Recent content by LennonsDad

Fair enough. One of the few decks I haven't built, in any form, is SP, so I don't know how staple-y the various cards are. I know I at least included Conspiracy because some people are saying it's being used even in non SP decks as a search engine. Would you agree with me that Spray and Turn...

Bumping just to indicate the formatting and change to the thread title/etc. Please feel free to continue to suggest more cards or ideas.

Well, it was more the general price range thing more than anything else. I added Uxie mostly because almost EVERY deck has 2x Uxie in it, and it's not an expensive rare (right? because it's a league promo?). I'm mostly thinking of cards that are in at least 50% or more of decks. Every...

Looking to take the step up? You've played, you found "cool" combos, and now you're starting to get a handle on the "metagame", the decks that are big for a reason? Your collection is getting there, but every time you go to make a deck, you notice that list after list, suggestion after...

As a long time Magic player, I'll tell you that Wizards' own coverage of streaming live play is much smoother than gglive's, but gg does one for each round of play, where Wizards only does the Top 8. Another big difference is the decklists; every card in a deck in every major Magic event is...

If the only purpose of the Supporter slot is to dig further and get you closer to Uxie recursion, why not Sage's instead of Buck's?

My son and I play at a League where several other parents are the League Leaders and a good part of the staple players (and several of them are also here on the board /wave). I don't think it's weird at all to sleeve 'em up and play. Most of the kids there also play relatively competitive...

I haven't built an MD-on version yet, but I ended up playing zero Level Max in my previous version. Premier Ball and the traditional Supporter searches were more than enough. The one thing Level Max may have going for it post-rotation is that AMU is losing Upper Material, making it a...

Even without the immediate re-Level Up, I'd still *way* prefer Premier Ball over Level Max. "Lucky" or not, you have enough attempts at mechanics that you should be able to put the appropriate Pokemon in the active position, even if it's post-KO, often enough that the (only and minimal) benefit...

You don't need another Uxie X if you play more Premier Balls. I was playing a straight AMU for a while until very recently, and what I liked about it was the ability to completely rebuild close to Supreme Blast even after an opponent tried to break it up by knocking out an X. You'll hopefully...

Lennon's my son, but you're welcome. :) I guess it's essentially semantics at this point, because I see no correct way to do it. When you can't answer a basic (pardon the pun) question: "Who puts down first?" ... that's a hole. I understand that people are reluctant to have such rigidity...

So bottom line to me is that there is a hole in the rules. People need to stop shouting "JUST FOLLOW THE RULES!" from the mountaintops in the name of fun. There is NO rule for who puts cards down first and apparently, there needs to be.

Well, I'm not even close to a high level player, but I do take games relatively seriously and I've been fascinated with the differences between "acceptable" and frowned upon plays and styles in Pokemon versus other games (I'm a 15+ year Magic player, an active poker player and a lifetime...

They're in Round 7 now for Masters. That ends the day, then two rounds tomorrow before Top Cut. Squidwina is 4-2. She's completely lost track of the rest of the NJ contigent tho~

Besides a ton of poker tournaments, Magic Grand Prix events regularly break that, particularly European ones. Record is 2224 competitors, just happened this year in Madrid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%3A_The_Gathering_Grand_Prix