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Retink Retunk said:
Just find an image of one online and photoshop it, that will be just as legitimate.
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Yes, but if I get found out then I have an out to keep my trust worthiness intact.

It's rule 1 of Politics in EDH after all, to quote Wheel of Time.

"An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth you think you hear is never the one they are telling you."
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Yes, but if I get found out then I have an out to keep my trust worthiness intact.

It's rule 1 of Politics in EDH after all, to quote Wheel of Time.

"An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth you think you hear is never the one they are telling you."
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"I can't believe the person who gave me this cheaped out on $20 or whatever these dumb things cost."
 
This is probably fake but someone sent me this:
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So I think ONE is the most insane limited draft format I've played in a while. The only way to win consistently is to aim for peak 2 CMC curves. Black really is busted for this set. For some reason they decided to give EXILE removal at 2CMC, along with sac removal that gives the opponent poison, so hexproof doesn't matter.
Red supposedly the fast color doesn't get consistent 3 toughness removal until past 3CMC.
The best value creatures for toxic are at 2CMC in either Green, Black or White. The strat for all of those colors is to just play one and clear your opponents board every turn, something easy with 2/3CMC removal.
The scene at my shop is dead nobody even shows up to draft the set anymore, because it isn't fun for newbies.
 
macrodegenerate said:
Black really is busted for this set.
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lol, black is one of the weakest colors. vraska's edict also sucks balls and is something you either board in or you're playing because you have nothing else, chumping a mite and giving them a poison is barely worth a card. It's also overdrafted because new players ludicrously overrate poison

After a few more 7-wins on arena, I've gotta say though -format feels solved, and it's pretty shit. Blue is such a dogshit color that you can pretty early on figure out if anyone else at the table is even remotely trying to get it - there's enough good cards in that entire color pool for maybe one person to have a good UW shell. UB happens if you get some of the really good bombs or like 3 voidwings, UR is if you get a great blue bomb and have a lot of hexgolds and maybe a chimera, and UG is for when you want to lose or you're banking it all on blue sun's zenith. If you play a competent U player, they're gonna shit out like 5 raptors because no-one else was touching the color

You don't just exclusively draft the lowest stuff possible - you will run into a wall. Games often stall out when both players have low curves and don't stumble - though if someone does stumble or tries to play a higher curve, yeah, they're bulldozed. To win, you grab your early staples in colors that aren't blue and preferably aren't black (I would take a vorrac or a volt charge or a crawling chorus over anoint with affliction p1p1 every time). They're all low-curve. Once you get to a pack without the must-picks, you grab a good 2-3 top-end cards.

Black and blue don't really have good top-end cards - quicksilver fisher blocks like garbage (and isn't an artifact, which ffs), the blisterzoa and grimnarch are way too slow, nimraise paladin and sheoldred's headcleaver both die to hexgold slash. Scraptrap is OK. Compare that to Chimney Rabble, Furnace Strider, Skywarden, Finisher, Oil-Gorger, Lattice-blade, basilica shepherd, porcelain zealot. They break open a stalemate, solidify an advantage, or put a stop to your getting run over. Going purely low-curve will get you beaten by someone with a low-curve + 1/2 uppers.

You then hope that you don't get the play. Going second is a massive disadvantage, and missing a single land drop while like that is almost a guaranteed game over. You also then hope that the opponent didn't get any of the planeswalkers not named nahiri or tyvar. Because on top of it all, in addition to be a stupidly fast and snowbally format, lots of rares are 3/3 or 4/4 vanilla creatures, unplayable, or immediate 'I-win-the-game' buttons. It feels like a prince format because of how stupid it is to see someone drop the eternal wanderer.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
lol, black is one of the weakest colors. vraska's edict also sucks balls and is something you either board in or you're playing because you have nothing else, chumping a mite and giving them a poison is barely worth a card. It's also overdrafted because new players ludicrously overrate poison

After a few more 7-wins on arena, I've gotta say though -format feels solved, and it's pretty shit. Blue is such a dogshit color that you can pretty early on figure out if anyone else at the table is even remotely trying to get it - there's enough good cards in that entire color pool for maybe one person to have a good UW shell. UB happens if you get some of the really good bombs or like 3 voidwings, UR is if you get a great blue bomb and have a lot of hexgolds and maybe a chimera, and UG is for when you want to lose or you're banking it all on blue sun's zenith. If you play a competent U player, they're gonna shit out like 5 raptors because no-one else was touching the color

You don't just exclusively draft the lowest stuff possible - you will run into a wall. Games often stall out when both players have low curves and don't stumble - though if someone does stumble or tries to play a higher curve, yeah, they're bulldozed. To win, you grab your early staples in colors that aren't blue and preferably aren't black (I would take a vorrac or a volt charge or a crawling chorus over anoint with affliction p1p1 every time). They're all low-curve. Once you get to a pack without the must-picks, you grab a good 2-3 top-end cards.

