Just Chatting - Take 3
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Posted on April 24, 2015, 4:02 p.m. by Didgeridooda
Third time's a charm.
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ItchiUchiha117 says... #2
WARNING: I'm feeling weird right now and I'm probably just gonna ramble for a while. Just need to get this off my chest.
It's been a long night. I think all of the BS from Sunday has finally been resolved. The stuff between me and my brother was resolved really fast, honestly, it was only 24 hours or so later that we were able to talk and he admitted he was at fault when the police ended up showing up (no one got arrested and they really just seemed to want to make sure no one was hurt and no more fights were going to happen). I... think I may have some minor form of Stockholm Syndrome. Between my mom, my older sister, my younger brother, and my grandmother (mom's mother, to be specific (that side of the family is all kinds of fucked)), I've pretty much always had someone being either physically or emotionally abusive. Combine that with anxiety, depression, and my particular brand of psychosis and you've got a recipe for failure. But I keep coming back for more because, "Hey, they keep paying attention to me, that's good, right?" So, I'm finally getting out. I'm moving in with a couple of friends somewhere where the rent isn't too expensive and just getting away from all of this, even if I will be coming back to do laundry every so often. My head feels heavy and my chest feels tight, but I feel like I'm finally starting to get out of whatever funk I've been in for what feels like centuries.
Sorry if I got too heavy, this is just the only place I can really let any of this out.
January 19, 2017 6:19 a.m.
EpicFreddi says... #3
Ye, I can assure you, moving out is a great thing. I've nerly smashed my head in with my mom every day. Now we're great friends because we don't have to deal with each others bullshit anymore (we're two very strong willed people and always colided in opponions)
January 19, 2017 7:48 a.m.
ItchiUchiha117 says... #4
Life is looking up. Hey, does anyone else here play 40k?
January 20, 2017 1:05 a.m.
EpicFreddi says... #5
Fuck me, i roasted my graphics card. The video game gods don't want me to finish Fallout 4. -.-
January 24, 2017 10:50 a.m.
EpicFreddi says... #7
Ye, and I have a 2 weeks vaccation next week that i planed on wasting at the computer. Now I might have to actually >do< something.
I just hope it's only the Graphics Card. I might be able to sell a modern deck. If it's the whole computer, I might have to sell my liver or a limb.
And I wanted to buy my GF a ring next month. Fuck me, right?
January 24, 2017 10:58 a.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #8
I just learned that the US government has plans in place to defend against a zombie apocalypse. If you don't believe me, look up CONOP 8888.
January 26, 2017 1:40 p.m.
DarksteelBadger says... #9
I had a sweet draft on Friday for a 3-0. I picked up two Cloudblazers and was already in U/W. Turns out, Aether Swooper is good. Aethertide Whale is also very good.
January 29, 2017 1:29 p.m.
EpicFreddi says... #10
I hate being an unmotivated piece of shit. I really need to reorganize my magic card, build another modern deck and finally finish my edh, but every time I get home all I wanna do is sleep. Yet when I'm at work I'm so motivated to do shit it's like I'm a different person. fml.
February 1, 2017 7:26 a.m.
elpokitolama says... #11
Blows up the huge Wall of Dust covering the discussion to check if some people of the old team are still alive
April 1, 2017 6:03 p.m.
I gave up on this thread and I'm spending less and less time on TO. Nowadays, I just shipost on Imgur a lot.
April 1, 2017 7:06 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #13
Well, most of us distanced themselves from the website... Heck, even Femme hasn't connected herself for a month according to her profile, which would have been unbelievable before. x)
But welp, since I've been lurking in the shadows for almost a year, I hoped that some were in the same case as I and tried to poke 'em a bit.
April 1, 2017 7:22 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #14
Oh I'm around, but honestly the elitism I've encountered on this site has pretty well driven me into lurking
April 1, 2017 8:14 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #15
Wow, this is still going on?
Yeah, I have gotten pretty busy with life lately, havent been on in a bit. Wife got pregnant with Kid 3, baby was born with down syndrome, baby had heart surgery, now baby is fine. Found out that I am getting laid off. You know, grown up shit. I should be bouncing back within the next four months or so.
I noticed Fluffy doesnt have his quote wall up anymore. Sad face.
How has everyone else been?
April 1, 2017 11:08 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #16
BTW, whats the effing deal with Pucatrade dying? I had like 250 bucks worth of points tied up in that site, and now its all pretty worthless and I cant cash out. So I cut my losses and bailed on that shit.
April 1, 2017 11:09 p.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #17
I've been doing college. Stopped playing draft and standard, so I don't really use TO anymore since I can't be bothered to put my commander decks on here.
