Comments on: Gearing up for Charlotte: Decks, Sideboards, Tips https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/gearing-up-for-charlotte-decks-sideboards-tips/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sheridan Lardner https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/gearing-up-for-charlotte-decks-sideboards-tips/#comment-2121010 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:51:22 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2436#comment-2121010 In reply to Nickolay Krumov.

The first three are definitely not repetitive. There are key differences between an article about Kolaghan’s Command, an article about Blood Moon, and an article about Grixis Twin countermagic. Even if some of those decks overlap, the article content is very different and goes over numerous points not covered in others. The fourth article of the week is necessarily a synthesis article, combining points from a variety of different pieces that all contribute to our understanding of Modern. Some of that was from this week. Other stuff was from earlier weeks.

As for this article, it’s by a different author so it represents his opinion. The fact that his opinion overlaps with other opinions is interesting in itself. It suggests a consistent outcome of two different authors’ format evaluation.

Even if I don’t agree with it, this feedback is still helpful for us: it’s important to hear from the different readers and see what kind of content they are interested (and not interested) in. So we’ll definitely keep it in mind for future articles.

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By: Nickolay Krumov https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/gearing-up-for-charlotte-decks-sideboards-tips/#comment-2121009 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:28:48 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2436#comment-2121009 It kind of feels like the articles are repetitive. This one is mostly covering what the past three were doing combined and even with the previous one I was getting that feeling. I like how this particular one goes into some technicalities, it’s nice, but there is no particular new information.

I, for one, don’t know how many articles I can read in one week that talk about Grixis Command (we can call it like that, everybody gets it, right?) and Blood Moon over and over again but I feel it’s not too many more. Honestly, read the articles from this week back to back and tell me with a straight face they aren’t repetitive. I exclude the “Countermagic in Grixis Twin” one because that was very focused on Twin itself.

Take a look at what the guys from The Meadery (specifically Hoogland) are doing. In the week leading up to Charlotte their two most read pieces were about UWx decks – the UW Midrange Crash Test video (link: http://themeadery.org/articles/video-crash-test-starring-jeff-hoogland-episode-12-modern-daily/) and the “Reaching a verdict on UWX control in Modern” (link: http://themeadery.org/articles/the-verdict-on-uwx-in-modern/). That’s a nice way to attract readers/viewers – make content different than the one everybody else is doing. Like, literally, everybody else right now.

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By: Sheridan Lardner https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/gearing-up-for-charlotte-decks-sideboards-tips/#comment-2121008 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:14:11 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2436#comment-2121008 In reply to Anonymous.

Yes and no. The Spellskite can definitely steal the trigger (“on target artifact creature”) and redirect it to itself. But the Spellskite will probably not get the counters, because your opponent will just simply choose not to give them to your Skite upon the ability’s resolution (“you may”). So it stops Ravager, but doesn’t really benefit from the trigger itself.

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By: Anonymous https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/gearing-up-for-charlotte-decks-sideboards-tips/#comment-2121007 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:24:36 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2436#comment-2121007 Well spellskite doesn’t get the modular tokens.

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