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Title: chewy- and all others
Date Posted: Thu Mar/21/13 at 11:20am

reaper
Posts: 436
Joined: 23-Jul-11

I just want to 1st say thanks for all your submissions chewy other are usually quite good and someone could gain from seeing them. Please in the future though if you are going to do a proxy combo use all cards in combo not 1 land equals blue infinite manager. Blue inf. Involves 2-3 cards at least. Always! This becomes too confusing and ultimately kills the general point of submitting a combo. Next thing you know someone will post a land. Hmm let's say dark steel garrison for this. Dark steel garrison equals infinite damage. That is not a combo its a land. Further heightening the confusion its a non basic. Please make each proxy equal each card needed for combo. Also don't use city of brass as a proxy with any untap card. It just adds to confusion.
Date Posted: Thu Mar/21/13 at 11:25am

reaper
Posts: 436
Joined: 23-Jul-11

Note I'm not saying this as a knock on you or to be a dick. I just want this site to be Herr in future and think if we go in that direction posting combos this site won't stick around much longer. I think if someone posts a combo with infinite blue man you need to show how it's made. However if a combo needs a card in a graveyard or something like that I don't need to c how it goes there are a ton of ways to put stuff in grave from one card not 2-3 or 4 cards and this is why I'm bringing this subject up as well.
Date Posted: Thu Mar/21/13 at 11:25am

reaper
Posts: 436
Joined: 23-Jul-11

Note I'm not saying this as a knock on you or to be a dick. I just want this site to be Herr in future and think if we go in that direction posting combos this site won't stick around much longer. I think if someone posts a combo with infinite blue man you need to show how it's made. However if a combo needs a card in a graveyard or something like that I don't need to c how it goes there are a ton of ways to put stuff in grave from one card not 2-3 or 4 cards and this is why I'm bringing this subject up as well.
Date Posted: Thu Mar/21/13 at 12:47pm

Boyachi
Posts: 1553
Joined: 02-Nov-11

The problem is, without the admin, we can't disseminate this information to people not using the site right now, nor can we modify proxied combos that now have all their cards in the database (or add more cards to said database).
IF we could get the ability to sticky this thread, it would work...but then because we'd have admin presence, we'd not be in this situation anyhow.
Date Posted: Thu Mar/21/13 at 3:30pm

reaper
Posts: 436
Joined: 23-Jul-11

Agreed. Sad this is such a muddled subject to deal with. Kinda important to update I would think.
Date Posted: Thu Mar/21/13 at 3:30pm

reaper
Posts: 436
Joined: 23-Jul-11

Agreed. Sad this is such a muddled subject to deal with. Kinda important to update I would think.
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 1:02pm

Academic
Posts: 1305
Joined: 29-Mar-12

I don't care at best, and I think this is a dumb suggestion at worst.

Truth is, if someone can adapt one of my combos by adding in one infinite 'X' loop instead of another, then it doesn't matter what I use to represent that infinite 'X' engine, provided I take the time to explain things in my post - which is what most people do when they use proxies. This way has the added benefit of preventing people from submitting the same combo over and over with different variations of mana loops, while claiming it's a new combo each time.

I'd be down for everyone standardizing the cards we use to represent things - for example, instituting a rule like "any time a user uses Gleemax, that means they're using an infinite mana loop" is fine - but otherwise, getting your panties in a twist over people using proxy stand-ins is dumb. Proxies have given us a way to translate a basic idea in an easily searched option - in the above example, searching 'Gleemax' would now give you a page full of infinite mana loop combos when searched by name.

(We kind of had an influx of combos like this ever since Daily MTG posted their Illusionist Bracers combo page back in December of 2012.
Frankly, we could use a proxy which represents the Bracer/untap-card
combo, too, since they're all essentially the same thing.)