Black and blue don't really have good top-end cards - quicksilver fisher blocks like garbage (and isn't an artifact, which ffs), the blisterzoa and grimnarch are way too slow, nimraise paladin and sheoldred's headcleaver both die to hexgold slash. Scraptrap is OK. Compare that to Chimney Rabble, Furnace Strider, Skywarden, Finisher, Oil-Gorger, Lattice-blade, basilica shepherd, porcelain zealot. They break open a stalemate, solidify an advantage, or put a stop to your getting run over. Going purely low-curve will get you beaten by someone with a low-curve + 1/2 uppers.

You then hope that you don't get the play. Going second is a massive disadvantage, and missing a single land drop while like that is almost a guaranteed game over. You also then hope that the opponent didn't get any of the planeswalkers not named nahiri or tyvar. Because on top of it all, in addition to be a stupidly fast and snowbally format, lots of rares are 3/3 or 4/4 vanilla creatures, unplayable, or immediate 'I-win-the-game' buttons. It feels like a prince format because of how stupid it is to see someone drop the eternal wanderer.
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I agree mostly, except I think black is still a bit busted for removal, and is needed to run white and green efficiently without Red. I think I discounted RG in my assessment oil counters are okay. You seem to have forgotten skitterfang which can turn a game around the turn it hits the board. Being able to give a toxic card evasion or a big guy lifelink really screws up a players plans. Especially if you have a rot priest on the field.
Are there are any instant speed bounce spells in this format, or did I miss something?
 
Oi lads, look what we have 'ere
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Legendary Creature ~ Halfling Horror

Whenever Gollum the Conspirator attacks, look at the top two cards of your library, put them back in any order, then choose land or nonland. Either opponent guesses whether the top card of your library is of the chosen type. Reveal the card. If it guesses right, Gollum is removed from combat. If not, you draw a card and Gollum can't be blocked this turn.
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Legendary Creature ~ Human High Elf

Vigilance

Whenever Aragorn and Arwen, Married, enters the battlefield or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. You gain 1 life for each other creature you control.
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Legendary Creature ~ Halfling Citizen

W/B W/B: If Frodo, Sauron's Bane is a Citizen, it becomes a Halfling Scout with base power and toughness 2/3 and lifelink.

BBB: If Frodo is a Scout, it becomes a Halfling Rogue with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game if the Ring has tempted you four or more times this game. Otherwise, the Ring tempts you.
 
Noebel said:
Oi lads, look what we have 'ere
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Legendary Creature ~ Halfling Horror

Whenever Gollum the Conspirator attacks, look at the top two cards of your library, put them back in any order, then choose land or nonland. Either opponent guesses whether the top card of your library is of the chosen type. Reveal the card. If it guesses right, Gollum is removed from combat. If not, you draw a card and Gollum can't be blocked this turn.
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Legendary Creature ~ Human High Elf

Vigilance

Whenever Aragorn and Arwen, Married, enters the battlefield or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. You gain 1 life for each other creature you control.
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Legendary Creature ~ Halfling Citizen

W/B W/B: If Frodo, Sauron's Bane is a Citizen, it becomes a Halfling Scout with base power and toughness 2/3 and lifelink.

BBB: If Frodo is a Scout, it becomes a Halfling Rogue with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game if the Ring has tempted you four or more times this game. Otherwise, the Ring tempts you.
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That art is shit.
 
SilenceIsViolence said:
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this shit makes me MATI. A bunch of valueless troons without money donating to a troon-run grift for various creators to virtue signal. Even if they were a pure organization that did exactly what they say they did to their maximum capacity, it's the most niche and overwhelmingly least effective place to donate resources. Hundreds of thousands of homeless people yet let's help the 3 troons a year who call this number.

I look forward to the inevitable shitshow of "I never got my prize" in the following weeks.
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It genuinely makes me sad to see shit like this. I think The Professor is a pretty cool guy for the simple reason that he's willing to call WotC out for their shitty predatory business practices. He shits on the constant Secret Lair drops, he calls out the bad value Magic sets, he called out the MTG30 Collector's Edition for the scam it was.

But then I see this and realize he's just actually, genuinely retarded. Really sad, man. He seems cool despite this shit. How you could be dumb enough to support Trans Lifeline of all fucking things is beyond me.
 
LobsterBoy669 said:
I think The Professor is a pretty cool guy for the simple reason that he's willing to call WotC out for their shitty predatory business practices. He shits on the constant Secret Lair drops, he calls out the bad value Magic sets, he called out the MTG30 Collector's Edition for the scam it was.
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Oh wow, he calls out the same products everybody calls out. So brave. Much integrity.

