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Bugsy posted:New right? Win out of nowhere on a card and can be used as a combat trick too? Not bad.
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sarmhan posted:Well that'll end a game effectively if you have prowess creatures out. That's going to end the game if the other person doesn't have answers, period. Backbreaker in limited, not so great in constructed unless we can guarantee a certain number of creatures.
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Ramos posted:I think I'll just listen to "Everyone was all kung fu fighting" whenever I play Jeskai. "Everybody was kung fu fighting" 
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Bugsy posted:New right? "Why overrun when you can overjump?" - Sun Tzu
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Worldbuilding panel is up on the Magic Youtube account. As is one of the videos of the fetchland announcements. You're all embarrassments to humanity.
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I am just so taken with the Jeskai style. UWR is not a color combination that's ever held any appeal to me, and I've never been much of a Wuxia fan in the past, but everything about the art is just making me absolutely love it. That Prowess is going to play well with Heroic is just a bonus, since I've been trying to make Heroic work in standard for ages. It's honestly probably just that they all look like the walked out of the Southern Air Temple and I'm a huge Avatar fan.
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Team Jeskai for sure.Ramos posted:That's going to end the game if the other person doesn't have answers, period. Backbreaker in limited, not so great in constructed unless we can guarantee a certain number of creatures. Its not going to be great in constructed because combat tricks rarely are, especially not 6 mana, 3 color ones. But it totally owns in terms of fucken flying shaolin monks everywhere. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Kurtofan posted:Other pieces of artwork from the article: Telescope Dog is this set's Fblthp. E: 
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Rogue 7 posted:I am just so taken with the Jeskai style. UWR is not a color combination that's ever held any appeal to me, and I've never been much of a Wuxia fan in the past, but everything about the art is just making me absolutely love it. That Prowess is going to play well with Heroic is just a bonus, since I've been trying to make Heroic work in standard for ages. Jeskai looks to be, much like the Air Nomads, to be based on Tibetan culture, with a nice toss in of Zen Buddhism. It's really not surprising that you ended up liking both, they're based on similar ideas and origins. That and Wuxia is the best thing ever from old movies. You haven't seen a good Kung Fu movie until you see someone fighting twenty other people while balancing on four stacked chairs... that are balancing off of each other with one leg each.
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I was thinking of going Mardu at the pre release but I might have to switch it up. Flying crane technique is bonkers.
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Bugsy posted:New right? Sweet mother of gently caress, flying + doublestrike after playing a couple of Prowess creatures will shut the door on a game real fast. Digging the Jeskai art style too. Ramos posted:I think I'll just listen to "Everyone was all kung fu fighting" whenever I play Jeskai.
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Even though it's probably not feasible the idea of Narset attacking and then revealing a bunch of techniques to fire off is really awesome conceptually.
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The one thing that slightly upsets me about this plane is that they're sticking in a lot of cultural influences that could easily hold their own plane (a fixed Arabic one, an indian themed setting). I know Kamigawa didn't do well and that's probably made them wary about anything too foreign to the western audience, but I hope we don't go back to "stuff that's been in D&D" and Steampunk. Also this is still the best, most evocative piece of art they've released. EDIT: ^^ OMG
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Worldbuilding panel is up on the Magic Youtube account. As is one of the videos of the fetchland announcements. You're all embarrassments to humanity. The fetchland video is so cringeworthy. I'm all for nerdgasms, but dude, its a land that says "search your library for a swamp or a mountain." I'm going to go home and show this video to my wife and see what she says.
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  I'm going to need to get to prerelease early at this rate if I want to get a Jeskai box.
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apistat posted:Telescope Dog is this set's Fblthp. He reminds me of Mr Peanutbutter from Bojack Horseman.
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Angry Grimace posted:The fetchland video is so cringeworthy. I'm all for nerdgasms, but dude, its a land that says "search your library for a swamp or a mountain." I'm going to go home and show this video to my wife and see what she says. Get the gently caress out. It was a party, at the end of the night, supplied with tons of free drinks and frivolity. People are allowed to be excited.
