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Yeah the fact that the real game for Affinity is seeing if they can go 1-1 against the opposing sideboard seems pretty inane from a design standpoint. I don't really like the concept of 'deck that is extremely powerful but eats poo poo to extremely specific silver bullets', at least not to the extent that Affinity seems to push that interaction.
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I really love some of the Eldrazi art from this set and it's shame you only ever see it all tiny, because some of it looks really cool at full size. Gravity Negator for example: You'd never even notice the underwater hedrons and the little fish on the actual card.
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Jan 26, 2016 01:04
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Voyager I posted:Yeah the fact that the real game for Affinity is seeing if they can go 1-1 against the opposing sideboard seems pretty inane from a design standpoint. I don't really like the concept of 'deck that is extremely powerful but eats poo poo to extremely specific silver bullets', at least not to the extent that Affinity seems to push that interaction. That's how eternal formats work.
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Jan 26, 2016 01:05
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Angry Grimace posted:That's how eternal formats work. -someone who apparently doesn't play eternal formats. Like the only decks like that in legacy or vintage are Dredge and... Dredge. There's matchups you're just not going to win (RUG Delver vs. Lands, Death and Taxes vs. Jund) but that's not the same as "I win game 1 and try to beat your hate game 2 or 3."
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Jan 26, 2016 01:08
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I could see how if you were a newer player that only played standard in the past few years you could not understand silver bullet sideboard cards.
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Jan 26, 2016 01:08
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Question: Is the collector number printed on a card the same across different language printings of the card?
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Jan 26, 2016 01:12
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Entropic posted:Question: Is the collector number printed on a card the same across different language printings of the card? Answer: Yes.
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Jan 26, 2016 01:19
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Entropic posted:I really love some of the Eldrazi art from this set and it's shame you only ever see it all tiny, because some of it looks really cool at full size. Gravity Negator for example: I think this is the root problem with most recent magic art. They are getting really, really great pieces that don't at all translate to a couple square inches. Old magic art was a lot less sophisticated, but a lot more recognizable at tiny sizes. That plus the homogenization of the art direction has left everything feeling pretty samey at card size. Every few years I get back into magic and the art is better but does its job worse. It's not nostalgia driving my fondness for old art it's the the ability to help define wtf is going on across a table.
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Jan 26, 2016 01:44
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Babylon Astronaut posted:Yea. Main decking a ghost quarter or two has helped me both slow down greedy mana bases, and quarter my own poo poo in response to land death. The cool thing is now I can take out my spellskites and try out thought-knot seers because twin is gone. Stony silence is ok hate I guess, but it's not as good as people think it is and blood moon is a dead draw against me as far as I'm concerned. I would keep the Spellskite for the Burn, Infect, and Bogles matchups. (People keep saying bogles might be more of a thing with twin gone, we'll see)
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Jan 26, 2016 01:48
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:I think this is the root problem with most recent magic art. They are getting really, really great pieces that don't at all translate to a couple square inches. Old magic art was a lot less sophisticated, but a lot more recognizable at tiny sizes. That plus the homogenization of the art direction has left everything feeling pretty samey at card size. They could, you know, make expedition land/planeswalker art formating and size the norm the way force of will does it.
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Jan 26, 2016 01:53
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Chill la Chill posted:They could, you know, make expedition land/planeswalker art formating and size the norm the way force of will does it. Pokemon also does this, but their small frame art is actually very descriptive of what's going on, while their full card art is really vibrant and poo poo.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:03
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Both of those games have terrible art though so giving it more space is a net negative.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:06
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Chill la Chill posted:They could, you know, make expedition land/planeswalker art formating and size the norm the way force of will does it. FoW cards look awful though
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Jan 26, 2016 02:06
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gwrtheyrn posted:FoW cards look awful though Entropic posted:Both of those games have terrible art though so giving it more space is a net negative. Uh it's more vibrant and looks really cool.  
