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    mourningpalace

    @mourningpalace

    I have a wife and two girls. I work in a cheese factory. Been playing magic for over 20 years. Used to play paper vintage, but sold all my power when we had our first child 11 years ago. Now I play vintage on line, and primarily modern and legacy in paper.

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    Best posts made by mourningpalace

    • RE: Grixis Thieves

      Well, I tested a lot, and I believe the missteps are better to have than not to have. With the amount of swords, delvers, pyroblasts, ancestral, misstep, etc... it seems to be better to have it. Played the Vintage challenge today and took 1st place with this list:

      2x Flooded Strand
      4x Polluted Delta
      1x Tolarian Academy
      1x Strip Mine
      3x Underground Sea
      2x Volcanic Island
      2x Island
      1x Library of Alexandria
      2x Notion Thief
      1x Blightsteel Colossus
      2x Dack Fayden
      2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
      1x Ancestral Recall
      1x Brainstorm
      3x Preordain
      3x Mental Misstep
      4x Force of Will
      2x Mana Drain
      1x Ponder
      1x Tinker
      1x Time Walk
      2x Flusterstorm
      1x Vampiric Tutor
      1x Demonic Tutor
      1x Yawgmoth's Will
      1x Gush
      1x Treasure Cruise
      1x Dig Through Time
      1x Timetwister
      1x Sensei's Divining Top
      1x Time Vault
      1x Voltaic Key
      1x Sol Ring
      1x Black Lotus
      1x Mox Jet
      1x Mox Sapphire
      1x Mox Pearl
      1x Mox Ruby
      1x Mox Emerald
      1x Mana Crypt

      SB:
      2x Sulfur Elemental
      2x Ingot Chewer
      3x Tormod's Crypt
      3x Grafdigger's Cage
      1x Toxic Deluge
      2x Hurkyl's Recall
      1x Mindbreak Trap
      1x Arcane Laboratory

      posted in Big Blue
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    • RE: Vintage Restricted List Discussion

      http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-beaten-stabbed-magic-gathering-game-article-1.3366795

      These guys must have been discussing the Gush/Mentor restriction debate.

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

      This whole thing does not seem any different than ID's in paper. By the same logic, those are match fixing as well right? But that happens in EVERY tournament EVER. I don't see how this is even a discussion thread. This is part of the game.
      If someone draws or concede's in a final round and it knocks me out of top 8, which is more productive: complain about how those people 'screwed' me, or reflect on the matches I lost and consider what I could do differently in future matches so that I don't have to hope for tie breakers to get me in?

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Where is Oath right now?

      @brianpk80 So after playing a few leagues with Gisela, I am impressed. Pretty much lights out for shops, and very hard castable.

      posted in Oath
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    • RE: Vintage Challenge - 5/22/17

      I'm happy with how I did, but its kind of crappy that Wizards tainted it by not having the top 8 work correctly. The top 8 pairings were not by standings, they were random. And if someone didn't make it over, even worse. I think by the way they messaged, if you did better in top 8 than standings they paid the diff. So if Jazza was 1st is standings, he probably got paid 1st prize payout and was no point in playing out the top 8. He probably conceded to his opponent since he could not win anything more. That what I would have done.

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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    • RE: Reverting cards to original functionality

      @gkraigher So, you want wizards to change the errata, then re-print it, and then immediately ban/restrict it? Seems like an unlikely course of action they would take.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Reverting cards to original functionality

      @john-cox what are you referring to as addendum that mills? The original wording on the card does not read this way. Was that an old errata function that worked this way at some point?

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Grixis Thieves

      Thanks @nucleosynth

      Here is what I faced today:
      R1 - Landstill: L 1-2
      R2 - Ravager Shops: W 2-1
      R3 - Ravager Shops: W 2-0
      R4 - Mentor: W 2-0
      R5 - Mentor: W 2-1
      R6 - White Eldrazi: W 2-1
      T8 - Mentor: W 2-0
      T4 - White Eldrazi: W 2-1
      T2 - Landstill: W 2-1

      White eldrazi was tough, but they kind of fold to blightsteel if you can stick it. Won me both matches today. Basically played the games towards vault key or blightsteel and let anything through that didn't mess with that plan.

      posted in Big Blue
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    • RE: Vintage Challenge - 6/3/2017

      Congratz @ChubbyRain !

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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    • RE: April 24th, 2017 Banned and Restricted update: GUSH AND PROBE/TOP in Legacy

      @wappla Just for the record, the first daily event after the restrictions Rich was on Oath. He switches decks around quite a bit if you watch his stream. I don't think he was being hypocritical.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    Latest posts made by mourningpalace

    • RE: [DOM] Muldrotha, the Gravetide

      Seems like a good dredge Target. Except the existing targets straight kill the opponent, so I don’t really see this as an upgrade.

      posted in Single-Card Discussion
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    • RE: "De-Oracle-izing" and "Antiquating" Modern Cards

      @bandswithothers seems sweet. But what’s with the combat redirection part? Shouldn’t it read combat damage done to you can be re-directed to Jace? Not from Jace to a creature.
      The abilities should also read only once per turn and as a sorcery.
      Needs more text 🙂

      posted in Art and Collecting
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    • RE: 1/7/18 - ShamanBen's Birthday Vintage at RIW Hobbies (Unlimited Proxy) - Livonia, Michigan

      Awesome! I had to miss the last one (Daughters birthday > vintage). But I plan to be there for this one. Can't wait, see you in a few weeks.

      posted in Vintage Tournaments
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    • RE: Vintage in West Michigan

      @ophidian RIW has their monthly vintage this Sunday in Livonia. If you can make the trip, I highly recommend it. It's my daughter's b-day or I would be headed there myself this weekend.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Becoming a better player

      @moorebrother1 I think there is a slight disadvantage to people always knowing what deck you are on, but I think repetition and expertise with a specific deck far out way that. Look at @Montolio as an example. At champs, or any time on-line, every opponent that sits across from him 100% knows he is on shops. But he still wins consistently because of how well he knows the deck.
      I think the key for me to getting better (and I'm not great btw) is just learning to slow down, and think a few seconds before each play. The other key has been to remember my mistakes and learn from them, instead of getting tilted by them. I don't like to mess up and lose a match because of it, but if it helps me play better in future matches, then the mistake was not that bad after all.
      And above all, I have to have fun. If I'm so focused on winning that I'm not having fun, then I am missing the point of playing the game. Winning is nice, but the purpose of playing a game is to have fun. I find if I keep a good attitude and enjoy the game, no matter how much I am winning or losing, I play at a higher level because I am more relaxed.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Building a vintage community

      @moorebrother1 I would second this. The tournaments at RIW that Ben puts on are great. I look forward to them each time I get to go, even though it is a 3 hour drive for me to go to them.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Are you playing something other than Aggro Shops or Jeskai? If so, why?

      I have been playing Grixis Theives. It's a pile of broken fun cards, and I like stealing the fun from my opponent. Probably not the best deck by far, but has all the things I like about vintage.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Playing Magic Online

      @brass-man yeah, I forgot about that as well. Seems like they should be quite a bit less.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Playing Magic Online

      @madmanmike25 You would be surprised what people will pay for them. They wouldn't be worth that much if people weren't buying them. You don't have to tote them around either. eBay is pretty easy way to unload them.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Playing Magic Online

      @ydl They have only released them in one set, Vintage Masters. However, they are found in Treasure Chests, so there is a steady stream of them released on MTGO.

      posted in Vintage Community
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