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Angry Grimace posted:The fetchland video is so cringeworthy. I'm all for nerdgasms, but dude, its a land that says "search your library for a swamp or a mountain." I'm going to go home and show this video to my wife and see what she says. Very interested to see what she says. Khans is really cool and I'm excited by the set. It will be really interesting to see what becomes the chase rares. I honestly have no idea right now. So many of the rares are three colored and so many decks in standard right now are not in those three colors. Devotion is so different as well. It's a cool time to be playing magic
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Angry Grimace posted:The fetchland video is so cringeworthy. I'm all for nerdgasms, but dude, its a land that says "search your library for a swamp or a mountain." I'm going to go home and show this video to my wife and see what she says. "Wife"
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En Fuego posted:Get the gently caress out. Dude, some of those people are like on the verge of tears. For a reprint! uggy posted:Very interested to see what she says. So far I'm completely baffled what Standard is going to look like post rotation, mostly because a Wedge block and Theros block seem like really odd bedfellows. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Angry Grimace posted:Dude, some of those people are like on the verge of tears. For a reprint!
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Angry Grimace posted:Dude, some of those people are like on the verge of tears. For a reprint!
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Remember, no being happy about your nerd hobby, NERDS. (Seriously, this is nothing. Have you seen how people react to sports?)
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sarmhan posted:People have done way more embarrassing things while drunk at a party. Those would probably be embarrassing on video too. I'm not trying to be all "no fun allowed," I'm just saying, its a land, guys. neetengie posted:Being inebriated makes you have less control on your emotions. Of course they're not going be stoic and clap when seeing the fetches being reprinted. Wait, why are we assuming everyone at this event was drunk? Ramos posted:Remember, no being happy about your nerd hobby, NERDS. That's different because sports are important and most importantly, not nerdy. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Angry Grimace posted:So far I'm completely baffled what Standard is going to look like post rotation, mostly because a Wedge block and Theros block seem like really odd bedfellows. Wedge set, not wedge block.
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Everyone was drunk because there were free drinks and it was a party.
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Angry Grimace posted:That's different because sports are important and most importantly, not nerdy. 
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I'll just be sad if it turns out the best deck post rotation is RDW or something and runs none of this awesome wedge cards.
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Angry Grimace posted:That's different because sports are important and most importantly, not nerdy. I wish I was into things that are important enough to occasionally cause people to light buildings on fire and raise crime rate during international games. 
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The white morph cycle bird seems a bit odd, at 3cmc there's no reason not to play it face down and flip it at once if you don't mind revealing a white card. Is 3 mana with no colour reasonable for a 2/2 in limited? Is it worth taking a morph card regardless of if you can cast it face up or flip it? Really cool cycle, the black one would be good without the trigger, green and red get potentially very useful triggers that will probably win the odd game. I also look forward to all the people who need to be told that a mountain is not red. Edit: Say Ghostfire were reprinted, does the text "Ghostfire is colorless" apply when it's a card, or only when it's a spell? Could you reveal it as a red card? BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Angry Grimace posted:Wait, why are we assuming everyone at this event was drunk? quote:That's different because sports are important and most importantly, not nerdy.
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BizarroAzrael posted:The white morph cycle bird seems a bit odd, at 3cmc there's no reason not to play it face down and flip it at once if you don't mind revealing a white card. Is 3 mana with no colour reasonable for a 2/2 in limited? Is it worth taking a morph card regardless of if you can cast it face up or flip it? Don't take Morphs that you can't turn face up.
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Some Numbers posted:It was the PAX Magic Party, where they supply a ton of free alcohol and the fetchlands were shown at the conclusion of the party, after everyone had had plenty of time to get sloshed. I'm honestly wondering if some of you guys would know a joke if Richard Pryor rose from his grave, knocked on your front door and delivered it personally. BizarroAzrael posted:The white morph cycle bird seems a bit odd, at 3cmc there's no reason not to play it face down and flip it at once if you don't mind revealing a white card. Is 3 mana with no colour reasonable for a 2/2 in limited? Is it worth taking a morph card regardless of if you can cast it face up or flip it? 3 CMC 2/2 is usually fringe-playable in limited. (Particularly with no color requirements at all and a useful morph.)
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I love how salty people get about people taking them seriously on the internet in pure text with no body language or indications that they're not being serious.
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Entropic posted:I'll just be sad if it turns out the best deck post rotation is RDW or something and runs none of this awesome wedge cards. I feel like Abzan will probably be nuts post-rotation because it can play a lot of the good stuff from Theros block (Courser, Caryatid, Thoughtseize, removal, Elspeth, possibly Brimaz) plus whatever goodies that Khans brings it.
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Angry Grimace posted:I'm honestly wondering if some of you guys would know a joke if Richard Pryor rose from his grave, knocked on your front door and delivered it personally.
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Angry Grimace posted:The fetchland video is so cringeworthy. I'm all for nerdgasms, but dude, its a land that says "search your library for a swamp or a mountain." I'm going to go home and show this video to my wife and see what she says. It has the additional rules text "Target player who is a student working at Quinzos can now play Modern."
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