Speaking of MTG30 Collector's Editions, let's consult the timeline:

DesolatorMagic posts his video condemning MTG30 on October 4, 2022.
Magic Historian posts his video condemning MTG30 on October 5, 2022.
Rudy posts his first video condemning MTG30 on October 6, 2022.
The "Professor" posts his video condeming MTG30 on October 10, 2022.

So, basically, like all spineless shills, he waited to see which way the wind was blowing before posting his take on the topic.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Oh wow, he calls out the same products everybody calls out. So brave. Much integrity.

Speaking of MTG30 Collector's Editions, let's consult the timeline:

DesolatorMagic posts his video condemning MTG30 on October 4, 2022.
Magic Historian posts his video condemning MTG30 on October 5, 2022.
Rudy posts his first video condemning MTG30 on October 6, 2022.
The "Professor" posts his video condeming MTG30 on October 10, 2022.

So, basically, like all spineless shills, he waited to see which way the wind was blowing before posting his take on the topic.
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Eh, TCC always is slow to post anything, his "booster box game" videos always come out 1-2 weeks after the set is released while other mtg creators will have videos before street date. Plus he was very vocal on twitter since the M30 announcement. Mind you, I think he's a autistic faggot, but 'shill' I don't agree with.
LobsterBoy669 said:
But then I see this and realize he's just actually, genuinely retarded. Really sad, man. He seems cool despite this shit. How you could be dumb enough to support Trans Lifeline of all fucking things is beyond me.
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He's a breadtuber doing an MTG themed channel, retardation runs in his genes sadly. I lost whatever respect I had for him when he went off on using the word 'tribal' a bit ago, declaring it as offensive towards minorities. In the clownworld that is modern MTG, TCC has one of the biggest honking horns.
 
Retink Retunk said:
That art is shit.
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Eh, I think Gollum is quite fine. Like, everything so far is fine in depicting what they are trying to depict. I bet, WHAT is being depicted is a problem.
Myself, I too do not understand what this change of Aragorns ethnicity is implying. In an old cartoon they've made Aragorn to look like native american. In that case I can understand the implication of him being in tune with nature and any sapient beings desire of not being bri'ish. And what does WotCs art direction implies by turning him black? That he will swiftly drops out of his childs life, because he has ~30 more years at most in him, and for an elf it's like a weekend? I'm obviously trying to be funny and vulgar here, but they had to have a reason for this decision.
In any case, still far from the funniest depiction of LotR cast I know.
 
macrodegenerate said:
I agree mostly, except I think black is still a bit busted for removal
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There's no doubt that Anoint with Affliction and Drown in Ichor are great cards, and Offer Immortality is a good trick. Sheoldred's Edict is a gangbusters sideboard card that's usually good enough to mainboard, as it's one of the only real outs to Kaya (who is, truly a testaement to the design team's foresight and thorough playtesting, a rare in the set for some fucking awful reason). Annihilating Glare and Vraska's Fall are much less good, and Whisper of the Dross is hit-and-miss. Ambulatory Edifice is real good though.

The main issue with the color is just the top-end. It's really good in WB because its early-game cards are generally pretty good, and it's great for turning on corrupted. Its early-drops are good at getting to 3 poison, but not to 10. But even that deck, you ideally want to wind up in it because you picked some crawling choruses early and got passed something decent mid-pack, because if you start base-black, 2 of its pairs are close to unplayable.
macrodegenerate said:
You seem to have forgotten skitterfang which can turn a game around the turn it hits the board.
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It's also colorless, and it's good in almost any deck. Giving Furnace Strider flying is often as good or better, since it having haste can make it a big surprise. The main advantage of the GB signpost is that it has 5 toughness - it lives through hexgold and a lot of combat tricks on white's weenies won't let them kill it.
macrodegenerate said:
Are there are any instant speed bounce spells in this format, or did I miss something?
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As said above, yeah, serum snare. But it's not a common one to really see, because proliferate isn't really that helpful to UW, which is blue's best pairing by a country mile. It's a good pick in UB if you have venser or voidwings, and if you're in UR you probably are there only because you have a chimera which it works well with. Otherwise, it's card disadvantage (which does matter in this format, especially vs an opponent with compleat devotion) and proliferate has proven to be pretty bad in a format with like 5 +1/+1 counter-creatures and no -1/-1 counters.
 
SilenceIsViolence said:
He's a breadtuber doing an MTG themed channel, retardation runs in his genes sadly. I lost whatever respect I had for him when he went off on using the word 'tribal' a bit ago, declaring it as offensive towards minorities. In the clownworld that is modern MTG, TCC has one of the biggest honking horns.
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oh wow, did you not see his video on the War of the Spark book? Take a drink every time he says "words matter."
 
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