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2 years ago ::
Aug 01, 2011 - 6:10PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2008
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Serious Fun, which goes live Tuesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 01, 2011 - 9:26PM
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I guess one way to explain the blocking part of Protection is to say that the creature with protection knows his enemy so well that he can slip past them unnoticed. The reason he can block them, then, is that he ambushes them (which also conveniently explains why he doesn't get damaged. Surprise round!) It's not a perfect explanation, since protection is usually from entire colors which stretches the "know thine enemy" angle a bit beyond believability (I have "favored enemy" goblins, and orcs, and lizards, and dragons, and...) but it's the best I can think of right now. Protection isn't the most flavorful ability, in my opinion. The four parts don't really seem to have that much in common. But your mileage may vary.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 01, 2011 - 10:42PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 25, 2011
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I look at it in a simple way: You are a powerful planeswalker whos summons creatures huge and small, and casts terrible and powerful spells, it's probably pretty easy to grant some of your summoned minions an aura of protection from time to time, which litterally prevents enemies from coming near enough to block. That's enough flavor for me.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 02, 2011 - 12:50AM
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Actually, it's pretty easy. Think of protection as, well, a protective magic spell or item. It stops magic of that type from directly affecting you, but it's of limited use against a vast, world-changing magic. (the old "Sword to Plowshares/Wrath of God" problem, although these days it's more "Oblivion Ring/Day of Judgement", I suppose.) It stops harmful things (damage prevention) but not Critical Existence Failures (destroy all, sacrifice, exile all). The thing you're protected from can't willingly come near (can't block) but you can easily interpose yourself between that thing and its objective (blocking).
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2 years ago ::
Aug 02, 2011 - 1:02AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 31, 2011
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Hmm, I'd like to comment on the poll. Well, I usually like to test my decks, at least when I build more "serious" decks and plan to spend more money on them. In such cases, I obviously want the deck to work well. Just now, I tend to play standard and extended. In my city, we have regular extended tournaments for beginners (I'm still in the process of learning) so my extended isn't probably the most competitive but when I plan my decks, they usually depend on what is played there and what would presumably be good against it.
I don't have that much chance to play standard, only some game days as we don't have the typical standard FNMs. There are FNMs in my city but they are held on thursdays and they are drafts (and I'm a lousy drafter, I admit). So, standard is a format I really need to read about and I'm always excited when heading to a game day, what the meta will look like. With some friends we are planning to have regular standards once a week but we haven't talked about the details yet so I'm quite curious if we actually start.
Just now, I'm building a deck for the next game day and I tried to play it at the beginners' extended. It didn't go very well, I only won against a standard version of a Valakut deck but the rest... Well, anyway I don't doubt the deck will be good in standard.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 02, 2011 - 2:54AM
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Nov 29, 2007
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The poll is not working for me with IE9. It works in firefox.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 02, 2011 - 4:02AM
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Why does that green deck not have Dungrove Elder  ? Other than that, I like the green deck.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 02, 2011 - 6:10AM
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Jun 30, 2009
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why has no one mentioned those eyebrows
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2 years ago ::
Aug 02, 2011 - 6:15AM
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Apr 25, 2010
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I kind of skimmed through this one once I started reading about some intro deck-esque type... things... but I still feel I should comment on the poll. For standard I always test my decks (currently Bant Birthing Pod  ) with my buddies for a day or two before whatever tournament I may be going to, even though it's just FNM and all that. Hey, it's the summer, I've got the free time, why not? It's worked pretty well for me that way.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 02, 2011 - 6:43AM
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Date Joined:
May 18, 2002
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And what's a weenie deck without Equipment like Greatsword  ? Really!
A better weenie deck.
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