April 2, 2017 1:56 a.m.
I've been lurking as well. I've deckcycled old decks for kicks, but other than that I just check articles and the occasional spoiler thread.
April 2, 2017 10:09 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #19
It feels nice to see that some of you guys are still around! I don't think I'm going to be as active as I used to be, but I had this little nostalgia of the days we were all striving to deserve a place on Fluffy's wall (or Canadian's too)... Good times n.n
April 3, 2017 4:19 p.m.
...yea, it's been a while huh. Suppose it doesn't help that Fluffy, Chief, Epoch, VA, Tibs and Femme are all off doing their own shit as well, and they used to contribute a lot to the chat threads. Rest of us also have rl stuff going on.
Anyway, I'm sure most of us are still playing...but the longer you play, the better you get and the bigger your collection grows, and the less you're frequenting this website for trades and deck. Makes sense I guess.
As far as Puca dying, well, I put up like half a dozen posts about that over the course of last year, and spoke about it at length in this forum as well, explaining why it was a failing business model and why it was going to die shortly. Sorry you missed them gnarl.
Maybe this thread will pick back up in a few months when summer vacation starts? Who knows.
April 4, 2017 8:46 p.m.
EpicFreddi says... #21
Magic is a stupid game anyway. I have so many key cards for modern deck and yet it would still cost me +100Euro to finish a single one of them because one playset is always missing. (Lily, another Lily, Grim Flayer, ...)
April 8, 2017 3:41 a.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #22
Well hello friends.
I've been busy with college and haven't seriously played Magic for about 9 months, since there's no Legacy around my college town. Probably also why I've stopped using TappedOut because it's much more Standard/Modern focused and I don't play those formats.
I'm still in touch with Fluffy and VampireArmy but everyone else has either moved on or is super busy.
If anyone wants to talk with me, I'm way more active on Discord as Tibs #3932. HMU if you want.
I hope you all are doing well :)
April 8, 2017 11 p.m.
ItchiUchiha117 says... #23
I've mostly been playing Warhammer 40k. Been doing a lot of building, some painting, little bit of winning, lots of losing. It's been fun. Really expensive and really time consuming, though.
April 10, 2017 3:35 a.m.
Coinman1863 says... #24
Yep, you guys should come to the T/O Discord. It's a great place where we discuss all formats and just generally have a great time. It's a text chat where we converse with each other in real time. We also hold tournies occasionally with feature token pay outs. Much of the JC talk has ended up there TBH.
Hope to see you there!
April 10, 2017 11:56 a.m.
entheogeneral says... #25
Hey what's the best pillow fort cards for a Zurr deck? I have a few and I really like things that fuck up the game like Stasis or Smokestack or Winter Orb.
April 15, 2017 8:50 p.m.
I don't think that terms means what you apparently think it means. "Pillow fort" refers to cards that benefit the entire table, such as Dictate of Kruphix. Most EDH players hate playing in pods with these decks because it statistically lowers your chance of winning while drastically prolonging the game, so the pillow fort pilot is usually eliminated first, especially as they're threat light and can't defend themselves.
Ok the other hand, cards like Stasis, Winter Orb, Smokestack, etc, are cards that belong to the archtype Stax. Also hated, but much more capable of defending themselves, to a point. A pillow fort deck would never run any of these, as they are literally the antithesis of the pillow fort theme.
April 15, 2017 11:58 p.m.
entheogeneral says... #27
I would call that Group Hug but whatever. A good amount of people on the internet said that Pillow Fort was all about making people not attack you so I would say you're not wrong and I might not be Completely wrong but thanks
April 16, 2017 9:11 a.m.
Traditionally speaking, pillowfort has meant effects like Moat, Propaganda, and so on that make attacking you either harder or less profitable than it would be usually. Definitions change and evolve over time though, so it's hard to say. Anyway, this is a pretty terrible place to get deck help when dedicated forums exist for that stuff here on TO.
In other news, my grinding in Eternal has landed me in Master. I'm top 600 right now.
April 16, 2017 10:13 a.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #29
TheDevicer congrats. I just started playing Eternal this week. I'm pretty bad at it but it's super fun... XD
April 16, 2017 1:44 p.m.
Coinman1863 says... #30
TheDevicer what list are you on? I hit master on Pre patch Stonescar and currently rocking full blown combrei. Congrats!
April 16, 2017 3:18 p.m.
I started playing Feln, swapped to shimmerpack around patch, and swapped yet again to icaria blue. I love control too much to not run it. Got to diamond 3 with shimmerpack. Rest was icaria.
