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Entropic posted:She drew the Wolf Shirt version of Hymn to Tourach, a true classic. Wizards probably overreacted by ending her contract and would have hired her back EXCEPT that when they did she went "gently caress it" and did for a while (not sure if still does) pornographic furry alters of any card she designed for anyone who asked. Talk about burning your bridges.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Wizards probably overreacted by ending her contract and would have hired her back EXCEPT that when they did she went "gently caress it" and did for a while (not sure if still does) pornographic furry alters of any card she designed for anyone who asked. How is that any worse than half the artists who draw dicks on whatever you pay them for? Edit: I mean yeah it's furry poo poo so it's clearly worse but I couldn't see wizards' stance being that different
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I realized Friday that we have way too many kids that barely know how to play for me to run a UWx devotion/control deck. 2-0-2 got me 5th place, especially when the 2 wins were 1-0 matches where game 2 went to time. We have a 9 year old possibly asperger's kid who is learning to play because his idol Grant Imahara plays. He's really polite, and keeps a good attitude, even when he's losing, is running the BOTG event deck unchanged, but still has to ask so many questions about how the deck works to the TO. He also brings his deck over to me between games because he can't shuffle well, and I've helped him before. He's getting better, but it's so slow.
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Frozen_flame posted:What's confusing is the two glowing blue circles. Is Elspeth a flatfish now? They look similar to her sword, if that is supposed to be an implication? The returned can't see out of the masks, they can just see anyways. None of the ones we've seen have eye-holes.
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A Moose posted:Grapeshot, Empty the Warrens, and Temporal Fissure are all banned in pauper though. I think they just don't want Storm to be a deck. Wait, they banned Empty the Warrens? Guess that's it for Pauper Storm. a dude posted:I love how she shows up for Psionic Entity, even though the Gatherer rulings say "The artist is actually Justin Hampton." Justin Hampton is another example of "didn't do the background check." He draws gay comics... and he's very, very fond of male nipples.    The last one soon came to be called "Reverse Sexual Polarity".
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I just found out today that my LGS has a box of Premium Deck Series: Slivers. Is it worth picking up? I'm thinking of making a Sliver Overlord Commander deck down the line, and it feels like it would be a good step in that direction, and it contains some useful stuff like Ancient Ziggurat, a couple of Vivids, Coat of Arms, and most creatures are 1-ofs, so there shouldn't be too much chaff... I don't know the price yet, unfortunately.
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Serperoth posted:I just found out today that my LGS has a box of Premium Deck Series: Slivers. Is it worth picking up? I'm thinking of making a Sliver Overlord Commander deck down the line, and it feels like it would be a good step in that direction, and it contains some useful stuff like Ancient Ziggurat, a couple of Vivids, Coat of Arms, and most creatures are 1-ofs, so there shouldn't be too much chaff... I don't know the price yet, unfortunately. It sells for $150 on SCG, so it's worth it to just resell, but it would be much cheaper to buy the individual slivers for your Commander deck if the store's selling it at a high price.
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Pharohman777 posted:The Returned mask that Elspeth has is made from the golden hilt of godsend, which is why it had those two circles. You can see the shattered blade and shaft at the base of the pillar the mask is on. Elspeth the Returned wears godsend.
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:It sells for $150 on SCG, so it's worth it to just resell, but it would be much cheaper to buy the individual slivers for your Commander deck if the store's selling it at a high price. I don't expect them to gouge like that, but it's good to know I can hold on to it either way. Worst case I could resell it and split some of that with the store or just go and spend some money there (not like I wasn't going to anyway  ). Thanks for the info.
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mango sentinel posted:I like the kind of trend between this and Ashiok. I want all the planeswalkers to become less and less human in appearance and behavior. Give me existing planeswalkers that have become so detached from mundane mortality and changed by their powers they are actually scary and not just stupid mary sue characters. And it would be somewhat neat to have planeswalkers that are fresh newbies among these horrible wizards who have given up on it all
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mango sentinel posted:I like the kind of trend between this and Ashiok. I want all the planeswalkers to become less and less human in appearance and behavior. Give me existing planeswalkers that have become so detached from mundane mortality and changed by their powers they are actually scary and not just stupid mary sue characters. That would go directly against the whole reason for rebooting 'walkers - being able to get them into the games and feature them as relateable storyline protagonists whose problems don't start at THE FATE OF THE PLANE DEPENDS ON YOU and scale up from there. I'm sure they'll keep sprinkling in a few Ashiok-types, because they are neat, but I would certainly not expect this to become a real trend. And Returned masks totally have eyeholes. The presence of any actual eyes to use them is more questionable.  
