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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 5:43PM
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The 2011 Community Cup formats have been announced! Check out the article here. Use this thread to discuss your thoughts on the Modern format being used this year! Please do not discuss strategy as there is already a thread for that located here. The 2011 Community Cup will be held at our Renton Headquarters from June 15th - June 17th!
Michael Robles Community Manager Wizards of the Coast Twitter: @michaelrobles
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 6:01PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 16, 2009
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Any idea who made the team? Okay, next week. And if they're going to have matching Zissou suits waiting for them...? Thoughts on the format? Lemme try applying my favorite scheme to the format: Reanimator *peeks on mtgo* Not much of anything.  At least old extended looks fancy pants reanimated.
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 6:32PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 21, 2009
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So modern is what they are calling over extended ?
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 7:10PM
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i will be happy if "modern" becomes a staple tournament format. seems great. it means all my cards from timespiral aren't entirely worthless...
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 7:37PM
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Yeah, this could be an interesting test run for a format to replace extended (or legacy...)
It's not overextended (as proposed by Evan), it cuts out 7th, Masques, Invasion, Odyssey, and Onslaught...which is quite a slew of cards to not have. This should even be pretty different from an "Invasion-Forward" format. I could be wrong, but I think there are a good bit of cards in those blocks that significantly change the format.
Sounds cool though.
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 9:14PM
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Ooh, I like this format idea. It's a very neat way of circumventing the deck-legality-check problem Overextended has for Judges. Golgari Grave-Troll  is an interesting ban; I would have thought they'd take out Bridge from Below  rather than just one dredger among many. Granted it's the biggest one, but still--presumably they just want to slow dredge down rather than kill it off. Most of the rest isn't all that surprising, except I'm very surprised to see Chrome Mox  on the list. It's good, but banworthy? Hypergenesis  isn't on the list, though, I notice--maybe the Mox is on the list as a slow-down attempt for that?
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real.
--Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 9:19PM
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I'm also pretty surprised they didn't ban Hypergenesis and I'm not sure if banning Grave-Troll was warranted.
Current decks:
Type II: B/R Vampires
Extended:
Modern: U/G Scapeshift
1.5: Ichorid, Elf Combo
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 9:25PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2009
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Yeah, it seems to me that this is the compromised "overextended."
What was the reasoning for 7th and Invasion down for "overextended?"
Modern slices out the speculators that bet on fetches coming back.
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 9:30PM
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I'm a big proponent of anything that fill the role extended used to fill - a format where you can play with a wider selection of cards, but not the cards which were printed before power levels were considered as part of the development process. The banlist definitely needs work though - you don't want to ban the entire best deck in the format, only the things that make it ridiculously powerful(skulclamp, disciple of the vault, we've been down this road before surely).
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2 years ago ::
May 19, 2011 - 9:33PM
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What was the reasoning for 7th and Invasion down for "overextended?"
Urza's Destiny was the last set printed before Wizards stopped adding cards to the Reserved List; thus, any format that consists solely of stuff newer than that won't be negatively affected by the Reprint Policy.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real.
--Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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