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Michael Hamilton

@Hadesblade

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I am here to make friends and play cards games ☺️ Catch Roger and me on the m-n-r podcast. Dm for fab coaching.

Joined January 2015
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
What a crazy weekend. I'm not sure what to say yet other than thank you to all the kind people who reached out to congratulate me and say so many nice things.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Sometimes I'm playing lexi and I'm having a great time. I'm like "this hero is really fun and enjoyable". And then they play a single command and conquer and I'm over it.
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Michael Hamilton
25 days
Draft o'clock Monday at the airport waiting for our flights.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
6-1 day two to finish 10-4. 31st place. I played slightly better today than yesterday and also got reasonably luckier. Fab is still hard. I'm so proud of my teammates for being 3 of the top 8!!!
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
4-3 day 1 of the pt. Played Lexi. I think all 3 games I lost I made some decisions that I could have made better. I really appreciate how most the time when I lose in fab there's things I could have done better.
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Michael Hamilton
6 months
I think heavy hitters might be the best sealed format we've had since WTR.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Super happy with the fab organized play announcement. Great job LSS for listening to our feedback and getting these events announced sooner so we have more time to plan travel and decide which events we're hitting. Also, this Pittsburg @TheRealmGames1 + BH event looks awesome!
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Michael Hamilton
8 months
Got like 5 hours of sleep so far in Barcelona. It's 3am woke up excited to test more this week. Sleep schedules while traveling overseas are really challenging. That's a big part of why we came so early. I'm so excited for this tournament.
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Michael Hamilton
11 months
I had an absolute blast at nationals. Congrats to @TinMan354 , @YukiLeeBender , @CardsWithM , and everyone else who had a good tournament or good results!! I will just say - I have booked my flights for Dallas and Barcelona ✈️ See y'all there 😀
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Michael Hamilton
8 months
It's been a really good run but it's time to step away (temporarily? maybe?) from podcasting. Thanks to everyone who supported Roger and me all this time <3
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MnR Cast
8 months
The M-n-R Cast: See You Rathe Cowboy Join Michael Hamilton and Roger Bodee for the 76th episode of the M-n-R (Manner) Cast. This week, Michael and Roger discuss why the M-n-R Cast will start a hiatus for the foreseeable future.
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Michael Hamilton
8 months
I wrote an article for Worlds!! Let me know what y'all think :)
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Flesh and Blood
8 months
World Champion Michael Hamilton spills the secrets to his success! #fabtcg
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
It's been a while since I tweeted, but tomorrow I will present what I expect to be a Vynnset staple! It's not the flashiest card but it sure is a solid role player with a 3 in the bottom right corner 👀
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Good morning everyone! Runic Reckoning gives you Vynnset players a way to consistently turn on her unpreventable arcane damage line. It will be free on every turn due to her hero power. Most importantly, it blocks for 3 when you don't really want the nimblism. Happy brewing :)
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Michael Hamilton
10 months
I love how they subtly slide in that we're getting a huge focus on limited sets in the future. This is so exciting!!!
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Click here for wounded bull. And also the rest of the other cool top 8 decks!
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Flesh and Blood
2 years
The United States National Championships Top 8 Decklists are in! Check out these innovative Classic Constructed lists here. #fabtcg #fabnationals
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
5-2 day one at PTLA playing kayo. See y'all tomorrow.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
I just got home. I got 17th at the first fab pro tour! I was super happy with my Chane list. Made some pretty big mistakes due to inexperience playing against prism. Gonna take a couple days to relax now that I'm home but will start working on content soon :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
6-1 in day 1 of us nationals after 7 rounds of iyslander. Ready for day 2.
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
Made infinite mistakes today to end up 3-4 on the day and 8-6 overall. Quite disappointed but had a really nice team dinner followed by a great botc game. Congrats and good luck to all the top 8 competitors!! 🥳🥳
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Roger and I breakdown my whole world's weekend here. This one's a different format... Kinda mostly just my stories about the weekend. I'm definitely biased but it might be one of my favorite episodes :) let me know what y'all think!
