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| Twisted toilet seat gas station | 03/19/24 |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 7:58 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506478) |
Date: March 19th, 2024 7:59 AM Author: Henna Razzmatazz Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506480) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:01 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station Lodestone Golem fused the taxing power of Sphere effects with the tempo power of Juggernaut, forming a truly monstrous O’Brien School appendage. Several times, Lodestone filled Vintage Championships with Workshop decks in the Top 8, but in each case failed to achieve victory. It is not unlikely that had Lodestone done that in 2012 or some other year, it would have been restricted not long after. But having avoided the hangman’s noose so many times, Lodestone’s restriction nonetheless sent a shockwave through the Vintage community.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:05 AM Author: Soul-stirring Olive Mediation People Who Are Hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506490) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:09 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station The entire game of Magic, from June 1995 to October 2000, is in one way or another defined by the card Necropotence. It shaped nearly every format it touched, which was virtually every format thanks to the reprinting of Necropotence in Fifth Edition, which anchored Extended for many years. More broadly, Necropotence defined Magic by bringing into a crystal clarity and laser-like focus the paradigm that emphasized the paramount importance of card advantage. Within that paradigm, there was no greater engine. As a siphon, Necropotence was unparalleled in its ability to translate an abundant resource into the most precious. It’s unheralded arrival in Ice Age, where it was not simply overlooked but actively disparaged, can be contrasted to a period in which Necropotence was increasingly regarded as among the most problematic cards in the game.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:15 AM Author: Soul-stirring Olive Mediation People Who Are Hurt 180! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506508) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:10 AM Author: Dun vivacious stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506495) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:14 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station In a truly unfortunate confluence of events, my campaign to get Time Vault restored to its original ruled functionality succeeded when I confronted Richard Garfield directly about this issue. But it backfired tremendously when Wizards of the Coast printed a powerful new planeswalker that was comically synergistic with Time Vault, in the form of Tezzeret the Seeker. This new planeswalker made Time Vault far more abusive than I could have imagined.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:36 AM Author: Dun vivacious stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506552) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:13 AM Author: crimson 180 hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506502) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 8:16 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station Why was Mind Twist banned? As we saw, Channel was the second card banned outright in Type I for power level reasons. But Mind Twist’s path to the Banned List is somewhat different. Brian Weissman, lost the quarterfinals of a Type I tournament in November to a Hymn/Mind Twist deck, and vowed to go on “Magic strike” and urged other players on the Internet to boycott DCI-sanctioned tournaments until the card was banned. Another player started a poll on the issue, another first. Paul Pantera, another active Usenet poster and contributor to The Dojo, helped lead the campaign, to its successful conclusion.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:01 AM Author: Fragrant ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506700) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:48 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station Khans of Tarkir’s damage to Vintage continued, and it’s likely that Dig needed to be restricted sooner. In the 6 months before Dig’s restriction, Dig was a shocking 43.75% of Top 8 decks.
Dig’s versatility made it a useful card beyond Comer School Xerox decks, but was used across the spectrum of blue strategies. The only reason it did not need to be restricted with Treasure Cruise was because Dig was not heavily played when Treasure Cruise was unrestricted.
Workshop decks, which had been marginalized during the Treasure Cruise moment, were resurgent again, thanks to more powerful printings. There were calls for restriction, and a nexus of players – especially on the Vintage Super League – focused on Chalice of the Void. Chalice of the Void was only in 26.6% of Top 8 decklists in the months before its restriction, compared to the nearly 44% noted above or Dig.
I argued that Chalice would not solve the problem, which was, and had been, Lodestone Golem. When Lodestone decks made up half of the Top 8 in the 2012 Vintage Championship, it should have been restricted at that point, especially since it was so oppressive in the year before.
At this point, instead of restricting Chalice, which was a lynchpin of Workshop Control decks, a better restriction would have been Thorn of Amethyst. With Thorn restricted, Workshop decks would have had ample incentive to diversify between Aggro and Prison variants again.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 11:57 AM Author: Fragrant ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47507134) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:52 AM Author: Tripping navy business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506888) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:57 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station The introduction of Mirrodin had inadvertently brought these matters to a head. With more than its fair share of Type I playables, Mirrodin not only introduced elements that would form the core of multiple new strategies and push the boundaries of acceptable power with many Type I applications, but the new card face and artifact color palette was a grating reminder of the game’s continuous, and sometimes unwelcome, evolution.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 11:10 AM Author: Tripping navy business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506969) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:52 AM Author: aromatic up-to-no-good becky school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506890) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:57 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station The year from the summer of 2007 to the summer of 2008 is hard to describe. It was like an aberration from the larger trajectory and evolution of the format, on account of the unrestriction, and the re-restriction of Gush. But what followed it was incredible.
