hard to find (sufficiently hard that I'd literally been using it for several hours before working them out) and whilst that will wear off in time there was no need to do it badly. Also the total time to start up has roughly quadrupled. All that said, I'll still be a fan of it if the server-side problems of v2.5 have been solved. That remains to be seen. (I have faith they'll get there one day, but not necessarily soon.)
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“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
I would like to comment on 3.0 thus far. It's been out less then a week and I'm actually impressed. For starters what mmorpg has ever had a flawless first week? I've able to log in and play without a hitch for the most part. It should be noted that different gameplay layouts are available in the setting menu. You can set it to compact and get a layout that is very similar to 2.5, plus the cards in the gy are larger and it's scrollable.
My largest gripe is the that they took out my Desolation Angel background art.. BOO!!!
Favourite prerelease story: it was the Champions of Kamigawa prerelease, and I had just opened an awesome pool of blue cards and from it made a potent fliers/control deck (I had a copy of Meloku and Keiga). In the first round, I absolutely crushed my opponent playing some janky red deck that never got off the ground. Because I won the first round with so much time to spare, I decided to grab a bite to eat. Because of where the fast food place was, and how many people were in front of me, I made it back in time with less than a minute to spare. I'm running around trying to find my opponent, and getting anxious because I can seem to find them, when this really(!) cute girl a table away raises her arm and waves. At first I assumed she was waving at someone else, but I can see her looking directly at me, so I head over and low and behold she's my opponent for the next round. I'm a bit shy, but I introduce myself and sit down to shuffle my deck. I win the toss and I'm about to play my first land when we're chosen by a judge to have our decks checked. Genius that I am, I hadn't un-sideboarded after the first round. Game 1 loss :sweat:. Game 2, I pick up my hand and see 7 lands. I toss them back for 6 more. No lands. Grr. I mulligan again (5 cards). No lands. I mulligan a third time, and open up another landless hand. I decide to keep rather than going to 3, and pray that my karma lets me draw out of it. 6 turns later I haven't found a single land. Then she kills me with a glacial ray :gonk:. I was so bummed I showed her my awesome deck, and told her how well round 1 went. She felt really sorry for me and tried to cheer me up, but I was just crushed. I asked her to watch my cards so I could use the washroom (the stress and medium Pepsi had teamed up). When I came back she again said how sorry she was, but by this time I was able to joke about it, and we talked briefly before she went to hand in the slip and find her friends. On the drive back from the prerelease (I didn't end up winning anything, but none one else in the car did, either) I took apart my deck. I was sifting out the good rares and sorting anything constructed-worthy, when I found, on the very last card of the deck (an island) the words: "Sorry about the missing lands. Call me!" and a phone number.
Two years later we got married :embarrass:.
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I have been to almost every pre-release from Tempest through Shadowmoor, only missing Mercadian Masques and the 3 Kamigawa block sets. i have had a lot of memorable moments and a lot of fun. For the last 2 years I have been Judging the Saturday release and playing on Sunday.
The most recent memorable moment is the winning streak my 2HG team, Fat man and Little Boy, have been on. Going 2-0-1, 3-0, 3-0, 2-0-1 in our last 4 releases. At the Shadowmoor release we opened an avg. card pool, I played a U/B control deck and my partner played a G/W/R aggro deck. The moment of the event was when our opponents cast a Puncture Bolt on one of our dudes, killing it. We had Blowfly Infestation in play and what happened next was unreal.
The Infestation triggered and we killed one of there dudes, Infestation triggers again and we drop the counter on a 2/2 guy. I cast Fate Transfer to to move a -1/-1 counter off of one of our creatures and to the 2/2 guy with the counter form Infestation, it died and triggered the Infestation yet again, we the killed another 1/1 guy and a 2/1 guy droping the final -1/-1 counter on one of our dudes.
We were way down on life at this point and our opponents just kept dropping more creatures. The light totals were 26 to 4 and our opponents had 7 creature on the table to our 3. I drew the answer,
o well. So a 6 for one seemed good to me, we drew Corrupt next turn and ended up winning the match a few turns later. Good times!
We ended up taking Second in that event, which was really cool because she hadn't won anything in a tournament before, but she still ragged on me for a bad play that probably could have gotten us first place. But oh well, good times!
But seriously awesome story
I have not listened long enough to know much about guest speakers, but i did miss gavin this week.
I have been to Morningtide and Shadowmoor prerelease and Shadowmoor was awesome. Pulled Godhead of Awe, Tyrannize, Glen-Endra Liege out of my box, next pack is Grim poppet, next is Demigod of Revenge. only problem is that all of my commons and uncommons sucked. So I throw together a blue black little white deck that ends up going 2-1-1. Best combo ever Torture + Grim Poppet, soft locked two kids doing that. and Godhead is rediculous in draft. (had to leave out demigod) sad face
Down here in Georgia we play more competitivly with large pack payouts to the top winners. And I am happy to say that we dont have alot of pricks running around. Most of the people there are really nice folks. i did know one guy, but my friend beat him one game with a sage of eiptyr for 20 and I think he quit after that. LOLZ
Cant wait for decks to come out of shadowmoor, my friend and I have come up with infinite lifegain/damage deck already Whoot
There's no penalty for failing to sacrifice a Homonculus.
OH mah GAWD that's insane awesome. What a way to put a cute guy's character to the test, making him lose to horrible manascrew and watching how he takes it.
Still post your stories! Given the quality of the posts (and that we just won some money from the March AoTM contest), I will give out a second prize.
So, keep those stories coming!!!
Cheers,
Tom
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This is adorable.
The show is sounding good so far, I've had to listen to it increments. I will better reply later, when I have listened to the entire Podcast.
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