MtG card player, currently mostly Pioneer, dabbling into Modern/Legacy and love Vintage Cube, in the past Counter-Strike/Poker pro and lifetime of meditation :)
1/* What a day, I played 2 Challenges yesterday with Bant Lotus, 6-1 6-1 and lost both in QF, woke up and 4-0 prelim, more on everything in the comments, I could use some guidance as my friend hinted that my QF opp potentially was cheating/abusing known bug
@fireshoes
read ahead
@billsive
@topchimp420
@billsive
gg in our QF may I ask you why were you pretending to pay for ability/spell around 40-50 times and undoing it when I had 3 min on the clock while taking no action? I thought I had that game on a lock but then my clock somehow evaporated, would appreciate your reasoning
top2, top4, top2 last 3 Pioneer challenges with Lotus, misclick in finals cost me the game, as I clicked Ok to "untap up to two lands" from Pore thinking I was resolving Sheoldred triggers, also I peaked at 1930 rating yday, pretty good run lately. PM for primer/coaching.
I wonder if this is legal and what was your intention doing this 40-50 times
@billsive
here is a screenshot how it looks, it's also visible on replayer so I will attach some material for wise people who have a bit more experience with these kind of games
@fireshoes
Won saturday challenge (88ppl), 6-1 swiss, lost only to rb goblins, won vs neoform velomachus(KarnageKardENT), ur phoenix(O_danielakos), r4 was no show, rg vehicles, ur creativity, qf and sf was creativity with 2 wurms and finals mono green, deck still op
@fireshoes
nice tibalt
2nd place in Manatraders, 9-1 swiss, lost g3 vs O_danielakos due to misclick uncapping his land but would have 70% non-deterministic ultimatum if I didn't so maybe lose anyway, Top8 packed with great games, some luck ended up with GF g3 mull to4 never finding a land, good run tho
Won Pioneer challenge yday, tweaked list a bit for this appraiser/phoenix meta, I punted 1 match vs MonoR and except for mirror matches vs
@Ginko_HS
everything else felt easy, getting 3-4 Phoenix helps. Some details matchups in the comments.
@fireshoes
Qualified to Lille in 90ppl RCQ (2 slots) 6-0 and id with
@Xerk_MTGO
who also made it, went smooth, easy and lucky as my semi-finals opp didn't want a slot.
Played stock UG grazer Lotus list, guide on patreon, we also added RB vampires guide by
@fpWypychowski
@fireshoes
Weekend in Lille over, almost qualified to Regionals in LCQ but at 5-2 bricked in 6 cards vs WR heroic in g3, took Saturday off and 7-1-1(id) Classic Qual(256ppl) on Sunday for top8 and RC Ghent invite, top8 was not being played out.
A longer write-up coming soon.
@fireshoes
Challenge 5-1, lost QF, kinda won but timed out when casting 2nd approach, was gg though, Showcase 7-2, couldn't top 8 as I lost 2 rounds early, felt ahead but both Amalia opponents had just the right cards. Deck is great, played Proctors with new toys for MTGO meta.
@fireshoes
@Harry13SCO
@billsive
@fireshoes
Sure when I am streaming and go off on some rant I can play pretty slow but I was off stream going pretty fast, it's fair and square to lose to time but taking 40-50 actions that don't exist with purpose of burning opponents clock doesnt seem right
7-1 and 2 ids won/split finals with Amulet Titan on Paprykarz Grande Finale lost to domain zoo only, beat some standard meta decks, Titan is hard to learn but I am definitely getting better, splashed red for Storm's Wraths and played hanweir+10green bounce, lotus now
@fireshoes
2nd in Pioneer Challenge /w Lotus, close to a stock list because registered last second, 5-2 but lost to ShowTime_ who went 7-0 then won vs him on RG agro QF, SF vs Boros Heroic managed to win and lost to best matchup UR phoenix, wp by opp, Lotus still fine.
@fireshoes
6/* That whole ordeal detracted me from thanking all my opponents for the games, some of those were amazing, I made some misplays, I witnessed misplays, I got lucky, streamed entirety of 1st challenge on , I got lucky vs monoB in a crazy game, ggs opponents
Was joking that Xerk is away, can win sunday challenge but I lost in the finals vs Zyuryo on 4c Omanth, got to a good game state exiling one rings but 90% of my gas was in the bottom 25 cards, played monoBcoffers, pretty good deck. Some murk, some scam, goryo, mirror, gztop8 Xerk
Went on a 23-0 win streak with Lotus, top 2-8'ed challenges 6 weeks in a row now, 0-2 dropped one or two too, lotus quite popular recently and lots of hate lately but hang in there Lotus enthusiasts!
