Given current results in the MOCS opens I am now locked for the MOCS. Feels crazy, been working towards this for a long time and finally got there. Had a great season and just have to thank the entirety of the MOCS testing server for helping me have a great list for every event.
The dichotomy of seeing someone post a $15 sideboard guide for a deck and then seeing someone who top 8ed the pro tour with the deck post one for free just makes me love the magic community
My cheat was extremely practiced and premeditated but I promise it actually only happened this one time that happened to be on camera haha. Unlucky really
Disappointed in both my opponent and the DEC team. At 4-0 I had lethal in play and MTGO just drew the game. Opponent had no dignity and and continued to just play the other games as if nothing happened. DEC team was no help and just told me to file a ticket. Really sad to see
This is a failure of WOTC. This clown shouldn’t be at tournaments to begin with. Should be filling out a McDonald’s application instead of ruining everyone’s pro tour experience.
Magic refuses to build their own IP in anyway so it becomes necessary to combine with other IPs to remain relevant beyond the game itself. Impossible to compete with Pokemon and Yugioh when our IP is nonexistent and what does exist is a shitty typed up story
Today has taught me casual FNM hero magic players are so confidant in their knowledge of the rules while being consistently wrong to the point its genuinely impressive
Lost the finals to
@CoreyBaumeister
very proud of myself and happy with my result this weekend and love all of you who showed me love and sent me kind words, this weekend has been incredible
@JBLite
@scharnagl_
@BenSkeens
It's fucking twitter, you can take half a second to use Google and find this. If you have went to college its also super obvious that this shit both exists and is happening.
Won the standard challenge with Esper Legends. 29-1 with legends on MTGO between this challenge and Manatraders. Will be writing a guide and publishing it in the next few days leading up to more RCs. Think Esper is the best deck and I have a lot of thoughts to share on the deck.
top 4 of the standard challenge with good build rakdos. Cut all the shit cards from the stock list and played good cards. Sideboard still needs some work but deck fucks
Days like these I remember that WOTC printed Dinosaur Hunter and invalidated all dinosaur strategies for the rest of time. Honestly just the day that magic died.
Begging people making modern unban tier lists to read Deathrite Shaman. Jesus christ its the best creature ever printed and y'all think that shit is fine in modern 🤓
Split the finals of the Friday Night Modern Challenge. Would normally play finals but too sleepy. This deck was fantastic and I was blown away with how consistently it comboed and how good the fair plan was in a variety of matchups. The mana base sometimes gave me trouble.
Lost in QF of the showcase. Deck was fantastic, sideboard probably needs a little work. Forced a lot of removal checks and decks like phoenix and rakdos are going to struggle to keep up. Happy with my deck choice and play today and MOCS events are always super sweet
all today has taught me is that while we play a card game Commander players just play a very expensive board game. Like bro just buy a 20 dollar Monopoly set
The bullshit with Eduardo at the Canadian RC continues to convince me that magic just needs to do away with draws and move to sudden death like other TCGs. Would much rather board in a healing salve as we go to time than play the politics subgame with bad actors
It' impressive to me that the banned and restricted announced is worse than no changes given I thought no changes was as bad as it could get. Whoever makes these changes must not play any of the current magic formats in any capacity
Oops I did it again. Deck is great, goyf is pretty nice and bowmaster kinda stinks right now for applications outside of killing other bowmasters which does not seem worth it to me. I will continue to Assault Loam
Shoutout to the dirty diaper in the MTGO discord who said that prelim prizing was wrong and too high and got it reduced. I hope you stub your toe on the corner of your bed every morning until your death
Lost in the finals of the vintage challenge playing Nadu lol. Only losses were to Jewel shops, the nadu stuff was surprisingly excellent and played really well. Good enough for vintage and also just legal in modern monka
glub glub 🐟4-0ed the modern prelim with merfolk. Deck unironically felt great (stomped the 1 asmo cookbook deck I played against). The sideboard definitely needs some work but Svyelun is insane and maybe merfolk is worth a deeper dive
Sadly just a symptom of how badly daybreak murdered the economy. Really a shame that they didn’t give it any care and it’s starting to collapse a fair bit.
