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I'd rather run Mogg Alarm tbh.

Well, when everything goes well you're favoured, but if you stumble at all or they have enough disruption it's very easy for them to shut you out. It always feels terrible to Path a DRS/Bob, but if you don't it can quickly take the game over. Liliana just wrecks you, even if you have Gifts...

I played UW Tron in both of the past two Modern PTQ seasons so I'll add my $.02. Drawing Rites and/or Rites targets wasn't a problem too often - Elesh Norn was hardcastable a lot of the time, and you had TfK to sift through cards and get them in the GY. idk how viable the Gifts plan is now that...

Thanks Jason for tuning in. Results were bad but it's a lot of fun and I hope it was worth watching. Just remembered that somebody who used to be in my playgroup had a pretty innovative Cube a few years ago. Worth checking out: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?p=6005740

twitch.tv/mc_usher ^playing Storm in a Modern DE

If you want to play U Tron, at least splash for Pyroclasm or Timely Reinforcements or something.

I don't see why you can't run both Geist and Cryptic Command. That sounds kinda tempting actually...

teach me how to poker yo

I find Deed ending up in my SB more and more often now. It's sad, since I love the card, but its best days are behind it.

Sure, but an even distribution isn't an end in itself; it's only useful in as far as it makes the overall draft/play experience better. In practice, a guy scraping to put a X/G aggro deck together isn't going to be glad that an abstract ideal of colour balance is being maintained, he's going to...

This post has no real content, this is just so Jason can read it on stream.

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I have 6, I think? /modopoor

There was a guy on MTGS who kept Lions over Militant on the grounds that he didn't want to upset his colour balance and green aggro wasn't a supported theme in his Cube anyway. It's just baffling how people can think like that.

I can quite easily imagine Mike Flores being a 'respected' figure in other subcultures, and he is a laughing stock in Magic among people who aren't his friends. Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu are somehow poker icons, after all.

Some changes I made in my Cube that incidentally let green aggro become viable: - Savannah Lions/Elite Vanguard + 2 Dryad Militant - Llanowar Elves/Fyndhorn Elves/Avacyn's Pilgrim + 2 Noble Hierarch +1 Deathrite Shaman +3 Burning-Tree Emissary

Do those problems occur at the highest levels of competition though? In Magic at least, you find the most jerks among very casual players or mid-level PTQ regulars; the game's best are generally a good crowd, from what I can tell. LoL has problems because any asshole with an internet connection...

That seems to be a big part of why a lot of the most skilled players prefer Limited. It's a lot harder to 'solve' a matchup where the decks are singleton (or close to it); and even if you come close, the matchup never really repeats itself.

If you thought that was bad, wait until Reid (probably) beats the tar out of the T4 with Hexproof in Modern this morning.