Vienneau ([info]vienneau) wrote,
@ 2007-04-09 12:52:00
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Current mood: frustrated
Current music:Green Day - "Basket Case"
Entry tags:magic online mana screw

Sharing My Pain

Second round of the 8-4 queue. Game 3. I need a win to get my investment back and be in a good mood all week. I had just lost game 2 from parity by drawing 4 straight lands - suddenly a reasonable 9/6 spell/land is a 10/10 and I'm dead.

All I need is a reasonable draw, so of course...

15 spells, 3 lands.

Amusingly, I could have won the game with that - I had an agressive start and with so many spells I had all the tools I needed to survive and even win early.

Mwonvuli Acid Moss.

I haven't seen it in play since the first Pre-Release, but I was lucky enough to get a visit today. It's both mana acceleration and land destruction, what's not to like?

Ironically, I saw the Moss the previous game and pondered putting in an 18th land for Flickering Spirit which I drew. I had also taken out the Mindstab which was mostly useless versus his Green-Red because it seemed too lucky - if I drew it in my opening hand it would be fantastic, just like Mwonvuli Acid Moss, otherwise all the targets would be in play.

Very. Very. Frustrating.

But at least it didn't crash! And really, isn't that the unlikeliest thing about all of this?

Back to MOO2!




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[info]philleggate
2007-04-09 05:14 pm UTC (link)
in ttp moss is alot more reasonable because the format is so much slower, it sorta does the same thing as the dryad and without all that much tempo it becomes worthy of that 22-23-24th slot

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[info]tybuc
2007-04-09 06:23 pm UTC (link)
The only time they play Acid Moss is 4th turn.

The only time you play Acid Moss is 14th turn.

It's a terrible card unless you really lack acceleration and/or you have a high mana curve (or have an expensive bomb like Akroma or 5/5 flying shadow). Ironically it's especially bad in Red/Green as it's terrible with Storm and Red/Green tends to work better with a lower mana curve. Of course maybe you just ran into the yobbo who got the 2 Deadwood Treefolk and the Stonebrow though.

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[info]vyolynce
2007-04-09 07:30 pm UTC (link)
I'm still trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong whenever I draft TS. I'm beginning to suspect that drafting red is a recipe for my crashing in a fiery wreck, but I need to put that to the test.

Fortunately, I decided that my MTGO account was going to be "draft only", so I unloaded a bunch of rares that I had been sitting on to fund this.

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[info]jodiamonds
2007-04-11 12:26 am UTC (link)
I hope MOO2 means Masters of Orion II, which I've recently been replaying.

Ah well, so it goes.

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[info]vienneau
2007-04-11 01:18 am UTC (link)

It does indeed. Bovine Molestation has not yet entered my "pleasure activities" sphere... :-)

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