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Originally posted by joz:
Pretty sure I said Squadron Hawk would be a stupidly powerful card for T2...

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A broken clock is right twice a day. You're right once a year? Maybe you should pump the brakes on the self-congratulating

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
A broken clock is right twice a day. You're right once a year? Maybe you should pump the brakes on the self-congratulating

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Originally posted by joz:
I also said that Frost Titan was going to be a $10.00 card and that Feat and Famine > Body and Mind

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Now you're just grasping for straws Who didn't say FF>BM?

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
Although I do agree with you I have to say that Magic is kind of like a Sport, and the Pros are the Star Athletes of this "Sport" so yeah. Maybe one of Brian Keebler's fans will buy it. Doubt it though.

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I just see them as regular nerds who happen to to do this right. If anything, the pros in this game aren't much different than the regulars.

Usually when I go to large events, I avoid people in "Blame Kibler" shirts and the like.

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Originally posted by joz:
I also said that Frost Titan was going to be a $10.00 card and that Feat and Famine > Body and Mind

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You need to be more bold and say something like this:

After the next set is released, Sword of {Red} and {White} (Order/Chaos? Heart/Soul?) will be played in multiple formats and will be good.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
I'm going to call it now:

After the next set is released, Sword of {Red} and {White} (Order/Chaos? Heart/Soul?) will be played in multiple formats and will be good.

I want credit for this first.

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As long as I get future credit for the deck that it will be used in both Legacy and Standard.

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Originally posted by joz:
And I get future credit for the next new $50 Goyf/Angel/Titan WOTC vomits on us.

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None of you were around for this, but back in 1993, I met a man named Richard Garfield who told me about this game he'd created. I called it back then that it would the most popular CCG in the history of the universe.

So, yeah...

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Originally posted by OGB:
None of you were around for this, but back in 1993, I met a man named Richard Garfield who told me about this game he'd created. I called it back then that it would the most popular CCG in the history of the universe.

So, yeah...

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Originally posted by Myy:
wow. so that makes you.. old?

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Now you're on the trolley!

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Originally posted by OGB:
Now you're on the trolley!

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Originally posted by OGB:
None of you were around for this, but back in 1993, I met a man named Richard Garfield who told me about this game he'd created. I called it back then that it would the most popular CCG in the history of the universe.

So, yeah...

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
Now you're just grasping for straws Who didn't say FF>BM?

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I dunno man, people were dissin' it pretty bad when it was spoiled. Saying it was the worst of the swords and crap. I had to get mine counseling just so it would function properly.

I think not.

Squawk itself really isn't format breaking, you don't have to worry about if they have one in hand or not. Aside from a U/W control deck protecting it and having the swords.... Is it really a force to be reckoned with?
Not that i really needed to point that out. But this whole Squadron Hawk thing is more like novelty, a temporary craze. A signed foil one shouldn't be worth 30 dollars to anyone....

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
Uhhhh.... I said bm>ff =[
I hate Feast and Famine. But also, i never liked Body and Mind much either.

Squawk itself really isn't format breaking, you don't have to worry about if they have one in hand or not. Aside from a U/W control deck protecting it and having the swords.... Is it really a force to be reckoned with?
Not that i really needed to point that out. But this whole Squadron Hawk thing is more like novelty, a temporary craze. A signed foil one shouldn't be worth 30 dollars to anyone....

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With Jace + Fetches it can be an ancestral recall though

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
Time and again I give MTGO more and more 2nd chances, and time and again I keep getting let down.

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I'm keeping hands like (after taking a mulligan):

Forest
Swamp
Cystbearer
Contagious Nim
Contagious Nim
Ichor Rats

Draw 5-drop
Draw equipment
Draw 3-drop
Draw Virulent Wound

LOSE.

I know it happens and that's randomness and shuffling, blah, blah, blah, but...

SO frustrating.

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Originally posted by andrew777:
I found this to be interesting. New trading guidelines for european GP's...

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
Cystbearer
Contagious Nim
Contagious Nim
Ichor Rats

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Like you some infect, huh? Do you play much else? It really seems pretty solid this set.

At my fnm, no one ever picks up infect. A simple 12 year old beat a lot of ass with infect once. Aside from a few strays like the white Priests/Shrike and Blightwidows elsewhere i think he picked up every infect body. Seriously, must have had like 22 bodies >.>

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Originally posted by andrew777:
* Advertising without receiving permission from Wizards of the Coast’s on-site Event Manager

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No more SCG shirts, then?

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
18 lands, 3 Copper Myr, 1 Silver Myr and 3 other two-drops, 8 3-drops and I get mana screwed three games out of 5 in an online draft. (Stuck on two lands and miss land drops for 5 turns.)

I'm keeping hands like (after taking a mulligan):

Forest
Swamp
Cystbearer
Contagious Nim
Contagious Nim
Ichor Rats

Draw 5-drop
Draw equipment
Draw 3-drop
Draw Virulent Wound

LOSE.

I know it happens and that's randomness and shuffling, blah, blah, blah, but...

SO frustrating.

Should have played a 19th land instead of that 5-drop and I'd have won that match.

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
Like you some infect, huh? Do you play much else? It really seems pretty solid this set.

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I probably play Infect 70% of the time, W/r aggro 20% of the time, and *other* 10% of the time. I think it's really solid, provided that it's open. I think it gives you the best chance to win the draft, but things can also go very wrong and you lose 0-2 because you just don't have enough guys. If it's not open, you really need to take a cue from the guy from your right that you should be drafting something else. I've had drafts where I'll P1P1 take Spread the Sickness, then take Leonin Skyhunter, Divine Offering, Leonin Skyhunter, Kuldotha Ringleader, Divine Offering, Piston Sledge, and be just fine that I never see more than one infect creature the first pack.

Because Infect is such a tempo deck, you notice bad hand moreso than in other strategies. If I play Leonin Skyhunter turn 4 instead of turn 2 or 3, it's still got a good chance of getting in there for 6 damage and helping me win. If I play a Contagious Nim on turn 6, unless I had turn three, four, and five with creatures and removal every turn, a 2/2 is going to get outclassed very quickly, even if my opponent plays subpar 2/4 guys for 4 mana.

I think lots of people really shy away from Infect because it's also possible that if it's overdrafted, you end up with an awful deck. I have more success with it than any other archetype, though and my friends are pretty sick of me drafting Infect all the time. When I draft online, if someone's watching over my shoulder, they often will comment:

"Oh, Virulent Wound. Big surprise. Then a Blightwidow? Why not. Rot Wolf, okay. Phyrexian Digester... are you SURE you draft non-infect decks?"

"I just went 3-0 with a W/r deck yesterday."

"If you say so. I don't believe it."

"You don't think I went 3-0?"