He blacks out everything on the card except the main object/person.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guy I Don't Know
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He blacks out everything on the card except the main object/person.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guy I Don't Know
Yeah, the fatigue is real. BBD f.e. did not remember if he had drawn a card from probe in the finals.Quote:
Originally Posted by FoolofaTook
I guess that tells a short story.
What is next; do you people think Julian is also a cheater? He did win a lot with elves and attacked with a sick elf under camera. Must be dirty no?
I still think he is as honest as they come. Same with Ross and Schönegger : they just clearly play their deck better than anyone else atm.
My round 2 opponent was playing Mono-Green Bears. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tylert
Literally all 3 games he played a Forest and passed, then another forest and a Beta Grizzly Bears.
Yes 3 games... Turn 1 Blood Moon doesn't to a lot against Mono-Green Bears. :frown:
I did pick up a set of foil Chrome Mox though, so all of the standard 8-Moon permanents are foil and the foily-ness of the win-cons vary.
:laugh: So much win :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew
Tell me bears won? :tongue:
He won the die roll and led with a forest and passed the turn. A shitty basic forest from a new set too, so I knew right away he wasn't playing a real deck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Miagi
I swore out loud because I kept a Blood Moon hand.
I drew and played my Blood Moon.
He played another forest and then tapped out for a Grizzly Bear.
I played CotV@1.
He played another forest, played some stupid 4/2 bear, and attacked me for 2.
I played a Jitte.
He plays Bear Umbra on his stupid 4/2, attacks for 8, untaps his lands and plays another stupid bear.
I'm pretty sure I drew a land and picked up my cards in disgust.
Games 2 and 3 were entirely under my control. We finished our round in 20 minutes and I got some fried chicken and fries. The chicken was clearly 2 different types of frozen bits. The dark ones were tasty and the light ones were rock hard and awful.
So you won? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew
Also, they talked about the guy playing Bear Tribal on the SCG stream, but to avoid having people play nonsense just to get on camera they didn't put him on...
guy was fucking awesome.
he was wearing a full bear suit.
I wanted to share a link of AJ Sacher playing against counter grizzly but the video is now deleted. :(
Yeah, I won... if you want to call it that. I went 1-3 drop, then waited in line for an hour to sell 30 cards to SCG. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by H
It was still worth being on the road for (a total of) 5 hours though. I've never been to something like that before.
My opponent wasn't the bear-suit guy. Before we started game one, he said he wasn't a Legacy player and this was a list he saw online that inspired him.
So much fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by H
If somebody pays for the tournament entry, then they can play whatever deck they want if it's legal. And if they are respectful to their opponents and abide by the tournament rules, then what's the problem?
I think it'd be *awesome* if SCG encouraged people to play wacky, fun, interesting, and outsider strategies and made an effort to put these on stream. We can watch the Delver vs. Show and Tell vs. Storm vs. Elves vs. [Tier 1/1.5 deck] matchups in the later rounds and Top 8. Let us have more fun watching wacky games like Battle of Wits vs. Slivers, or Thallids vs. 100-card Highlander in the earlier rounds.
People that play these decks obviously have no real intention of going all the way and winning the tournament, but at least they'd be a hell of a lot more fun to see every once in awhile instead of Random Spike Metagame Net-Decker #471 vs. Random Spike Metagame Net-Decker #867.
This should probably be it's own topic. But I think most people who watch these streams would agree that highlighting the diversity of Legacy would be more interesting than focusing purely on the relative homogeneity of Tier 1.
Airing any match he's in would be entertaining for 30 seconds... or until you sober up. :tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by wcm8
The proper way to show him is to pan the camera over to the wacky guy in a bear costume from a distance, point and laugh, and continue covering real Legacy.
I'm all for showing tier 1.5 and 2 strategies, but not tier Bear.
Gotta set that Chalice at 2 to beat the Bear deck ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew
Totally agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by wcm8
What was the point to see Tom Ross and again TOM ROSS few minutes later?
Jersey was awesome. I have about 4 pages brainstormed of stories, reports, and thoughts that'll get posted in the next week or so.
