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Barook
11-28-2015, 01:41 PM
Completely missed it that this one is Legacy, too:
http://www.twitch.tv/scglive
twndomn
11-28-2015, 06:24 PM
Miracles almost every round, Miracles by Briksza, by Duke, by Lossett.
I doubt Rudy Briksza understands the Miracles vs. Lands MU.
Barook
11-28-2015, 06:30 PM
I don't watch it, either, for this very reason.
I'm kinda spoiled after the GP coverage we got from Channel Fireball.
Meekrab
11-28-2015, 07:08 PM
Yeah with a GP the stream tends to be focused on the game and cool decks of the format; SCG is focused on their Players to Watch Leaderboard and selling booster boxes, booster cases, fat packs and more~@#%!
Round 1 Grixis vs. Lands was painful to watch..
Round 1 Grixis vs. Lands was painful to watch..
both the second, and third time. Not sure if the Miracles mirrors were any better, or Lands vs Lands.
Stevestamopz
11-28-2015, 10:40 PM
Easy way to decide whether to tune in, especially if it's not in your timezone
- go to bed
- wake up the following day and check twitter.com/scglive
- see that my hero max tietze is playing again
- see that the rest of the field is beyond boring except for soldier stompy
- watch max tietze and soldier stompy both lose
- turn off twitch.
simple!
Dice_Box
11-28-2015, 10:54 PM
Round 1 Grixis vs. Lands was painful to watch..
I am just glad they don't spend a whole day talking about how Lands is a deck and show it some respect now.
barcode
11-29-2015, 08:28 AM
I am just glad they don't spend a whole day talking about how Lands is a deck and show it some respect now.
The amusing thing is they talk about how expensive it is. RG Lands costs less to build than a blue deck. Sure, Tabernacle can't port to other decks but neither can Shardless Agent or Ancestral Vision or Creeping Tar Pit.
Wastelands: Every deck
Rishadan Port: Goblins, Death & Taxes
Mox Diamond: STOMPY! And bad Knight of the Reliquary deck
Exploration: Enchantress and weird green versions of 12post
Punishing Fire: Jund
Grove of the Burnwillows: Jund and Tron
Crop Rotation: Who cares? It's $1
Taiga: Jund and bad Temur Delver builds
Dark Depths: Bad Knight of the Reliquary decks, 12post
Thespian's Stage: Who cares? It's $2
Life from the Loam: Random green splash decks in sideboard and those same green Mox Diamond decks
Maze of Ith: Maverick
Karakas: Maverick, Death & Taxes, and other bad Knight of the Reliquary decks
Yep, cards don't really port to other decks...
Quasim0ff
11-29-2015, 08:33 AM
7-1, Punishing Blue has Chalice in play.
Opponent plays Delver. OK.
barcode
11-29-2015, 08:50 AM
7-1, Punishing Blue has Chalice in play.
Opponent plays Delver. OK.
7-1, Punishing Abzan has Chalice on 1 in play.
Grixis Delver opponent plays Delver.
Abzan player remembers the trigger in his draw step and still crushes anyways.
FTFY
Darkenslight
11-29-2015, 10:15 AM
So, the first round today was Elves! vs Storm, and the Storm player punts G2 and still wins the game, and the match.
Good times.
Barook
11-29-2015, 10:41 AM
Is that a showcase video why Top should be banned for time reasons? Because holy fuck, this is annoying to watch.
barcode
11-29-2015, 11:10 AM
Is that a showcase video why Top should be banned for time reasons? Because holy fuck, this is annoying to watch.
No, it's a showcase in judges not giving out slow play and stalling infractions. Gentile was intentionally running the clock and playing as slowly as possible. Joe was using his Top at a reasonable pace.
ironclad8690
11-29-2015, 11:23 AM
23 Miracles
13 Grixis Delver
7 Storm
7 Death and Taxes
7 Lands
5 RUG Delver
5 BUG Delver
5 Aggro Loam
5 Elves
The worst part is that no 12 post players day 2'ed.
skyout
11-29-2015, 12:10 PM
No, it's a showcase in judges not giving out slow play and stalling infractions. Gentile was intentionally running the clock and playing as slowly as possible. Joe was using his Top at a reasonable pace.
I've played against Gentile in a couple of IQs and Opens in the northeast, while he normally plays lands, and he definitely pushes the boundaries of legal play. I had to call a judge to watch our match because he was being very cagey.
Quasim0ff
11-29-2015, 12:47 PM
No, it's a showcase in judges not giving out slow play and stalling infractions. Gentile was intentionally running the clock and playing as slowly as possible. Joe was using his Top at a reasonable pace.
He played the same in G1 and G2. There should clearly be called judge on him in game 1 already, you can't justify calling it so late in game 2, when he didn't change his pace at all.
