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1 year ago ::
Mar 29, 2012 - 10:35AM
#51
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Date Joined:
May 31, 2010
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I looked at the Premier Events on the weekend. In one event there were 5/8 with the Lingering Souls/Intangible Virtue, in the other event there was 3/8. Is it because they are in the process of banning the cards (they are still legal for a few more days) that people want to get a taste before they rotate. I mean none of them won, but that doesn't stregthen my arguement. Standing firm on this one, I believe it has something to do with Avacyn Restored. Can't wait for the spoiler!  Someone asked why Intangible Virtue didn't cost more, but I just wanted to point out thatin standard when someone is running Ratchet Bomb they can blow up all my Crusade effects, which is very powerful. I find right now I'm winning more often then not with my WB Standard deck (it doesn't play Sorin, he's redundent), but it's an auto conceed when the Bomb reaches two,
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1 year ago ::
Mar 30, 2012 - 10:47AM
#52
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The reason they banned it is cause of things like this...
turn one: land
turn two: land, intangible virtue
turn three: lingering souls
turn four: intangible virtue, lingering souls flash, swing for 6
turn five: swing for 12, land end of opponents turn midnight haunting...
Turn 1: Plain, Champion of the Parish 
Turn 2: Mountain, Gather the Townsfolk  , swing for 3
Turn 3: Plain, Fiend Hunter  removing whatever blocker the opponent might have put out, swing for 6
Turn 4: Mountain, Hellrider  , swing for 15(!)
One turn sooner and no Lingering Souls  or Intangible Virtue  required. It also doesn't require getting 2 of one of your 4-ofs.
But compare it to this: Yours requires 8 cards in four turns, his requires 5-6 in 5. His is much more consistent.
As long as it's random, I really can't see where's the problem. Anyway, there's already a few standard ways for doing this. We listed them in this thread. If someone does the bogey-bogey, eats the cards, waits until they come out, look out the approximate order, place replacements in the same order, calls the president to ask him to give him a string of numbers, puts the card in the given order, then pick the cards in the order given by taking the date of birth of his opponent, reversed, and taking only every other number, then a judge can clearly declare that he's random enough.
The beauty of sarcasm is that when the person using it is totally incorrect, you can just remove the sarcasm and end up with a post that is actually correct.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 01, 2012 - 5:38AM
#53
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"Block Constructed is a format consisting of about 300 cards, most of which are vanilla limited durdles. If you can't balance such an easy format, you're not doing your job. Sorry, R&D."
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This.
It reminds of the original Mirrodin block, where they had to ban Skullclamp. I left the game for 3 years after that.
I blame Hasbro for putting WotC on a ridiculous production schedule. I don't need 4 new sets a year, the CEO does. Banning cards in a block before the block is even finished is just bad.
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