Won the Pioneer challenge with Rakdos midrange. Deck is just great again. The End allows you to take some more controlling rolls in matchups like Green and Phoenix. Archfiend of the Dross was great the entire time and you are a fish if you don't play it
WON THE PIONEER CHALLENGE PLAYING BANT SPIRITS. Took the second challenge dub for the day which feels fucking incredible. Deck was honestly great and was a ton of fun to play, would run it back if I end up playing more Pioneer in the future
Won the Pioneer LCQ with Rakdos. Deck is still just great. Rakdos will remain tier 0 or 1 etc etc. P.S UW lotus is rancid and I was happy to get the bye in round 4 of the LCQ
Hopeful banlist
Pioneer: Cruise, Amalia, Lotus Field
Modern: Violent outburst and grief, unban fury
Legacy: ban grief please for the love of god
Vintage: Restrict saga
Standard: this format rocks stay away from it.
Pauper: OMEGALUL
I often forget about the large amount of people who donate on mtgo so that my friends and I can cash our large stacks of tickets every month. Whereas on arena we all donate to the has to capitalist machine.
I will never understand the unilateral Arena hate when it's FREE. MTGO costs 1 million dollars and is built like it is intended to run on an iPod nano.
Like, by all means hate both but I just do not understand the people who act like mtgo is the pinnacle of online cardboard
@_mRichi_
Massive piss baby behavior when the support agent has nothing to do with this. You can simply not play the format. Grass is potentially all around you and is yours for the taking
@AndyAWKWARD
Super disgusting and person should certainly be called it. There is no place for deceit in our game especially when making choices like this that are bound to happen and supposed to be advantageous for both parties. I would lump this in with literally cheating honestly
Won the challenge with vamps. Deck was pretty terrible and I mindslavered most of my opponents to win. I ripped like crazy to even be in half of my games. Would not do this again, returning to phoenix if my goal is to win a pioneer tournament
Crazy weekend top 4ing pauper and now WINNING Legacy. Shoutout to
@JUJUBEAN__2004
and others I tested/talked with about this list, felt fantastic all day and was a step ahead of everyone it seemed. MOCS race is in full swing LFG
Started playing
@ParallelTCG
and game rocks. Opt in NFTs is something that games that wanted to implement them should have been doing from the start. The fact I can just play and enjoy the game and craft like normal and not mess around with crypto has been nice
I have written a 9000 word guide on Esper Legends (including a sideboard guide) following my 19-1 record to win the Manatraders leaderboard and going 10-0 to win the standard challenge on MTGO.
If you would like to purchase, it'll be $15 on Paypal or Venmo or 17 tickets on MTGO
To celebrate the release of
#MTGBaldursGate
on June 10, we're throwing a festival. 15 to be exact.
Tournament organizers around the world will be bringing back the gathering in a big, big way this June and July as
#CommandFest
makes its return.
Get Ready:
Insanity how they get every single banned and restricted wrong. They consult people to make sets so maybe they should get consultants who actually play formats like modern and Pioneer to help them ban and unban cards too
Lost in top 4 of the modern challenge with a Jund version of Seismic Assault. I am 13-2 across 2 challenges this weekend with Assault loam variants. Definitely something here and the vibes are good
Won the Pauper challenge. Haven't played this format in a while and just picked up a random deck I saw win last week. This mono R deck is super broken and you should probably be playing it. Beat 30 life in Weather the storms and a ton of Navigator's Compasses too
3-1ed the prelim with new look scam. Deck was fine, worse than scam before but double grief turn one is still really stupid so probably something you can play
thread 1/x
Sadly am not going to the pro tour, I was disqualified today from dreamhack, I had some foils in my deck specifically secret lair collected companys among other foils in my de k and the judge staff cut to them and showed how I could have gained an advantage
5-0ed the Modern LCQ playing UR Murktide. Put down the Living Ends for a minute and took the LCQ down. This deck hurts my brain and I had a lot of decisions and felt like my choices mattered a bunch. Unclear if I will continue to play this deck but this was a ton of fun
@WUCtrl
UW Lotus has remained tier 0 or 1 through metas with Inverter, Phoenix, Rakdos, and DIscover. The deck is always the most broken thing in Pioneer and just avoids bans by being hard to play and for people with very large heads
If you constantly treat people like shit you are not entitled to the respect of your peers and you *should* be pushed out of our community. Playing the game and being a part of this community is a privilege and we should not include people who make it worse
@JUJUBEAN__2004
Judges and TOs should be ashamed of themselves and should face some consequences. Sorry this happened to you dude, you did not deserve this.