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Jan 26, 2016 02:09
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Those look loving awful to draft or do anything else that involves reading the cards.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:14
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Chill la Chill posted:Uh it's more vibrant and looks really cool. Counterpoint: full art cards look really dumb when your rules text takes up half of the card  Also yeah, reading the pokemon card is pretty awful
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Jan 26, 2016 02:14
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Those are literally garbage
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Jan 26, 2016 02:14
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Chill la Chill posted:Uh it's more vibrant and looks really cool. Not this again lol
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Jan 26, 2016 02:15
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suicidesteve posted:-someone who apparently doesn't play eternal formats. You guys are so dickish if someone doesn't agree with exactly what you feel. It's pretty amazing. Also I once lost to D&T playing Jund. I drew 9 lands in a row while fetching. It was... Definitely a thing.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:17
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gwrtheyrn posted:Counterpoint: full art cards look really dumb when your rules text takes up half of the card well yeah, planeswalkers suffer from that problem too. But the other images with not much rules text look fine.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:21
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Errant Gin Monks posted:You guys are so dickish if someone doesn't agree with exactly what you feel. It's pretty amazing. I mean when people make an objectively wrong statement I'm going to call them out on it. Also yeah I've lost the Jund end of Death and Taxes because I drew 2 lands in the entire match.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:21
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Errant Gin Monks posted:You guys are so dickish if someone doesn't agree with exactly what you feel. It's pretty amazing. You don't seem to get how criticism and providing counterpoints backed with examples works, nuanced by the fact that this is a fun website and not a church.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:22
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Entropic posted:I really love some of the Eldrazi art from this set and it's shame you only ever see it all tiny, because some of it looks really cool at full size. Gravity Negator for example: Reality Smasher looks so cool in HD imo 
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Jan 26, 2016 02:25
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I think the Eldrazi mostly look pretty cool in CG. People less so.
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Jan 26, 2016 02:59
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BizarroAzrael posted:What was that 'Thopter empowered by? If it had plating already they should have known Silence doesn't get it done. Or was it Ensoul Artifact? From a page back, but I already had the plating out and on. He was just waiting for his removal to show up. It never did. Semi-related: how much of a thing is ghirapur aether grid in modern affinity? Is it worth a slot in the board in place of/alongside blood moon?
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Jan 26, 2016 03:01
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Voyager I posted:Those look loving awful to draft or do anything else that involves reading the cards. lmao Draft for Pokemon would be so poo poo
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Jan 26, 2016 03:31
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The creative / art direction people do know what they're doing sometimes. Whoever came up with the idea to give Kozilek the whole bismuth motif, that was a really good idea.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:41
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TheKingofSprings posted:lmao Draft for Pokemon would be so poo poo I always find it funny when the YuGiOh kids at my LGS try to explain that they can draft, too.
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Entropic posted:The creative / art direction people do know what they're doing sometimes. Whoever came up with the idea to give Kozilek the whole bismuth motif, that was a really good idea. Yeah, for real. Anything involving the creative design of the Eldrazi themselves (and not, say, the superfriends' interaction with them) has been pretty top notch, I'd say. There's probably a snarky observation to be made about how modern Magic art direction is at its best when it's dealing with something alien that isn't expected to convey any human interest or humor. 
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Jan 26, 2016 03:46
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To be fair, or something like that, the bismuth theme is such a good thing for an alien cause Bismuth already looks alien in real life. so the connection is already kinda there. i really like how Ulamog's thing is taking away color while Kozileks is giving it color tho, thats a cool contrast
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Entropic posted:I really love some of the Eldrazi art from this set and it's shame you only ever see it all tiny, because some of it looks really cool at full size. Gravity Negator for example: Oh cool, those little spikes in the water use a magnet's effect on ferrofluid as a reference.
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mandatory lesbian posted:Reality Smasher looks so cool in HD imo Thigh nipples. It does look way better in HD though, instead of just a ball of random arms.
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mandatory lesbian posted:To be fair, or something like that, the bismuth theme is such a good thing for an alien cause Bismuth already looks alien in real life. so the connection is already kinda there. As a group, they remind me a little bit of WoW's titans & the re-origination plotline: Ulamog devours the ambient mana on a plane, Kozilek injects his own version, and then Emrakul warps the plane to how it's "supposed" to look after Kozilek does his work. Even if Ulamog and Kozilek are dead, you now have a massively powerful cosmic horror continuing to re-shape planes.. without the groundwork that makes it "safe" for it to do so. Emrakul needs to be answered in the very short term, and the idiots of the Gatewatch destroyed any lead they could possibly have had. ..and with that, i've spent 5 minutes longer thinking about it than anyone at Wizards creative.
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Can I play U/R prowess in Standard to much effect without any jaces?
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http://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Time+Spiral/Flagstones+of+Trokair#online Finally the time has come to dump my 8.
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notbrant posted:http://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Time+Spiral/Flagstones+of+Trokair#online And the deck's not even that good
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suicidesteve posted:I mean when people make an objectively wrong statement I'm going to call them out on it. Also yeah I've lost the Jund end of Death and Taxes because I drew 2 lands in the entire match.
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vandalism posted:Can I play U/R prowess in Standard to much effect without any jaces? The general consensus is that Elusive Spellfist works just fine as a budget option and even has upsides over Jace for being more aggressive.
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Angry Grimace posted:"When someone is wrong on the internet, you bet your sweet rear end I'm gonna make sure they know they're wrong without any explanation why!" -A shitposter how the gently caress do you have 434 posts in this thread already
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I only have 294 posts. I need to poo poo post more.
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