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I was going to edit my last post, but I have a question, if anyone is watching the SCG Open. Dustin Penn has a Jitte with two counters on board, his opponent has a Qasali Pridemage and a Mother of Runes. Why couldn't he just remove the two counters to kill the Pridemage outright? Mother of Runes can't grant it protection from colorless, and the ability is on the artifact, not the creature. I ask because the commentators mentioned it, but didn't say that he could just kill it without caring about Mother.
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Serperoth posted:I was going to edit my last post, but I have a question, if anyone is watching the SCG Open. I'm not watching, but I'm guessing he doesn't care much about the Pridemage and is saving the counters for something else. Was his opponent tapped out?
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Death Bot posted:And it would be somewhat neat to have planeswalkers that are fresh newbies among these horrible wizards who have given up on it all Domri Rade literally just became a Planeswalker, if I recall.
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Gynovore posted:Justin Hampton is another example of "didn't do the background check." He draws gay comics... and he's very, very fond of male nipples. Those aren't disqualifying conditions, certainly these days. Witness Winona Nelson:  
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Tibalt was a brand new planeswalker (Maybe that's why he sucks)
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Elyv posted:I'm not watching, but I'm guessing he doesn't care much about the Pridemage and is saving the counters for something else. Was his opponent tapped out? No, he really wanted the mage dead, they were discussing how he'd kill it. Opponent was tapped out of anything relevant, except Mother of Runes was untapped obviously. I feel like I'm missing something and it's bugging me.
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mcnealys baby posted:Tibalt was a brand new planeswalker (Maybe that's why he sucks) Nah, Tibalt had been going around for a while. He just likes to return to Innistrad because Innistradi folk are his favorites to torment and he couldn't resist showing up when "the bad poo poo" was going down. Ajani Vengeant and Domri are the only ones that are really "haven't been 'walkers very long" when we saw them. Sometimes they just give us Spark Ignition stories for no real reason even if they're not congruent with the current set. I know they just threw Vraska and Tezzeret's out at us in different ways. Dack Fayden's is just the beginning half of one of the comic volumes.
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Serperoth posted:No, he really wanted the mage dead, they were discussing how he'd kill it. Opponent was tapped out of anything relevant, except Mother of Runes was untapped obviously. I feel like I'm missing something and it's bugging me. Wasn't there a Deathrite Shaman that could make mana for the Pridemage ability?
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Stinky Pit posted:Wasn't there a Deathrite Shaman that could make mana for the Pridemage ability? Don't think so. Doubt it, or he'd just have used Pridemage to destroy the Jitte. The point they made in the commentary was that Mother was somehow affecting Jitte killing Pridemage and I don't get it. They're not usually wrong, in my experience, and it seems like a pretty important thing to miss. VV: Mom doesn't make it useless, and you can just kill her with the next attack, since TNN could attack, get another two counters on the Jitte (it was equipped to a TNN) and kill her. Probably coverage hosed up I think, it's just bugging me. Thanks goons. I'll just wait for the video to come out within the week. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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The other likely reason then is because you want to take out both Mom and the Pridemage. If you hit the Pridemage with the counters. its dead but Mom is left to make your Jitte all but useless with its ability. If you pop Mom, then the Pridemage takes out the Jitte and you're left with a TNN but none of the gear that makes it truly killer. If you wait, you might be able to force a position from your opponent where you can deal with both, meanwhile the worst your opponent can do is pop a Jitte, lose a mom, and leave you a TNN In that sense the Mom is preventing you from advantageously destroying the Pridemage. EDIT: Or you know, coverage hosed up, they aren't perfect. Ciprian Maricon fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Serperoth posted:I was going to edit my last post, but I have a question, if anyone is watching the SCG Open. Just rewatched this part. Dustin messed up. His opponent has a Thalia with Sword of Light and Shadow equipped. So while Dustin could have killed the Pridemage, his opponent would just get it back on his turn after attacking with Thalia, because of Sword's ability. Dustin needed a way to kill the Pridemage + exile it from the game completely. Had he left green mana up, he could've exiled it from the graveyard with Deathrite. Dustin also had Swords to Plow in hand, and probably thought he was gonna get rid of the Pridemage that way. Unfortunately, Mother of Runes was untapped and could've just given Pridemage pro-white in response.
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Maybe in khans vanilla creatures will be full art.
