The Magic Show #130 - Conflux Capacitor

[Kryptnyt]

Oh god.

Rosewater's laugh.

[pablito12sc]

spitting thrinax haha

[ulqiora44]

ALL HAIL NEW PHYREXIA

[ShadowWaker101]

Wow. Even predicted price spike of KOTR

[elsinorblanco]

"when you want to hit domain..." LOLOLOLOL

[smellslikevin]

cool a homestar refrence

[gnilleps]

kudos to you for playing cloud cult!!!

[saxano327]

Fun looking back at what we thought back then.

Also, it gives me shivers realizing how hard Faeries ended up being to kill.

[ZZZ024]

LMAO 9.30

[zoltandepoltan]

noble hierach is not any better then urborg elf... and hes common

[Musemaniac91]

hey xD are you being serious here?!

[aidin67]

Blaze is like Banefire.

[PlowThrough8]

Exactly

[xandrewxjonesx]

banefire is sooo much better

[PlowThrough8]

Duh There Both Great. But Banefire No Doubt Is Amazing.

[xandrewxjonesx]

yea but i always see my spells being countered

so yea.

:)

[PlowThrough8]

Dam That Sucks I Never Get Countered So I Probably Dont Appreciate It As Much

[xandrewxjonesx]

Yea, I always seem to go up against counter magic. I mostly up againsts doran updated with blue just for counters. five colour control. and turbo sanity grindings with counters.

[PlowThrough8]

Dam Thats Some Serious Shit Your Going Up Against But I Have To Tell You Remand, Remove Soul, Absorb, Undermine, Condescend, Mana Leak And Punish Ignorance Are Some Of My Favorite Cards. LOL

[xandrewxjonesx]

yea, I had to build around it by putting in 3 countersqualls.

which reminds me, if im on 5 and my opponent is on 2 and he plays a banefire for 5, i play countersquall, target the banefire even tho it wont counter it does the 2 damage still happen to him before the banefire hits me? because i think it does

[PlowThrough8]

Yeah Im Almost Positive Have You Ever Done That Cuz Thats Fucking Awesome

[xandrewxjonesx]

nah, i could have but i didnt know if it would work so i didnt bother, things seem to escalate when theres no judge around

[PlowThrough8]

Fuck Those Kinds Of People. Anyways BaneFire And Cool Counterspells I Really Like

[xandrewxjonesx]

same, I also like finishing people off during thier attack stage with breath of malfegor

[PlowThrough8]

Breath Of Malfegor....? Hmm I Like Demigod Of Revenge Hes My Finisher

[xandrewxjonesx]

what would you say was your luckiest or funniest win? my friend Charley finished some people off with a Birds of paradise wielding two behemoth sledges , and I can't forget the time someone used vein drinkers ability on one of my death touch creatures

[PlowThrough8]

Man I Got Tons But The Birds Of Paradise One Is Really Funny LoL. Well Mine Would Be Top Decking Naya Charm With One Life And My Opponent Had 88 Elf Tokens So On His Attack Phase I Tapped All Of 88 Of Em And On My Next Turn I Swun With Two Wooly Thoctars And A Figure Of Destiny For Lethal.

[xandrewxjonesx]

ouch, nice move.

[PlowThrough8]

Thanks My Current Five Favorite Cards.

1. Sharrum The Hegemon

2. Wooly Thoctar

3. Demigod Of Revenge

4. Punish Ignorance

5. Cliffrunner Behemoth

What Are Yours?