Top 8ed standard with a new take on grixis. Was able to go over the top of a lot of people with Mindsplice Apparatus and some X spells. Deck is pretty misbuilt but some promising things going on with Silver Scrutiny and Blue Sun's. Upheaval at your own risk
Well Well Well isn't it my good friend Second Place. Collected my $2000 stimmy and kept my schedule free next weekend for NRG Milwuakee so no harm no foul. UB Witch is still broken and you should play it, I am interested in an extra Sorin. Siphon Insight was also insane for me
I promise you all would just win more if you stopped conceding games you have chances to win and instead focused on trying to win them. The phase of trying to level people in ways that aren’t magic passes by when you start winning games you thought you never could. Just play.
Want to win more matches? Concede more games! It sounds funny but it's true: maximizing your resources is incredibly important and two of the most underrated among them are information and time. Here’s a couple examples of how I conceded my way to victory at RCQs this year. 1/6
If you do not label your archetype properly on MTG melee you are an awful person and I wish you a very bad day. Sincerely, person who wants to look at data
Lost in the top 8 of the pioneer challenge gurking it. Deck was pretty sweet and had good vibes. Average card isn't too bad and the seismic assault loam engine buries a lot of decks in the meta right now. Way worse choices one could make in modern than this
The challenges are super noise. Found the worst deck possible in the league deck dump. Unplayable mana base, literally couldn't sideboard because those 15 cards were unplayable. Smoked everyone in the swiss and lost a tight couple games to amulet in the top 4.
Just remember while at
#mtgvegas
that
@tier1games
is shit and to not patron their vendor booth. Just got a packet in the mail saying they are disputing my charge backs from insight events that are not paid out. Fucking losers
If I got $4k off magic twitters good will and the only consequence was a few people calling me out as a shit head id too log off and spend my $4k in peace
Don’t trust any 4c sideboard guide that says to board in Emrakul against UW at best it gains you 13 life and at worst it literally just draws your opponent free cards
Days like these I remember that WOTC printed Dinosaur Hunter and invalidated all dinosaur strategies for the rest of time. Honestly just the day that magic died.
19-1 in the manatraders with Esper legends. Deck is incredible and I am not convinced it has a bad matchup against any of the current builds of the decks in standard (though grixis certainly could adapt). Think wedding announcement is a scam and am happy with this 75
The biggest upgrade to the vintage cube and experience playing it is that Daybreak is handling it and does a great job not putting shitty standard cards in it like previous iterations. and 64 mans rock. All in all the best and most enjoyable the cube has bee for me
Ran back the top 8 and lost in the semifinals of the modern challenge with blue tron. Deck makes a lot of sense to me to build tron this way to compete with both Living End and current builds of 4 color. Cyclonic Rift is the only card that felt not great, was happy overall
Preordain is so absurd in modern like wtf. This cantrip is so so so so much better than the alternatives we had before. Blue tempo decks are going to find a new level of consistency and the future of combo decks is bright with a few more additions
@ExpeditionMap
Floor judge was great and someone I respect a lot and both him and the head judge explained things to me in the moment and after the round when I inquired further. Nothing but respect for them, especially when they gave me the correct ruling how can I fault them at all?
@vanitycsgo
@FreakazoidA
I guess Freak is okay with a 16 year old getting death threats. Fucking unbelievable, do these idiots think before they tweet?