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[mangabookclub]

Tales from the Mana Crypt #79 - Pre-Release, Party of Four

Four types of players at every pre-release.

[supermo0]

Bloomburrow is such a fun change of pace compared to MH3, which I really loved as a “skill testing set”. Now that we’re in an easier environment it feels like taking Rock Lee weights off and just blasting through drafts with confidence.

Now if only I could stop making stupid play choices that lose me games

[beardwitchbrews]

So Finality Counters are a new space that R&D is introducing in Lost Caverns of Ixalan to give us more readily available & cheap reanimation. If you haven't seen them yet, here's an example:

(god this card is so goddam cool. Uncommon? That name?? THAT ART???)

Finality being a counter is super sweet, too, because all of a sudden cards that remove counters or move them around become so much more interesting. Here are some highlights:

To recap: I reanimate my Great Mistake, it gets a Finality Counter. I tap my Fain, The Broker, removing the counter & create a Treasure token. Seems pretty sweet!

If you blink a creature, it returns to battlefield, sans counters- another way to reset.

And, of course, we could just say you know what? No counters ever, please.

This is the kind of design work that just sings with past Magic cards. I'm a huge fan!

[aoifereal]

I'm quite good, at opening busted magic: the gathering cards (yay I turned £20 into £200!)

[i-am-nickelbolt]

Bronze to Mythic: Lost Caverns of Ixalan, draft #6

This deck was pretty sweet, but just a head's up, I'm going to complain a lot about all my games. 2-3

Pack 1, pick 1 Waterwind Scout over Souls of the Lost. Scout keeps me open, and Souls is good but it's a commitment--I'd rather it be passed to me. Pick 2 I ended up on Lodestone Needle over Abrade, Belligerent Yearling, and Oltec Cloud Guard. Looking to stay one color, Abrade is good but not unpassable. Pick 3 Volatile Wanderglyph over Earthshaker Dreadmaw. I'd have to really prioritize Dinos for UG, so I passed. I was kind of regretting that pick after pick 4 Poison Dart Frog over nothing. Pick 5 Pathfinding Axejaw over Brackish Blunder. Pick 6 Tishana's Tidebinder over Petrify which is probably wrong, but I wish this were paper draft. Pick 7 a late Etali's Favor over a late Skullcap Snail. Pick 8 Orazca Puzzle Door over Dinotomaton and a late Cosmium Blast. So after pack 1, I'm thinking, "where are the good cards?" yet again.

Pack 2, pick 1, kind of a sad Triumphant Chomp over Petrify. Pick 2 Enterprising Scallywag over Petrify and Tinker's Tote. Could have had a pretty good UW start here instead... Pick 3 Sunfire Torch over Triumphant Chomp. Pick 4 Cogwork Wrestler over second Tishana's Tidebinder and Cenote Scout. Pick 5 easy Staunch Crewmate. Pick 6 Careening Minecart over Staunch Pirates. Pick 7 Dinotomaton over Petrify. What is it about White cards that I just don't see? Like, I'm shocked about the white cards I passed. Pick 8 slam Staunch Crewmate. I still need a little help at the end of pack 2, but at least I have a plan.

Pack 3, pick 1 Goblin Tome Raider over Etali's Favor, picking up a nice 1 drop. Pick 2 Abrade over Master's Guide-Mural for the alternate universe UW deck. Pick 3 Chart a Course over the umpteenth Petrify. Pick 4 pretty easy Etali's Favor over River Herald Scout. Pick 5 just give me a 3 mana 4/3 Scytheclaw Raptor. Pick 6 Volatile Wanderglyph. Pick 7 brick. Pick 8 I don't know what happened, but I missed out on a choice of Cogwork Wrestler, Inverted Iceberg, and Brackish Blunder, and instead I got Disruptor Wanderglyph for some reason. Etali's Favor wheeled!

My games kind of sucked.

Game 1 my opponent appeared to be color screwed, scooped on turn 5.

Game 2, I played the early game rather poorly, but even if I played well, I flooded out pretty badly, and yet my opponent refused to actually kill me. I don't know what they were playing around, but I was dead for *many* turns.

Game 3 my opponent scooped on turn 4, they appeared to be mana screwed, but I mulliganed and was running out of gas. Seemed a little premature.

Game 4 was a game that I played too conservatively in the mid game, there was a turn where I didn't use a removal spell and instead offered a trade, which ended up cascading missed damage over the next few turns, and allowed them to string multiple topdecks together (it had to be multiple) and stabilize. Even so I had the game won with a Brackish Blunder on the blocker for my trampler but I looked down and didn't have an untapped island in play. It was still in my hand. *sigh*

Game 5 I mulliganed a 2 mountain hand for a 2 island hand on the draw, and went through 19 cards of my deck before hitting my third land. This game would have been trivially easy had I been able to cast red spells.

Okay, I've complained enough. The deck was good, I just played bad and got unlucky.

[littjara-mirrorlake]

i need to stop being a coward and like. reach out and ask about mtg deckbuilding and strategy tips and actually put the gathering in magic the gathering

the local game store here has good vibes (at least things are open where i’m stranded) and i’m going to my first FNM this week, drafting Ikoria (also a first, but i’m overpreparing on draftsims even though the shopkeeper said he’d teach).

highkey excited

[mangabookclub]

Tales from the Mana Crypt #40 - Return of the King

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Tales from the Mana Crypt #20-26 - The Pro Tour

Based on Limited Resources Episode 684. Posting today to celebrate Pro Tour Murders at Karlov Manor!