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    Jimmy McCarthy

    @lhc

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    • RE: Ethical Dilemma: Scooping on MTGO

      @spook You should probably send a PM if only he is allowed to answer. When you post it in public, everyone can see it and respond.

      Also, he doesn't owe you anything; he can legally concede if he wants. If those other people are mad, they should have played better and lost less matches.

      posted in Vintage Community
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      lhc
    • RE: TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!

      Actual Doomsday list (the pictured maindeck is a couple cards off and the sideboard is not close):

      # Jimmy McCarthy
      ## Doomsday
      MAINDECK
      2 Island
      1 Mystic Sanctuary
      3 Polluted Delta
      4 Scalding Tarn
      4 Underground Sea
      2 Volcanic Island
      1 Ancestral Recall
      1 Black Lotus
      1 Brainstorm
      1 Dack Fayden
      1 Demonic Consultation
      1 Demonic Tutor
      1 Dig Through Time
      2 Doomsday
      1 Flusterstorm
      4 Force of Will
      1 Gitaxian Probe
      1 Gush
      1 Hurkyl's Recall
      1 Lightning Bolt
      1 Lotus Petal
      1 Mental Misstep
      1 Merchant Scroll
      1 Mox Jet
      1 Mox Ruby
      1 Mox Sapphire
      1 Mystical Tutor
      1 Narset, Parter of Veils
      1 Ponder
      4 Preordain
      3 Pyroblast
      2 Sensei's Divining Top
      1 Snapcaster Mage
      2 Thassa's Oracle
      1 Thoughtseize
      1 Time Walk
      1 Treasure Cruise
      1 Vampiric Tutor
      1 Yawgmoth's Will
      Sideboard:
      
      2 By Force
      2 Fatal Push
      3 Grafdigger's Cage
      1 Hurkyl's Recall
      1 Mountain
      1 Pyroblast
      2 Ravenous Trap
      2 Shattering Spree
      1 Toxic Deluge
      1 Yixlid Jailer
      

      The deck was really really powerful but I'm bad at magic now so I messed up a bunch. Should have easily won one of the matches I lost (it was on camera after the regular R3 or R4 match), probably could have won the others as well if I'd played better or mulliganed better.

      List/board are 100% Sam Krohlow, his advice was basically to play like a control deck most of the time. Don't try to go off unless you're sure you got it (or, you know, you're about to die). I went off T2 maybe twice (mostly with DT -> Lotus -> DD -> free draw spell) because i had to, but otherwise most games didnt end until turn 6 or 7 at least.

      Notable is the zero mana stack with top in play: gush/lotus/ancestral/oracle/petal (or sapphire): tap top, gush for lotus/top, lotus -> UUU, play top, tap draw, ancestral, U floating, 0 cards in deck, petal -> oracle. I won with that pile a couple times, including once on T2 facing lethal.

      Personally i hated the shattering sprees in the board and wouldn't play them again. I'd try either an instant or another hurkyls or something. And I wouldnt mind having one more bomb maindeck, either another DD or maybe a tinker type effect or something, I had some games where I was clearly ahead but strugged to close out.

      -Jimmy

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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      lhc
    • RE: TKS Moon

      Andy's right, of course. And I don't just say that because this is his site and he can edit my post to agree with him!

      You don't have to be friends with everyone here, but being civil is a good thing. There's no reason to insult someone when you disagree with them; that's not edgy or correct or the only way to get a point across. In fact, it's probably the least convincing way to get a point across.

      Whenever you want to complain about being "politically correct" or whatever, try this mental exercise: replace those words with "being respectful and considerate". I think you'll have a harder time arguing that sort of behavior is reasonable if you ask yourself that before you make a post calling players names.

      Anything Andy does to keep TMD from being like twitter, or the comments section of your local newspaper, or 4chan, or any other part of the vast cesspool of internet discussion that exists, is a noble cause and should be encouraged.

      posted in Vintage Strategy
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      lhc
    • RE: Adding Unfollow and Block Features

      For what it's worth Andy, I think this is a useful feature. If I can ignore people that I don't personally think add value (which is my choice, and probably has nothing to do with their actual value to the community), I'll do that and I'll be happier using this board and software. If I can't in software, I'm still not going to read their posts or engage with them, but I'm also going to be annoyed at the board because reading will become more of a chore.

