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Angry Grimace posted:Megamorph Morph except it's a 5/5. Also, 0/3 for my prediction of storm, dredge, and banding.
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Future Sight was really, really top-heavy in an already complicated block. Look at Ichor Slick for example; the reminder text is all there so that players can understand the 'gimmick' of the card, but the question is why? The set, and by extension the entire block, was almost entirely Design's excuse to make whatever ideas that seemed cool at the time; it literally took all traditional design principles away from the game which just made it a mess consisting of cards they couldn't get printed in a 'real' set. The real tragedy was that they even soured the target market of the set in two significant ways: Tarmogoyf quickly broke the record for most expensive standard card ever printed when it was released AND Sprout Swarm absolutely trashed the limited format. If someone drew a Sprout Swarm they'd have little reason to do anything except cast Sprout Swarm. They printed Pack Rat as a common.
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Angry Grimace posted:I can't wait to find out what the mostly useless Mythic cycle will be this time. Better than having something like the titans around again.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:49
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Mar 2, 2015 16:53
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Maro's card: Dragonlord Mythic:   ELDER DRAGON TYPE
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Mar 2, 2015 16:55
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There were cards here. They're gone now. Also  at Megamorph.e: slow on the draw today. 
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Mar 2, 2015 16:55
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Rebound is back!
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Mar 2, 2015 16:56
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I really like how Rebound interacts with Prowess. That's a clever mechanic to bring back.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:56
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Megamorph 
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Mar 2, 2015 16:56
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Sidisi. More evil. Dragon Tempests!  1Packaging has a new Sarkhan on it. Not sure if he's getting a new card or not. 
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Mar 2, 2015 16:57
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That Sidisi is rad and I kind of like Exploit. It suits black well.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:58
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Holy poo poo they're Elder dragons
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Mar 2, 2015 16:59
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Literally everything about RoE was great, so the return of rebound is fantastic. Exploit is great, Megamorph is hilariously named and Formidable looks uninteresting. Come on Megamorphling.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:02
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ELDER DRAGONS? Oh bubby. Also, Silumgar looks awesome and probably will be played as a one of in the side of U/B control because that's a powerful effect hot drat.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:04
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6 mana, steal your Elspeth or Ugin. That's powerful.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:05
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Whoever called Elder Dragons, congrats.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:05
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I hope there's something that makes small dragon tokens, or they have Whelps at uncommon or common. Seems pointless to have # of dragons matter when its going to just be 1 most of the time.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:06
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 Conspicious lady on the packaging with glowing planeswalker eyes.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:07
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This is too good for Abzan Control not to play, right?
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Mar 2, 2015 17:07
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mcmagic posted:This is too good for Abzan Control not to play, right? At 7 CMC? That's a pretty tough sell I think.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:08
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Angry Grimace posted:
That looks a little like Narset, actually. All she's missing is the big glowing eyeball on her forehead, but that might've come with the Khan job. Also, Stratus Dancer seems really, really good.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:09
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Angry Grimace posted:At 7 CMC? That's a pretty tough sell I think. They were playing Duneblast and this is a comparably powerful effect I think...
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Mar 2, 2015 17:10
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Angry Grimace posted:
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Mar 2, 2015 17:11
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mcmagic posted:They were playing Duneblast and this is a comparably powerful effect I think... I do not think this effect is as powerful as Duneblast unless the meta is control dominated
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Mar 2, 2015 17:13
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Formidable is really boring, much like Ferocious. Why does Temur have to be the boring clan? 
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Mar 2, 2015 17:13
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Angry Grimace posted:Packaging has a new Sarkhan on it. Not sure if he's getting a new card or not. My pet theory is that those two booster images are creature Sarkhan and planeswalker Narset.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:14
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Rebound is a  mechanic so this is good stuff.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:15
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Man, being undead didn't do Sidisi's personal image any good.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:15
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I've been tasked with teaching/onboarding a bunch of folks into Magic over the next few months and am working on building some 40 card basic 'teaching' decks. I'm going to end up making several different 'difficulties' of decks, but the most basic will be mono-colored 40 card decks without instants or complicated abilities. Has anyone done anything like this? Here is what I've come up with on my first pass: Starter Black Starter Blue Starter Green Starter Red Starter White Sourced mostly commons/uncommons from core sets. Initial concerns are that Red is just going to be too weak.
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Nibble posted:My pet theory is that those two booster images are creature Sarkhan and planeswalker Narset. So far he hasn't lost his spark. They have a "policy" to not print creatures of current Planeswalkers.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:15
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Angry Grimace posted:1Packaging has a new Sarkhan on it. Not sure if he's getting a new card or not. They don't put art on packaging if it's not also on a card you can open.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:17
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Angry Grimace posted:My favorite new thing Wizards does is put the articles up early but you can't actually read them. It bugs me that "formidable" is the only one of those that isn't a verb.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:18
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Kabanaw posted:They don't put art on packaging if it's not also on a card you can open. What I meant is that its possible its just not his 'card' and could be an enchantment or something that just has him on it. E.g. if they were printing Form of the Dragon.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:18
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Count Bleck posted:Formidable is really boring, much like Ferocious. Ferocious is pretty exciting in limited formats...
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Silver2195 posted:It bugs me that "formidable" is the only one of those that isn't a verb. Makes sense though. You're not doing formidable, you're asking if your forces are formidable or not. Entropic fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Mar 2, 2015 17:20
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mcmagic posted:Ferocious is pretty exciting in limited formats... Not to mention that RG Aggro deck running around with a ton of 4-power creatures.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:21
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Angry Grimace posted:What I meant is that its possible its just not his 'card' and could be an enchantment or something that just has him on it. E.g. if they were printing Form of the Dragon. I guess it's possible, but his pose in that art is pretty planeswalker-y.
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bhsman posted:Not to mention that RG Aggro deck running around with a ton of 4-power creatures. I played this at a PPTQ this past weekend, won my first match convincingly against Sultai Control and then proceeded to get destroyed by Abzan, UB and Abzan.... It feels badly positioned...
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Also, the clans are now just named after the dragons I guess? Silumgar has zombie Djinn, and that's metal as gently caress. mcmagic posted:I played this at a PPTQ this past weekend, won my first match convincingly against Sultai Control and then proceeded to get destroyed by Abzan, UB and Abzan.... It feels badly positioned... You should add blue, and play Knuckleblades and countermagic. You'll be as badly positioned but you'll get to play with one of the best creatures in standard. Oh also you'll get to enjoy blowing people out with not-Force Spike.
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