Kathal
11-29-2015, 01:32 PM
Gentile should have gotten a slow play warning already in game 1, but Joe didn't call the Judge :/
@Meta: http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/3567_day_2_metagame_breakdown_.html
Oh look, Miracles...
Besides this, nothing unusual.
Greetings,
Kathal
Darkenslight
11-29-2015, 02:37 PM
...That's not a card I expected to see on camera in Legacy.
Nor did I expect it to win.
barcode
11-29-2015, 02:48 PM
Garruk Relentless has a history of appearing in Maverick (and similar midrange) decks. It is also historically the nuts against Miracles.
11 Miracles in the top 32
barcode
11-29-2015, 05:18 PM
I have never met Chris Andersen but I'm oddly glad that he lost in top 8.
Did I miss something, or did he tap Dark Depths for mana here?
http://www.twitch.tv/scglive/v/27890915?t=08h15m30s
It didn't help him any, either way.
Dice_Box
11-29-2015, 05:23 PM
Did I miss something, or did he tap Dark Depths for mana here?
http://www.twitch.tv/scglive/v/27890915?t=08h15m30s
It didn't help him any, either way.
Riftstone... Please people, learn the deck.
Riftstone... Please people, learn the deck.
Thank you, it was something I missed.
Sloshthedark
11-29-2015, 05:36 PM
I have never met Chris Andersen but I'm oddly glad that he lost in top 8.
the same for me...
maharis
11-29-2015, 05:37 PM
Had sound down, what was judge call in the miracles mirror?
barcode
11-29-2015, 05:45 PM
Had sound down, what was judge call in the miracles mirror?
Confusion over whose turn it was.
Dice_Box
11-29-2015, 05:58 PM
the same for me...
Why is this? (at work, can't watch.)
death
11-29-2015, 06:09 PM
Looking forward to a Storm vs Storm finals :)
Noctalor
11-29-2015, 06:16 PM
Some people cut themselves to feel pain and satisfaction, some others listen Patric and Cedric talking about Doomsday.
barcode
11-29-2015, 06:24 PM
Looking forward to a Storm vs Storm finals :)
Looking forward to Keating crushing Merriam. :D :P
Whippoorwill
11-29-2015, 06:33 PM
How is this not slow play?
death
11-29-2015, 06:39 PM
Ugh.. so close :( But glad the other Storm player beat Miracles.
Looking forward to Storm crushing Keating :tongue:
Ugh.. so close :( But glad the other Storm player beat Miracles.
Looking forward to Storm crushing Keating :tongue:
Keating's Chalices at 1 and at 0 were impressive in game 1. Post board isn't going to get any easier for Storm.
Julian23
11-29-2015, 07:00 PM
Didn't Ross have the win if the put back the Decay and Fetchland the other way round? Draw Fetchland with Ad Nauseam, stop, crack it, kill?
Didn't Ross have the win if the put back the Decay and Fetchland the other way round? Draw Fetchland with Ad Nauseam, stop, crack it, kill?
He needed one more spell to win it. I believe his storm count was 8 at the time.
Julian23
11-29-2015, 07:13 PM
If that's true, the odds of his opponent flipping a 2 (or even just a 1?) to Dark Confidant sound much better than trying to get there with revealing 1 more card with Ad Nauseam at 1 life.
Sloshthedark
11-29-2015, 07:14 PM
Why is this? (at work, can't watch.)
he just does not seem likable for me for whatever reason
Didn't Ross have the win if the put back the Decay and Fetchland the other way round? Draw Fetchland with Ad Nauseam, stop, crack it, kill?
he needed to IT so he'd shuffle it away, the way I see it was not playing the CoV1 eot but in his own turn and hope to hit cantrip+artifact or ritual
It's kind of deja vu watching those Loam starts... it works all around the world, doen't need to be Niklas Kronberger after all...
barcode
11-29-2015, 07:16 PM
Oh boy, Keating had basically the nuts. Good for him. CRUSH Storm again!
Whippoorwill
11-29-2015, 07:17 PM
Ban Mox Diamond! :tongue:
death
11-29-2015, 07:22 PM
Scrubland guy earned it. Ban Chalice of the Void.
Ban Mox Diamond! :tongue:
That was brutal. Turn 1 chalice at 1, thoughtseize in hand, confidant, liliana, leyline, teeg... Keating's storm hate was impressive.
twndomn
11-29-2015, 09:02 PM
We the Americans have finally caught on to the Europeans.
http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/3567_day_2_metagame_breakdown_.html
Miracles is 19% of the Day 2 field Baby~
http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/3569_top_32_legacy_decklists.html
11 Miracles pilots out of top 32.
Tammit67
11-29-2015, 11:12 PM
Punishing Azban
You fucking what mate
thecrav
11-30-2015, 12:27 AM
It's obviously supposed to be called Dune-Brood Aggro
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