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MnR Cast
2 years
M-n-R Episode 25: How to Become the World Champion Join Michael Hamilton and Roger Bodee as Michael discusses all the steps he took in his journey to becoming the first World Champion of Flesh and Blood (while Roger still trolls him as usual).
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Michael Hamilton
7 months
Lots of exciting news here. It'll be harder to queue for pts from now on. Better perform in those pro quests!! Great announcement though and thanks a lot to LSS for getting us notice for these events so far in advance. Our feedback has been heard.
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Flesh and Blood
7 months
We're excited to announce the first round of upcoming events on the 2024 Pro Play Circuit!
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Michael Hamilton
24 days
Moments like these tend to be highlights of my event that I look back on. Roger and I had a box and we're planning to play some sealed but saw both the card guys and the age guys in the security line. Everyone had at least an hour to kill before flights and we made it happen 🥳🥳
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Stoked about the worlds announcement. No blitz in the world championship and also a sealed calling!! Thank you LSS :)
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
So excited about the lead time on these calling announcements!! We basically know the schedule for the rest of the year 🥳🥳🥳
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Roger used a little more sarcasm than I would, but I am really hopeful we get limited callings back. There being a limited calling 2 hours away from us is the reason we started playing flesh and blood back in 2021.
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MnR Cast
1 year
We remember an ancient time. A far distant past called 2021. When @fabtcg actually ran limited Callings. It was glorious, but alas, clearly only pro players deserve to play limited, sometimes, at half of their events, 3 times a year.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Should Battle Harden prize pool scale based on (expected) attendance the same way callings do? Sunday Battle Hardened side events always tend to have a pretty large crowd, especially when they are side events of larger events like a pro tour or Worlds.
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Michael Hamilton
3 months
Won a pro quest yesterday with kayo 🥳 but I was looking at Amsterdam and it got me thinking. I think every pro level event except worlds 2022 has been 14 rounds (7 per day) vs that worlds being 16 rounds (8 per day). I'm curious if we'll ever go back to 16 round tournaments.
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
@OfTheTaco Hating on people going to play in tournaments for a game they love is not the answer. Ask LSS to change the system if it's not producing the desired results.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
I've been doing some coaching sessions with our podcast editor @HoodwILL in exchange for his wonderful editing services. He decided he wanted to share some of our sessions with the community. Check out the first episode
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Michael Hamilton
2 months
Basically ran out of the convention center after losing to @MaskOfMomentum in the finals of the @AlphaClashTCG las Vegas clashground to catch my flight. Was an awesome weekend.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Lost to Cody Williams prism. Dodged it all weekend until the last round. Still good run. 10-4 and should be top 16 :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
The latest episode of the mnr cast might be our best episode yet. There's lots of visual upgrades as well as just being on the topic that I've gotten the most questions about. Sideboarding and playing with the iyslander deck that I won worlds with. Let me know what you think :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
I'm very happy with my testing process leading into this pro tour. I've had lots of great players help me a ton and I'm feeling good about my deck. I'm really looking forward to competing in the first flesh and blood pro tour :)
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
Opened my first alpha clash boosters today. Maybe it was meant to be...
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Got 13th at the 10k playing lightning lexi. The deck is very fun lol. Lost a close round 1 to a briar and then got fatigued by an oldhim round 5. Definitely need to spend some time fleshing out those matchupa. 4-2 overall
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
This cc format is great! Looking forward to nats :D
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Hey! Roger made us a twitter account for the podcast! Also the new episode is out a little early again! This week's is about deckbuilding. It's a good episode, but Roger was feeling a little bit spicy this week ._.
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MnR Cast
2 years
Join Michael Hamilton and Roger Bodee for the twenty-first episode of the M-n-R (Manner) Cast. If you want to learn how to innovate with sick tech like "Wounded Bull" be sure to listen to this week's cast!