And don't even start with the 'we shouldn't have to read the posts' argument. It's hella fucking rude not to take the time to read things people write. Not being rude is more important than the five seconds you save not reading something. Not reading things is for dumb jerks.
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 2:22pm

reaper
Posts: 436
Joined: 23-Jul-11

You continue with opinionated idiocy. Post away guys infinite anything is a land now.
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 2:22pm

reaper
Posts: 436
Joined: 23-Jul-11

You continue with opinionated idiocy. Post away guys infinite anything is a land now.
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 2:24pm

Academic
Posts: 1305
Joined: 29-Mar-12

:D Fucking called it. Reaper is Knarf.
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 7:35pm

knarf_the_dwarf
Posts: 1370
Joined: 30-Nov-11

I'm not Reaper. I don't post combos not compliant to current rulings. Even my English and typing is better!-))
Honestly spoken I'm able to find combos here in the archive either by searching for the card name with the site's search engine or with google "site:"mtgcombos.com" CARDNAME".
So I don't go with either opinion. I for my own will continue using standard lands as proxy; the card name of the missing card as combo name would be a good idea since this is also found by the site's search engine.

Academic is Jason's fiancee!-))
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 9:04pm

Academic
Posts: 1305
Joined: 29-Mar-12

You can't prove a negative correlation, Knarf. That's a fundamental aspect of science - and something they teach in basic logic classes. Whereas I can provide evidence for a positive correlation.

*Both Knarf and reaper have expressed irrational dislike for anyone Knarf has labled an 'It-girl'.

*reaper's inability to type correctly died in the above double post where he insulted me in the same janky belabored way that you do.

*Both have the same lacking grasp of English
**reaper's poor control of English is exaggerated, if not outright fake. This is provable. Take your phone out right now. Now try to type like he did, without the spellchecker correcting most of your words. :D A keyboard smartphone will not let you type like that, unless you make an overt effort.

*Both type 'lol' as 'Lol', when alone in a sentence where the correct informal usage would be all lower case letters

*Both have a habit of flooding the forum with combos - and usually, it's only one user account at a time. For example, when Knarf is flooding the combos, reaper submits nothing, and when reaper floods the place, Knarf submits nothing. I'm sure that'll change since I've pointed it out, but until now, it holds true.

*Both have tried to impose rules on how this forum should be, and have subsequently flipped out when told the ideas are bad.

*Both have a habit of creating double posts. Only two users (period) have managed to cause double posts on a consistent basis - and those are reaper and Knarf.

*This one's really the clincher. No one had heard of 'reaper' until Knarf necroed the old moderators thread, and demanded people vote for mods (that will never exist. :D). Then, suddenly, reaper is active again.

So I looked at the date that 'reaper' stopped submitting combos. It was September of 2011, and reaper caught shit for submitting a six card combo (in fact, going through his combos, it looks like reaper used to get a lot of crap for his mediocre contributions). That also matches up with the last post 'reaper' made up until Knarf unburied the mod thread.

Knarf's account became live in November of 2011. And gosh if they didn't have similar writing styles back then. :D

Your move, Dalit.
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 9:11pm

Boyachi
Posts: 1553
Joined: 02-Nov-11

Everyone, I have a confession. When I think of you talking, I view you as your profile pics, which means Kefka looks, well like Kefka; Knarf looks like a pony; and Kethiju looks like Sorin.

That being said, you just made me think of rainbow jello wearing a chainmail bikini.
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 9:47pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

so your a flower after the rain.  and I'll guess that'll make me a bunch of people reaching for salvation
 
Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 9:49pm

Academic
Posts: 1305
Joined: 29-Mar-12

XD

I'm also a ghost. So make it a ghost rainbow jelly in a chainmail bikini and we're set.
Date Posted: Thu Mar/28/13 at 1:08pm

Academic
Posts: 1305
Joined: 29-Mar-12

Since more of the regulars are here - would you guys be down with creating a standard proxies list?

Gleemax = Infinite Mana Engine, Time Machine = Infinite ETB effect, that sort of thing? It'd open up a lot of functionality in the search engine, since we could also search by idea this way.



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