      While I recognize Steve's desire for an open community, and I totally understand, you can't force me to read or respond to people that I don't like or don't want to engage with. You can either make it a nicer experience for me, and I'll enjoy reading the board because I'll only see things that are valuable, or you can make it unpleasant, and I'll lose interest because I constantly have to deal with people that I don't want to deal with. There's no option to force me to read / engage with people I don't want to engage with.

      posted in TheManaDrain Metadiscussion
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      lhc
    • RE: TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!

      I won with consult-oracle far more than I won with doomsday. Easier to set up and easier on the mana. That combo is the real deal.

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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      lhc
    • RE: Team Serious Invitational Hazard-Vitational 2/11

      My list was pretty similar to Sam's, except strictly better because I cut his bad cards for good ones. List here:

      3 Ancient Tomb
      1 Cavern of Souls
      4 Flooded Strand
      2 Island
      1 Library of Alexandria
      1 Plains
      1 Polluted Delta
      1 Tolarian Academy
      2 Tundra
      1 Ancestral Recall
      3 Auriok Salvagers
      1 Black Lotus
      1 Brainstorm
      1 Dig Through Time
      1 Engineered Explosives
      2 Flusterstorm
      4 Force of Will
      1 Fragmentize
      1 Hope of Ghirapur
      2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
      1 Mana Crypt
      3 Mental Misstep
      1 Mox Emerald
      1 Mox Jet
      1 Mox Pearl
      1 Mox Ruby
      1 Mox Sapphire
      1 Ponder
      1 Snapcaster Mage
      1 Sol Ring
      3 Swords to Plowshares
      2 Thirst for Knowledge
      1 Time Walk
      4 Trinket Mage
      4 Walking Ballista

      Sideboard:
      2 Containment Priest
      1 Ethersworn Canonist
      3 Fragmentize
      1 Grafdigger's Cage
      1 Honor the Fallen
      2 Hurkyl's Recall
      2 Mindbreak Trap
      1 Pithing Needle
      1 Ravenous Trap
      1 Tormod's Crypt

      posted in Tournament Reports
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      lhc
    • RE: [Free Podcast] Serious Vintage 28 – All About Eldrazi

      Hey, here's the BUG deck Josh played. He and I built it at Nat's table the night before. It's based on my Champs deck from last year, which in turn was heavily based on Justin Becker's list from (I think?) NYSE that year:

      Creatures (12)
      3x Deathrite Shaman
      3x Snapcaster Mage
      2x Trygon Predator
      2x Baleful Strix
      2x Gurmag Angler
      
      Control Package (16)
      4x Force of Will
      3x Mental Misstep
      1x flusterstorm
      2x Cabal Therapy
      1x Null Rod
      1x Dismember
      3x Abrupt Decay
      1x Crucible of Worlds
      
      Draw Package (10)
      1x Ancestral Recall
      1x Brainstorm
      1x Dig Through Time
      1x Ponder
      1x Treasure Cruise
      1x Time Walk
      2x Painful Truths
      1x Demonic Tutor
      1x Jace TMS
      
      Mana (22)
      4x Verdant Catacombs
      1x Misty Rainforest
      1x Polluted Delta
      3x Underground Sea
      2x Tropical Island
      1x Bayou
      1x Swamp
      4x Wasteland
      1x Stripmine
      1x Mox Emerald
      1x Mox Jet
      1x Mox Sapphire
      1x Black Lotus
      
      Sideboard
      3x Grafdigger’s Cage
      2x Nature’s Claim
      1x Engineered Explosives
      1x Virulent Plague
      1x Dread of Night
      1x Tormod’s Crypt
      1x Forest
      1x Ravenous Trap
      1x Abrupt Decay
      1x Dismember
      1x Murderous Cut
      1x Null Rod
      

      I watched most of his games and we talked about the deck after. We agreed therapy was bad and would cut it. I'd like to see a third Strix, that card is great right now. JTMS was also an underperformer. I might try -2 therapy, -1 JTMS, +1 strix, +2 thoughtseize right now and see how that plays. I'd also like to play a Malicious Affliction, maybe in the sideboard over the murderous cut. Snuff out would also be fine there. I think Josh just found a Cut first so that was that.

      posted in Vintage News
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      lhc
    • RE: Type One - Let's do this!

      @AmbivalentDuck said:

      They will never test it, but if the community tests it and it turns out fine (which is what the Commander Rules Committee does!) they might respect our testing.

