Overdriven! 46

Posted on October 15, 2012 by BlippyTheSlug

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  1. Hmmm, this article is (mildly?) confusing. It covers a bit to many topics and the mix of ironic, humouristic pics and ‘serious’ graphs made me lose foucs more than once.

    You write:
    “For those of you reading this series for the first time, it’s basically a shameless plug for the Modern format events I run every week on MTGO, and for me sharing my views on anything and everything Modern”.

    I guess that’s an acceptable goal to have with this collumn, but if your article is about ‘the ‘modern’ world as Blippy sees it, then I’d like to read a self-introduction, that’s a bit more coherent.

    /MOBZ

  2. There is a small mistake when you talk about affinity. You said the money cards are raveger and chro e mox. Chrome.mos is bannee in modern. You meant mox opal.

    I really enjoy your articles and have been reading for a while.

  3. These articles were unreadable, uninformed piles of garbage at PureMTGO and they haven’t gotten any better here.

    Lose the superfluous graphics, reel in the word count and get the focus tighter.

    This ain’t amateur hour here, you need to meet a higher standard if you want to make it at the academy.

  4. Fixed, Anonymous. That may have been my editing mistake, even. Of course, Chrome Mox would be pretty bad in Affinity. :P

    I’ll let Blippy field the other questions, but I’ll also state here that we like hosting a variety of content types which appeal to different sorts of readers. Blippy’s Overdriven! series will be scheduled for every other Monday, and we think his PRE coverage and style constitute a unique approach we don’t really feature anywhere else. With that said, there’s no reason that we can’t work to make every piece read smoother and look more awesome.

  5. @Mobz – A bit more self intro, eh? Ok…

    So a bit about this life of mine
    Which started back in fifty-nine
    In a little town in Germany
    Sandkrug is where I came to be
    Dad left mom to come to the states
    But he couldn’t go far enough to escape his fate
    As mom tracked him down in sixty-three
    Coming over on a ship, carrying me
    I was there when they were wed
    So yes, I’m a bastard, born and bred

    Raised in the suburbs of Detroit
    We’ll skip my youth and teen exploits
    I left home in seventy-seven
    For some harsh military lessons
    Some of which I cannot relay
    But I can never go back to Thailand they say
    After three years I came home again
    But soon left for the land of the setting sun
    In San Francisco I became a punk
    And finished my schooling of computer junk

    (Peter Norton used to sneer at me
    I was the only mohawk at P.A.R.C.
    So now whenever you move your mouse
    A tiny snippet of code from my house
    By now buried so deep it can’t be found
    But I was there, making the mouse go ’round)

    I also played bass with a band called Sluglords
    Thrashing punk rock, which society abhorred

    I met my wife in eighty-six
    In eighty-seven I was in a fix
    Continue with music, which was doing well
    Or be the dad, with nine to five in hell
    Needless to say I chose my family
    That crazy world of genetic alchemy

    And there you have the first twenty seven
    The last twenty five have been hell and heaven

    @ Anon – Thank you! And yeah, the Chrome Mox was my bad, and I did mean Mox Opal. :( I’m old and senile.

    @SP – To quote a famous philosopher: “I yam what I yam.” (Aaaakekekekekekek!) (Supposed to be a Popeye laugh)

    A lot of the appearance and content had to do with the tight schedule following so quick on the heels of the previous article at Pure, and unfamiliarity with how the finished product would look. Now that I know what the end results look like, future articles should have a bit more style and substance. But since you didn’t like them there either, oh well. Too bad, so sad.

  6. When it comes to the internet, people like videos and flashy stuff because too much text hurts people’s brains. I liked the stuff on pure, but you need to put up videos of modo modern since the new season started and this is the prime time for this.

    Now I need an honest opinion on a modern deck I built since I am new to modern and it is PTQ season.

    If you care to tell me an honest opinion:

    4 Path to exile
    4 Inquisition of Kozilek
    4 Noble Heiarchs
    3 Qasali Pridemage
    1 Gaddock Teeg
    3 Thalia
    2 Zealous Persecution
    4 Mirran Crusaders
    3 Kitchen Finks
    4 Sword of Feast and Famine (Or I can play W&P)
    4 Lingering Souls
    1 Thrun
    2 Elspeth Knight Errant

    Lands I have a ton of, so that’s not the issue, fetches, shocks, etc.

    I was thinking about a man land

    And my sideboard has regular stuff in it, like Mindbreak trap, Surgical Extraction, Extirpate, Torpor Orb.

    Be honest, what should I do with it to make it good.

  7. @sp

    yes, this is internet card games, it is srs business.

    idk, these articles aren’t exactly my style either, but i do appreciate the manic energy and unique perspective. there’s already lot of srs business mtg writers, there’s something refreshing about an insane ramble here or there and there’s usually some interesting content in there.

  8. Hmmm… lessee… other than the obvious (Goyf, Knight of the Reliquary, and *MAYBE* Bob), it looks like a decent enough build, but a bit slow. You’re not really swinging til turn 3 or 4, and leaving yourself tapped out those crucial first few turns. Your deck wants to establish a powerful board presence, and Mirran Crusaders is generally a good call, even if it does come out late. Experiment with the swords, that’s a meta call.

    With Finks, Crusader, and Elspeth requiring WW, I’d make the manabase accomodate that.

    Board wipes?

    However, the big caveat:
    GBW archetypes as a whole (rock, aggro, etc) have not been doing well overall in the online meta. Local paper metas may and will vary.

  9. Hi, and welcome to the site! It’s cool to have some more Modern coverage here. Are you planning on doing an analysis of the Pro Tour decks in the near future? Also, I’m on the fence about getting into either T2 or Modern. The main issue is budget. I have about 60% of the Soul Sisters deck, and not much in the way of T2 cards. I guess I’ll have to wait to see what the T2 metagame is like, but from a budget perspective do you think one format is more accessible than another? Thanks.

  10. The budget question is easy for me to answer, because I’ve been chronicling my rebuild from scratch in the “Monster Garage” section. The Soul Sisters/Soul Taxes deck is very budget friendly, totaling out in the 50 range (in a vacuum) with Proclamation and Windbrisk Heights.

    IMO, Modern can be very budget friendly. You don’t *NEED* Goyf. (But he is great to have)

    As far as Modern vs Standard budget, keep in mind that Standard changes every rotation, which means another buy-in *EVERY YEAR*.

  11. I think the biggest issue here is that it really does seem jumbled together and have thought so for quite awhile. You can likely lose the Monster Garage section entirely as it doesn’t apply to modern as much as it’s your personal journey in magic which is a all together different subject and detracts from the rest of your content.

    However the Articles do tend to have plenty of relevant information if you are willing to look for it.
    I believe that at first it might be a little confusing to see that the slugs cards are used as dividers so maybe i can look into making you so custom dividers for the articles. to help with that.

    Overall great to have you on board here at MTGOAcademy.com Blips.

  12. I love your column, I followed them first on puremtgo and now I read here, do not change anything

  13. Always followed Blippy’s article and the State of the Game on puremtgo, only reason I made it to this board now is for Blippy’s article. I’ll keep an eye on the other content and see how it goes.

    If you follow Modern at all check out the mtgs forums as well, he keeps daily updates on the meta, provides updates on the PRE’s etc. There are plenty of places to get serious information, but few to find dedicated Modern articles.