PT soon, I wonder who breaks it :)
4/* and since I had 3 min on the clock, opponent has attempted to pay costs around 40-50 times before most of my legal actions, while doing nothing, usually from my experience I should've been able to finish but I time out needing like ~20seconds
@fireshoes
7-0 day1 manatraders, noice, played some green enthusiasts, thoughseize lovers, 1 uw 1 greasyboi, have seen some mistaks and didn't make many myself, played almost stock, just added 1 more needle, because smells like karn
2/* In QF vs Jeskai Control we get to G3 I have 6min on a clock opponent 10min, long fast-paced games, at 3 min opp running out of resources and I am starting to go off, I am thinking I can easily make it with 1 min to spare but something is wrong
@fireshoes
Regionals in Sofia with Lotus, from 1-3 to 6-3 into day2 5-1 for a 11-4 total, my 9-0 run was stopped by Mono G in top8 (lost die roll which mattered:() super rough early rounds vs worst matchups on the draw but got me into the zone and then farmed a lot of URnix for 12th place.
3* 2 min left I realize my opponent is activating ability before each of my action and undoing it, causing extra time loss(field of ruin/omen on the battlefield) I check replay today
@fireshoes
Other, than that lost in semis of paper RCQ, did some top 16/32 in challenges and yea Lotus is still great tho there is some more hate around.
Check out our Patreon for primers, especially my Lotus primer if that's your cup of tea :)
2x4-1 LCQ,11th challenge, Top8 challenge,4-0 prelim, oh right also got league raped fair amount, 0-1 few LCQs and in general suffering through increased hard hate on MTGO, playing a bit less than before but Proctor Lotus is doing work for me, uploaded runs on Patreon
@fireshoes
@fireshoes
@billsive
I made a nice video for mtgo support showcasing what happened and explaining but it's 500mb so it failed to upload, I could upload it somewhere if ppl wanna see from replay how it looked from my pov.
@t0x1c_jen
@CAthCSGO
Yes you took your time to genuinely know the depths of my being and therefore you know what matters to me, I appreciate that, thanks :)
Saturday 10am went to 45ppl Prerelease, didn't know any cards but had easy pool with Boros agro hosting plenty of 2 drops battles and great removal + 4mana Elesh, went 4-1-1, drafted incredible GB deck full of bombs, matches were great and managed to win
@ishan_mtg
did top8 too:)
Won/split 75ppl RCQ with my Patreon co-founder
@ishan_mtg
in the Finals, he made an awesome Reddit write-up, link in the comments!
Lost in the finals of Sunday challenge vs UR creativity, kept below average 5card hand g1 and 6card hand g2, draws did not come together :(. 1/2
@Elfkid_Mtgo
@billsive
@fireshoes
I might be misunderstanding but how can I f6 through the turn that I am supposed to be winning in, I dont want to skip my turn or did you mean something else?
@MagicOnline
It's awesome that you're adding all these tournaments but chests are going from 2.3-4 to 1.9, do you have any plans to improve this or do you think this trend is fine? Also I keep notifying you that Lier+Adventure cards don't work like they're supposed to on MTGO. Let us cast em!
5.) my matchups in swiss were 1x greasefang
@EkerossMtG
, 1x uw ctrl, 1x ur phoenix O_danielakos, 1x Mono B and all other matches were vs Mono Green + RB midrange, I do give lotus coaching and have massive Lotus primer on out patreon + other primers/discord, ggs and see ya around
Archdruid's Charm in Lotus is amazing, ~75% wr in leagues/prelims/challenges/manatraders over 60+ last matches, charm Lotus primer update on with my current build card opinions and flex slots, sideboard guide coming soon after PT out of respect
@fireshoes
2nd place in Sunday Pioneer challenge with Lotus Field, started off 6-0 (Win vs 2x MonoG, RG Vehicles, UW ctrl, Esper ctrl and RB midrange) lost r7/r8 but still made it in 7th, beat Keruga fires in QF and met
@Xerk_MTGO
on monoG in semis, lost finals and r8 to Powen on UB control
@BartoJaco
cut grazers vs control/disruption matchups, reversals/dromokas in vs control, cut entire combo(omni,ultimatum,behold,acquisition) vs agro and bring in all sweepers zacama/2xdromoka, needles are vs green, satyr when you race(green/mirror) rift/tear asunder vs hate pieces
@OndrejStrasky
Keruga deck is like Lotus, t4 Fires into t5 cast approach and then cast approach 2nd time attack for 20, or you can cast Keruga with fires which is like Pore over the Pages because your lands are untapped and you draw3.
Played this in Manatraders finale (top11) and Showcase Qual(6-3) list is pretty fresh and probably better than UG rn, cooked up Sideboard guide spreadsheet on and moving onto Modern Testing for Ghent/Paprykarz :D
@fireshoes
@ScreenagerHS
Was a joy to meet you my friend, my memory is fleeting but even tho it's been <30-minute interaction, it's impossible to not notice the huge authentic positive energy you carry, really, my honor, hope I didn't ruin your beautiful cards :D They look pretty sick imo
5-3 LCQ, 4-4 drop Regionals Main Event, 0-2 drop GQ, Amulet is a hard deck to play, pretty sure if I was better I would win some of the matches, I got outplayed sometimes and sometimes I was far off optimal plays, modern growing pains, it was taxing to go 10+ hours of that
Legacy Pioneer Modern practice for Manatraders/Ghent going great,
#1
in 64 Elimination Draft, they were great 1st deck super overperformed and the 2nd was pretty dece too.