      God I hope not. Commander is a complete joke of a format; I don't know why anyone would want vintage to aspire to that.

      posted in Off-Topic
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    Latest posts made by lhc

    • RE: TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!

      I'm sorry that my misplay affected you so much, its the only thing you remember from the event.

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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      lhc
    • RE: TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!

      I won with consult-oracle far more than I won with doomsday. Easier to set up and easier on the mana. That combo is the real deal.

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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      lhc
    • RE: TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!

      Actual Doomsday list (the pictured maindeck is a couple cards off and the sideboard is not close):

      # Jimmy McCarthy
      ## Doomsday
      MAINDECK
      2 Island
      1 Mystic Sanctuary
      3 Polluted Delta
      4 Scalding Tarn
      4 Underground Sea
      2 Volcanic Island
      1 Ancestral Recall
      1 Black Lotus
      1 Brainstorm
      1 Dack Fayden
      1 Demonic Consultation
      1 Demonic Tutor
      1 Dig Through Time
      2 Doomsday
      1 Flusterstorm
      4 Force of Will
      1 Gitaxian Probe
      1 Gush
      1 Hurkyl's Recall
      1 Lightning Bolt
      1 Lotus Petal
      1 Mental Misstep
      1 Merchant Scroll
      1 Mox Jet
      1 Mox Ruby
      1 Mox Sapphire
      1 Mystical Tutor
      1 Narset, Parter of Veils
      1 Ponder
      4 Preordain
      3 Pyroblast
      2 Sensei's Divining Top
      1 Snapcaster Mage
      2 Thassa's Oracle
      1 Thoughtseize
      1 Time Walk
      1 Treasure Cruise
      1 Vampiric Tutor
      1 Yawgmoth's Will
      Sideboard:
      
      2 By Force
      2 Fatal Push
      3 Grafdigger's Cage
      1 Hurkyl's Recall
      1 Mountain
      1 Pyroblast
      2 Ravenous Trap
      2 Shattering Spree
      1 Toxic Deluge
      1 Yixlid Jailer
      

      The deck was really really powerful but I'm bad at magic now so I messed up a bunch. Should have easily won one of the matches I lost (it was on camera after the regular R3 or R4 match), probably could have won the others as well if I'd played better or mulliganed better.

      List/board are 100% Sam Krohlow, his advice was basically to play like a control deck most of the time. Don't try to go off unless you're sure you got it (or, you know, you're about to die). I went off T2 maybe twice (mostly with DT -> Lotus -> DD -> free draw spell) because i had to, but otherwise most games didnt end until turn 6 or 7 at least.

      Notable is the zero mana stack with top in play: gush/lotus/ancestral/oracle/petal (or sapphire): tap top, gush for lotus/top, lotus -> UUU, play top, tap draw, ancestral, U floating, 0 cards in deck, petal -> oracle. I won with that pile a couple times, including once on T2 facing lethal.

      Personally i hated the shattering sprees in the board and wouldn't play them again. I'd try either an instant or another hurkyls or something. And I wouldnt mind having one more bomb maindeck, either another DD or maybe a tinker type effect or something, I had some games where I was clearly ahead but strugged to close out.

      -Jimmy

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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      lhc
    • RE: Ethical Dilemma: Scooping on MTGO

      @Sovarius You can consider that, but its objectively misleading and false. The rules explicitly DO allow me to concede to someone to propel them into the top 8, or ID with someone to put us both in (at the expense of another player). The black-and-white rules-oriented approach leaves no question: Matt was 100% within his rights, full stop.

      Saying that the rules do not work the way you'd like is fair. That's an opinion you can have. Most of your arguments are more along the lines of what you consider ethical within an event, not about how the rules work.

      posted in Vintage Community
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      lhc
    • RE: Ethical Dilemma: Scooping on MTGO

      @spook You should probably send a PM if only he is allowed to answer. When you post it in public, everyone can see it and respond.

      Also, he doesn't owe you anything; he can legally concede if he wants. If those other people are mad, they should have played better and lost less matches.

      posted in Vintage Community
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      lhc
    • RE: Academy 2017!