[xandrewxjonesx]

1. Sharuum of The Hedgemon

2. Scourglass

3. Anethromancer

4. Blightning

5. Goblin Outlander XD

[PlowThrough8]

Hmm I Love Blightning And Why Goblin Outlander And As For Anethromancer I Feel Hes Overrated But Im Thinking You Know How To Use Him Real Efficiently

[xandrewxjonesx]

yea blightning is a solid card

goblin Outlander is just a great 2 drop

gets past all the major walls people are playing, can't be terror'd or path to exile'd and forces you opponent to play a sweeper to get rid of him.

yea anethromancer he is side boarded atm because how good he is differs from opponent to opponent. i had a few punish ignorences but i dont like playing over 3 for a counter spell, even with its 6 life tilt,

[PlowThrough8]

Yeah That Makes Sense. For Two Drops I Guess I Like Knotvine Paladin And Jhessian Infiltrator? Not Much To Choose From Especially In Colors I Like

[xandrewxjonesx]

there is alot of great cards in shards block.

want to messege each other our deck lists?

i could really use your help on my mana base at the moment

[PlowThrough8]

Yeah That Sounds Cool. You Should Probably Get Rid Of A Countersquall And An Executioners Capsule For A Couple More Lands And If You Have To Put Another In Take Out An ElseWhere Flask It Should Do The Trick And I Know Tezzeret Buffs Those Cheap Artifact Up Quick And That They Boost Master Up Really High But You Need Lands To Function And Im Not The Biggest Fans Of Borderposts Either But You Only Have Three So Its Probably Not To Bad. Hope This Was Decent Advice.

[xandrewxjonesx]

yea thats pretty awesome advice, ive kept the elsewhere flasks in because of the draw synergy with esperzoa but i took out an esper charm because i think 4 might be a bit too many, so i stuck another bomb in, well moved sharding sphinx from side board to main deck, and ive been pleased with it since, a sharding sphinx along with just one master of etherium just seems to argo the table in my favour

[PlowThrough8]

Well The Flask Is The Best Target In That Deck For Esperzoa. But When It Comes To Esper Charm I Always Have Four But In This Deck Ill Agree With You Four Is To Many In This Case Couriers Capsule Is Much Better Cuz Its An Artifact.

[xandrewxjonesx]

yea, theres alot of my stuff i can take advantage with esperzoa but i think sanctum gargoyle is one of the best, recurring flasks and recurring scourglass's and also now i get to return a 1/1 thopter token instead if theres nothing else i should return

[PlowThrough8]

Yeah Deffinitely

[Rickder19]

Stop typing like that you stupid cunt.

[PlowThrough8]

Runed Halo And Time Stop Best Ways To Shut Banefire Up

[SweetZombiJesus]

@PlowThrough8 Is your account name on gatherer Masterofetherium?

[PlowThrough8]

@SweetZombiJesus yeah

[SweetZombiJesus]

@PlowThrough8 Mind finally answering the question people have asked over there about a hundred times? Why the upper-case letters at the start of each word?

[PlowThrough8]

@SweetZombiJesus it looks cool

[SweetZombiJesus]

@PlowThrough8 Ehh...

[PlowThrough8]

@SweetZombiJesus eh what zombiejesus, i smoke crack and type what i want

[SweetZombiJesus]

@PlowThrough8 Lol, ok. I'll take the crack as the real reason ^_^

[blackrabbit85]

Om me god.

i love magic the gathering.

heheahehah I watch teh magic show!!

i love the combos with unearth and counter

[TheFionnmeister]

So yeah, I was playing multiplayer with some friends and it was a bloody long winded game. Which gave one of the guys time to play a Kederekt Parasite with Elder Mastery on it. Really, really not cool.

[mstainz]

He's got a lot of shit going on in his life, so stop asking when the next damn episode is.. He doesn't work for you :)

[ManicRaider]

He's a fat lazy bum is what he is.

[Adam12437]

2 weeks seems like forever for more magic show. When is the next episode?

[NoNamium]

When is the next show. Long time since there's been one

[FredChipNacho]

Now, if Faeries didn't exist, I would look at Filigree Fracture and say "hmm, okay card." But with Faeries, it's more like, "Good Faerie-killing card."

[angletheta]

Knight of the Reliquary is 2/2 while on graveyard, so it fits with Reveillark decks.

