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Milo and POTUS posted:
God these are fun to boomerang
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As a cheap gently caress who liked having 10 decks on my person because I got bored too fast, I was so happy when those came out. Good mana fixing at common! That was unheard of at the time. Maybe it's because I was in college and therefore ideally situated for it, but Ravnica/Time Spiral was peak MTG. Wide open meta with lots of cool stuff to play with at every rarity level, I was scrubbing out of FNMs with ghazi-glare because I refused to spend real money and didn't know how to sideboard, and then I had the time of my life with gaea's blessing plus dredge even though bridge from below is obviously the better way to do that. Stupid bullshit leyline of the void. Anti-shoutouts to whoever designed leyline of the void just because they knew manaless dredge risked making legacy cheap and fun. Force of vigor should have been released in Time Spiral at uncommon. 
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Ragnar34 posted:Anti-shoutouts to whoever designed leyline of the void just because they knew manaless dredge risked making legacy cheap and fun. Force of vigor should have been released in Time Spiral at uncommon. Manaless dredge has never been fun. I say this as someone who had an opponent drop from a tournament in the middle of round 1 because I was on manaless dredge  Oops All Spells is currently better than Manaless Dredge ever was, and is cheaper than most Modern decks. It gets to play Force of Vigor as anti-leyline tech too! And Burn is super cheap and "fine" in Legacy. I think it's easily a more interesting deck than manaless dredge was.
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Nov 25, 2022 19:07
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Here's my favorite 
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Nov 28, 2022 04:10
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"whaaaaaaaaaat"
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Nov 28, 2022 10:16
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I understand why they heavily standardized creature types over the years, but I always loved the wacky one-off summon types. Summon Abomination! Summon The Wretched! Summon Uncle Istvan! Miss me with the Legendary Human nonsense, poo poo is boring
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Nov 28, 2022 13:25
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I liked thinking about how some changeling was a goblin, a zombie, a gazelle, an Uncle Istvan, etc.
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Nov 28, 2022 14:15
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Antivehicular posted:I understand why they heavily standardized creature types over the years, but I always loved the wacky one-off summon types. Summon Abomination! Summon The Wretched! Summon Uncle Istvan! Miss me with the Legendary Human nonsense, poo poo is boring Not to mention some of the changes the odd creature types went though. Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore has had its card type changed from "Summon Evil Eye" to the more standardized "Creature - Horror" to... "Creature - Eye". Yes, they standardized it, then decided "Wait, gently caress that, Eye as a creature type is hilarious" and changed it back. Still no idea who Orms-by-Gore is, or why their Eye is a sentient creature as strong as some lower-strength giants and dragons, and as durable as some higher-end walls, or if it's even supposed to be in their head or not.
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Nov 28, 2022 14:34
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Randalor posted:Still no idea who Orms-by-Gore is, or why their Eye is a sentient creature as strong as some lower-strength giants and dragons, and as durable as some higher-end walls, or if it's even supposed to be in their head or not.  
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Nov 28, 2022 15:16
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Spanish Manlove posted:Here's my favorite My monitor won't turn off 
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Randalor posted:Not to mention some of the changes the odd creature types went though. Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore has had its card type changed from "Summon Evil Eye" to the more standardized "Creature - Horror" to... "Creature - Eye". Yes, they standardized it, then decided "Wait, gently caress that, Eye as a creature type is hilarious" and changed it back. There are higher end walls?
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Nov 28, 2022 21:13
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My actual, favorite non-joke card is Dina, Soul Steeper (for commander, as the commander) The art is fantastic. I love the satisfactory pose with her tea and the spooky green/yellow/orange/black color palette. Her mechanics as a commander are fun as hell. Sure ok there's an instant win condition if I get lucky with Exquisite Blood but I like to play grindy combos and she has a few badass ones. There's death by a thousand cuts where you do a bunch of little instances of lifegain, like creatures with lifelink, but what's funny is stuff like Essence Warden where every time someone plays a creature they take one damage. You can be an extra spiteful schmuck and use TresPasser's Curse on a single person so that they take 2 damage every time a creature comes in. But overall it's just a fun, and surprisingly powerful deck you can make with her that I love. I've been messing with this deck recently and trying to figure out new scumbag poo poo I can do with it and more combos. Generally if things are getting spicy at my LGS's commander night I'll bring out this deck to see how it hangs. My second favorite commander is Perrie, The Pulverizer  I call this deck "Bookkeeping Tribal." The way this guy works is that he gets beefed up for each kind of counter you have. This means individual types of counters. You're probably used to +1/+1, charge, or loyalty counters but this will use some of the most stupid worthless poo poo like flood, verse, brick, night, slumber, and acorn counters. To keep track of the counters I like to write them down on little plastic cards using a dry erase marker, hence the theme of the deck. Of course there's a few boring ways to pump up perrie with a shitload of +1/+1 counters and give him flying and double strike, and there's a couple backup combo wincons in the deck, but I have more fun playing really obtuse, forgotten cards. Or just playing Body Of Research then giving the token fly to have a flying 80/80.
