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@OndrejStrasky Definitely not playing Icetill Explorer

What's the play? Against Crab Prowess.

@Huschenmtg Incredibly shocked you went with blue and black cards :O Good luck!

2-0 in the Historic Arena Championship with my good old friend Lurrus! Check out the Action on twitch.tv/magic Tournament Page: melee.gg/Tournament/Vie… #TeamTCGPlayer

@terribadmtg @MSigrist83 Used to be very little, and then the PT started and I was like “why aren’t the triggers popping up”

@MSigrist83 you play paper magic in the house?

Spot on! This is the reason why I am not at all upset that I did not qualify for Amsterdam. Now if you also want to give yourself the best chance to win and do a testing house with a group of friends😱 If we did not have support from companies like Moxfield it would be impossible

@padspoker Royal flush vs 7high on turn, easy puzzle

Can you get it in any better than this in Holdem? AA vs A6 and covering one of the suits?

@AWice @orrdavid Yeah the guy just put together some poker words thinking that they sound smart together but it makes absolutely no sense

@orrdavid This analogy fails completely. You win more when there's more losing players, as their losses have to go somewhere. You generally have more ev playing more hands (sometimes much more hands) when they play looser, as you can valuebet wider vs a much wider range.

This poker comparison works another way, too. Take a 10 handed poker table. If your table is yourself, 8 other equally skilled players and a single bad player, you wind up playing a bit more than 10% of hands*. This is because against the other skilled players, you want to play 10% of hands. And against the sucker you want to play a bit more than that on average. However, say you instead have a table that is yourself plus 9 wild crazy players. This is what the stock market really is. You wind up playing well less than 10% of hands because the outcome for each hand is very far out of your control. You're not going to bluff anyone anymore, for example, you just need to show up with a strong hand at the showdown every time. Even though the second game plays downright insane, the edge is higher than the first game. And you do well by avoiding the madness. Markets are a lot like this. I can't put into words here how this is useful immediately, but it's worth stewing on. * I ignore rake (house edge) implications since is the rake is immaterial markets for long term investors.

@DougPolkVids @RealKidPoker @phil_hellmuth Between minbuying against all-celebrities table with Ninja and wearing scamcoin Bitcoin Latinum cap like it was glued to his head, is Hellmuth actually rich?

My favorite moment from my recent trip to poker go @RealKidPoker makes a comment to @phil_hellmuth about how it must be tough to be married when hes so rich, famous, and good looking. Phil responds "Hey I never said I was good looking"

@ChrisTheDaneLa1 @Nathansteuer1 @CosmosMTG @HeavyPlayLLC Congratulations, incredible achievement. It was one of the most legendary finals:)

Back-to-back Pro Tour finals is something I never imagined. Playing my teammate @Nathansteuer1 in the finals was incredible, and I’m truly happy for him ❤️ Mostly, I’m just grateful for my team, my family, and my wife for letting me go to Vegas 😎 @CosmosMTG @HeavyPlayLLC

@OndrejStrasky Liking this as a sign of compassion, not that I like it, just to be clear

0-3 on day 2 😭😭😭

@BigBossAardos @Wizards_Help While unacceptable, we are currently somewhere in the "fool me 5 times" territory, so I will probably be skipping those until almost all these reports dissapear

Arena Direct is super fun until you spend 1k on gems and don’t receive your boxes/cash for 2 months and @Wizards_Help doesn’t care about your requests 🫩

@MrChecklistcard I fell off the train when 1:11 would do the trick, know the feeling. I also know you will requalify in no time if you want to!