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qbert posted:Just rewatched this part.  They even mentioned that, I remember the Deathrite Shaman bit. Thanks for the clarification, that was a very complicated play actually.
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I had a lot of fun at GP Manchester, played mono black aggro was 3-1 at one point but crashed at 3-3 and drop. I found the deck to be very explosive and able to kill players before they can get their courser engine going, but too inconsistent to get anywhere near the top tier decks running around. Oh and I got to do a conspiracy draft with raphael levy, dzyl (aka Jan Van Der Vegt) and some other people. It was really interesting.  EDIT: I don't know if they recorded it, but Rich Hagon called me a "Black Man" in front of everyone for being the only one in the crowd running mono black aggro. Thanks rich for not being racist! 
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Death Bot posted:And it would be somewhat neat to have planeswalkers that are fresh newbies among these horrible wizards who have given up on it all A planeswalker that is basically Mr. Magoo. Blind as a bat, wandering around from plane to plane trying to visit the optometrist or grocery store and ends up in all these wacky adventures completely unaware of the dangers around him or his planeswalking abilities. Also inadvertently saves the day somehow.
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Mercury Crusader posted:A planeswalker that is basically Mr. Magoo. Blind as a bat, wandering around from plane to plane trying to visit the optometrist or grocery store and ends up in all these wacky adventures completely unaware of the dangers around him or his planeswalking abilities. Also inadvertently saves the day somehow. I would love a Fizban.
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I may be late to the party...but what was with that flash of Elesh Norn in the Journey Into Nyx part of that Theros Block Reels video!?
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Dr. Clockwork posted:I may be late to the party...but what was with that flash of Elesh Norn in the Journey Into Nyx part of that Theros Block Reels video!? I think it was just marking Elspeth's journey and how she failed to help Mirrodin while she was there. Also because Norn is pretty much the leader of the Phyrexians at this point and the most iconic.
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Dr. Clockwork posted:I may be late to the party...but what was with that flash of Elesh Norn in the Journey Into Nyx part of that Theros Block Reels video!? They were flashes from the Ordeal of Erebos she had to go through in order to make it into Nyx. It is also why a stabbed Daxos was shown.
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I love the makeup of the current R/W Burn deck, like this one... http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=68341 But I can't see spending $100 on Mutavaults (already have most of the other cards), since it may cycle out in a month or two. What might be a good substitute for it? Regular lands? I know the point is to get quick access to 2/2 creatures, so im not sure what might sub in there.
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Wtgamerz posted:I love the makeup of the current R/W Burn deck, like this one... Most versions of the deck I have seen (including my own) only run 3 mutavaults. But for subbing 4, I would go 2 Guildgates and 2 Mountains. There isn't much else to play.
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If you don't want to spend a ton of cash R/W devotion doesn't play any mutavaults and still has some huge face damage from Fanatic of Mogis.
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Yeah, I was thinking either guildgates, or just dropping in another mountain or two and a plains. Fanatic looks like it could be fun as well.
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Wtgamerz posted:Yeah, I was thinking either guildgates, or just dropping in another mountain or two and a plains. Well. Fanatic is for a completely different deck. That's for the devotion variant running BTE, Frostburn Weirds, and Ash Zealots. The mana base on that is pretty much 4 Nykthos, 4 Sacred Foundry, 4 Temple of Triumph, and the rest mountains.
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One of the funny things about McNeill is other than the Tempst round of CoP's, one of the last pieces he did was Dazzling Beauty in Mirage Block. Dude had to find a way to make the whitest possible but-still-visibly-not-wholly-European beautiful lady.
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I guess once MtG 15 spoilers start leaking out, I can decide when/if to buy the Mutavaults if they decide to reprint them.
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Wtgamerz posted:I guess once MtG 15 spoilers start leaking out, I can decide when/if to buy the Mutavaults if they decide to reprint them. No way it gets reprinted.
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Conspiracy card image gallery is up! e: or so they say but this isn't updated??? Wizards you are not very good at thing Here's some Conspiracy spoilers from MtgSalv regardless e:e: ok its updated now Zorak fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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This page of MaRo's article for the day makes me wonder if the gimmick for Huey/Tarkir block is in fact going to be the one that they mention here that got shut down due to inability to design it at the time. Khans of Tarkir being nomads & dragons, Warlords of Tarkir being more civilized/medevil and all the dragons dead, and Louie of Tarkir being... renaissancey? Dragonbone fossil fuels?
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