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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 5:36PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Building on a Budget, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 9:08PM
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"This deck should play well against anything in the current Standard format."
What are you smoking?
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 9:12PM
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Soulbond my Delver, gg? >_<
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 9:18PM
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May 18, 2002
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 10:51PM
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Huh.
Tandem Guy doesn't say "combat damage" 
I noticed that as well. My gut reaction was to plan on pairing it with a pinger of some kind, or maybe grim lavamancer.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 12:21AM
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So mono blue with 4 mana leaks and 3 vapor snares can compete in standard now?
I agree, wtf are you smoking JVL?
And he didn't even bother to playtest this one at all.
Last week he goes overboard and gives us 8000 games with a deck.
This week he gives us no games.
Great consistency! /sarcasm
Every once in a while JVL has some awesome deck ideas, but every week there just seems to be a level of laziness to his articles or card usage that are starting to pile up for me. (Ponder in a modern deck, using overpriced cards, etc)
This week's article just felt like a lazy attempt at showing us a preview card.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 12:46AM
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The deck looks nice, but i think ill take the pinger road.
But this is again a card that can make delver stupidely strong...
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 1:23AM
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So mono blue with 4 mana leaks and 3 vapor snares can compete in standard now?
I agree, wtf are you smoking JVL?
And he didn't even bother to playtest this one at all.
Last week he goes overboard and gives us 8000 games with a deck.
This week he gives us no games.
Great consistency! /sarcasm
Every once in a while JVL has some awesome deck ideas, but every week there just seems to be a level of laziness to his articles or card usage that are starting to pile up for me. (Ponder in a modern deck, using overpriced cards, etc)
This week's article just felt like a lazy attempt at showing us a preview card.
it is preveiw week! what did you expect. he has to preview a card then buld a deck for a format that doesn't exist yet.... on a budget. unfortunatly it doesn't work very well.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 2:13AM
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I swear nobody knows how preview weeks 1 & 2 work any more... or hopefully Avacyn Restored is drawing a bunch of new players for some reason.
Anyway, it's a preview article, so it's all bells and whistles-- apart from his usual weekly assignment. Jacob actually listened last week on the structure of the column, so I have renewed faith he's on track.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 2:42AM
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it is preveiw week! what did you expect. he has to preview a card then buld a deck for a format that doesn't exist yet.... on a budget. unfortunatly it doesn't work very well.
I expect him to playtest his decks and show us how they fare in matchups? Proxy the card?
I don't think that is too high of an expectation.
Hopefully Senyuno is right and he is on track, but this article still seemed lazy to me.
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