      You can totally cut strip mine now, since the Legend rule was changed recently to allow each player to have their own copy of a legend in play!

      posted in Vintage Strategy
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      lhc
    • RE: Team Serious Invitational Hazard-Vitational 2/11

      My list was pretty similar to Sam's, except strictly better because I cut his bad cards for good ones. List here:

      3 Ancient Tomb
      1 Cavern of Souls
      4 Flooded Strand
      2 Island
      1 Library of Alexandria
      1 Plains
      1 Polluted Delta
      1 Tolarian Academy
      2 Tundra
      1 Ancestral Recall
      3 Auriok Salvagers
      1 Black Lotus
      1 Brainstorm
      1 Dig Through Time
      1 Engineered Explosives
      2 Flusterstorm
      4 Force of Will
      1 Fragmentize
      1 Hope of Ghirapur
      2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
      1 Mana Crypt
      3 Mental Misstep
      1 Mox Emerald
      1 Mox Jet
      1 Mox Pearl
      1 Mox Ruby
      1 Mox Sapphire
      1 Ponder
      1 Snapcaster Mage
      1 Sol Ring
      3 Swords to Plowshares
      2 Thirst for Knowledge
      1 Time Walk
      4 Trinket Mage
      4 Walking Ballista

      Sideboard:
      2 Containment Priest
      1 Ethersworn Canonist
      3 Fragmentize
      1 Grafdigger's Cage
      1 Honor the Fallen
      2 Hurkyl's Recall
      2 Mindbreak Trap
      1 Pithing Needle
      1 Ravenous Trap
      1 Tormod's Crypt

      posted in Tournament Reports
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      lhc
    • RE: TKS Moon

      Andy's right, of course. And I don't just say that because this is his site and he can edit my post to agree with him!

      You don't have to be friends with everyone here, but being civil is a good thing. There's no reason to insult someone when you disagree with them; that's not edgy or correct or the only way to get a point across. In fact, it's probably the least convincing way to get a point across.

      Whenever you want to complain about being "politically correct" or whatever, try this mental exercise: replace those words with "being respectful and considerate". I think you'll have a harder time arguing that sort of behavior is reasonable if you ask yourself that before you make a post calling players names.

      Anything Andy does to keep TMD from being like twitter, or the comments section of your local newspaper, or 4chan, or any other part of the vast cesspool of internet discussion that exists, is a noble cause and should be encouraged.

      posted in Vintage Strategy
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      lhc
    • RE: [Free Article] Taking Vintage to the Moon

      RtR is a terrible careful study, but it also lets you win without bazaar (generate infy mana, RtR for your whole deck, win).

      posted in Vintage News
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      lhc
    • RE: [Free Podcast] Serious Vintage 28 – All About Eldrazi

      Hey, here's the BUG deck Josh played. He and I built it at Nat's table the night before. It's based on my Champs deck from last year, which in turn was heavily based on Justin Becker's list from (I think?) NYSE that year:

      Creatures (12)
      3x Deathrite Shaman
      3x Snapcaster Mage
      2x Trygon Predator
      2x Baleful Strix
      2x Gurmag Angler
      
      Control Package (16)
      4x Force of Will
      3x Mental Misstep
      1x flusterstorm
      2x Cabal Therapy
      1x Null Rod
      1x Dismember
      3x Abrupt Decay
      1x Crucible of Worlds
      
      Draw Package (10)
      1x Ancestral Recall
      1x Brainstorm
      1x Dig Through Time
      1x Ponder
      1x Treasure Cruise
      1x Time Walk
      2x Painful Truths
      1x Demonic Tutor
      1x Jace TMS
      
      Mana (22)
      4x Verdant Catacombs
      1x Misty Rainforest
      1x Polluted Delta
      3x Underground Sea
      2x Tropical Island
      1x Bayou
      1x Swamp
      4x Wasteland
      1x Stripmine
      1x Mox Emerald
      1x Mox Jet
      1x Mox Sapphire
      1x Black Lotus
      
      Sideboard
      3x Grafdigger’s Cage
      2x Nature’s Claim
      1x Engineered Explosives
      1x Virulent Plague
      1x Dread of Night
      1x Tormod’s Crypt
      1x Forest
      1x Ravenous Trap
      1x Abrupt Decay
      1x Dismember
      1x Murderous Cut
      1x Null Rod
      

      I watched most of his games and we talked about the deck after. We agreed therapy was bad and would cut it. I'd like to see a third Strix, that card is great right now. JTMS was also an underperformer. I might try -2 therapy, -1 JTMS, +1 strix, +2 thoughtseize right now and see how that plays. I'd also like to play a Malicious Affliction, maybe in the sideboard over the murderous cut. Snuff out would also be fine there. I think Josh just found a Cut first so that was that.

      posted in Vintage News
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      lhc