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@Evu @maino82 I mentioned this to my friend who grinds modern PTQs (or whatever they’re called these days) and he said yeah that guy has a reputation for cheating.

@TheMagicer I guess it depends on what you mean by “fake falling behind”.
I do conserve my resources to avoid being perceived as a threat. That’s not only proper resource logistics, it’s also saving my stuff from removal to reduce risk.
I will also argue that I am not a threat based on my board state compared to other players, or try to convince people that some plays are unnecessary.

I think the difference is between lying about my luck vs being strategic in how I present my board state

@TheMagicer carefully conserving resources is actually a very important skill in the game.

I play a Iroas aggro deck that can be very explosive, but is bad at drawing cards.
It needs to get to 7 devotion for Iroas, but any extra creatures don’t bring much benefit while do bring a lot of risk. If I have no cards in hand and get board wiped, I’m basically done. So I always try to hold back as much as I can after 7 devotion to prepare.

Im glad you’re thinking about this! A real level up.

@TheMagicer of course I have other decks that are better at drawing cards so it’s fine if they overextend because I can probably draw out of it. Definitely deck-dependent

@TheMagicer @Basilisk
😂 I personally see a T1 Sol Ring as a challenge from the universe to try and go 1v3 and take them all out by myself. It usually ends with me dying spectacularly.

@Evu @silverchase I haven’t read them yet, but they did announce that Jace wasn’t actually going to Bloomburrow, and that art was from a special "imagine if Planeswalker ‘x’ went to Bloomburrow"series.

Besides, tomorrow is the big announcement stream. I’m sure they’ll have more stories and a ton more cards spoiled in the next few weeks

@meant2live218 @mike maybe 3 standard sets plus the permanent standard set that they announced would work. If that’s just 200 or so evergreen standard cards it would provide that extra bump

@KoboldCoterie @MysticKetchup though between the Astarion and Karlach bundles, it sure is thirsty

@andrew @MysticKetchup I’m also surprised they didn’t ban around it. I guess it’s because they originally intended it to just be a commander card, so they’re okay with it not being in Modern?

@driving_crooner @nokturne213 if it could have been anything like Arcane, it would have been fantastic