[ManicRaider]

Why are you hating on Faerie killers?

[iParkourr]

where 131?

[MurtagTheGreat]

Can someone tell me the name of last song?

The one with the titles, tnx

[adooalmost]

i am srry to say this but i love saviors of kamagawa !!! i just loved it : ]

[spaceloner90]

i thought Mythos WAS a font...

way to not get the joke

[ManicRaider]

I don't have to worry about eleves and faeries where I play. I play at kithkin village and esper road.

[TheArtform]

hmmm... Exploding borders, damage and manafixing.

[nightoftragedy]

ya know what i think? i think i think grixis illusionist, and unstoppable frontier are THE SAME THING! ugh. good set though, lotsa nice powerful gaiz. I got some nice ones in a draft, anybody wanna trade?

[OnceAsNiper]

hey, am i just a retard but is Giltspire Avenger not as good as I think it is? lol.

I love it. it can prevent others from attacking and big boy creatures will only be swinging once. Good control... I dunno i love it.. what do you guys think?

[Wedgehead123]

it's ok. it's not super special or anything, and it's ability is quite good, but outside of limited (even in limited) it dies to everything (the dreaded words!)

[kpmuad]

Evan you forgot one thing:

Mark of asylum>everything that kills fae

Some fae lists had splashed white for o-ring/esper charm, but now it just seems inevitable.

[kpmuad]

this is 100% wrong. Nice try though.

[madmaximusmike]

I went to my LGS and they did a draft. It was cool, and I saved gas money for more drafting because I didn't have to fill up my gas tank to make the trip to Los Angeles.

Love the Magic Show! You have inspired me to do the same for my local area. Check out my videos Mike's Magic Minute

Peace

[OnceAsNiper]

lol Sudoku, elves and fairies are out of control and strictly for non pros to use because they're not good enough to make their own deck... When i saw Noble Hierarch was a human... i creamed myself. because balance and REAL skill is coming back to magic... What will people do when there's so many decks that work that they dont kno which one to copy from which pro? I think it's great. People will NOW have to work on making better decks themselvs and be creative instead of COPYING pros.

[DrahcirNagrom]

People will never stop copying pros. People play what wins, and pros are good at making decks that win.

[juice10k]

Pros are good at making decks that win, but put a moron behind the deck and it DOESN'T win. A deck is only good as its owner.

[EpiCon3iZSicK]

i got martial coup and exotic orchard ont path and one fall out. that all the good stuff any way. out of 8 packs!

[Fine6erg]

Went to the prerelease and went 4-1. I got... 2 Martial Coup 2 Giltspire Avenger 1 Noble Hierarch 1 Soul's Majesty 1 Conflux 1 Font of Mythos 1 Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer 1 Voracious Dragon 1 Apocalypse Hydra 1 Charnelhoard Wurm

[NightfallGemini]

I ended up aquiring 2 paths, one from a prize pack and one from a trade (my Lightning Helix for his Path), 2 Meglonoths, one from my sealed pool and one from a prize pack, and an Exotic Orchard. :V

I also got one or two of the archers and a full set of Lapse.

[TheOffspringFan12]

that looks like a yummy salad lmao

[Socialism4Ever]

Mark Rosewater at the beginning:

Introduction WIN

[fish4me0]

But what about my thornling! lol. traded my cliffrunner and pancake flipper (we got some alara) for 3 rares. but was nice cuz i got a thornling from the pack

[Zharxh]

Went to a pre-release and I got Martial Coup and Noble Hierarch. I was like "woot". Pretty cool set, I like it very much.

Great show mr. Erwin. Keep it up!!!

[bobmuffins]

Well, went to a pre-release.

Got 3 Mythics in 6 packs :D

Conflux, Sedris, and the 4/4 artifact BWT kill a creature guy.

But I'm actually liking the commons more than the rares. Conflux looks like a good set.