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Milo and POTUS posted:There are higher end walls? Higher-end in the sense that their toughness is high for their cost.
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Nov 28, 2022 22:24
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 Always thought this one was super cool. But how do you say it? nek-RO-POH-tinse? nuh-CROP-uh-tinse? Doesn't sound good to my ear either way.
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Nov 29, 2022 08:17
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i think it's meant to be a play off omnipotence, which i've always heard "omm-NIP-ott-ence" so i guess neck-ROP-ott-ence. which evokes otters and necks
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Nov 29, 2022 11:40
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Tiggum posted:
https://voca.ro/1bewVjBaz7oa Or one: https://voca.ro/126ReeaYlAcp However, the true answer is actually to pronounce it in German: https://voca.ro/1dcHE7BU2Xxs Which, incidentally, means "the ability of a dead person to get a boner". I rest my case
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Simply Simon posted:Which, incidentally, means "the ability of a dead person to get a boner". I rest my case Thats just Sickening
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Nov 29, 2022 17:55
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 One of my favourite instants. I love baiting someone into attacking with their biggest, beefiest creature before slapping this on them. No one ever sees it coming. "Ribbit." 
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Nov 29, 2022 18:38
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Here's a pretty good example of how creatures have become way more powerful over the years: This first creature is Jackal Pup from the Tempest set, which had two power for the low cost of one red mana. At the time in 1997, this was considered pretty powerful, and in fact was used in world championship decks for two years running. Because the creature was so efficiently costed at the time, the drawback was that you would take damage whenever your Jackal Pup did. The benefits of having such a cheap powerful creature outweighed the drawbacks though, and so Jackal Pup became a staple in aggressive red decks.  This next card is Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, printed 24 years later in 2021 in the Modern Horizons 2 set. It has identical stats to Jackal Pup, but with no downsides. When you damage your opponent with it, you get a free treasure token (which you can sacrifice to add one mana of any color), and you also remove the top card of their library and are allowed to cast it for yourself. On top of all of that, Ragavan also has the Dash ability, which basically lets you pay an alternate cost to give it haste for a turn, attack your opponent immediately, then bounce it back into your hand at the end of the turn. Almost any deck that uses red mana wants to play a full set of 4 Ragavans. Of course, you can't compare these two cards in a vacuum. Ragavan was printed in a set specifically designed for the Modern format, which is extremely fast and powerful, whereas Jackal Pup would have been intended for a "standard", rotating format which tends to be slower and less powerful by definition. Modern didn't even exist until 2011, and contemporary MTG card design has been going more and more off the rails ever since. Necronomicon has a new favorite as of 19:06 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Nov 29, 2022 18:56
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Debunk This! posted:
In the same vein, this is a good and powerful way to shut down a big scary commander by turning them into a legitimate businessperson, which is funny to me 
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Nov 29, 2022 19:17
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For whatever reason Turn to Frog reminded me of this one, from the 2013 Gatecrash set: Gatecrash was the second set in the Return to Ravnica block (incidentally my favourite block from any period I've actively played Magic), which, well, was a return to the plane of Ravnica, originally visited in the 2005 block called simply the Ravnica block. Being a popular plane, it was seen once again in what's unofficially called the Guilds of Ravnica block, consisting of the expansions Guilds of Ravnica, Ravnica Allegiance, and War of the Spark. This is relevant because while searching for above posted card, I found that Fblthp himself had gotten a card in War of the Spark:  Which also received a special art version in a 2021 Secret Lair drop:  And then, finally, in this year's joke set Unfinity, a sequel to the 2013 card was included:  And that concludes Fblthp's journey so far. Only time will tell if he ever finds his way or if he'll be lost forever.
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KennyMan666 posted:For whatever reason Turn to Frog reminded me of this one, from the 2013 Gatecrash set: omg I love him so much
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Another fun fact about Fblthp is that you can find him in the background of other cards. https://twitter.com/theasianavenger/status/1131644784668360704 I don't know where to find a complete list of background appearances offhand, so I'm assuming he's in every card ever made. Here's a reprint of Totally Lost with new art. 
