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8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 2:16PM
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This thread is for discussion of magicthegathering.com's Magic Arcana, Card of the Day, and Daily Decks features for the month of October, 2012.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 01, 2012 - 5:57AM
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As a player who has little experience beyond 2-color decks, is there an easy way to tell if an opening hand is worth keeping at 4 colors? Or does the decision come from experience with playing the deck itself?
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8 months ago ::
Oct 01, 2012 - 8:28PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 21, 2011
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As a player who has little experience beyond 2-color decks, is there an easy way to tell if an opening hand is worth keeping at 4 colors? Or does the decision come from experience with playing the deck itself?
It is pretty much impossible to make a (legitimate) guide to mulliganing for ANY deck. Even general guidelines are often way too misleading (for example, "always mulligan one land hands" is a very dangerous mentality because it's correct to keep one land hands in some situations). As with any deck in Magic, for you to become familiar with when to mulligan and when not to, you will need to pilot the deck and see how various hands play out to figure out what to keep and what not to keep.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 02, 2012 - 9:13PM
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As a player who has little experience beyond 2-color decks, is there an easy way to tell if an opening hand is worth keeping at 4 colors? Or does the decision come from experience with playing the deck itself?
If you have lands of one color but cards of another, that's an easy mull (usually). If you have lands of one color and cards of that color, but no easy way to get your third/fourth color, then it's definitely worth considering. It depends a lot on what proportions the colors are in--you need to consider how many cards you could draw that would be effectively blank. If you only have a few white cards, it doesn't matter much that there's no white in the opener. If your only black is the flashback on Lingering Souls  , then you could never see a black source for the entire match and be fine. By contrast, if you're trying to play Gideon, Tamiyo, and Black Sun's Zenith (all of which have double-color in the casting cost), you should be very wary of any hand that doesn't give a good mix of mana. That's one reason why control decks play extra lands, and then devote more deck slots to fixing on top of that.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 02, 2012 - 9:19PM
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those riddles were verry entertaining, do more stuff like this wizards 
all of my randoms: Spoiler:
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8 months ago ::
Oct 03, 2012 - 10:00AM
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Riddles I got:
Izzet: Half-Baked Idea
Rakdos: Get Down and Dirty
Selesnya: Strength in Numbers
Boros: Place Under Arrest
Dimir: Back-Alley Deal
Orzhov: Corner the Market
Riddles I failed:
Azorious: Courthouse Square
Golgari: Circle of Life
Gruul: Break the Law
Simic: Cross-Species Technology
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** From Mark Rosewater's Tumblr: the0uroboros asked: How in the same set can we have a hexproof, unsacrificable(not a word) creature AND a land that makes it uncounterable. How does this lead to interactive play? I believe I’m able to play my creature and you have to deal with it is much more interactive than you counter my creature. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Post #777
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 10:22PM
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 10:50PM
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media.wizards.com/images/magic/daily/arc...
That one's awesome, but I really, really liked this one. I wish they credited the colorists somehow, though.
Rules Nut Advisor
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 12:01AM
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Date Joined:
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Hmm, I really like the Nicol on the 2nd row on the right. Seems very Egyptian'esque ... If that's what they were going for.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 2:55AM
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"AMERICAN!" Nicol Bolas has me cracking up.
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