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Michael Hamilton
8 months
@TariqPatel10 Wait friends - dromai isn't even the best deck until the ban announcement monday ._. They shouldn't change anything other than LL lexi (and unsuspend bracers). I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Went 2-1 in draft. Iyslander vs fai all 3 rounds. My deck was a trainwreck with 9 blues and there were 4 iyslanders in my pod so I'm super happy to squeek out the 2-1. Excited to play some oldhim in cc now :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
3-0 with a very solid iyslander deck :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
My best friend and I started a flesh and blood podcast. The first episode is a bit rough but gotta start somewhere :) In this episode, we talk about my experience at the first pro tour, the Chane deck I played, and our expectations for the PQ metagame.
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Michael Hamilton
5 months
@ErikaForslof As you climb it just gets more extreme. I lost 8 elo for top 8ing the calling Hartford.
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Michael Hamilton
2 months
This man learned the game less than 24 hours before the tournament and then made top 4. 🔥🔥🔥 Also was crazy enough to fly across the country to play a game he didn't know the rules because he wanted to hang out with us. Can't wait to see what you do now that you know the game.
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Matt Kohls
2 months
@zachbunn and @ian_shaffer taught me how to play @AlphaClashTCG Friday; made top 4 of their set 3 premiere Saturday. Game is a ton of fun and set 3 limited is great. Awesome day for the wolf pack getting all four of us into top 8 and congrats to @Hadesblade for winning the event!
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Roger's show match is tonight! And I'm commentating! See y'all there :)
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MnR Cast
1 year
Be there or be square!
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
This was so fun to make and I'm super happy with the finished product :D
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Three Floating
1 year
The Fight Nite between the @MnRcast is out now!! go check it out on youtube #fabtcg Check the comments for the link and a @TheRealmGames1 giveaway 😉
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
@OfTheTaco I have stared at this message for 10 minutes trying to figure out a polite way to point at your first tweet that I responded to. Calling someone's behavior "fucked up" is exactly my definition of hating on them.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@MnRcast ._. but i like fab
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Michael Hamilton
5 months
@Nathan_TCGz @RogerB_MnR I top 32d so many magic events before my first big breakthrough. I think consistently making those results means you have the skill you need and you're doing things right. It sounds like you're doing exactly what you should be doing. You'll get there.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
This was an awesome weekend getting to meet and hang out with everyone in person. I'm looking forward to the next times :)
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Zach Bunn
2 years
While my own Pro Tour 2 performance wasn’t great, the Wolf Pack had a crazy showing: 3 x Top 16 1 x Top 32 1 x Battle Hardened Champion The team put in the work and I’m super proud. Privileged to be surrounded by so many exceptional players and truly wonderful people! #FABTCG
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Michael Hamilton
3 months
In 3 weeks, I'm playing in the Las Vegas clashground with wolfpack teammates @zachbunn and @ian_shaffer . I mentioned it on the podcast but @TheRealmGames1 is hosting what is essentially a calling for alpha clash. We'll see if I can hold my own in another game! :D
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FREE BOOSTER BOXES!!! Every competitor in our constructed event on April 28th at the @LVLUPEXPO in Las Vegas will get a free booster box along with their participant promo! We’re also giving boxes out to people that share this graphic letting people know they’re gonna be in
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Michael Hamilton
3 months
Roughly 10 hours late but I have arrived in Las Vegas 🥳
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
I was going to write up a Chane article after I got back about my deck, but after travel delays + covid, it feels too late for pro quest season. It also looks like he's probably not surviving past pro quest season. At least Uprising meta is looking like it'll be very fresh.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@Joe_Senart @talishar_online I love that you had a great match. Sorry to tell you though that wasn't me 😅
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@TariqPatel10 I seriously considered it, but 40 hours in a plane is a LOT of hours in a plane.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
@TariqPatel10 @MattRogersNZ @DragonShield_ winning 3 of 3 nationals is kind of crazy. Congratulations to the team :)
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Michael Hamilton
3 months
@blossomingthing Belittle is one of my favorite aggressive cards and leads to really cool deck building puzzles. It's reasonably weaker than the strongest class cards and most decks have to make pretty big sacrifices to play it. I like this take.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Just woke up 2 hours earlier than I needed to for the pt and now I cant get back to sleep. I'm too excited!! Also how do y'all sleep before things you're nervous/excited about?
