Lil 0-3 ->11-3 to make the pt for the first time ever. Completely surreal. Shoutout to all the homies who I tested with and hung out with this weekend. Absolutely over the moon
@ExpeditionMap
The larger issue is that the opinion is fairly racist as if being from Midwest America is the only thing that matters. She then goes on and mocks Brazil (where they primarily speak Portuguese) talking about learning Spanish. Just an ignorant situation all around.
9-6-1 at the PT. Heartbroken to have barely missed reQ but so proud to have been on the team that broke it. Huge congrats to the champ
@SethManfield
and
@Smdster
for the t8 finish. Thanks to all of cfb for being amazing teammates! Can’t wait till I get to do this all again.
@tiddypills
@DreamHackMagic
Massive blunder by dreamhack, bummed you won’t be there. (Btw I appreciate you not changing your name and it’s stupid and wrong that you’re facing backlash for it)
I don’t that Anuraag is the only good commentator
@NRGSeries
ever has but it is embarrassing that “I don’t play this format or know anything about it but I’m gonna ramble and give uninformed thoughts about the meta instead of talking about the game” passes for commentary
@ExpeditionMap
@xJCloud
yeah, it's almost certainly unnecessary but so was calling my friend racist cause she said she likes being able to read her opponent's magic cards
Standard is so hard and I love it. You can figure out the best gameplan for a match up, and then a single piece of sb tech just reinvents everything. This tweet is brought to you by razorlash transmogrant in the grixis mirror.
@NileJoanRivers
This is such a fucking mindblowing take from him. It wasn't a fundraiser for him to pay off his debts. It was for the artists, not the con artist.
Lost playing for the PT invite. Deck was great, and I mostly feel I played well. I wish there weren’t so many mus where play draw was so important in this format. Still love standard tho
Horribly punted my win and in for t8 of the sealed PTQ with an incredibly broken pool. Will bounce back tomorrow but for now I’m going to stare into the void for the rest of tonight. Feel like I really wasted a chance
consider, see opt... torture yourself over the decision... decide to keep it... cast the opt... your reward for your diligence on your last decision: you see a sleight of hand... cantrips only beget more cantrips... win the match... you can't escape... worse you don't want to
Realizing that i don't really want to be an intimidating opponent. I'd rather my opponent and I both have a good time and that they're comfortable and happy. If people find me intimidating that's fine but I'm not gonna make any effort to be. If anything I try not to be.
Don't really have any feedback from the outside on this but between randomly getting shakey hands and coming off as flustered at points where i'm not, i think i'm probably like a 3. I honestly don't know though.
I cannot imagine deciding it is a good idea to share this thought on twitter. Outside of being extremely arrogant, it's also embarrassing to miss cash in a tournament if you played 12 bad teams and 1 good one
@dahllia_mtg
You should not shuffle their deck, you should stop them and call a judge, if you shuffle their deck then a key piece of evidence “oh dang their hand is insanely good” gets messed up
So excited to play
@VMLMTG
champs today! Pretty happy with the standard deck
@tiddypills
and I submitted and feeling good about draft too. Lets get to the PT!
I watched the coverage of two matches this weekend (my teams and ashe’s) and the commentary basically felt like someone was doing a dramatic reading of MTG Twitter with a game of magic in the background.
I had somebody do a remarkably similar cheat against me once at an SCG (picked up a non-land with his w6 while I was looking down to get dice out) and was told by the very experienced and well respected head judge that the cheat was too obvious to be intentional
My friends, I know times are tough right now and we don’t have a lot of energy - but I promise you, playing the
@VMLMTG
is one of the most rewarding experiences in Magic. You’ll compete against lovely, welcoming people and learn skills like metagaming and deck tuning.
@JasonILTG
the "hard decks" are generally just decks where you need to learn some mechanics to play the deck competently. Where as a typical draft deck is hard to play cause who on earth knows if i'm supposed to be trading these 2/2s
Hearing
@anzidmtg
scream "I LOVE MAGIC THE GATHERING" on coverage when your friend
@Wheresurhouseki
topdecks the lethal bolt is really as good as it gets.
It's wild how, if i'd won the last game of magic i played this weekend instead of losing it, I would be qualified for Minnie, Dallas and i'd have a chance to make it to Barcelona. Instead I am qualified for nothing and am 0% to qualify for any of those.
1-3 start into a 4-3 at
@VMLMTG
champs. Played some incredibly good matches including getting team killed by
@tiddypills
in the last round of draft. Still disappointed but happy to finish strong and get my Q for the RC.
