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Dec 8, 2010 -- 11:44AM, secrettech181 wrote:

im building the transmuter deck and i think jvl knows what hes talking about so until you get your own column on mtg i think you shouldnt talk smack you shouldnt tell him how to do his job 

 cool but remember what i said when you 0-2 dropped with that deck 

@seydaneen: He's not "denying you secret tech" or something; it's just as he said, his faeries tech list is most likely more expensive than what BoaB allows, and as he's had fanboys in full on Nerd-rage about not keeping it "budget" in the past, he just didn't post it. I'm sure if you email him asking fr it he'll let you know.

@secrettech: haveyou heard of commas? How about Apostrophes? Seriously, don't do that. Your peer group, your grades and your mother will thank you.

@ the board: I've been tooling around with and Elves! list for extended and i find that, while awesome, you shouldn't build around that interction. It should definitely be in there, as it can steal wins out of nowhere and the cards are good on their own, but just keep it like the list in the article. Have it be a Package instead of the focus of the deck. It works better.

Dec 8, 2010 -- 1:04PM, secrettech181 wrote:

@JaketheLate you didn't put a space in your first line to correct me about grammar. 
last time i checked "haveyou" is not a compound word. i do however agree with your remark about JVL.

thank you for your English lesson professor. 

yeah, accidentaly missing a space once is the same thing as intentionally leaving out almost all punctuation. You use periods so you're better than some, but there is a difference between a typo and the crime against the english language you commit whenever you sit down to type.

Seriously, people will respect you alot more and take you much more seriously if you convey your thoughts well.

Dec 8, 2010 -- 4:58PM, secrettech181 wrote:

i just think if your going to correct someone for proper sentence structure.
you should do what called proofreading to check for mistakes. as for the English language you so gallantly defend it doesn't even follow its own rules.

example the word "kneel" according to our alphabet should be neel.
its a contradiction silent letters shouldn't exist why do you think English is the hardest language to learn? 


its the internet bro when i want you to grade English papers for me ill post them on mtg for you 

That's not my point. First off, I agree that the English language sucks. It is very hard to learn, and even harder to understand all the complexities.

That being said, the point and purpose of proper grammar and punctuation is to help yourselves and others make sense of the misshapen ball of irregularities, double standards and inexplicable rules that we call the English language.

People are more willing to read and respond to someone who actually lays out what they want to say in an easily comprehensible manner.

Think about it this way; imagine you're at a dentists office. The dentist comes into your room and says, "Alright, secrettech, we're going to be removing one of your wisdom teeth today."
Now, imagine that exact same situation,except the doctor comes in and says, "yea yea yea! I's 'bout to get all up in that mouf and rip dat toof right outta dere!"

Which one would you rather have perform the operation?
The point is that they could have both graduated from the same university, at the same time, and had all the same classes. Hell, they could have been in the same classes, and the second one could have gotten better grades than the first, but 90% of the time people irrationally, subconsciously would rather the first one perform the procedure because he sounds like he knows what he's doing.

Bad grammar and bad punctuation is a bad habit, and you'll be surprised where id bleeds over.

Dec 8, 2010 -- 6:40PM, secrettech181 wrote:

well if you wanted me too be more clear you should have just said something in a not so offensive way.i agree with your outlook about professionalism. to be honest the way i wrote it and the way i would have spoke it are two completely different things. the way someone speaks is dialect and emphasis on certain things. i would have expressed my punctuation in my tone of voice. the way you portrayed the second dentist was using Ebonics which isn't the way i speak. i would have sounded very monotone if i spoke the way i wrote. 

but to the original topic. i didn't think you could regenerate the elf he had negative counters on him so i don't get how it works.

The combo here doesn't use the regeneration ability of Ezuri, only his pump ability. Each time he pumps the toughness of each Devoted Druid means three more -1/-1 counters that that Druid can put on itself to untap, then produce more green mana. This process can be repeated any number of times with two Druids, by alterning which Druid produces only two mana for each loop and which produces three, keeping them both above zero toughness the whole time. Of course, if the game doesn't end that turn, once the bonuses from Ezuri wear off, both druids die, but your opponent should have lost before that happens.