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a dozen swans posted:It costs seven mana in a deck that doesn't have seven lands out t7. Note my use of the Limited qualifier. Zorak posted:Similar with the Blue, it's a potential complete blow out given it's basically cyclonic rift on a guy. Yeah, exactly. Best-case you blow up their best creature/send 7 to their face and still have a 5/5 flyer to potentially win you the game. That's great in Limited.
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Ashiok actually being relevant!  Mostly due to a fuckup BUT STILL!
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Count Bleck posted:Ashiok actually being relevant! Would you care expounding on that?
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bhsman posted:Note my use of the Limited qualifier. I don't particularly like the blue guy since it has very little chance of bouncing any of the other promos. The one it has the best chance of bouncing is the dragon, which you don't want to bounce. However, I'm pretty sure it will usually bounce enough creatures to break open any kind of board stall. An opponent is VERY unlikely to have more than 1 creature with toughness greater than, say, 5, so this does have a lot of potential. It's definitely no Shipbreaker Kraken. Incidentally, I can't wait to see a blue vs blue matchup where both players have the promo and 6+ islands. bounce your guys bounce your guys bounce your guys etc.
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AlternateNu posted:Would you care expounding on that? RUG planeswalkers had a Kiora, and plussed it against his Esper Control opponent, targeting Ashiok which was on 5. The Ashiok had already exiled a Stormbreath dragon. RUG had an elvish mystic that could have attacked to keep Ashiok from playing the Stormbreath, but because Kiora also prevents damage, he could not keep Ashiok from casting Stormbreath next turn. Stormbreath goes on to do a ton of work.
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Devor posted:RUG planeswalkers had a Kiora, and plussed it against his Esper Control opponent, targeting Ashiok which was on 5. The Ashiok had already exiled a Stormbreath dragon. RUG had an elvish mystic that could have attacked to keep Ashiok from playing the Stormbreath, but because Kiora also prevents damage, he could not keep Ashiok from casting Stormbreath next turn. Stormbreath goes on to do a ton of work. Why would you ever plus 1 Ashiok with Kiora?
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traslin posted:Why would you ever plus 1 Ashiok with Kiora? Probably just to tick it up to try for an ultimate.
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traslin posted:Why would you ever plus 1 Ashiok with Kiora? No other target, want to build up loyalty?
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Cauldron Moose posted:No other target, want to build up loyalty? Kiora can target lands, though I guess making a Plains not deal or take damage is kind of counter-intuitive.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Kiora can target lands, though I guess making a Plains not deal or take damage is kind of counter-intuitive. Precisely. She is worded that way I'm sure in part to deal with Mutavault.
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When you play a shock land off the top of your library using Courser's ability, does the card underneath become revealed before you make your choice of whether to pay 2 life for the land to come into play untapped? Or do you make the choice at the instant you move to play the land, before the card underneath becomes revealed?
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MiddleEastBeast posted:When you play a shock land off the top of your library using Courser's ability, does the card underneath become revealed before you make your choice of whether to pay 2 life for the land to come into play untapped? Or do you make the choice at the instant you move to play the land, before the card underneath becomes revealed? You make the choice to pay the life or not while the land is still on top of the library, so you do not get to see the next card before deciding.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Kiora can target lands, though I guess making a Plains not deal or take damage is kind of counter-intuitive. A previous turn he had plused Kiora targeting a temple, so he knew he could target lands too. He just wasn't thinking, hence "mostly due to a fuckup".
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Entropic posted:Sorry, but the concept of "sleeve covers" is hilarious to me. "You're ruining my good coasters!"
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MiddleEastBeast posted:When you play a shock land off the top of your library using Courser's ability, does the card underneath become revealed before you make your choice of whether to pay 2 life for the land to come into play untapped? Or do you make the choice at the instant you move to play the land, before the card underneath becomes revealed? If the decision was a trigger after it entered the battlefield, you could see your next card. Though because you could then tap for mana with the trigger on the stack that would be a really poor drawback, like Lotus Vale's original wording making it 90% of a Black Lotus under current rules. Because you make the choice as it enters the battlefield, you can't see the card.
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Entropic posted:All the promos seem pretty good cards for sealed. Is it just me, or do the white and green promos look better than the other 3 colors by a mile? Black might be decent on a 2nd tier, but there's no way I'm picking blue or red.
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Patrick Chapin is a genius. Talking about the interaction of Brimasz, King of Oreskos with a Blightsteel Colossus or a Time Vault, correctly discerning that Brimasz wins the head-to-head against a Time Vault, but interacts much worse with Voltaic Key.
