|
Konstantin posted:Force of Will would make half the decks in modern unplayable, off the top of my head Tron, Scapeshift, Living End, UR Twin, and any deck that needs one critical spell to resolve will be gone overnight. The interesting thing is that it would be fine in Standard, since the card disadvantage matters more and almost all Standard decks can recover from having a spell countered. Tron and Twin are still fine. Tron generally has inevitability once it gets a lot of mana because of the glut of powerful effects and Twin tends to run a secondary tempo plan.
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:08
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 16:24 |
|
|
Tron could side in summoner's trap or cavern of souls to deal with fow. Wouldn't be a big deal if they fow your expedition map or something.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:27
|
|
|
Babylon Astronaut posted:Tron could side in summoner's trap or cavern of souls to deal with fow. Wouldn't be a big deal if they fow your expedition map or something. Does GR Tron run creatures of the same type? I don't see how blue tron would benefit from Cavern of Souls over making one of five creature types uncounterable.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:33
|
|
|
Count Bleck posted:Does GR Tron run creatures of the same type? I don't see how blue tron would benefit from Cavern of Souls over making one of five creature types uncounterable. Because all it takes is resolving one Sundering Titan to utterly wreck your opponent. And aren't you talking about Mono-Blue Tron? Wouldn't that deck love a counterspell that was live as early as turn 0?
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:37
|
|
|
TheKingofSprings posted:Because all it takes is resolving one Sundering Titan to utterly wreck your opponent. I mean it would allow me to turn 2 crack map but I'm more concerned about other blue decks going to town with it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:40
|
|
|
It seems what you guys really want is something between Modern and Legacy where all sets are legal but everything on the reserve list is banned. That could be a fun format, but is a different beast from Modern. I think Modern is fine as-is for the most part and doesn't need Legacy staples tossed in.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:44
|
|
|
Asphyxious posted:I have a foil treasure cruise but I have the bizarre feeling if I try to trade it at my game store I'll get laughed out as it's clearly an unsustainable spike. I'll take it off your hands for a fair price, I think the spike is a lot more sustainable than they do.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:52
|
|
|
I'm sure it looks appropriately fabulous. We can probably expect delve and the other clan mechanics in Fate Reforged and the 3rd set, right?
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:58
|
|
|
You think it's too late to trade a Sorin for a Sarkhan? I pulled one tonight in a impulse 3-pack buy. It was good timing too, another guy was ripping packs and trading in money rares for more packs so I beat him to the Sorin. 
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 02:59
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:I'm sure it looks appropriately fabulous. No guarantees on that front whatsoever since the third set is supposed to be probably-not-wedge-color-themed and is sort of stands alone since it bridges the gap between 3-set and 2-set blocks (when Khans and Fate Refored Rotate out, the third set will stay).
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:01
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:I'm sure it looks appropriately fabulous. I wouldn't be so sure considering they specifically said that it was not a wedge block, and only the set would be wedge/clan-based
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:01
|
|
|
Waffleopolis posted:ripping packs and trading in money rares for more packs That sounds like a terribly masochistic way to gamble and I'm sure the store owner loves it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:02
|
|
|
I'm still holding out for a 5 mana delve counterspell.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:04
|
|
|
Force of Mill?
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:08
|
|
|
Entropic posted:That sounds like a terribly masochistic way to gamble and I'm sure the store owner loves it. I mean, I made that mistake on my first month of playing MTG (traded a Multavault for more packs DON'T GIVE ME THAT LOOK). He pulled like 4 or 5 fetch lands during the process just to open more packs in an attempt to get a Planeswalker. He didn't succeed because I accidentally stole it from him.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:22
|
|
|
TheKingofSprings posted:Because all it takes is resolving one Sundering Titan to utterly wreck your opponent. At Modern last week someone had apparently never seen Sundering Titan before. The room got really quiet while he and his opponent had their back and forth going over what the card did. I wish I could remember exactly what was said but it was really comical. Sundering Titan is a dick.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:33
|
|
|
Cernunnos posted:12. 4 Buttpost, 4 Glimmerpost, 4 Vesuva. Cloud to Butt is the best addon ever.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:34
|
|
|
BaronVonVaderham posted:At Modern last week someone had apparently never seen Sundering Titan before. The room got really quiet while he and his opponent had their back and forth going over what the card did. I wish I could remember exactly what was said but it was really comical. Sundering Titan is a dick. had that moment. It was so good. Was playing GR tron against UWR control, I resolved it. he lost 3 lands. He bounces it when I swing next turn, I hand him the card to read again and point at the 3 lands I wanted to remove, he scooped.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:37
|
|
|
I don't know how viable it is mainboard but an interesting sideboard for decks running Sarkhan would be the Becoming Immense card to possibly 1 shot your opponent. It's not always win more and can be used as pseudo removal if needed, say putting it on a caryatid. Helps your tramplers do ridiculous amounts of damage.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:39
|
|
|
BaronVonVaderham posted:At Modern last week someone had apparently never seen Sundering Titan before. The room got really quiet while he and his opponent had their back and forth going over what the card did. I wish I could remember exactly what was said but it was really comical. Sundering Titan is a dick. I keep one in MUD at all times and it's never let me down. It even shares a type with Lodestone Golem. 