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Ragnar34 posted:Here's a reprint of Totally Lost with new art. It's hard to tell from the image alone, but in this one he's standing on top of a very tall statue which is on top of a tall spire that there's absolutely no logical way he could have ascended. Don't worry though, I'm sure he'll be fine. 
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I've farted around playing MTG through the years. Never serious- I just wanted to annoy my opponent a turn or two. I preferred things like pack wars, or prerelease events. For years, I worked at a comic store and was forced to play FNM to even out players or whatnot. I don't think I ever won a game, but it was fun ruining my opponent's turn. There was a card 'Lost in the Woods'(?), where anytime you were dealt combat damage, reveal the next card in your library. If it was a forest, no damage is dealt, and the card was returned to the bottom of your library (I think). So my deck was 1 LitW, and 59 Forests. I won't win, but it will annoy most players at the time. MTG quit being fun when the store became filled with hardcore competition dudes who were always going to Star City and doing poo poo. They made it no fun to someone who was trying to play, not place. I was getting utterly wrecked to the point I just put down my loss before we even sat down- I'm talking turn 1 wins and poo poo, because I pick cards based on goofs. One of my favorite cards was given to me by a customer. In a former life, I was a Paratrooper who had a bad landing and ended up pretty jacked up for life. We would always give each other poo poo, and goof off. He'd say poo poo like, "Shut up or I'll tell gravity where you are hiding." Anyway, he gave me this-  It's so dumb and funny that I still use it as a bookmark, even if I haven't shuffled a deck in 10 years.
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Spanish Manlove posted:
So when this card declares attack its ability can be used as an instant on itself or would it apply to a following attacker?
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HAmbONE posted:So when this card declares attack its ability can be used as an instant on itself or would it apply to a following attacker? He can use it on himself the combat he attacks.
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HAmbONE posted:So when this card declares attack its ability can be used as an instant on itself or would it apply to a following attacker? You can use it on itself or another attacker. Most of the time you'll use it on itself as the goal of the deck is to beef him up and kill people through commander damage. Forgot to share the decklist, it's turned into more +1/+1 counters for consistency but there's still a bunch of goofy things I love https://www.moxfield.com/decks/sAl8FSeV9Eip5gZagaZUag
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Ragnar34 posted:Another fun fact about Fblthp is that you can find him in the background of other cards. I really appreciate the fact that other artists are just running with this as a gag It kinda rules ngl
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from the first page but LMAO at first glance I thought he gave up the sword for golfing
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I've never played MTG, but this is my favorite card:
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This is a vehicle that comes with enough cats to drive it
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I loved the concept of planeswalkers when they first came out. You get to ally with another in-universe mtg player, with their personality and interests expressed mechanically by the things they'll do as a favor to you, or in the case of + abilities, the things they want to do anyway. I didn't like the first five planeswalkers though. They seemed like plane-sonas for real life nerds named Johnny, Jason, Lily, Sandra and Gary. Unfortunately to this day Jason is still the main character of Magic the Gathering, with his loving hoodie and everything, but there have been some cool cards.
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Is she just a 3/3? How do they show power toughness for non same numbers
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is she just a 3/3? How do they show power toughness for non same numbers The way planeswalkers work is that they come into play with loyalty counters on them (the number on the bottom right) and once per your turn, you can use one of their abilities by adding or removing the specified amount of counters to the planeswalker. Planeswalkers can also be the targets for attacks.
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Yeah, they can only do the things on their card text, I believe just one of them per turn? Otherwise that first ability on the one posted could be used ad infinitum to insta-win. If they are the target of a spell that deals them damage, it removes that many loyalty counters. But you can't attack or defend with them like they're a creature, because they're not.
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Ragnar34 posted:I loved the concept of planeswalkers when they first came out. Before the cards, the fiction of the game was that you were a planeswalker, a godlike being who can create worlds and for whom entire nations would live and die. It's an incredibly cool concept. Then, one day, the official line switched from "we could never make a card of a planeswalker, because that card would have to effectively be a whole other player joining the game" to "planeswalkers have about 2 HP and can do exactly three very specific things." gently caress. That.
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Famous Planeswalker Count Dracula I do like the Dracula cards and sometimes play Sorin the Mirthless, but I do not use the Dracula printing
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What... is this? I don't understand what I'm looking at here.
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