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Michael Hamilton
11 months
@ThatGamerPresto Playing the draft games is great and extremely skill testing. I think the drafting process leaves a little bit to be desired because of how little flexibility there is in terms of picks in most formats but the games are very good. I'm looking forward to bright lights limited!
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Have been sick in bed with covid since I got back from the PT. Finally feeling a little bit better this morning. Here's the Chane list I played to 17th.
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
@blossomingthing I've never been called out for it, but you would not believe how many times I have had my opponent correct me on life totals because I can't read my own handwriting 😭
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
@Malakxy @fabtcg I (maybe bias) really like ELO as invitation criteria. I do wish that it was changed to use peak ELO over the course of a timespan rather than ELO at an exact timestamp though. We don't want to encourage players to not play events.
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Michael Hamilton
8 months
@MytuneD Wait I had no idea you had such a good run after our game. Congratulations (and also condolences) on the 9th place finish!!
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Michael Hamilton
6 months
Meeting my best friend in the finals of a battle-hardened was awesome. There was no coverage, but we recorded it on Roger's cellphone and there is no better match to bring back universities with than this one.
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MnR Cast
6 months
M-n-R University 46 - BH Cincinnati- Michael Hamilton (Bravo) vs Roger Bodee (Boltyn) Now live on the M-n-R Cast Patreon! (There might even be another surprise waiting there as well!)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Roger and I just finished recording the 14th episode of the M-n-R podcast in person! It will go up tomorrow after the CC rounds of the PT have started. We talk about our deck choices and the beginning of our time in Lille!
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
3-1d cc. Beat dash Beat bravo Lost to oldhim Beat briar
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Fun weekend in Vegas. Bombed the constructed events but did manage to go undefeated in my 9 rounds of Uprising limited. Opened TWO legendaries in my Fai sealed pool and had a sweet Iyslander draft deck. Thanks to @BrendanAPG and Sean Yang for being great teammates and friends.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
My lightning lexi list from the 10k
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
@theFaBrary @fabtcg Probably not the most classy move to link you a deck on your competitors site, but this is my list. I'm not sure why it's not posted there.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
2-1d my draft with another trainwreck iyslander deck with 9 blues. 3-0 in cc Won vs vis Won vs fai Won vs briar Last round is maybe a win and in but maybe a win and ninth.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@YukiLeeBender Roger and I have spoken out against spectra a lot. I agree that luminaris is the card with the absurd power level. Much stronger than any individual aura, but spectra as a mechanic has a ton of unintuitive rules and interactions that make it one of the worst mechanics in fab imo
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Michael Hamilton
9 months
@matt_iwnl The amount of money he was spending on each individual weekend was shocking to me. There's a ton of things you can do to keep costs down, but also enjoying the experience is the most important part and it sounds like he has lost that part.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@TariqPatel10 Was the game really higher variance with chane around? Didn't you win 2 pro quests back to back with him?
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Michael Hamilton
3 months
@zachbunn @onhiteffect I wasn't ready to cry this early in the morning 🥲. I love you Zach. This thread and these pictures really brought back a ton of wonderful memories. You're going to be an amazing dad.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@Pony_Puddle @LSSAlex Ahh! We briefly talked about how sick this event was on this week's podcast episode but I completely forgot the live blog. It was such a nice addition! I was there and still loved reading it lol.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
Okay apparently vynnset only works with shadow non-attack actions. I still think this card is good, but I was mistaken about that interaction. 😅
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@BrendanAPG Wait I'm not even going to Richmond 😂
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Wrote another pro series article for the rathe times about Fighting Fai. I spent a lot of time and included a lot of the lessons we learned from Pro Tour prep preparing to fight against him. If you're a patron, make sure to take a look!
