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    First announcement upon his replacement - Unhinged and Unglued now legal for tournament play.

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    :O!

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    Quote Originally Posted by UnderwaterGuy View Post
    Can we get a recap of his various stupid statements?

    I'm familiar with his feelings on Great Sable Stag and Modern but what is the gentleman's agreement thing?
    The "gentleman's agreement" was the reason why Mystical Tutor decks weren't completely dominating tournaments smaller than GPs. Basically, when the stakes were relatively low, players agreed to not play their ridiculously overpowered, broken, dominating Mystical Tutor decks and instead play worse decks that were more fun or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aggro_zombies View Post
    The "gentleman's agreement" was the reason why Mystical Tutor decks weren't completely dominating tournaments smaller than GPs. Basically, when the stakes were relatively low, players agreed to not play their ridiculously overpowered, broken, dominating Mystical Tutor decks and instead play worse decks that were more fun or something.
    What about Modern and Great Sable Stag? I missed (or forgot) about those, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barook View Post
    What about Modern and Great Sable Stag? I missed (or forgot) about those, too.
    Great Sable Stag was his "ultimate Solution" to Blue and counterspells in Legacy and he called people basically dumb Not to run it.

    Modern topic is pretty new. You can find it on the mothership.

    He wonders why Control is unplayable in modern but doubts it Could have anything to do with his B&R management that anhilated control and combo. Then he asumed that the fact that nobody plays modern in paper is only because that people are to dumb to create Decks themselves but want "guidance" from pro's aka decklists for netdecking

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemnear View Post
    Great Sable Stag was his "ultimate Solution" to Blue and counterspells in Legacy and he called people basically dumb Not to run it.
    That's hilarious.

    But to be fair, the hoser that would be required to be the "ultimate solution" to blue and counterspells in Legacy would need to be dirt cheap (read: free), uncounterable, fitting into every deck (while also screwing you over if you play blue) and so incredible devestating that they couldn't print it, simply because it would ruin Standard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemnear View Post
    Modern topic is pretty new. You can find it on the mothership.

    He wonders why Control is unplayable in modern but doubts it Could have anything to do with his B&R management that anhilated control and combo. Then he asumed that the fact that nobody plays modern in paper is only because that people are to dumb to create Decks themselves but want "guidance" from pro's aka decklists for netdecking.
    Which is sad, because I have some inside knowledge about what most of the pros are going to be playing today and it's not all that fantastic.
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    Great merciful gods, the best message this year! Finally!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aggro_zombies View Post
    The "gentleman's agreement" was the reason why Mystical Tutor decks weren't completely dominating tournaments smaller than GPs. Basically, when the stakes were relatively low, players agreed to not play their ridiculously overpowered, broken, dominating Mystical Tutor decks and instead play worse decks that were more fun or something.
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    The first match on google if you search "Tom La Pille" in germany is a website of a anti-baby pill...just sayin.
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    Really? When I perform a Google search for "Tom La Pille" (German websites), the first result is the wikipedia entry for "people in the star trek universe"

    2nd entry is for the Tour de France.
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    Not on my computer.
    Could have been a coincedence though, I dont have the best Comm./Pop-Up blocker.
    Anyway, lmao as I saw it.
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    I didn't read much of TLP's articles and utterances, but from what I did read (Gentleman's Agreement, Great Sable Stag, Dredge, Double-Faced cards) it certainly seems that it is a good thing that he is no longer involved in the MtG decision-making process.

    The one thing that I feel is one of the worst things ever conceived is the Double-Faced cards (only 2nd to changing the card face in 2003- Imo, the most loathed and, by far, the worst and most gut-sinking decision made in the history of the game). I recall reading that it was Toms' idea and, should that truly be the case, he should have gone more than a year ago.
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    On the double-faced cards, I'm starting to think that they're just using new templates for each new expansion to mess with the people at Magic Set Editor. I start making a ton of high quality proxies for use at home to test legacy and play casually. In a relatively short time span, we've had the new 4-ability planeswalker for jace 2.0, the colorless template for eldrazi, the phyrexian mana symbol, and now double-faced cards. Compare this to all the older expansions which worked perfectly fine (probably better), and they didn't need new templating tricks. In fact, they even eliminated the few useful things that they had invented, namely Tribal and the gravestone icon for flashback. It's like they're trying to change as much as possible with each new expansion, and for no conceivable reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malchar View Post
    It's like they're trying to change as much as possible with each new expansion, and for no conceivable reason.
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    It's the time of year to reflect on things you're thankful for and this tops my list. Also, when Xmas comes around, this will be the best present of the year as well.
    Quote Originally Posted by Draener View Post
    You know who thinks it's sweet to play against 8 different decks in an 8 round tournament? People who don't like to win, or people that play combo. This is not EDH; Legacy is a competitive environment, and it should reward skill - more so than it does.
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    So you know, I'm Glad he is off of magic, but at the same time, also glad he wasn't fired. I have a feeling that he has known for a while he was going to move to DnD so he volunteered to say the 'stupid crap' that wizards needed someone to say so they could have a scapegoat
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