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1. From what I've read about Waterbury in the past, the wide open meta seems likely.

2. Frankly, I don't give a rats ass.

3. Oath. People love it and they have the cards. Trinisphere will be there in force I imagine. It has been getting plenty of press.

4. Stax

5. Dependant on the actual result.

6. Only if there is some skewed T8. Like the aforementioned high Welder / Trinisphere count.

Seeing as the tournament is 1280.88 miles (20 hours, 38 minutes) from my house, I don't think I'll be there anytime soon.

A few quick questions on yer SB cards:

Everyone auto-includes Tormod's Crypt. Is this worth boarding in against anything but Dragon? If so vs what and what do you remove for them (4?)

If you already have a bunch of artifact hate in your board, why play Naturalize over Emerald Charm? I can't see bringing in Artifact Mutation + Naturalize  + possibly Pulverize.

Blood Moon doesn't really seem to hod the usefullness it did when 4CC was king. REB would be beneficial against a wider range of decks IMO.

T1 Magic event up in Pensacola that is being put on by Home
Field Sports & Games this weekend, Saturday
December 11th at 1:00 PM.  They are refering to it as:

BLACK LOTUS TYPE 1, 10 PROXY TOURNAMENT

Cost to enter is $20 in advance or $25 at the door.

For details you can call them directly at (850) 458-1972.

Directions

Dude, yer already banned.

Well, I'm a Devil Rays / Lightning / Bucs / Hurricanes fan... so in general I hope the NL wins the world series. I can't route for a team in our division, much less ANY team from NY. Fuck NY, their 3rd baseman costs more than our whole team. I hope Boston beats NY and loses in 7 in the WS. It hurts more that way

Baseball is horribly slow; they need to make the game faster. MLB could make it more of a pitcher's game and less of a hitters game by raising the mound a bit for example. This would get you out of a game a good 1/2 hour faster. Retraction is also a good idea. There isnt enough good pitching to go around.

Ok, It helps if you know that I'm an Industrial Engineering student. What that means is time studies, experiments and their data are my kin at school. That said...

This is MUCH more complicated than that which is presented. What you are after is a statistical model of a deck that can predict, with a degree of certainty, the outcome of a deck's games. Of course that can only be done provided copious data (which we dont have) and statistical knowhow. You do have the basics down. (In all honesty I didn't read and validate the math, but the idea is valid)

In reality you have many factors that contribute to the actual values you are after. They can be put into the model provided they can be measured. Even playskill could be measured (thats another study in and of itself... sigh).

And for those of you who are weary of practical statistics, the buisness world, military, and manufacturing sector effectively uses them constantly. The are a valuble tool when a facto of error is involved that can't be taken out with a robust experiment.

Any questions?

Seriously, who though when you went to go see Office Space that it was going to be the cult movie that it is? It typifies work in so many ways. One of my top movies.

"Rakso, what exactly do you DO here?..."

Killing T1 might kill YOUR store, but all the local stores here survive on T2. The sale of packs for draft and for T2 players greatly outweighs the sale of single cards. Other games such as Vs, Warhammer, Hero Clicks, D&D books, board games etc all contribute to the store's sales.

I'd like a g-mail invite. PM me please!

Thanks

I would think that Cranial Extraction is going to see play. It's quite good against any kind of control and can cripple combo, although its too slow to combat combo.

That may be the gayest thing I've ever seen, ever.

I would have gone if the Con wasn't on top of my daughter's 5th birthday.
All my friends are going and I should be attending next year

The reason I ask this question is that I live in Clearwater Florida. It takes 6 hours to get out of Florida much less anywhere NEAR a decent T1 tournament. I just wanted to see if I was crazy for not driving 15+ hours.

Simple really. How long are you willing to drive to get to the tournament location?

With gen-con and all i figured it was a logical question.

If you could infinitely mill them and let Blessings resolve, you could do it over and over again until they have 1-3 cards left. One or more will be blessings. Statistically it WILL happen eventually.

My previous post where I obviously took out "Black Vise" from the context was just a jumping point for everyone to use. Some of the lines didn't apply but i thought the paralle had been made and it would be best to leave it be.

I always tend to take a wait and see attitude when it comes to cards that are not obviously broken (Mind's Desire). If the next few events are led by decks sporting multiple CoW then there might be an arguement. Even then there has to be time to allow the meta to adjust.

CARD is a card so generally effective that many tournament players were willing to include it in their decks, regardless of what the deck's theme or purpose was-the damage it could potentially inflict if played on the first turn was too attractive to ignore. In some cases, players would keep their CARDs sideboarded out if they knew they weren't going first. Since all decks had to plan for them, they completely dominated the Type # tournament landscape.

Vise or CoW?

1. Obviously
2. Never seems that way does it?
3. He did mention Welder. It's in Luhrs deck.
4. Yup.

So much potential, and so little realization of said potential. What a waste of an article. :sigh:

Fairly good advice. Playtest difficult matchups. With that said, because Fish is so easy to build, there should be no excuses come GenCon. Test it and adjust.

To me the real question is, what beats the deck that beats Fish? With all the high profile writers hyping Fish, there's going to be a ton of it at GenCon. The best deck of the day will be the one who can beat not only Fish, but the "Paragon" reaction deck to a Fish heavy metagame.

Since I'm not going... I'll make sure watch tournament coverage.

From my last tourney:



And the bitching never stopped...

Wow, nice to know that socalism is still alive somewhere...

I'll do an inventory of what I have. If I need something I'll ask here to se if you all have them.

Do you think the idea of putting up the card scans would get enough interest that the community could support the torrent?

When searching for DVDs or music or even apps there is little better than Bit Torrent.

Recently I decided to get all full image scans for Magic Workstation. I'm not yet complete but I was considering putting up a torrent so that the online magic community could share the images.

Ideas?

"He is taller than I am" ---> "He is taller than I"

It's really just an abbreviation of sorts.

If the word getting used in common practice changes the language, what about "ain't" and "ya'll" ?

Just because its understandable doesn't mean it's correct, no matter how long it gets used. For example, "He be talluh den me"

Just some stuff to chew on.

HOLY FREAKING SHIT!

T1 in Florida!

It's even 10 min from my house!... amazing.

What is the turnout? How long have you been doing this? What is the tournament structure?

Dan Durkee

It seems like you should be playing Damping Matrix main. You brought it in quite a bit.

Wow, a new store in the "Bay" area. I hate that... like there's only 1 bay in the world. Hell I live in Tampa, we have a bay. I think I'll start refering to Tampa as the "Bay Area" to see how many left coasters it confuses.

otherwise-----> Good report!

Wow, everyone is lucky that they're ok. Kinda cool to have your name in the news.




You were probly watching pr0n.  :lol: