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Banlist update just happened: Modern: -Treasure Cruise, Dig Through Time and Birthing Pod are banned -Golgari Grave-Troll is unbanned Legacy: -Treasure Cruise is banned -Worldgorger Dragon is unbanned Vintage: -Treasure Cruise is restricted -Gifts Ungiven is no longer restricted The Modern changes really suck massive balls. They just ended two decks, bringing UR delver back to its previous meh-ness and asking Pod players to either buy into Junk or getting the fuck out, and Gravetroll adds nothing. Dig Through Time ban is just wsdfwblsgr At least the Legacy changes make sense, UR Delver was an actual problem there instead of just an overhyped fad that didn't bring any proper tournament results, and Worldgorger Dragon brings a possible combo deck back, but I doubt it'll actually do anything considering Griselbrand essentially does the same thing but better

Japanese is such a pleasant language to listen to It's almost exclusively consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel and that strange "r" sound it has, it just flows so nicely

Sonic Boom run ended, was pretty fun if only to see how atrocious the game is Apparently Arin actually used a huge game skip glitch (~4 hours) by chance

I've gotten kind of back into minecraft and wanted to build a giant tree with a big treehouse in it. My two original tries looked like complete shit so I googled "minecraft giant tree tutorial", found a video tutorial and right before I clicked thought "man I really hope this guy's voice isn't too nasally"

To any WiiU owner who has never played these - get it. All three games are phenomenal and I still consider Metroid Prime 1 to be the best game of all time

I actually have no edh decks with infinite combos in them since our group banned them for being unfun (and I agree). But I do always end up having to nerf my initial builds because even in goldfish playtesting they end up super oppressive Most of them involve Omniscience or Mindslaver effects. On that subject we totally need more mindslaver effects

I built a karador edh deck and it accidentally went infinite in like five different ways it is a curse I tell you

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By now they could just as well move all the tiers one down, making Uber the new OU, and MegaRay the only Uber like Mewtwo in the good ol' fashioned day of RBY

I wouldn't say "counter" but the Flare Gun is probably one of the better weapons to kill a heavy from a safe distance It was easy to kill heavies as pyro before they fucked with the axtinguisher. Still one of the weirdest changes they made. Especially since the Powerjack was (and still is) much better than pre-nerf axtinguisher

They can't respond to removal with a pod sac, pod only works at sorcery speed. If someone did that against you (s)he was cheating Pod is really hard to sideboard against, since the deck is still very powerful without pod and boarding in artifact hate can make you draw dead cards pretty fast. Torpor Orb is what they call a "Null Rod" card in magic because of its flavour text: Playing Torpor Orb doesn't influence the board, and if you draw it turn 4 or 5 it does nothing. The question you want to ask yourself is whether having it out on turn 2 or 3 is powerful enough to be willing to have the chance of getting a dead draw later in the game. Whether that is true or not probably depends on how many Abrupt Decays they run.

Yift?

I use the Dutch "g" which doesn't exist in any other language

Well pod is a really good deck with a ton of lifegain so I can only assume it is pretty much the worst possible matchup a monogreen deck could have Stuff that could help is possibly extra copies of Rancor to get your damage through, creature removal in the form of Dismember and maybe Torpor Orb to stop all their etb triggers which is what the deck is built around. While it is a bit too expensive, Bramblecrush or Acidic Slime could maybe help since it can take out both Pod and Gavony Township

Fate Reforged spoilers are complete!

Remember that sometimes, the game just fucks you. The best magic players in the world have a win ratio of about 75%, sometimes your opponent just Godhands while you're stuck on a onelander. Generally speaking, you never mull below 5 on the play or 4 on the draw Except against Legacy/Vintage dredge where you mull to 1 trying to get your Leyline of the Void or they just end you.

But is it a male or female Goodra? This is important [*TELEPORTS BEHIND YOU* HEH, YOU DIDNT EVEN REMEMBER MY TIMETRAVLE NO JUTSU NOTHIN PERSONELL, KID *UNSHEATHS BAN*]

I still don't think stickies even needed a nerf, but this change is small enough that it doesn't really matter that much. Better than that mid-season "hey let's destroy the metagame"-bitchslap they came up with earlier last year. What I'm still really hoping for is a minisentry and BFB nerf, maybe a Danger Shield un-stupidising if I'm being greedy. I wish there was some way of actually giving input to valve that they pay attention to. I guess I could try and email them but then I'm still just one out of hundreds of mails which I doubt they actually read.

Man I'm really excited for MM2. Depending on what they reprint I might just start building Abzan Pod Also I must say that even though twiddling your thumbs while Jeskai Ascendancy goes off is frustrating as hell, the Modern manadorkless "Ascendancy 2.0" deck is geniously designed

Don't forget to preorder it for the TF2 promotional items. Doge allclass hat that clips with everything And no not Halloween restricted

Thick Fat, definitely. Two free resistances In other news I finally continued playing OR for a bit and had to laugh when they just gave you Latios for free together with the mega bracelet and latiosite

Jesus. I have never heard of something so fucking Japanese in my life. I think I'll stick with being a casual and re-watching the Cowboy Bebop movie or something. Watch the Afro Samurai dub instead It's western enough for casuals like us to enjoy and the protag is voiced by Samuel L Jackson