Necrath Evilcraft
Golden Knight of the Realm
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Chubzy Wombat
Silver Knight of the Realm
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I'm selling my paper collection if anyone is interested in making a offer feel free to message me. Swapping to MTGO/ different hobbies.
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Chubzy Wombat
Silver Knight of the Realm
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Lol i fully understand, and yea its everywhere for sure I play every format other than standard, and poper
Ratina
Bronze Knight of the Realm
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I sent the link to a local guy who picks up collections, ill let you know if hes interested in a chat.
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ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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Emrakul was a shitty market research ban because too many ultra-casual once a month FNM players didn't like getting mindslavered. Emmy was never the problem by itself, it was them shitting the bed with any kind of playable graveyard hate that led to the delirium decks being so inevitable. Emmy would be totally fine in current standard (sans Marvel) now that there are reasonable ways to keep people off getting to 6+ card types easily every game.
Then they went and undid all the careful Eldrazi cast trigger design they did by printing Marvel, and once again provided actual 0 way to interact with the energy pool to try and shut those strategies down. So now that Saheeli is dead the format is going to fall back on the next most degenerate thing you can do, which is cast turn 4 Ulamog. There's very little interaction here, and what small bit there is is extremely color-limited. Sure you can run negates and play U/x control, but that runs in to the same problem it had versus Saheeli where the rest of the Marvel deck is just a high-value midrange plan that can grind card advantage like no other.
I fully expect the PT to be Marvel vs Mardu (because Thalia) with the usual smattering of dedicated hard control players.
At least I can just slam 30 cards with type "zombie" in to a pile and win games now, so that's kinda fun?
Then they went and undid all the careful Eldrazi cast trigger design they did by printing Marvel, and once again provided actual 0 way to interact with the energy pool to try and shut those strategies down. So now that Saheeli is dead the format is going to fall back on the next most degenerate thing you can do, which is cast turn 4 Ulamog. There's very little interaction here, and what small bit there is is extremely color-limited. Sure you can run negates and play U/x control, but that runs in to the same problem it had versus Saheeli where the rest of the Marvel deck is just a high-value midrange plan that can grind card advantage like no other.
I fully expect the PT to be Marvel vs Mardu (because Thalia) with the usual smattering of dedicated hard control players.
At least I can just slam 30 cards with type "zombie" in to a pile and win games now, so that's kinda fun?
Lendarios
Trump's Staff
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It is funny sometimes they print cards that in standard are uneventful but completely break every other format, (mental misstep)
Necrath Evilcraft
Golden Knight of the Realm
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Marvel decks invoke HS RNG too much for me personally. It's one thing to assemble a combo in hand/on board its another to rely on the top 6 being what you want in the blind. I was so happy to see Gerry win it he is an all around great guy.
So you were basically correct. Marvel wins the day overall and you can indeed slam 30 zombies into a deck and turn your cards sideways to win, even a pro tour.
You whiffed on the Mardu, but that is just because everyone was ready for them. So standard is now who get a the first aetherworks marvel on the board, yaaay.
I think this means you now 100% have to play black or red, to get access to removal and a sweeper effect for zombies and have good enough removal for ulamog.
Kuro
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I feel like in 10 years there's going to be a lot of looking back and saying "Thank god EDH/Eternal formats were able to stem the bleeding those 4/5 years magic blew goats. Now, are you going to trade your Gideon for my UltraPlatinumExpeditionUncommon or do I have to redeem another MTGVR set?"
Sterling
El Presidente
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I sort of enjoyed the Blue devotion deck when Theros first came out. The problem was after 2 additional sets the deck was still like 68/75 identical at the end of the format.