Yes!Were you at Expo?
No. I was not confident that my partially untested deck could handle professional gamers. My two friends were though!Did you play in the tournament?
I played a few games against my friends and some others using my Blue/Green token deck. It didn't do very well, in about 10-12 games it only did what it was designed to do twice. Sunday night however I removed the 8 cards that my deck was designed around [footnote][mtg_card=Aether Mutation] x4 and [mtg_card=Parallel Lives] x4. Originally my deck was designed to get tokens on the field, play [mtg_card=Mass Polymorph], watch opponent cry[/footnote] and ironically it started winning three quarters of the games it was playing! Even though I hadn't removed the [mtg_card=Polymorph] and [mtg_card=Mass Polymorph] cards, as they were still handy!What deck did you play and how did you fare?
I played a couple of games with the Black starter, it can destroy anything easily except the Green deck as far as I found out. But that was only in 1v1s.Fappy said:We played two-headed giant with the free decks you got with your badge. Fuck that White deck. God damn!
Yeah, I was playing my Black with a Red deck against White/Green.TimeLord said:I played a couple of games with the Black starter, it can destroy anything easily except the Green deck as far as I found out. But that was only in 1v1s.Fappy said:We played two-headed giant with the free decks you got with your badge. Fuck that White deck. God damn!
Unfortunately I wasn't at the expo (Maybe next year!). Nice to hear it all went so well and a mox as a prize! Veryyy nice.Encaen said:Magic at Escapist Expo
Looking at the Magic presence at last weekend's Escapist Expo.
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Haha! That will probably have to wait until next week, but in the meantime, we've got the post-tourney wrap up panel posted if you care to check it out here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escapist-expo/6295-Jon-Finkels-Magic-Tourney-Debrief-Panel].TheGuy(wantstobe) said:Now that the new set has been spoiled what are your thoughts on it or shall we have to wait for any brews until next week?
You're going Izzet, you're going to be stepping on toes.Encaen said:Haha! That will probably have to wait until next week, but in the meantime, we've got the post-tourney wrap up panel posted if you care to check it out here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escapist-expo/6295-Jon-Finkels-Magic-Tourney-Debrief-Panel].TheGuy(wantstobe) said:Now that the new set has been spoiled what are your thoughts on it or shall we have to wait for any brews until next week?
I will, however, say that I've finally decided to go Izzet for the pre-release. I'm not necessarily convinced that it's stronger, as it seems like Scavenge may be a bit more powerful in limited, but my fiance is going Azorius and I wanted to be in blue without stepping on any toes.
Well the play is a little shady, I think, but the end result is perfectly legit. Basically, I don't believe you can target a [mtg_card=Counterspell] with itself, even via [mtg_card=Redirect]. That said, you can perfectly legally [mtg_card=Redirect] a [mtg_card=Counterspell], targeting the [mtg_card=Redirect]. Since Redirect will resolve first, Counterspell will then have no legal target and will fizzle.RJ 17 said:Really wish I could have gone to the Expo, were I able to I would have LOVED to play me some Magic in the tournament!
That said, though, I do have a quick question about a situation that occurred between me and my brother over the weekend as we were playing Magic. Now my brother is a lot more into Magic than I am. I used to go to tournaments and stuff, but kinda dropped off once the friends that I went with lost interest. As such, I generally accept that my brother has a better knowledge of the rules and mechanics of the game. That said, however, I did take issue with something he did.
Quite simply: he played one of his deck's big bombs, so I used a counter spell. He then used Redirect to make my counter spell counter itself. And that's what I called bullshit on, but he insisted that you can use Redirect to make a counter spell counter itself. So what's the deal with this? Is it BS or is it legal?
Ahhhhh, so you can counter a counter spell with redirect, he just went about it the wrong way. Thanks for the tip.Encaen said:From Oracle: "8/15/2010 If you cast Redirect targeting a spell that targets a spell on the stack (like Cancel does, for example), you can't change that spell's target to itself. You can, however, change that spell's target to Redirect. If you do, that spell will be countered when it tries to resolve because Redirect will have left the stack by then."