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 Post subject: Re: Off-color actives
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 1:50 pm 
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Opaline Unicorn - "Rainbow Pooper".
Also I think he has a name like "Bob" or something.

I did read the wikipedia page for E. Honda after I posted and saw that he uses some sumo move related to hundred hands.

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Filobel wrote:
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Polis Crusher is Blitzkrieg.


In French, "Police" is pronounced the same way as "Polis", so we call him "#$%! the Police!"


Our nickname came from "Polis" being easily confused with "Polish," and the Germans crushed the Poles during the Blitzkreig.

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 Post subject: Re: Off-color actives
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I saw Satyr Hedonist drafted to great effect in a R/G monsters deck in the finals of a PTQ last weekend. It bumped up my opinion of the card and its ability significantly--turns out turn 3 Nessian Asps are just plain brutal. It's narrow, but potentially devastating with the right setup.

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Yeah, that plan seems like it could be good in a set where the removal is best described by language best not repeated in a public forum.

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Hasn't "bad removal" characterized pretty much every Limited environment for several years now?

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GrifterMage wrote:
Hasn't "bad removal" characterized pretty much every Limited environment for several years now?


Not this bad.

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 Post subject: Re: Off-color actives
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GrifterMage wrote:
Hasn't "bad removal" characterized pretty much every Limited environment for several years now?


Not M14. In that one, draw-go was a deck. True, the good removal was blue, but so what?

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Didn't triple dragon maze also have good removal?


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Hello World wrote:
Didn't triple dragon maze also have good removal?


Triple DGM isn't a real format technically. RTR-GTC-DGM had decent removal just because you could stretch across several colors.

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GrifterMage wrote:
I saw Satyr Hedonist drafted to great effect in a R/G monsters deck in the finals of a PTQ last weekend. It bumped up my opinion of the card and its ability significantly--turns out turn 3 Nessian Asps are just plain brutal. It's narrow, but potentially devastating with the right setup.


I've seen that sort of thing happen before. Then I laugh when I cast Voyage's End on their new fatty they ramped out.

Also, the removal in INN block wasn't bad, if I remember right (AVR isn't INN block)

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AVR still had Deathwind and tempo plays like mist raven and the like. I don't remember a set with "bad" removal, just that removal is worse now than it was in the past. But that discussion is about as interesting as the people bitching about blue being hated by the dev team.

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rstnme wrote:
AVR still had Deathwind and tempo plays like mist raven and the like. I don't remember a set with "bad" removal, just that removal is worse now than it was in the past. But that discussion is about as interesting as the people bitching about blue being hated by the dev team.


The removal was horrid in AVR. Its like saying "We have Sip of Hemlock in Theros."

Anyway, you're right. stupid pointless discussion.

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