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
@Pintorpin @YukiLeeBender Both of these are great points. I do think it is a conversation that builds excitement/hype for worlds though and I do see a lot of value in that. It's the biggest tournament of the year and it's great that people are getting excited about it!
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Michael Hamilton
3 months
@YuanjiLi Do I look like Roger? I am not a boltyn believer 😅
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@darkodius @MnRcast @TariqPatel10 I believe!!! Dromai is (probably) broken!!!!! She feels like iyslander before jamming a bunch of dumb attacks in the deck.
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Michael Hamilton
3 months
@MATTHEWFOULKES @james_white @_Loovr_ @fabtcg @BryanGFaB I agree with Matt. Unless you are winning more than 83% of the time by not rolling, you should roll in +ev spots. Players do not roll as much as is optimal.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@TariqPatel10 That's fair about it being a strawman. I guess I don't see chane/starvo as any higher variance than hitting ideal draws with fai/oldhim/iyslander/briar or any of the other current top heroes. They may FEEL higher variance but I don't think we have any data to support that.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@markovictory 2 requirements 1. Knowing there will be tournaments I can compete in without grinding a ladder to qualify. 2. Low barrier to entry - either there needs to be a good limited format or I need a friend that will let me borrow constructed decks. 1/2
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Michael Hamilton
4 months
@TealWaterFAB Bright lights was not for me but heavy hitters limited is amazing. I agree with the last take. Fab is really hard and I personally know I'm very far away from consistently playing at the ceiling of what is possible in this game.
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@TariqPatel10 @ThatGamerPresto Was just talking about this in the wolfpack discord. I'd love a pro point system. The current system incentivizes avoiding some tournaments or dropping. It also erases progress when you have a mediocre event.
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Michael Hamilton
2 months
@MaskOfMomentum @AlphaClashTCG Yes I realized there are infinite typos in that tweet. No I'm not going to fix it. I had an awesome time and now Im just looking forward to the next one.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
@BrendanAPG Thanks again for coming over and playing some matches. It was great to meet you :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Any drafters in lille already? Me and Roger are looking for pods :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Prism is gone!! I can play my ice heroes in peace now!!! Check out our sunset episode where we talk about what this means for the format. ALSO - we're giving out a set of M-n-R sleeves! Tune in to this episode to find out how to win them :)
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Michael Hamilton
8 months
@BlackWingStudio @SmurphFaB I've also never had a tournament where I'm happy with every decision I've made. Fab is hard.
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Michael Hamilton
5 months
@TariqPatel10 This thread is great. My favorite part is that the simplest token might was at the end 😂
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Michael Hamilton
1 year
@markovictory I think something very important for a physical card game is having a good sealed format or another way to play limited that is enjoyable for pairs of players. I love a lot of the questions you've been asking on twitter. I'm excited to see where this goes.
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
Had a nice discussion about US Nats here with Pat and Adam. Give it a listen if you're interested :)
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Michael Hamilton
2 years
@CayleMccreath Uprising draft has actually grown on me a lot since I've played it more, but I do agree it is frustrating how bad it feels to pivot even like 5 picks into a draft. I'd love to see reasonably bigger pools of cards in drafts. I've had a ton of drafts with about 0 sideboard cards.
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Michael Hamilton
4 years
Ready to 0-3 drop this pauper challenge :)
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Michael Hamilton
5 months
@ThePitchStack @BryanGo @fabtcg I haven't dived into constructed too much yet, but I'm inclined to agree. I love that all 3 supported classes got a nice bump up in power. There is a cool new hero for all 3 classes, and the power cards are strong and impactful but nothing is on a codex of frailty power level. 🔥
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