Comments on: If You Build It…: The Sweepah (Finalysis)

By: Travis R. Chance

Travis R. Chance — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:44:28 +0000

Anonymous: yes, please read Myojin (same as with Emrakul, you must hardcast them). Secondly, it is not our player, or our server: reset your memory cache. This is the issue: your browser.

By: seabarge

seabarge — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:34:37 +0000

@Anonymous
You have to cast it from your hand. Emrakul was the correct choice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:29:33 +0000

Noo, you missed the black Myojin with the Bribery in the second game. The game would probably have ended right there.

Also, the videos always stop loading for me at some point. If I’m lucky I might get 30mins in and then it fails. I rarely get to see the whole video on this site. Why does this player suck so much? Has anyone else had this problem and managed to fix it?

By: Travis R. Chance

Travis R. Chance — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:57:12 +0000

Anzsilly: I am in no way discouraging your from posting here, quite the contrary. I am merely trying to draw some attention to your “tone,” if you will. No, I do not want a bunch of gladhanding accolades; laurels thrown at my feet, and wet t-shirts torn asunder and flung into soggy airborne scraps by women with names like “Tiffany.” No, I get enough of this in my real life. But, after talking with various contribs and other site staff, some people are like, “who is this guy?” Just go back and read the way you talk AT people, and for someone new to the game and wanting to learn this confuses me even more.

With regard to the alt cast issue, perhaps it was a bug, but I distinctly remember a game where I tutored for one with Tezz with said UW deck and seeing it in my pile of candidates for play and thinking, “that’s strange.” Perhaps it was in fact a bug, and I wasn’t sure about Trinket Mage, hence why I did not confirm or deny the issue. Either way, I am wrong, whether it is a cataloged bug or bot. Werd. And thanks for the heads up, sincerely.

By: Zwick

Zwick — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:41:06 +0000

Aznsilly, have you ever lived with a girl for more than 3 years, and had her pick up on little things you do that annoy her, and she tells you about it every time you do something? That’s called nitpicking, and as much as guys like us like constructive criticism, you do take it a bit overboard. I apologize if Trav has offended you in any way, but imagine if every time you wrote an article and had him take the stake to you on the littlest things. It’s just not fun(ny).

By: Aznsilly

Aznsilly — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:47:59 +0000

You can say bad things about me, but I think you are trying too hard to argue with me here. Please post a video of you fetching a borderpost with trinket Mage or tezzeret for 1 and you can then report it as a bug to the mtgo development team to be fixed in the next update. The alternate casting cost in no way affects the converted mana cost of the card, which is 3. I know for 100% sure that this SHOULD not work, in any format.
I didn’t say I don’t have time, I said sorry if I didn’t reply in time for you, as I am halfway across the world and subject to a large time difference.
I post on all the content for one reason and one reason only: because it benefits me to do so. I am pretty new to MTGO, although it’s been about 3 months now, and I was able to find this site while deciding whether to get started on mtgo or not. I have been able to learn about mtgo and different formats, which is cool because I like magic in general even though I am a spike at heart. Due to budget I can’t afford to spend more than 10-15 a month on mtgo, and this site offers something the others don’t, academy points. I get to post and login and accumulate points to get credits to buy some cards with. It’s not much, but it’s available and costs me nothing to take advantage of it so I do. Like I said, I don’t always post criticism, sometimes questions or just a “cool article” type of thing, but you are acting as if I do nothing but criticize.
I never doubted that you have more experience with the format than I do, however I gave reasons as to why I felt certain cards should or should not be played based on knowing magic. I ceded the point regarding aura of silence since several people have said that it is great/necessary in the format. Should we all only post useless comments like “good job bro”, or “wow, perfect again!” In addition, ad hominens and such are in fact not helpful comments in any way.

@thirdys33dd: I am able to read the cards, and I know how mechanics work. I have watched the games that he played so far, and after thinking about it, decided that they were not better than Jace so if he wanted to cut something, I would cut one of those over Jace first.
I never said or assumed that the videos themselves were supposed to be serious. I didn’t say anything about the quality of the video or his various gags and stories. He built this specific deck knowing that a) it would probably piss people off if he played it against them and b) it is probably more competitive than many of the decks he will face playing a casual game of EDH. I have no problems with either of those things, but since it is not a blatantly silly deck in the first place, I made a comment about a change that I didn’t agree with, and a suggestion for a replacement cut. That’s all. also, if I look like a silly asian, then…what do you know, I lived up to my name

By: Zimbardo

Zimbardo — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:22:21 +0000

The borderpost tutoring thing seems strange to me, so I tried it out. MTGO currently does not allow you to tutor for any of the Borderposts with Trinket Mage, Dizzy Spell, Artificer’s Intuition, or Tezzeret (X=1). Perhaps they changed that in the most recent build, even though it wasn’t listed among the bug fixes.