The point was that he actually plays really good and after 15 rounds a Miracle mirror would put people to sleep. Oh, and SCG probably wants to promote their circuit players.Quote:
Originally Posted by meffeo
Yeah, it's funny, but then all these people will come out of the wood-work doing ridiculous things to get on camera and we'll never see real Magic. Now, if the guy came in a bear suit and went like 7-0 and they had to put him on camera, that would be the best thing ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew
When I lived in New York a friend of mine went to a Vintage tournament wearing an Ape suit playing Belcher. He played Brian DeMars, who wrote that he was pretty confused in his StarCity article, :laugh:
In a better world SCG would pair one or two of their commentators up someone who actually knew legacy/legacy history. SCG commentators knowing who random SCG grinder #100 is but not who Lam goddamned Phan is makes me sad.
I think I could do it if I wanted to, I've played "Legacy" since it was Drains, Shops and Bazaars and still travel to events all over. Unfortunately, I know Lam from losing to him repeatedly.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdr
To answer all the questions; Lam blacked out all his cards to force himself to keep them. He had a habit of trying to get value out of trending cards, and consequently not having some to play with when needed. Cappy told him ones like Force, Bstorm, Goyf etc. Would never be worth unloading, and Lam knowing how ADD he is, did that so no one would ever buy or trade for them. He has been playing that same damn deck since before the split.
CDR, can you elaborate on who Lam Phan is? I'm not familiar with Magic history.
Seconded. Googling him isn't currently useful as all the results are about the GP!Quote:
Originally Posted by Valtrix
Someone earlier said he was one of the original creators of the tempo thresh archetype aka canadian thresh, basically the progenitor of rug delver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valtrix
In a nutshell:Quote:
Originally Posted by Valtrix
Well known Canadian Legacy player, top8'd the first Legacy GP (Philly 2005), co-inventor of Canadian Threshold, tons of high finishes in large Legacy events.
Pretty much what Di said.
I'm also generally annoyed by how Wizards lets SCG take a GP and basically treat it like an oversized SCG Open. SCG branding/ads/employees everywhere, Magic branding nowhere. I guess it's too much to ask for Wizards to actually do their own GP coverage.
It's possible they really don't care much about the eternal formats, preferring to concentrate on Standard and Draft, where most of their money is made. The eternal formats make their business partners money but not WotC so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdr
SCG also does coverage for GP Orlando, which is not Legacy. WotC really should just focus on new sets and MTGO.Quote:
Originally Posted by FoolofaTook
Here's a picture of him, if you were curious:Quote:
Originally Posted by Valtrix
http://data3.whicdn.com/images/4658570/large.jpg
This guy is one of the reasons why we all hate Delver.dec and to some extent, BrainstormQuote:
Originally Posted by Valtrix
Somehow, I was not impressed by his plays and asked myself quite often how he'd gotten into T8.
Edit: Just ontopic for the SCGGrinder#100 vs the Legacy legend (that I didn't know until I read it here). In terms of GP performance, the first one did way better while being covered.
man, the gp just felt like an scg tournament to me. I want BDM in the booth.
What about Jim Ross? Everything's better with Jim Ross right?Quote:
Originally Posted by bruizar
Wasn't this supposed to be GP Hollywood anyway?
Started the day out 3-0, then rolled three straight snake eyes and lost three straight game threes with each opponent at one life. It was more like, "Grand Prix: Get Fucked."Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Cheese
Jim Ross would be awesome. "Oh my God king! Did you see that?? Delver of Secrets!"
What were you on Hollywood? Manaless?
I was on U/R.
Never again.
Yeah I almost played that deck, then decided I just wanted to crush it instead. I even bought foil Delvers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Keller
Went 12-3 for 45th place with Deadguy Ale. One of my losses was to Bob Huang, so I will be keeping tabs on Channelfireball to see what he says about me on his report.
LOL, when I lost round 12 to Bob, I see Lam (I play against him from time to time in Toronto area) and asked how he did that round since we were both 11-1 (well me now 11-2). He won. I said I was happy for 2 reasons. He's a good guy and happy he's doing so well and number 2, I've only beaten him twice when he's on UR Landstill. Once as Deadguy, the other as Tin Fins. So with his win and my loss, I'm not likely to face him next round as he's an auto loss for me.
Seems like you made a good choice... Congrats!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Royce Walter
Also - was awesome meeting and running into so many sourcers there. Had a pretty awesome time at the event, aside from the food situation and round length on day 1.
See, if you had played Dredge or The Gate...Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Keller
Oh my GAWD ALMIGHTY! He just drew 21 cards off Griselbrand! Somebody get in there and stop him!#!!@#Quote:
Originally Posted by Megadeus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv5mGdN_b2AQuote:
Originally Posted by Richard Cheese
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One more:http://www.totalprosports.com/2014/0...blowout-video/