I needed to go 4-12 to qualify for Amsterdam. Went 2-5 today and missed Day 2 :( This means I'm officially off the PT

@waitbutwhy @christoaivalis Ooooooof, I am a big fan but this casual "Yes" which makes no sense definitely takes down your credibility a notch

@christoaivalis Yes

Suddenly standing alone in the room, I begin by imagining humanity banding together and blue winning in a landslide, and I feel a rush of pride. Red is the genocide button. Blue is the “save humanity from this nightmare” button. I know what kind of person I am. As my hand hovers over the blue button, I can’t help but imagine a gun pointing at my head with a bullet in one of the chambers. I feel a surge of fear shoot through my body. Then I think about all the other people staring at the blue button and thinking the same thing. Surely some of those who initially decided to press blue will succumb to the fear. It starts to feel like a gun with two loaded chambers. A stronger pulse of terror. The more I think about it, the more I worry about other people thinking about it. My heart races. Then I look at the red button—a gun with no bullets in it. A glorious feeling of relief washes over me. Will I hate myself forever if blue wins because enough others were better and braver than me? But don’t I owe it to my family to protect myself? One vote won’t change anything anyway, right? It’s all irrelevant because the mammal I live in has already made up its mind. I wince and press red.

@waitbutwhy Holy s how does that even happen

I’m glad someone did a national poll. But I also think someone needs to serve a prison sentence for indicating red button pressers using dark blue.

@FunkyCino @Mengu09 Turn2 another 18/19. Your turn.

@Mengu09 Swamp, fatal push

Turn1 18/19. Your turn. #MTGModern

@JGoutbeek17678 I haven't play competitive Magic in quite a while and have no idea what Historic is about these days, but this was still a great read

Wow, what a weekend. I officially achieved a dream of breaking a magic format. I built this pretty cool Demilich deck for the historic qualifier and it got 7 people (including myself, I went 15-0 this weekend) qualified for the AC, WR>75% Free deck guide: open.substack.com/pub/jitsegoutb…

@MrChecklistcard @OndrejStrasky I will be away from Prague, otherwise we could have made this into a great seminar

@OndrejStrasky I was thinking about tagging you! I think you'd love it. I can teach you the game the day before if you want to put zero prior effort into it 😆

GIVEAWAY! Two tickets for the FaB World Premiere in Prague. A sealed event BEFORE the set is fully spoiled, perfect tournament for newcomers! Maybe it's time to challenge yourself and try out this game! What was your first event? This one? Comment and follow @fabtcg to enter!

@lsv @SamuelHBlack Showdown (poker game from Stan), you can play cards for free but in the available window (preflop/flop/river). I remember my brother being surprised there is no lands, but I think it works well there

@SamuelHBlack I agree in theory but I haven’t seen any games that really have pulled it off - do you have some examples of it done well?

TCG Resource System Power Rankings: 1. Lands 🏆 (MTG) 2. Gain 1 resource per turn (HS) 3. Resource deck to draw from (RFT) 4. Playing cards face-down (SWU) 5. No resources - rules constraints (YGO)

@TheZvi I felt that jump mainly from 9 -> 10. I cruised through all the ascensions and got pretty brick wallet on some 10s. I though I have almost "won" with 49/50 ascensions done but right now I am like 0/15 with Regent

Maybe it's randomness but I'm finding the Slay the Spire II jump from Ascension 8 -> 9 absolutely brutal. I went from winning more often than not to dying in Act 1 even when things seem to be going well.

@jkyu06 @OndrejStrasky I have trouble imagining your opponent putting Timetwister on stack and passing priority like this if he has Solitude currently in hand, seem like he has basically nothing to gain (you getting 1 less life?)

@OndrejStrasky is there any reason to consider a weird outcome? like don't you basically just win if you discard 3

g3 finals of a single elim vintage cube on mtgo, you've seen solitude, and daze is not accounted for in the draft. what do you do here and what are you thinking about? (the deck is also attached here):

@OndrejStrasky @InsayneHayne Nice, I wonder who it will be

Tomorrow’s stream will have a very special guest. ❤️ Don’t miss it!

@Smdster @painterzservant Just to balance out the audience, I feel like jumping of the bridge where there is a SECOND tie after 6 actions of rolling the dice, when one roll could have been 100 % sufficient

@painterzservant Counterpoint: 1. Rolling dice is fun, tying on a die roll is also fun. I’ve never seen someone tie twice in a row and not have a little laugh about it. 2. High roll is much more readily recognized/agreed on amongst non-English speakers.

Odd/Evens is the same with 1 or 2 dice. Highroll is fine but wastes time ?% of the time. Calling a judge because you can't choose a randomized way of choosing who goes first is cringe. We're (mostly) all adults here guys can we please just play magic.