Magic: The Gathering

[Firewind]

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I have a Jhoria Deck that I lovingly named "Jhoria Bullshit" that Taskmage can tell you all about. I used it in one FFA game with him and I think Cid and he played Blue Braids. I had It that Betrays and Edrakul in my hand...

I think TM's reaction to seeing both on the board was "Do you have too many friends or something?". The rest of that Skype chat was hilarious too.

[Malacite]

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That'd be the general idea, yeah.

My Jhoira deck actually was quite capable of winning, however - and it only got infinitely more annoying after I added Teferi to it (probably the still the single most OP blue legendary ever).

[cidbahamut]

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Red is pretty much the perfect color for just messing with people in a multi-player game. Back in college I threw together a terribly amusing mono Red deck that centered around Amok and Walking Archive with just a whole bunch of random annoying junk thrown in. Everyone would be drawing out their kill conditions, one would go off and suddenly I'd Shunt it towards someone else even if it wasn't aimed at me. They'd finally put a whole bunch of things on the board the moment Planar Chaos left the field, and then I'd follow it up with a Thieves' Auction and we'd spend the next twenty minutes figuring out who had what cards under their control. I'm pretty sure I never won with that deck, but it was tons of fun to play with.

[Malacite]

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I had a red boardwipe deck back in the day.

Was really irritating and my friends forced me to stop using it, lol - I love that about Red (and Red/Blue) - making decks that don't really win, just screw with everyone else as much as possible.

Like my old Jhoira deck that basically just suspended everything like Obliterate & Upheaval while constantly "countering" spells with Delay - never actually stopping them, just putting them off endlessly. Has a funny way of messing with people's heads.

And then there was my old Russian Roulette deck, which I'm sorely tempted to remake. It basically combos Thieves' Auction with Phage, The Untouchable for MP hilarity.

[Firewind]

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Ah right that one. I have to show you my Dimir Deck some time. I got YM to ragequit one game due to it destroying his draw engine. Sadly I was victim to RNG in the other games . The deck has more than enough mana but I went one game having ony drawn 2 lands...

[cidbahamut]

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No you're thinking of my board wipe deck. Yellowmage is talking about the one where my opening play would be: swamp, dark rit, dark rit, durress, hymn to tourach, hymn to tourach, laugh as opponent rage quits.

But yeah, board wipe deck was way more fun, especially in multiplayer.

[Firewind]

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That deck actually fell apart more often than not. It's just that when it worked it was the most annoying goddamn thing ever to play against.

On the other hand if we're talking full on Legacy I could just say it won't ever hit the field because it's not Blue and have a good chance of being correct regardless of which card I'm referring to.

It was always funny when I pulled out my own Black deck in MP games and it usually ended up in board wipe arms races.. It got to the point where even I was begging everyone to maybe stop with board wipes every other turn XD

Funnily enough Blue is kind of bad on its own in FFA. Black on the other hand...Yeah.

[Malacite]

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Well, they did reprint Lightning Bolt back in 12th I think it was?

There's a number of underwhelming cards in there as usual, some questionable reprints (again, Dimir is jizzing its pants over Tutor and Traumatize dear lord...) and some pretty freaking awesome new stuff, like the hydras and slivers.

I'm a little surprised that everyone at MTG Salvation (though there's a lot of idiots there too who are spoiled by recent power creep) was crapping all over the reprint of Opportunity.

OK sure, it's not Sphinx's Revelation, but it's not horrid either - keep in mind while Theros will have a new set of dual lands, they're going to start easing off a bit as right now between Ravnica and Innistrad mana-fixing is too easy. Plus what if you're not planning on running white? 3 cards at instant speed is still damned powerful.

[cidbahamut]

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It was uncommon back in Odyssey too, so it's not all that surprising.

The way they keep ramping up the power level I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Demonic Tutor reprinted at some point.

[Malacite]

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The full spoiler's up now on MTG Salvation.

Some really good stuff, I can't believe they reprinted Traumatize omg... Hello Dimir Deck!

EDIT: WHAT THE SHIT, THEY REPRINTED DIABOLIC TUTOR?!?!?!?

I thought that got banned from Standard?! Wow and it's uncommon to boot...

[Malacite]

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Eh, not really.

Knowing what card you have coming up is nice, but your opponent can see it too - not quite the same as those other ones that let you also play it/give a bonus effect based on what it is. Not saying it's not a strong effect, but I'm really questioning your judgment here as Goblins are all about sligh.

[Yellow Mage]

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So, you hate Goblin Piledriver so much just because he's good at his intended job?

On another note:

@6 minutes, on the right is (metaphorically) me, and on the left is the kind of Magic player I just can't understand. You know, the kind who clings to their bad Esper control deck whose only win condition is a singleton Nephalia Drownyard. The kind I explained was overreacting to Thragtusk here. You know, that kind.

[cidbahamut]

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Goblin Spy is ten times the goblin Goblin Piledriver could ever hope to be.

If you don't understand why then you don't understand goblins.

[Malacite]

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Piledriver.

He's one of the most OP Goblins ever printed (alongside Kiki-jiki the Mirror Breaker & Siege-Gang Commander) but I still luvs 'em


Goblins were my favorite thing ever during Onslaught Block (Soldiers were a close 2nd).

[cidbahamut]

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Yes.

As an avid goblin enthusiast, I think Goblin Piledriver is bad for goblins.