Important things with Ethan Poellinger

This is a collection of my thoughts. Not advised for the feint of heart.

[samkizzle-deactivated20170220]

To all the assholes commenting about how shock lands being cheaper and more widely available and easily accessible, get your heads out of your asses and listen the fuck up.

Magic is not a “rich person’s game” as a few of you said. I work a part time job while attending college. I pay for my own...

[ethanislegend]

almost everything that is standard legal will depreciate in value over time, especially when they rotate. The only way to really get "value" out of your purchases is to almost exclusively play eternal formats.

[dissonant-aria]

1. Boros is too damn fast. Normally not an issue unless…

2. you put no removal in the set that is easily accessible for limited. Again not a major issue unless there… 3. No defensive cards at all. Where’s all the high toughness defenders? Oh in RTR where a draft environment CAN’T USE THEM. 4....

[ethanislegend]

this could not be further from the truth...

[ethanislegend]

[hamburgerboogie-deactivated2016]

THAT’S A LOT OF FUCKING MONEY IF THOSE ARE LEGIT.

[ethanislegend]

they are. A friend of mine is a dealer and picked them up at a GP.

[ethanislegend]

Slowly getting there! I obviously have no points for the season though, because it just started, but 1000 points for the last year is fine.

[ethanislegend]

...IS THIS REAL LIFE?!?!

[ethanislegend]

Gatecrash Prerelease

So, what guild is everyone picking for their respective prerelease tomorrow?

[ethanislegend]

...That moment where you start to think about all the money you could have if you didn't spend it on your collection.

[airdramon]

Trying to look as green and blue today as possible for playing #simic at #mtg #prerelease #gatecrash

[ethanislegend]

I'm definitely a simic guy myself, but I think I might be abandoning the team and going Boros for my prerelease :/

[ethanislegend]

UWr Geist at FNM

I realize GTC is coming out soon and standard will change drastically, but I finally found a build of UWr that I really enjoy. I never liked flash very much, because it felt like it was all too reliant on pike, and didnt do much of anything without having it. I tried a lot of different geist builds and finally arrived at this: 4 Hallowed Fountain 4 Steam Vents 4 Sulfur Falls 4 Glacial Fortress 4 Clifftop Retreat 2 Cavern of Souls 2 Mountain 1 Island 4 Snapcaster Mage 4 Restoration Angel 4 Geist of St. Traft 3 Thundermaw Hellkite 3 Pillar of Flame 3 Searing Spear 2 Feeling of Dread 3 Azorious Charm 2 Izzet Charm 1 Unsummon 1 Mizzium Mortars 2 Counterflux 1 Syncopate 2 Sphinx's Revelation Sideboard: aggro package: 3 Izzet Staticaster 2 Supreme Verdict 1 Mizzium Mortars control package: 1 Oblivion Ring 2 Purify the Grave 1 Negate 1 Curse of Echoes 2 Jace, Memory Adept 2 Dispel The deck has done pretty well for me, especially against aggro and midrange. I can only imagine it will get better with the introduction of Aurelia's Fury and Boros Charm. 

[ethanislegend]

Finally!

[samkizzle-deactivated20170220]

Boros or gruul or orzhov

Boros -Charm is great -Battalion can be fucking sweet especially if you have more than one battalion dude -One common spoiled, he’s cool -Um, guildmage: hey, pay three and give your guys one more power. Um… (note: can’t wait to rally my peasants in standard though!) or...

[ethanislegend]

I think the best way to think about it is from a 3 color standpoint. In sealed, it is unlikely that you will have enough quality cards to play a 2 color deck. Lets take boros for example, as it seems like it is the one you are leaning toward picking. Because of the way that guilds are structured in the set, as well as having access to guildgates, you are going to be likely splashing either gruul or orzov anyway, because simic and dimir are pretty much dead guilds for you. Boros+Gruul is likely to be super straight forward and very aggressive. I expect to see a lot of Naya at my prerelease.

[samkizzle-deactivated20170220]

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/214 “From this conversation, some of you might be asking, “So what about Gatecrash?” Orzhov will be pretty hard to justify as it’s the two colors that have nothing to do with “can’t be countered.” The answer is that some...

[ethanislegend]

Thankfully there won't be anymore cant be countered cards in this set.

[ashlie-boo-deactivated20151003]

[sleeplessincali420-deactivated2]

i hate how starting with lorwyn

magic went to shit and is following the yugioh card selling format where each new set is more powerful then the last and in order to keep a relevant deck you have to keeping buying new cards. also fuck planeswalkers in the ass i have 10,000 pre-lorwyn cards and around 300 decks and im so glad i have the variety and the balance and i dont need to buy their new garbage.

[ethanislegend]

I'm pretty sure that we havent had anything that remotely compares to Zen block since then. There is no way that each block is increasingly better!

[roboniko-deactivated20140512]

Eep!

Excited/terrified for the Gatecrash pre-release events. I’ve never played in a sealed deck tournament, so I figure it should be a good learning experience. Anyone have any advice?

Also, let me know what guild you plan on choosing. I’m leaning towards Orzhov, myself.

-n

[ethanislegend]

Its really not too bad. I'm picking Simic because I feel that their overall card quality outweighs the other guilds. It's also important to realize you will likely be in 3 colors, and you have to think about your splash options based on the other guilds in the set. For instance, as people already stated, removal is very key and simic contains the 2 colors without access to traditional removal. With that being said, being in green and blue gives me the ability to splash gruul or dimir, both of which will likely have good removal spells to round out my deck, not to mention big guys to help out my evolve stuff.

[ethanislegend]

We Paint the Sky in the studio recording our new single "I've Seen the Devil".

The song comes out on February 19th, and there are more videos to come...

[phodie-deactivated20120623]

Alright, one last post…if you get this, you’re good in my book.

[ethanislegend]

This is fantastic!