@masoneclark_
I’m not sure I like this framing. I find playing a game for stakes (other incentives) to be very fun. So why am I playing a tournament, I’m doing it for fun, but the incentives are part of what makes it fun. (I also cube for no stakes probably more than once a week on average)
@SaffronOlive
Format is great. Format support remains awful. You can't have a rotating format with events that matter one season a year and expect people to buy in and play it.
@fffreakmtg
@CedricAPhillips
I legitimately think I have several friends who I could get into magic if I could honestly tell them that it would only cost $30 (still much more expensive than most esport games.) As it is I'm not going to try and convince my friends to invest a ton of money into a shoddy client
Hey, I've officially written my first article! I've put a lot of work into improving GDS in modern at the moment and I think that's reflected in this. Please give it a read!
Playing the T8 of the
@VMLMTG
One Shot Historic Tournament later today. Yesterday had some crazy matches vs
@AnnabeliousMTG
,
@hogpog_98
(she won through Narset+memory) and a feature match vs
@emmaskyeward
. Looking forward to more good matches today and hopefully I can get there!
@diesel61187
@Judge__Dredge
@Will__Krueger
Kinda amazing how you can say things are basically cheating with no justification. Using a purple pen to track your life total is basically cheating (especially if it's glittery.)
It encourages me to be detail-oriented and methodical, which is not my natural way of going through life, and i've actually learned how to operate that way when i need to.
What is something your proud of or love that has come out of magic?
It could be anything.
Mine has been helping people improve at their hobby and seeing them enjoy playing magic more.
@diesel61187
@Judge__Dredge
@Will__Krueger
If you were given a warning at comp rel because your opponent missed their trigger then the judge made an error. That's not how the rules work.
Dear 4c players,
Sorry we shittalked your deck a bunch and kept winning our supposedly awful matchup against you. Please come back and beat the hammer players, we actually can never beat them.
Sincerely,
Murktide Players
@d00mwake
and
@anzidmtg
are doing a great job on the
@NRGSeries
coverage. Love getting to watch paper magic on my Saturday morning with high quality, well-informed commentary.
Announcing details for our VML Championships! The best of competitors from seasons 8-10 will compete in LOTR draft and standard for two PRO TOUR invites and prizes, LIVE on August 19th and 20th! You do not want to miss this 🔥
#sponsored
@PlayMTG
@GLHFMagic
Those general thoughts would be better in the dead time between matches, and it would be nice if the people doing commentary could at least pretend to care about the game state, the decisions players make, or the outcome of the match
Yeah I went 2-3 in day 2 of the Arena Qualifier, but I also beat getting brainfreezed in
@autumnlilypad
's bant cube with an upkeep quandrix command, so I still feel like a winner😊
@MsEldritch
@dahllia_mtg
It's a lot about tone and social cues. At more casual competitive events (FNM/prerelease) I do make an effort to gauge how experienced my opponent is and then play to match that. I think the issue is that some kinds of people are assumed to not be part of the in group
@dahllia_mtg
This is extremely real. Competitive players (particularly good/experienced ones) figure out real quick i know what i'm doing. Randos at FNM or prerelease are way more likely to condescend.
@maxtortion
@BasicMountain
Fairly confident that any argument i would find compelling to vote for joe biden would begin with the premise that he is a terrible person.
Congrats to the incredibly deserving
@VMLMTG
One-Shot champion
@hogpog_98
. Felt fortunate to get to play an incredible (and meaningless) match against her in the final round of the Swiss, before she unceremoniously crushed me in the top 8.
Here’s the many-step process to get Pestilent Cauldron on the battlefield using only the Ratchet Bomb part of Filigree Sylex as a “black source”, if for some reason you like it more than explaining the asymptotic behavior of gaining life with Bursts and dealing damage with Sylex.
@masoneclark
love this answer. especially given the context of it's printing, where it revived artifact decks in modern and gave them infinitely better play experiences on both sides than opal did. (and does other cool stuff)
Played the first feature match of my life in R6 of
@Mana_Traders
yesterday. I was too nervous and didn’t play great but it was an amazing experience, particularly to have the wonderful casters,
@leemcleo
and
@ellieoftheveil
using the name and pronouns I’m comfortable with.
@JasonILTG
I do think that the hard part of playing magic at an elite level is much more about the complexity of the core game engine, and that part never really goes away, and the complexity of the deck you're playing doesn't matter that much