The restriction of Flash, Ponder, Merchant Scroll, Brainstorm and Gush in June 2008 was overkill, but it created space for a beautiful moment in Vintage. In the clearing, two decks briefly bloomed: a powered-down version of The Perfect Storm, using Grim Tutor in the place of what is now filled by Dark Petition, and a Control Slaver deck utilizing Strategic Planning. These two decks were the entirety of the Top 4 decks at the 2008 Vintage Championship, and TPS won a smattering of tournaments before and after.
But what made it beautiful was that pretty much everything else was viable: Stax, Dredge, Painter Servant combo, Dredge and others were all viable and competing in a beautiful garden. But this cornucopia of Vintage goodness was short lived.
It came to crashing halt in the fall when Shards of Alara arrived. Shards not only gave us nasty cards like Ad Nauseam and Tezzeret the Seeker, but more importantly, it also coincided with the removal of power-level errata and an adjusted templating for Time Vault. Predictably, the format collapsed into a miasma of Time Vault Tezzeret control, leading to the restriction of Thirst for Knowledge a few months later. Had Tezzeret not been printed, the errata on Time Vault would not have been quite so format-warping. But with both changes at the same time, the format sunk into a deep funk for a while.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 12:58 PM Author: aromatic up-to-no-good becky school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47507299) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:53 AM Author: Sable Doctorate Sneaky Criminal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506891) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:58 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station Mind’s Desire is an interesting case, and the first case of a pre-emptive restriction of a new printing in the history of the format. The mocked up “Slurpy” deck (so named on account of the win condition, Brain Freeze) promised to be one of the best Combo decks never played, because Mind’s Desire was pre-emptively restricted.
The problem with pre-emptive restriction is that it is impossible to know, with any degree of confidence of certainty, that a card truly merits restriction. It is a better policy to let cards play out. There are too many cases of cards being wrongly overhyped and completely ignored to trust one or even a few great minds to understand how it will unfold in a complex metagame.
On the other hand, the DCI probably did not want the inaugural Type I Championship a few months later at GenCon to be marred by Mind’s Desire. That was probably the right call.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:53 AM Author: purple deranged puppy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506894) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:59 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station Ice Age was immensely anticipated. Since there was no set between Ice Age and Fallen Empires, there was nothing to satisfy the demand for new cards for more than 6 months. Ice Age was speculated over more closely than we pour over a summer blockbuster trailer. When it arrived, there was a pent-up and insatiable need to try out new tools and tactics, and Ice Age more than met this need.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 11:51 AM Author: purple deranged puppy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47507122) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:54 AM Author: Avocado hideous tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506896) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 11:00 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station 2005 was the high water mark for paper Vintage. It featured the largest and most frequent tournament competition for Vintage players, from the record-breaking Waterbury in January, to the epic French Vintage Championship, to the 170+ player Shooting Stars event in Rochester, to the whopping 366 player Doomsday event in Italy. No tournament organizer had ever attempted anything for Vintage as ambitious as the StarCityGames Power Nine series, a multi-city circuit with significant prizes and professional level coverage. The closest thing was the short-lived Inquest circuit from 1998.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 11:09 AM Author: Avocado hideous tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506964) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 10:57 AM Author: Coral regret market What does he say about Sengir Vampires (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506906) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 11:00 AM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station For the same reason that Ivory Tower and other so-called “game draggers” should not be restricted, neither should have Maze of Ith. I have been unable to uncover any evidence that Maze of Ith dominated Magic tournaments in two months it was unrestricted, despite Tom’s claims (which are presumably correct). But even if it did in particular regions, the fact that it was not heavily played even as a restricted card suggested that it may not have truly warranted that status. Note that The Deck never ran Maze of Ith. It slows down the game, but in a format with unrestricted Strip Mine, and land destruction strategies widely played, it was hardly a problem card.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 11:10 AM Author: Electric theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47506972) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 12:55 PM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station The efficiency of Misstep provides a clear ground for distinguishing it from Force of Will, but does not change the fact that none of the cards in the ‘broadly used tactic’ category mentioned above are counterspells. On some level, Misstep probably does make Vintage a fairer format. The argument against restricting it is that Vintage is better when there are more answers. For example, how comfortably are we with unrestricting Fastbond in a world where Misstep is restricted? Probably much less so.
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Date: March 19th, 2024 2:46 PM Author: Coral regret market " how comfortably are we with unrestricting Fastbond in a world where Misstep is restricted? Probably much less so. "
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Date: March 19th, 2024 1:02 PM Author: Appetizing mother chapel . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47507309) |
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Date: March 19th, 2024 1:04 PM Author: Twisted toilet seat gas station Dingus Egg neither inspires fear nor revulsion, except perhaps aesthetically (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5506094&forum_id=2#47507314) |