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:40
|
|
|
Yea, Sundering Titan is in my G/R Tron deck (usually the loner deck for our tourneys). Takes me back to the Tooth and Nail days.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 03:43
|
|
|
NovemberMike posted:Tron and Twin are still fine. Tron generally has inevitability once it gets a lot of mana because of the glut of powerful effects and Twin tends to run a secondary tempo plan. Boseiju is a pretty reasonable card in Modern and sometimes sees play in Scapeshift already on top of that.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 04:21
|
|
|
Snacksmaniac posted:Yea, Sundering Titan is in my G/R Tron deck (usually the loner deck for our tourneys).
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 04:31
|
|
|
Skillface posted:I wouldn't be so sure considering they specifically said that it was not a wedge block, and only the set would be wedge/clan-based The mechanics might remain even if the wedges don't. Prowess could show up only on blue cards, Delve could be exclusive to black, outlast could be mono-white, etc.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 04:48
|
|
|
Not that they need be absolutely shackled to the past, but if you look at the previous large-small-large blocks, there's been one where they haven't carried over any mechanics (ROE) and one where they carried over one in a relatively minor fashion (AVR). Coupled with the probability that they intend for time travel to significantly change the "present" Tarkir, and I'd put my money on the side of the mechanics not being the same in the third set.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 04:54
|
|
|
Melvin question: Orcs, Aven, and Efreeti all existed on Dominaria, right? I have a pet theory that Tarkir is actually ancient Dominaria, and that we're about to straight-up explore the Elder Dragons' origin stories. But I don't know that much about the lore of Dominaria or the Elder Dragon Wars, and whether or not that makes any sense...
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:02
|
|
|
All of those races were on Dominaria at some point, although I don't think we've seen efreeti since Mirage block and Jamuraa is phased out. I don't think we ever saw naga, though.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:12
|
|
|
Dungeon Ecology posted:Melvin question: Orcs, Aven, and Efreeti all existed on Dominaria, right? Sarkhan is a post-mending walker, and he's from tarkir. The mending took place long after all of the elder dragon other than bolas died. So your theory is impossible.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:17
|
|
|
Sarhkan and Sorin travel through time and discover Urza, whose first act as pre mending planeswalker is to destroy the reserved list.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:19
|
|
|
If Sarkhan goes back in time and makes love to Ugin, does that produce a magical time dragon baby or just makes things weird?
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:24
|
|
|
Does any of the Outlast stuff work well with Phalanx Leader? Or does requiring at least 3 cards for anything to happen make it dumb? I just want to try to make use of the Lord effects without tapping the creatures on my turn and also keeping to mono/dual colour. odiv fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Sep 30, 2014 |
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:25
|
|
|
odiv posted:Does any of the Outlast stuff work well with Phalanx Leader? Or does requiring at least 3 cards for anything to happen make it dumb? I think if the First Strike or Flying or whatever Outlast lords see any Standard play it will be with Ajanis and Abzan Charms.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:27
|
|
|
Entropic posted:I think if the First Strike or Flying or whatever Outlast lords see any Standard play it will be with Ajanis and Abzan Charms.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:37
|
|
|
I'm trying to make this work with Preeminent Captain, but I haven't really come up with anything explosive yet.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:43
|
|
|
Dungeon Ecology posted:I'm trying to make this work with Preeminent Captain, but I haven't really come up with anything explosive yet.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:49
|
|
|
Deofuta posted:Sarhkan and Sorin travel through time and discover Urza, whose first act as pre mending planeswalker is to destroy the reserved list.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 05:55
|
|
|
Waffleopolis posted:You think it's too late to trade a Sorin for a Sarkhan? I pulled one tonight in a impulse 3-pack buy. It was good timing too, another guy was ripping packs and trading in money rares for more packs so I beat him to the Sorin. I think you might want to hold on to Sorin? All I hear from people who play with Sarkhan is that he's a worse Storm Breath Dragon. Sorin at least has a niche to fill besides being Storm Breath 5-8? Then again, Sorin might be replacable by Erebos' whip, I don't play much standard...
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 06:05
|
|
|
Gensuki posted:I think you might want to hold on to Sorin? All I hear from people who play with Sarkhan is that he's a worse Storm Breath Dragon. Sorin at least has a niche to fill besides being Storm Breath 5-8? Sarkhan only gets that comparison because of the cost and his p/t when he transforms. Stormbreaths and sarkhan are both good for similar but still different reasons. Sorin is also not terrible as a top end for aggro decks but I dont think anyone expects either to stay as high as they are.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 06:17
|
|
|
Any sort of consensus on what to do with foil fetch lands? I could see regular ones dropping as the market gets more saturated but not really sure what to do with the shiny ones.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 08:55
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 16:24 |
|
|
The biggest issue with Sarkhan is that he isn't the same CMC as Rorix so we can't call him Planeswalker Rorix. This deficiency is pretty obvious to speculators and the market will adjust accordingly.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2014 09:34
|
|