Like the typical EDH group can finish a game in 4 hours. You have to actually commit and kill someone to do that!
GBS
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I've had the draft + three rounds finish in as little as 3 hours. 3 and a half is more the norm. Four hours is way more than enough.
Magic players are pretty diverse, and people don't want to cube that's the way it is. Frankly I can't stand a lot of magic players and would rather cube with people I know and like.
Dougggggg
Reigning Draft Champion
I tried and I couldn't get it to work on blogger, I think next week I'm just going to try out wordpress. It was so much trouble on blogger and still didn't work that great.
You can't WoW and cube. You CAN smoke weed and cook.
Are you familiar with Roy Choi? He has a recipe for ketchup fried rice and goddamn if it's not one of the tastiest things you can eat in any state of mind. Also send some of your favorite recipes my way. I love cooking.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
You can't WoW and cube. You CAN smoke weed and cook.
Cooking was actually a metaphor, but I'll do my best
I'm more of a "student living" kinda chef. My brother and dad both have formal chef training, so occasionally I'll come home and he's like "Hey you wanna try these korean short ribs I've suvided?"
Build Your Own Standard: BYOS!
So we were talking about this on the chat, and I think I mentioned it here before, but I thought I'd present the idea here a'fore I made a thread for it.
Here's the concept: We start a league on some rotating basis, maybe a monthly thing or maybe a longer period, we pick 2 blocks and a core set at random and we create a standard environments we throw tournaments online on cockatrice for.
I'm imagining something like this:
Ideas:
So we were talking about this on the chat, and I think I mentioned it here before, but I thought I'd present the idea here a'fore I made a thread for it.
Here's the concept: We start a league on some rotating basis, maybe a monthly thing or maybe a longer period, we pick 2 blocks and a core set at random and we create a standard environments we throw tournaments online on cockatrice for.
I'm imagining something like this:
- On the 25th of the month I'd roll some sets and generate say M11, Onslaught Block and Lorwyn! I bet goblins and soldiers get super interesting right?
- In the following month on the 2nd weekend of the following month we would have our first tournament on cockatrice, with the winner being crowned The Queen of Love and Beauty
- Then a final tournament of the season on the final weekend of the month where the winner will be given some accolade and be known forever as A Man of Worth.
- Hopefully around then we will have picked a new designer format and we will start anew with the testing and deckbuilding.
Ideas:
- Some control to keep things from seeming too much like actual standard formats.
- Group alpha / beta / unlimted / revised into one section so things only get really weird once in a while.
- Only include sets that can spiritually grouped as a block in the block selection.
sounds awesome. I adore the titles, I want to be The Queen of Love and Beauty an anybody who knows me knows it's true. But even more than that I have a deep desire to be A Man of Worth. Somehow I doubt any but very few tests of magic skill can award such a title.
Related to a post elsewhere:
Blue moon was the best deck at the PT, because fuck modern mana bases. Ascension storm with blood moon sideboard was second best, and that 8 rack mono B discard deck was third best because that was fucking ballsy and I love it.
Blue moon was the best deck at the PT, because fuck modern mana bases. Ascension storm with blood moon sideboard was second best, and that 8 rack mono B discard deck was third best because that was fucking ballsy and I love it.
The ad nauseum deck gets props for taking mad mana requirements to their utterly illogical extreme, and for winning via ridiculousness.
And there's pod, splinter twin and living end.
Magic's been going towards attacking with creatures for a while, right? Where are the attacking decks? Even robots seems to be more of a combo deck that dumps all its +1/+1 counters on a single dude who makes it through than a deck that tries to turn guys sideways fairly. Not that I'm going to complain too much about that, because ridiculous combo decks are great, but it seems like the attacking decks aren't good enough to keep the combo decks honest, especially because blood moon does a better job of keeping combo decks honest than trying to kill them first (you can't).
Magic's been going towards attacking with creatures for a while, right? Where are the attacking decks? Even robots seems to be more of a combo deck that dumps all its +1/+1 counters on a single dude who makes it through than a deck that tries to turn guys sideways fairly. Not that I'm going to complain too much about that, because ridiculous combo decks are great, but it seems like the attacking decks aren't good enough to keep the combo decks honest, especially because blood moon does a better job of keeping combo decks honest than trying to kill them first (you can't).
Any of you guys played Antichamber? Yesterday I got out of bed around noon, and intended to work on music until my class that evening. Instead I started playing Antichamber and at around 2 or 3 pm it was suddenly 5pm. Anyway, awesome game!
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Combos are too fast. no fair aggro deck is a turn 3 kill, and theres no force to defend and no wasteland to slow them down
CML
Contributor
looks like someone got to the most hilarious libertarian joke ever before me
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Dom Harvey
Contributor
wat
I've been playing 2048. Anybody interested in an advanced strategy video?
Dom Harvey
Contributor
YES
I am hopeless at it
I am hopeless at it
I've been playing 2048. Anybody interested in an advanced strategy video?
Holy shit dude, I'm still trying to get 4096. but I'm just too impatient to play properly and I always screw up.