@fireshoes
my finals opponent
@stainerson
fall asleep hopefully and nothing serious
Also a huge shoutout to the people I met
@0scar211
@hampuse1
and the others I don't know twitter handles or forgot, signed some Lotuses, played against some Pros, the deck was great, it was under the radar and TierS choice imo due to lots of close matchups and few 80/20 matchups.
4.2) he keeps 5, my 4 is thespian lotus impulse shimmer, bad hand but easy keep at 4 cards, his 5 is okay I miss 2nd land drop for 2 turns and the rest is history, cant beat destiny :) great run, was in the zone for the most of it and played really well
@Mana_Traders
Remember when I asked you if you want to buy my 4 rings and you said that supply chains are all good now so you don't need, so I sold my rings to bots and wanted to rent a few hours later but for the next 48hours you never had any rings, the irony.
4-1 Pioneer LCQ, Lost win&in vs new Mono Red aggro mulls to 4/5 so I guess that was destiny, figured out Geo Appraiser MU but it's getting banned, streamed the whole thing on tmr Legacy and more 64 vintage cubes
@fireshoes
Mono R with 3 spheres is rough
4) Finals vs RB mid (won against
@fortier_remi
in swiss) g1 looks great but his sideboard is scary, 4duress,needle,2goblank,4tseize, so I am gonna keep super wide 7/6card hands, g1 is ez, g2 I keep great 7 vs disruption, it seems they have no disruption and going for t5 kill ->
@Papado90
@JoaoRinaldoo
@fireshoes
ggs in QF I had a win through reidane but I forgot to untap lotus with vizier and couldnt do it mid resolution as it was not mana ability, was painful :D
@MagicOnline
why can't we cast adventure spells from gy with Lier on the battlefield and we can on MTGA, every time this impacts a game on MTGO I wonder if this will ever be fixed or it's working as intended.
also new green builds improve the lotusvs monogreen matchup by about 0.x% so its still 60-40% for us vs non optimal adventurous players and <50% vs good players, nice
@ishan_mtg
Oh yea then I went back home at 10pm and after 12 hours of magic, played 11pm pioneer challenge, 134players so 8 rounds, went 7-1 and lost in semis to
@WrzoBuMTGO
kept high variance 7 that is great vs some runouts or if I find lotus, he mulled to "nice" 4, I bricked and lost :D
2) tons of good games, QF vs
@MullalyConnor
we had two non games and g3 I mull to 4 otd vs 7, I am thinking I am toasted but managed to setup lotus+thespian pass with impulse and 15% narsetreversal hit, but connor has no payoff in 5 cards, I play around silence/otawara and win.
@ThisIsWonderful
Your faith is strong, I wish I could help you with your emergency 15min left on the clock situation but it was 2AM in the middle of the night where I am so I was sleeping, good job on figuring it out tho
10th place this time with 5-2, pretty good breakers but only 1 got into top8, beat RW heroic, Spirits, Uw control and UR / UBr phoenix, lost to RB mid having sphere twice and mull to 3 in g3, managed to get to two lotus+pore but couldn't play around sphere vs rw convoke was close
Hey, I won 54 players' RCQ and went 15-3 with Lotus Combo for the weekend, I made a big recap of the whole event on Reddit.
Also big weekend for Lotus Field with both challenges taken, wp yerffej03 and Lifeisrisk7 I bet the meta was amazing this time.
@targetplayer
@MagicOnline
I was winning challenge finals in g3 with pore on the stack and lethal follow up, thought I was clicking ok to sheoldred triggers but I clicked ok to "untap your lands" so didn't untap lands and lost, it was 8am in the morning after 9hours of playing but that did hurt.
4.1) so I try to find t4 kill (needed combination of vizier/strings/sweeper in like top7 cards) I cant so I fire ~20% chance pore on 1 lotus+thespian t4 and dont get there, g3 we both mull to 5 and I am considering keeping super shitty 5 but decide to go to 4 (would keep vs 7)
3) SF vs
@hs_suc
on uw spirits, rough mu, but I like my build post board, keep what might look like a risky 7 otd in g3 but when you see mull to 6 and know spirits heuristics of 1 drop into obsession being strong runout with substantial % of spiking lotus makes it a keep imo
3.1) I am lucky that my opp is not finding right amount of lands but honestly I played really tight and also was struggling to find lotus so the game was never truly over until the moment I can untap with like 11-12 mana and find lines which play around limited resources of opp
@rtd_Robin
I think it's shimmer -> Lotus and try to go off next turn but you're not looking for Thespian stage with shimmer, if you wanted to have thespian to copy you can achieve it with the current hand but you will not make it to t5 too often here.
@Papado90
@JoaoRinaldoo
@fireshoes
Yea I remember that, was nice games I felt like I had it so locked in all games and managed to throw it + nice rip of mana confluence for lethal :D
@KurtzmannH
@Ginko_HS
@fireshoes
Chandra -X few times (can pick her up with Balaged or Otawara), not having lair is no problem until they know you do not have it :D
@wizards_magic
I am getting this error when starting MTGO, once I do clean reinstall MTGO might work for me but once I restart the computer the error comes back and I cant launch it. Anyone knows what's up?