[Sudoku9ers]

Oh if only Noble Hierarchic were an elf.

That would be broken.

[DAbigbeaver]

One of the better ones mrorangeguy! Good job, I hope to be playing with Conflux soon!!!!!!!!

[Shaddyowns]

well progenitus is funny with : oath , natural order , show and tell ...

[apocalex13]

lol people didn't believe me today when I started spouting off about how amazing hierarch and path to exile (got me 3 already =D) are when i was at the prerelease. they were like, omigash, dats not dat gr8, and then just watched in awe as i bent them over and raped happily with a nice slow slightly modified naya precon.

good times....

[DAbigbeaver]

Dang you! I wanted to go to our pre-release but I was too poor :(

[maudin8]

command prompt howling mine, LOL! Great show Mr. Orange!!!!

[Toracube]

Do you breath.  Nobody can talk that fast. It's been speeded up, surely.

[Meinacanoo]

Thanks Evan for such an enlightning episode! For constructed that is. I feel like UBRw cruel ultimatum in block as gotten better with nicol bolas, banefire and volcanic fallout.

In a more general subject, you have quite an impressive music selection! I will keep watching you!

[Enfeeblement]

Cool, MaRo watches the Magic Show!

[deathsent]

if you didn't say path, i would've found you in real life and slapped you.

thank you for saying path as the best card in conflux.

[Darklordbrink]

its really only good in an oath deck. other than that, i doubt it will be played

[HnTDino1337]

although it's just crazy awesome. 5cc is growing weaker with this new deck and its synergy. Moreover, it's just a pain to play.

[RAIKIRIUSER27]

Couse its incredibly slow.

Yea sure, you can Heirarch, stall and ect things up to get it, and dont get me wrong, its a awsome card, name, art, text, ect. just to slow whit a 10 mana cost.

Still id like toplay it..alot..*Is tempted*

[InFlammor]

He is way to expensive to be played.

[PetrichorAllegory]

Nyxathid people. It's the nuts. Test it.

[Nytrex]

Mark Rosewater laughs like a badass evil character from a random movie

[kojiroh30]

Dear Mr Rosewater.

Would you be kind enought to leave some words on the Magic Show if you watch it?

.......maybe not.

[omnidragon42]

What do you have against Comic Sans!

Excellent show, keep it up, etc :)

[g10gmx]

can you make cards you preview a tad bit sharper i cant read the cards txt.

[mojodamm]

Watch in high quality, you should be ok. If not, perhaps a new monitor (or new eyes, depending...)

[jargoseth]

grats for making 130 eps Evan hope you make a 1000 :D

[Artowis]

Mikuru cosplay! Yaus!

[Parallaxal]

I'm liking Conflux a lot more than I did Shards of Alara. I feel like there's something for practically every deck. The new budget multicolor lands look useful.

Wait...was that a Mikuru cosplayer?

[PocketUnv]

I can only agree with you about how fantastic Reliquary will be, it will be kicking some serious butt come Sunday.

Also, love the "awkward"-image at the end, it really made me laugh!

Keep up the good work!

[darkula666]

I love the, "The magic show is bought to you by ........." Makes my day happy :)

Also, in my magic shop there is nothing to do except prerelease though :(

[frintOsan]

*area

[frintOsan]

Does anyone know some hot spots to play magic in wisconsin? Especially in the milwaukee are?

[mtgforlife]

Zoo will probably come back, if only there was me some Kird Apes.

[SaoPauloOrBust]

Am I the only one who doesn't want white to get any better than it already is?

Because Path to Exile and Lapse of Certainty are going to piss me off.

[riotsword]

Aw, Evan, not you too? Between you and Flores hyping up Noble Hierarch I'll never be able to get a playset... the price will be jacked up too high for a player of my meager budget to get many of.

But when a card's good, it's good. C'est la vie.

[jliller]

Rosewater seems like he'd watch the Magic Show.