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AgentSythe posted:Patrick Chapin is a genius. Talking about the interaction of Brimasz, King of Oreskos with a Blightsteel Colossus or a Time Vault, correctly discerning that Brimasz wins the head-to-head against a Time Vault, but interacts much worse with Voltaic Key.
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Northjayhawk posted:Is it just me, or do the white and green promos look better than the other 3 colors by a mile? Black might be decent on a 2nd tier, but there's no way I'm picking blue or red. I don't agree that green is comparable to white at all, or necessarily all that exceptional. It's a big creature given a mana investment, but compared to cards like Nessian Demolok and Nessian Asp, I don't think it's that much better (that said, those cards are both quite good). I think the card is around the same power level as black's. Comparatively, I don't see how you can ever lose if you have the Charioteers and any sort of bestow. The play of Charioteers into bestow Observant Alseid, in particular, is just not beatable.
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The SCG feed. Naya Aggro player has a monstrous Fleecemane Lion on board, with Ghor-Clan and Boros Charm in his hand, and the mana to cast both. Opponent was tapped out, at 13 life, with an Elspeth and 3 tokens on board. Naya player doesn't see the win.  Now he might lose. Edit: He lost. qbert fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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Think it might have got lost in the last few pages of questions, but is there any decent replacement for Chord of Calling in a modern Pod deck? It's like the only piece of the deck I don't have, and of course it's the most expensive. It looks like a fun build and I'd love to try it out, but I'm not really interested in dropping like $120 on a playset to test it out.
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If an attack creature has double strike and trample, and kolls all blockers at the first strike stage, does it deal damage in the regular phase as trample?
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Patrick Chapin is good enough to make me watch Standard. "2 explore, or not 2 explore". 
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BizarroAzrael posted:If an attack creature has double strike and trample, and kolls all blockers at the first strike stage, does it deal damage in the regular phase as trample? Yes.
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BizarroAzrael posted:If an attack creature has double strike and trample, and kolls all blockers at the first strike stage, does it deal damage in the regular phase as trample? Yes. Yes it does. Just like if you attack with a dude with trample, and the opponent blocks, and you Terror the blocker, it deals all it's damage to the defending player.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Think it might have got lost in the last few pages of questions, but is there any decent replacement for Chord of Calling in a modern Pod deck? It's like the only piece of the deck I don't have, and of course it's the most expensive. It looks like a fun build and I'd love to try it out, but I'm not really interested in dropping like $120 on a playset to test it out. Uhhhh weird harvest? Summoners pact?
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It mildly annoys me that Obsidian Acolyte, a completely innocuous creature from Invasion, is selling online for upwards of a ticket for absolutely no discernable reason. I just want to make Pauper Pestilence, dammit. 
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Alter Reality Games is starting a series of videos using Google Glass to record their feature matches for their Kaijudo tournaments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFHBab0cig Any thoughts? Even if not used as the primary video feed for feature matches, it seems like it'd be able to objectively prove cheating really well, since you can more or less see anything else the player can see. I doubt it'll be viable for general use, though.
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How busted would this be? Value Hydra XG Creature - Hydra Spend only green mana on X Value Hydra comes into play with X+1 +1/+1 counters on it
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Froghammer posted:How busted would this be? Uh this is pretty much a worse mistcutter hydra so not busted at all.
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forbidden lesbian posted:Uh this is pretty much a worse mistcutter hydra so not busted at all. Sorry, it's not worse because you can't put blue auras on your mistcutter Checkmate
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Froghammer posted:How busted would this be? Not at all, because there's already multiple hydras that are much better than that. We do have a Card Design Thread if you're into speculation and design like that, though!
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A creature that's on curve whenever you play it is not spectacular. Green Stompy always wants to be playing above the curve, and better yet with some sort of potential to grow. Miscutter Hydra only sees any play because it's haste/evasive.
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Anybody here watching the open at detroit? I think I am a featured match next round, I might make a stairs reference
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Homo for Hitler posted:Anybody here watching the open at detroit? I think I am a featured match next round, I might make a stairs reference Play your lands facing your opponent so we know it's you
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Or, you know, tell us your name.
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What a Judas posted:Or, you know, tell us your name. My name is Peter Richards See why that doesn't work
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Devor posted:My name is Peter Richards I don't believe you.
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Just go on camera and say you're homo for hitler. I can think of literally nothing wrong with this plan.
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Dispatched by Notion Thief aficionado Lauren Nolen. goondolences
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