April 16, 2017 3:56 p.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #32
What are your guys' thoughts on the new Azindel promo? I'm trying him in a deck with a bunch of small deadly things and Stonescar Maguses. Ramping into Vara, Whispers in the Void, Pillar of Amar, and The Final Word as finishers. Seems pretty good.
April 16, 2017 10:51 p.m.
Ehhhh. None of those cards are too good or worth Azindel's inclusion.
I feel like he's best used in a deck that abuses the ramp potential a bit more. He's an 0/4 so people don't tend to remove him on sight and his power buff persists through dead, so Dark Return is fucking amazing with him. I think the best payoff card for tons of mana is probably Copper Conduit since he can be played on curve whenever (think how good hangarback was) and the power/toughness he has persists as well. Dark Return is again outstanding. The other payoff card should probably be The Great Parliament. Having Entreat the Angels is a darn good finisher. The rest of the deck could probably be most of the Combrei shell and you'd do fine. Not sure on specifics, but that deck is absurdly powerful (and expensive as hell too).
April 17, 2017 12:51 p.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #34
I see. Time to sell off bulk rares and legendaries for more shiftstone I guess...
April 17, 2017 4 p.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #35
Trying shimmerpack Combrei with azindel. Because you spend turns 1-4 ramping, you can start winning on t5 or 6 with multiple siraf activations or a shimmerpack targeting a bunch of small things. Seems like a really good mix of jank and competitive.
April 17, 2017 9:49 p.m.
It's not that bad. I started playing late Feb and now have 3 high tiered decks and sitting on 3k shift + 20k gold. That's something like 110 hours. Eternal's gold rewards are likely too high atm. Not much incentive to buy stuff. I dropped $20 on principle, but haven't used any outside of Jekk's Bounty.
Oh, and the deck I proposed was super spikey. No need to go that far if it doesn't appeal to you.
April 18, 2017 12:18 a.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #38
TheDevicer, well, I do like to win. The first list I found when I searched "eternal competitive combrei" was a shimmerpack list and I'm like wow ok seems good. I may have made a mistake getting shimmerpack over Siraf as my first legendaries because I might want to remove them to make room for other stuff I need (last Siraf, Great Parliament, etc). So far, the list is running fairly well (about 70% win rate but not nearly finished).
Runlue tried it once, didn't really appeal to me.
April 18, 2017 4:31 a.m.
ABadMagicPlayer100 says... #39
That prerelease went kind of ok. My pool was mediocre (only removal was a single Magma Spray and Heaven//Earth) but I went 2-2 with some really close losses because my rares were super strong and I got lucky with my draws. Ended up with a bunch of just-above-bulk rares in the $2-4 range and not much else. Was wishing for an As Foretold, but there were none opened at the event as far as I know. Also, it seemed like roughly half of the players there got an invocation. Needless to say I was not in that half of the players :\
How did everyone else's prereleases go?
April 23, 2017 5:10 a.m.
I didn't go, but my friend went 4-0 and got an invocation force of will in his prize boosters. It's up for sale, btw.
April 23, 2017 9:07 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #41
Opened a mediocre pool where I couldn't play my bombiest cards (Glorybringer and Cruel Reality). Went 2-2 with WG Beats and missed on prize packs.
Also played a 2HG event where we opened 2 more medium pools. We had a really strong RB Aggro deck and a medium UB cycle deck. We somehow managed to place 3rd and I pulled a Nissa, Steward of Elements and an Invocation Kefnet the Mindful.
My partner also came in 3rd at the non-2HG event and pulled Invocation Vindicate as a prize. He was complaining about it all day.
April 23, 2017 1:18 p.m.
ItchiUchiha117 says... #42
Went 4-0 and opened an Invocation Stifle. Seems good. Was at the shop until almost 0700, though.
April 23, 2017 1:34 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #43
I went to a two headed giant prerelease, and my partner and I opened crazy stuff. He went simic ramp with Nissa and a foil Vizier of the Menagerie, while I went sultai cycle and -1/-1 with Archfiend of Ifnir + Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons/the black enchant which I forgot the English name that spawns insects combo. We also opened a foil As Foretold. We went 2-2-1 in the end, it was really fun!
April 24, 2017 6:09 a.m.
Didgeridooda says... #46
Hello. Have not played much lately either. I want to get back to playing or trading. Moved recently no shops around so have not even tried.
May 28, 2017 6:03 p.m.
Yea my main shop just announced that it's going to be closing at the end of June :/
May 28, 2017 10:55 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #50
I know the feel... That's really sad, but if it was your main that means you've still got some shops close to you am I right?
EpicFreddi says... #1
I feel like i should build an EDH, but everytime i grab my cards im like "urgh, now I have to look through all my cards just to finish this deck". Then I go and play fallout.
January 19, 2017 5:33 a.m.