[WickedDealer]

FBCD'r for life. Now have a good draw for my standard mono-green elf deck. Thank you wizards for Soul's Majesty.

[cxeazn]

FIVE Incinerate in your salad? DQ.

[noonespuppet]

Loved the Command Prompt of Mythos rules text. Just full of win.

[WickedDealer]

The Magic Show, Mark Rosewater endorsed since January 2009.

[DavidMTG09]

Great Vid. I never been to a Pre-Release before. When u draft do u draft with the conflux set or shards, and if u do draft with the conflux can you leave with those cards u drafted ?

[MrsRandomMadeMeDoIt]

2 conflux 1 shards , yea its good fun. and yes u keep the cards u draft :P but its not always good to ''rare pick'' from every booster, atleast not if u wonna win heh Xp

[ertai222]

just wow...so many good cards

[TDAWizard]

mark rosewatter actually watches it O_0

[Oban2006]

Banefire, better than fire. lol prabably

[stanford331]

Blitzen trapper and Cloud Cult ... please post a playlist of some of your favorite songs because ur taste is fantastic

[CobayLife]

I dont know wht all ur problems with the Fae is it not that hard to beat

[vgames85]

Don't hate on Comic Sans. It's just that good.

[dumbelton]

Font of Mythos maybe a silly name, but with K. Parasites, Howling Mine, & perhaps a Forced Fruition an' Spiteful Visions. Ta da! Crazy Creatureless decks are back!

[spa9876]

GREAT SHOW! I am so psyched for Conflux. So many new cards to try to break.  Plus the fae will finally die, FOREVER!!!! I particularly enjoyed the section on what cards to buy, although I still don't think I will pay $4 for an uncommon....

[BlacksuitJack]

w00t! Cloud Cult!

I like what you said about Jund tokens and agree 100%.

[thefallenangelsora]

I really hope the place im going to for the pre-release is going to do draft instead of sealed. sealed was too awkward for me...

[hsktoadftw]

that elf wont do shit against faeries, and red deck wins isnt even a good deck.

[crunchbite22]

Play a pro tour player with red deck wins and say that.

[kylepwndyou]

not too surprising that MaRo watches the show. I would assume that this is pretty big with lots of the folks over at Wizards.

[BrendanJourney]

No Martial Coup in your top 10? It's up there with Banefire, Noble Hierarch, Celestial Purge and Path to Exile as far as I can evaluate the set.

[Zautillo]

What does the "Timmy"-thing mean? Someone plz explain!

[Veiwer77]

its a name given to someone to describe what kind of player he is.

Timmys loves to play the most biggest creatures and just wants to have fun with the game.

Johnnys are the combo players, they want to see what crazy sort of combos and interactions they can come up with.

Spikes want to win the game no matter what. they are the high end tournament players.

thats my general understanding of them, someone correct me if i'm wrong

[avocado042]

it means someone who is impressed and awed by big, overcosted creatures etc.

in a good way.

i really like the thrinax its pretty nuts

and the awkward picture was just hilarious

[Ohnonoho]

Incredibly well-written show Evan. The references were spot on, and the flow was just superb.

[RussianDeathChoke]

YAY

[Fine6erg]

Definately was left not-so-impressed with SoA...thankfully, Conflux has gotten me excited for MtG all over again.

[EpiCon3iZSicK]

Nice rap. great show dude.

[DiSArM47]

good one

[shadowhunter483]

Jund tokens really improves since they can play both scarland thrinax and nantoku husk. The key is that nantoku is better short term since it grows faster, but shrinks at the end of turn. Scarland, gets bigger slower, but since he stays big, he's better for the long game. In responce to a pyroclasm or a firespout, its great since after it resolves, you get a huge dude.

[Dall5000]

Saviors was so bad, I went into a magic exile because of it.

[starwarsmaniac93]

I'm loving that pain salad

[annoyboye]

First to view! Great as always!